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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 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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Documentary websites known as “snapshots of practice” provide vivid examples of teachers’ inquiries into issues they have formulated in the context of their own teaching practices and students’ learning. Designed with assistance from Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, snapshots of practice can be accessed in the K–12 section of the Gallery of Teaching and Learning (). Analysis of prospective teachers’ reflections on science-related snapshots of practice indicate that this use of technology enhanced their understanding of inquiry-based approaches to instruction. The paper also illustrates how prospective teachers used an electronic toolkit, , to construct their own snapshots of practice in order to represent what they had learned in a course on methods of teaching science in elementary school. 相似文献
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Cecília Galv?o Pedro Reis Sofia Freire Paulo Almeida 《Research in Science Education》2011,41(5):651-666
PARSEL Project emerged from the urgent need to overcome the problem of lack of scientific literacy in the population, which
should be a priority in a society where science occupies a central place. Indeed, nowadays for any citizen to participate
in a responsible and informed way in society he has to be scientifically acknowledgeable. Nevertheless, not only are scientific
levels low in the general population, but also there is an increasing number of students who avoid science and technology
courses and related professions. Within this context, PARSEL aims at raising science and scientific courses’ popularity and
relevancy as well as at enacting teachers’ professional development. In order to achieve these goals, the PARSEL group developed
54 pan-European modules, which were tested and evaluated by several teachers in several European countries and Israel. Teachers
maintained a close relationship with the university, were highly encouraged to appropriate the modules and to adapt them to
their local conditions and, also to discuss and share their experiences. In Portugal, modules were tested by a group of eight
teachers, and their students. This paper presents data concerning teachers’ evaluation. Data was collected by means of interviews,
observation and written documents and reveals that teachers positively evaluated PARSEL’s impact on their own professional
development. Furthermore, they considered modules as well as the teaching-learning approach essential for making science learning
relevant and popular for their students. 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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Meredith A. Park Rogers Dionne I. Cross Melissa Sommerfeld Gresalfi Amy E. Trauth-Nare Gayle A. Buck 《International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education》2011,9(4):893-917
The purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which three teachers’ professional experience and existing orientations
toward teaching and learning mathematics and science influenced their implementation of a project-based curriculum (i.e. project-based
learning (PBL)). Data sources included interviews, videotapes of classroom activity, and a teaching philosophy questionnaire.
Data analysis was conducted using an iterative coding technique. We found coherency between the teachers’ perceived orientations
and their emergent ideas about PBL, their sense of PBL as being compatible with their goals, and the specific challenges with
which they struggled. All the teachers wanted their students to be successful; however, different definitions of success led
to quite different approaches toward teaching, and for the most part, these differences appeared to have occurred because
of existing orientations the teachers held for teaching their discipline. Implications for professional development taking
into account teachers’ orientations and thus their professional experience are discussed, as well as disciplinary challenges
to using PBL. 相似文献
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Science Teachers’ Professional Development and Changes in Science Practical Assessment Practices: What are the Issues? 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Phillip A. Towndrow Aik-Ling Tan Benny H. W. Yung Libby Cohen 《Research in Science Education》2010,40(2):117-132
This paper considers the circumstances under which science teachers can respond positively and productively to educational
policy reforms in the area of science practical assessment. To understand what might be involved in linking science teachers’
assessment capacities and their professional development, we present illustrative data from recent research studies conducted
in Singapore and Hong Kong showing contrasting approaches taken in the implementation of reforms in science practical assessment.
In Singapore, teachers worked together to select, discuss, clarify and refine their practices as they made decisions about
what to teach and assess. In Hong Kong, teachers took a critical stance towards the new policy and learnt from their own experiences
in order to build their confidence. With the same policy initiative, one group of teachers focused more on the technicalities
of complying with requirements imposed on them while in the other group had their professional consciousness of what they
thought was best for their students provoked so that their practices would be transformed. In an attempt to draw lessons for
other contexts in supporting the implementation of assessment policy reforms through professional development work, we identify
and discuss a range of factors in science teachers’ professional development that arise once in situ professional development work has started. Overall, our intent in this article is to recast assessment reform as a driver
or pivot in teachers’ professional development and learning. To do this it is necessary, we argue, to afford teachers’ experiences
and the processes involved in learning from them greater emphasis in order to ensure the continuance of innovation in the
assessment of laboratory-based work. 相似文献
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Kate Wall Steve Higgins Emma Glasner Ulfëbt Mahmout Jane Gormally 《The Australian Educational Researcher》2009,36(2):93-117
The Learning to Learn in Schools Phase 3 Evaluation was a four year project across England exploring the concept of Learning
to Learn in 33 primary and secondary schools. The project was funded through the UK based Campaign for Learning. One of the
key aims of the project was to ensure that the locus of control in terms of development remains with the schools, who decided
on the focus of innovation relevant to them under the umbrella heading of Learning to Learn. A team from the Research Centre
for Learning and Teaching at Newcastle University then supported and facilitated the teachers in the systematic evaluation
of their experiences. As a result we believe that this process supported meaningful professional development about teaching
and learning. This paper exemplifies this process through two professional enquiries into pupil talk in the classroom and
how it supported learning. The projects were carried out by teachers in two schools, one secondary (11–18 years) and one primary
(4–11 years). Both schools decided that encouraging pupil talk about learning best fit with their priorities and the project
aims of exploring Learning to Learn. The paper describes the different research methods and findings of the teachers’ research,
focusing on the decision making which occurred and how the process of the research has impacted on their professional development.
Conclusions are drawn about how the philosophy of Learning to Learn can be as easily applied to the process of professional
enquiry through action research and teachers’ learning, as to the more traditional domain of students’ learning and how this
might contribute to the development of a successful Learning to Learn school culture. 相似文献
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Andrea Gay Van Duzor 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》2011,20(4):363-374
Of primary concern in professional development (PD) are the ways in which teachers transfer knowledge from PD to the classroom.
This qualitative case study of a chemistry PD course for elementary teachers investigates the first step in the transfer process
by examining why and how K-8 teachers consider transfer to the classroom. Motivations for considering transfer were the same
whether teachers only proposed how they could use PD content or teachers actively utilized PD experiments and concepts in
their own classrooms. Teacher learning of chemistry concepts, activities, and pedagogical strategies were motivating factors
for considering transfer. Teachers appropriated and adapted PD materials based on the specific learning needs of their own
students, the constraints of their teaching contexts, and their desired outcomes, including making science learning relevant
for students. Understanding teachers’ motivations and means of adaptations in considering PD can inform PD provider programs
how to be more effective and responsive to teacher needs. Furthermore, teachers’ active consideration of appropriations and
adaptations highlights how teachers leverage their expertise in shaping their PD experiences. 相似文献
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Colleen Vale Alasdair McAndrew Siva Krishnan 《Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education》2011,14(3):193-212
A professional learning program for teachers of junior secondary mathematics regarding the content and pedagogy of senior
secondary mathematics is the context for this study of teachers’ mathematical and pedagogical knowledge. The analysis of teachers’
reflections on their learning explored teachers’ understanding of mathematical connections and their appreciation of mathematical
structure. The findings indicate that a professional learning program about senior secondary mathematics can enable practicing
teachers to deepen and broaden their knowledge for teaching junior secondary mathematics and develop their practice to support
their students’ present and future learning of mathematics. Further research is needed about professional learning approaches
and tasks that may enable teachers to imbed and develop awareness of structure in their practice. 相似文献
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Aviva Klieger Yehuda Ben-Hur Nurit Bar-Yossef 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》2010,19(2):187-198
The study examines the professional development of junior-high-school teachers participating in the Israeli “Katom” (Computer
for Every Class, Student and Teacher) Program, begun in 2004. A three-circle support and training model was developed for
teachers’ professional development. The first circle applies to all teachers in the program; the second, to all teachers at
individual schools; the third to teachers of specific disciplines. The study reveals and describes the attitudes of science
teachers to the integration of laptop computers and to the accompanying professional development model. Semi-structured interviews
were conducted with eight science teachers from the four schools participating in the program. The interviews were analyzed
according to the internal relational framework taken from the information that arose from the interviews. Two factors influenced
science teachers’ professional development: (1) Introduction of laptops to the teachers and students. (2) The support and
training system. Interview analysis shows that the disciplinary training is most relevant to teachers and they are very interested
in belonging to the professional science teachers’ community. They also prefer face-to-face meetings in their school. Among
the difficulties they noted were the new learning environment, including control of student computers, computer integration
in laboratory work and technical problems. Laptop computers contributed significantly to teachers’ professional and personal
development and to a shift from teacher-centered to student-centered teaching. One-to-One laptops also changed the schools’
digital culture. The findings are important for designing concepts and models for professional development when introducing
technological innovation into the educational system. 相似文献
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Tracy J. Posnanski 《Journal of Science Teacher Education》2010,21(5):589-621
Establishing literacy in science is often linked to building knowledge about the Nature of Science (NOS). This paper describes
and evaluates an inservice program designed to build elementary teachers’ understanding of NOS and an awareness of how NOS
impacts science classroom instruction. Data sources consisted of surveys, action research plan documentation and classroom
observations. Program participants tended to demonstrate some gains in understanding more about NOS and they linked positive
experiences in the program to the explicit and activity-based NOS instruction provided. Yet, participation in the professional
development project might not have been equally beneficial for all teachers. The understanding of NOS may have been restricted
to certain NOS aspects, and the demonstration of the participants’ understanding of NOS may have been short-lived with a somewhat
limited impact on sustainable, long-term NOS-based classroom instruction. Implications for designing NOS related professional
development programs and suggestions for improvements to further develop teacher understanding of NOS are discussed. 相似文献
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Teaching and Learning About Inquiry: Insights and Challenges in Professional Development 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
Bryan Wee Dan Shepardson Juli Fast Jon Harbor 《Journal of Science Teacher Education》2007,18(1):63-89
The purpose of this study was to determine if teachers who participated in a professional development program continued to
learn about inquiry and inquiry teaching as they implemented inquiry in their classrooms. A qualitative design utilizing inductive
analysis was used to investigate teachers’ understanding and classroom implementation of inquiry. Findings are presented as
assertions, drawing support from four focal teachers. For each assertion, confirming and disconfirming data are presented.
Based on these data, we assert that a) there was little or no change in teachers’ individual understanding of inquiry, and
b) professional development enhanced teachers’ ability to design inquiry-based activities – however, classroom implementation
did not reflect a high level of inquiry. 相似文献
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In this paper we report on teachers’ and students’ participation in authentic science research in out of school time science
clubs at elementary schools. In the program four to five teachers worked alongside practicing scientists as part of their
research groups. Each teacher facilitated a club with 10–15 students who, by extension, were members of the scientists’ research
groups. Over the 3 years of the project nearly 30 teachers and over 500 children participated in the clubs. In this paper
we present a case study of teachers and children who worked with an analytic chemist at a major university whose field of
research is environmental arsenic. We illustrate how the professor mentored the teachers and how they in turn mentored the
children. We show how the elementary school teachers who had very little formal science education gained the expertise needed
to mentor the children. We found that in less than one academic year the teachers were able to gain the knowledge and skills
to facilitate the children’s legitimate participation in authentic scientific research; and that the children gained the methodological
and intellectual proficiency needed to contribute useful data and findings to the scientist’s research program. 相似文献
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The present study examines teachers’ perceptions of organizational changes in their elementary schools. These changes occurred
following the implementation of a long-term comprehensive school improvement project (CSIP). One hundred and seventy one teachers
who taught in six elementary schools located in two different school districts in Israel responded to a questionnaire both
before and after a period of 3 years during which they participated in a CSIP. The teachers, assisted by six professional
consultants, one in each school, studied cooperative learning as well as new forms of collaborative staff work. The study
addressed two primary research questions: What changes in teachers’ perceptions of their schools’ organizational culture emerged
from teachers’ participation in the project? How were the professional relationships between the schools’ supervisors and
the teachers in the two districts reflected in the teachers’ perception of school organizational changes? Results indicated
that teachers in three schools from one district recorded a significant improvement in their perceptions of their schools’
organizational culture at the end of the project, whereas the teachers from the other district indicated either no change,
or a significant decline in their evaluation of their schools’ organizational culture. A cross-validation of the teachers’
data was performed through a content analysis of 500 reports written over the course of 2 years, submitted by six external
consultants. The analysis yielded four categories: general difficulties to work with the school’s staff, problems implementing
the project, teacher resistance, and cancellations of planned meetings. The analysis provided valuable information as to why
the teachers from the two districts differed in their reactions to the project. 相似文献
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This paper illuminates the experiences of beginning teachers using a participatory perspective approach and drawing on some
of these teachers’ perceptions. We place the ‘subject’ of workplace learning research centrally in understanding the relatedness
between workplaces and novice employees/trainees. This paper builds on previous work by the authors using semi-structured
interviews with 17 beginning teachers in 19 schools that aim to better understand issues associated with beginning teacher
retention. This study explores an application of a framework for evaluating workplaces as from expansive to restrictive learning
environments, whilst examining individuals’ responses to and agency in these environments. In addition, these teachers’ personal
networks were explored to idedntify how they shaped the teachers’ engagement with workplaces. This analysis revealed networks
both internal and external to their schools, and hence a broader view of workplace than is often proposed. Together these
analyses allowed an examination of the relatedness between individual beginning teachers and the schools they experienced.
This paper identifies the significance of ontogeny and expectation that individuals bring to the workplace, along with individuals
exhibiting different agency. These beginning teachers indicate how individuals can be proactive in creating more expansive
learning environments for themselves through the utilisation of personal networks, even when these are not offered. This finding
may have implications for beginning teachers to re-evaluate their potential to become empowered as they begin their careers. 相似文献
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Professional Development of Physics Teachers in an Evidence-Based Blended Learning Program 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Hana Berger Bat-Sheva Eylon Esther Bagno 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》2008,17(4):399-409
The present study examined continuity of learning between face-to-face and online environments in a “blended” professional
development program designed for 16 physics teachers. The program had nine face-to-face meetings as well as continuous online
exchanges between them through a website. The program focused on “knowledge integration” (KI) innovative activities in physics
classes using an “evidence-based” approach: The teachers implemented the activities, collected and analyzed data about their
practice and their students’ learning, and reflected on the evidence with their peers. Five reflective tools were used to
promote continuity: Your Comments, Hot Polls, Smashing Sentences, Hot Reports, and Mini Research. Continuity was assessed with regard to the ideas discussed by the teachers and the reasoning patterns that they employed.
Analysis of the online exchanges in relation to teachers’ face-to-face discourse revealed that the teachers discussed the
same ideas (KI, evidence and learner-centered pedagogies), employed the same reasoning patterns (e.g., forming generalizations),
and extended ideas in re-visitation. The online and face-to-face environments played different and complementary roles in
the teachers’ learning. This study shows that appropriate use of an online environment in a blended program can lead to a
continuous course of learning and can transform a “9 once-a-month-meetings” workshop into a “9-month” workshop. 相似文献
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This article describes an exploratory study of question prompts and online mentoring (specifically a lateral or peer mentoring
experience) in a field-based practicum that focused on teaching ill-structured problem solving of classroom discipline. Data
were gathered on 26 in-service practicum teachers through online observations, online journal reports, questionnaires, and
reflection logs. Results showed that the practicum teachers were successful in using the approach to plan and implement effective
interventions for their students and that they perceived the online mentoring approach as being very beneficial in supporting
their learning. A more detail analysis of seven practicum teachers and their mentors indicated that their mentors engaged
in eight types of online mentoring functions; the most frequently used were asking practicum teachers to elaborate, and valuing
the practicum teachers’ contributions. The influence of the mentoring functions on the seven practicum teachers’ ill-structured
problem solving is also discussed. The study offers evidence that asynchronous online mentoring and question prompts can enhance
the professional development of both practicum teachers and mentors by helping them learn about and apply intervention strategies
in solving real-world teaching problems. 相似文献
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In this paper, we describe a one-day professional development activity for mathematics teachers that promoted the use of comparison
as an instructional tool to develop students’ flexibility in algebra. Effective use of comparison in mathematics instruction
involves using side-by-side presentation of problems and solution methods and subsequent student discussion of these multiple
solution methods to highlight the similarities and differences among problem-solving techniques. The goals of the professional
development activity were to make teachers aware of how to use comparison effectively in their instruction, as well as to
impact teachers’ own flexibility in algebra by using comparison instructionally during the professional development. Our analysis
of teachers’ experiences in the professional development activity suggests that when teachers were presented with techniques
for effective use of comparison, their own understanding of multiple solution methods was reinforced. In addition, teachers
began to question why they relied exclusively on one familiar method over others that are equally effective and perhaps more
efficient and started to draw new connections between problem-solving methods. Finally, as a result of experiencing instructional
use of comparison, teachers began to see value in teaching for flexibility and reported changing their own teaching practices. 相似文献