STUDY ON LATVIAN MATHEMATICS TEACHERS’ ESPOUSED BELIEFS ABOUT TEACHING AND LEARNING AND REPORTED PRACTICES

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 733-759 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aļesja Šapkova
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Teachers ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Beliefs About Teaching ◽  
Espoused Beliefs

Science Teachers’ Beliefs about Teaching and Learning Implementing Inquiery-based Learning - A Case in Qatar Government Primary Schools

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alshaima Saleh Alyafei
Keyword(s):  
Science Teachers ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Traditional Approach ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Years Of Teaching Experience ◽  
Teachers Beliefs ◽  
Beliefs About Teaching ◽  
Voluntary Basis

The current study investigates the beliefs held by science teachers on constructivism and a traditional approach in Qatar government primary schools. More specifically, it aims to investigate the challenges that science teachers experience during inquiry-based learning implementation. A web-based survey was conducted in order to collect data from grades 4 to 6 science teachers. A total of 112 science teachers responded and completed the survey on a voluntary basis. The results indicate that science teachers hold a higher beliefs in constructivism than traditional approach. A T-test and ANOVA analysis have showed that there is no significant differences between the beliefs of science teachers’ and their gender, level of education, and years of teaching experience. In addition, science teachers faced challenges in lesson planning, assessment, and teacher support.

scholarly journals Teaching Mathematics during the COVID-19 Lockdown in a Context of Historical Disadvantage

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 177
Author(s):  
Brantina Chirinda ◽  
Mdutshekelwa Ndlovu ◽  
Erica Spangenberg
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Mathematics Teachers ◽  
Education System ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Education Community ◽  
South African Education

The COVID-19 global pandemic widely affected education across the world and engendered unprecedented scenarios that required expeditious responses. In South Africa, the pandemic came on top of pre-existing inequalities in the education system. Using a qualitative research method of exploratory and descriptive nature, this study engaged a social justice framework to explore the teaching and learning of mathematics during the COVID-19 lockdown in a context of historical disadvantage. A sample of twenty-three Grade 12 mathematics teachers at various public secondary schools in Gauteng, South Africa was used in the study. The teachers were selected through purposive sampling. A Google-generated open-ended questionnaire and follow-up telephonic interviews were used to collect data. Data were analysed thematically in five steps. The findings revealed that the WhatsApp platform is a valuable tool that can support the teaching and learning of mathematics beyond the classroom in the contexts of historical disadvantage. The findings also provided insights into how mathematics teachers became learners themselves during emergency remote teaching (ERT) as they had to adapt to digital teaching, find solutions to unfamiliar problems and acquire knowledge from a larger mathematics education community around the globe. The article discusses these findings and teachers’ challenges of transitioning from traditional face-to-face classrooms to ERT and how they were addressed. At the time of publishing the article, most learners in South Africa had started going to school on a rotational basis. Nonetheless, the study reported in this article is of importance as ERT in the context of historical disadvantage has foregrounded issues of inequality in the South African education system that must be dealt with urgently.

scholarly journals Initial Beliefs of Preservice Chemistry Teachers in Croatia

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-57
Author(s):  
Lana Šojat
Keyword(s):  
Preservice Teachers ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Epistemological Beliefs ◽  
Learning Theories ◽  
Chemistry Teachers ◽  
Teaching Objectives ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
Teachers Beliefs ◽  
Beliefs About Teaching ◽  
Teacher Professional

In the past thirty years, there have been many political changes in Croatia. These changes have had an impact on the education system, as well. The success of such educational changes depends on the teacher. The importance of teachers’ knowledge and their beliefs about teaching and learning for their action in the classroom is well known. Beliefs influence teachers’ representation of science, science knowledge and the organisation of knowledge and information. Keeping teacher professional development in mind, preservice teachers’ beliefs need to be sought out and examined by educators. These beliefs should be developed in the direction of teaching chemistry taking into account recent reforms, as well as teaching and learning theories. Various studies have been undertaken in different education backgrounds and systems regarding the beliefs of both preservice and in-service teachers. These studies show different results depending on the context in which they are undertaken. Transferring data to the Croatian system is therefore difficult. However, there are no studies in Croatia focusing on the teachers’ beliefs regrading teaching and learning chemistry. The present study evaluates the initial beliefs of preservice chemistry teachers in Croatia. The participants were instructed to draw themselves as chemistry teachers in a typical classroom situation in chemistry, and to answer four open questions. Data analysis follows a pattern representing a range between the predominance of more traditional orientations versus more modern teaching orientations, in line with educational theory focusing on: 1) beliefs about classroom organisation, 2) beliefs about teaching objectives, and 3) epistemological beliefs. The data revealed mostly traditional and teacher-centred knowledge among all of the participants. In the present paper, the data will be discussed and the implications for Croatian chemistry teacher training will be established.

scholarly journals The importance and constraints of using mathematics teaching and learning sites from the point of view of mathematics teachers in the middle stage in Riyadh: مدى أهمية ومعوقات استخدام مواقع تعليم وتعلم الرياضيات من وجهة نظر معلمات الرياضيات في المرحلة المتوسطة بمدينة الرياض

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Asma Nasser Al - Saeed - Amal Sulaiman Aldghaim - Samar Fahd
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Teachers ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Intermediate Stage ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Educational Standards ◽  
Middle Stage ◽  
Evaluation Form ◽  
Riyadh City ◽  
Human Sample ◽  
Descriptive Method

The aim of this research is to find out the extent to which the mathematics teachers of the intermediate stage benefit from the teaching and learning sites of mathematics, and to find the most used sites by mathematics teachers, and then study and evaluate these sites in the light of technical and educational standards for educational sites. The researchers used two tools to collect the study information, a questionnaire to identify the extent to which they benefited from the learning and learning sites of mathematics, and an evaluation form to determine the extent to which these sites are subject to technical and educational controls. The researcher applied the research using descriptive method, with the sample of the research divided into two parts: a human sample of (14) teachers of mathematics for the middle stage in Riyadh city, the second was an electronic sample of (5) mathematical sites, the research concluded the importance of these sites for the parameters , And the evaluation form showed the availability of technical and educational standards in these sites. The research recommended the establishment of a database of these educational sites on the Internet, so that teachers can benefit from them, and the need for teachers, especially mathematics teachers, to understand the importance of these sites as an activity that serves the educational content.

scholarly journals FLAWS IN PROOF CONSTRUCTIONS OF POSTGRADUATE MATHEMATICS EDUCATION STUDENT TEACHERS

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 379-396
Author(s):  
Zakaria Ndemo
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Mathematics Teachers ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Mathematical Proof ◽  
Education Student ◽  
Written Responses ◽  
Induction Strategy ◽  
Proof Comprehension ◽  
Analytic Induction

Intending to improve the teaching and learning of the notion of mathematical proof this study seeks to uncover the kinds of flaws in postgraduate mathematics education student teachers. Twenty-three student teachers responded to a proof task involving the concepts of transposition and multiplication of matrices. Analytic induction strategy that drew ideas from the literature on evaluating students’ proof understanding and Yang and Lin’s model of proof comprehension applied to informants’ written responses to detect the kinds of flaws in postgraduates’ proof attempts. The study revealed that the use of empirical verifications was dominant and in situations. Whereby participants attempted to argue using arbitrary mathematical objects, the cases considered did not represent the most general case. Flawed conceptualizations uncovered by this study can contribute to efforts directed towards fostering strong subject content command among school mathematics teachers.

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