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Bret G. Range Susan Scherz Carleton R. Holt Suzanne Young 《Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability》2011,23(3):243-265
The intent of this study was to assess the perceptions and actions of Wyoming principals concerning their role in supervising
and evaluating teachers. A survey was sent to all 286 principals in the state of Wyoming, of which, 143 returned surveys,
a response rate of 50%. Findings suggested that principals utilized supervisory behaviors more often than evaluative behaviors.
Elementary principals perceived their evaluative practices as significantly more prevalent than secondary principals. Furthermore,
principals indicated that their greatest frustrations in supervising teachers were time, the evaluation instrument, and teachers’
unwillingness to change. Additionally, findings suggested that Wyoming principals utilized classroom walkthroughs because
they provided a snapshot of teaching and provided a medium for providing feedback. In regards to developmental supervision,
principals indicated that novice teachers received much more supervision than veteran teachers. However, their reported use
of differentiated supervision only applied to teacher autonomy concerning professional development goals. Principals reported
that teachers had little input concerning the methods by which they were supervised. Finally, a majority of the Wyoming principals
felt that improvement plans were effective at changing mediocre teaching behaviors, but 40% were speculative that such plans
truly remediated poor teachers. 相似文献
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Susana Caires Leandro S. Almeida 《European Journal of Psychology of Education - EJPE》2007,22(4):515-528
This paper explores the student teachers’ perceptions about the most positive aspects of the supervision provided during their
teaching practice. The authors developed a study based on the reflections of a group of 224 student teachers about their cooperating
teacher’s and university supervisor’s performance. Student teacher’s appraisals regarding their supervisors, the learning
and progress perceived as resulting from their co-working with more experienced teachers, and the emotional aspects of this
relationship are among the main aspects analysed in the study. Results show the importance attributed to the supervisors’
personal features and to the quality of the interactions established with their student teachers. These aspects were clearly
regarded as an essential aspect of the student teachers’ emotional balance and resistance to the difficulties emerged during
their entrance in the teaching profession. Some differences were perceived in terms of the students teachers’ evaluations
regarding the moment of the practicum (beginning versus end) and the type of supervisor (university versus school). Some enquiry
and suggestions for future research emerge as final contributions. 相似文献
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Although the use of learning technology has become increasingly prominent in schools, significant changes in teaching strategies
have not kept pace. Lack of quality professional development and inadequate teacher preparation are often cited for this situation.
This case study explores the use of the student teaching experience as an avenue for both preservice and inservice teachers’
professional development associated with educational technology. Two main questions are explored: First, to what extent can
preservice teachers enact a technology-rich curriculum unit during their field experience; second, to what extent and under
what conditions can the preservice teachers facilitate their cooperating mentor teachers’ acquisition of these same skills.
Results indicate preservice teachers can stimulate the integration of technology-rich innovations in their mentor teachers. 相似文献
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Research in the area of educational technology has claimed that Web technology has driven online pedagogy such that teachers
need to know how to use Web technology to assist their teaching. This study provides a framework for understanding teachers’
Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge-Web (TPCK-W), while integrating Web technology into their pedagogical practice.
Furthermore, contemporary educational researchers have highlighted the significance of teachers’ self-efficacy, conceptualized
as the teachers’ perceptions of their own competence at teaching, and related to instructional strategies as well as teaching
effectiveness. The major purpose of this study was to investigate teachers’ perceived self-efficacy in terms of their TPCK-W.
This study aimed to develop a new questionnaire, namely the Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge-Web (TPCK-W) Survey
to explore teachers’ self-efficacy in terms of their TPCK-W, and additionally to assess their attitudes toward Web-based instruction.
The participants in this study were 558 teachers from elementary school to high school level in Taiwan. Both exploratory and
confirmatory factor analyses indicated that the TPCK-W survey developed in this study has satisfactory validity and reliability
characteristics. The results indicate a lack of general knowledge about Web-related pedagogy amongst the teachers surveyed.
The correlations between teachers’ self-efficacy in terms of their TPCK-W, their attitudes regarding Web-based instruction,
and their background variables were also examined. Correlations were found between self-efficacy and positive attitudes to
web-based instruction. Older and more experienced teachers were found to have lower levels of self-efficacy with respect to
TPCK-W, though teachers with more experience of using the web (including for instruction) had higher levels of self-efficacy
with respect to TPCK-W. 相似文献
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Doris Choy Sylvia Chong Angela F. L. Wong Isabella Y.-F. Wong 《Asia Pacific Education Review》2011,12(1):79-87
This study investigated changes in beginning teachers’ self-perceptions of their pedagogical knowledge and skills after their
first year of teaching. Surveys were administered to 322 graduating student teachers at the end of the initial teacher preparation
programme and at the end of their first year of teaching to compare if there were any differences in their self-perceptions.
The results of the study showed significant increases in beginning teachers’ perceptions of their pedagogical knowledge and
skills in three factors: Instructional Support, Accommodating Diversity and Classroom Management. Results established the
development of teachers to be an ongoing process that is initiated but not completed in initial teacher preparation. Implications
of findings for induction and mentoring of beginning teachers are discussed. 相似文献
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Elementary Teachers’ Teaching for Conceptual Understanding: Learning From Action Research 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
This study reports teachers’ learning through action research on students’ conceptual understanding. The study examined (a)
the teachers’ views about science teaching and learning, (b) the teachers’ learning about their teaching practices and (c)
the conditions that supported the teachers’ learning through action research. A total of 14 elementary in-service teachers’
course discussion, self-video reflection, action research reports, and learning reflection were analyzed. Findings revealed
that (a) the teachers in this study commonly espoused the importance of probing and utilizing students’ preconceptions in
science teaching, but they demonstrated various levels of epistemological understanding of student learning and teaching,
(b) the teachers experienced the action research as a means to evaluate science teaching methods and changing their teaching
practices, and (c) the teachers identified sharing goals, problems, and solutions as an essential supporting condition for
their learning through action research. Implications for professional development and further research are discussed. 相似文献
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Nesrin Cengiz Kate Kline Theresa J. Grant 《Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education》2011,14(5):355-374
Studies show that extending students’ mathematical thinking during whole-group discussions is a challenging undertaking. To
better understand what extending student thinking looks like and how teachers’ mathematical knowledge for teaching (MKT) supports
teachers in their efforts to extend student thinking, the teaching of six experienced elementary school teachers was explored.
During group discussions, all six teachers created opportunities for extending student thinking about important mathematical
ideas and solution methods. Findings on the nature of these episodes include identification of individual instructional actions
and the ways in which teachers’ MKT was connected to these actions. 相似文献
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This paper reports a qualitative case study of four preservice student teachers’ professional learning experiences in an international
field experience programme situated in the language and cultural immersion component of a PGDE(Primary) Programme in Hong
Kong. Two of the student teachers undertook the international field experience in Australia and Canada. The other two had
their “non-local” field experience in mainland China1. The findings reveal student teachers' development in personal and intercultural
competence in cross-cultural experiences. Their professional learning experiences in the action context, socio-professional
context, and supervisory context of the cross-cultural school settings, and their reflection upon these experiences constituted
the development of their professional competence. Suggestions for improvement of the international field experience programme
and implications for future research are discussed. 相似文献
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Benny Hin Wai Yung Siu Ling Wong Man Wai Cheng Ching Sum Hui Derek Hodson 《Research in Science Education》2007,37(3):239-259
A CD-ROM consisting of videos of two lessons by different teachers demonstrating exemplary science teaching was used to elicit,
develop and track the changing conceptions of good science teaching of student teachers enrolled for the one-year Postgraduate
Diploma in Education (PGDE) at several stages during the programme. It was found that the videos acted as an effective probe
to elicit student teachers’ conceptions and had significant impact on those conceptions at different stages of the programme
through the provision of teacher models demonstrating exemplary teaching. The experience has extended novice teachers’ awareness
of alternative teaching methods and approaches not experienced in their own schooling, broadened their awareness of different
classroom situations, provided proof of existence of good practices and prompted them to reflect on their current conceptions
of good science teaching. Most importantly, the strategy of asking student teachers to watch the same videos on three separate
occasions at different times of the course was recognized by them as a crucial element in facilitating their reflection on
their changing conceptions of good science teaching.
PGDE is the standard form of pre-service teacher education in Hong Kong. It provides qualified teacher status within Hong
Kong. Student teachers enrolled for the PGDE have completed a relevant undergraduate degree. 相似文献
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Fred J. J. M. Janssen Dineke E. H. Tigelaar Nico Verloop 《Journal of Science Teacher Education》2009,20(1):1-20
Teaching for understanding requires teachers to organize thought-demanding activities which continually challenge students
to apply and extend their prior knowledge. Research shows that student teachers often are unable to develop lessons in teaching
for understanding. We explored how a domain-specific heuristic can assist student biology teachers in developing problem-posing
lessons according to teaching for understanding. Worksheets of lesson plans were analyzed according to criteria for problem-posing
lessons. Furthermore, student teachers’ perceptions of the design heuristic’s usefulness were categorized in a cyclical process.
In general, the heuristic appeared helpful to most student teachers for designing problem-posing lessons satisfactory according
to the criteria. Furthermore, teachers indicated that using the heuristic deepened their subject matter knowledge and their
awareness of pupils’ prior knowledge. 相似文献
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The influence of video clubs on teachers’ thinking and practice 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Elizabeth A. van Es Miriam Gamoran Sherin 《Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education》2010,13(2):155-176
This article examines a model of professional development called “video clubs” in which teachers watch and discuss excerpts
of videos from their classrooms. We investigate how participation in a video club influences teachers’ thinking and practice
by exploring three related contexts: (a) teachers’ comments during video-club meetings, (b) teachers’ self-reports of the
effects of the video club, and (c) teachers’ instruction across the year. Data analysis revealed changes in all three contexts.
In the video-club meetings, teachers paid increased attention to student mathematical thinking over the course of the year.
In interviews, teachers reported having learned about students’ mathematical thinking, about the importance of attending to
student ideas during instruction, and about their school’s mathematics curriculum. Finally, shifts were also uncovered in
the teachers’ instruction. By the end of the year, teachers increasingly made space for student thinking to emerge in the
classroom, probed students’ underlying understandings, and learned from their students while teaching. 相似文献
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Over recent decades, educators have recognized the crucial importance of teaching environment and contextual factors in teaching
and learning outcomes. Public and private schools are among those teaching contexts that have been in competition for teaching
quality and effectiveness for many years. This study investigated the effectiveness of some English teachers in these two
school contexts in a foreign language setting, Iran. Seventy-six public and private high schools in a small city in Iran were
selected, and their English teachers’ performance was evaluated by an external observer and self-evaluation using a high-inference
observation instrument and a questionnaire. The result of the data analysis showed that English teachers who worked in private
schools were more effective teachers than their colleagues in public schools. The results also revealed that teacher effectiveness
and their years of teaching experience and age were weakly but significantly related. Furthermore, it was found that teachers’
type of university degree and the location of schools (disadvantaged vs. privileged areas of the city) were not related to
teachers’ effectiveness. 相似文献
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Shu-Fen Lin Wen-Hua Chang Yeong-Jing Cheng 《International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education》2011,9(6):1367-1389
The processes of curricula, textbooks and student resources development have been broadly surveyed and studied while teachers’
guides have received comparatively little consideration throughout recent reforms in science education. Ideal curriculum materials
align instruction with the goals of reform. Well-designed teachers’ guides contribute to communicating and supporting reform-based
teaching. The purpose of this study was to investigate the functions and assistance that guides provide science teachers.
A questionnaire was developed and administered to science teachers from a stratified sample of elementary and junior high
schools in Taiwan. The findings indicated that the guides were of greater benefit to elementary school science teachers than
they were to junior high teachers. These groups of teachers perceived the guides’ usefulness differently, but they believed
that a clear, concise presentation of the purpose, reminders, answer keys, concept maps of the main topics and learning progression
provided the most helpful and preferred layout. Teachers felt that the function of a teachers’ guide is to provide teaching
resources rather than to guide teacher thinking. This study discusses design suggestions that can engage teacher thinking. 相似文献
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Wayne Melville Xavier Fazio Anthony Bartley Doug Jones 《Journal of Science Teacher Education》2008,19(5):477-494
In this article, we investigate the relationship between preservice teachers’ inquiry experience and their capacity to reflect
on the challenges involved in implementing inquiry into classrooms. For data, we draw on the personal narratives of preservice
science teachers enrolled in science instruction courses. Preservice teachers with extensive inquiry experiences perceive
implementation challenges principally in terms of teaching and student learning. This contrasts with the perceptions of preservice
teachers with limited inquiry experience for whom the main concerns relate to the negative perceptions of others, time, the
curriculum, and materials. By identifying these perceptions, it may be possible to develop courses that assist limited and
moderate-experience preservice teachers’ move toward the perceptions of their more inquiry experienced colleagues. 相似文献
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Sandy M. Spitzer Christine M. Phelps James E. R. Beyers Delayne Y. Johnson Elizabeth M. Sieminski 《Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education》2011,14(1):67-87
This study investigated the effects of a classroom intervention on prospective elementary teachers’ ability to evaluate evidence
of student achievement of mathematical learning goals. The intervention was informed by a framework for teacher education
which aims to provide prospective teachers (PTs) with the skills needed to systematically learn from their own teaching practice.
Prospective teachers (N = 160) participated in an intervention aimed at addressing their misconceptions about evidence of student learning. Results
revealed that after the intervention, PTs were less likely to consider teacher behaviors to be evidence of student learning
and more likely to discount student responses that were irrelevant to a specified learning goal. However, PTs were still likely
to take procedural fluency as evidence of conceptual understanding and may have become overly skeptical of student understanding.
Implications of the study suggest new ways of developing prospective teachers’ ability to systematically study and improve
their teaching. 相似文献
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Alphonse Uworwabayeho 《Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education》2009,12(5):315-324
This article presents practical perspectives on mathematics teacher change through results of collaborative research with
two mathematics secondary school teachers in order to improve the teaching and learning of mathematics in Rwanda. The 2006
national mathematics curriculum reform stresses pedagogies that enhance problem-solving, critical thinking and argumentation.
Teachers need to use new teaching strategies. This article is a case study looking at issues around developing teachers’ use
of interactions in mathematics classrooms independently of the national programme. Outputs of the study include teachers’
awareness of the need for change and their increased flexibility to accept learners’ autonomy in shifting from teacher-centred
to learner-centred pedagogy. Geometer’s Sketchpad challenged teachers’ practice and then provoked reflection to improve student
learning. 相似文献
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Jocelyn L. N. Wong 《Asia Pacific Education Review》2010,11(2):131-139
The concept of “professional learning community” (PLC) has been suggested as a tool to improve teachers’ professional competency
and students’ learning outcomes since the mid-1990s. In such a community, teachers can share their individual practices with
the aim of searching for “good practice” based on the outcome of collective inquiry. Such a learning process will result in
a reculturing of the school community by reshaping the existing values and cultures and resolving problems such as teacher
isolation and individualism. China already has a long tradition of teachers working and learning collaboratively, so investigating
collaborative efforts in this context may provide a view of how to contextualize professional development of teachers in schools.
This study attempts to access teachers’ lenses in order to explore their views on the effects of subject-based professional
learning activities. This also helps to explain how teachers work and openly share their practices aiming at improving their
professional competency and student learning outcomes within their communities. Also, factors influencing the sustainability
of a professional learning community will be discussed. 相似文献
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The objective of this study was to examine the beliefs of Jordanian kindergarten teachers toward developmentally appropriate
practices (DAP). The sample consists of 285 (14.9%) randomly selected teachers working in public and private kindergartens.
A questionnaire with two parts, (1) general information and (2) teachers’ beliefs regarding DAP, was developed to answer the
research questions. The items were distributed into the five dimensions of early childhood professional practice that were
published by the National Association for the education of young children (NAEYC). The findings indicated that the overall
mean score of kindergarten teachers’ beliefs on the five dimensions was 4.08, indicating high beliefs toward (DAP). Teachers
endorsed DAP on all dimensions except establishing reciprocal relationships with families. The findings also indicated that
there are no significant differences between the means of teachers’ beliefs toward teaching children according to teachers’
level of education, years of experience, or teacher’s age (except in the caring community of learners and the development
and learning domains). In the light of the findings of this study, some recommendations are presented. 相似文献