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Evaluation of teacher training has been conducted primarily on pre-service contexts and has focussed almost exclusively on evidence of impact in terms of changes in teachers’ behaviour or beliefs. Using a responsive / constructivist methodology my research focuses on an in-service context and takes the participants as the starting point of the research in order to examine both the processes of teacher learning (i.e. how do teachers learn) as well as the product (what are their claims, concerns and issues) regarding the training programme. The emergent data is analysed with findings grounded in the literature of teacher learning and parallels made with my own reflections on the processes of learning through the research experience itself. The evaluation focuses on a Cambridge In Service Certificate of English Language Teaching (ICELT) training course which is designed as an internationally appropriate INSET programme that can satisfy the training needs of (both native and non-native) EFL teachers. The research is valuable because we do not know how teachers learn on a training course. Through a review of the literature and exploiting the imagery of a metaphorical journey of development, I formulate a framework for analysing teacher learning which distinguishes between practical (applied) knowledge, conceptual knowledge and knowledge of self. This theoretical framework provides a lens to analyse data emerging during the evaluation. The research advocates an alternative ‘constructivist – responsive’ method of evaluation for teacher education programmes that has the dual aim of learning through the evaluation (process) as well as from the evaluation (product). The research methods follow a Fourth Generation Evaluation model (Guba and Lincoln 1979). The results show that in terms of the evaluation outcomes (product) we can identify modes of learning that concern tasks (how), knowing (what) and awareness of self and socio-cultural context (why). Analysis of the teachers’ talk as collaborative interaction showed little evidence of learning taking place. There were no obvious sections of exploratory talk that is conducive to the construction of new meanings and learning. However by analysing teachers’ talk as a manifestation of individual modes of thinking we are able to identify modes of thinking that have clear parallels with the framework of teacher learning depicted above: techno-rationale thought (how), reflective thought (what) and critical thought (why).The descriptive framework therefore depicts the integration of levels for both the process of learning and the products of learning and as such is a powerful tool for teacher educators. Teachers need to operate on all three levels in their professional lives. The study challenges some well-established assumptions in teacher training evaluation. In terms of epistemology, teacher learning is life-long and individual. Human learning occurs on three levels: physical (body), mental (mind) and spiritual (soul) and these levels describe how we think as well as what we do. Evaluation of any training course needs to take into consideration the dimensions of learning, the influence of the socio-cultural context and recognise the interconnectedness of process and product (i.e. how the traveling and the journey interact).

Studien syftar till att belysa huruvida bedömning för lärande (BFL) har institutionaliserats bland lärarna på Lindängsgymnasiet efter ett genomfört skolutvecklingsprojekt. Den har också som mål att, med utgångspunkt i en teori om framgångsrik skolutveckling som utvecklats av Ulf Blossing, ta reda på vilka faktorer under initierings- och implementeringsfasen som kan ha varit avgörande för huruvida projektet nådde institutionaliseringsfasen eller inte. Studien syftar vidare till att klargöra om det finns skillnader mellan lärare som undervisar på yrkesförberedande program och lärare som undervisar på högskoleförberedande program samt mellan lärare som undervisar i karaktärsämnen och lärare som undervisar i allmänna ämnen när det gäller institutionaliseringen av BFL i undervisningen. Studiens ansats är kritiskt realistisk och består dels av en kvantitativ enkät, som besvarats av 58 lärare på Lindängsgymnasiet, och dels av en kvalitativ intervju med den förstelärare som fungerade som projektledare under skolutvecklingsprojektet. Enkätresultatet visar att BFL inte har institutionaliserats bland lärarna på Lindängsgymnasiet och analys av både enkätresultat och intervju gör gällande att förklaringarna står att finna i såväl initierings- som implementeringsfasen. För att ta reda på om det finns skillnader mellan lärare som undervisar på yrkesförberedande program och lärare som undervisar på studieförberedande program samt mellan lärare som undervisar i karaktärsämnen och allmänna ämnen användes Chi2-test, t-test och Mann-Whitney U-test. Resultaten av testen tyder inte på några skillnader mellan lärare som undervisar på yrkesförberedande och högskoleförberedande program när det gäller institutionaliseringen av BFL. Resultaten tyder dock på att lärare som undervisar på yrkesförberedande program i något större utsträckning upplever att de har förändrat sin undervisning beroende på BFL-projektets genomförande än lärare som undervisar på högskoleförberedande program. Testen visar inte på några skillnader mellan lärare som undervisar i karaktärs- respektive allmänna ämnen. Studien kan vara användbar för till exempel skolledare vid planering av utvecklingsarbete och kollegialt lärande, då studien bland annat pekar på vikten av en genomtänkt initieringsfas samt kontinuerlig medverkan av skolledare under ett skolutvecklingsprojekt. / This study aims to highlight whether assessment for learning (AFL) has become institutionalized among the teachers at Lindängsgymnasiet after a school improvement project. It also aims to investigate, based on a theory on successful school improvement developed by Ulf Blossing, what factors during the initiation and the implementation phase that may have been crucial for whether the project reached the institutionalization phase or not. The study further aims to clarify if there are differences between teachers who teach on vocational programs and teachers who teach on preparatory programs and between teachers who teach characteristic subjects and teachers who teach general subjects regarding the institutionalization of AFL in the classroom. The approach of the study is critical realistic and it consists of a quantitative survey, that was answered by 58 teachers at Lindängsgymnasiet. It also consists of a qualitative interview with the head teacher that had the role of project manager during the school improvement project. The results of the survey show that AFL has not been institutionalized among the teachers at Lindängsgymnasiet and analysis of both survey results and the interview claims that the explanations can be found in the initiation and implementation phase. In order to find out if there are differences between teachers who teach on vocational and teachers who teach on preparatory programs, and between teachers who teach characteristics and teachers who teach general subjects, Chi2 test, t-test and Mann-Whitney U test were used. The results of these tests do not indicate any differences between teachers who teach on vocational and on preparatory programs in the institutionalization of AFL. The results indicate that teachers who teach on vocational programs to a greater extent experience that they have changed their education due to the implementation of the AFL-project than teachers who teach on preparatory programs. The tests do not indicate any differences between teachers who teach characteristics and teachers who teach general subjects. The study can be useful for school leaders in planning of school improvement work and collaborative learning, as the study focuses on the importance of a well-considered initiation phase and continuous participation by school leaders during a school development project.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T14:31:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Amelia Maria Jarmendia1.pdf: 1085109 bytes, checksum: 1eee1daad7657258e25ce50649dec2f3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-02-14 / Apart from some exceptions teachers lifelong learning is generally offered in courses that aim the transmission of contents and techniques previously defined from a general view of teachers needs The conventional model is considered not sufficiently efficacious when it is intended to implant and implement curricular innovations that implicate new comprehension of the teaching and learning object as well as changes in the teaching practice due to the fact that what it matters is to have access to what teachers do and think Thus in this thesis I investigate how to organize a lifelong learning process which breaking the conventional model can contribute to the knowledge in the specific area as well as to the personal and professional development of the teacher Developing the research from the idea that it is possible to carry out in a flexible way the act as educating as a process in which the do s and think s of the teachers as well as their needs are considered the starting point of discussions reflections and studies I organized with the collaboration of a group of teachers a space of formation denominated Study Group (SG) which is also a methodological resource of this research The research allowed the definition of methodological procedures that were shown adequate to the creation of an alternative context of learning in which the teachers became the subject of their own formation assuming at the same time the role of the one who is being educated as well as the educator Summarizing the research revealed that it is possible to organize and carry out a process of lifelong learning that differently from the conventional models presents among other things the following features: it creates a context in which the teachers learn with their peers; it recognizes and gives value to the teachers knowledge; it retrieves the practice as a space of education and reflection; it organizes itself around the teachers needs and it allows the exercise of the shared autonomy I considered therefore to have achieved the proposed aims of this research and I hope to have given my contribution to the studies in the area of teachers lifelong learning / Salvo raras exceções a formação continuada de professores dá-se na forma de cursos que visam à transmissão de conteúdos e técnicas definidos previamente a partir de uma visão geral das necessidades dos docentes Considerando que o modelo convencional não se revela suficientemente eficaz quando se pretende implantar e implementar inovações curriculares que implicam novas compreensões do objeto de ensino e aprendizagem e mudanças na prática docente pois neste caso importa ter acesso ao que fazem e pensam os professores, neste trabalho, investigo como organizar um processo de formação continuada de professores que rompendo com o modelo convencional possa contribuir tanto para o avanço do conhecimento na área quanto para o desenvolvimento pessoal e profissional do professor Para o desenvolvimento da pesquisa partindo da idéia de que é possível que a ação formativa ocorra por meio de um processo conduzido de forma flexível em que o fazer e o pensar dos professores bem como suas necessidades sejam tomados como ponto de partida para discussões reflexões e estudos organizei com a colaboração de um grupo de professoras um espaço de formação a que denominamos Grupo de Estudo GE que é também recurso metodológico desta pesquisa A pesquisa possibilitou a definição de procedimentos metodológicos que se mostraram adequados à criação de um contexto alternativo de aprendizagem em que os docentes se tornaram sujeitos de sua própria formação assumindo ao mesmo tempo o papel de formando e formador Em síntese a pesquisa revelou que é possível organizar e conduzir um processo de formação continuada que diferentemente dos modelos convencionais apresenta entre outras as seguintes características: cria um contexto em que os professores aprendem com seus pares; reconhece e valoriza os saberes docentes; recupera a prática como espaço de formação e reflexão; organiza-se em torno das necessidades dos professores e possibilita o exercício da autonomia compartilhada Considero portanto ter alcançado o que se pretendia com o desenvolvimento desta pesquisa e espero assim ter dado minha contribuição para os estudos na área de formação do professor

The objective for this program of research was to retrospectively, narratively, and autobiographically examine how my professional identity shifted when I moved from the secret, safe space of my own classrooms to shared spaces with other teachers as a newly appointed Differentiated Instruction Facilitator. In education today, teachers increasingly share their classroom spaces with other professionals and often the shifts in identity of the people sharing spaces are not examined. In this inquiry, I examine my own identity by viewing the metaphorical dance floor of the Differentiated Instruction Project from both my position on the dance floor and from the balcony above. I inquire into the nature of my dancing relationships with many partners over two years on my middle and secondary school landscape and how these relationships changed how I understood myself as a teacher and as a facilitator. I look at the differentiated philosophy I was expected to deliver and the knowledge my colleagues brought into our time together and how these two knowledge realms interacted and shifted my own knowledge and, in turn, my relationships with my teacher partners and their students.<p> My professional identity within the Differentiated Instruction Project shifted often. In the beginning, I attempted to integrate voices of the conduit and their system and sacred stories with my own personal practical knowledge. In this inquiry, I explore the relationship between the conduit and my work inside classroom spaces. I inquire into the effect of stories on my own personal practical knowledge and the knowledge of my colleagues and their students. I examine the ways in which many dancers were positioned on my educational dance floor and the ways in which these voices shaped the voice of my identity. Finally, I imagine possibilities for living and reliving and then telling and retelling stories of shifting identities within shared spaces.

The objective for this program of research was to retrospectively, narratively, and autobiographically examine how my professional identity shifted when I moved from the secret, safe space of my own classrooms to shared spaces with other teachers as a newly appointed Differentiated Instruction Facilitator. In education today, teachers increasingly share their classroom spaces with other professionals and often the shifts in identity of the people sharing spaces are not examined. In this inquiry, I examine my own identity by viewing the metaphorical dance floor of the Differentiated Instruction Project from both my position on the dance floor and from the balcony above. I inquire into the nature of my dancing relationships with many partners over two years on my middle and secondary school landscape and how these relationships changed how I understood myself as a teacher and as a facilitator. I look at the differentiated philosophy I was expected to deliver and the knowledge my colleagues brought into our time together and how these two knowledge realms interacted and shifted my own knowledge and, in turn, my relationships with my teacher partners and their students.<p> My professional identity within the Differentiated Instruction Project shifted often. In the beginning, I attempted to integrate voices of the conduit and their system and sacred stories with my own personal practical knowledge. In this inquiry, I explore the relationship between the conduit and my work inside classroom spaces. I inquire into the effect of stories on my own personal practical knowledge and the knowledge of my colleagues and their students. I examine the ways in which many dancers were positioned on my educational dance floor and the ways in which these voices shaped the voice of my identity. Finally, I imagine possibilities for living and reliving and then telling and retelling stories of shifting identities within shared spaces.

This exploratory study focuses on the learning experiences of Life Science teachers and seeks to understand the knowledge, skills and attitudes they learn in professional development initiatives (PDIs), and the usefulness and relevance attributed to them in their daily activities. The research design of the study is located within a qualitative, interpretive paradigm. Data was collected through one-on-one semi-structured interviews with Life Science teachers, facilitators and the advisory teacher in the Ohangwena region. An analysis of workshop documents supplemented the interview data. The data was analysed with the use of thematic content analysis and then grouped into categories and further into themes to develop an explanation of what is learnt, how learning happens and where it happens. The analysis of data has drawn on a triple-lens framework according to Fraser, Kennedy, Reid, & McKinney (2007) to examine the conditions for continuous professional development (CPD) models which teachers undertake. One of the main findings of this study indicates that Life Science teachers learn in multiple settings, formal and informal, planned and incidental. The knowledge and skills they learn include content knowledge, teaching strategies, as well as new curricular knowledge and practical skills. Learning strategies include lectures, group discussions, doing and experimenting, peer-coaching and collaborations. The main formal professional development initiatives in the region were said to be workshops and projects. However, self-initiated learning opportunities were also reported. Teachers expressed that they did not feel well-supported by the Ministry of Education and by school managements. Poor planning and coordination, lack of financial support, lack and inadequacy of resources like laboratories and textbooks were all indicated as challenges that teachers faced when attempting to participate in professional development. The study concludes that more coherent and continuous professional development programmes that support and allow teachers to engage in lifelong learning based on context, collaboration, peer-coaching and distributed expertise need to be created at school and circuit levels. / Thesis (M.Ed.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2011.

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One of these environments is materializes in Curricular Activity Teaching Research and Extension (ACIEPE), called "Children's Stories and Mathematics in Initial Grade", offered since 2004, by Federal University of São Carlos. The target people of this ACIEPE are students of Pedagogy course and graduation in Mathematics and teacher of elementary school and pre-school education. Altogether, this activity includes several moments that aim: the study of references that address the primary language, the mathematical language, the potential of reading, mathematics teaching, the connection between children's literature and mathematics; the analysis of paradidatic books; the analysis of teaching and learning situations that uses infant texts and mathematics; as well as moments that result in the construction and subsequent implementation of infant books to teach mathematical content. This is the scenario that this research try to identify and analyze, from the perspective of egresses of the Pedagogy course, the contributions of ACIEPE "Children's Stories and mathematics in the elementary school" for the development of the process of learning how to teach mathematics. The theoretical framework is permeated by concepts such as: initial formation, formation of teachers that teach mathematics, knowledge base for teaching, reading and writing in math classes, the relationship between theory and practice, and others. We chose the case study of ACIEPE once the participants composes this case with their stories, highlighting their origins, direct and indirect influences, near and far. We analyzed multiple data sources - many written records that were produced over this research, teaching and extension as reports, classes plans, field diaries, books produced, etc., interview and questionnaires answered after the end of ACIEPE - enabling the data triangulation, since the variety of sources of evidence assisted in performing various analyzes of a given process. The results of this work allow us to configure the ACIEPE "Children's Stories for the elementary school" as an instance of formative teachers, because the contributions of the curricular activities for the development of the teacher in personal and professional dimension were verified of egresses who participated. Among the contributions of ACIEPE stands out the possibility that the licensees are aware of the processes of teaching and learning and understand specifically how to work them, so this activity of teaching, research and extension enables the construction of pedagogical content knowledge, the center of the knowledge base for teaching. It was found also that the dynamics involving the construction and use of a material in a collaborative group were the main sources of learning. In this formation process the institutional dimension is crucial as in the University, as forming instancy, recognizes, honors and promotes the achievement of this type of formation which showed prolific to the teacher professional development. / Na literatura referente à área de formação de professores, atualmente, preconiza-se a formação de profissionais reflexivos e investigadores da própria prática inserida em um contexto social, histórico e político. Além disso, enfatiza-se a demanda por ambientes de formação que mantenham a ideia de unidade entre teoria e prática e entre ensino e pesquisa; que privilegiem o desenvolvimento da reflexão e a articulação com a realidade da escola. Diversos cursos de formação procuram se configurar como um espaço de crescimento profissional que não negligencia as demandas da prática educativa e por isso acompanham o desenvolvimento da mesma. Um desses ambientes se concretiza na Atividade Curricular de Ensino Pesquisa e Extensão (ACIEPE), denominada Histórias Infantis e Matemática nas Séries Iniciais , ofertada desde 2004, pela Universidade Federal de São Carlos. O público alvo desta ACIEPE são os alunos dos cursos de Pedagogia e Licenciatura em Matemática e professores da educação básica e educação infantil. De modo geral, esta atividade engloba diversos momentos que visam: o estudo de referenciais que abordem a língua materna, a linguagem matemática, as potencialidades da leitura, o ensino de matemática, a conexão entre literatura infantil e matemática; a análise de livros paradidáticos; a análise de situações de ensino e de aprendizagem que articulem textos infantis e matemática; assim como momentos que culminam na construção e posterior implementação de livros infantis para ensinar conteúdos matemáticos. Esse é o cenário desta pesquisa que busca identificar e analisar, sob a perspectiva de egressos do curso de Pedagogia, as contribuições da ACIEPE Histórias Infantis e Matemática nas séries iniciais para o desenvolvimento do processo de aprender a ensinar matemática. O referencial teórico é permeado por conceitos como: formação inicial, formação dos professores que ensinam matemática, base de conhecimento para o ensino, a leitura e escrita nas aulas de matemática, a relação entre teoria e prática, entre outros. Optouse pelo estudo de caso da ACIEPE sendo que as participantes compõem esse caso com suas histórias, destacando suas origens, influências diretas e indiretas, próximas e distantes. Foram analisadas múltiplas fontes de dados - diversos registros escritos produzidos ao longo da atividade de pesquisa, ensino e extensão como relatórios, plano de aula, diários de campo, os livros produzidos etc., entrevista e questionários respondidos após o término da ACIEPE possibilitando a triangulação de dados, uma vez que a diversidade de fontes de evidências ajudaram na realização de várias análises de determinado processo. Os resultados desta pesquisa permitem configurar a ACIEPE Histórias Infantis para as Séries Iniciais como uma instância formativa de professores, pois se verificou as contribuições da atividade curricular para o desenvolvimento docente nas dimensões pessoal e profissional de egressas do curso de Pedagogia que dela participaram. Dentre as contribuições da ACIEPE destaca-se a possibilidade de que os licenciandos se conscientizem dos processos de ensinar e aprender e compreendam concretamente como trabalhá-los, assim, essa atividade de ensino, de pesquisa e de extensão propicia a construção do conhecimento pedagógico do conteúdo, o centro da base de conhecimento para a docência. Constatou-se, ainda, que as dinâmicas que envolvem a construção e utilização de um material em um grupo colaborativo foram as principais fontes de aprendizagem. Nesse processo formativo a dimensão institucional é fundamental na medida em que a Instituição de Ensino Superior, como instância formadora, reconhece, prestigia e promove a realização dessa modalidade formativa que se mostrou profícua ao desenvolvimento profissional docente.

abstract: ABSTRACT Early career science teachers are often assigned to classrooms with high numbers of English language learners (ELL students). As these teachers learn to become effective practitioners, the circumstances surrounding them merit a thorough examination. This study examines the longitudinal changes in Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) and practices of six early career science teachers who taught in urban schools. The teachers participated in the Alternative Support for Induction Science Teachers (ASIST) program during their initial two years of teaching. Our research team followed the participants over a five-year period. This study focuses on data from Years 1, 3, and 5. The data collected included classroom observations and interviews. In addition, classroom artifacts were collected periodically for the purpose of triangulation. The analysis of the data revealed that with the support of the ASIST program, the teachers implemented inquiry lessons and utilized instructional materials that promoted academic language skills and science competencies among their ELL students. Conversely, standardized testing, teaching assignment, and school culture played a role in constraining the implementation of inquiry-based practices. The results of this study call for collaborative efforts among university science educators and school administrators to provide professional development opportunities and support for the implementation of inquiry and language practices among early career science teachers of ELL students. / Dissertation/Thesis / Ph.D. Curriculum and Instruction 2011

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