The major purpose of this study is to explore the preservice teachers¡¦ teaching beliefs, its influential factors and teacher belief changes after teaching practicum courses and teaching reflection. There are two main purposes of this study: (1)To explore preservice teachers¡¦ teaching beliefs and its influential factors. (2)To explore preservice teachers¡¦ teaching reflection during teaching practicum courses. For achieving the above purposes of the study, it took one semester to collect data and interviews for exploring teaching beliefs, classroom observation, microteaching, field experiences and teaching reflection and analyzing preservice teachers¡¦ teaching beliefs, influential factors and teaching reflection in concept mapping, assignments and interviews. The final provides some suggestions for teaching professional growth and the improvement of teacher education. The results indicated that preservice teacher¡¦s teaching beliefs are through single to diversification and progress substitute for traditions in the varied age. After a series of teaching practicum courses, teaching beliefs cannot practice teaching behavior. There are three main factors: (1)The classroom observation: according to mentor¡¦s pedagogy, it is back to traditional teaching. (2)The external factor: under the pressure of obtaining high degrees, on the basis of the premise that the grade of the student was improved results in a learning instruction style which teachers are active but the students are passive. (3)The internal factor: unfamiliar teaching experience and lack of professional knowledge result in differences between teaching beliefs and teaching behaviors. Reflective behavior of the preservice teacher has three stages: (1)The optimistic teaching beliefs for field experiences: to understand curriculum planning is difficult. (2)Unexpected problems in field experiences: even though preservice teachers understand the problem in confused classroom, they can not improve their teaching behaviors immediately. (3)Face to reality situation of teaching on field experiences: preservice teachers are conscious of curriculum planning imperfect , lack of explanation ability , to ¡§guess¡¨ students¡¦ prior knowledge, lack of the ability of classroom management and professional knowledge for teaching.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2001. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 246-250).

The purpose of this research is to investigate teaching strategies and teaching reflections of an experienced elementary teacher in the mathematical classroom. This study explored the changing process of students¡¦ learning attitudes toward mathematics. This research adopted qualitative research methods as a main means of inquiry and used quantitative questionnaires as a supplement means of inquiry. Researcher had inquired by observations, in-depth interviews, video recordings, document data collections and the pre-post questionnaire survey during one semester. This research used triangulation methods, including methodological triangulation, data triangulation, and investigator triangulation. The research concludes as follows: 1.The experienced teacher delivered the class mainly by lectures and questions, and added other multi-teaching strategies in accordance to the contents of the courses. 2.The experienced teacher has specific steps in mathematical classes: help students calm down

Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Wilmington, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves: 92-96)

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Orientador: Maria Helena Vieira Abrahão / Banca: Denise Bértoli Braga / Banca: Nelson Viana / Banca: Ana Mariza Benedetti / Banca: Douglas Altamiro Consolo / Resumo: Esta investigação enfoca a formação inicial de interagentes em contexto de aprendizagem de português e espanhol in-teletandem, estando inserida no projeto institucional Teletandem Brasil: línguas estrangeiras para todos (UNESP/ FAPESP). Em termos gerais, a aprendizagem in-tandem envolve pares de falantes nativos de diferentes línguas trabalhando, de forma colaborativa, para aprenderem a língua um do outro, sem a presença de um professor, por meio do programa computacional MSN Messenger. Nesse sentido, este estudo tem como participantes uma interagente brasileira, licencianda em Letras por uma universidade pública paulista, uma interagente mexicana, doutoranda em Lingüística Aplicada na Espanha, e uma mediadora, que também é autora desta investigação. Tem como objetivo analisar de que maneira crenças, discursos e reflexões se manifestam e se (re)constroem em relação ao processo de aprender línguas e comunicar-se em um contexto mediado pelo computador. A pesquisa tem base etnográfica e os dados foram coletados por meio de instrumentos compatíveis com tal tipo de pesquisa, tais como interações e mediações gravadas inteletandem ou em chat, autobiografias, entrevistas, questionários e diários de pesquisa, analisados sob uma perspectiva interpretativista. Nesse contexto, o teletandem representa uma possibilidade real de comunicar-se com alguém, aprender sobre sua cultura, os pensamentos e os costumes de um povo, aspectos reais que usualmente não aparecem em livros didáticos. As mediações podem ser caracterizadas como um espaço de aprendizagem e têm potencial para promover oportunidades significativas de reflexão crítica, em busca de uma coerência para a formação inicial de professores inteletandem e conscientização quanto à responsabilidade pela aprendizagem em parceria. Dessa maneira, o diálogo entre crenças, discurso e reflexão profissional... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: and Spanish teaching/learning in teletandem, and is inserted in the institutional project Teletandem Brasil: línguas estrangeiras para todos (UNESP/FAPESP). In general terms, language learning in-tandem involves pairs of native speakers of different languages working collaboratively to learn each other's language, without the presence of a language teacher, mediated by the computer program MSN Messenger. This study has as participants a Brazilian partner, which is a "Letters" student in a public university; a Mexican partner, which is a Ph.D. candidate in Applied Linguistics and lives in Spain; and a mediator, which is also the author of this thesis. The study aims at analyzing the beliefs, the discourse and the reflective processes that are revealed and (re)constructed in relation to communication and language learning processes, mediated by the computer. The research has an ethnographic basis and the data were collected by instruments that are compatible with this kind of investigation, such as the recording of interactions and mediations developed in teletandem and in chat, autobiographies, interviews, questionnaires and research diaries, which were analyzed through an interpretative perspective. In this context, teletandem represents a real possibility for communication and culture learning, real aspects which may not be explored by the textbooks. The mediations can be characterized as learning contexts with the potential to promote meaningful opportunities for critical reflection, searching for coherence in pre-service teacher education and shared learning responsibility. This way, the dialogue among beliefs, discourse and professional reflection is perfectly comprehensible in this research. Finally, by considering the results of this investigation, we can figure out that the project can contribute to the formulation of educational official documents which focus on new... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Doutor

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The thesis discusses about the teacher's concept of teaching at teachers first grade of primary school and the possibilities of its transformation. In the theoretical part was to summarize the findings about which folders contains how the teacher's concept of teaching forms and which factors may cause changes in the teacher's concept of teaching. The aim of the empirical part of this thesis was to find out what the concepts of teaching have selected respondents. A partial aim of this study was to determine how the teacher's concept shaped and which factors affect the possible changes in the teacher's concept of teaching. Keywords: concept of teaching,teacher's concept properties, function of teaching concept, reflection, changes in the teaching concept, teacher, first grade of elementary school

傳統作品導向(product-oriented)英文寫作教學重結果、輕過程，加上傳統學習環境多以教師為中心，重講述、少建構，不僅容易限制寫作內容的創意展現與發展，同時，學生在學習上亦容易處於一個被動獲知的角色。知識翻新理論中的知識建構歷程與想法創化環境，則提供了英文教師與學習者一個另類的教學設計原則以及學習環境感受。因此，研究者希冀能透過知識翻新教學理論之原理原則，設計出一套適用於高中生的英文寫作活動，幫助學生產出想法、發揮創意、提升寫作品質。有鑑於此，本研究旨在探討結合電腦輔助平台（即知識論壇）之知識翻新教學活動對高中生學習環境感知與英文寫作表現之影響。研究方法採個案研究法，研究對象為39名高二文組班學生。 　　本研究除了探討知識翻新活動對學生學習環境感知與英文作文寫作表現的差異情形之外，更進一步探討學生於構思階段寫作想法的轉變歷程以及教師在進行教學時的反思情形。本研究的資料來源包括：（1）知識創新學習環境問卷；（2）英文寫作成品；（3）構思活動記錄；（4）開放式問卷；（5）教師教學反思記錄。上述資料分析採量化的成對樣本t檢定、Pearson相關、描述性統計、獨立樣本t檢定、與單因子變異數等統計分析以及質性的內容分析，藉以瞭解學生對知識翻新創意氛圍的感知情形與英文寫作表現，以及以知識翻新原則導向的想法演變歷程與教學反思情形。 　　研究結果顯示：（1）知識翻新有助於提升學生的創意氛圍感知；（2）知識翻新英文寫作活動能提升學生的寫作的內容與表現能力；（3）以知識翻新理論為基礎所設計的英文寫作構思活動，能促使學生發想與精進寫作的想法；（4）知識翻新原則取向所進行的教師教學反思，能幫助教師改進與調整其教學信念與教學模式。最後，根據研究結果，本研究提出相關討論與建議，以供後續英文寫作教學及研究之參考。 / Traditional product-oriented English Composition pedagogy tends to focus on the writing results but not the writing processes. Accordingly, traditional learning environment also tends to be teacher-centered, emphasizing teacher’s lectures rather than students’ knowledge construction. Such pedagogy and environment not only restrain students’ development of creativities, but also turn students into passive learners. In contrast, the emphasis of a process of knowledge construction and idea development in a knowledge building environment has provided teachers and students an innovative pedagogy and an alternative learning environment. Therefore, the researcher in this study decided to employ the principle-based knowledge building theory to design more suitable English composition activities, in order to help students learn how to generate writing ideas, develop creative writing capacity, and eventually improve the quality of their English composition. As such, the purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of computer-supported knowledge building activities on high school students’ perception of learning environment and English writing performance. To this end, this research employed a case study and the participants were 39 second grade high school students. In addition to understanding how students perceived their learning environment and advance their English composition performance, this study further discussed the process and the transformation of writing ideas in three different stages and the condition of teacher reflection during the teaching. The data of this study mainly came from: (1) a knowledge building environment scale; (2) students’ English composition works; (3) the records produced during three ideas generation stages; and (4) the teacher’s teaching reflection. Quantitative and qualitative measures were applied in this study, and data were analyzed through paired-samples t tests, Pearson's product moment coefficient, descriptive statistics, independent-sample t test, one way ANOVA, and content analysis. The main findings were as follow: (1) knowledge building activities improved students’ perception of learning environment; (2) English composition activities which were based on knowledge building theory were able to advance students’ writing contents and performance; (3) brainstorming activities assisted students in idea generation, idea improvement, and idea synthesis; (4) teaching reflection affected teacher’s teaching beliefs (from cognitivism to constructivism) and teaching models (from teacher-centered to student-centered). Based on the results, some suggestions and implications were discussed.

This master's thesis is to verify the use of methods and techniques of dramatic education in primary subject in the 2nd and 3rd year of elementary school and to find out the possibilities that the dramatic education brings. The thesis is divided into the theoretical and practical part. The theoretical part deals with topics related to the methods and techniques of drama education. In the practical part are described and compared classics hours of primary subject and hours primary subject with using elements of dramatic education. The methods of research are non-direct observation and questionnaire investigations.