The purpose of this study was to determine if a relationship exists between teacher variables and the Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program (TCAP) student annual scores in reading and mathematics for students in grades 3 through 8 in Hamblen County, Tennessee. The teacher variables included number of days absent, Praxis II Principles of Learning and Teaching (PLT) scores, and years of experience. The population of the study was limited to 3rd- through 8th grade reading and mathematics teachers employed by the Hamblen County school district during the 2006-2007 school year. Raw scores from the 2006-2007 TCAP criterion-referenced assessment were used as the testing variable. A Pearson correlation coefficient was used to analyze teacher absenteeism. Praxis II PLT scores were grouped as above or below median scores and analyzed with an independent samples t test. Years of experience was defined by the state department of education as vested years of experience and grouped using an analysis of variance. Based on analysis of the findings, the relationship between teachers' days absent, Praxis II PLT scores, and years of experience and TCAP achievement annual scores in reading and mathematics for students in grades 3 through 8 in Hamblen County, Tennessee were not statistically significant.

Submitted by isabela.moljf@hotmail.com (isabela.moljf@hotmail.com) on 2016-08-04T16:16:23Z No. of bitstreams: 1 vanimarlembonoto.pdf: 782168 bytes, checksum: 7a81a471937a1493105f12435a843418 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2016-08-05T11:38:16Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 vanimarlembonoto.pdf: 782168 bytes, checksum: 7a81a471937a1493105f12435a843418 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-05T11:38:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 vanimarlembonoto.pdf: 782168 bytes, checksum: 7a81a471937a1493105f12435a843418 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-01-22 / O absenteísmo docente é um problema que vem crescendo nas escolas públicas brasileiras nas últimas décadas. Por ser gestora em uma escola pública da rede municipal de ensino da cidade de Juiz de Fora e enfrentar o problema das ausências docentes diariamente no âmbito escolar, foi escolhida a pesquisa sobre o tema. O presente trabalho tem como objetivo analisar as estratégias utilizadas pelos gestores escolares diante dos transtornos causados pelo absenteísmo docente nas escolas da Rede Municipal de Ensino de Juiz de Fora, MG. A análise foi feita por meio de um estudo de caso em quatro escolas de uma mesma região do município, com o objetivo de se desenvolver uma proposta de intervenção junto às escolas visando amenizar o problema apresentado com apoio da Secretaria de Educação. Para conhecimento das rotinas das instituições foram apresentados o funcionamento e a organização, bem como, suas estruturas físicas e pedagógicas. A fundamentação metodológica utilizada foram as abordagens quantitativa, com análise e coleta de dados de um questionário formulado para dez professores e quatro gestores das escolas e qualitativa, realizando uma entrevista com oito professores, escolhidos entre os mais faltosos. Para dar suporte à pesquisa bibliográfica e documental, foram utilizados como referenciais teóricos vários autores, dentre eles, Esteve, Amaral, Gasparini, Barreto e Assunção, que abordaram sobre o assunto desse trabalho, o absenteísmo docente nas salas de aula e os transtornos causados por esta ausência ao trabalho da gestão no dia-a-dia das escolas públicas. A rotina escolar mostrada nessa pesquisa traz o absenteísmo docente que em parte é justificado, abonado ou acontece por licença médica, mas também, apresenta parte das faltas negociadas pelos gestores das escolas como práticas não registradas oficialmente. A partir da análise dos dados da pesquisa como, formação de gestores e professores, número de ausências anual, faltas justificadas, injustificadas e negociadas, motivos das ausências, ações utilizadas para repor as ausências, foram traçados planos estratégicos como criar banco de dados dos professores para acompanhar os números das faltas e seus motivos, dar apoio aos docentes faltosos, discutir em grupo ações possíveis de serem realizadas para tentar resolver os problemas causados pelas ausências, direcionados à SE/JF e às escolas investigadas como sugestões de ações a serem implementadas a fim de amenizar o problema do absenteísmo docente diário nas instituições escolares e os transtornos causados ao trabalho dos gestores. / The teacher absenteeism is a problem that has been growing in Brazilian public schools in recent decades. For being Manager in a public school of the municipal teaching network in the city of Juiz de Fora and tackle the problem of teacher absences daily school was chosen in the research on the topic. The present study aims to analyze the strategies used by school administrators on teacher absenteeism caused by disorders in the city schools of teaching of Juiz de Fora, MG. The analysis was done by means of a case study in four schools of the same region of the municipality, with the goal of developing a proposal for intervention in the schools in order to ease the problem presented with support from the Department of education. For knowledge of the routines of the institutions were presented the operation and organization, as well as, their pedagogical and physical structures.The methodological basis used were quantitative approaches, with data collection and analysis of a questionnaire formulated for ten teachers and four managers of schools and qualitative, conducting an interview with eight teachers, chosen among the most absentees. To support bibliographical and documentary research, were used as theoretical references several authors, among them, Esteve, Amaral, Gasparini, Barreto and assumption, which approached on the subject of this work, the teacher absenteeism in the classrooms and the inconvenience caused by this absence to work managing the day-to-day public schools.The school routine shown in this research brings the teacher absenteeism is partly justified, credited or happens on a medical, but also presents part of negotiated by managers of schools officially unrecorded practices. From the analysis of research data as, formation ofmanagers and teachers, number of annual absences, absences are justified, unjustified and traded, reasons for the absences, actions used to replenish the absences were outlined strategic plans how to create database of teachers to track the numbers of faults and their motives, to support teachers, discuss group absentees possible actions to be carried out to try to solve the problems caused by absences, directed to SE/JF and schools investigated as suggestions for actions to be implemented in order to ease the problem of teacher absenteeism in the school diary and the disorders caused by work of managers.

Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2017-07-03T19:47:56Z No. of bitstreams: 1 ielvabentesgaldino.pdf: 910665 bytes, checksum: 55f07a5a8f20e25bd3b7aa745f020fba (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2017-08-08T13:25:52Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 ielvabentesgaldino.pdf: 910665 bytes, checksum: 55f07a5a8f20e25bd3b7aa745f020fba (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-08-08T13:25:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ielvabentesgaldino.pdf: 910665 bytes, checksum: 55f07a5a8f20e25bd3b7aa745f020fba (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-02-23 / A presente pesquisa, desenvolvida no Mestrado Profissional em Gestão e Avaliação da Educação Pública (PPGP), da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (CAED/UFJF), apresenta o absenteísmo docente decorrente de enfermidades na rede pública do estado do Amazonas. Objetivamos responder à seguinte questão: quais fatores podem estar relacionados ao absenteísmo docente no Estado do Amazonas? Este estudo foi desenvolvido no Colégio Amazonense Dom Pedro II, na Escola Estadual Francisco das Chagas de Souza Albuquerque, e na Escola Estadual Frei Silvio Vagheggi, pertencentes à Coordenadoria Distrital de Educação 01 de Manaus, capital do Amazonas. Utilizamos como metodologia a pesquisa qualitativa, e como método de investigação o estudo de caso. Os instrumentos utilizados foram análise documental, entrevistas com o diretor de departamento da Seduc/AM, gestores escolares e professores. Ao final da pesquisa, concluímos a necessidade de aprofundar os conhecimentos dos gestores sobre a qualidade de vida do trabalho docente, e a necessidade de reorganização da escola para atender os alunos na ausência do professor. Diante do exposto, apresentamos um Plano de Ação Educacional com as seguintes propostas: (i) capacitação continuada para gestores escolares sobre a qualidade de vida do trabalho docente; (ii) ações colaborativas para manter o professor substituto na escola, caso haja continuidade da licença médica do professor efetivo; e (iii) organização da escola para atendimento às turmas na ausência do professor licenciado, caso não haja professor substituto. / This dissertation was developed on the Professional Master in Management and Evaluation of Public Education (PPGP) from the Center for Public Policies and Evaluation of Education from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (CAEd / UFJF), and it presents the teacher absenteeism due to diseases in the public educational system of the state of Amazonas. We aim to answer the following question: what factors may be related to teacher absenteeism in the state of Amazonas? This study was developed at Dom Pedro II Amazonian College, at the Public School Francisco das Chagas de Souza Albuquerque, and at the Public School Silvio Vagheggi, which belong to the Coordination District of Education 01 from Manaus, the Amazonas capital. We used the Qualitative approach and the study case method. The research instruments were documentary analysis, interviews with the director of Seduc/AM, school managers and teachers. At the end of this research, we concluded the need to deepen the managers’ knowledge on the quality of life in teaching work, and the need to reorganize the school to attend the students in the absence of the teacher. Considering this information, we present an Educational Action Plan with the following proposals: (i) continuous training for school managers on quality of life in teaching work; (Ii) collaborative actions to maintain the substitute teacher in the school, if there is continuity of the effective teacher’s medical license; and (iii) school organization for class attendance in the absence of the licensed teacher, if there is no substitute teacher.

This study explores how HIV-positive teachers within a specific social context understand, interpret and act on HIV and Life Skills policy. My aim was to illuminate the experiences of teachers living with AIDS and how their experiences affect the ways in which they understand and act on government policy. As a constructivist, I worked on the premise that people’s experiences can best be understood by interacting with them and listening to them. I chose a narrative research design because it allowed me to explore and understand the perceptions and complexity of my research partners’ experiences, and to faithfully present and represent the stories told by teachers living with AIDS. I used the data collected from the teachers’ stories to write narratives that gave a first person account of the experiences of each teacher. To express my own voice in the text I created a column on the side of each page where I recorded my own experience of the process of the inquiry. I used inductive analysis in order to make sense of the field data. Rather than beginning with a theory, inductive analysis allowed me to expose the dominant and significant themes in the raw data without imposing preconceptions on the data. Three distinct themes emerged from the analysis, and formed my conceptualisation of the experiences of teachers living with AIDS: a) conflict between teacher as role model and ideal citizen, and teacher as an HIV-positive person; b) HIV illness and its impact on the body of the teacher; c) teachers as emotional actors. The main findings from the study suggest that in a context with AIDS there are limits to what education policy can achieve if it remains out of touch with a real world in which school is attended by children and teachers whose bodies are either infected or affected by the HIV virus. This is substantiated by the fact that while the HIV/AIDS policy is about bodies and about emotions, it is blind to the bodies and the emotions of those implementing it. I contend that it is this oversight that creates the wide gap between policy intentions and outcomes. Secondly the study highlights the uniqueness of HIV/AIDS education policy and its implementation which, unlike other education policies, powerfully brings to the fore the emotions of the implementers. I conclude the study by suggesting that the policy-making process be reconstructed to inscribe the real bodies and real emotions of the teachers into the policy, to shift from a purely prevention mode to one that looks at the whole prevention-to-care continuum and acknowledges that a significant majority of school pupils and teachers are infected and affected. / Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2009. / Education Management and Policy Studies / unrestricted

The primary purpose of the study was to investigate the factors that cause most Lesotho secondary schools to perform poorly in the Cambridge Overseas School Certificate examinations. The findings of the study show that the problems that contribute to the ineffectiveness of most secondary schools are multiple and interrelated. These problems can be identified at the macro or policy-making level at the Ministry of Education, and at the micro or the individual school level. At macro level, there appears to be a lack of adequate capacity among the senior management staff to perform the management and governance functions effectively, so that substantive improvement could be realised in the day-to-day operations, and academic results of schools. An upshot of this is that the professional support that the Ministry of Education provides to secondary schools is inadequate. Furthermore, despite the deepening poverty in Lesotho, the state does not provide textbooks to learners in secondary schools. Consequently, many learners do not have all the textbooks, and this affects their learning negatively. At micro level, the problems that contribute to the ineffectiveness of most secondary schools include teacher tardiness, teacher absenteeism and a lack of learner determination. It is contended that these factors indicate that the management of the school principals is weak. Moreover, because of poverty, many parents fail to pay school fees for their children on time. As a result, many learners are frequently sent back home by the principals to fetch money, and this reduces their academic learning time. The study also revealed that prior academic achievement of learners in primary schools is, to a large extent, a major predictor of their achievement in secondary schools. In this regard, the highly effective schools, which have selective admission policies and accept mainly Form A applicants, tend to consistently outperform the average and less effective schools, which have open admission policies. In order to improve the academic performance of secondary schools, it is recommended that the Ministry of Education officials, principals, teachers and learners should work more diligently and refocus their efforts on the core business of schools, namely, teaching and learning. / Teacher Education / D. Ed. (Education Management)

The primary purpose of the study was to investigate the factors that cause most Lesotho secondary schools to perform poorly in the Cambridge Overseas School Certificate examinations. The findings of the study show that the problems that contribute to the ineffectiveness of most secondary schools are multiple and interrelated. These problems can be identified at the macro or policy-making level at the Ministry of Education, and at the micro or the individual school level. At macro level, there appears to be a lack of adequate capacity among the senior management staff to perform the management and governance functions effectively, so that substantive improvement could be realised in the day-to-day operations, and academic results of schools. An upshot of this is that the professional support that the Ministry of Education provides to secondary schools is inadequate. Furthermore, despite the deepening poverty in Lesotho, the state does not provide textbooks to learners in secondary schools. Consequently, many learners do not have all the textbooks, and this affects their learning negatively. At micro level, the problems that contribute to the ineffectiveness of most secondary schools include teacher tardiness, teacher absenteeism and a lack of learner determination. It is contended that these factors indicate that the management of the school principals is weak. Moreover, because of poverty, many parents fail to pay school fees for their children on time. As a result, many learners are frequently sent back home by the principals to fetch money, and this reduces their academic learning time. The study also revealed that prior academic achievement of learners in primary schools is, to a large extent, a major predictor of their achievement in secondary schools. In this regard, the highly effective schools, which have selective admission policies and accept mainly Form A applicants, tend to consistently outperform the average and less effective schools, which have open admission policies. In order to improve the academic performance of secondary schools, it is recommended that the Ministry of Education officials, principals, teachers and learners should work more diligently and refocus their efforts on the core business of schools, namely, teaching and learning. / Teacher Education / D. Ed. (Education Management)