The aim of this study is to examine the role of teacher as agent for change in the school environment after the provision of in-service teacher training. Ministry of Education provides in-service teacher training in collaboration with the International English Language Education Association (INGED- Turkish acronym- for short) in order to keep English language teachers up to date and adapt to the changing nature of the modern world. To what extent in-service teacher training enables teachers perform as leaders, whether they act as agents for change and more importantly whether teachers contribute to school improvement are the areas that this study conducts a research on. Qualitative research method was employed in this study. Data were collected through interviews in two phases in the city of &Ccedil / anakkale. Phase 1 took place during the Ministry of National Education in-service teacher training seminar, Phase 2 was after six months of the seminar. Sample in the first phase was v made up of 19 course participants, in the second phase the sample contained both 19 course participants and their 38 peers and 10 principals. Findings revealed that some teachers who work in a more democratic school environment were enabled with their change agentry roles as their principals created a flexible institutional culture. However, teachers who work in more rigid and centralized work environment were not given the freedom for applying the ideas that they were encouraged through in-service teacher training. This shows that on the one hand even one shot in-service teacher education contributes to teacher development in building change agents by raising teacher awareness on her subject knowledge and role but on the other hand to practice leadership and change agent role very much depends on the school culture.

The problem of this study is the effect of two training models on personnel who teach moderately and severely retarded children. The subjects of this study were sixty-two staff members who work with the moderately and severely retarded pupils in two large metropolitan school systems. Eighteen teachers, eighteen aides, and twenty-six volunteers participated in the study. Two observation instruments administered by trained observers were used as pre- and post-tests to measure the trainees' competencies in applying operant conditioning techniques in both group and one-to-one instructional situations. The purposes of this study were (1) to compare the effectiveness of an experiential model and a didactic model in preparing personnel to deliver cues and reinforcers when working with moderately and severely retarded children; (2) to compare the costs of equipment and supervisory personnel; and (3) to examine the relationship between the trainees' effectiveness of delivering cues and reinforcers to a group of moderately and severely retarded youngsters and the on-task behavior of those students. This report concludes that the trainees' self-evaluation of the training models indicated that they prefer simulated techniques and feedback, which denotes that the Experiential Model may foster certain kinds of incidental learning such as physical mannerisms and visual cues. The Experiential Model was superior in teaching trainees to cue in a one-to one teaching situation.

M.Cur. / Over the years the field and scope of the Registered Tutor in South Africa has become more comprehensive. The nurse tutor's activities have extended from just the preparation of school leavers who entered professional training to the formal education of nurses at all levels of basic, post-basic and post-graduate nursing programmes and informal education, to highly experienced professional nurses in in-service and informal continuing education programmes. The nurse tutor's educational duties cover both the classroom and the various fields of nursing practice. She is therefore concerned with the educative process at a variety of levels. In the clinical teaching situation she might have to participate in health education activities for patients, clients and relatives and educate future and newly qualified nurse practitioners to fulfil their role as health educators, as well as instructors of students, pupils and assistant nurses. To some extent she also participates in the education of other health service personnel either at formal or at clinical instruction level. Since 1986 the nurse tutor's scope has further extended with the institution of the comprehensive four-year course. Her administrative functions namely planning, organisation, accompaniment and evaluation contributes to her main function teaching. The new course provides for the opportunity to use a variety of teaching methods besides the traditional lecture method. Also, she participates in curriculum building as well as the planning of her own syllabus. She now also has a greater input in the clinical field by guiding the students.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2018-12-11T11:52:24Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Cristina Rocha Matarucco.pdf: 2492721 bytes, checksum: 8add4350d11de174f7b46443644fc60d (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-12-11T11:52:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Cristina Rocha Matarucco.pdf: 2492721 bytes, checksum: 8add4350d11de174f7b46443644fc60d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-10-31 / Centro Universitário de Votuporanga – UNIFEV / Introduction: It is crucial to implement continuous professional development in universities to develop skills and competencies in doctors who are professors taking into account the new curricular guidelines and the increasing opening of new medicines courses. Objective: Analyze the continuous professional development of professors of the medicine course of Centro Universitário de Votuporanga (UNIFEV); identify potentialities and difficulties in the continuous professional development of professors of the medicine course of UNIFEV; verify the applicability of such development in the teaching process and propose improvements in the continuous professional development of professors of the medicine course of UNIFEV. Methodology: Descriptive quantitative research with nine doctors who are professors that participated in the teaching training program of UNIFEV using guiding questions and reports obtained in the focus group. The reports were analyzed by means of the content analysis methodology. Results: Time constraints, the lack of previous scheduling, recognition and motivation, as well as the absence of a minimum require attendance were some of the aspects identified as obstacles for the participation in continuous professional development. The facilitating aspects were: the use of new methodologies, the exchange of experiences, the opportunity and need of learning among others. The applicability was in the field of the different active methodology techniques and of the evaluation of the teaching-learning process. The contributions for the improvement of continuous professional development were related to scheduling and feedback of its applicability. Conclusion: The continuous pedagogical development for professors has contributed to the medicine course. Based on the results, we suggest changing schedules according to doctor’s availability, incorporating hybrid teaching and addressing specific themes according to professors’ needs / Introdução: A necessidade da capacitação docente do médico, associada ao desenvolvimento de habilidades e competências desses profissionais frente às novas diretrizes curriculares e à crescente abertura de novos Cursos de Medicina, tornou imprescindível a implantação da Capacitação Permanente nas Universidades. Objetivo: Analisar o processo de capacitação permanente dos docentes do Curso de Medicina do Centro Universitário de Votuporanga (UNIFEV); identificar potencialidades e dificuldades no processo de capacitação permanente dos docentes do curso de Medicina da UNIFEV; verificar a aplicabilidade na prática docente e propor melhorias na capacitação permanente dos docentes do curso de Medicina da UNIFEV. Método: Pesquisa qualitativa descritiva realizada com nove docentes médicos que participam do programa de capacitação docente da UNIFEV utilizando-se perguntas norteadoras e relatos colhidos através de grupo focal. Os relatos foram analisados pelo método análise de conteúdo. Resultados: Dentre as várias categorias identificadas, a indisponibilidade de tempo, falta de agendamento prévio, ausência de reconhecimento e motivação e falta de cobrança por assiduidade foram alguns dos aspectos apontados como dificultadores da participação nas capacitações. Os aspectos facilitadores foram os seguintes: o uso de novas metodologias, a troca de experiências, oportunidade e necessidade de aprender, dentre outros. A aplicabilidade mostrou-se no domínio das diferentes práticas de metodologias ativas e de avaliação do processo ensino-aprendizagem. As contribuições para o aprimoramento da capacitação foram em relação a agendamentos e devolutiva da sua aplicabilidade. Conclusão: A capacitação pedagógica continuada para os docentes tem contribuído para o curso de medicina. Diante dos resultados, sugere-se que se realizem mudanças na acessibilidade em relação a horários, incorporação da estratégia de ensino híbrido e direcionamento de temas específicos para as necessidades dos docentes

This study re-presents an open-ended process of coming to know through designing, conducting and analysing an action research project with youth and adult education teachers in Khartoum, Sudan. The inquiry responds to the overarching question: What knowledge can I generate about teaching, its development and my researcher practice through collaborative action research with teachers in Sudanese youth and adult education schools? This multifaceted focus encompasses reconnaissance into teaching practices and adult education, the processes of action research and teacher development and reflexive analysis of epistemological positioning and knowledge construction through our collaborative investigation. The action research forms the substantive basis of this thesis, constituting diverse processes of coming to know by the participating teachers and myself. Our interactions as practitioners and researchers interrogated the teachers' contextualised, practical knowledge through academic mechanisms of data collection and analysis. The teachers reflected upon their taken-for-granted understandings of education, their school contexts and their practice, and re-cast them as more complex. Participation in the study resulted in the teachers becoming ‘learners-focused' by developing greater focus on their practice, by being mufetih (observant and analytical), by being close to learners and by increased experimentalism. These dispositions were combined with a shift in the teachers' epistemological positions towards ‘authoritative uncertainty', in which partial, contextualised and contingent knowledge was recognised as legitimate, facilitating re-construction of their knowledge to develop their practice. In this narrative account, the field research is framed by my evolving theoretical understandings which informed the design, analysis and re-presentation of the study. An autobiographical introduction to my experience in Sudan outlines my nascent professional stance towards education development. I then explore my increasingly critical understanding of research on teachers and pedagogy in Africa and discourse on education quality in low-income countries. I discuss the formation of my specific researcher identity through postcolonial theorisation of my ethical stance towards making a difference in the field of practice, namely Sudanese schools. In this thesis, layered re-viewing, which derives from an epistemological stance of the partiality and contingency of knowledge, facilitates re-presentation of moments in which understanding is challenged and re-formed by theorisation and experience. Re-viewing literature and theoretical analyses brings new epistemological, ontological and ethical understandings, as my focus on ‘the practical' in field research has been supplemented in the post-fieldwork period by ‘the practical' in the academy, a contested domain of knowledge production. To conclude this thesis, the position of ‘authoritative uncertainty' is applied in the reflexive deconstruction of the study, as the action research process and outcomes are re-viewed through postcolonial and feminist theories to unpick the situated complexities of cross-cultural practitioner research and its representation. While coming to know is a continuous process, its representation in this thesis reaches an arbitrary conclusion by proposing how coming to know teaching practices, action research processes and reflexive researcher analysis might bring new perspectives to academic and policy initiatives for teacher development.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2018-03-26T12:27:23Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Mauro Esteves Hernandes.pdf: 1344694 bytes, checksum: 2390d3e0a4a9e6e6e99d80cbff005323 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-03-26T12:27:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Mauro Esteves Hernandes.pdf: 1344694 bytes, checksum: 2390d3e0a4a9e6e6e99d80cbff005323 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-02-09 / Introduction: The complexity of becoming a professor at the Medical School has been cause for concern in recent decades among professionals in the field. However, few studies and case reports have been published. Progressively during the physician’s professional career, there is possibility of improving his scientific knowledge in a specific field and at a given moment, he is faced with the possibility of becoming a professor, often without adequate pedagogical knowledge to develop such a function, which consequently impacts the quality of the learning process. Objective: To analyze the transition from community physician to a Medical School professor in a university located at northwest of Sao Paulo, as well as assessing the physician’s perceptions and feelings related to the implementation of the course with active methodologies and whether there is a difference between the curricular units. After approval of the Research Ethics Committee, two different samples of medical professors were obtained from two different curricular units from the medical school: Training of Medical Abilities and Attitudes (THAM) and Tutorial Module (MT). Qualitative data was obtained in two different moments and the groups answered a total of four questions. The analysis of the data content was based on Bardin (2011). Conclusion: The perception of how different these performance spaces are was unanimous. They feel able to the professional activity and unable to teaching. The short time for teaching activity caused fear, anguish, anxiety and insecurity, exacerbated by the lack of preparing for that. The skills and learning acquired during the accomplishment of the Professional Masters in Education made the construction of the pedagogical process easier. The teaching activity impacted the life of the medical professional since the moment that it provoked the reflection and changes of behavior in their professional practice / Introdução: A complexidade de tornar-se médico docente em Curso de Graduação em Medicina tem sido motivo de preocupação nas últimas décadas entre profissionais da área. Entretanto, poucos estudos e alguns relatos de experiência têm sido publicados. No decorrer de sua carreira profissional, o médico progressivamente tem a possibilidade de aprimorar seus conhecimentos científicos na sua área de atuação e em determinado momento, deparar-se com a possibilidade de tornar-se docente, muitas vezes sem condições pedagógicas suficientes para desenvolver tal função e, consequentemente, trazer implicações na qualidade que envolve o processo de ensino aprendizagem. Objetivo: Esta pesquisa visa analisar o processo de transição de médico a docente em um centro universitário do noroeste paulista, bem como analisar as percepções e os sentimentos dos docentes a respeito da implantação do curso com metodologias ativas e se há diferença entre as unidades curriculares. A amostra de conveniência foi constituída por docentes médicos de duas unidades curriculares distintas do curso de Medicina: Treinamento de Habilidades e Atitudes Médicas (THAM) e Módulo Tutorial (MT) após aprovação do Comitê de Ética em Pesquisa. Utilizou-se a técnica de grupos focais em dois momentos para obtenção dos dados qualitativos. Os grupos responderam a quatro perguntas. A análise dos conteúdos dos dados fundamentou-se em Bardin (2011). Conclusão: Foi unânime a percepção do quão distintos são estes espaços de atuação. Sentem-se preparados para a atividade profissional e despreparados para a docência. O tempo reduzido na docência trouxe sentimentos de medo, angústia, ansiedade e insegurança, exacerbados pela falta de preparo para a docência. As capacitações e o aprendizado adquirido durante a realização do Mestrado Profissional em Educação foram facilitadores no processo de construção pedagógica. A docência trouxe impacto na vida do profissional médico a partir do momento que provocou, nestes docentes, reflexão e mudanças de comportamento na sua prática profissional

There were two aims of the study. First one was to validate a truck simulator designed to train truck drivers on economic fuel consumption. Second one was to develop a simulator validation model for instructional simulators. This aim merged as a result of literature review since there is a controversy on the categorization and application of validation approaches. To accomplish two aims, the simulator validation approaches were categorized according to their descriptions in the literature, namely, &ldquo / Behavioral&rdquo / , &ldquo / Face&rdquo / and &ldquo / Instructional&rdquo / validation and combined in the current study. Blending Mixed Methods Research Design and Designed Case Formative Research Design were employed together in order collect data. To validate the simulator and investigate the main characteristics of instructional validation process, 110 truck drivers from a logistics and transportation company participated to the economic fuel consumption training. The data were collected in two parts as during the training and 5 months after the training. Both quantitative and qualitative research approaches were used to collect data. To analyze the qualitative data, open coding analysis method were employed and quantitative data were analyzed using SPSS statistics software. According to the study results, although the Truck Simulator did not represent the real model in 100% percent or had some usability problems, it was valid in overall since it did what it was supposed to do during the training. Also, the results of the study showed that the validation determination should have been done according to the instructional goals / not the reality or usability of it.

The present study aimed to investigate teaching self efficacy beliefs of instructors working at university prep-schools and to examine whether years of teaching experience, English competency, self reported proficiency and graduate department predicted instructors&rsquo / self efficacy beliefs and their efficacy beliefs in student engagement, instructional strategies and classroom management. Two-hundred-fifty-seven prep-school instructors from universities in Ankara participated in the study. The data were collected through Teacher Sense of Efficacy Scale, Self Reported English Proficiency Scale and Language Teaching Methods Scale. Both descriptive and inferential statistics, correlation and hierarchical regression analysis, were utilized by PASW 18. The results of the study indicated that the instructors have quite higher overall self efficacy beliefs. The instructors feel more efficacious in classroom management than using instructional strategies while they feel least efficacious in student engagement. Moreover, instructors&rsquo / overall self efficacy beliefs were significantly predicted by experience, English competency and self reported proficiency. Student engagement efficacy was not predicted by experience while it was significantly predicted by English competency and self reported proficiency. Instructional strategy efficacy beliefs were significantly predicted by experience, English competency and self reported proficiency. Classroom management efficacy was predicted by experience and self reported proficiency while English competency was not a significant predictor. Being a graduate of Faculties of Education was not a significant predictor in any regression models. Lastly, there was a significant relationship between the instructors&rsquo / use of communicative method and their overall self efficacy beliefs and its three sub-scales.

The purpose of this study was to examine topic-specific nature of pedagogical content knowledge (PCK). Two experienced chemistry teachers&rsquo / PCK was examined in electrochemistry and radioactivity. To capture participants&rsquo / PCK, all PCK components were studied. To get deep and rich answers to research questions asked, qualitative methodology was used. Participants were selected through purposeful sampling. Data were gathered through card-sorting activity, Content Representation (CoRe), semi-structured interviews, classroom observations, and field notes. Results revealed that participants had two types of PCK, namely, PCK A for teaching electrochemistry and PCK B for teaching radioactivity. PCK A included content-based and teacher-centered instruction, many links to other topics in chemistry and in physics. The assessment was coherent which included different types of assessment strategies used at the beginning, during, and at the end of teaching. In PCK B, it was less teacher-centered. The link to other topics was limited. Additionally, teachers used fragmented assessment and were less knowledgeable about learners&rsquo / difficulties and misconceptions in radioactivity than they were in electrochemistry. Differences between PCK A and B may be related to nature of the topics. Learners need to have much pre-requisite knowledge both from chemistry and physics to learn electrochemistry. Also, there are more concepts in electrochemistry than there are in radioactivity. It seems that when teachers have to focus on more concepts to teach, they may have a tendency to teach more-teacher centered to save time. Teacher education programs should focus on topic-specific nature of PCK and provide topic-specific training to teachers.

This study examined allied health and nursing career and technical education (CTE) teacher beliefs and attitudes about reading. Since beliefs and attitudes influence the way teachers teach, it is important to understand what those beliefs and attitudes are, especially in relationship to reading in subject matter classrooms. One hundred twelve individuals responded to a written survey concerning their attitudes and beliefs about reading. A four-factor solution was achieved with a principal components factor analysis. A significant number of variables were associated with the factor labeled Reading Apathy, which appears to be indicative of the condition known as aliteracy among faculty who participated in the study. Professional development activities grounded in novice-to-expert theory are suggested as a way of overcoming the phenomenon. Recommendations for future research involve a more detailed study to further characterize the condition of aliteracy and its impact on student learning.