The academic preparation of secondary school teachers;

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The relationship between the teacher's experience, the teacher's college major, and the teacher's level of education in predicting classroom attitudes in high school science students

A review of the literature reveals few research has attempted to demonstrate if a relationship exists between the type of teacher training a science teacher has received and the perceived attitudes of his/her students. Some of the teacher preparation factors examined in this study include the college major chosen by the science teacher, the highest degree earned, the number of years of teaching experience, the type of science course taught, and the grade level taught by the teacher. This study examined how the various factors mentioned, could influence the behaviors which are characteristic of the teacher, and how these behaviors could be reflective in the classroom environment experienced by the students.^ The instrument used in the study was the Classroom Environment Scale (CES), Real Form. The measured classroom environment was broken down into three separate dimensions, with three components within each dimension in the CES. Multiple Regression statistical analyses examined how components of the teachers' education influenced the perceived dimensions of the classroom environment from the students.^ The study occurred in Miami-Dade County Florida, with a predominantly urban high school student population. There were 40 secondary science teachers involved, each with an average of 30 students. The total number of students sampled in the study was 1200. The teachers who participated in the study taught the entire range of secondary science courses offered at this large school district. All teachers were selected by the researcher so that a balance would occur in the sample between teachers who were education major versus science major. Additionally, the researcher selected teachers so that a balance occurred in regards to the different levels of college degrees earned among those involved in the study.^ Several research questions sought to determine if there was significant difference between the type of the educational background obtained by secondary science teachers and the students' perception of the classroom environment. Other research questions sought to determine if there were significant differences in the students' perceptions of the classroom environment for secondary science teachers who taught biological content, or non-biological content sciences. An additional research question sought to evaluate if the grade level taught would affect the students' perception of the classroom environment. (Abstract shortened by UMI.) ^

The relationship between the teacher's experience, the teacher's college major, and the teacher's level of education in predicting classroom attitudes in high school science students

A review of the literature reveals few research has attempted to demonstrate if a relationship exists between the type of teacher training a science teacher has received and the perceived attitudes of his/her students. Considering that a great deal of time and energy has been devoted by university colleges, school districts, and educators towards refining the teacher education process, it would be more efficient for all parties involved, if research were available that could discern if certain pathways in achieving that education, would promote the tendency towards certain teacher behaviors occurring in the classroom, while other pathways would lead towards different behaviors. Some of the teacher preparation factors examined in this study include the college major chosen by the science teacher, the highest degree earned, the number of years of teaching experience, the type of science course taught, and the grade level taught by the teacher. This study examined how the various factors mentioned, could influence the behaviors which are characteristic of the teacher, and how these behaviors could be reflective in the classroom environment experienced by the students. The instrument used in the study was the Classroom Environment Scale (CES), Real Form. The measured classroom environment was broken down into three separate dimensions, with three components within each dimension in the CES. Multiple Regression statistical analyses examined how components of the teachers' education influenced the perceived dimensions of the classroom environment from the students. The study occurred in Miami-Dade County Florida, with a predominantly urban high school student population. There were 40 secondary science teachers involved, each with an average of 30 students. The total number of students sampled in the study was 1200. The teachers who participated in the study taught the entire range of secondary science courses offered at this large school district. All teachers were selected by the researcher so that a balance would occur in the sample between teachers who were education major versus science major. Additionally, the researcher selected teachers so that a balance occurred in regards to the different levels of college degrees earned among those involved in the study. Several research questions sought to determine if there was significant difference between the type of the educational background obtained by secondary science teachers and the students' perception of the classroom environment. Other research questions sought to determine if there were significant differences in the students' perceptions of the classroom environment for secondary science teachers who taught biological content, or non-biological content sciences. An additional research question sought to evaluate if the grade level taught would affect the students' perception of the classroom environment. Analysis of the multiple regression were run for each of four scores from the CES, Real Form. For score 1, involvement of students, the results showed that teachers with the highest number of years of experience, with masters or masters plus degrees, who were education majors, and who taught twelfth grade students, had greater amounts of students being attentive and interested in class activities, participating in discussions, and doing additional work on their own, as compared with teachers who had lower experience, a bachelors degree, were science majors, and who taught a grade lower than twelfth. For score 2, task orientation, which emphasized completing the required activities and staying on-task, the results showed that teachers with the highest and intermediate experience, a science major, and with the highest college degree, showed higher scores as compared with the teachers indicating lower experiences, education major and a bachelors degree. For Score 3, competition, which indicated how difficult it was to achieve high grades in the class, the results showed that teachers who taught non-biology content subjects had the greatest effect on the regression. Teachers with a masters degree, low levels of experience, and who taught twelfth grade students were also factored into the regression equation. For Score 4, innovation, which indicated the extent in which the teachers used new and innovative techniques to encourage diverse and creative thinking included teachers with an education major as the first entry into the regression equation. Teachers with the least experience (0 to 3 years), and teachers who taught twelfth and eleventh grade students were also included into the regression equation.

Concept maps as a tool to analyze the ideas of teacher training students regarding what to teach on human nutrition in Primary Education

Concept maps are a technique used to obtain a visual representation of a person's ideas about a concept or a set of related concepts. Specifically, in this paper, through a qualitative methodology, we analyze the concept maps proposed by 52 groups of teacher training students in order to find out the characteristics of the maps and the degree of adequacy of the contents with regard to the teaching of human nutrition in the 3rd cycle of primary education. The participants were enrolled in the Teacher Training Degree majoring in Primary Education, and the data collection was carried out through a training activity under the theme of what to teach about Science in Primary School? The results show that the maps are a useful tool for working in teacher education as they allow organizing, synthesizing, and communicating what students know. Moreover, through this work, it has been possible to see that future teachers have acceptable skills for representing the concepts/ideas in a concept map, although the level of adequacy of concepts/ideas about human nutrition and its relations is usually medium or low. These results are a wake-up call for teacher training, both initial and ongoing, because they shows the inability to change priorities as far as the selection of content is concerned.

Global citizenship education. Politische Bildung für die Weltgesellschaft

Der Beitrag gibt einen kurzen Einblick in ein neues Masterprogramm zu Global Citizenship Education und die damit verbundene Konzeptentwicklung, die sich um eine enge Verknüpfung von Globalem Lernen, Politischer Bildung und Friedenspädagogik bemüht. Dabei werden auch Spannungsfelder und Perspektiven für Kompetenzorientierung und -entwicklung in einer global orientierten politischen Bildung beleuchtet. (DIPF/Orig.)

Teaching middle years : rethinking curriculum, pedagogy and assessment [1st ed.]

The middle years of schooling are increasingly recognised as a crucial stage in students' lives, one that has significant consequences for ongoing educational success. International research indicates that young adolescents benefit from programs designed especially for their needs, and the middle years have become an important reform issue for education systems. Teaching Middle Years offers a systematic overview of the philosophy, principles and issues in middle schooling. It includes contributions from academics and school-based practitioners on intellectual and emotional development in early adolescence, pedagogy, curriculum and assessment of middle years students. Written for teachers, student teachers, education leaders and policy makers, Teaching Middle Years is an essential resource for anyone involved in educating young adolescents. Teaching Middle Years is the first comprehensive Australian book to match and surpass the quality of many overseas publications.'

Towards making a difference through a university-TAFE partnership : mentoring potential teacher aides

Universities promote partnerships as an investment of social capital that may benefit communities. Mentoring of university students in schools has become key to induction of education workplace practices. One such arrangement is the mentoring of students from TAFE who endeavour to become teacher aides. However, there is no theoretical model for mentoring teacher aides and, similar to mentoring preservice teachers, such practices vary in quality and quantity. What are mentors’ perceptions of mentoring potential teacher aides within school settings? This mixed-method research involves a survey with extended responses. The aim is to determine practices and strategies for mentoring potential teacher aides (PTAs). Results indicated that PTAs require induction about the school culture and infrastructure, which includes ethics, values, operational plans, awareness of facilities and a range of other inductions that would aid the PTA’s work practices. Findings also revealed that many of the mentoring practices employed for preservice teachers may be used for mentoring PTAs in school settings. Indeed, mentors require personal attributes to facilitate the mentoring process. They also indicated outlining the education system requirements as fundamental to workplace operations. In addition, as most PTAs work with students in the classroom, the mentor’s pedagogical knowledge can further assist PTAs to develop an understanding of effective pedagogical practices, particularly for small groups or one-on-one sessions. Finally, a mentor’s modelling of practices and providing constructive feedback about the PTA’s practices can assist the development of workplace operations. In conclusion, the survey employed in this study may assist organisations to develop protocols of practice for workplace mentors. PTAs require mentors who are versed in effective mentoring practices that can more readily guide them towards success.

Literacy teacher research in high poverty schools: Why it matters

Teachers who work in contexts in which their students’ lives are affected by poverty take up the challenge of learning to teach diverse students in ways that teachers in other contexts may not be required to do. And they do this work in contexts of immense change. Students’ communities change, neighborhoods change, educational policies change, literate practices and the specific effects of what it means to be poor in particular places also change. What cannot change is a commitment to high-equity, high-quality education for the students in these schools. Teachers need to analyze situations and make ongoing ethical decisions about pedagogy and curriculum. To do this, they must be able to continuously gauge the effects of their practices on different students. Hence, we argue that building teacher-researcher dispositions and repertoires is a key goal for teacher education across the teaching life-span. Drawing on a range of recent and ongoing collaborative research projects in schools situated in areas of high poverty, we draw out some principles for literacy teachers’ education.

Formação continuada na escola: como os professores dos anos iniciais do ensino fundamental intepretam os resultados da Prova Brasil

A formação é necessária a todos os profissionais da educação, visto que o ser humano nunca está pronto ou acabado. No contexto das constantes transformações sociais, a formação continuada ganha nova força na atual conjuntura social, cultural e econômica do país e a escola passa a ser entendida como um locus privilegiado para essa formação. Contudo, para que essa formação ocorra no sentido proposto por Vera Candau, a escola necessita ser de fato um lugar de reflexão, capaz de identificar os problemas, discuti-los e, coletivamente, resolvê-los. Paralelamente à discussão sobre formação continuada, nos deparamos com os resultados da avaliação nacional, que insistem em evidenciar os baixos desempenhos dos estudantes das escolas públicas. A Prova Brasil, em especial, tem divulgado os resultados para cada escola com o objetivo de envolver os professores e demais funcionários na reflexão sobre a qualidade da educação e da aprendizagem de seus alunos. Com a finalidade de buscar compreender como a escola interpreta os resultados da Prova Brasil, favorecendo a formação continuada de seus docentes, foi feita a análise das ações de uma escola pública situada no município de Nova Iguaçu, que atende alunos do primeiro segmento do Ensino Fundamental. A pesquisa, portanto, é de natureza qualitativa, envolvendo observações participantes, questionários com os sujeitos escolhidos: professores, coordenação pedagógica, direção e coleta de dados na Secretaria Municipal de Educação. O referencial teórico desta discussão está embasado nas discussões acerca da valorização da escola e da importância desta como locus privilegiado de formação continuada. Assim, autores como Candau, Imbernón, dentre outros, são fundamentais. Os resultados dos levantamentos educacionais podem ser excelentes instrumentos para fomentar a discussão sobre o ensino e a aprendizagem dos estudantes na escola.

Por uma outra Epistemologia de Formação: Conversas sobre um Projeto de Formação de Professoras no Município de Queimados

Esta tese origina-se da pesquisa de doutoramento realizada por meio do projeto de extensão Conversas entre professores: a prática como ponto de encontro, outra forma de pensar a formação e os currículos praticados no município de Queimados/RJ com professoras da rede municipal. Seu objetivo é pensar uma Epistemologia de Formação Contínua fundamentada no trabalho em sala de aula, na troca de experiências, nas histórias de vida e nos saberes experienciais enredados na vida cotidiana apontando/desinvisibilizando a complexidade que faz parte da vida e do processo de formação que é contínuo assim como os usos e a importância das narrativas nesse processo. Desenvolve-se a partir de uma metodologiapolítica que envolve os cotidianos das salas de aula, as rodas de conversa com narrativas de experiências e de histórias de vida. Defende que a formação se dá continuamente, ou seja, é um processo que começa com o nascimento e se tece por toda a vida dos sujeitos. Para isso, discute tanto a importância das memórias de vida como dispositivo de autoformação, pensando por que o exercício de autoconhecimento é tão importante nessa trajetória quanto a importância que o compartilhamento de experiências, por meio das narrativas, tem na formação contínua. Considera a ideia de que as políticas oficiais de educação se tecem a partir dos embates cotidianos entre diferentes grupos, ou seja, não há uma política separada da prática, há políticaspráticas, o que significa que todas as ações desenvolvidas pelos praticantes das escolas são também fruto de decisões e convicções políticas e expressam valores e objetivos também políticos. Traz ainda discussão acerca do que vem sendo dito em textos oficiais de políticas públicas para a formação continuada no Brasil e de que forma esses textos vêm sendo lidos e usados no município de Queimados. Pretende se apresentar como uma políticaprática contra-hegemônica, que desinvisibliza os cotidianos escolares mostrando que o que parece posto como política de formação contínua é um processo de embates que se tece coletivamente e cotidianamente. Pratica um exercício da suspeita que tem mostrado que há outras maneiras de produzir políticaspráticas de formação que estão enredadas às histórias de vidas das professoras

Manoel Bomfim e formação de professores: reflexões sobre Lições de Pedagogia (1915)

O livro Lições de Pedagogia (1915) foi produzido por Manoel José do Bomfim (1868-1932). Médico, formado pela Faculdade de Medicina do Rio de Janeiro no ano de 1890, com a tese Das nefrites, Bomfim iniciou seus trabalhos em Educação no ano de 1896 na instituição Pedagogium como subdiretor, órgão no qual atuou como diretor por longa data, entre os finais do século XIX e princípios do século XX. Nesse período também foi professor da Escola Normal do Distrito Federal, tendo publicado vários livros, entre eles o que foi convertido em núcleo central desta dissertação. Bomfim relata que os resumos de suas aulas na Escola Normal foram transformados em livro no ano de 1915 como preocupação de não que se perdessem os conteúdos lecionados durante o período em que foi professor na Escola citada. Precisava guardar memória do trabalho que fora desenvolvido enquanto docente do curso de Pedagogia. Reformas curriculares estavam sendo realizadas naquela instituição, voltadas para unificar os cursos de Pedagogia e Psicologia. Com isso, muito do conteúdo referente ao campo de Psicologia foi retirado do programa, medida que autor discordava. Assim, percebemos que o livro em seu formato material nunca adentrou as salas de aula de Manoel Bomfim, embora seu conteúdo tenha sido ministrado. Neste trabalho, analisamos aspectos gerais do livro Lições de Pedagogia (1915) como documento de memória da prática educativa do autor como professor de futuros professores destinados à Educação Primária ou Educação Elementar de crianças, com idade entre 6 e 15 anos, no Rio de Janeiro, Distrito Federal, capital da República do Brasil. Para esta reflexão, agregamos a leitura de quatro teses apresentadas à Faculdade de Medicina do Rio de Janeiro no ano de 1890. Com esta leitura, buscamos relacionar traços da formação médica do autor com as prescrições para a Escola Normal, materializadas no livro, com três edições nos anos de 1915, 1917 e 1926; sendo esta última a edição trabalhada nesta dissertação. Outro trabalho considerado de forma incidental nesta reflexão corresponde ao do livro Pensar e Dizer (2006, [1923]), em que Bomfim estuda as relações entre símbolo e linguagem, conceitos que também apresentavam desdobramentos para o campo da Educação, indício das teses que procurava legitimar orientadas pela perspectiva médica à qual Manoel Bomfim se encontrava associado

Tia, existe flor preta?: educar para as relações étnico-raciais

A pesquisa que se insere na linha Infância, Juventude e Educação do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação, da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro/UERJ, teve por objetivo compreender as enunciações que professoras e estudantes de Pedagogia produziram nas discussões do Ciclo de Palestras Direitos Humanos e Educação Infantil: questões de raça, etnia, sexo e gênero, realizado na UERJ, durante cinco encontros quinzenais, sobre a questão raça e etnia, em 2013. O procedimento metodológico do Ciclo foi de palestras expositivas, sessões reflexivas que produziram amplo debate crítico com os 40 participantes. O material empírico analisado na dissertação foi composto pelas enunciações produzidas pelos participantes relativas às questões étnico-raciais: relatos de preconceito, discriminação e racismo. A pesquisa adotou uma abordagem qualitativa e procurou compreender as enunciações a partir do aporte teórico proposto por Bakhtin. Esta abordagem teórica dialogou com outras que subsidiaram o ciclo de palestras e as presentes no levantamento bibliográfico realizado (2003 2013), que visou observar a materialidade da Lei 10.639/13 e das DCNERER. A partir do corpus de enunciações da pesquisa elegemos três eixos temáticos: (1) As relações étnico-raciais no Brasil; (2) Práticas racistas e antirracistas na Educação Infantil e (3) A formação de professores para a educação das relações étnico-raciais. As análises apontaram que as atividades de problematização e discussão sobre o tema são importantes e necessárias, diante à lacuna de formação e conhecimentos especializados, em contraponto às dificuldades cotidianas e embaraços voltados às questões de raça e etnia vividas por professores e crianças negras ou não, no cotidiano das Instituições de Educação Infantil. Os participantes reconheceram o próprio despreparo para atuar frente às questões em estudo e propuseram estratégias de ação nas suas práticas pedagógicas com as crianças

NAUCZYCIELSKA SAMOOBSERWACJA DLA ROZUMIENIA „SIEBIE"

In the article an attempt at describing theoretical bases and application of self-observation using video-technology in teachers' education has been undertaken. The article starts by showing the very beginning of the use of visual self-observation in teachers' education. First of all video self-observation is approached as an important tool for changing self-esteem and for changing teachers' professional performance. However, this self-observation is only the first aid. The critical factor in causing changes of behaviour is the role of a tutor. In general self-observation is rather the medium for changing the self-esteem which an object presents than a direct cause of behavioural change.

Estilos de liderança em contexto de sala de aula:implicações na supervisão e orientação pedagógica

Dissertação apresentada para a obtenção do grau de Mestre em Ciências da Educação/Supervisão e Orientação Pedagógica. Orientador: Professor Doutor António Mesquita Guimarães