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<p>  </p> <p>This study examined preservice teachers’ culturally responsive literacy teaching self-efficacy changes during the field experiences in relation to the sources of self-efficacy. I delved into the meanings under the theoretical frameworks of culturally responsive teaching and social cognitive theory. I explored 84 preservice teachers’ experiences over three semesters, who have been working with K-5 students from diverse backgrounds. Mixed-methods explanatory sequential design was adopted. In the quantitative phase, I administered a culturally responsive teaching self-efficacy survey before and after the field experiences. Additionally, sources of self-efficacy were studied using a source of self-efficacy inventory scale. Results of the quantitative study indicated that four different types of clusters exist: self-efficacy increased, self-efficacy high-stable, self-efficacy decreased, self-efficacy low-stable. In the qualitative phase, I investigated one preservice teacher from each cluster. This phase shed light on the reasons for the different self-efficacy change patterns among the preservice teachers. Findings from both phases (quantitative, qualitative) have implications: 1. It is crucial for both teacher educators and preservice teachers to understand their culturally responsive teaching self-efficacy and its changes. 2. Culturally responsive teaching self-efficacy and the sources of self-efficacy display reciprocal interaction. An awareness is critical of how preservice literacy teachers’ experiences in the field affects their culturally responsive teaching self-efficacy and other sources of self-efficacy. In light of the findings of the current study, teacher educators may wish to consider helping preservice teachers form informed and realistic culturally responsive teaching self-efficacy. </p>

The purpose of this study was to investigate preservice music educators' perceptions of collegiate large ensemble experiences. The researcher created and tested a survey designed to explore how preservice music educators perceived their large ensemble experiences may impact their pedagogy skills and musicianship skills. Local (n = 101) and national (n = 77) respondents answered agreement statements about ensemble experiences, course enrollment questions, and a ranking question. An exploratory factor analysis on data from the instrument yielded four factors: Conducting Gesture Growth, Musical Skills and Pedagogy Skills, Repertoire and Literature Selection, and Other with a Cronbach's alpha of .92. Composite score results indicated that there was a statistically significant difference for one factor by primary teaching identity. Preservice music educators observed the most musical skills growth for their conducting gesture. Participants gave the highest pedagogy skills ratings for statements about large ensembles preparing them for a career in music education, improving their teaching effectiveness, and ensemble experiences altering their perceptions of music teaching.

This project aims to explore the beliefs of international teachers regarding the students with whom they work, and the change in those beliefs over time. Participant observation, interviews, and questionnaires were used as tools of collection to address the following research questions: How did teachers' beliefs about students change over time? What variables were significantly associated with the rate of change in teacher beliefs about students? What types of challenges did teaches face while living and working in Thailand? Over the course of four months, I shadowed twenty-two U.S. teachers in thirteen different locations throughout Thailand. Participants were enrolled in an international teaching program in Thailand that provided a cultural orientation and teacher training. Participants were then assigned to teaching jobs throughout the country. Qualitative and quantitative data was analyzed using SPSS and NVivo software. This project contributes to the scholarship of teaching and learning, and anthropological and education research dedicated to exploring teachers' beliefs about students. Results of the study provide vital information about what variables or experiences may influence a critical analysis of beliefs among teachers working with students who they perceive as different from themselves. Due to some of the parallels between this study population and that of teachers in public schools within the United States, findings may also be applicable to preservice teacher training contexts that consider ways to help teachers critically reflect on their beliefs and worldviews in preparation for working with students whom they may perceive as different from themselves.

Preservice teachers (PSTs) bring a plethora of knowledge and experiences to their educator preparation courses. The PSTs have also formed ideas about how to teach based on their observations during the thousands of hours they spent as students in the classroom from kindergarten through high school graduation. This phenomenon, coined by Lortie, is called the apprenticeship of observation. Past research has focused on the apprenticeship of observation in general while neglecting to specifically explore how this phenomenon influences PSTs in regards to writing. Guiding this study were three research questions: (1) what are the PSTs' beliefs about writing instruction and themselves as writers, (2) how have PSTs' experiences as students affected their beliefs about themselves as writers, and (3) how do PSTs' experiences as students influence their plans to teach writing? After conducting a thematic analysis, there are four findings that stemmed from the data. First, PSTs come to their educator preparation programs with beliefs about themselves as writers. Particularly, the PSTs believe they are either writers or non-writers, Next, PSTs believe that writing instruction should be high-quality and foster student interest. Additionally, data suggested that PSTs' past experiences as students in a writing classroom influenced the PSTs' beliefs. Particularly, the PSTs' experiences around feedback and the control they had over writing were the most discussed. Lastly, past experiences stemming from the PSTs' apprenticeship of observation formed the basis for the plans the PSTs had about teaching writing. These findings have implications for both teacher educators and the PSTs they teach. It is imperative that teacher educators take steps to uncover the beliefs and past experiences of the PSTs as these serve as a lens through which the PSTs look through during their writing methods courses. Teacher educators must also use this information as a springboard for instruction. Finally, teacher educators must challenge the apprenticeship of observation to ensure that the plans PSTs have for teaching writing are not simply a conservative recreation of past experiences devoid of a theoretical basis.

This study examines the sense of preparedness of preservice special education teachers (PSETs) to instruct English language learners. Pre- and post-survey measures were analyzed using the Wilcoxon signed-rank tests for a group of PSETs as they engaged in their second semester of student teaching experience. To explore emerging themes, a post-qualitative analysis was performed using focus groups. Quantitative results revealed no statistical difference except for the Self-Efficacy subscale. Focus group data showed increased confidence levels resulting from the student teaching experience. A Mann-Whitney U test was used to compare pre-survey results between PSETs who had and PSETs who had not taken advanced coursework or participated in student teaching. With the exception of the subscale, Attitude Towards ELs in the Classroom, results revealed no statistical difference between the two groups. At the same time, qualitative, open-response questions revealed PSETs who had participated in advanced coursework and student teaching seemed to have a deeper understanding of ELs' instructional and linguistic needs. Contributions to the literature are presented which may help in designing teacher preparation programs to increase PSETs' sense of preparedness to better serve ELs with disabilities.

In light of increasing mandates to incorporate close reading of primary source historical documents at the elementary level, this study explored the reading difficulty level of the US Constitution with preservice elementary teachers using a traditional cloze assessment procedure. While best practice pedagogy of social studies has long included thoughtful reading of primary sources, new language arts guidelines situate the analysis of primary documents within formulaic quantifiable frameworks, often problematic to the pre-service teacher. With implications for reading and social studies, this paper explores several relevant issues to both pre-service teachers and the elementary classrooms they will teach in.

Les Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication (TIC) sont de plus en plus présentes dans toutes les sphères de la société y compris dans l’éducation. Pour favoriser des usages effectifs de ces technologies par des enseignants dans les salles de classe, il devient pertinent de s’intéresser aux usages qu’en font certains formateurs et futurs enseignants dans le cadre de la formation initiale. Ainsi, dans le contexte de la formation initiale des enseignants en Côte d’Ivoire à l’ENS d’Abidjan, l’objectif général de la présente thèse est de documenter les usages et la compétence TIC. Pour répondre à ces préoccupations, une étude qualitative exploratoire a été réalisée à l’Ecole normale supérieure (ENS) d’Abidjan en Côte d’Ivoire. Les entrevues individuelles semi-dirigées avec des formateurs (n = 9) et des futurs enseignants (n = 15) ont été analysées, en adoptant une approche méthodologique basée essentiellement sur l’analyse du contenu. Les résultats sont présentés sous forme d’articles scientifiques. La thèse tente ainsi de décrire des usages des TIC par des futurs enseignants, de dresser un profil des formateurs usagers des TIC dans le cadre de la formation initiale à l’ENS d’Abidjan. Elle veut aussi examiner les usages des TIC par des futurs enseignants, en formation initiale, pour certaines des composantes de la compétence TIC. Les résultats obtenus permettent de dresser une typologie des usages des TIC par des futurs enseignants dans le cadre de leurs activités d’apprentissage. Pour ce qui est des formateurs, trois profils d’usagers ont été dressés : 1. Les usagers de bas niveau qui font usage des TIC uniquement pour la recherche et la production de documents ; 2. Les usagers de niveau moyen qui, en plus de la recherche et la production de documents, utilisent les outils électroniques de communication dans leurs pratiques professionnelles, et font souvent usage des TIC dans leur classe ; 3. Les usagers de bon niveau qui, en plus de faire usage des outils de communication dans leurs pratiques professionnelles et d’intégrer les TIC dans leurs pratiques en classe, disposent de pages Web à but éducatif. Par ailleurs, l’analyse des discours des futurs enseignants sur les usages des TIC laisse percevoir que la compétence TIC se révèle de façon inégale à travers quatre de ses composantes. En effet, même s’ils n’ont pas une posture critique face aux TIC, ces futurs enseignants ont une conscience de leurs avantages dans le cadre de leur formation. Ainsi, ils utilisent les TIC pour communiquer, rechercher les informations, les interpréter afin de résoudre un problème, se constituer un réseau d’échanges et de formation continue. Même si l’intégration des TIC dans la formation initiale des enseignants en Côte d’Ivoire n’est pas encore effective, des formateurs et des futurs enseignants en font usage dans le cadre de la formation. / Information and communications technologies (ICT) play an ever-increasing role in every aspect of our lives, including education. To encourage teachers to make effective use of ICT in their classrooms, it is important to consider how teacher educators and preservice teachers employ them in initial training programs. The research objective was therefore to conduct a qualitative exploratory study to document ICT use and competence in an initial teacher training program at the École normale supérieure (ENS) d’Abidjan, Ivory Coast. We held individual, semi-directed interviews with teacher educators (n = 9) and preservice teachers (n = 15) and analyzed them using a content analysis approach. Results are presented as scientific articles. We also attempted to describe ICT use by preservice teachers and to develop a profile of teacher educators who used ICT in the initial teacher training program at ENS d’Abidjan. In addition, we examined ICT use by preservice teachers in their initial training in terms of specific components of ICT competence. Based on the results, we developed a typology of ICT use by preservice teachers in their initial training program. We also developed three profiles of teacher educators, as follows: 1. Beginners, who used ICT solely to do research and produce documents 2. Intermediates, who, in addition to research and document production, used computerized communication tools in their professional practice, and frequently used ICT in the classroom 3. Adepts, who, in addition to communication for professional purposes and integration of ICT in the classroom, used educational Web pages. Moreover, from the analysis of the interviews with preservice teachers concerning their ICT use, ICT competence appears to vary across four of its components. Furthermore, although preservice teachers did not have a critical attitude toward ICT, they were aware that ICT could benefit their training. Thus, they used ICT to communicate, find information and interpret it in order to solve problems, and set up networks for exchange and continuing professional development. Although effective integration of ICT into initial teacher training in Ivory Coast has not been fully realized, teacher educators and preservice teachers are nevertheless using ICT in teacher training.

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To do this, we propose the following specific aims: (a) to investigate to whom is directed the activity of Portuguese language teaching trainees during supervised preservice training; (b) to verify from linguistic practices of teaching trainees how discussions about norms applying to their activity arise; (c) to analyze how the use of self by oneself and by others happens during preservice training and (d) to identify discursive clues that refer to the real of the activity of Portuguese language teaching preservice training. Our theoretical background are studies of Bakhtin s Circle that have as their crucial assumption the conception of language as a constitutively dialogical phenomenon, studies that are integrated for the aims of our work with studies carried through by Work Sciences, which consider work a complex object and recognize the importance of analyzing language for adequately understanding it. In accordance with the adopted theoretical perspective and taking into account the importance of having work protagonists talk about the activity they carry through, we created two different speech spaces for research subjects three teaching trainees from the Course of Letters of a private university of a city of Rio Grande do Sul to talk about their preservice training period: (a) individual interviews and (b) the participation in a discussion group. As a parameter for focusing the analysis, considering recurrence and aims to reach, we selected, by examining utterances produced by trainees, three topics in circulation: (a) to whom teaching activity is directed during supervised preservice training, (b) conceptions of Portuguese language teaching and (c) difficulties lived during preservice training. From each topic and considering the reflection's theoretical basis, we analyzed from an enunciative-discursive point of view, trainees utterances produced considering interdependently the specific conditions of research, the situation where verbal interactions materialize and linguistic materiality aspects. Results point to the fact that speech spaces created in the research provided different interactions that produced in alterity relationships several different subjectivity productions and the recognition of part of the complexity of the teaching activity in preservice training. Moreover, considering the dynamic character of human subjects, language, the sense and work activity itself, dimensions traversed by a multiplicity of voices, we point out some characteristics of Portuguese language preservice teaching trainees activity: (a) their work is constituted from the conflicting character of the other to whom they direct their activity and from the restricted space for the use of self, mainly by oneself; (b) their practice is traversed by a permanent tension among antecedent norms (proceeding from different spaces) and the inevitable renormalizations and (c) there is a movement of constant tension between the activity carried through and the real of the activity , and therefore trainees are evaluated at all moments and need to adjust their work to requirements that are not only different but many times divergent from their own points of view / Levando em consideração a importância do estágio supervisionado na formação docente e a complexidade dessa atividade, esta pesquisa tem como objetivo geral investigar características do trabalho de professores-estagiários de língua portuguesa, a fim de contribuir para a compreensão dos conflitos dessa etapa de formação. Para atingir tal objetivo, propomos os seguintes objetivos específicos: (a) investigar para quem é direcionada a atividade do professor de língua portuguesa durante a realização do estágio supervisionado; (b) verificar, a partir das práticas linguageiras dos professores-estagiários, como aparece o debate de normas em sua atividade; (c) analisar como se dá o uso de si por si e pelos outros durante o estágio de língua portuguesa e (d) verificar pistas discursivas que remetem ao real da atividade do professor de língua portuguesa no período de seu estágio. Sob o ponto de vista teórico, partimos dos estudos do Círculo de Bakhtin, que têm como pressuposto básico a concepção de que a linguagem é constitutivamente dialógica, e estabelecemos interlocução com os estudos realizados pelas Ciências do Trabalho que consideram o trabalho como um objeto complexo e reconhecem a importância da análise da linguagem para a sua compreensão. De acordo com a perspectiva teórica adotada e levando em conta a importância de o protagonista do trabalho verbalizar sobre a atividade que realiza, criamos dois diferentes espaços de fala para que os participantes da pesquisa três professores-estagiários, alunos do Curso de Letras de uma universidade particular do interior do Rio Grande do Sul falassem sobre a sua prática de estágio docente: (a) entrevistas individuais e (b) participação em um grupo de discussão. Como critério de entrada na análise, tendo em vista a recorrência e os objetivos propostos, selecionamos, por meio dos enunciados produzidos pelos estagiários, três temas em circulação: (a) o direcionamento da atividade docente durante o estágio supervisionado, (b) concepções referentes ao ensino de língua portuguesa e (c) dificuldades no desenvolvimento do estágio. A partir de cada tema e tendo em vista os pressupostos teóricos que embasam a reflexão, analisamos, sob o ponto de vista enunciativo-discursivo, enunciados dialógicos produzidos considerando, de forma interdependente, as condições específicas de pesquisa, a situação em que se materializam as interações verbais e aspectos da materialidade lingüística. Resultados apontam para o fato de que os espaços de fala criados na pesquisa proporcionaram diferentes interações suscitando, na relação de alteridade, variadas produções de subjetividade e o reconhecimento de parte da complexidade da atividade docente no período de estágio. Além disso, considerando a dinamicidade do sujeito, da linguagem, dos sentidos e da própria atividade laboral, dimensões perpassadas por uma multiplicidade de vozes, destacamos algumas características da atividade do professorestagiário de língua portuguesa: (a) seu trabalho é constituído a partir do caráter conflituoso do direcionamento da atividade e do restrito espaço ao uso de si, principalmente por si; (b) sua prática é perpassada por um embate permanente entre as normas antecedentes (provenientes de diferentes espaços) e as renormalizações e (c) há um movimento de tensão constante entre a atividade realizada e o real da atividade , pois o estagiário é avaliado a todo momento e precisa adequar seu trabalho a exigências distintas, muitas vezes divergentes de seus próprios pontos de vista

Em perspectiva Vigotskiana, conceitos são sistemas de relações e generalizações contidos nas palavras, oriundos da práxis humana e que são internalizados pelos indivíduos ao longo de seu processo de desenvolvimento. Trata-se, portanto, de elaborações associadas a processos vivenciais dinâmicos e, portanto, para nós, não devem ser descritos como lista de atributos, dotados de propriedades suficientes, capazes de existirem de uma maneira isolada, imutável. Contudo, nos cursos de Física do ensino médio e mesmo na Licenciatura, trabalha-se com conteúdos nos quais o conceito de tempo é considerado, em geral, como parâmetro matemático, abstrato, o que nos leva a pensar que as concepções junto ao perfil conceitual complexo de professores de Física em formação provavelmente estarão bastante marcadas por noções numéricas, em detrimento do reconhecimento de diferentes sentidos deste conceito e seus domínios de validade, e também de elementos históricos relacionados às suas gêneses. Para investigarmos esta hipótese no processo de formação de professores, foram realizadas entrevistas com professores em pré-serviço em diferentes amostras do curso de Licenciatura. Realizamos também um levantamento, não exaustivo, dos sentidos do tempo relacionados à história da ciência e que se fazem presentes nos conteúdos curriculares dos cursos de formação de professores de Física. Com este estudo, apresentamos uma possível contribuição da teoria da atividade sócio-cultural-histórica para revelar parte da complexidade do conceito de tempo, fundamental para as teorias da física e seu ensino. Também foi feito um estudo do currículo da Licenciatura para investigar as condições nas quais estes sentidos levantados se fazem presentes e em que tipo de atividade e com qual objetivo estes sentidos são explorados. Para a análise das entrevistas foi criado um instrumento a partir das dimensões do modelo de perfil conceitual complexo e das escalas genéticas de Vigotski. Por meio deste instrumento, pudemos identificar importantes aspectos e transformações relativas às concepções de tempo de professores em formação ao longo do curso de Licenciatura. / In a Vygotskyan perspective, concepts are conceptual relations systems contained within words that emerge in a generalization process, originated from human praxis. Subjects throughout their development process internalize concepts. Therefore, concepts are elaborations associated with the subjects\' dynamic experiential processes and should not be described as an unchangeable, isolated list of attributes. Nevertheless, whether at high school or university level, the concept of time is considered only as an abstract mathematical parameter during Physics teaching. This practice indicates that both in-service and pre-service Physics teachers are marked with simple numerical and mathematical concept of time. In order to investigate the development of this mark in the teacher training process, interviews were conducted with pre-service teachers in different samples of undergraduate Physics teachers\' courses. We made a non-exhaustive review of the meanings of time in the History of Science, which are present in the curricular contents of undergraduate Physics teachers\' courses. With this study, we present a possible contribution of the Cultural Historical Activity Theory to reveal part of the complexity of the concept of time. A study of the undergraduate Physics teachers\' courses was made to investigate the conditions under these meanings are present and about what kind of activity they are explored. For the analysis of the interviews, we built an instrument based on both Vygotsky\'s genetic scales and the dimensions of the complex conceptual profile model. Through this instrument, we were able to identify the meanings in order to investigate characters and values assigned through the concept of time by pre-service Physics teachers, throughout their university degree.