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.

Some fields come and go, but there will always be a need for older generations to teach the younger generations. For this reason, teachers will always be needed. The material that they choose to teach can sometimes determine the outcome of a nation. Take a look into German and Roman histories; they are littered with teachers convincing students that their way is right. I think that it is imperative that we research the full potential of what we are teaching our students. For that reason, my thesis will consist of analyzing and synthesizing the research of Feldman, Sternberg, Gardner and Eisner, gathering information on their works and applying them to art education. I will apply my findings to the modern day secondary art classroom; whether it is classroom design or visual handouts, I will use the knowledge gathered to better equip the room to the advancement of multiple intelligences in hopes of inspiring my future students to be creative and lifetime learners.

Much scientific research has been conducted to examine the effects of music on the brain and abilities of people. The results have shown a positive correlation between music used in various ways and the abilities and skills of people, especially children. However, the use of music in the general intermediate classroom is lacking. After reviewing scientific research to provide a foundation for the study and synthesizing the five Music Integration Practices, two teachers were interviewed and observed on their use of music in their general intermediate classrooms. The interviews, observation checklists, and anecdotal notes taken by the researcher provide music activities and rationales for the use of music in the classroom, as explained by the participating teachers.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This work is the product of an investigation that is part of the LP1: Research, Training, Knowledge and Professional Development Line of the Graduate Program in Education of the Federal University of Santa Maria / RS, focused on broadening the discussions in The initial training of teachers of mathematics and their first years of teaching. The aim of this research is to identify the constituent elements of the initial formation of teachers of mathematics that contribute to the first years of teaching, verifying the approximation and distances of the initial formation course and the reality experienced in the schools, through the gaze of the beginning teacher who teaches mathematics. The research theme came from the experience of the researcher as a teacher who teaches mathematics in her early years of teaching, given the emergence of problems, challenges, uncertainties and difficulties to be faced in the classroom, and that often the beginner teacher Is not prepared to face them. The theoretical references that base this writing that refer to the initial formation are Charlot (2000), Tardif (2002), Mizukami (2006), Imbérnon (2011), Vaillant; Garcia (2012), in the initial formation of teachers of mathematics are Ponte (1998), Moura (2001, 2002), Libâneo (2004), Lorenzato (2010), among others. In relation to the first years of teaching, the main references were Huberman (1992), Garcia (2009), Vaillant and Tardif (2002). For that, the investigation was carried out with teachers who teach mathematics in the state public network of the municipality of Ijuí / RS, the dialogue was recorded and occurred through semistructured interviews with seven teachers. Through their narratives we have been able to know them from the choice of the mathematics course, the first ones counted with the teaching in the initial formation and the entrance in the teaching career. With the transcribed dialogue the interpretation and understanding of the data was based on the narrative analysis of Galvão (2005) with the contribution of the hermeneutic experience, for understanding to happen, Gadamer (1997) argues that the interpreter moves from a projected meaning of the whole to the parts, and then returns to the whole, Called by the author of the hermeneutic circle, in this way the knowledge of the completeness of the text allows the interpreter to question between what is not familiar and what is being shared. The results allow us to share that the teachers understand that initial training is a necessary support for future practices, motivating and encouraging future teachers to think about mathematics teaching, however, during the training, there were difficult situations in the stages that marked The identity of these teachers. They concluded that the entry into the career was a moment of expectation but that feelings of insecurity, uncertainty, fears were greater and emphasized that the main deficiency in this initial period was in the organization of pedagogical practice and that the lack of support is Remarkable, end up resorting to experienced teachers. We conclude that the initial training course left some gaps strongly felt by the teachers at the beginning of the career, so they understand that the training course needs to provide more classroom practices, believe that they learn in practice, and could thus face with greater Clarity in classroom situations. / Este trabalho é produto de uma investigação que insere-se na LP1: Linha de Pesquisa Formação, Saberes e Desenvolvimento Profissional, do Programa de Pós-graduação em Educação da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria/RS, tem seu foco voltado a ampliação das discussões no âmbito da formação inicial de professores que ensinam matemática e seus primeiros anos de atuação docente. O objetivo desta pesquisa é identificar elementos constituintes da formação inicial de professores que ensinam matemática que contribuem para os primeiros anos da docência, verificando a aproximação e os distanciamentos do curso de formação inicial e a realidade vivenciada nas escolas, através do olhar do professor iniciante que ensina matemática. A temática da investigação surgiu a partir da vivência da pesquisadora como professora que ensina matemática em seus primeiros anos de atuação docente, visto o surgimento de problemas, desafios, incertezas e dificuldades a serem enfrentadas em sala de aula, e que muitas vezes o professor principiante não está preparado para enfrentá-los. O referenciais teóricos que embasaram esta escrita que referem-se a formação inicial são Charlot (2000), Tardif (2002), Mizukami (2006), Imbérnon (2011), Vaillant; Garcia (2012), na formação inicial de professores que ensinam matemática são Ponte (1998), Moura (2001; 2002), Libâneo (2004), Lorenzato (2010), dentre outros. Em relação aos primeiros anos de atuação docente os principais referenciais foram Huberman (1992), Garcia (2009), Vaillant e Tardif (2002). Para tanto, a investigação foi realizada com professores que ensinam matemática na rede pública estadual do município de Ijuí/RS, o diálogo foi gravado e ocorreu através de entrevistas semiestruturadas com sete professoras. Através das suas narrativas pudemos conhecê-las desde a escolha pelo curso de matemática, os primeiros contados com a docência na formação inicial e a entrada na carreira docente. Com o diálogo transcrito a interpretação e compreensão dos dados baseou-se na análise narrativa de Galvão (2005) com a contribuição da experiência hermenêutica, para que a compreensão aconteça, Gadamer (1997) argumenta que o intérprete se move de um significado projetado do todo para as partes, e então volta para o todo, denominado pelo autor de círculo hermenêutico, dessa forma o conhecimento da completude do texto permite que o intérprete questione entre aquilo que não lhe é familiar e o que está sendo compartilhado. Os resultados nos permitem compartilhar que as professoras entendem que a formação inicial é um suporte necessário para as futuras práticas, motivando e incentivando os futuros professores a pensar o ensino de matemática, no entanto, durante a formação, nos estágios houveram situações difíceis o que marcou a identidade dessas professoras. Completam que a entrada na carreira, foi um momento de expectativas, mas que os sentimentos de insegurança, incertezas, medos, foram maiores e enfatizaram que a principal deficiência, nesse período inicial, foi na organização da prática pedagógica e que a falta de apoio é notável, acabam recorrendo aos professores experientes. Concluímos que o curso de formação inicial deixou algumas lacunas fortemente sentidas pelas professoras na entrada na carreira, assim, elas entendem que o curso de formação precisa fornecer mais práticas em sala de aula, acreditam que aprendem na prática, sendo assim, poderiam enfrentar com maior clareza as situações em sala de aula.

U.S. students with learning disabilities' math skills acquisition has been on the decline in recent years. Studies show that teachers using traditional methods of teaching math lack knowledge of task analysis, chunking, sequencing, mass practice, modeling, and repetition of instruction. These components of direct instruction or pedagogical activities are hallmarks of special education teaching and are collectively described as cognitive support pedagogy. The study evaluated direct instruction teaching strategies to teach Common Core math to middle school students with learning disabilities, to determine if the current downward trend in math skills acquisition amongst them can be reversed. The theoretical framework of this study was based on Watson's theory of behavioral psychology as it applied to learning and teaching. The participants consisted of a convenience sample of students with learning disabilities. The study used a Solomon 4-group experimental design, in a series of two One-way ANOVAs to measure differences in math score by intervention for pretested and for non-pretested students, with one Factorial 2 X 2 ANOVA which measured for differences by interaction between pre-testing and intervention. Results of ANOVAs were significant at the α-levels of .05 (F (1,78) = 233.66 p < .001), indicating that significant differences existed in math scores of pre-tested students who received intervention and those who did not. The study is significant to teachers, curriculum developers, and instructional leaders because it is the first study of its kind to measure the outcomes of Common Core math using direct instruction and it points a way forward to creating positive social change by increasing students' graduation rates and promoting students' engagement in school and beyond.

Regardless of culture, socio-economic background, and quality of life, all students deserve the highest quality of education. But the reality is, many education systems around the world do not offer it. Investing in structural reforms in education has the potential to boost economic growth in countries around the world. By learning from different education systems strengths and weaknesses, policy decisions can be made that ensure students are given the opportunity for higher educational outcomes. This study analyzes high, middle, and low quality education systems around the world and the infrastructures that lead to educational success or failure. Fifteen education systems are chosen for this study which includes Shanghai-China, Singapore, Japan, Finland, Canada, Portugal, United States, Luxembourg, Spain, Hungry, Brazil, Argentina, Indonesia, Qatar, and Peru. Each system is analyzed in terms of its teacher quality, curriculum, school system structure, and educational equity. From this study, it appears that there is a high-correlation between four indicators and top- educational success. These four indicators include having a highly selective model for hiring teachers, recruiting teachers from a top-pool of graduates, having a high-level of prestige held for teachers in society, and insuring students of low socio-economic status are given equal educational opportunities for success. Recommendations for a new teacher training and selection model are discussed based on the top four indicators. These recommendations could cause educational gains for both the United States and other systems around the world.

本篇論文重組並重現一個合作敘事探究的生命經驗。在這集體的生命故事中，研究者與四位女性英語實習教師，透過一個全校性的英語同儕輔導計畫，一同探究學習如何教英語。本研究包含兩個研究重點：（一）探索英語實習教師在教學實習過程中對英語教學的概念覺知與教學發展;（二）檢視機構與社會情境與英語實習教師之教學發展的互動關係。本研究提出三個研究問題核心，協助對於現象的分析與詮釋：（一）英語實習教師在實境教學中教學發展之轉化歷程;（二）驅動英語實習教師之教學發展轉化的支配力類型;（三）英語實習教師對於實境教學之生命經驗的理解與覺知。 本研究發現，英語實習教師的教學發展，呈現前進式的結構模式。教學行動系統中的內、外部矛盾，引發一連串的衝突與失序，直接衝擊英語實習教師的教學發展轉化。在問題解決的轉化過程中，有三種主要的驅動能量，對教學發展轉化形成支配：情境支配力、策略支配力、情意支配力。在故事的尾聲，英語實習教師對於英語教學有新的覺知：對於教學行為及身為英語教師本體的覺知、對於英語學習者的認知、對於英語學習的本質的理解。 本研究回應相關文獻，提出三點新發現。首先，學習如何教的過程，包含持續性的觀察、分析、評量和反思。其次，英語實習教師的教學發展，透過跨層次行動系統的比對與分析，發現並理解可能存在的失序、衝突與解決方案，進而從事教學改變與教學發展轉化。最後，本研究提出，有關教師學習、學習如何教的相關研究，應該採用一種全方位的研究方法、一種廣泛理解的觀點，用以分析詮釋實作教學中既存的知識斷層。 / This collaborative narrative inquiry reconfigures and represents the lived experiences of four female prospective TESOL teachers’ learning to teach through a campus-based tutoring program. The research foci of this inquiry-based study are twofold. Firstly, the research aims at exploring how prospective TESOL teachers learn to teach through practical teaching experiences, as they examine the definition of learning to teach itself and the understanding of the what and how of the learning process evolves. Secondly, the research investigates the role of the social and institutional context in prospective TESOL teachers’ learning to teach, in examining how activity setting shapes the process of learning to teach. Drawing on the research approach of narrative inquiry, prospective TESOL teachers’ stories are told in their own voices while the school’s stories, and the stories about the school are told by the supervisor of the structured program in this research, the researcher, for purpose of providing a context to the prospective TESOL teachers’ stories. Following such respects, research questions are generated with special emphasis on (a) the transformational process of the prospective TESOL teachers’ learning to teach in situ; (b) the driving forces for the transformation to take place; (c) how the prospective TESOL teachers make sense of the lived experiences of learning to teach. The prospective teachers’ collective story appeared to be a progressive mode of development. The transformational process was overwhelmingly influenced by the dissonance and conflicts emerging from the contradictions within and across the collective activity system of teaching, namely primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary contradictions. In order to solve the problems resulting from the contradictions, the prospective teachers undertook changes and transformation in their teaching. Three types of driving force appeared to be significant for the transformation in the process of the prospective teachers’ learning to teach, including contextual force, strategic force, and attitudinal force. During the process of engaging in the socially situated activity of teaching, the prospective teachers formulated new conceptualizations of teaching, inclusive of the understanding of their teaching and of themselves as English teachers, of the students as English learners, and of the nature of English learning. The findings of the research suggest that a campus-based tutoring EFL program could be an alternative form of practicum teaching. Corresponding to previous research into teachers’ learning and learning to teach in second and foreign languages, three notions are provided. Firstly, the process of learning to teach prospective teachers includes continuous observation, analysis, evaluation and reflection on the entirety of the teaching activity embedded within a specific context, rather than shifting their focus from one entity to another entity, such as focusing on themselves at early stage and then shifting their focus to either on students or instructional techniques. Secondly, the process of prospective teachers’ learning to teach includes changes and transformation following iterative analysis and interpretations of cross-level activity systems to determine possible dissonance and solutions with the help of structured resources. Thirdly, research into teachers’ learning should employ a holistic research approach with a comprehensive perspective in analyzing and interpreting existing gaps in teaching practice.

There is an urgent need to have leaders who are able to strategically transition society towards sustainability. Evidence shows that challenges are mounting up and become increasingly complex. Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) aims to educate leaders to become competent to lead within the sustainability challenge we are facing. This thesis explores how leadership education can prepare teachers to become leaders to enable Strategic Sustainable Development (SSD). Based on interviews with ESD experts, the research team identified eight key competencies for leaders to enable Strategic Sustainable Development and eight pedagogical approaches to train such competencies. In addition to that, the research team analyzed how the case study organization Teach for Austria (TFA) integrates the identified key competencies and pedagogical approaches. Recommendations are provided indicating TFA’s opportunities regarding a more thorough integration of the key competencies and pedagogical approaches into their leadership education. These recommendations were then made relevant to the broader leadership education context to prepare teachers to lead. The main outcomes of this thesis intend to serve as a guidance to enable leadership the world needs.

Neste trabalho apresentamos o desenho e desenvolvimento de um novo sistema de apoio ao ensino/aprendizagem via Web, o iComb - Combinatória Interativa na Internet. Também apresentamos alguns experimentos didáticos com a atual proposta do iComb. Este sistema é baseado na experiência do Combien?, sistema desenvolvido pela Université Pierre et Marie Curie - LIP6, que tem bons recursos para auxílio à resolução de exercícios ligados a análise combinatória, mas apresenta limitações quanto a incorporação de novos exercícios e principalmente apresenta restrições para seu uso via Web. Uma inovação advinda deste projeto é que o iComb pode ser integrado a sistemas gerenciadores de cursos, como o SAW- Sistema de Aprendizagem pelaWeb. Além disso, o iComb pode ser incorporado a páginas pessoais, redes sociais e blogs, na forma de um widget. / In this work, we present the software iComb - Interactive Combinatorics on Internet, a new software that can be used to teach and learning combinatorics trough the Word Wide Web. The iComb is based on the Combien? experience, a software developed by Université Pierre et Marie Curie - LIP6. We can easily integrate the iComb software in a web-based learning management system like the SAW - Web-based learning system. Moreover, the iComb can be easily added to a personal web sites, social networks systems and blogs using the copy-and-past pattern resulting in a powerful collaborative tool to the conceptual movement named as Web 2.0.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T14:32:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Amalia Neide Covic.pdf: 5801132 bytes, checksum: ad3db4327b5c15aacdf03a7e55765991 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-09-30 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This study contributes with the knowledge construction related to the learning to teach in an hospital context that have differences from the traditional classroom. These assumptions need to be made: (i) When scholar quotidian actions are enunciated there exists docent learning; (ii)The enunciations of the scholar quotidian actions, when seem as cultural artifacts, can be investigated; and (iii) the docent space of practices is considered a strategy of learning. This research focus in this question: What are the possibilities that the practical enunciations made by intern teachers in an hospital environment promote the docent learning? The search to answer this question is sustained by studies with strong qualitative methodology, oriented in the investigation of the meanings construction in a space which the communicative action takes the place of the experiment. The data for this study comes from the modular discursive analysis and from the study of the Habermas Theory of Communicative Action. The enunciations used in this research comes from a group of eight teachers and eight intern teachers of the IOP-GRAACC-UNIFESP from june 2005 to july 2006. It´s possible to observe that, in the enunciations of the actions used in this study, the group: creates new meanings to the implicit docent knowledge related to the institutional space of Health and Education; there are tendencies of traditional curriculum adaption to the hospital reality; investigation spaces are created in the process; there are arguments for consensus when spaces are open for differences and mobilization of the action; the properties appears as the environment adaptabilities are created; specific curriculum are constructed for the patient-students in oncology treatment; signifies the position of the Hospital School sphere of actions; create a relation of inclusion in the hospital space; investigates the practice with autonomy construction of the docent; space construction for docents; and mobilize knowledges linked to solidarity / O estudo pretende contribuir com a construção do conhecimento acerca da aprendizagem da docência em contextos externos às salas de aulas tradicionais, mais especificamente no ambiente hospitalar. Para tal, partiu-se dos pressupostos: (i) Existe aprendizagem da docência ao se enunciarem ações escolares cotidianas, (ii) As enunciações de ações escolares cotidianas, quando percebidas como um artefato cultural, são passíveis de serem investigadas e (iii) O espaço de práticas situadas da docência é considerado uma estratégia de aprendizagem da docência. A pesquisa tem como orientação de investigação a pergunta: Quais as possibilidades das enunciações de práticas cotidianas realizadas por professores estagiários em um ambiente hospitalar promoverem a construção da aprendizagem da docência ?. A busca de respostas se deu pelo viés dos estudos predominantemente qualitativos, com orientação para a investigação de construção de significados em um espaço em que a ação comunicativa assume o lugar do experimento. Assim a produção de dados se dá com apoio da análise discursiva modular e dos estudos da Teoria da Ação Comunicativa habermasiana. Procuramos, nas enunciações de um grupo de oito professoras e professores estagiários do IOP-GRAACC-UNIFESP, indícios dos processos reflexivos da ação docente. As observações se deram de junho de 2005 até junho de 2006. Foi possível observar que, ao enunciar suas ações, o grupo ressignifica conhecimentos implícitos da docência quanto ao espaço institucional da Saúde e da Educação e: indicam tendências de adaptação dos currículos tradicionais para a realidade hospitalar; criam espaços de investigação do meio; fornecem argumentos para a busca de consenso ao abrirem espaço para diferenciação e mobilização da ação; antecipam as propriedades e criam adaptabilidade ao meio; constroem currículos específicos para os alunos pacientes em tratamento oncológico; significam a posição da esfera da Escola Hospitalar, entre as demais esferas de atividade do espaço hospitalar; estabelecem uma relação de pertencimento ao espaço hospitalar; investigam intersubjetivamente a própria prática com construção de autonomia do espaço da docência, constroem espaços para docência e mobilizam saberes ligados à solidariedade