Pseudo-compliance or convergence?

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Gleeson
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Content Knowledge ◽  
Professional Learning ◽  
Research Evidence ◽  
Teaching Approaches ◽  
Pedagogical Content ◽  
Emergent Bilingual ◽  
Subject Specific ◽  
One Year ◽  
Senior Secondary

Abstract This paper reports on a professional learning (PL) project conducted over one year at a senior secondary school in New Zealand. Subject teachers volunteered to work with one another and a facilitator to identify the linguistic demands of their subjects, adapt teaching materials, and try out teaching approaches congruent with research evidence about teaching emergent bilingual (EB) learners. This paper explores cases of subject-specific partnerships and how participants’ responses to the PL appeared to impact their existing pedagogical content knowledge (PCK). The PL sessions were facilitated through audio-recorded Zoom meetings. A thematic analysis was conducted, and the findings were analysed using an adaptation of Davison’s (2006) framework to map how participants engaged with the PL and collaborated with one another on new pedagogies. The study suggests that these teachers accommodated linguistic teaching approaches, but their adaptation to language PCK may have remained at a compliant level.

scholarly journals Conceptualizing content-related PD facilitator expertise

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne Prediger ◽  
Bettina Roesken-Winter ◽  
Rebekka Stahnke ◽  
Birte Pöhler
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Pedagogical Content Knowledge ◽  
Content Knowledge ◽  
Situated Learning ◽  
Mathematics Teaching ◽  
Learning Opportunities ◽  
Preparation Programs ◽  
Pedagogical Content ◽  
Situational Demands ◽  
Classroom Level

AbstractStudies of facilitators of professional development (PD) for mathematics teachers have been increasing in order to improve their preparation for conducting PD. However, specifications of what facilitators should learn often lack a conceptualization that captures facilitators’ expertise for different PD content. In this article, we provide a framework for facilitator expertise that is in line with current conceptualizations but makes explicit the content-related aspects of such expertise. The framework for content-related facilitator expertise combines cognitive and situated perspectives and allows unpacking different components at the PD level and the classroom level. Using two illustrative cases of different PD content (probability education in primary school and language-responsive mathematics teaching in secondary school), we exemplify how the framework can help to analyze facilitators’ practices in content-related ways in a descriptive mode. This analysis reveals valuable insights that support designers of facilitator preparation programs to specify what facilitators should learn in a prescriptive mode. We particularly emphasize the importance of working on content-related aspects, unpacking the PD content goals into the content knowledge and pedagogical content knowledge elements on the classroom level and developing facilitators’ pedagogical content knowledge on the PD level (PCK-PD), which includes curricular knowledge, as well as knowledge about teachers’ typical thinking about a specific PD content. Situated learning opportunities in facilitator preparation programs can support facilitators to activate these knowledge elements for managing typical situational demands in PD.

scholarly journals Exploring Latent Topics and Research Trends in Mathematics Teachers’ Knowledge Using Topic Modeling: A Systematic Review

Mathematics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (22) ◽  
pp. 2956
Author(s):  
Sunghwan Hwang ◽  
Eunhye Cho
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Content Knowledge ◽  
Professional Learning ◽  
Mathematics Teachers ◽  
Topic Modeling ◽  
Research Trends ◽  
Pedagogical Content ◽  
Knowledge For Teaching ◽  
Mining Technique ◽  
Over Time

Mathematics teachers’ knowledge is considered one of the most critical factors in instruction and student achievement. As such, various studies have focused on mathematics teachers’ knowledge. Despite the expansion of the field, however, a systematic review was rarely implemented. Therefore, this study aimed to identify major research topics and trends on mathematics teachers’ knowledge by analyzing abstracts of 3485 scholarly articles published from 1987 to 2021. Using a text-mining technique, 11 underlying topics were found in the articles. The topics were classified based on their relationships and the following four groups were identified: “assessment”, “teachers’ knowledge for teaching”, “students’ knowledge and understanding”, and “teachers’ professional learning”. Over time, the analysis of research trends showed that professional development is the most popular topic, followed by pedagogical content knowledge and students’ mathematical understanding. Moreover, the popularity of these topics has not changed considerably over time. This study provides implications based on these results.

„Studium wolne” a zagadnienie kształcenia nauczycieli szkół średnich na Uniwersytecie Warszawskim w okresie II Rzeczypospolitej

2017 ◽  
Vol 62 (0) ◽  
pp. 86-111
Author(s):  
Kalina Bartnicka
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Content Knowledge ◽  
Master's Degree ◽  
School Teacher ◽  
Teaching Profession ◽  
Master’S Degree ◽  
One Year ◽  
Pedagogical Research ◽  
The University

In 1918, Poland’s education authorities began to build a uniform school system. Improving secondary education and organising teacher education were important tasks. In the 1870s education in Galicia was Polonised (including universities in Cracow and Lviv), and a system of secondary school teacher education was established. Candidates were educated at university philosophical faculties. Qualifications were obtained after passing state examinations in content knowledge and pedagogical knowledge. University studies in the Second Polish Republic were organised according to the principles of “free study”, which educated researchers. A vast majority of students undertook studies to prepare for the teaching profession. The article deals with the adjustment of ministerial regulations and studies at the Faculty of Philosophy (later Faculty of Humanities and Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences) at the University of Warsaw to the needs of vocational education of teachers. Since 1926, future researchers and future teachers were subject to the Master’s degree regulations. The choice of career in teaching or in academia began only after obtaining a Master’s degree. Additionally, teachers needed to acquire theoretical and practical pedagogical qualifications: during a one-year or two-year pedagogical program organised by Bogdan Nawroczyński at the Faculty of Humanities. This period saw the development of pedagogical research and an increased interest in pedagogy.

Lärares teknikdidaktiska kompetens och dess betydelse för elevers teknikintresse

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-57
Author(s):  
Gunilla Mattsson
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Pedagogical Content Knowledge ◽  
Content Knowledge ◽  
Upper Secondary School ◽  
Compulsory School ◽  
Pedagogical Content ◽  
Upper Secondary ◽  
Strongly Connected ◽  
Interest In Technology

In Sweden there is presently a discussion about the benefit of pedagogical content knowledge for teachers in compulsory school. The results of the study indicate that the pupils get an increased interest in technology, which is positively correlated to the didactic competence of the teachers in technology. This competence is strongly connected to the teachers’ formal studies in technology education.Their teaching increased the interest of the pupils in technology and in choosing technology for upper secondary school. The educated teachers also presented teaching much more in accordance with the Swedish curriculum Lpo94 than the non-educated teachers.

scholarly journals Networked Professional Learning Communities as Means to Flemish Secondary School Leaders’ Professional Learning and Well-Being

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 509
Author(s):  
Laurien Coenen ◽  
Wouter Schelfhout ◽  
Annie Hondeghem
Keyword(s):  
Professional Learning Communities ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Learning Communities ◽  
Professional Learning ◽  
Group Dynamics ◽  
Research Evidence ◽  
School Principals ◽  
Secondary School Principals ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Phased Development

Whereas Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) are a frequently applied professional learning tool in education, their use is often limited to an application among (a) teachers and (b) within-schools. This article contributes to the nascent research evidence on PLC usage for principal professional learning. As outcomes align with PLCs’ phased development, this article grasps the learning processes that unfold, the catalyst states that emerge and the overarching role that a process coach can adopt in this collective learning effort. Three distinct PLCs comprising of Flemish secondary school principals were systematically observed over the course of one to two years. In interviews and questionnaires, members (n = 14) reported on their experience with PLC activities, group dynamics and their personal professional well-being. Networked learning proved a worthwhile method as positive outcomes of PLC participation were predominantly found in a perceived augmentation of professional well-being and the acquisition of inspiration and ideas. Actual co-construction among principal participants appeared harder to establish as several organisational, group developmental and leadership prerequisites were found to apply. As this study was based on three in-depth case studies, it remains to be confirmed whether its conclusions apply to all school principals in Flanders and can be generalised to their counterparts internationally.

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