Search results for " TEAC"

La competenza digitale dei futuri insegnanti della scuola primaria e dell’infanzia

2017

La sfida proveniente dall'identificazione della competenza digitale come una delle competenze-chiave di cittadinanza (EU, 2006), e in Italia, dal Piano Nazionale per la Scuola Digitale (2015), esige l’implementazione di percorsi educativo-didattici corredati da adeguati sistemi di valutazione; diventa pertanto imprescindibile promuovere interventi formativi specifici e fornire adeguati strumenti di valutazione e di autovalutazione ai futuri insegnanti di scuola primaria e dell’infanzia che li aiutino ad acquisire le competenze digitali necessarie per progettare percorsi di media education in ambito educativo. Il presente contributo mostra le fasi fondamentali del percorso di ricerca per lo …

Reading Comprehension and Working Memory's Executive Processes: An Intervention Study in Primary School Students

2013

ABSTRA C T Reading comprehension is a highly demanding task that involves the simultaneous process of extracting and constructing meaning in which working memory’s executive processes play a crucial role. In this article, a training program on working memory’s executive processes to improve reading comprehension is presented and empirically tested in two experiments with third-grade primary school students. Experiment 1 showed a greater gain after training the experimental group in contrast to the control group in reading comprehension and intelligence. In experiment 2, we focused on the training processes and compared training results of high and low pretest reading comprehension groups. R…

Forms of productive complexity as criteria for educational reconstruction: the design of a teaching proposal on thermodynamics

2014

Abstract The paper discusses teaching materials on thermodynamics, designed and implemented in 5 classes of scientifically-oriented secondary schools in Italy (grade 12). The materials are designed to: i) foster conceptual understanding; ii) create a learning environment rich enough to enable each student to find a personal way for appropriating content knowledge. In order to achieve the first aim, the design takes into account the main results of literature about student's difficulties in thermodynamics. In order to achieve the second aim, forms of “productive complexities” are implemented. The paper presents the design criteria and shows why they have the potential to create an inclusive …

English writing instruction in Norwegian upper secondary schools

2015

AbstractThis article presents a study of current English writing instruction practices in a selection of Norwegian upper secondary schools and discusses how this draws upon ideas within genre-pedagogy. The data comprises individual and focus-group interviews, observation reports and some teaching material. The study shows that English teachers focus on teaching genre requirements and adjustment of language to task and context. However, despite agreeing on the importance of teaching how to write specific text-types and to adjust to the situation at hand, there seems to be different opinions about how detailed instruction should be. Some teachers fear that too explicit instruction may hinder …

Discovering the Factors Influencing Students' Perception of the Educational Environment in the Context of Foreign Language Training in a Technical Hi…

2010

Students’ Redesign of Mandatory Assignments in Teacher Education

2017

This article explores specific aspects of literacy practices in teacher education in Norway, building upon data collected within the research project Digital literacy and use of learning resources in teacher education in Norway (DigiGLU). Our main aim is to explore how teachers in different subject courses in teacher education (TE) design mandatory assignments, and how students respond to these designs. After the extensive TE-reform in 2010, in revised plans and documents guiding professional training, mandatory assignments (both form and content) were considered more important for the students’ learning process. In our investigation, the concepts of design for learning and design in learni…

What Factors have an Influence on A Quality Teaching Practice in Sciences?

2012

Abstract This paper aims to know to what extent in-service teachers who have not participated in science teaching training courses neither have performed any research in this field develop a quality teaching practice and what factors have influenced to achieve it. Questionnaires and non-participating observation protocols about the classroom work have been used as well as semi-structured interviews with a sample of teachers to obtain data. These instruments try to characterize the teaching action and determine what factors and in which degrees have influenced the performance of a quality science teaching activity.

Challenges in developing in-service teacher training: Lessons learnt from two projects for teachers of Swedish in Finland

2017

Teacher education in Finland is widely respected and of high quality. However, there is a recognised need to develop the educational continuum from pre-service education to in-service training. This article deals with challenges connected to in-service teacher training. Based on two projects, consisting of seven one-month courses for teachers of Swedish in Finland, we reflect on the challenges we encountered during the three-year process. In our research, theory and practice, but also data and methods, have been intertwined, as we have studied the phenomenon by using exploratory practice (Allwright, 2003). The projects and the study were based on a thorough literature review. During the pla…

Modeling a teacher in a tutorial-like system using Learning Automata

2012

Published version of a chapter in the book: Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence VIII. Also available from the publisher at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34645-3_2 The goal of this paper is to present a novel approach to model the behavior of a Teacher in a Tutorial- like system. In this model, the Teacher is capable of presenting teaching material from a Socratic-type Domain model via multiple-choice questions. Since this knowledge is stored in the Domain model in chapters with different levels of complexity, the Teacher is able to present learning material of varying degrees of difficulty to the Students. In our model, we propose that the Teacher will be able to as…

Pre-service Primary Teachers' Scientific Knowledge and Attitudes towards Science Learning and Their Influence on the Understanding of the Nature of S…

2016

The present study focused on the knowledge about the nature of science and the question of the extent to which this knowledge could be explained by employing scientific knowledge, as well as attitudes towards science learning. We obtained data from 171 Spanish pre-service primary school teachers on their knowledge about: a) science concepts, b) science process skills, c) the nature of science (that was split into science construction and validation and the role and function of scientific models), and d) their attitudes towards science learning. Quantitative and qualitative analyses provided interesting results: a) there were significant correlations between any pair of scores of conceptual …