Images of Teaching: Discourses Within Which Pre-service Teachers Construct Their Professional Identity as a Teacher upon Entry to Teacher Education Courses

2016 ◽  
pp. 117-138
Author(s):  
Robyn Brandenburg ◽  
Ann Gervasoni
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Professional Identity ◽  
Teaching Discourses ◽  
Education Courses

scholarly journals Assessing pre-service teachers’ professional identity construction in a three-phase teacher education program in Iran

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fariba Haghighi Irani ◽  
Azizeh Chalak ◽  
Hossein Heidari Tabrizi
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Professional Identity ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Teacher Identity ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Teacher Education Program ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Problem Solving Skills

Abstract The critical role of teachers suggests that assessing teacher identity construction helps teacher educators understand the changes in teachers and design materials in harmony with their needs in teacher education programs. However, only a few studies have focused on assessing pre-service teachers’ identity in the long term in Iran. To address this gap, the contribution of a pre-service teacher education program consisting of three phases, namely engage, study, and activate to the professional identity construction of eight pre-service teachers in an institute in Tehran was assessed. Pre-course and post-course interviews, two reflective essays, ten observation notes, and two teaching performances were gathered over a year and analyzed as guided by grounded theory and discourse analysis. Findings revealed two significant changes in the participants’ identities when they transitioned from engage to study and from study to activate phases that yielded study phase as the peak of the changes. Overall, three major shifts were identified in the participants’ identities: from a commitment to evaluation towards a commitment to modality, from one-dimensional to multi-dimensional perceptions, and from problem analysis to problem-solving skills. Current findings may facilitate teacher identity construction by designing local programs matching the needs of pre-service teachers. It may also assist teacher educators by assessing the quality of teachers’ performance and developing teacher assessment tools.

Sophistication of Taiwan High School Military Training and Education System of Teacher Education Research

2011 ◽  
Vol 393-395 ◽  
pp. 288-291
Author(s):  
Min Chuan Huang ◽  
Chao Yen Wu ◽  
Jang Ruey Tzeng
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Education Research ◽  
Professional Identity ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Military Training ◽  
National Defense ◽  
Training And Education ◽  
Demand And Supply ◽  
Teacher Training Programs ◽  
The Military

This study sought to resolve the current imbalance of demand and supply of the military instructors on the campus in Taiwan. Having witnessed the importance of a sustainable supply of certified military instructors to support the all-people-defense-education, the study first reviewed two versions of teacher training programs carried out by the Ministry of Defense and normative colleges. After exposing the weaknesses of these two versions of selection practice, this study continued with its recommendation. It is hoped that with its suggested concept of building partnership via outsourcing, professional identity of the military instructors can be elevated and ascertained. Specific contributions of this study are: the National Defense Education Division made sophisticated system of teacher education and teacher key capabilities. Project commissioned by the National Defense Education recruitment agency approach teacher education ideas

Overseas: Native Studies at the University of Saskatchewan

1984 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 59-60
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Teacher Education Program ◽  
Department Of Education ◽  
Native Studies ◽  
Aboriginal Students ◽  
Exchange Material ◽  
The University ◽  
Indian Students ◽  
Education Courses

We recently received exchange material from The Saskatchewan Urban Native Teacher Education Program (SUNTEP) at Saskatoon, Canada. A brief description of the program might be of interest to those readers involved in adult and teacher education courses for Aboriginal students.SUNTEP is a four-year off campus Teacher Education Program offered through the Gabriel Dumont Institute of Native Studies and Applied Research in co-operation with the Department of Education and the University of Saskatchewan and Regina. It is an enriched program leading to a B.Ed, degree, designed specifically for Metis and Non-Status Indian students who might not otherwise attend university. The program has a number of unique aspects including -

scholarly journals Reflecting From the Margins of Education Faculties: Refiguring the Humanist, and Finding a Space for Story in History

2010 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Theodore Michael Christou
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
John Dewey ◽  
History Of Education ◽  
Educational History ◽  
Education Teacher ◽  
Educational Foundations ◽  
History Of ◽  
Pre Service Teacher Education ◽  
Pre Service Teacher ◽  
Education Courses

Notwithstanding their traditional characterization as a foundations subject, history of education courses are marginal in pre-service teacher education. This marginalization is framed here in light of a broader concern for the discipline’s turn away from the humanities.  History of education’s fundamental purpose, it is argued, lies in the exploration of what it means to be human, and how education has historically been shaped by our values, authority, contexts, and norms.  Using stories drawn from literature and memoirs in the teaching of educational history is one means of exploring intersections of education with human cultures and societies across historical contexts.  History is etymologically linked with story telling, and both history and literature share narrative features; the two should not be conflated, however, due to distinctive disciplinary features of history, such as the requirement that any claims to truth require what John Dewey referred to as warranted assertability.Keywords: history of education, teacher education,educational foundations, humanities, literature, historical mindedness, John Dewey.

scholarly journals Contribuições de Paulo Freire na Educação do Campo: formação de professores/as e o ensino de Ciências

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Adalberto Penha de Paula ◽  
Roberto Gonçalves Barbosa
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Theoretical Study ◽  
Paulo Freire ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
The People ◽  
Pre Service Teacher Education ◽  
Pre Service Teacher ◽  
Education Courses

This work presents a reflection on the theoretical and methodological thinking of the Brazilian educator Paulo Freire in the field of the Countryside Education and his contributions to the process of training teachers of Natural Sciences. With this objective, the Pre-service teacher education courses of the Countryside Education at the Federal University of Paraná - Coastal Sector was taken as a reference, from which the historical, philosophical, social and practical principles and influences that led to the implantation of courses of this nature at national public universities are presented. Methodologically, it is a theoretical study, but it also has empirical evidence of educational practices already carried out. Among the final reflections, the importance of Freire’s pedagogy stands out as a counter-hegemonic and guiding pedagogy for the education of the people from the rural areas, waters and forests. Keywords: Freirean thinking. Training of countryside teachers.

scholarly journals Beginning Student Teachers’ Professional Identity

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-164
Author(s):  
Gregor STEINBEIß
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Professional Identity ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Teacher Identity ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Ideal Teacher ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Teacher Students

Abstract: This article investigates teachers’ professional identity of beginning first-year students through their beliefs about being a teacher. The presented study focuses on Austrian teacher students’ (N=18) conceptions of becoming a professional; what convictions student teachers reflect on, which professional identity emerges and what synthesis of a professional teacher identity position can be portrayed at the beginning of teacher education. Through inductively driven content analysis all statements (N=401) have been combined, and a unified synthesis of a beginning student teachers’ professional identity was formed. Three main categories were found: the “ideal” teacher, “good” teaching, and the “optimal” working environment. The results showed a highly idealistic view of being a teacher. The majority of statements referred to teaching from a pupil-centered perspective by strongly emphasising personality traits, student-teacher relationships, and teachers’ professional knowledge. Based on the results, the role of professional identity in Austrian’s teacher education is discussed, and further implementations in research are recommended.

scholarly journals Novice Teachers' Thinking Development from Practicum to Early Career

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Trang Hoang
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Professional Identity ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Novice Teachers ◽  
Teaching Effectiveness ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Teaching Performance ◽  
Teaching Methodologies ◽  
Teaching Practicum

<p>Teacher education programmes have focused on training student teachers with knowledge of teaching methodologies and good teaching performance. What is going on inside student teachers’ minds in their processes of learning to teach is more difficult to observe and sometimes overshadowed by this primary focus. This study sets out to gain a deeper understanding of student teachers’ developing cognition while learning to teach.   The existing literature on teachers’ critical thinking, reflection, and cognition provides various frameworks each of which presents different levels or stages of teachers’ development in the respective domains. Each level or stage is characterised by certain concerns, beliefs, skills, discourse, or teaching behaviours. However, underlying processes of change – i.e. how teachers move from lower levels to higher levels of such development, what triggers such movement – and how such movement enhances their teaching effectiveness are under-researched. In addition, those existing frameworks describe major stages of teachers’ development during the whole of their professional journeys. Little research zooms in novice teachers’ thinking development.   This research takes an exploratory approach, without relying on any existing frameworks, to investigating and theorising the unseen thinking development processes of novice teachers during the important transition from teaching practicum to early career teaching. The research included three stages of inquiry in which one stage was developed from the previous stage and its results were constantly compared to those of the previous one. The first stage involved in-depth individual interviews with nine early career teachers. The second stage involved working closely with a cohort of five student teachers during four months of their teaching practicum in the same teacher training program. The third stage involved my following one of the cohort members into the first two years of his teaching through online communication about their experiences and thinking about language teaching in real-life contexts.   The close interaction with the novice teachers incrementally constructed a clearer picture of the complexity and dynamics of their thinking. The stories of the three groups revealed and confirmed a hierarchy of attention to core aspects of effective teaching. However, the movement across the hierarchy was not linear but fluctuating and causing dissonance between their cognition and practice. Moreover, the novice teachers’ thinking development also involved the development of generic thinking skills – from “either-or” thinking to “both-and” thinking, from single-perspective to multi-perspective thinking, and from a focus on the detail to 'big picture' thinking. Thinking development was found to go hand in hand with the development of teaching effectiveness, understanding of teaching methodologies, and awareness of professional identity.  This research proposes a tentative framework of novice teachers’ thinking development from teaching practicum to early career teaching. The framework presents both content and processes of their thinking changes, both internal and external factors influencing their thinking changes, and both teaching-domain-specific and general thinking skills. This framework suggests reconsidering the over-emphasis on surface teaching methodology and teaching performance in teacher education programs and calls for more attention to the thinking, emotions, and self-awareness which strongly influence novice teachers’ teaching performance and professional identity.</p>

Curricular responses to multiculturalism: An overview of teacher education courses in Australia

1993 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 243-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Hickling-Hudson ◽  
Marilyn McMeniman
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Education Courses
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