In-service training of primary teachers in Africa

1984 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 315
Author(s):  
David Stephens
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shiva Mafakheri

Abstract According to the curricula all over the world symmetry plays an important role in the teaching geometry at primary levels. Geometry is one of topics that have the most problematic content knowledge for the prospective primary teachers. This paper studies the understanding of the symmetry of shapes among pre-service and in-service teachers to find out their visual perception of the geometric shapes symmetry and the symmetry axis. The aim is to create a symmetrical pattern with symmetry axis of the shapes. Evidence that only content-oriented professional development coursework taken by primary school math teachers appears effective, suggests that relatively more resources ought to be put into content focused training for teachers and that changes are warranted at the elementary level and in pedagogical in-service training generally. The primary teacher needs to be able to modify some proposed problems in order to get a richer mathematical activity, being aware of their mathematical benefits. It should be part of growing the capacity of analyzing didactically the mathematics activity.


2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 3696
Author(s):  
Ümit Çelen ◽  
İlker Kösterelioğlu ◽  
Meltem Akın Kösterelioğlu

Teachers participate in-service trainings in order to contribute their vocational development after completing graduate education and appointed as a teacher. The positive attitudes of teachers about participating in-service trainings increase the expectations about the teaching activities in their classrooms. In addition, The participation levels of teachers and the quality of in-service training activities may have a significant role on boosting teacher’s attitudes on attendance to in-service trainings. Based on this principle aim, in this research, the answers to these questions of teachers’ working in pre-primary, primary, secondary and high schools in Amasya, Tokat, Samsun and Çorum cities were sought in this study:  what are the attitudes of the teachers in participating the in-service trainings? Do the attitudes of the teachers differ significantly based on the factors of gender, professional experience, the city where they work, or their branch?  And is there any interconnection between the attitude scores of the teachers participating in the in-service trainings and their ages and years of seniority? 4) What are the expectations of the teachers about improving the effectiveness of the in-service trainings? Since this research tries to define the existing situation, the descriptive survey model was used in this research. N=37.028 teachers are the population of this research. In the research, which used a stratified cluster sampling method, n=961 teachers’ data were collected. The data of the research were collected by using the “Attitude Scale on In-Service Training (ASIST)”, which was in likert-form, and developed by Çelen, Kösterelioğlu and Akın Kösterelioğlu (2016). According to the findings, a statistically significant difference could not be found among the attitude scores of the teachers who work in four different provinces regarding participation in in-service training activities in terms of the gender, marital status and the number of the children they have. In the attitude scores of teachers, a significant difference was seen only in branch variable in favour of pre-primary teachers. Furthermore, whether the subject of the training to be given meets the needs of the education and trainings in the school, whether the in-service trainings address the teachers’ vocational and social interests; and the time they are organised and by whom they are given can be defined factors which can affect the participation levels of teachers and indirectly the attitudes regarding them.   ÖzetÖğretmenler eğitim fakültelerinde hizmet öncesi öğrenimini tamamladıktan ve öğretmen olarak atandıktan sonra mesleki gelişimlerine katkı sağlamak için hizmet içi eğitim programlarına katılırlar. Öğretmenlerin hizmet içi eğitimlere katılmak konusunda olumlu bir tutuma sahip olmaları onların sınıflarındaki öğretim faaliyetlerinden beklenen etkiyi arttırır.  Bunun yanı sıra düzenlenen hizmet içi eğitim etkinliklerinin niteliği ve öğretmenlerin katılım düzeyi, zamanla hizmet içi eğitimlere katılma konusunda tutumlarının gelişmesinde etkili olabilmektedir. Bu nedenle bu araştırmada Amasya, Tokat, Samsun ve Çorum illerinde, okul öncesi, ilkokul, ortaokul ve liselerde görev yapan öğretmenlerin; hizmet içi eğitime katılmaya ilişkin tutumları nasıldır? Hizmet içi eğitime ilişkin tutum puanları, cinsiyet, öğretmenlik hizmet yılı, öğretmenlik yaptığı şehir, branş gibi değişkenler açısından manidar farklılık göstermekte midir? ve hizmet içi eğitimlerin etkililiğinin artmasına ilişkin beklentileri nelerdir? sorularına yanıt aranmıştır. Var olan durumu saptamak amaçlandığından araştırma, tarama modelinde nicel bir araştırmadır. Araştırmanın evreninde N=37.028 öğretmen yer almaktadır. Tabakalı küme örnekleme yöntemiyle seçilen örneklem üzerinde yürütülen araştırmada n=961 öğretmenden veri toplanmıştır. Araştırmada veriler, Çelen, Kösterelioğlu ve Akın Kösterelioğlu (2016) tarafından geliştirilen ölçek ile toplanmıştır. Verilerin analizinden elde edilen sonuçlara göre; öğretmenlerin hizmet içi eğitim programlarına katılma konusunda; Tokat, Çorum, Amasya ve Samsun illerinde görev yapma, cinsiyet, mesleki kıdem, medeni durum ve çocuk sahibi olma değişkenleri açısından anlamlı fark elde edilmemiştir. Öğretmenlerin tutum puanlarında sadece okul öncesi öğretmenler lehine olmak üzere branş değişkeninde manidar fark saptanmıştır. Ayrıca hizmet içi eğitime katılma konusunda eğitimlerin öğretmenlerin ihtiyaçlarına uygun olması, eğitimin ilgilerini çekmesi, eğitimin yapılacağı zamanın uygunluğu ve kim tarafından verilecek olması öğretmenlerin katılım düzeylerini arttıracak ve dolaylı olarak olumlu tutum geliştirmelerine etki edebilecek unsurlar olarak sıralanmaktadır.


2013 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 763-787 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Papageorgiou ◽  
Dimitrios Stamovlasis ◽  
Philip Johnson

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 4917 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seher Bayat ◽  
Melike Nur Kaymak ◽  
Oğuz Balcı

The purpose of this study is to determine the challenges that class teachers face while teaching play and physical activities course. The study is based on the instrumental case study which is one of the qualitative research methods. The work group consists of 12 class teachers who teach at Ordu City center, suburb, and centralized villages. In order to determine the challenges that class teachers face while teaching play and physical activities course, in the study, interview forms, which had been created by researchers, have been employed. During the analysis of the data acquired from the interviews, descriptive analysis method has been used. As a result of the research, it has been determined, according to teachers’ opinions, that pre-service training regarding to Play and Physical activities course that they have taken was inadequate, that they felt need for in-service training regarding to teaching the course, that school equipment and instruments were insufficient, that there were lack of field information and that they have been living challenges caused by curriculum. Additionally, in the study, it has been seen that although teachers think that play and physical activities course is important for physical, social and cognitive development of children, they do not deploy the class hours effectively. ÖzetBu çalışmanın amacı sınıf öğretmenlerinin Oyun ve Fiziki Etkinlikler dersinin öğretiminde karşılaştıkları güçlüklerin belirlenmesidir. Çalışma nitel araştırma yöntemlerinden araçsal durum çalışmasına dayanmaktadır. Çalışma grubunu Ordu İli kent merkezi, kenar mahalle (varoş) ve merkeze bağlı köylerde çalışan 12 sınıf öğretmeni oluşmaktadır. Çalışmada sınıf öğretmenlerinin Oyun ve Fiziki Etkinlikler dersinde yaşadıkları güçlüklerin belirlenmesi için araştırmacılar tarafından geliştirilen öğretmen görüşme formundan yararlanılmıştır. Görüşmeden elde edilen verilerin analizinde betimsel analiz yöntemi kullanılmıştır. Araştırma sonucunda öğretmen görüşlerine göre;  Oyun ve Fiziki Etkinlikler dersine ilişkin aldıkları hizmet öncesi eğitimin yetersiz olduğu, dersin öğretimine ilişkin hizmet içi eğitim ihtiyacı hissettikleri, dersin işlenmesinde okul donanımı, araç-gereç yetersizliği, alan bilgisi eksikliği ve öğretim programından kaynaklanan güçlükler yaşadıkları tespit edilmiştir. Ayrıca araştırmada, öğretmenlerin Oyun ve Fiziki Etkinlikler dersinin çocukların fiziki, sosyal ve bilişsel gelişimi için önemli olduğunu düşünmelerine rağmen ders saatlerini etkin bir şekilde işlemedikleri sonucuna ulaşılmıştır.


Author(s):  
Janet R. Hanson ◽  
Sally Hardman ◽  
Sue Luke ◽  
Bill Lucas

AbstractThis paper explores how primary teachers might be prepared through their pre-service training to feel more confident to include engineering in their teaching. Prompted by concerns about young people’s lack of interest in STEM subjects and careers, engineering is gradually gaining visibility in the primary curriculum in several forms, particularly through integrated STEM programmes. However, the status of engineering relative to science, technology and mathematics remains contested in schools and engineering has low visibility in pre-service preparation programmes for primary teachers. Therefore, this case-study investigated how two strategies might give students learning to be primary technology, computing and science teachers greater confidence to introduce the concept of engineering into their teaching. By reframing engineering as engineering habits of mind and by giving students experience of engaging with practising engineers, the study found that it was possible to enhance primary trainee teachers’ understanding of the world of engineering and increase their confidence to introduce engineering habits of mind in lessons with primary children. The paper concludes with some implications for practice of this approach.


2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Yasin Gokbulut ◽  
Mustafa Sen

This paper aims to reveal primary teachers knowledge of the quadrilaterals about the concept of quadrilaterals by examining the definitions of the quadrilaterals. A total of four primary teachers, 1 female and 3 male teachers, participated in the study which determined by maximum diversity sampling. The data collection tool consisted of four open-ended questionnaires, which were not based on mathematical procedural knowledge of the teachers and aims to reveal the subject matter knowledge of quadrilaterals. The first question is about the definition of the quadrilaterals (square, rectangle, trapezoid, parallelogram, rhombus and deltoid), the second question is the determination of the characteristics of the quadrilaterals, the 3rd question is the comparison of the characteristics of the quadrilaterals and the 4th question is about related to the nomenclature of the quadrilaterals. The data were analyzed by using descriptive analysis method (Zazkis & Leikin, 2008). As a result of analyzes, it was seen that the subject area information of the participants was insufficient. In order to be successful in the teaching of geometry, the in-service training activities should be organized in order to eliminate the deficiencies in the subject matter knowledge and the necessity of reviewing the mathematics courses they took at the university, which can be corrected first, in the context of the content.


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