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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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A Case Study of the Teacher Advancement Program on a Native American Reservation

Aruguete, Shing Aruguete 01 January 2017 (has links)
A school district on a Native American reservation in the southwestern region of the U.S. decided to implement the Teacher Advancement Program (TAP) to improve teacher instructional effectiveness and student academic achievement. Although researchers have documented successes of the TAP in high-poverty urban school districts across the U.S., little is known regarding the TAP implementation in remote Native American cultural context schools. The purpose of this study was to investigate if the collaborative process of the TAP implementation changed the teachers' instructional practices. Using Vygotsky's social constructivism, which emphasizes that learning happens through interactions and cooperation of people in their environments, this qualitative case study investigated 9 teachers' perceptions of the TAP implementation using interview, walkthrough observation and document analysis at the schools. The research questions focused on teachers' perceptions of TAP elements, their experiences, changes in practices and the influence of the Native American setting. A qualitative data analysis software program and constant comparison method were used to manage and analyze the qualitative data. Findings indicated that positive collegial collaboration, teacher attitude, and instructional change were associated with the TAP implementation, teacher evaluation (most challenging experience), teacher professional growth, and student academic achievement growth (most rewarding experiences). A district professional development plan was created to build on the strength of the TAP collegial collaboration and to meet the rigorous demand of the new state College and Career Readiness standards. The change of teachers' working in isolation to collegial collaboration reflects a positive social change for continuous inquiry into both student and teacher learning.
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En undervisning för alla : En studie om lärares erfarenheter kring bemötandet av de varierande kunskapsnivåerna i matematikundervisningen / An education for all : A study of teachers' experiences of addressing the varying levels of knowledge in mathematics teaching

Sundqvist, Lovisa January 2022 (has links)
Syftet med denna studie har varit att undersöka matematiklärares erfarenheter och upplevelser kring möjligheten att identifiera samt bemöta de varierade kunskapsnivåerna inom det heterogena matematikklassrummet. En kvalitativ intervjuundersökning gjorde det möjligt att få en uppfattning om informanternas erfarenheter och upplevelser kring detta fenomen. För att få svar på studiens frågeställningar har tre mellanstadielärare, inom ämnet matematik, från olika skolor, med olika lång erfarenhet inom yrket och från olika platser i landet intervjuats. Intervjuerna har varit av semistrukturerad karaktär där informanterna givits stor frihet i att förmedla sina erfarenheter och upplevelser. Studien skildrar hur arbetet kan anordnas i praktiken samt vilka svårigheter och hinder lärare kan ställas inför. Resultatet visade att lärarna anser att anpassningar bör göras på gruppnivå i den mån det går samt att undervisningens innehåll ska anpassas utifrån den matematiska kunskapsnivå eleven befinner sig på. De arbetssätt och metoder som informanterna ansåg vara särskilt framgångsrika för att bemöta den heterogena undervisningsgruppens olika behov är anpassningar, att lära ut strategier och att lära tillsammans. En slutsats som kan dras utifrån studiens resultat är att det finns en önskan hos samtliga lärare att i ännu högre grad kunna stötta eleverna i deras kunskapsutveckling. / The purpose with this study was to examine mathematics teachers' experiences around the possibility of identifying and responding to the varied levels of knowledge within the heterogeneous mathematics classroom. A qualitative interview survey made it possible to get an idea of the informants' experiences around this phenomenon. To get answers to these questions, three middle school teachers, in the subject of mathematics, from different schools, with different lengths of experience in the profession and from different places in the country have been interviewed. The interviews have been of a semi-structured nature where the informants have been given freedom in communicating their experiences. The study describes how this work can be done in practice and what difficulties and obstacles teachers can face. The results showed that the teachers believe that adaptations should be made at group level as far as possible and that the content of the teaching should be adapted based on the mathematical knowledge level the student is at. The working methods and methods that the informants considered to be particularly successful in meeting the heterogeneous teaching group's different needs are adaptations, teaching strategies and learning together. A conclusion that can be drawn from the results of the study is that there is a desire among all teachers to be able to support the students to an even greater degree in their knowledge development.
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Rektorers föreställningar gällande lärares kompetensutveckling / Principals’ conceptions of teacher competence development

Helgesson, Charlotte January 2019 (has links)
I läroplanen framgår att rektor har ett särskilt ansvar för att lärare ska få den kompetensutveckling som krävs för att de ska kunna utföra sitt uppdrag på ett professionellt sätt. Detta får givetvis konsekvenser för rektors arbete. Syftet med studien är att studera rektors föreställningar och strategier gällande lärares kompetensutveckling. Frågeställningarna berör de föreställningar som framträder när rektorer beskriver lärares kompetensutveckling och vilka strategier har rektor för att verkställa lärares kompetensutveckling? Diskursanalys har använts som teoretisk och metodologisk utgångspunkt. Sex intervjuer av rektorer i grundskolan har genomförts vilket också varit en totalundersökning för en kommunal huvudman. Resultatet visar att rektors föreställningar centreras kring att utveckla undervisningen i klassrummet, skolans kultur och kollegialt lärande.  För att få till en skolkultur som tar sig an kollegialt lärande behöver rektor använda sig av strategier exempelvis genom att lobba för att motivera lärarna till aktuell kompetensutveckling, men också genom att modellera och leva som man lär. Studien visar en tendens till att rektorer placerar lärares kompetensutveckling inom skolutvecklingsdiskursen. Detta får följder som att rektor behöver få till en skolkultur som möjliggör kollegialt lärande för skolutveckling. / The curriculum in Sweden states that the principal has a special responsibility for ensuring that teachers receive the competence development required for them to be able to carry out their assignment in a professional manner. This of course has consequences for the principal’s work. The purpose of the study is to study the principal's conceptions and strategies regarding teacher competence development. The questions are which perceptions emerge when principals describe teachers' competence development and which strategies does the principal have to implement teacher competence development? Discourse analysis has been used as a theoretical and methodological framework. Six interviews of principals in compulsory school have been conducted, which has also been a total survey for a municipality. The result shows that the principal's conceptions are centred on developing the teaching in the classroom, the school's culture and professional learning. In order to get a school culture that takes on collegial collaboration, the principal needs to use strategies, for example by lobbying to motivate the teachers to upcoming competence development, but also by modelling and practice what is preached. The study suggests that principals recognize teacher competence development as part of a school development discourse. Consequently, a school culture allowing professional learning, needs to be established.

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