Search results for "Pre-service teachers"

Outcomes of primary teacher education in Finland : an exit survey

2016

Seven final year cohorts of Finnish pre-service primary teachers (N = 384) were given an exit survey, which measured their estimated attainment of knowledge and experience in the 10 domains of professional activity considered critical for new teachers in the Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (INTASC) standards. The results indicated that the profile of the graduates was uneven, showing low levels of satisfaction in the fields of special education and cooperation but high levels of satisfaction in the fields of reflective practice and planning. The satisfaction with the estimated knowledge and experience achieved was divided into three components of pedagogic, instruct…

Rutas cognitivas de futuros maestros ante una situación comparativa de razones desiguales

2019

En esta investigación se analizan las rutas cognitivas que subyacen a las resoluciones de un grupo de futuros maestros ante una tarea de comparación de razones desiguales en el contexto de las ofertas comerciales. La revisión de la literatura y el análisis en profundidad de las componentes críticas de la tarea nos han permitido definir las dimensiones de análisis de las resoluciones. A partir de ellas hemos realizado un análisis cualitativo de corte interpretativo del cual se desprende que los participantes poseen un escaso desarrollo del pensamiento relativo. Un número importante de ellos presenta dificultades con la comparación de las cantidades relativas desiguales cuando estas se les pr…

Guiding Student Thinking Through Teacher Questioning When Learning with Dynamic Representations

2021

Dynamic representations (e.g., dynamic geometry software GeoGebra for mathematics learning and PhET simulations for science learning) offer excellent opportunities for students to conduct investigations and to formulate explanations for the visualized phenomena. In order for this to be effective, students need guidance, for example, for planning their investigations and reflecting on their actions. One way to support students is by prompting them by using questions that are adapted to the students’ current situation. This chapter focuses on how pre-service teachers provide guidance for students through questioning and by both structuring and problematizing student learning. Data comes from …

Democracy, classroom practices and pre-service teachers’ conceptions of excellence

2017

Initial teacher preparation for inclusive education in Ghana : status and challenges

2016

Initial teacher education programs are undergoing reforms to equip pre-service teachers with inclusive skills, knowledge, attitudes, and values that are critical for successful implementation of inclusive education. This dissertation, comprised of four articles and a summary, sought to describe how the colleges of education in Ghana prepare teachers for inclusive education. A descriptive survey research approach was adopted in all four articles.The first article sought to determine the knowledge of pre-service teachers regarding the concept of inclusive education, special education needs (SEN), inclusive pedagogical approaches, and their feelings of self- efficacy in terms of teaching in in…

Designing knowledge construction in pre-service teachers’ collaborative planning talk

2022

In this paper, we report on a qualitative study of student teachers’ collaboration in planning and implementing a course that integrated physics and the Finnish language. Audio-recorded planning sessions and interviews were examined using qualitative content analysis, first, to discover what kind of space for knowledge construction student teachers designed for learners and, second, to identify the characteristics of their collaboration in developing a new cross-disciplinary pedagogical practice. The analysis revealed challenges in integrating meaning-making resources for knowledge construction; especially the role of language remained mostly invisible. This indicates a need to develop teac…

Teachers as learners : a qualitative exploration of pre-service and in-service teachers’ continuous learning community OpenDigi

2021

This study explores pre-service and in-service teachers’ experiences in working as a learning community. Pre-service teachers (N = 60) and teacher educators (N = 9) from a Finnish university and in-service teachers (N = 27) from four local comprehensive schools worked together over six months. The teachers-as-learners continuous learning model was created and implemented in practice. The participants’ written reflections were collected to explore what they learned, what challenges they experienced and how they would further develop the model. The results showed that the pre-service and the in-service teachers reflected on their work somewhat differently. The former experienced learning grou…

Miten luokanopettajaopiskelijat arvioivat itseään tekstien tuottajina?

2019

Tässä tutkimuksessa tarkastellaan, miten luokanopettajaopiskelijat (N = 76) arvioivat omaa tekstien tuottamistaan ja sen oppimista. Tutkimusaineistona olivat lomakekyselyn avoimet vastaukset. Aineisto analysoitiin aineistolähtöisen ja teoriaohjaavan sisällönanalyysin keinoin. Tulokset osoittavat, että opiskelijat lähestyvät tekstien tuottamista ja sen oppimista suhtautumis-, osaamis- ja kehittymiskeskeisesti. Kokonaisuudessaan itsearviointien taustalla on melko kokonaisvaltainen kirjoittamiskäsitys, jossa edustuvat selkeimmin genre- ja prosessidiskurssit ja vähiten sosiaalisen ja sosiopoliittisen toiminnan diskurssit. Yksilöiden välillä on eroja lähestymistapojen ja kirjoittamiskäsitysten m…

Teacher education and inclusion in Ghana : pre-service teachers' preparedness for creating an inclusive classroom

2011

Education of pupils with special education needs (SENs) in Ghana has been formed around the medical model where pupils with special needs are diagnosed, labelled and taught in segregated special education institutions disconnected from regular mainstream classroom (Hooker, 2008). Recently, there has been increased focus on the adoption of inclusive education (IE) which seeks to reinforce the competence and efficiency of systems in school to reach out to all learners. Therefore, it is important for regular classroom teachers to be trained in the identification and support of the pupils with SENs in order for them to address the needs of all students. Recent studies in Ghana have concentrated…

The connection between forms of guidance for inquiry-based learning and the communicative approaches applied : a case study in the context of pre-ser…

2019

Recent research has argued that inquiry-based science learning should be guided by providing the learners with support. The research on guidance for inquiry-based learning has concentrated on how providing guidance affects learning through inquiry. How guidance for inquiry-based learning could promote learning about inquiry (e.g. epistemic practices) is in need of exploration. A dialogic approach to classroom communication and pedagogical link-making offers possibilities for learners to acquire these practices. The focus of this paper is to analyse the role of different forms of guidance for inquiry-based learning on building the communicative approach applied in classrooms. The data for th…