Este trabalho teve como objetivo geral compreender como se aprende a ensinar música na educação básica. Como objetivos específicos busquei: compreender como o professor iniciante lida com as dimensões dos fenômenos educativomusicais escolares; entender como lida com os sujeitos escolares em seu trabalho diário; e identificar as principais dificuldades e desafios que enfrenta. A visão conceitual de aprendizagem e de docência de Marie-Christine Josso, Christine Delory-Momberger e António Nóvoa, bem como a pesquisa biográfica, especialmente as narrativas de formação, constituíram meu referencial teóricometodológico. O estudo foi realizado com oito professores licenciados em música que atuavam em escolas municipais de Porto Alegre-RS. Tendo em vista os objetivos da pesquisa, todos os professores estavam em início de carreira na educação básica (até três anos de carreira). A análise dos dados buscou construir uma trama que parte da construção de uma história com muitas histórias. A trama conta uma história, a partir das narrativas dos sujeitos, com o objetivo de dar uma inteligibilidade ao processo de aprendizagem docente que foi evidenciado pelas narrativas. Os resultados da pesquisa sinalizam que, para aprender a docência, o professor precisa integrar-se à escola e aprender o saberfazer, que inclui tanto o ensinar quanto o ensinar para fazer aprender. A construção da docência de música de cada professor aprendente acontece num tempo e num espaço, docência que é única na sua singularidade, mas faz parte da pluralidade de uma categoria profissional. A pesquisa contribui para que a área de educação musical possa abrir a “caixa preta” da docência e compreender, especificamente, as dimensões envolvidas na atuação do professor aprendente. / This study aimed to understand how one learns to teach music in elementary education. The specific objectives sought: to understand how beginning teachers deal with the dimensions of music education phenomena in schools; to understand how they deal with school people in their daily work, and to identify the main difficulties and challenges they face. The theoretical and methodological framework was based on the conceptual view of learning and teaching of Marie- Christine Josso, Christine Delory-Momberger and António Nóvoa, as well as biographical research, especially the narratives of formation. The study was conducted with eight teachers licensed in music who worked in schools of Porto Alegre-RS. Given the objectives of the research, all the teachers were beginning their careers in elementary education (up to three years of career). Data analysis aimed to construct a plot, which starts from building a story comprised by many stories. Based upon the narratives of the subjects, the story was built with the aim of giving intelligibility to the process of learning to teach that was evidenced by the narratives. The results indicate that, in order to learn how to teach, the teacher needs to integrate to the school and learn the know-how, which includes both teaching and to make students learn. The process of learning to teach music of each teacher depends upon time and space. Each teacher way of teaching is unique in its uniqueness, but part of the plurality of a professional category as well. The research contributes to open the "black box" of teaching in the field of music education and specifically to understand the dimensions involved in the activities of the beginning teacher.

This study evaluated the implementation of the school-based Prevent-Teach-Reinforce (PTR) model within multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS) for elementary school students engaging in high levels of problem behavior. Three students and their classroom teachers in two public schools participated in the team-based PTR process during which they engaged in teaming and goal setting, functional behavior assessment, intervention, and evaluation. A multiple baseline across participants design was used to evaluate the impact of using the PTR model on student problem and replacement behaviors. Direct and indirect observations of student behaviors were conducted across target and generalization academic time periods. Findings indicate that the PTR intervention effectively reduced problem behavior and increased replacement behavior for all three participating students in both target and generalization academic time periods. Social validity assessments with the participating teachers and students indicated high levels of acceptability of and satisfaction with the PTR intervention goals, procedures, and outcomes. Implications for using the PTR model within MTSS for students who are not responding to Tier 2 interventions are discussed.

There is a wide consensus that including mathematical modeling into the curricula is an important aim. A lot of attention has been spent on the realistic problems whereas their embedding in a classroom situation is less investigated so far, although the methodical arrangements are of major importance for initiating students’ activities. In this paper, the implementation of the modeling task “swimming pool” in mathematics education in two lessons is compared concerning learning arrangement and teaching methods in depth with respect to the students’ activities. Two videos about this implementation will be shown and discussed in this workshop. They are supposed to demonstrate in which different ways teachers engage in modeling. The aim is to show teachers, especially those without experience in teaching modeling, how modeling tasks can be implemented.

Denna systematiska litteraturstudie behandlar naturvetenskaplig undervisning i förskolan genom lek som metod. Studiens fokus ligger på att undersöka om samt hur barns lek kan användas i undervisningssammanhang, med inriktning mot naturvetenskap. Enligt forskning framgår det att det naturvetenskapliga ämnet ofta uppfattas som avancerat och problematiskt av förskollärare. En stor orsak till detta anses vara på grund av bristande ämneskompetens och självförtroende hos förskollärarna. Att barn ges möjlighet till lärande inom naturvetenskap ökar bland annat deras kognitiva förmåga. Bristen på naturvetenskaplig undervisning i förskolan medför således didaktiska konsekvenser, eftersom barnen går miste om viktig utbildning. Studiens resultat bygger på en analys av 25 empiriska texter relaterade till naturvetenskap och lek i förskolan. Resultatet redovisar att förskollärares uppfattning och ämneskompetens gällande naturvetenskap är avgörande för kvaliteten av den naturvetenskapliga undervisningen. Det framgår att barn lär sig genom interaktion med andra och att förskolläraren därmed har en viktig roll att agera scaffolding. Att förskolläraren agerar scaffolding stödjer barnets utforskande samt utveckling inom ämnet. Studiens resultat belyser att barns lek är betydande för deras utveckling och lärande. I lekaktiviteter får barn möjligheter att reflektera, utforska och diskutera tillsammans med andra. Det framgår därmed att det är gynnsamt för barns lärande och utveckling att använda deras lek som undervisningsmetod.

The purpose of this research was to identify the impact of process changes that have been made to the Child Development Associate (CDA) credential, which is a beginning early childhood teacher credential that focuses on competency based standards widely seen as necessary for early childhood teachers to possess. The process in which early childhood teachers receive their credential changed in 2013 with the implementation of CDA credential 2.0. Changes included taking a computerized exam and the implementation of a professional development specialist conducting an on-site classroom observation. In order to determine the impact that CDA 2.0 had on teacher credentialing success rates, a mixed-method sequential design was employed. First, existing data sets of success rates from a national scholarship program were reviewed. Following, interviews with CDA credential seekers were conducted. Findings revealed that while candidate success rates increased for those receiving CDA credentials under the 2.0 system, the actual number of candidates receiving scholarships to pursue the CDA credential through the national scholarship program decreased. Qualitative analysis of the semi-structured interviews indicated that three areas that impacted CDA 2.0 candidate success rates were the professional education programs and instructors, the CDA Exam, and Professional Development Specialists. This is the first research study to examine the CDA credential process. The findings demonstrate that the 2.0 system provides candidates with necessary supports to be successful. A significant question arising out of the data is how a determination is made to issue a credential. Before QRIS and public policy initiatives employ more efforts to professionalize the field of early childhood – primarily through the CDA credential – the process by which one obtains a credential should be more thoroughly examined.

In order to investigate ways pre-service student teachers (PSTs) might learn to teach with high-level tasks and effectively incorporate student thinking into their lessons a teaching experiment was designed and carried out by the cooperating teacher/researcher (CT). The intervention was for the CT to interject into the lessons of the PSTs during moments of opportunity. By interjecting a small question or comment during the lesson the CT hoped to support the learning of both the students of mathematics in the class and the PSTs. This in-the-moment interjecting was meant to enhance and underscore the situated learning of the PSTs within the context of actual practice. Essentially the PSTs learned how to manage and improve the discourse of the classroom in the moment of the discourse. This study utilized both an ongoing analysis of the data during collection in order to inform the instruction provided by the CT and a retrospective analysis of the data in order to develop an understanding of the developmental sequence through which PSTs progressed. The results suggest the interjections provided to the PSTs served multiple roles within the domains of mathematical development for the students of mathematics and pedagogical development for the PSTs. A classification of the interjections that occurred and the stages of development through which PSTs passed will be discussed. Implications from this work include increased attention to the groundwork leading up to the student teaching experience as well as an adjustment to the role of cooperating teacher to be more that of a teacher educator.

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Education reform is shifting the landscape of New Orleans public schools, where alternative certification programs are thriving and changing the demographics of core teachers. This study follows a Teach for America (TFA) Corps Member from 2007 (just after the historic flooding from Hurricane Katrina) who brought a promise of innovation through idealism and green wisdom. The teacher’s preparation and motivations are shown to be problematic. Examining the assumptions and privileges that underlie the import of inexperienced talent to urban education systems, this study considers the ways that community voices have been lost or undervalued in New Orleans schools. The thesis tracks five unique student experiences in two schools over nine years, with accounts of the daily life of students and educators, some of whom are effective and make marked contributions to the community. The study concludes that care should be taken as reform continues to make schools better for kids.

The recent growth of Teach For America (TFA) has enabled it to substantially expand the teacher labour supply in many rural Southern communities, one of its largest and fastest-growing partnership subsets. Though it is generally accepted that these areas face more severe teacher shortages than most other regions in the country, there is little research as to how these staffing challenges arise or how they might be resolved; TFA’s potential to grow the rural Southern teacher supply thus signals a promising opportunity in need of further research. This work offers a case study of teacher labour outcomes in the Mississippi-Arkansas Delta, TFA’s oldest and largest rural Southern partnership site. In this region, local schools have experienced a 600 per-cent increase in corps member presence since 2008; consequently, TFA provided anywhere from a quarter to a half of the area’s new teacher labour supply each year from 2008 to 2010. A mixed-methods analysis illuminates both the causes of Delta teacher shortages and TFA’s potential to address these vacancies. Within the Delta, local schools face chronic teacher shortages because the communities they serve are overwhelmingly poor, geographically isolated, and racially segregated. TFA appears to have targeted the Delta communities where teacher labour policies have systematically fallen short, as it partners with districts bearing the greatest share of the region’s aggregate teacher vacancies. Additional statistical testing reveals that amongst these hard-to-staff districts, TFA has further focussed its resources into the schools that serve more rural, less educated, and/or predominantly African American populations. In this way, TFA funnels its corps members into the very districts where state reform efforts have struggled most, thus serving as a powerful resource for realigning ‘sticky’ outcomes in the most hard-to-staff Delta school districts. These findings notwithstanding, closer examination reveals significant drawbacks and limitations to current TFA outcomes in the rural Southern Delta. TFA does not saturate hard-to-staff school districts enough to produce statistically significant changes in local teacher vacancy rates. Instead, the programme appears to have established an unofficial threshold for the number of teachers placed per district; once this ceiling has been reached, additional corps members are funnelled into a new area regardless of the original district’s remaining need. Additionally, there is no long-term ‘exit strategy’ to help Delta districts employing TFA corps members to eventually cultivate their own high-quality teacher labour supply, thus leaving them perpetually dependent on TFA to staff their classrooms. Preliminary evidence suggests that state governments could address these shortcomings through 1) increased financial support for TFA to fully saturate vacancies in current partnership districts, as well as 2) the simultaneous development of grow-your-own teacher certification programmes in rural Delta districts. The evidence suggests that these two strategies would improve TFA as a targeted teacher recruitment strategy for hard-to-staff communities both in the Delta and across the programme’s nine other rural Southern partnership sites.

[pt] A presente pesquisa objetivou levantar questões acerca da elaboração de materiais didáticos para a educação a distancia (EAD) na coordenação na Educação a distancia da Universidade Federal do estado do Rio de Janeiro (CEAD-UNIRIO). Uma tentativa de entender e refletir sobre minha própia prática na elaboração de materiais na instituição e, assim, melhor orientar os docentes convidados a atuarem na modalidade (Conteudistas, Coordenadores de Disciplina e Professores- Tutores), já que estes poderão elaborar conteúdos e até mesmo os própios materiais didáticos. para tanto, a presente dissertação aborda o planejamento do material didático enquanto objeto e enquanto conteúdo, sua construção, questões técnicas de produção e questões referentes ao uso do mesmo. Para a reflexão de tais questões, a pesquisa aborda também outros fatores que se imbricam e modificam de certa forma a elaboração do própio material didático. Assim, é contemplado o contexto no qual surge a necessidade do material, ou seja, é abordado o cenário da EAD. São levantadas questões que se referem aos atores envolvidos - docentes e discentes - já qye objetos são feitos por pessoas para pessoas. É visto o ambiente virtual de aprendizagem utilizado pela instituição, já que os materiais didáticos são planejados e produzidos para serem utilizados em um ambiente específico, sob alguns aspectos de uso. Com isso, a dissertação aborda a diferença entre materiais disáticos e ferramentas de aprendizagem, apontando a importancia do professor, do material didático e da necessidade de interatividade no processo de ensino-aprendizado do aluno de EAD. / [en] This research aimed at raising questions about the creation of pedagogical materials for distance education (DE) at the Coordination of Distance Education at the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (CEAD-UNIRIO). It is an attempt to understand and reflect upon my own practice in the elaboration of these materials at the institution so that I coul better guide professors that are invited to work with DE (content designers, Discipline Coordinators and Tutor-Professors), as they will be able to elaborate contents and even their own materials. In order to do it, this dissertation approaches the planning of pedagogical materials both as objects and as content, their construction, technical questions related to their production and questions concerning their use. As to be able to reflect upon these questions, the research also approaches other factors that overlap and somehow modify the elaboration of their own pedagogical materials. Thus, it contemplates the DE context as it originates the necessity for the materials. It also raises questions taht concern the actors involved in the process - both professors and learns - as the objects are made by people and for people. In addition, it looks at the virtual environment used by the instituition, as the materials are planned and produced to be used in a specific enviromenment, under some aspects of use, Finally, the dissertation also approaches the difference between pedagogical materials and learning tools, highlightting the importance of the professor, of the pedagogical material and of the need for interaction in the teaching-learning process of DE learners.