Search results for "teacher education."

Integrated initial and continuing training as a way of developing the professional agency of teachers and student teachers

2020

In this paper, we discuss training aimed at supporting the professional agency of teachers and student teachers. Drawing on socio-cultural and post-structural theories, we conceptualize professional agency as achieved by participation in professional practices. We employ our conceptualization in an analysis of a Finnish pilot training that combined initial and continuous training for preschool and primary school teachers. We argue that the practices of reflection and collective enquiry inherent in the model offer a fruitful starting point for further efforts to understand how to support the development of the professional agency of teachers and student teachers simultaneously. peerReviewed

Physical education student teachers' perceptions of applying knowledge and skills about emotional understanding studied in PETE in a one-year teachin…

2013

Background: Recently, there has been growing interest in the emotional aspects of teaching and learning in general education and in physical education (PE). Scholars have argued that high-quality teaching and learning depend on a teacher's knowledge of students' emotions (Hargreaves 1998, 2000, 2002; McCaughtry 2004; McCaughtry and Rovegno 2003; Owens and Ennis 2005; Poulou 2007; Sutton and Wheatley 2003). To this end, three course modules in social and emotional learning (SEL) were added to the degree programme for PE students in Finland. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine student teachers' retrospective perceptions of implementing social and emotional strategies to build em…

How students learn to teach? A case study of instrumental lessons given by Latvian undergraduate performer students without prior teacher training

2012

The purpose of this study was to describe and discuss the way students of the Latvian Academy of Music teach before having entered a teacher training programme. Five hours of students’ teaching work was video-taped, analysed and discussed with them between the spring of 2010 and the winter of 2011. The descriptive and analytic results of this study were also contrasted with their own views on pedagogy, which were drawn from a previous study that had been conducted with the same students and their peers in the fall of 2009. The role of the teaching habits and skills that students have acquired from their own teaching, temperament or background is discussed, as well as their needs starting te…

Web tools per promuovere l’apprendimento collaborativo nella formazione iniziale dei futuri insegnanti

2017

L’approccio flipped può risultare una valida proposta didattica in quanto promuove le forme collaborative di apprendimento. L’apprendimento collaborativo, che trova le sue radici nella teoria socioculturale e nella teoria sociocognitiva, per decenni è stato un pilastro della formazione negli USA. Attraverso il lavoro di ricerca si è voluto descrivere lo sviluppo della competenza digitale nei futuri insegnanti, promuovendo al contempo lo spirito collaborativo e la capacità di mobilitazione delle proprie risorse cognitive, emotive e creative. Si è inteso altresì osservare e rilevare il grado di collaborazione, la capacità di richiedere aiuto, l’ impegno motivato e la costanza dei futuri inseg…

Emozioni e relazione educativa nella scuola secondaria. Saggi sulle competenze degli insegnanti

2021

Teacher education has long been at the heart of pedagogical research. However, especially if we consider the recent Italian pedagogical research, we observe that most of the attention has been devoted to disciplinary and didactic skills, which are a necessary but not sufficient condition for the acquisition of an adequate professional profile. Especially for secondary school this gap is evident: while the training paths of educators, primary school and kindergarten teachers include a specific and broad pedagogical attention to the care of relationships and therefore to emotional competence, this is not the case in the current training paths of secondary school teachers nor in specialization…

Calculus Artefacts in Chinese Textbooks: Variational Approaches with Prospective Primary Teachers

2022

The first part of the paper presents some theoretical reflections and some methodological notes about a Professional Development (PD) path worked out during the last two years by Italian researchers for prospective primary teachers. The theoretical construct of Cultural Transposition defines the framework of the PD path’s activities and the related research. It was used to define an interesting cultural lens to delineate possible new approaches for effective pre-service teacher education programs in particular for the primary level. The defined methodology was based on the possibility to reflect on the he decentralization of didactic practices based on a specific cultural context through on…

Building Teacher Identity in a New Partnership Project, - Multiple Perspectives

2014

This paper explores the process of identity building among novice student teachers enrolled in a newly established partnership project embedded in a four-year Norwegian teacher education program. The empirical evidence in the study is drawn from a case study where interviews were the main method of gathering data. The analysis of narratives from the interviews is premised on multiple perspectives. The findings are presented as a reconstructed story with a plot in which the novice student teachers are the chief protagonists. The study illuminates both catalysts and inhibitors of student teachers´ identity building in the caring contexts of teaching practice and threatening contexts of theory…

Fazer pós-graduação em educação em ciências melhora o ensino?

2018

espanolEn este articulo se indaga como influye el transito por dos maestrias en educacion en ciencias y tecnologia de Cordoba y La Plata (Argentina) en el desempenode docentes cursantes a las mismas. Nuestra hipotesis fue que dicho transito debia mejorar sus practicas y sus habilidades de investigacion. Para tal fin se hicieron preguntas a estos docentes, relacionadas con sus practicas y con los cambios que pueden haber sido promovidos por dichos estudios de posgrado. Ello se complemento con observaciones a sus clases. Los resultados muestran que la maestria genero modificaciones en la practica docente, que desarrollo o perfecciono sus habilidades de investigacion educativa y que la partici…

ATEE Spring University "Teacher of the 21st century: quality education for quality teaching", May 2-3, 2008

2008

Tendencias actuales en la formación del profesorado de ciencias

2021

In the last few years, there has been a significant growth of interest in science teacher education. An analysis of recent science teacher education research is offered in this paper. This study answers the major question: What does research tell us about the recent trends in teacher preparation? We are beginning to understand that in the in-service or pre-service training is it very important to know the effects of: a) a limited content knowledge, b) the «commonsense» conceptions, behaviors and attitudes about different aspects of science teaching; c) the need of integration «knowledge -practice» in programs of teacher education and that; d) theses obstacles to didactic knowledge adquisiti…