Submitted by REJANE WAIANDT SCHUWARTZ DE CARVALHO FARIA null (rejanefaria1@hotmail.com) on 2017-01-13T17:38:34Z No. of bitstreams: 1 TESE FARIA - 2016.pdf: 8392960 bytes, checksum: 9b9948489a847514858d67db571d636a (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Juliano Benedito Ferreira (julianoferreira@reitoria.unesp.br) on 2017-01-17T18:30:57Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 faria_rwsc_dr_rcla.pdf: 8392960 bytes, checksum: 9b9948489a847514858d67db571d636a (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-01-17T18:30:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 faria_rwsc_dr_rcla.pdf: 8392960 bytes, checksum: 9b9948489a847514858d67db571d636a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-12-07 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Nesta pesquisa investiguei possibilidades de desenvolvimento e exploração do Raciocínio Proporcional que emergem em atividades com o GeoGebra, integrando aritmética, geometria e álgebra, a partir do olhar profissional de professores de Matemática e pesquisadores em Educação Matemática. Trata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa, cujos dados foram produzidos durante o curso “Raciocínio Proporcional: atividades com o GeoGebra integrando aritmética, geometria e álgebra”, realizado com professores de Matemática que atuam do sexto ao nono ano do Ensino Fundamental. Tais dados foram obtidos a partir da interação com os professores participantes, questionários de avaliação, e registros em vídeo e no caderno de campo. A análise foi realizada à luz das perspectivas teóricas apresentadas sobre Raciocínio Proporcional, Intradisciplinaridade Matemática, Tecnologias Digitais e GeoGebra, e Olhar Profissional e Formação Continuada do Professor de Matemática. Ao longo do curso, buscou-se aprimorar as atividades de desenvolvimento e exploração do Raciocínio Proporcional com o GeoGebra, em uma perspectiva intradisciplinar, por meio do olhar profissional que os professores exerciam sobre elas. Assim, a formação do grupo de professores nas temáticas abordadas ao longo do curso é um resultado deste trabalho, bem como as atividades produzidas, que estão disponíveis nesta tese para qualquer interessado. Concluo que a abordagem Matemática Intradisciplinar com o GeoGebra, para o desenvolvimento e exploração do Raciocínio Proporcional, possibilita uma visão abrangente de diversos conceitos considerados fundamentais na literatura para a formação dos alunos, visando a superação de dificuldades em sua vida escolar no que se refere à disciplina de Matemática. / In this research I investigated possibilities of development and exploration of Proportional Reasoning that emerges in activities with GeoGebra, integrating arithmetic, geometry and algebra, from mathematics teachers and researchers in Mathematical Education professional look. This is a qualitative research, whose data were produced during the course “Proportional Reasoning: activities with GeoGebra integrating arithmetic, geometry and algebra”, carried out with mathematics teachers who work from the sixth to the ninth year of Elementary School. Those data were obtained from the interaction with the participating teachers, evaluation questionnaires, and video and field notebook records. The analysis was carried out in the light of the theoretical perspectives presented on Proportional Reasoning, Mathematical Intradisciplinarity, Digital Technologies and GeoGebra, and Professional Look and Mathematics Teacher Education. Throughout the course, we sought to improve the activities of development and exploration of Proportional Reasoning with GeoGebra, in an intradisciplinary perspective, through the professional look that teachers exercised over them. Thus, the education of the group of teachers in the topics covered throughout the course is a result of this work, as well as the activities produced, which are available in this thesis to anyone. I conclude that the Mathematical Intradisciplinary approach with GeoGebra, for the development and exploration of Proportional Reasoning, allows a comprehensive view of several concepts considered fundamental in the literature for of students’ education, aiming at overcoming difficulties in their school life in what concern to Mathematics discipline.

Grupos colaborativos de professores e tutorias individuais nas escolas são modelos de formação continuada que podem ser alternativas aos tradicionais cursos oferecidos aos professores. Nossa pesquisa teve o objetivo de investigar como a colaboração e a tutoria auxiliam no desenvolvimento profissional de um grupo de professores de Química. Constituímos um grupo colaborativo de professores de Química na região sul de São Paulo/SP, em 2012, e investigamos o processo de desenvolvimento profissional experimentado por eles. Realizamos trinta e oito encontros do grupo colaborativo entre os anos de 2012 e 2015 aos sábados de manhã, sendo que selecionamos doze deles para a análise. Dentre os vinte e quatro professores que participaram do grupo colaborativo, foram investigados os seis mais assíduos, sendo que três dos professores investigados também participaram de encontros individuais de tutoria em suas escolas. A coleta de dados envolveu gravações dos encontros do grupo colaborativo em vídeo, gravações em áudio das tutorias, questionários, notas de campo, entrevistas semiestruturadas e um protocolo de observação de aulas. Foram realizados e analisados, ao todo, vinte e três encontros individuais de tutorias. No grupo colaborativo e nas tutorias, os professores definiram os conteúdos que queriam discutir e as atividades que gostariam de realizar. Nossa participação tinha como objetivo promover a reflexão sobre as experiências de ensino e sobre as atividades apresentadas pelos professores. O desenvolvimento profissional foi analisado considerando as necessidades formativas dos professores de ciências que foram priorizadas pelos sujeitos da pesquisa, os obstáculos ao desenvolvimento profissional que eles manifestaram e suas intenções comportamentais quanto à contextualização, experimentação e interação dialógica nas aulas. Nossos resultados mostraram que tanto o grupo colaborativo quanto a tutoria são modos eficazes de promoção do desenvolvimento profissional, pois possibilitaram que os professores rompessem o isolamento profissional, compartilhassem experiências de ensino, refletissem sobre os problemas vivenciados em suas aulas, construíssem colaborativamente soluções e modificassem concepções educacionais. Os resultados ainda indicam que essas estratégias são complementares e que o grupo colaborativo pode alcançar resultados melhores quando mediado por um formador. Embora os professores tenham refletido bastante sobre o ensino e a aprendizagem de conceitos químicos e sobre atividades didáticas para seu ensino, eles pouco se envolveram em discussões sobre avaliação e sobre aspectos pedagógicos mais teóricos, que poderiam contribuir também para seu desenvolvimento profissional. / Collaborative groups and individual tutoring in schools are models of in-service teacher education that may be an alternative to traditional courses. Our research aimed to investigate how collaboration and tutoring can help teachers in their professional development. Twenty-four Chemistry teachers gathered, on Saturday mornings, in a school located at the South area of São Paulo city, in Brazil, during thirty-eight collaborative meetings, from 2012 to 2015. We selected twelve meetings in order to analyze the professional development process experienced by these teachers. We also investigated the ideas of the six assiduous teachers, and three of them who attended individual mentoring meetings at their schools. Data collection took place from 2013 to 2015 by video recordings of collaborative group meetings, audio recordings of tutoring, surveys, field notes, semi-structured interviews and a protocol to classes\' observation. We also carried out and analyzed twenty-three individual tutorial meetings held with three teachers. During the collaborative meetings and tutoring, secondary teachers were responsible for define discussion contents, and activities they would like to do. The tutor\'s aimed was to promote teachers\' reflection on self-teaching experiences and school activities. The professional development process was analyzed taking into account pedagogical content knowledge, obstacles to achieve professional development, behavioral intentions regarding to teaching context-based approach, experimentation, and dialogic interaction among students and teacher. The results showed that both collaborative group and tutoring were effective ways to promote teachers\' professional development, since they allowed educators to overcome their professional isolation, share teaching experiences, reflect on problems experienced in their classes, solve problems collaboratively and modify educational conceptions. The results also indicated that both strategies, collaborative groups and tutoring, are integrated. The collaborative group can achieve better results by means of mediated action of a more experienced Science educator. Although teachers were able to reflect on teaching and learning chemical concepts and pedagogical activities, they were poorly engaged in discussions about assessment and teaching-learning theories.

The diploma thesis will deal with the professional vision of teachers as one of the actual concepts of didactics, given to art education. It is based on the knowledge that professional's thinking does not take place only in terms but also through images. It will deal with vocational vision in connection with professional knowledge and action in close relation to the teaching reflection. In the research part the student will participate in the analysis of concrete art lesson recorded by video study method. She will study and compare the comments of student teachers at the observational concepts and sub-processes. In the practical part student will create and carry out own art project that will respond to selected categories of the observed video study. She will apply it to the skills of primary school pupils. She will reflects in detail implemented project in relation to the analyzed concepts. Keywords reflection, art education, didactics of art education, discourse, teacher, student, teacher learning, Professional development, professional vision, teacher knowledge, video cases, analysis, concept

There seems to be a lack of synchronisation between the acquisition of skills, knowledge, values, teaching techniques, and so forth from professional learning interventions and the application thereof in practice by teachers in general and language teachers in particular. Those charged with ensuring that teachers‟ development needs, in terms of Collective Agreement 8 of 2003 (DoE, 2003), receive attention, seem to be complying with that prerequisite without establishing whether such interventions really do address the need for development. This study focuses on the quality assurance of workshops meant to address the professional development needs of language teachers. This was explored in terms of learning theories informing methods used when facilitating professional development workshops for teachers and the assessment of teachers during the workshops, including evaluation of the workshops themselves and the quality assurance of those workshops. The study has found, among others, that the methods used during facilitation are not sourced from a variety of professional learning theories, including different learning styles that accommodate teachers who learn differently from others; a variety of assessment methods is not used to assess language teachers during the workshop sessions and quality assurance of the workshops internally and externally scarcely takes place. / Dissertation (MEd)--University of Pretoria, 2013. / gm2013 / Science, Mathematics and Technology Education / unrestricted

This work examines the learning outcomes of a French professional development program for science education in primary school, ASTEP. The program is based on a partnership between a primary school teacher on one hand and a subject expert on the other. Its uniqueness lies in the fact that the subject expert is a young university student who is challenged to be assessed on his/her learning for academic credits. Compared to most other professional development programs, ASTEP displays an alternative knowledge hierarchy, it is neither top down nor bottom up, but rather a form of knowledge exchange. Data on students´ and teachers´ reflections on the collaboration were analyzed through a grounded theory approach and subsequently organized within the interconnected model of teacher professional growth (IMTPG). Although the analyses indicated significant changes in the practice of the teachers, the learners who individually seem to benefit the most were the university students. The ASTEP program appears to provide a low stake high support scaffold for the students to refine their values and beliefs about a professional life and develop a professional identity.

This study researches phenomenon of the Biology Teachers Network (BTN), a distributed Community of Practice (CoP). The membership of the BTN is voluntary. The BTN is supported by a core group of members and administered by single moderator. The network uses a manually operated email system to communicate and share information as an automatic listserv proved to be beyond the capabilities of the membership. Etienne Wenger is the authority on the theory of CoPs and provides in depth background to the processes that are evident in a CoP. A CoP consists of the Domain, Practice and Community and through a process of negotiation of meaning, learning takes place through identity formation. CoPs can exist online in the form of distribute CoPs. Passionate leadership is essential for the formation of a CoP as is the voluntary participation of the members. A Naturalistic case study methodology is considered to be the most appropriate research tool. In this study a focus group interview and a collection of emails were used as data sources. The data was analysed using three instruments derived from the literature. The conclusion from the analysis of the data was that the BTN is a vibrant and fully functional distributed CoP in the coalescing stage. Participation in the BTN has led to an increase in professional development and ICT skills amongst some of the member teachers. The fact that this was achieved through the use of email instead of sophisticated websites suggests that this model of distributed CoP is suitable for the professional development of teachers in South Africa. / Dissertation (MEd)--University of Pretoria, 2009. / Curriculum Studies / unrestricted

The Case Study of the Developmental Appraisal System (DAS) is the main focus of this research inquiry. DAS is an instrument for teacher professional development aimed at enhancing the competency of teachers and accordingly, the quality of education. In the context of this exploratory study, informed by concerns about teacher learning, I sought to gain insight into how the implementation of government policy on teacher appraisal influences the way teachers strive to learn and change their practices. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to trace the implementation of government policy on teacher development in different contexts and to determine the extent to which DAS policy influenced teacher learning in these diverse contexts. The research inquiry is guided by one main research question: · What are the effects of developmental appraisal policy on teacher learning as seen through the eyes of teachers working in different resource contexts? In tracing the effects of DAS Policy, I focused on policy breakdown by looking at the views of implementers, i.e., educators at the level of the school. The study also explains how teachers understand the policy, which helped to lay the empirical foundation for exploring teacher learning. The investigation draws on recent work on what is called “teacher learning” for the conceptual focus. The framework provided a descriptive function that helped to assign content to the new concept on “teacher learning” in education research. It also presented an empirical function and exploratory purpose that assisted in exploring the effects of DAS Policy on the teacher learning. In seeking responses to the main research question, I conducted qualitative cases of 12 teachers who have been involved in the various phases of DAS. Teachers were selected from different resource contexts and sampled on the basis of their different profiles. I used teacher testimonies composed qualitatively through multiple methods of data collection, viz. biographical data, free writing schedule, semi-structured interviews, critical incident reports and teacher diaries. From the data generated, the following are the main findings of the study: · Teachers find the developmental promises of DAS to be unpersuasive because of its identification with the previous inspection system, and because of teachers’ identification with more powerful sources of learning. · The failure of the policy to give recognition in practice to the diverse contexts within which teachers work had a negative effect on teacher learning. · Teacher learning is an extremely complex process, and to pin down its critical features is very difficult in a developing country context. · Teachers found it difficult to ascribe “learning” to their DAS experiences given the largely negative experiences of the policy implementation process. · Context contributed to the disjuncture between understanding and practice in terms of teacher development and in particular to teacher learning. Finally, given the importance of teacher professional development in the reform process there is need for further research on how to effectively promote teacher learning. In addition, in considering the implications that diverse work contexts have for teacher learning in developing countries, policymakers can aim at effective programmes that will strengthen teacher learning. Therefore, research needs to address the link between teacher learning and diverse work contexts in different ways. / Thesis (PhD (Education Management and Policy Studies)--University of Pretoria, 2006. / Education Management and Policy Studies / unrestricted

The effective and sustainable use of ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies) in education has become commonplace as it is necessary to keep up with demands of the 21st century. ICT in education has become a tool for the empowerment of both teachers and learners for better teaching and learning. Although various ICT strategies and initiatives are implemented across South Africa, no system-wide effective and sustainable ICT integration in schools has yet come about. The pace of integration is slow and teachers avoid using ICT in their teaching and learning practices due to insufficient training. The aim of teacher professional development (TPD) is to improve teachers’ ICT application skills and knowledge, as well as to enable teachers to integrate ICT effectively in their classroom practices. Principals play a vital role in leading school reform, implementing innovations and bringing about change. The widespread assumption that high-quality leadership is an essential dimension of successful school management, leads to the question of how principals can influence teachers’ effective and sustainable integration of ICT into classrooms through TPD activities. Therefore, the purpose of this research was to determine the influence that principals have on teachers’ ICT integration through TPD. As school leadership is frequently cited as an essential for the successful integration of ICT into education, the very position of the principal is associated with authority, accountability and power. My initial research is based on Stoner’s (1999) Adapted Life Cycle Model of Learning Technology Integration. I used this model to illustrate the principals’ influence on teachers’ integration of ICT into education. From this review subsidiary questions emerged. Qualitative research through in-depth interviews formed the basis of an interpretative perspective, allowing principals to reflect on ICT integration, as well as their influence on teachers’ use of ICT. This study followed a basic grounded theory approach where I assumed an inductive stance and strived to derive meaning from the data in order to develop new theory. Pre-defined theoretical criteria determined the selection of the respondents to ensure validity of the data. The seven principals represented secondary schools across cultural and socio-economic levels. The perceptions and experiences of the principals were analysed, compared, and patterns of influence were identified. This study indicated that principals do not only influence the integration of ICT in classrooms through their leadership and management styles, but also through their attitude toward ICT integration, knowledge on related ICT and TPD issues, as well as their strategic thinking on ICT integration. Emerging findings on the role of the principal lead to new insights on the empowerment of teachers. The study resulted in a proposed theoretical framework that indicates the interrelatedness of the emerging patterns that influence the principals’ role through TPD. / Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2009. / Curriculum Studies / unrestricted

The thesis examines the personality of an introverted teacher at elementary school. In the theoretical part, it shows the profession of teacher through the professional competences and activities of which the profession of teacher consists. Following is a brief overview of personality theories, which aims towards a deeper understanding of the personality of man and a closer understanding of the concepts of introversion and extraversion. It also addresses the strengths and weaknesses of introversion and lists four types of introverted perception of the world. The empirical part examines how the introverted type express itself in the role of teacher and what are his strengths and weaknesses. Both men and women currently working as teachers at elementary school were approached for the research. An online personality questionnaire was used to identify the personality type of individual respondents. Method of in-depth interview was chosen for the data collection itself. Only respondents with an introverted personality type were selected for in-depth interviews. The results of the research brought a deeper understanding of the personality of the introverted teacher. It describes the specific needs, which are important for an introverted person of a teacher in relation to the performance of his work....

This diploma thesis deals with the topic of career in teaching, which has many specific characteristics compared to the classical concept of career. The thesis focuses on the group of kindergarten teachers who stand at the beginning of the education system as important influencers on the life-long educational journey of each of us. The aim of the thesis is to analyse the view of the kindergarten teacher career by teachers and principals and to look for support from the school management level. The theoretical part deals with three basic areas, which are professional development, professional career and career system. The first chapter shows the connection between the professional development of teachers and their career, it also focuses on its individual components, especially continual education of teachers. The second chapter is devoted to the career itself and compares the theoretical background of the career with its specifics in the teaching career. It looks at the teaching profession in terms of its attractiveness and individual stages of the teachers' career. The third chapter reflects the need for a career system, characterizes its benefits and presents the current state of its setting in the Czech Republic and abroad. The research part uses a questionnaire survey to find out how teachers...