A thesis submitted to the Wits School of Education, Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy May, 2016 / This study investigates how primary school mathematics in-service teachers respond to learners’ offers, over time, during classroom interactions. The study was a follow-up to a one-year long in-service ‘maths for teaching’ professional development course in which 33 teachers participated in 2012. Four teachers from that course were tracked in this follow-up study. Data sources within this study consisted of two cycles of observations of lessons taught by the four teachers in 2013 and 2014, and an interim video-stimulated recall (VSR) interview with each teacher, with reflections guided by the structure of Rowland et al.’s ‘knowledge quartet’. A total of 18 lessons from the four teachers were video-recorded across the 2013 and 2014 observations. The notion of ‘elaboration’ was used in this study as an interpretive lens to examine and characterise responsive teaching actions in the South African context, with the focus narrowing over the course of the PhD to contingency situations within the knowledge quartet framework, focused on responses to learner offers. In the South African literature, the terrain of elaboration is characterised by extensive gaps in teachers’ mathematical knowledge, incoherent talk, and frequent lack of evaluation of learners’ offers in the classroom. Using a grounded theory approach, I propose an ‘elaboration’ framework with three situations of responsive teaching (breakdown, sophistication and individuation/ collectivisation), which can be used as a tool to support the development of more responsive teaching in the South African context (and perhaps in other contexts where similar problems prevail). In this way, the study has contributed in terms of identifying some important ‘stages of implementation’ (Schweisfurth, 2011) that might be required to move towards the ideals of more responsive teaching that are described in the international literature, and yet remain distant from the realities of South African schooling. Using the three markers of shifts (extent, breadth and quality) in elaboration recruited in this study, drawn from the ways in which the dimensions of responsive teaching were conceptualised, I report on the different patterns of shifts in elaboration by the four teachers. The results of this analysis indicated that all four teachers made shifts in their responses to learners’ offers from 2013 to 2014 lessons in at least one or more dimensions of responsive teaching, in relation to extent, breadth and quality of elaborations. Findings from VSR interviews indicated associations between shifts in teachers’ reflective awareness, and shifts in responsive teaching actions. Theoretically, the study contributes through characterising responsive teaching actions in contexts of evidence of limited evaluation within the elaboration framework, with a language of description for identifying and developing more responsive teaching actions in a resource constrained context

by Wong Yuk Ming. / Thesis (M.S.W.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1985. / Bibliography: leaves 97-101. / Library's copy: Author's copy (c.2) has different pagination: vii, 98 p.

作者 張滿常 = A study of the relationship between the ... / 據手稿本影印. / 附加書名頁題: 在職小學敎師訓練課程之畢業班學員對科學之態度之硏究. / Thesis (M.A.)--香港中文大學硏究院敎育學部. / Ju shou gao ben ying yin. / Fu jia shu ming ye ti: Zai zhi xiao xue jiao shi xun lian ke cheng zhi bi ye ban xue yuan dui ke xue zhi tai du zhi yan jiu. / zuo zhe Zhang Manchang = A study of the relationship between the ... / Thesis (M.A.)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue yan jiu yuan jiao yu xue bu. / 作者簡歷 --- p.i / 誌謝 --- p.ii / 圖表目次　 --- p.ix / 論文提要 --- p.xiv / Chapter 第一章 --- 導　言　 --- p.1 / 問題背景　 --- p.1 / 香港在職小學教師訓練課程的發展　 --- p.6 / 研究的意義 --- p.10 / 研究的目的 --- p.11 / 研究的問題　 --- p.11 / 重要的名詞闡釋 --- p.13 / 文獻評述 --- p.15 / 測量科學態度的意義 --- p.15 / 與態度有關的文獻參攷 --- p.23 / 與科學態度有關的文獻參攷 --- p.28 / 本研究的理論基礎：Haladyna Olsen及Shauqhnessy (1982) 的理論模式 --- p.41 / 與本研究中學員回憶中三時期經驗有關的文獻參攷 --- p.60 / Chapter 第二章 --- 研究方法 --- p.64 / 研究的對象與取樣　 --- p.64 / 研究工具 --- p.65 / 研究設計 --- p.76 / 研究程序 --- p.76 / 資料分析 --- p.81 / Chapter 第三章 --- 結果與討論 --- p.83 / 本研究中全體學員對科學的態度及男女學員對科學的態度的差異 --- p.83 / 相關分析結果與討論　 --- p.85 / 複迴歸分析結果與討論 --- p.99 / Chapter 第四章 --- 總結、限制與建議 --- p.124 / 總結 --- p.124 / 研究限制 --- p.129 / 建議 --- p.132 / 參攷書目 英文部分 --- p.138 / 中文部分 --- p.153 / 附錄 --- p.158 / Chapter 　附錄一 / 甲部：學生、教師、學習環境量表 Haladyna 239}0Μ¡Shaughnessy：The Inventory of Affective Aspects of Schooling (IAAS） --- p.158 / 乙部：科學態度量表 Shriqley 239}0Μ¡ Johnson Science Att.tnde Scale (SAS) --- p.162 / Chapter 　附錄二 / 甲部：IAAS　量表中各分項的信度係數及量表的效度 --- p.163 / 乙部：SAS量表的信度係數及其效度 --- p.166 / Chapter 　附錄三　 --- 第一次預試中，IAAS量表內各分項的內在一致性信度 --- p.169 / Chapter 附錄四 --- 第二次預試中，IAAS量表內各分項的內在一致性信度 --- p.172

As the New Curriculum Reform proceeds to its second stage, the key roles played by teachers in curriculum implementation are increasingly recognized by policy makers and researchers. As a result, teacher professional development has become the focus of a series of major policies, projects and plans. However, are teachers empowered by such measures, especially by officially sanctioned institutionalized learning? From the perspective of teacher leadership, this study attempts to examine the teachers' role in training and to explore the possibility of a teacher-led professional development. In this study, teacher-led professional development refers to (1) teachers' self-direction and autonomy over their own professional growth, and (2) teacher leaders' influence over the professional community. The major research questions of this study are: (1) What are the power relations between the state, university professors and school teachers? In the context of power relations, what is teacher leadership? (2) What kind of teacher leadership exists in the Chinese schools? (3) What are the obstacles that prevent teachers from leading? What conditions are necessary for teachers to genuinely own their professional development? / In order to answer the above questions, documentation research and field research was conducted at state, provincial, municipal, district and school levels. Documentation research warranted content analysis of relevant policies and field research warranted observations and interviews in two schools. / In the United States and the United Kingdom, two policy stances were developed in response to global change: policies for standardization, accountability, and assessment; and policies for capacity building and good practices. Teacher leadership is a reform strategy in the second stance. It postulates that teachers should become leaders in curriculum, instruction, school restructuring and professional development. This study is an attempt to explore teacher's leadership over their professional development in the Chinese Mainland. / This study argues that the existing system of teacher professional development in the Chinese Mainland is power-coercive, and formal teacher leadership was characterized by hierarchy, meritocracy and instrumentalism all of which have a negative impact on teacher professional development. The state performs multiple roles as reformer, monopolizer, legislator and enforcer. To implement the New Curriculum, "technologies of power" are employed and they form a tight control over the process of continuing teacher education. University professors have a relatively smaller impact on teachers as their effects on school reform are dubious. Teachers feel deprofessionalized and powerless in most institutionalized training which offer no choice and autonomy. Confronted by the state's monopoly of power, distorted professional values, weak professional awareness, and weak support from school leader, teacher leadership faces strong challenges. The finding of this study suggest that in order for teacher leadership to emerge, four conditions are necessary: delegation of power to school and teacher, reconstruction of professional values, more support from school leaders to teacher leaders, and a collaborative teacher culture. / 陳崢. / Adviser: Leslie Lo Nai Kwan. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-08, Section: A, page: 2956. / Thesis (doctoral)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 278-293). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. [Ann Arbor, MI] : ProQuest Information and Learning, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstracts in Chinese and English. / School code: 1307. / Chen Zheng.

龍榮淦 = The attitude of Hong Kong secondary school teacher towards school-based staff development / Lung Wing Kam. / 論文(哲學碩士) -- 香港中文大學硏究院敎育學部, 1997. / 參考文獻: leaves 106-119. / Long Ronggan = The attitude of Hong Kong secondary school teacher towards school-based staff development / Lung Wing Kam. / 鳴謝 --- p.i / 目錄 --- p.ii / 圖表目錄 --- p.v / 論文撮要 --- p.vi / 頁碼 / Chapter 第一章 --- 緒論 --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- 背景 --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1.1 --- 教育環境改變 --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1.2 --- 學校管理模式改變 --- p.2 / Chapter 1.1.3 --- 教師成長的需要 --- p.3 / Chapter 1.1.4 --- 組織改進 --- p.3 / Chapter 1.1.5 --- 教師專業化 --- p.4 / Chapter 1.2 --- 研究目的 --- p.5 / Chapter 1.3 --- 研究的意義 --- p.6 / Chapter 第二章 --- 文獻探討 --- p.8 / Chapter 2.1 --- 教職員發展 --- p.8 / Chapter 2.1.1 --- 教職員發展的含義 --- p.8 / Chapter 2.1.2 --- 新舊教職員發展比較 --- p.9 / Chapter 2.1.3 --- 校本教職員發展的內容 --- p.12 / Chapter 2.2 --- 態度的定義 --- p.16 / Chapter 2.3 --- 成長需要強度 --- p.17 / Chapter 2.3.1 --- 需要理論 --- p.18 / Chapter 2.3.1.1 --- 層級理論 --- p.18 / Chapter 2.3.1.2 --- 雙因子理論 --- p.20 / Chapter 2.3.1.3 --- 成長需要強度 --- p.21 / Chapter 2.4 --- 感受的工作困難程度 --- p.25 / Chapter 2.5 --- 職業階段理論 --- p.26 / Chapter 2.5.1 --- 職業階段理論 --- p.26 / Chapter 2.5.2 --- 教學年資、職級、職位與職業階段 --- p.29 / Chapter 2.6 --- 學校氣氛 --- p.31 / Chapter 2.6.1 --- 學校氣氛研究的發展 --- p.32 / Chapter 2.6.1.1 --- 組織氣氛描述問卷 --- p.33 / Chapter 2-6.1.2 --- 修訂的組織氣氛描述問卷 --- p.34 / Chapter 2.6.1.3 --- 組織氣氛指數 --- p.35 / Chapter 2.6.1.4 --- 健康組織問卷 --- p.36 / Chapter 2.6.1.5 --- 小結 --- p.37 / Chapter 2.6.2 --- 學校氣氛的三個方面 --- p.37 / Chapter 2.6.2.1 --- 人際關係氣氛 --- p.37 / Chapter 2.6.2.2 --- 決策參與氣氛 --- p.38 / Chapter 2.6.2.3 --- 專業取向氣氛 --- p.40 / Chapter 2.6.3 --- 小結 --- p.42 / Chapter 2.7 --- 總結 --- p.43 / Chapter 第三章： --- 理論架構 --- p.44 / Chapter 3.1 --- 前言 --- p.44 / Chapter 3.2 --- 校本教職員發展 --- p.44 / Chapter 3.3 --- 參與校本教職員發展的經驗 --- p.45 / Chapter 3.4 --- 教師態度 --- p.46 / Chapter 3.5 --- 成長需要強度 --- p.46 / Chapter 3.6 --- 感受的工作困難程度 --- p.47 / Chapter 3.7 --- 教學年資、職級、職位與職業階段 --- p.47 / Chapter 3.8 --- 學校氣氛 --- p.48 / Chapter 3.9 --- 理論架構 --- p.49 / Chapter 3.10 --- 研究問題 --- p.49 / Chapter 第四章 --- 硏究方法 --- p.53 / Chapter 4.1 --- 前言 --- p.53 / Chapter 4.2 --- 定義 --- p.53 / Chapter 4.2.1 --- 香港中學教師 --- p.53 / Chapter 4.2.2 --- 校本教職員發展 --- p.53 / Chapter 4.2.3 --- 校本教職員發展態度 --- p.54 / Chapter 4.2.4 --- 參與校本教職員發展的經驗 --- p.54 / Chapter 4.2.5 --- 成長需要強度 --- p.54 / Chapter 4.2.6 --- 感受的工作困難程度 --- p.54 / Chapter 4.2.7 --- 職級、職位及教學年資 --- p.54 / Chapter 4.2.8 --- 學校氣氛 --- p.55 / Chapter 4.3 --- 抽樣方法 --- p.55 / Chapter 4.4 --- 分析單位 --- p.56 / Chapter 4.5 --- 研究假設 --- p.56 / Chapter 4.6 --- 調查工具 --- p.58 / Chapter 4.6.1 --- 教師的基本個人資料 --- p.58 / Chapter 4.6.2 --- 教師的成長需要強度 --- p.59 / Chapter 4.6.3 --- 參與校本教職員發展的經驗 --- p.59 / Chapter 4.6.4 --- 感受的工作困難程度 --- p.59 / Chapter 4.6.5 --- 學校氣氛 --- p.60 / Chapter 4.6.6 --- 校本教職員活動的態度 --- p.61 / Chapter 4.7 --- 跟進訪問 --- p.61 / Chapter 4.7.1 --- 跟進訪問目的 --- p.61 / Chapter 4.7.2 --- 跟進訪問進行步驟 --- p.61 / Chapter 4.7.3 --- 訪問情況 --- p.62 / Chapter 4.8 --- 分析工具 --- p.62 / Chapter 4.9 --- 研究限制 --- p.63 / Chapter 第五章 --- 結果分析與討論 --- p.65 / Chapter 5.1 --- 個人特徵分析 --- p.65 / Chapter 5.2 --- 態度變項分析 --- p.65 / Chapter 5.3 --- 不同個人特徵教師對校本教職員發展的態度之比較分析 --- p.69 / Chapter 5.3.1 --- 不同性別教師的態度 --- p.69 / Chapter 5.3.2 --- 不同學歷教師的態度 --- p.71 / Chapter 5.3.3 --- 教師職級與各態度變項的關係 --- p.72 / Chapter 5.3.4 --- 教師職位與各態度變項的關係 --- p.73 / Chapter 5.3.5 --- 教學年資與各態度變項的關係 --- p.74 / Chapter 5.4 --- 態度變項與其他變項的相關分析 --- p.75 / Chapter 5.4.1 --- 教師參與校本教職員發展經驗與態度變項的關係 --- p.75 / Chapter 5.4.2 --- 教師成長需要強度與態度變項的關係 --- p.78 / Chapter 5.4.3 --- 教師感受的工作困難程度與態度變項的關係 --- p.79 / Chapter 5.4.4 --- 教師感知的學校氣氛與態度變項的關係 --- p.80 / Chapter 5.4.4.1 --- 教師感知的人際關係學校氣氛與態度變項的關係 --- p.80 / Chapter 5.4.4.2 --- 教師感知的決策參與程度之學校氣氛與態度變項 的關係 --- p.81 / Chapter 5.4.4.3 --- 教師感知的專業取向之學校氣氛與態度變項的關 係 --- p.82 / Chapter 5.4.5 --- 小結 --- p.83 / Chapter 5.5 --- 複變項的分析 --- p.84 / Chapter 5.5.1 --- 中學教師對校本教職員發展個人層面活動之態度和 各變項的迴歸分析 --- p.85 / Chapter 5.5.2 --- 中學教師對校本教職員發展小組層面活動之態度和 各變項的迴歸分析 --- p.87 / Chapter 5.5.3 --- 中學教師對校本教職員發展學校層面活動之態度和 各變項的迴歸分析 --- p.89 / Chapter 5.5.4 --- 小結 --- p.92 / Chapter 5.6 --- 跟進訪問 --- p.92 / Chapter 5.7 --- 總結 --- p.96 / Chapter 第六章 --- 結論及建議 --- p.98 / Chapter 6.1 --- 結論 --- p.98 / Chapter 6.2 --- 建議 --- p.102 / Chapter 6.2.1 --- 實用方面 --- p.102 / Chapter 6.2.2 --- 研究方面 --- p.103 / Chapter 6.3 --- 總結 --- p.105 / 參考資料 --- p.106 / 附錄調查問卷 --- p.120

The purpose of this case study was to describe and further understand how faculty are being prepared and developed to teach web-based courses at a college in Florida. The study examined practices used by the college in preparing their faculty to teach online. Faculty preparation and development were defined as any activity which expands knowledge about how to teach web-based courses. Broward College was chosen as the site of study. Utilizing the qualitative case study approach, the researcher collected and analyzed data during the Fall 2009 academic semester. Data collection methods included interviews, observations of faculty development workshops as well as online classrooms, and document analysis. The study revealed Broward College's method of preparing faculty to teach online. Faculty are prepared to teach online through the Instructional Technology Department. This method focuses heavily on professional development workshops that directly correlate with the types of online classes offered at the college. Faculty are also prepared to teach online through the use of consultants, known as e-associates, as well as other follow-up support. This was an educational leadership study that focused on preparing faculty to teach online. Florida's community colleges are becoming baccalaureate degree-granting colleges, and as enrollments increase, so will the demand for online classes. In turn, college faculty need to be prepared to teach online. This study emphasizes the importance of leadership, administration, and support needed in order to successfully prepare faculty to teach online. / by Stephanie Arsht. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2011. / Includes bibliography.

This qualitative study examined the influence of the 2011 Oregon Writing Project (OWP) Summer Institute (SI) on the professional development of six teachers in the following ways: 1. The development of case descriptions of teachers' personal and professional backgrounds relevant to their teaching of writing. 2. An examination of the effects of the Summer Institute on participants' self-reported teaching practices, attitudes, and beliefs about the teaching of writing. 3. An examination of participants' perceptions of aspects of the SI program that they deemed 'influential' in their professional development. Data was collected from Summer Institute application materials, written coursework, and follow-up interviews. Using inductive reasoning, systematic analysis of the data resulted in the following findings: 1. Teachers reported a neglect of writing education in their teacher preparation programs, as well as in the professional development programs offered by K-12 schools. 2. Participants tended to report change in their professional and personal practices, attitudes, and beliefs related to writing following the Summer Institute. 3. Participants unanimously identified the characteristics of time and a safe learning environment as significant in their professional development experience. The study suggests the need for more comprehensive inclusion of writing instructional methods in preservice and professional development programs. The study also reinforces pre-existing research that supports professional development models that are designed to be teacher and context-centered within a collaborative community. The present research highlights the need to consider factors of time and participant feelings of "safety" when designing professional development programs. Finally, the study maintains that effective professional development may offer the important teacher learning and confidence needed in K-12 schools / Graduation date: 2012

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