A study of pre-service classroom teachers' beliefs about teachers' and students' roles

2017 ◽  
Vol 48 (6) ◽  
pp. 830-848 ◽  
Author(s):  
Davut Köğce
Keyword(s):  
Classroom Teachers ◽  
Teachers Beliefs ◽  
Teachers And Students

scholarly journals Teachers’ Beliefs, Praxes, and Post-method Pedagogy in English Language Teaching

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-102
Author(s):  
Remedios C Bacus
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Belief Systems ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Language Classes ◽  
Teachers Beliefs ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Quantitative Design ◽  
Language Teaching Methods ◽  
Personal Assessment

To address the challenge of identifying an effective English language teaching pedagogy, this study explored the Grade 10 teachers (n=50) and students’ (n=2,221) beliefs of effective language teaching methods and the teachers’ classroom practices. It further investigated the convergence and divergence of the teachers’ and students’ beliefs and the teachers’ practices along with the pedagogic parameters of practicality and particularity. Using the descriptive quantitative design, the findings revealed the convergence of responses between (a) teachers’ and students’ beliefs of effective language methods, and (b) teachers’ beliefs and their practices. Analysis of responses also revealed the pedagogic parameters of practicality and particularity in the conduct of their English language classes. Teachers continually engage in the cycle of personal assessment to increase their autonomy in formulating enlightened choices responsive to the students’ needs. It is imperative that English teachers be engaged in programs that support their awareness of local exigencies to strengthen their belief systems on post-method pedagogy.

Technology

2013 ◽  
pp. 135-149
Author(s):  
Rita Gravina ◽  
Helena Pereira-Raso
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Classroom Teachers ◽  
Teaching And Learning Strategies ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Social Networking Tools

Collaboration is an important aspect of how our world functions today and an element at the core of rich learning opportunities. The role of educational institutions is one that provides provoking settings so that learning is deep and sustained well beyond the classroom walls. Learners are currently in a paradigm where they are able to learn at all hours of the day; they are no longer in a framework where learning is exclusive to a classroom. Teachers and students at The Bishop Strachan School are exploring this through the various uses of teaching and learning strategies and enriching these strategies with Web 2.0 applications. This chapter will present early explorations in the school with Wiki pages, social networking tools, such as NINGs, interactive timelines, and real-time applications, such as Google apps. Each of the cases provides an authentic learning experience for students and moves the student’s work out into the world.

Monitoring Programmed Inservice Preparation of Teachers for Rural Gifted Students

1981 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 270-277
Author(s):  
Smith Goodrum ◽  
Vicki Irons
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Gifted Education ◽  
Teaching Styles ◽  
Gifted Students ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Classroom Teachers ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Exceptional Children ◽  
Title Iv ◽  
Teachers And Students

North Carolina legislation mandating services for the gifted as exceptional children has heightened the need for inservice preparation of regular classroom teachers. Inservice preparation for rural school teachers is complicated by a scarcity of resource personnel and a lack of continuity and reinforcement of inservice activities. E.S.E.A. Title IV-C Project G.A.I.T. (Gifted Are Important Too) has demonstrated a program design for rural schools which includes a pre- and postassessment of teaching styles with the CAQ (Class Activities Questionnaire), program instruction of both teachers and students in the use of Bloom's Taxonomy with S.O.A.R. (Stages for Opportunities to Academic Realization), and reinforced monthly by teacher demonstrations of related learning activities. The active participation of the teachers in the inservice activity seemed to enhance their effectiveness as resource personnel for gifted education in their respective schools.

Generating patterns from transformations

1977 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 191-195
Author(s):  
Martin L. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Classroom Teachers ◽  
Curriculum Guides ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Elementary Textbooks ◽  
Transformational Geometry

Many current elementary textbooks and curriculum guides are placing increasing emphasis on the teaching of transformational geometry. This topic, however, is still relatively unfamiliar to many classroom teachers, and ways of helping teachers and students acquire a “feel” for simple, basic transformations are needed.

English as a foreign language in Azerbaijan: English teaching in the post-Soviet era

English Today ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulker Shafiyeva ◽  
Sara Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Communicative Language Teaching ◽  
Teaching Methodology ◽  
Rigorous Approach ◽  
Linguistic System ◽  
Teachers Beliefs ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Traditional Language

During the Soviet era, language teaching methodology in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was premised on promoting a deep knowledge of a language's grammar and vocabulary. To this end, the selection of texts was centrally mandated, and teaching techniques and activities were carefully controlled and monitored. This rigorous approach to language teaching had both benefits and drawbacks for teachers and students. In response to the drawbacks of traditional Soviet methodology, some teachers and teacher trainers in former Soviet republics are currently promoting communicative language teaching, also known as the communicative approach. Communicative language teaching, as opposed to more traditional Soviet teaching methodology, emphasizes learning to use language to communicate rather than learning language solely as a linguistic system. However, the implementation of communicative language teaching has been problematic, for reasons ranging from government policies to teachers' beliefs and training to students' expectations. The purpose of this article is twofold. We first describe important characteristics of traditional Soviet language teaching methodology and the consequences of that methodology for language learning. Then, we explore the challenges of transforming traditional language teaching methodology (for the teaching of English as a foreign language, in particular) in post-Soviet republics, using Azerbaijan as a specific example.

Artificial Tutoring Systems: What Computers Can and Can't Know

1997 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theodore W. Frick
Keyword(s):  
Intelligent Tutoring Systems ◽  
Clinical Evidence ◽  
Intelligent Tutoring ◽  
Computer Systems ◽  
Classroom Teachers ◽  
Language Understanding ◽  
Tutoring Systems ◽  
Natural Systems ◽  
Teachers And Students

After more than four decades, development of artificially intelligent tutoring systems has been constrained by two interrelated problems: knowledge representation and natural language understanding. G. S. Maccia's epistemology of intelligent natural systems implies that computer systems will need to develop qualitative intelligence before these problems can be solved. Recent research on how human nervous systems develop provides evidence for the significance of qualitative intelligence. Qualitative intelligence is required for understanding of culturally bound meanings of signs used in communication among intelligent natural systems. S. I. Greenspan provides neurological and clinical evidence that emotion and sensation are vital to the growth of mind—capabilities that computer systems do not currently possess. Therefore, we must view computers in education as media through which a multitude of teachers can convey their messages. This does not mean that the role of classroom teachers is diminished. Teachers and students can be empowered by these additional learning resources.

scholarly journals THE TEACHERS’ AND STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION ON ENGLISH TEXTBOOK “WHEN ENGLISH RINGS THE BELL”

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Syifa Dwi Mutiah ◽  
Albiansyah
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Current Level ◽  
English Teacher ◽  
Research Needs ◽  
Teachers Beliefs ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Book Evaluation

Abstract The purpose of this study is to compare the student's and teacher’s perceptions about their current English textbook they used. This study categorized as a descriptive qualitative study. The population of VIII grade students (45 students) of junior high school was involved in this study and an English teacher of them too. The questionnaire and semi-structured interview were used as the instrument of this research. Besides, the guideline of the interview and questionnaire was from [1]Cunningsworth's (1995) theory which is explained about the book evaluation. The data were analyzed through Google form percentage presentation for the questionnaire while transcription, coding was used for the interview section. The result showed, 75% of students believed that the book they used has good quality. While the rest 25% felt it did not fulfill their expectation and need. Besides, the teachers’ perception supports it with some of the books’ part lacks organization and employed too many vocabularies. Whereas the students felt their current level was not suitable with the teachers’ beliefs, but the teacher believed that it was appropriate with the students’ level. So, there were few different perceptions between them.  However, the teacher believed that her role in helping students with textbook usage could help the main point of students’ need due to the teacher has lack of knowledge and awareness to do coursebook evaluation. Therefore, further research needs to be done to make this study more comprehensive.    

scholarly journals Explorations of Beliefs about EFL Teachers’ Roles from Both Teachers’ and Students’ Perspectives through Metaphor Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (29) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharihan Shawkat Azeez
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Teachers ◽  
Sentence Completion ◽  
Teachers Perceptions ◽  
Teachers Experiences ◽  
Teachers Beliefs ◽  
Efl Teachers ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
The University

Metaphor acts as a window into comprehending teachers’ experiences through providing insights into complex concepts of teaching and learning. As a result, it plays a crucial role in exploring beliefs about teachers’ roles in the teaching and learning process. To elicit ideas and beliefs which both teachers and students held about the role of English teachers, questionnaires were given to 30 teachers and 85 students in the University of Duhok, English Department. The questionnaire asked the subjects to provide their beliefs about English teachers’ roles by using a sentence completion task “An English teacher is…. because….”. Eight conceptual categories are introduced from the linguistic metaphors and example metaphors for each category are given in the results tables. The eight conceptual categories include: teacher as devotee, teacher as nurturer, teachers as provider / source of knowledge, teacher as cultural transmitter, teacher as authority, teacher as guider, teacher as a friend, and teacher as a nice beautiful soul. All participants expressed the same conceptual categories, but still they use different metaphors to express their views. An interesting feature of these results is that there are some parallel and overlaps of metaphors among different subjects. The findings of this study suggested subtle differences between students’ and teachers’ beliefs. This study will benefit teachers, curriculum designers, and researchers. Researchers may carry out comprehensive studies using metaphor as an investigating tool to better understand both students and teachers’ perceptions of the teachers’ roles. The results will help develop comprehensive and inclusive methods of teaching. Larger samples with variables such as gender, age, different locations, and proficiency of participants should be taken into consideration during future studies.

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