There has been little research combining both groups of students who were English Language Learners (ELLs) and Exceptional Student Education (ESE) students in relation to teacher attitudes and self-efficacy. The purpose of this study was to compare teacher attitudes and self-efficacy related to instructing either ELLs with or without disabilities in elementary schools Teachers from six elementary schools in the XYZ Excellence School District participated in a 52-item comprehensive survey. Two questionnaires and the demographic form were combined to create one comprehensive questionnaire totaling 52 questions for the purposes of this study. Teachers were solicited to participate in the study by email, which generated 92 responses for analysis. The results of this study indicated there were no significant differences between the perceptions of individuals when instructing English Language Learners (ELLs) and Exceptional Student Education (ESE) students. If people feel confident teaching ELLs, they probably feel confident teaching ESE. Equally, if they do not feel confident teaching ESE students, they are more than likely to not feel comfortable teaching ELLs. Thus, there were no significant differences between beliefs and attitudes in both groups. Still, data gathered from the regression analysis demonstrated training in ELL and ESE were strong indicators regardless of which other variables were added to teacher attitudes and self-efficacy when instructing ELLS or students with or without disabilities. The results of this study also indicated teachers felt they needed additional training in special education and communication was the greatest barrier between teacher and students, since many teachers could not speak Spanish and students could not comprehend or speak English very well. The results also indicated some teachers felt resources available to them in teaching a lesson were a positive component for ELLs, with or without disabilities, to be able to grasp content. The findings from this study could serve as positive change for reform of a multi-culturally and diverse climate in public schools. States, school districts, and on-site school administrators could support teachers by creating professional development programs in the learning of learning profiles, preferences, interests, and readiness proficiency levels are essential to multicultural diverse education. The states could also encourage these actions by restructuring certification policies recognizing multicultural diverse education.

A presente tese se constitui em uma investigação de caráter qualitativo, no campo da formação de professores de Física e Matemática, no que tange aos Institutos Federais de Educação Ciência e Tecnologia - IF. Nesses termos, trata-se de um estudo de caso que abarcou três frentes. A primeira esteve relacionada aos intentos institucionais e proposições legais sobre as características e perfil do professor de Física e de Matemática formado no contexto do Instituto Federal Catarinense – IFC Campus Concórdia. A segunda agregou uma investigação do entorno regional e de abrangência da referida instituição, demarcando informações acerca da realidade profissional docente nas escolas de Ensino Médio (mercado profissional), por meio da aplicação de instrumentos (questionários) com professores e dirigentes educacionais e buscando evidenciar exigências acerca da docência nessas unidades escolares. A terceira empenhou-se na compreensão das concepções e práticas dos futuros professores das licenciaturas do IFC Campus Concórdia, por meio de análises advindas de materiais aplicados (questionários) e produções escritas (relatórios de estágio) de estudantes e professores formadores. A problemática e o objetivo estiveram voltados a responder se, ao final do curso de licenciatura, as concepções e práticas dos futuros professores estavam de acordo ou não às características descritas na teoria institucional e, ao mesmo tempo, se estas refletiam o perfil de profissional desejado pelo mercado profissional. A pesquisa foi iniciada em março de 2012, sendo sua organização projetada na perspectiva de cinco diferentes etapas, desenvolvidas ao longo dos oito semestres que agregaram o curso de Doutorado e tomando a análise documental e a análise textual discursiva como metodologias para o tratamento dos dados. A primeira frente demarcou os princípios para a formação de professores nos IF, os quais se verificaram concordar com a teoria referencial de base e que serviram como categorias de análise e classificação dos dados e informações advindas das demais esferas investigadas. A investigação acerca do mercado profissional docente demonstrou que os maiores problemas que atingem as instituições de Ensino Médio investigadas possuem vieses da estrutura física, material, condições de trabalho e formação dos profissionais que lá lecionam, mostrando também carências no que tange as características de professor preteridas na atualidade. O perfil do professor, desde a terceira frente de investigação, fez emergir um marco de análises sobre a suficiência formativa dos sujeitos, demonstrando pontos fortes e deficitários de cada uma das licenciaturas em questão. As revisões bibliográficas e marcos de análise deram embasamento para a defesa de argumentos acerca de uma teoria sobre a natureza e a formação dos saberes dos professores, conferindo proximidade com os resultados diante das ―emergências investigativas‖ demarcadas em cada Seção de análise do presente estudo. / This thesis is constituted by a qualitative research in the field of Physics and Mathematics teachers‘ education, regarding the Federal Institutes of Science, Education and Technology - IF. In these terms, it is a case study that spanned three fronts. The first one was related to institutional intentions and legal propositions on the characteristics and profiles of Physics and Mathematics teachers graduated in the context of the Federal Institute of Santa Catarina - IFC Campus Concórdia. The second one aggregated an investigation on the regional environment and scope of the institution, providing information on the professional teaching reality in high schools (professional market), through the application of instruments (questionnaires) to teachers and principals and also trying to clarify requirements about teaching in those school units. The third front engaged in understanding the concepts and practices of future licentiate degree teachers at IFC Campus Concordia, through analysis arising from applied materials (questionnaires) and written productions (internship reports) of students and educators. The problem and the aim were led to respond if, at the end of the licentiate degree, the concepts and practices of future teachers were in agreement or not with the characteristics described in the institutional theory and, at the same time, if they reflected the professional profile aimed by the market. The research was initiated in March 2012, being its organization designed in the perspective of five different stages developed over eight semesters, which aggregated the Doctoral degree and taking document and discursive textual analysis as methodologies for data processing. The first front demarcated principles for teachers‘ education in the IFs, which were found to agree with the base framework theory and served as categories of analysis and classification of data and information coming from other investigated spheres. The investigation about the teaching professional market demonstrated that the biggest problems affecting high schools rely on the physical structure, materials, working conditions and education of professionals who teach there, also showing shortcomings regarding teachers‘ features required nowadays. The teacher's profile, since the third front research, raised a milestone of analysis on the educational adequacy of the subjects, demonstrating strong and weak points of each of the licentiate degrees involved. The literature reviews and milestones of analysis gave foundation to the defense of arguments about a theory on the nature and formation of teachers‘ knowledge, providing proximity to the results facing "investigative emergencies" marked on each analysis Section of this study.

A presente tese se constitui em uma investigação de caráter qualitativo, no campo da formação de professores de Física e Matemática, no que tange aos Institutos Federais de Educação Ciência e Tecnologia - IF. Nesses termos, trata-se de um estudo de caso que abarcou três frentes. A primeira esteve relacionada aos intentos institucionais e proposições legais sobre as características e perfil do professor de Física e de Matemática formado no contexto do Instituto Federal Catarinense – IFC Campus Concórdia. A segunda agregou uma investigação do entorno regional e de abrangência da referida instituição, demarcando informações acerca da realidade profissional docente nas escolas de Ensino Médio (mercado profissional), por meio da aplicação de instrumentos (questionários) com professores e dirigentes educacionais e buscando evidenciar exigências acerca da docência nessas unidades escolares. A terceira empenhou-se na compreensão das concepções e práticas dos futuros professores das licenciaturas do IFC Campus Concórdia, por meio de análises advindas de materiais aplicados (questionários) e produções escritas (relatórios de estágio) de estudantes e professores formadores. A problemática e o objetivo estiveram voltados a responder se, ao final do curso de licenciatura, as concepções e práticas dos futuros professores estavam de acordo ou não às características descritas na teoria institucional e, ao mesmo tempo, se estas refletiam o perfil de profissional desejado pelo mercado profissional. A pesquisa foi iniciada em março de 2012, sendo sua organização projetada na perspectiva de cinco diferentes etapas, desenvolvidas ao longo dos oito semestres que agregaram o curso de Doutorado e tomando a análise documental e a análise textual discursiva como metodologias para o tratamento dos dados. A primeira frente demarcou os princípios para a formação de professores nos IF, os quais se verificaram concordar com a teoria referencial de base e que serviram como categorias de análise e classificação dos dados e informações advindas das demais esferas investigadas. A investigação acerca do mercado profissional docente demonstrou que os maiores problemas que atingem as instituições de Ensino Médio investigadas possuem vieses da estrutura física, material, condições de trabalho e formação dos profissionais que lá lecionam, mostrando também carências no que tange as características de professor preteridas na atualidade. O perfil do professor, desde a terceira frente de investigação, fez emergir um marco de análises sobre a suficiência formativa dos sujeitos, demonstrando pontos fortes e deficitários de cada uma das licenciaturas em questão. As revisões bibliográficas e marcos de análise deram embasamento para a defesa de argumentos acerca de uma teoria sobre a natureza e a formação dos saberes dos professores, conferindo proximidade com os resultados diante das ―emergências investigativas‖ demarcadas em cada Seção de análise do presente estudo. / This thesis is constituted by a qualitative research in the field of Physics and Mathematics teachers‘ education, regarding the Federal Institutes of Science, Education and Technology - IF. In these terms, it is a case study that spanned three fronts. The first one was related to institutional intentions and legal propositions on the characteristics and profiles of Physics and Mathematics teachers graduated in the context of the Federal Institute of Santa Catarina - IFC Campus Concórdia. The second one aggregated an investigation on the regional environment and scope of the institution, providing information on the professional teaching reality in high schools (professional market), through the application of instruments (questionnaires) to teachers and principals and also trying to clarify requirements about teaching in those school units. The third front engaged in understanding the concepts and practices of future licentiate degree teachers at IFC Campus Concordia, through analysis arising from applied materials (questionnaires) and written productions (internship reports) of students and educators. The problem and the aim were led to respond if, at the end of the licentiate degree, the concepts and practices of future teachers were in agreement or not with the characteristics described in the institutional theory and, at the same time, if they reflected the professional profile aimed by the market. The research was initiated in March 2012, being its organization designed in the perspective of five different stages developed over eight semesters, which aggregated the Doctoral degree and taking document and discursive textual analysis as methodologies for data processing. The first front demarcated principles for teachers‘ education in the IFs, which were found to agree with the base framework theory and served as categories of analysis and classification of data and information coming from other investigated spheres. The investigation about the teaching professional market demonstrated that the biggest problems affecting high schools rely on the physical structure, materials, working conditions and education of professionals who teach there, also showing shortcomings regarding teachers‘ features required nowadays. The teacher's profile, since the third front research, raised a milestone of analysis on the educational adequacy of the subjects, demonstrating strong and weak points of each of the licentiate degrees involved. The literature reviews and milestones of analysis gave foundation to the defense of arguments about a theory on the nature and formation of teachers‘ knowledge, providing proximity to the results facing "investigative emergencies" marked on each analysis Section of this study.

This thesis has as its objective to analyse the get starting process of the Primary Instruction in the 19th century as for teaching laws and the press, having as perspective the professional teaching configuration movement, analysing the representations and experiences of the agents involved in this process in Sergipe. The analitical cathegories of Pierre Bourdieu (1960), Norbert Elias (1990, 2011), Roger Chartier (2002) helped understand how the teaching profession got organized and its representations related to the elementary school teaching and how the professional habitus settled down thought to the project of Brazil as a nation, inside a civilized process. This research was composed based on the theoretical basis of the Cultural History, therefore, the newspapers from Instituto Histórico e Geográfico de Sergipe and from Instituto Tobias Barreto were researched; the official mail exchanged by the teachers and the State and its agents, records of Diretoria da Instrução Pública and the teaching coordinators, the students frequency maps, the educational Laws at that time found at Arquivo Público de Sergipe were researched as well. In the first chapter, the institutionalization process of the school and of the teaching profession configuration was analyzed thru the Laws, as well as the importance of Normal School in the process of institutionalization of elementary teachers graduation. The second chapter has the objective to identify the strategies used by the intellectual and political elite to convince the sergipana literated population that the Public Instruction in Sergipe was under development and according to what was updated at that time, that´s why disputes in the teaching field were also studied thru newspapers. This analysis is done based on the speeches performed at Assembleia Provincial Sergipana and on the Public Instruction Reports published in the newspapers, as well as on newspapers ads about instruction and education. Having the goal to understand how the seek for being legitimated was accomplished by the teachers and also the representation they wanted to reach before the sergipana society, aspects related to exams and students exams published in newspapers were discussed. The school maps were also analyzed in order to know the elementary school students profile. Newspaper ads and commercials (teachers, private institutions, among others) were also objective of analyses in the third chapter.It is possible to conclude that the teaching profession was built among advances and withdrawers throughout the laws proposed by the State as it brought to itself the responsibility to change Brazil into a nation. It was possible to get that the elementary school teachers made some effort to legitimate the relationship with the population and with the local teaching authorities, in a strategic way, especially by the press and official mails. / A presente tese tem com objetivo analisar o processo de constituição da Instrução Primária no século XIX no tocante à legislação e a imprensa, tendo como perspectiva o movimento de configuração da profissão docente, analisando as representações e experiências dos agentes envolvidos nesse processo em terras sergipanas. As categorias analíticas de Pierre Bourdieu (1960), Norbert Elias (1990, 2011), Roger Chartier (2002) ajudaram a compreender como se configurou a profissão docente e suas representações no âmbito do ensino primário e de que forma se constituiu o habitus profissional pensado para o projeto de constituição de nação para o Brasil, dentro de um processo civilizador. Essa pesquisa foi realizada com base nos pressupostos teóricos e metodológicos da História Cultural, assim, procedeu-se ao levantamento dos jornais existentes no acervo do Instituto Histórico e Geográfico de Sergipe e do Instituto Tobias Barreto, dos ofícios e correspondências dos professores, de registros da Diretoria da Instrução Pública e dos inspetores de ensino, bem como dos mapas de frequência dos alunos e da Legislação educacional do período, no acervo do Arquivo Público de Sergipe. No primeiro capítulo, o processo de institucionalização da escola e da configuração da profissão docente foi analisado através da legislação (Leis, Resoluções e Regulamentos), bem como a importância da criação da Escola Normal na formação institucionalizada dos professores primários. O segundo capítulo tem como objetivo identificar as estratégias utilizadas pela elite intelectual e política para convencer a população sergipana letrada de que a Instrução Pública em Sergipe estava em pleno desenvolvimento e em consonância com o que havia de mais moderno no período e, por isso, também foram pesquisadas as disputas no campo através dos jornais. Essa análise é realizada através dos discursos proferidos na Assembleia Provincial Sergipana e dos Relatórios da Instrução Pública reproduzidos nos jornais, bem como através dos anúncios sobre instrução e educação. A fim de entender com se deu a busca pela legitimação por parte dos professores e a representação que eles pretendiam ter perante a sociedade sergipana foram discutidos aspectos relacionados com os concursos, com a publicação dos exames de alunos nos jornais, bem como foi feita uma análise dos mapas escolares para saber o perfil dos alunos primários. As propagandas e anúncios de jornal (professores/professoras, instituições particulares, preceptoria) também foram objeto de análise no terceiro capítulo. Conclui-se que o trabalho docente se configurou em meio a avanços e retrocessos através da legislação proposta pelo Estado na medida em que ele tomou para si a responsabilidade de transformar o Brasil em nação. Foi possível apreender que os professores primários sergipanos envidaram esforços de legitimação na relação com a população e com as autoridades educacionais, de forma estratégica, principalmente através da imprensa e das correspondências.

Cette thèse s’intéresse au travail enseignant en Sciences et Techniques des Agroéquipements (STA) dans le cadre de la transmission d’une « bonne pratique agricole » en situation d’enseignement professionnel. Elle vise à saisir l’organisation de l’activité d’enseignement, instrumentée dans un contexte particulièrement discrétionnaire et dans des environnements dynamiques multiples. Le cadre conceptuel mobilisé est au croisement de la didactique professionnelle et de l’approche instrumentale étendue. L’analyse porte à la fois sur des pratiques effectives et racontées et tient compte de la dimension symbolique de l’instrument dans la stratégie didactique mobilisée par l’enseignant. L’observation de l’activité didactique des enseignants, portant sur un même objet technique, permet de mettre en évidence les différents modes d’appropriations des instruments. L’analyse des résultats s’appuie sur la notion d’invariant (du sujet et de la situation) qui est envisagée au niveau du système d’instruments de l’enseignant et dans une articulation dialectique entre « pouvoir d’agir » et « accomplissement de soi ». La variabilité interindividuelle s’explique dans un processus dynamique de construction identitaire du sujet à l’origine « d’un sens pour soi » à chaque fois unique et sans cesse renouvelé : les connaissances en acte mobilisées par l’enseignant au travers de ses instruments apparaissent intimement liées à une forme de « re-connaissance en acte » donnant des styles d’enseignement variés. D’un point de vue plus général, les résultats valident le modèle « du sujet enseignant » proposé dans le cadre théorique en donnant à l’acte global d’enseignement une signification plus large et au-delà du langage. / This University thesis looks into the work done by teachers in Agri-Sciences and Techniques: how a "sound agricultural practice" is transmitted in a vocational teaching situation. Its aim is to grasp the organisation of the teaching activity in a particularly discretionary context and in various fluctuating situations. The conceptual framework used for this research is at the intersection of Professional Teaching Practice and an extended instrumental approach. The analytical work is based on tangible teaching practices as they were expressed, and takes into account the symbolic dimension of the device used by the teacher. As it bears on one technical element, the observation of the teachers’ activity makes it possible to highlight the various ways they make use of the chosen devices. The results analysis is based on the concept of invariance (both of the subject and the situation), as it was expected from the teacher’s range of devices and also dialectic relation between the concepts of "empowerment" and "self-accomplishment". The variations can be explained by the active process of the person’s identity construction, proceeding from the feeling of personal sense, a feeling each time unique and incessantly renewed: the teacher’s knowledge and cognition, as it is mustered through the devices used, appear to be closely linked to a form of "re-cognition", leading to varied teaching styles. From a more general point of view, the results verify the model of a "teaching person", as it was propositioned in the theoretical framework; it gives the global teaching act a broader meaning that reaches beyond language.

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This study examines the historical evolution and legislative valuation of the National Teacher Certification Incentive Reward Program and Fund in the Commonwealth of Virginia. This fund offers stipends to teachers who earn National Board Certification from the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards. This research project included three steps of data collection. First, the legislative history of Virginia's National Teacher Certification Incentive Reward Program and Fund, which covered the General Assembly Session in 1999, was reviewed. The second step was open-ended interviews with legislators and a representative from the Virginia Education Association who participated in the creation of the "Fund." The third step was to collect and report the incentives that are offered by the local education agencies for teachers who earn National Board Certification. The study reported that the initial plan devised by the Carnegie Forum on Education and the Economy in the report, A Nation Prepared (1986) that National Board Certification was not implemented with fidelity in the Commonwealth of Virginia, according to the intended design when it pertained to both how to strategically use the skills of NBCTs and how to ensure NBCTs are working with the students most in need of help. As supported by the interview data, the study shows those interviewed value great teachers and are willing to support them with financial incentives. / Ed. D.

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This study probes the impact that the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) certification process has on teachers, schools, and school districts. In particular the study provides research to determine if National Board Certification significantly affects teachers staying in the classrooms as full time teachers. The NBPTS process is explored to better understand the background of the endeavor and how it may thereby assist in promoting teacher retention and whether this concept is being realized. The history of leadership is also explored and discussed as it pertains to education and the NBPTS process. Beyond researching the relationship between National Board Certification and teachers leaving the classroom as full time teachers, this study also sought to determine if ethnicity (Black, White, Hispanic or Other) and/or gender were statistically significant moderators of this relationship. Of the total number of National Board Certified Teachers (NBCTs) who completed the survey (N=220), 22 participants reported that they were not teaching full time in the classroom at the time of this study. Of the total number of teachers who had not obtained NBC (general education teachers or GETs) who completed the survey (N=110), 28 participants reported that they were not teaching full time in the classroom at the time of this study. The results from this study indicate that GETs left the classroom as full time teachers, while remaining employed with the Broward School Board, at more than twice the rate of NBCTs. / by Lewis Jackson. / Thesis (Ed.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2009. / Includes bibliography. / Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2009. Mode of access: World Wide Web.