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This study investigates the role of synergistic scaffolds in supporting preservice teachers’ knowledge of self-as-teacher. Data include preservice teacher papers written before and after the introduction of scaffolds, surveys, and interviews. Quantitative and qualitative methods were used to analyze differences in the quality of the papers, the relationship between the scaffolds and the preservice teachers’ revisions, and the preservice teachers’ perceptions of which scaffolds best supported their learning. We conclude that carefully designed synergistic scaffolds can support preservice teachers in their exploration of self-as-teacher. Implications of our findings for teacher education and suggested areas for further research and development are discussed. 相似文献
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Shih-Hsiung Liu 《Technology, Pedagogy and Education》2020,29(4):463-475
ABSTRACT This study investigated the effects of an online sharing and feedback programme (OSFP) on preservice teachers’ practical knowledge (PTPK) and attempted to determine the relationship between satisfaction with online interaction and changes in three types of learning preferences (collaborative, competitive and individualistic). In this study, a quasi-experimental pre- and post-test control-group design was employed to examine these factors. The OSFP was designed, focusing on peer interaction on topics regarding field experiences. The analytical results reveal that the OSFP improved practical teaching knowledge, one of the forms of PTPK. Additionally, satisfaction with online sharing and feedback on the topics of interpersonal affairs strengthened preservice teachers’ preference for collaborative learning and decreased their individual preference. Notably, this study demonstrates that collaborative learning preferences positively change when learners are satisfied with online sharing and feedback on the topic of interpersonal affairs. 相似文献
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Influenced by work on teacher beliefs, personal epistemology, teachers’ knowledge, implicit theories, and motivation, we conducted a two-part investigation exploring preservice and practicing teachers’ beliefs about teaching knowledge and teaching ability. Study I qualitatively examined 53 preservice and 57 practicing teachers’ beliefs about teaching, in order to: (1) ensure that the voices of teachers were made prevalent in the development of a framework aimed at understanding their beliefs and (2) facilitate the development of a quantitative measure to assess these beliefs. Results indicated that participants valued several aspects of teaching knowledge and held complex beliefs related to the implicit theories of teaching ability. Study I concludes with a framework for developing an instrument to assess teachers’ beliefs. Study II describes two instruments developed to assess the beliefs identified in Study 1. Using responses from 351 preservice teachers, exploratory factor analysis procedures identified factors reflective of emergent themes from Study I. 相似文献
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This article illustrates how a triangular prism model (TPM) could help researchers examine challenging and successful factors to sustaining online learning communities (OLCs) for preservice and inservice teachers. The TPM was constructed on a review of the literature on activity theory. The TPM is a conceptual framework that guides empirical examination of OLCs’ ongoing development and their connections within a relevant context. This article highlights the application of this framework to two online learning communities (preservice and inservice teachers) and reviews the potential of a TPM as an analytical tool. 相似文献
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Using a narrative inquiry methodology, this 10-year study examined the situated nature of two teachers’ development. Research questions examined how the teachers situated their own learning, how they developed discourse communities for teaching and learning, and how they used tools in their work. Findings suggest that the following elements of situational learning were central to their development: questions that they drew from their practice; a balance between autonomy and collaboration found in peer collaboration focused on questions drawn from practice; the use of language and inclusion of new perspectives within discourse communities; improvisation and experimentation in practice, and support from administrators.A striking finding was that these teachers’ practice developed among multiple and sometimes contradictory pathways. 相似文献
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Cindy E. Hmelo-Silver Ellina Chernobilsky Rebecca Jordan 《Instructional Science》2008,36(5-6):409-430
Trying to understand the complexity of computer-mediated problem-based learning environments is not easy. Sociocultural theory provides a theoretical framework for understanding such environments because it emphasizes the socially situated nature of learning and the critical role of tools in mediating learning. To examine how different aspects of discourse relate to each other, as well as to the tools being used in the collaborative learning process, it is important to understand how collaborative knowledge building unfolds and how these processes are mediated. This requires going beyond coding individual speech acts. The use of Chronologically-Ordered Representations of Discourse and Tool-Related Activity (CORDTRA) diagrams is one way of achieving this understanding. We use this to study contrasting cases of more and less successful groups using the STELLAR learning environment. STELLAR is an integrated online PBL environment for preservice teachers, containing a learning sciences hypermedia, a library of videocases, and online personal and collaborative spaces. Our analyses suggest that an important locus of differences is how students use resources and engage in different kinds of metacognitive talk and knowledge transforming activities, sometimes to the group’s detriment. Frequency analyses provided an easily interpreted snapshot of each group’s activity. The CORDTRA analyses provide a more dynamic view that helps researchers and teachers better understand how collaborative learning unfolds. Such analyses have implications for understanding new learning environments as well as helping identify where interventions might be needed. 相似文献
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We describe an urban school initiative aimed at teachers’ professional development with the goal of increasing their mathematics content knowledge and helping them improve their practice. In the lowest performing schools, mathematics specialists were employed to teach only mathematics in upper-elementary grades (ages 9–12). One aspect of this initiative was a provision of time and space for the formation of site-based professional communities that were intended to support teachers in trying to implement changes in their practice. Teachers’ professional communities developed at some sites and not at others. In this analysis, we explore the conditions that afforded or constrained the development of teachers’ professional communities. Using two contrasting school sites as examples, we describe five aspects of the teachers’ individual and collective professional lives that influenced the emergence of teachers’ professional communities. 相似文献
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Yu-Chu Yeh 《Instructional Science》2009,37(2):185-203
The Direct-instruction Model favors the use of teacher explanations and modeling combined with student practice and feedback to teach thinking skills.
Using this paradigm, this study incorporates e-learning during an 18-week experimental instruction period that includes 48
preservice teachers. The instructional design in this study emphasizes scaffolding, observational learning, mastery of critical-thinking
skills, guided practices, cooperative learning, providing feedback, self-reflection, online discussions, and active participation
in an online learning community. This study employs 2 critical-thinking tests, 2 inventories, and 1 open-ended reflection
questionnaire; and students’ scores on the pretest and posttest are compared via the Repeated Measure Analysis of Variance.
The primary findings are as follows: (a) all participants preferred the instructional design in this study; (b) the experimental
instruction effectively improved the preservice teachers’ critical-thinking ability as well as their professional knowledge
and personal teaching efficacy concerning critical-thinking instruction; (c) the mechanisms contributing to the effectiveness
of the experimental instruction mainly included discussing and sharing, observational learning, self-reflection, guided practice,
and the learning community. 相似文献
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The development of an ethic of care is seen as a central concern of teacher education, however little attention has been paid to the preconceived conceptions of caring held by preservice teachers. In this article we share the results of a recent study of a group of preservice elementary teachers in which we examined the understandings of the relationship of caring and teaching brought by these novices to their first field placement experiences. Rather than seeing our students’ partial and limited understandings as problematic, we argue that the student teachers’ preconceptions can be an ideal starting point for productive, educative dialogue about caring and elementary school teaching practice. 相似文献
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National and international reform documents have forged blueprints for advancing science education. Coursework for preservice
teachers needs to correspond to these documents by providing learning experiences that develop preservice teachers’ capabilities
to plan and implement reform measures. Using a pretest–posttest design, responses from 59 2nd-year preservice teachers from
the same university were compared after involvement in an elementary science pedagogy coursework. The survey, which was linked
to the course outcomes (constructs) and multiple indicators, measured the preservice teachers’ perceptions of their development
towards becoming elementary science teachers. A pretest–posttest survey linked to course outcomes can be employed to assess
perceived pedagogical development of preservice teachers, which can inform further teaching practices for implementing science
education reform agendas. 相似文献
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This paper addresses the dilemma of trying to prepare primarily white preservice teachers for educational arenas in which they will interface with students of colour and many who are socially disadvantaged. This paper describes how diversity study circles can be integrated as integral to education that is multicultural in the development of preservice teachers’ critical self-reflection as a bridge to developing a critical lens for classroom practice and a democratic society. 相似文献
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This study reveals the school culture and the teachers’ professional development activities in a Japanese high school learning environment. Furthermore, it documents the relationships among the context, teachers’ beliefs, practices, and interactions. Using multiple data sources including interviews, observations, and documents of teachers from an English department, this yearlong study revealed these English as a Foreign Language teachers lacked many teacher learning opportunities in their context. The study revealed that teacher collaboration only reinforced existing practices, eroding teachers’ motivation to learn to teach in this specific context. The study provides evidence to teacher educators about inservice teachers and their learning environment and the significance of the relationships between the two entities. 相似文献
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Razia Fakir Mohammad Brian Harlech-Jones 《International Journal of Educational Development》2008,28(5):534-545
This paper discusses a partnership involving teachers and a teacher educator working together to develop teaching and learning practices in Pakistan. The partnership was established in response to the teachers’ need for support in developing their professional practices within the actual contexts and realities of their schools, after they had attended an in-service training course at a university. Providing case studies, the paper analyses the processes and outcomes of this co-learning partnership. The findings suggest that the collaborative process advances the understanding of teachers’ problems, resolves them on the spot, and provides teachers with the confidence and courage to transcend the constraints of their workplaces while developing professionally. 相似文献
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We studied the relations between English as a foreign language teachers’ grammar knowledge and their in-action mental models (MMs) of children's minds and learning. The grammar knowledge we examined was English wh-constructions. A total of 74 teachers completed an assessment task and were classified to have deep, intermediate or shallow knowledge. Ten teachers (five with deep and five with shallow level) were videotaped teaching wh-questions. The data were analysed qualitatively to determine the teachers’ MM, and then quantitatively to test similarities/differences in their MM's expression. The findings revealed an identical MM among all teachers that is expressed differently as a function of knowledge level. 相似文献
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Research about lesson study and other forms of collaborative, practice-based professional development has tended to focus on identifying structures that support teacher learning. This study builds on this work by examining preservice elementary teachers’ efforts to conduct lesson studies in mathematics. Analysis showed that the structures of the lesson study project supported some groups in developing mathematical and equity lenses for looking at teaching; however, the use of these lenses simultaneously led to productive and problematic learning. This finding suggests that future research focus on challenges present in collaborative, practice-based work even when productive structures are in place. 相似文献
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Although the use of learning technology has become increasingly prominent in schools, significant changes in teaching strategies
have not kept pace. Lack of quality professional development and inadequate teacher preparation are often cited for this situation.
This case study explores the use of the student teaching experience as an avenue for both preservice and inservice teachers’
professional development associated with educational technology. Two main questions are explored: First, to what extent can
preservice teachers enact a technology-rich curriculum unit during their field experience; second, to what extent and under
what conditions can the preservice teachers facilitate their cooperating mentor teachers’ acquisition of these same skills.
Results indicate preservice teachers can stimulate the integration of technology-rich innovations in their mentor teachers. 相似文献
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Teachers' design of a lesson is critical for helping their students develop academically effective forms of self-regulating learning (SRL) in classrooms. Using a quasi-experimental design, the researchers integrated systematic collaborative learning from problematic and successful experiences into teachers' preparatory programs and examined how such learning was associated with preservice physics teachers' SRL-based lesson design. The participants in this study were 132 preservice physics teachers during the practicum phase of their teacher education at four major research universities. Results indicated that preservice teachers who contemplated both problematic and successful experiences developed better SRL lesson-designing skills compared to preservice teachers who contemplated only problematic experiences. This study provides a new outlook for linking collaborative learning from problematic and successful experiences as a means of nurturing teachers' SRL, as well as suggesting implications and further research avenues. 相似文献
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J. Voogt H. Westbroek A. Handelzalts A. Walraven S. McKenney J. Pieters B. de Vries 《Teaching and Teacher Education》2011,27(8):1235-1244
The Interconnected Model of Professional Growth (Clarke & Hollingsworth, 2002) was used to identify processes of teacher learning during the collaborative design of curriculum materials in the context of curriculum innovation. Nine published studies from six different countries about teachers’ collaborative curriculum design were analyzed to identify the learning processes that collaborative curriculum design fosters. It was concluded that the Interconnected Model of Professional Growth, although initially developed to recognize learning processes in individual teachers, can also be used to identify learning processes that are fostered by collaborative curriculum design in teams of teachers. 相似文献
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Using a quasi-experimental design, we integrated systematic learning from problematic and successful experiences into teachers' preparatory programs and examined how such learning affected preservice physics teachers' capacity to teach students self-regulated learning (SRL). Results indicated that preservice teachers who contemplated both problematic and successful experiences improved more in their actual teaching of SRL strategies and in their actual arrangement of SRL environments, compared to preservice teachers who contemplated only problematic experiences. The current study suggests the need to integrate systematic learning from problematic and successful experiences into teachers' preparatory programs as means of developing preservice teachers' capacity to promote students' SRL. 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