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The potential of a theory of variation-framed learning study, a teacher professional development approach, to help teachers overcome curricular and pedagogical challenges associated with teaching new science curricula content was explored. With a group of Singapore teachers collaboratively planning and teaching new genetics content, phenomenographic analysis of data corpus from classroom observations, teacher meetings and interviews revealed teacher learning that manifested in the teachers’ experiences. These were captured as (1) increased degrees of student-centered pedagogy and challenges to teachers’ prior assumptions about science pedagogy, (2) increased awareness of possibilities and limitations of their beliefs about science pedagogy, and (3) emergence of new understandings about new curricular content and science pedagogy. The possibility of transformative and generative learning is also discussed. 相似文献
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Yam San Chee Swati Mehrotra Jing Chuan Ong 《Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education》2015,43(5):423-437
A dominant discourse on “scaling-up” small-scale innovations based on a limited number of successful classroom trials pervades the educational literature. We view this discourse as insensitive to the professional work of teachers and the human side of school change. Our research investigated how teacher professional development could be conceived and conducted to support take up of digital game-based learning in the context of a 3-week social studies unit on governance and citizenship. Students played a mobile game in their own time. In the classroom, teachers enacted dialogic pedagogy to facilitate students’ meaning-making of their gameplay experience. Our findings indicate that teacher identity, constituted by their interwoven knowing–doing–being–valuing is central to any effort to scale pedagogical and technological innovation. We modified our original model for the appropriation of innovation uptake by teachers to one that places teacher identity as the centrepiece of the model and cornerstone in “shifting” teacher practice. 相似文献
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In this case study, an online community was designed at a secondary school in China for the teachers to prepare their lessons collectively, reflect on their teaching practices, collect comments from peers, and share resources. A survey was administered to the teachers to investigate their perceptions on the online community for their professional development. Two hundred and eighty-three teachers responded to the survey and eight teachers were further interviewed by email. The result showed that most teachers liked using the online community as they could gain subject knowledge and could obtain support from peers, share experiences and get feedback, and exchange resources. Also, online entries confirmed that transformational changes in teaching pedagogy and students’ learning activities occurred along the time. However, certain teachers did not participate in the online community frequently. This paper describes the context of the case study, design dimensions of the online community, teachers’ positive perceptions on using the online community, and transformational changes. Also, strategies for promoting effective use of the online community are discussed and follow-up studies to address the challenges involved in this study are proposed. 相似文献
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This article reports the findings of a comparative study of teaching in Denmark and England. Its broader aim is to help develop an approach for comparing pedagogy. Lesson observations and interviews identified the range of goals towards which teachers in each country worked and the actions these prompted. These were clustered using the lens of Bernstein’s pedagogic discourse to construct teacher roles, which provided a view of pedagogy. Through this approach we have begun to identify variations in pedagogy across two countries. All teachers in this study adopted a variety of roles. Of significance was the ease with which competent English teachers moved between roles. The English teachers observed adopted roles consistent with a wider techno-rationalist discourse. There was a greater subject emphasis by Danish teachers, whose work was set predominantly within a democratic humanist discourse, whilst the English teachers placed a greater emphasis on applied skills. 相似文献
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Electronic portfolios (eportfolios) can increase reflection, develop content and pedagogy skills and facilitate communication
between teachers and administrators. However, they have limitations. Despite resources that teacher institutions devote to
eportfolios, research suggests that most implementations are of limited duration. In a climate where sustained professional
development and lifelong learning are necessary to remain competitive, organizations should reevaluate how eportfolios are
implemented to sustain use and maintain skills deemed important by teaching organizations. Using principles of change theory,
this article identifies several eportfolio challenges and how they may be improved through principles of personal learning
environments. Implementation procedures and limitations are also provided. 相似文献
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认识论资源是教学论研究日渐兴起的一个概念。21世纪以来,受认识论发展研究的低龄转向与社会转向的影响,相关研究更加关注个体认识论的内在发展机制,进而形成了"认识论资源"概念。在这一视角下,原始经验是认识论的组成材料,社会环境调控认识论的组成方式,认识论形态被视为局部连贯激活的认识论资源网络,认识论发展被视为调用与协调认识论资源。上述观点为教学提供了相关启示,一是重视教师指导下学生基于认识论实践建构知识的过程;二是凸显整合背景要素、认知要素和社会要素的教学情境;三是利用对话教学捕捉学生话语,并解构其认识论发展水平。 相似文献
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While teaching, teachers need to access both their knowledge of mathematics and knowledge of pedagogy. Practice-based materials
afford teachers opportunities to reason about both mathematics and pedagogy within the context of teaching. Accepted systems
exist for explaining and reasoning in the domain of mathematics; logic, procedures, and representations all serve as instances
of mathematics that bear common meaning in the domain. In contrast, there is not an accepted well-structured system for reasoning
within the domain of pedagogy; rather, it is an inherently interpretive act. This paper explores differences in knowledge
bases and reasoning by examining discourse about mathematics and pedagogy in a practice-based teacher education course. Mathematics
conversations featured greater depth of conversation, more challenges, and more echoes of previous claims. Pedagogical conversations
were denser and featured more qualified statements and more evidence from personal values or opinions. Implications for the
design of teacher education and professional development experiences are presented. 相似文献
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论学科教学论的范式转换 总被引：8，自引：0，他引：8
随着教师教育形势的发展和基础教育课程改革的推进,学科教学论必须实现范式转换。从教师专业发展的全程审视,学科教学论具有与以往不同的地位、作用及构成:它为教师职业之旅奠基;培养目标应由教学技能型教师向反思型教育实践专家转换;在课程体系内应强化课程知识、学习知识和实践性知识;在研究方法上应倡导案例分析法、叙事法等;在话语选择上应从课程论、专业学科及教育实践中吸收新鲜的话语,改变陈旧过时的言说方式。 相似文献
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Allegra Joie Midgette Robyn Ilten-Gee Deborah Wong Powers Aki Murata Larry Nucci 《Journal of moral education》2018,47(4):498-518
This study examined the application of Lesson Study for professional development (PD) for a domain approach to moral education. A comparison was drawn between the effects of Lesson Study with 17 teachers and 144 students representing middle schools in the same district as a prior study employing intensive traditional PD. In Lesson Study, groups of same grade teachers construct lessons taught by one group member and observed by the others. Teachers meet following the lesson to critique and improve the lesson using criteria established by teachers and informed by outside ‘experts.’ Findings from analysis of teacher discourse over nine months and end of year surveys revealed improvements in teacher pedagogy, knowledge of moral development, greater sense of professionalism, and efficacy for engagement in moral education in comparison with controls. Fewer lessons were produced, resulting in fewer gains in student moral and conventional reasoning than observed with intensive individualized PD. 相似文献
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Jocelyn Anne Glazier 《Teaching Education》2013,24(3):231-243
This article describes a year‐long professional development project that brought together a group of high school English teachers around multicultural literature they would be teaching to their students. The teachers all taught together in a culturally and economically diverse high school context in the USA. One objective of the project was to enable the teacher participants to explore their discourse patterns around the literature to discern their own subject positions with regard to one another and to the texts studied. In addition, the teachers together analyzed their own classroom discourse to determine how those subject positions carried over into their teaching, how they essentially taught who they were. Discussions of multicultural literature and teachers’ talk around that literature, accompanied by close interrogation of classroom practice, enabled the teachers to discern what (and who) they privileged in their teaching practice. These realizations led one of the two teachers highlighted to readily change her pedagogy and curriculum to better support the learning and empowerment of all students. 相似文献
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ABSTRACT ‘Support for learning’ can be conceptualized in many different ways. This paper examines the role of the learning support coordinator in relation to the breadth of factors which cause pupils to experience learning difficulties in primary classrooms. It is against this background that the professional development needs of learning support coordinators is considered. The paper focuses, in particular, upon the needs of learning support teachers who work in primary schools in Singapore. The shortcomings of traditional inservice courses which focus upon curriculum development and pedagogy are discussed in relation to the wide ranging roles which learning support coordinators are expected to fulfil. The assumption that pupil achievement can be enhanced when teachers are ‘trained’ to employ certain teaching methods is questioned and the relevance of an ecological or interpretive model of staff development is discussed. Finally, the particular professional development needs of learning support coordinators in Singapore are considered. 相似文献
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Imran Shaari Victor Lim David Hung Yew Meng Kwan 《School Effectiveness & School Improvement》2018,29(1):22-42
This study investigates how sustained professional learning for teachers within a centralised system was cultivated. Specifically, the sustained professional learning was initiated by officers from the headquarters (HQ) and involved interested teachers across schools in Singapore. Qualitative instruments were used to collect and analyse the data in examining the partnerships perceived by the participants. The enablers responsible to bring about sustained professional learning are proposed. A contribution of this study is to clarify how resources in the HQ and its schools can be bridged. Deliberate bridging of resources is critical particularly at the initial stage of the partnerships. This bridging is made possible through dedicated appointed champions. The appointed champions are passionate about the educational innovations and are willing to invest their time to understand the teachers’ needs. This paper argues that the enablers can offer opportunities for lateral networks to be forged within a hierarchical system. 相似文献
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This article reports findings from a research and professional development project at two high schools located in low-income,
urban communities of color. The project collaborates with teachers on improving their instructional practices, using a framework
of culturally relevant mathematics pedagogy, which is described in detail here. We present results from a qualitative and
quantitative analysis of mathematics instruction in 68 classroom observations of seven teachers. In particular, we use culturally
relevant mathematics pedagogy as a lens through which to analyze instruction and the associated opportunities to learn mathematics
provided to students. 相似文献
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论高职院校教师专业能力的拓展开发——赴新加坡南洋理工学院考察学习启示 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
新加坡南洋理工学院的＂教学工厂＂办学模式为教师专业能力拓展开发提供了平台;无界化校园理念使教师专业能力得到充分展示;人力资源发展建设为教师专业能力发挥提供保障。这种模式对我国高职教育也有着启示作用：我们要重视教师的培养与引进,开拓专业知识及技能;打破界线,资源共享,实现教师专业能力提升和发展;创新教学模式,为教师专业能力提升搭建平台。 相似文献
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Williams Tory Singer Jonathan Krikorian Jacqueline Rakes Christopher Ross Julia 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》2019,28(3):179-194
The present study examined changes in high school biology and technology education pedagogy during the first year of a three-year professional development (PD) program using the INSPIRES educative curriculum. The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) calls for the integration of science and engineering through inquiry-based pedagogy that shifts the burden of thinking from the teacher to the student. This call is especially challenging for teachers untrained in inquiry teaching and engineering or science concepts. The INSPIRES educative curriculum materials and PD provided a mechanism for teachers to transform their teaching to meet the NGSS challenges. This study followed a longitudinal triangulation mixed methods design. Selected lessons were video recorded, scored on the Reformed Teaching Observation Protocol (RTOP) rubric, and examined for qualitative trends. Year 1 results indicated that teachers had begun to transform their teaching and pointed to particular lessons within the INSPIRES curriculum that most facilitated the reform. Instructional practices of participants improved significantly as a result of the INSPIRES PD program and also aligned with previous, similar studies. These findings provide insights for rethinking the structure of professional development, particularly in the integrated use of an educative curriculum aligned with intended professional development goals.
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Naomi Flynn 《Teacher Development》2019,23(1):64-82
This article draws on the notion of communal constructivism to explore its potential to frame and facilitate the development of evidence-informed practice. The explicit aspiration to nurture a research-informed workforce is prominent in discourse across policy makers, educational researchers and teacher professional groups in England; however, research evidence indicating how and why teachers might actually use research to inform their practice is limited. Furthermore, the vision for research engagement of itself is not necessarily shared between researchers and practitioners. This study examines the relationships between research and practice when academics and professionals work together. Drawing on data from the co-construction of an online research-informed guide for the teaching of English as an Additional Language (EAL), analysis highlights the complexities inherent in translating research into practice for different stakeholders. Discussion argues for the recognition of communal constructivism as a pedagogy of learning that can build understanding between researchers and practitioners for how practice might become research-informed. 相似文献
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Doris Pui-Wah CHENG 《Frontiers of Education in China》2012,7(1):65-84
For centuries, educators and psychologists have advocated “play” as the ideal activity for the development of young children. Actually, play has been found currently to be the central pedagogy in the learning of young children in 21 countries in the world. However, the quality of play-based pedagogy is becoming a key concern across countries. Scholars found that play is either too loosely framed to result in children’s optimal development; or it is too “teacherly” and looses the essence of play. The recent report released by OECD highlighted its concern about play in early childhood education and, urged international researchers and educators to make efforts to bridge the gap. Hong Kong is not an exception on the issue of play enactment. Though resources have been put in for the professional upgrading of early education teachers in the last two decades, the learning and teaching style is still didactic and there appears to be a misinterpretation of play-based pedagogy. The present paper attempts to explore the issue through early childhood teachers’ conceptualization of “learning and teaching through play” with the aim of understanding the problem and shedding light for better ways to prepare teachers in this sector. 相似文献
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A Teacher Professional Development Program on Using a Constructivist Multimedia Learning Environment
This paper describes a professional development program using an interactive multimedia program to develop teachers' understanding
of a constructivist epistemology in science education. The aim of this study was to describe teachers' reflections on and
perceptions of a series of professional development workshops and how teachers changed their classroom practices after having
participated in the workshops. The software, developed with the cooperation of teachers and students, is based on the Birds of Antarctica database (Maor & Phillips, 1996). This database was designed as an interactive program which requires teachers to use a constructivist-oriented
approach to teaching and learning in order to promote the development of inquiry skills particularly higher-order thinking
skills. A series of workshops for teachers was conducted to empower them to become comfortable with using computers in science
classrooms and to enable them to enhance their understanding of, and ability to use, personal and social constructivist approaches.
Teachers' perceptions of the process of learning with the multimedia program and their reactions to their experiences were
assessed using a new instrument, the Constructivist Multimedia Learning Environment Survey (CMLES). The results of the study suggest that teachers who participated as learners in the professional development program
became familiar with a constructivist-oriented multimedia learning environment; understood the context, problems, and issues
faced by students in the classroom; and were better able to facilitate students' needs and understanding in this learning
environment.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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S. Walker J. Brownlee C. Whiteford C. Cobb-Moore E. Johansson J. Ailwood 《Teachers and Teaching》2013,19(2):263-275
There is strong political and social interest in values education both internationally and across Australia. Investment in young children is recognised as important for the development of moral values for a cohesive society; however, little is known about early years teachers’ beliefs about moral values teaching and learning. The aim of the current study was to investigate the relationships between Australian early years teachers’ epistemic beliefs and their beliefs about children’s moral learning. Three hundred and seventy-nine teachers completed a survey about their personal epistemic beliefs and their beliefs about children’s moral learning. Results indicated that teachers with more sophisticated epistemic beliefs viewed children as capable of taking responsibility for their own moral learning. Conversely, teachers who held more naïve or simplistic personal epistemic beliefs agreed that children need to learn morals through learning the rules for behaviour. Results are discussed in terms of the implications for moral pedagogy in the classroom and teacher professional development. It is suggested that in conjunction with explicitly reflecting on epistemic beliefs, professional development may need to assist teachers to ascertain how their beliefs might relate to their moral pedagogies in order to make any adjustments. 相似文献