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Eva Kellner Annica Gullberg Iiris Attorps Ingvar Thor��n Roy T?rneberg 《International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education》2011,9(4):843-866
A crucial issue for prospective teachers (PTs) in their education is to develop pedagogical content knowledge (PCK; i.e. how
to make a topic comprehensible to pupils). However, research has shown that PTs may have tacit ideas about teaching that act
as filters preventing consideration of unfamiliar and discrepant ideas. These ideas must be elicited and taken into consideration
in order to be modified. Therefore, PTs’ explicit conceptions may constitute a valuable resource in teacher education. The
aim of this study was to investigate PTs’ ideas about pupils’ difficulties, at a topic-specific level, upon beginning the
teacher education programme. The “Lesson Preparation Method” was used in four case studies to elicit the conceptions of 32
PTs regarding pupils’ difficulties in four specific science and mathematics topics: plant growth, gases, equations and heat
and temperature. In all four topic groups (n = 5 – 11), there was a variety of initial conceptions about pupils’ difficulties, which were categorised into two to five
topic-specific categories. Although, initially, PTs may not have expressed any notions about pupils’ difficulties, conceptions
were elicited by using the Lesson Preparation Method. Furthermore, we found that the initial ideas corresponded with earlier
research on pupils’ difficulties, which could provide a potential resource when creating a scaffolding context in teacher
education programmes where PCK development is stimulated. 相似文献
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Jill M. Aldridge Barry J. Fraser Lisa Bell Jeffrey Dorman 《Journal of Science Teacher Education》2012,23(3):259-290
This article reports the development, validation and use of an instrument designed to provide teachers with feedback information,
based on students’ perceptions, about their classroom environments. The instrument was developed to provide teachers with
feedback that they could use to reflect on their teaching practices and, in turn, guide the implementation of strategies to
improve their learning environments. To determine the validity and reliability of the new instrument, data from 2043 grade
11 and 12 students from 147 classes in 9 schools were analysed. The Rasch model was used to convert data collected using a
frequency response scale into interval data that are suitable for parametric analyses. During an action research process,
reflective journals, written feedback, discussions at a forum and interviews with eight teachers helped to illuminate the
processes used by teachers during action research. This article reports the views of these teachers in general and examines
more closely how one of the teachers used student responses to the learning environment questionnaire as a tool for reflection
and as a guide in transforming her classroom environment. This case study helped us to gauge the extent to which action research
based on students’ perceptions of the learning environment was useful in guiding teachers’ improvements of their classroom
learning environments. 相似文献
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Margareta M. Pop Patricia Dixon Crissie M. Grove 《Journal of Science Teacher Education》2010,21(2):127-147
This study investigated teachers’ motivation, expectations, and changes to teaching practices due to a 6 week summer professional
development program involvement. Participants (n = 67) attended the Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) program within a major university in southeast. Surveys and interviews
were used to collect data to answer the following research questions: (1) Who attends the RET program? (2) In what ways do
elementary teachers differ from middle/secondary teachers with respect to their motivation for attending the RET program and
their expectations about the program? (3) In what ways do elementary teachers differ from middle/secondary teachers with respect
to implementing changes to their teaching practices due to RET program attendance? Survey results indicated significant differences
between elementary teachers and secondary education teachers with respect to their expectations about the program, and changes
to their teaching practices. Interview results provided support to survey findings. Implications for professional development
and science teacher education are discussed in relationship with the current study findings. 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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Urban Students’ Perceptions of Teachers: Views of Students in General, Special, and Honors Education
Students’ satisfaction with school experiences has been linked to their sense of belongingness, connection to school, and
achievement. Though the extant research addresses students’ perceptions of school climate and sense of belonging, there is
a paucity of research about students’ views of teacher–student interactions. Five hundred and seventy-seven students from
one ethnically and academically diverse urban high school were surveyed and interviewed about the nature of teacher talk with
students. Findings from this mixed-methods investigation indicate students from general, special, and honors programs experience
a wide range of interactions based on academic services received, gender, and ethnicity. More frequent perceived punitive
feedback was reported by all students in special education as well as males in general and honors education programs, while
Hispanic students indicated a greater frequency of perceived supportive feedback. Findings also reflect a wide range of attitudes
and feelings about teachers, the educational system, and learning. 相似文献
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Sunhee Paik Meilan Zhang Mary A. Lundeberg Jan Eberhardt Tae Seob Shin Tianyi Zhang 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》2011,20(4):422-434
Since A Nation at Risk was released in the 1980s, standards-based reform has been the most dominant trend in American educational policy, and the
No Child Left Behind Act pushed the trend further by requiring states to develop rigorous curriculum standards. Though much
has been said about these new standards, less has been said about whether or how well professional development helps teachers
link their instruction to these standards. This study examined the impact of a professional development program for K-12 science
teachers in helping teachers meet state curriculum standards. Seventy-five science teachers in Michigan participated in a
2-week summer workshop that used Problem-Based Learning for improving teachers’ content knowledge and pedagogical content
knowledge. Researchers surveyed participating teachers about the change of teachers’ preparedness for standards-based teaching,
their expectations to meet state curriculum standards, and whether their expectations were met. In addition, the usefulness
of workshop activities was examined. Data analysis showed that to align teaching with state curriculum standards, participating
teachers expected to learn instructional strategies and enhance science content knowledge through professional development,
and by and large their expectations were well met. Collaboration with colleagues and facilitators helped teachers achieve
their goals in terms of teaching within state curriculum standards. These findings have important implications for designing
professional development to help teachers align instruction with curriculum standards. 相似文献
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Yifat Ben-David Kolikant 《Instructional Science》2011,39(4):543-559
This study demonstrates the power of the cultural encounter metaphor in explaining learning and teaching difficulties, using
as an example computer science education (CSE). CSE is envisioned as an encounter between veterans of two computer-oriented
cultures, that of the teachers and that of the students. Forty questionnaires administered to CS teachers, as well as in-depth
interviews with four leading CS teachers, revealed those teachers perceived their students as having a different perspective
on the domain, on what constitutes a beneficial approach to problem-solving and on the nature of satisfactory solutions. In
fact, the teachers portrayed their teaching as a continual battle in which their success is limited. Yet, their instruction
was characterized as a composite of enforcement and compromise, with few and isolated attempts at building on students’ cultural
capital. The cultural encounter metaphor, while still viewing students as novices to the professional CS culture represented
by their teachers, emphasizes that good teaching requires building upon students’ cultural capital to create zones of fertile
cultural encounter. 相似文献
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Kennedy Kam Ho Chan 《International Journal of Science Education》2013,35(8):1246-1278
Experiences and reflection have long been regarded as a foundation for pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) development. However, little is known about how experienced teachers develop their PCK via reflection-in-action during their moment-to-moment classroom instruction. Drawing upon data sources including classroom observations, semi-structured interviews and stimulated recall interviews based on lesson videos, this study examined instances when four experienced teachers were found to invent new instructional strategies/representations on the spot during the lesson (referred to as on-site PCK development) in their first attempts at teaching a new topic. The study documented the moment-to-moment experiences of the teachers, including their reconstructed thought processes associated with these instances of on-site PCK development. An explanatory model of a three-step process comprising a stimulus, an integration process and a response was advanced to account for the on-site PCK development observed among the teachers. Three categories of stimulus that triggered on-site PCK development were identified. Factors influencing the integration process and, hence, the resulting response, included teachers’ subject matter knowledge of the new topic, their general pedagogical knowledge and their knowledge of student learning difficulties/prior knowledge related to the new topic. Implications for teacher professional development in terms of how to enhance teachers’ on-site PCK development are discussed. 相似文献
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Cory T. Forbes Elizabeth A. Davis 《International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education》2012,10(2):267-292
Teachers’ curricular role identities are those dimensions of their professional identities concerned with the use of curriculum materials. In a previous study,
we developed and tested a survey instrument designed to measure preservice elementary teachers’ development of curricular
role identity for science teaching through their use of science curriculum materials. In this follow-up study, a revised version
of the survey was administered to a second group of preservice elementary teachers in the same science methods course, and
data were analyzed within and across years. Results from this study suggest that preservice teachers articulated important
similarities and differences between the curricular role identities for science teaching they attributed to themselves and
to more experienced elementary teachers. Over time, they were often able to begin to appropriate the curricular role identities
for science teaching that they attributed to more experienced elementary teachers. However, findings from the second survey
administration also suggest that preservice teachers’ curricular role identities for science teaching are more stable when
characterized by their actual curriculum design practices than when characterized by comparative, probabilistic means. These
findings have important implications for science teacher education and curriculum development, as well as the operationalization
of curricular role identity in education research. 相似文献
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The crisis in UK mathematics education, both in schools and universities, has been widely reported. Currently, 24% of full-time
mathematics teachers in English secondary education have `weak’ or `nil’ qualifications in the subject, 31% of secondary mathematics
teachers are now over the age of 50, and it is estimated that England alone is short of 3500 qualified mathematics teachers.
Furthermore, studies suggest that UK mathematics undergraduates often lack confidence in several key skills essential for
teaching, and the availability of attractive careers for mathematics graduates impacts upon the numbers entering the profession,
thus risking a spiral of decline. This paper recounts the development of a unit of study in the Faculty of Mathematical Studies
at the University of Southampton, England, in conjunction with a new national initiative entitled the Undergraduate Ambassadors Scheme (UAS). This aims to address the crisis in UK mathematics education through the training and placement of final year undergraduates
as teaching assistants in local schools, with a view to promoting mathematics as a university choice to the broadest possible
constituency, whilst simultaneously developing those key skills in which undergraduates regularly feel least confident, and
facilitating an insight into teaching as a career option. The paper also provides a detailed evaluation of this new initiative,
together with the recent comments of students who, having completed the UAS unit, have progressed subsequently to postgraduate
teacher education. 相似文献
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We investigated the pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) of nine experienced chemistry teachers. The teachers took part in
a teacher training course on students’ difficulties and the use of models in teaching acid–base chemistry, electrochemistry,
and redox reactions. Two years after the course, the teachers were interviewed about their PCK of (1) students’ difficulties
in understanding acid–base chemistry and (2) models of acids and bases in their teaching practice. In the interviews, the
teachers were asked to comment on authentic student responses collected in a previous study that included student interviews
about their understanding of acids and bases. Further, the teachers drew story-lines representing their level of satisfaction
with their acid–base teaching. The results show that, although all teachers recognised some of the students’ difficulties
as confusion between models, only a few chose to emphasise the different models of acids and bases. Most of the teachers thought
it was sufficient to distinguish clearly between the phenomenological level and the particle level. The ways the teachers
reflected on their teaching, in order to improve it, also differed. Some teachers reflected more on students’ difficulties;
others were more concerned about their own performance. Implications for chemistry (teacher) education are discussed.
Submitted to Research in Science Education 相似文献
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Assessment of students’ learning in school is deeply implicated in teaching for social justice. Yet classroom assessment is
neglected relative to other aspects of curriculum and pedagogy in the literature on teaching for social justice. Some books
have a relatively clear theory of anti-oppression education at their core but do not provide details about the links between
assessment and their anti-oppression theory, while others provide a more detailed view of assessment practices but do not
specify precisely how particular assessment strategies either promote or hinder anti-oppression education. This article provides
a theoretical framework that spotlights key links between teaching for social justice and classroom assessment. To illustrate
these connections, we draw on guided group discussions with ten high school social studies and English teachers, interested
in pursuing professional development in this area. We conceptualize assessment as a set of institutional processes with the
potential either to inhibit or nurture the development of young people as well as their capacity for self-determination. We
analyze: (a) how teachers, through various assessment practices, can attempt to enable equitable relations within and beyond
the classroom; and (b) performance standards aimed at helping teachers assess their students’ progress toward becoming more
socially responsible and, ultimately, more self-determining. We conclude that even as teachers struggle to enact more socially
just assessment practices, they need to communicate clearly with students and parents about what constitutes equitable assessment
and what institutional practices, by contrast, sow seeds of self-doubt and lead to destructive labeling, ranking, and gate
keeping. 相似文献
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Joël Clanet 《European Journal of Psychology of Education - EJPE》2010,25(2):192-206
This study investigated the links between the teaching practices of primary school teachers (n = 200) who were observed while presenting a new text to their first year classes, and the student achievement levels in those
classes. The teaching practices are specifically concerned with the way the teachers supported and encouraged students’ activities
during verbal interactions. Two different populations were observed: classes of first year students with a reduced teacher–student
ratio (about ten students per class) and classes with a normal teacher–student ratio (between 20 and 25 students per class).
We found that the average level of student achievement in the reduced size classes was higher than in the standard size classes
but that teaching practices differed only at precise periods of group or individual introduction to new reading texts. In
these periods, we found links between teaching practices and student achievement. 相似文献
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Anderson Hassell Norton Andrea McCloskey 《Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education》2008,11(4):285-305
The challenge that we address concerns teachers’ shifts toward student-centered instruction. We report on a yearlong professional
development study in which two United States elementary school teachers engaged in a teaching experiment, as described by
Steffe and Thompson (in: Lesh and Kelly (eds) Research on design in mathematics and science education, 2000). The teaching
experiment involved close mathematical interactions with a pair of students after school, in the context of solving fractions
tasks. By conducting a teaching experiment, we anticipated that each teacher would have more opportunity to develop insight
into students’ mathematics. We also anticipated that these insights would influence the teachers’ classroom practice, even
without explicit support for such a shift. Indeed, the teachers found that they began asking more probing questions of their
students and spending more time listening to students’ explanations, but shifts to classroom practice were limited by constraining
factors such an inflexible curriculum. 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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Alandeom W. Oliveira 《Journal of Science Teacher Education》2010,21(1):103-126
This study examined the effectiveness of introducing elementary teachers to the scholarly literature on personal pronouns
and hedges in classroom discourse, a professional development strategy adopted during a summer institute to enhance teachers’
social understanding (i.e., their understanding of the social functions of language in science discussions). Teachers became
aware of how hedges can be employed to remain neutral toward students’ oral contributions to classroom discussions, invite
students to share their opinions and articulate their own ideas, and motivate students to inquire. Teachers recognized that
the combined use of I and you can render their feedback authoritative, you can shift the focus from the investigation to students’ competence, and we can lead to authority loss. It is argued that explicitness, reflectivity, and contextualization are essential features of
professional development programs aimed at improving teachers’ understandings of the social dimension of inquiry-based science
classrooms and preparing teachers to engage in inquiry-based teacher–student interactions. 相似文献
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Instructional development for teachers in higher education: impact on teaching approach 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Although instructional development for teachers has become an important topic in higher education, little is known about the
impact it has on daily teaching practice. The lack of systematic programme evaluation is an ongoing concern. In this study
we investigate by use of a quasi-experimental design, the impact of an instructional development program for beginning university
teachers on their teaching approach. Quantitative pre-test as well as post-test data were assembled from 20 experimental teachers
and 20 control teachers. At the post-test qualitative data were gathered too: 17 teachers of the experimental group and 12
teachers of the control group were interviewed. Paired t-tests and analysis of covariance with the pre-test scores as a covariate showed some effect of instructional development
on teaching approach. The analysis of the qualitative data sustained this result. Our results reveal the influence of instructional
development on teachers’ teaching approach being slightly different for teachers belonging to distinct disciplines. Several
interpretations and perspectives for further research are discussed. 相似文献
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Amal Hussain Alajmi 《Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education》2009,12(4):263-283
Computational estimation has not yet established a place in the Kuwaiti national curriculum. An attempt was made to include
it during the early 1990s, but it was dropped by the Kuwaiti Ministry of Education because of the difficulties teachers had
teaching it. In an effort to provide guidance for reintroducing the concept into the curriculum, this study reports on mathematics
teachers’ understanding of the meaning of computational estimation and their views about its significance in the elementary
and middle school curricula in Kuwait. Data gathered from 59 elementary and middle schools teachers in Kuwait revealed that
more than 60% of teachers equate computational estimation with rounding. While two-thirds of the teachers viewed computational
estimation to be an important skill for daily life; only one-fifth (20%) saw it as important in mathematics education. More
than half of the teachers either disagreed with the idea of teaching computational estimation or only wanted to teach it in
limited situations. Most were concerned about the difficulty of learning computational estimation or feared that teaching
computational estimation would cause problems with students’ development of standard algorithms for determining an exact answer.
These findings reveal the challenge that mathematics educators face in introducing computational estimation into the mathematics
curriculum. In order for computational estimation to be taught in elementary and middle school classrooms, teachers need to
understand the concept and its value in education. Teacher education needs to focus on helping teachers better understand
the concept of computational estimation and appreciate its value for instruction. 相似文献