Can Teachers’ Self-Reported Efficacy, Concerns, and Attitudes Toward Inclusion Scores Predict Their Actual Inclusive Classroom Practices?

2015 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Umesh Sharma ◽  
Laura Sokal
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Practices ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Classroom Practices ◽  
Inclusive Classrooms ◽  
Attitudes Toward Inclusion ◽  
Inclusive Classroom ◽  
Significant Relationships ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Classroom Behaviour ◽  
Inclusive Teaching

This research was undertaken to determine if significant relationships exist between teachers’ self-reported attitudes, concerns, and efficacy to teach in inclusive classrooms and their actual classroom behaviour in Winnipeg, Canada. Five teachers completed 3 scales measuring their attitudes to inclusion, their level of concerns about teaching in inclusive classrooms, and their level of efficacy for teaching in inclusive classrooms. They were observed using a newly developed scale to measure their inclusive teaching practices. Each teacher was observed from 3 to 5 hours on different occasions. Data were analysed using 1-tailed Spearman correlations. Results indicated that teachers who were highly inclusive in their classroom practices tended to have significantly lower degrees of concerns and positive attitudes to inclusion. Implications of the research for policymakers, future researchers, and teacher educators are discussed.

A Study To Find Out The Classroom Behaviour Of Teacher Educators Of Federal College Of Education

2009 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-62
Author(s):  
Aijaz Ahmed Gujjar ◽  
◽  
Bushra Naoreen Choudhry ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Educators ◽  
College Of Education ◽  
Classroom Behaviour

scholarly journals Teachers’ Attitudes toward Educational Inclusion in Spain: A Systematic Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 58
Author(s):  
Irene Lacruz-Pérez ◽  
Pilar Sanz-Cervera ◽  
Raúl Tárraga-Mínguez
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Complete Analysis ◽  
Attitudes Toward Inclusion ◽  
Special Educational Needs ◽  
Educational Framework ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Teachers Attitudes ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Educational Inclusion

Inclusive education is currently one of the main aspirations of the Spanish educational system and one of the key aspects for its achievement is teachers’ attitudes toward educational inclusion. In recent years, many studies worldwide have analyzed this aspect, but so far, any systematic review has specifically focused on the Spanish educational framework. For this reason, the purpose of this paper is to review the studies published from 2010 to 2019 whose aim was to analyze teachers’ attitudes towards educational inclusion in Spain. After a literature search in four different databases (PsycInfo, ERIC, Dialnet Plus, and Google Scholar), 34 studies were selected and reviewed. The results suggest that Spanish teachers’ attitudes toward educational inclusion are generally positive, although in some cases they are ambiguous. Teachers’ attitudes are mainly influenced by the amount of training and their contact or not with students with special educational needs. The discussion highlights that more studies with a greater methodological diversity are required in order to provide a complete analysis of teachers’ attitudes toward inclusion and that teacher training is one of the best tools to generate positive attitudes.

scholarly journals Implications of Dialogic Teaching: Practices of and Reflections from English Language Teachers

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 375-381
Author(s):  
Dr. Liaqat Iqbal ◽  
Sahibzada Aurangzeb ◽  
Farooq Shah
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Practices ◽  
English Language ◽  
Classroom Practices ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Dialogic Teaching ◽  
Social Entity ◽  
English Language Teachers ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
And Control

Researches often endorse discussion, dialogues, and other learning tasks for the promotion of fluency, critical thinking, reasoning, and ability to evaluate and justifying. Keeping in view the Pakistani context, especially, the local context, it is not clear what type of classroom practices prevail in the region and what reflections teachers have about the use of such practices. Taking Bakhtin's and Vygotsky's ideas of dialogism and learning as a social entity, the present study aimed at knowing the teaching practices of English language teachers from the perspective of dialogic teaching and also at exploring how do teachers reflect on such a teaching approach. For this purpose, English Language Centers of district Mardan were taken as data sources where twenty classrooms were observed for classroom practices and the concerned teachers were interviewed for their reflections. It was found that the teachers use of dialogic teaching having positive and negative impacts. The positive impacts of dialogic teaching include creativity, thinking ability, confidence building, and other social impacts. It has little negative impacts that include challenges for the teachers in terms of behavior problems and control of talks.

scholarly journals A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE OF TEACHING SKILL ACQUISITION IN PRE-SERVICE PHYSICS TEACHER (PsPT) TRAINING PROGRAM IN CHINA AND NIGERIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 356-373
Author(s):  
Blessing F. Komolafe ◽  
Moses O. Ogunniran ◽  
Fen Y. Zhang ◽  
Xu S. Qian
Keyword(s):  
Training Program ◽  
Skill Acquisition ◽  
Teaching Practices ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Teaching Skill ◽  
Mixed Method Research ◽  
Physics Teaching ◽  
Physics Teacher ◽  
Psychomotor Domain

Microteaching practice is an important part of Pre-Service Physics Teacher (PsPT) Training Program adopting different approaches to inspire the acquisition of teaching skills by prospective teachers. Using psychomotor domain aspect of revised Bloom’s taxonomy to explore microteaching practice as it relates to physics teaching, this research examined the significant influences of the two approaches (Nigeria and China) identified on the teaching skill of PsPT and suggests the best ways of improving the teaching skill of PsPT through micro-teaching practices. Data were collected using the mixed-method research design of administering descriptive survey questionnaire on final year PsPT while a structured interview question was used to interview the teachers. It was found that the two approaches had significant influences on the teaching skill acquisition of PsPT through microteaching practices with respect to physics as a subject that requires motor skill, and that this can be improved through micro-teaching by a combination of theory with practice. Also, physics teacher educators need to focus on developing PsPTs’ psychomotor domain in line with time reform in microteaching practices to accommodate more time for PsPTs’ to master the subject concept of physics as a psycho motive subject. Keywords: micro-teaching practices, pre-service physics teacher, teaching skill acquisition, training program.

scholarly journals TEACHERS’ OPINIONS ON THE PROCESS OF (SELF) EDUCATION IN WORLD STUDY IN AN INCLUSIVE CLASSROOM

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 9-22
Author(s):  
Angelija Mačiukaitė ◽  
Irena Balčiūnaitė
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Educational Needs ◽  
Independent Study ◽  
Inclusive Classrooms ◽  
Inclusive Classroom ◽  
Special Educational Needs ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Primary School Teachers ◽  
Teaching Aids

When students with special educational needs (SEN) started to be educated in inclusive classrooms of the mainstream school, some issues concerning the organisation of the process of (self) education in the subject World Study came to the fore. The present research aims at revealing the views of mainstream primary school teachers on the difficulties of preparation for the classes on World Study and the process of organisation of (self) education, when students with SEN are educated in the same classroom. 62 mainstream primary school teachers took part in the research. The survey was conducted on the basis of a special questionnaire. It was established that half of the research participants expressed the opinion that they experience difficulties in preparing for the World Study classes in inclusive classrooms. The difficulties are in adapting the content of education, in the choice of teaching aids and methods, in preparing tasks for independent study. The difficulties caused by the preparation for World Study in inclusive classrooms, in teachers’ opinion, are related more to the education of different ability students, provision of individual support, combining teaching methods, giving attention to the student and stimulation of motivation. It is more difficult to give attention to every student with the greater number of students with SEN. The process of education is also made more difficult due to the fact that students with SEN are seldom active and very rarely can work independently. Key words: primary school teachers, students with special educational needs (SEN), inclusive education, world study.

scholarly journals Good Practice in Inclusive Education: Participatory Reinterpretation of Already Existing Elaborate Classroom Practices Under a UDL Perspective

2021 ◽  
pp. 279-312
Author(s):  
Michelle Proyer ◽  
Gertraud Kremsner ◽  
Gottfried Biewer
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environments ◽  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Teaching Practices ◽  
Classroom Practices ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
School Development ◽  
Educational Practices ◽  
Teachers Perspectives ◽  
Design Of Learning Environments

AbstractThis chapter presents well-established educational practices implemented at a school in Vienna with two decades of experience in school development in the context of inclusion. It elaborates on how these existing teaching practices can be interpreted from a UDL perspective. Furthermore, this chapter aims to underline the importance of engaging with teachers’ perspectives in research efforts regarding the design of learning environments. Findings point to the advantages that the emphasized consideration of localized and societal backgrounds of students could add to the purposeful application of UDL.

scholarly journals From Traditional Practices to Inclusive Teaching Practices

2014 ◽  
Vol 116 ◽  
pp. 3327-3331
Author(s):  
Paula Escobedo ◽  
Mª Auxiliadora Sales ◽  
Joan A. Traver
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Practices ◽  
Traditional Practices ◽  
Inclusive Teaching

Instructional Strategies for the Inclusive Music Classroom

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 61-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice-Ann Darrow ◽  
Mary Adamek
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Learning Styles ◽  
Instructional Strategies ◽  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Teaching Strategies ◽  
Inclusive Classroom ◽  
Teaching Approaches ◽  
Music Classroom ◽  
Inclusive Teaching

While inclusive education is an admirable ideal, it is often difficult to implement. Successful educators have found that employing certain instructional strategies can help meet the needs of students with varying abilities. Inclusive teaching strategies refer to any number of teaching approaches that address the needs of students with a variety of backgrounds, learning styles, and abilities. This article cites various strategies found to be effective in the inclusive classroom. These strategies contribute to the overall learning environment.

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