Are Teachers Happy? Illuminating Insights Into Teachers’ Instructional Practices

2021 ◽  
pp. 002205742110164
Author(s):  
Nihal Yurtseven
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Instructional Practices ◽  
Administrative Support ◽  
Educational Setting ◽  
Instructional Goals ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Technological Competencies ◽  
Essential Knowledge

Teachers’ instructional practices are among the most crucial components of a successful educational setting to equip students with essential knowledge and skills apart from increasing the effectiveness of instruction. The purpose of this study is to examine teachers’ views and contentment about their instructional practices regarding the quality of instruction. The study was carried out through basic qualitative research design. Qualitative research is conducted with an aim to uncover facts about individuals’ experiences, perceptions, and perspectives toward a particular phenomenon. The participants of the study were 201 teachers, working in different grades and majors. Of the participants, 58% ( n = 116) were female and 42% ( n = 85) were male. The data collection tools included an electronic opinion form and focus group interview. The collected data were analyzed through content analysis. Findings of the study indicated that professional development activities and innovative implementations made teachers happy regarding their instructional practices. Second, teachers felt unhappy when they disregarded students’ individual differences. Third, teachers’ instructional goals were related to improving their content knowledge and technological competencies. They needed administrative support and time to achieve their instructional goals. In the light of the findings of the study, it is significant that observable and measurable professional development activities should be defined to increase the quality of teaching and student learning, as well as ensuring the implementation of new teaching skills.

scholarly journals STRATEGI PEMERINTAH DAERAH DALAM MENINGKATKAN PENDAPATAN ASLI DAERAH (PAD) MELALUI PENGEMBANGAN POTENSI PARIWISATA KABUPATEN MANGGARAI BARAT

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
Rosmiati Rosmiati ◽  
Trisakti Handayani ◽  
Rohmad Widodo
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Field Development ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Resource Limited ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
Aware Group ◽  
Quality Of Products

ABSTRAKPemerintah Kabupaten Manggarai Barat mempunyai peran penting dalam memajukan daerahnya, salah satunya dengan mengembangkan potensi yang ada. Dengan mengoptimalkan potensi yang ada di Manggarai Barat, khususnya dari sektor pariwisata agar bisa meningkatkan Pendapatan Daerah. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk : (1) Mendeskripsikan upaya pengembangan potensi pariwisata dalam meningkatkan Pendapatan Asli Daerah, (2) Menganalisis kendala yang dihadapi Pemerintah Daerah dalam pengembangan potensi pariwisata, (3) Menjelaskan solusi yang dilakukan Pemerintah Daerah dan mengatasi kendala. Penelitian ini menggunakan teknik penelitian deskriptif kualitatif. Pengumpulan data diperoleh dengan teknik observasi, wawancara dan dokumentasi. Adapun informan yang digali informasinya adalah sekretaris dinas kebudayaandan pariwisata, kepala bidang pengembangan, kepala bidang promosi, pemandu wisata dan pengunjung wisata di Kabupaten Manggarai Barat. Berdasarkan penelitian diperoleh hasil sebagai berikut:(1) Strategi Pemerintah Daerah untuk meningkatkan Pendapatan Asli Daerah melalui pengembangan potensi pariwisata telah dilakukan dan dimasukan dalam Renstra, namun belum begitu maksimal, (2) Kendalanya yaitu: faktor masyarakat, kurangnya kualitas SDM, anggaran dana terbatas, belum optimalnya sarana dan prasarana, kurangnya kerjasama, ketatnya persaingan pasar dan masih belum tersedianya sarana promosi. (3) Solusinya yaitu mengadakan pokdarwis, meningkatkan kualitas SDM, mengoptimalkan pengeluaran maupun pemasukan dana, peningkatan sarana dan prasarana, meningkatkan koordinasi antar dinas, peningkatan kualitas produk, mengoptimalkan sarana promosi.Kata Kunci : Strategi, Pemerintah Daerah, Potensi Pariwisata.ABSTRACTFurthermore, the local government of West Manggarai holds the crucial role indeveloping the region by means of optimizing the existing potentialities. In accordance with the societal perception regarding the condition of eastern regions of Indonesia that are categorized as underdeveloped regions, it is of requirement for local government to alternate such paradigm. It might be by optimizing the potentialities that entail West Manggarai, particularly on tourism sector, in addition to increase the revenue. Therefore this research was intended to: (1) describe the efforts of developing the tourism potentiality in developing the locally-generated revenue in West Manggarai; (2) analyze the barriers faced by the local government in developing the tourism potentiality; (3) formulate the possible solutions for local government to overcome the barriers. Moreover, this research accommodated descriptively qualitative research design in whichthis research was to systematically and conscientiously provide a vision of actual facts and characteristics of particular population. In addition, it aimed to solve the actual issues and collect the data. Furthermore, the data were originally collected from observation, interview, and documentation. In fact, the informants recruited included the secretary of Department of Tourism and Culture, the head of field development tour-guide (1 person), and tourist (1 person) of West Manggarai. Alluding to the research that had been piloted,there were some results as being explicated as follows: (1) the strategies of localgovernment in developing the revenue by means of developing the tourism potentiality had been implemented and inserted into the strategic plan, but they had not been maximally successful yet; (2) the barriers faced in developing the tourism potentiality comprised societal factor, lack of quality regarding human resource, limited budgets, ineffectiveness of supporting facilities, lack of collaboration with private parties, the sharp competition ofmarket, and the unobtainability of tourism promotion facilities, such as websites; and (3) the possible solutions to overcome the barriers were by: establishing aware group of tourism, upgrading the quality of human resource, optimizing the expenditures and revenues, developing the supporting facilities, strengthening the coordination of each department, upgrading the quality of products, and optimizing the promotion facilities.Keywords: The Strategies, Local Government, Tourism Potentiality.

scholarly journals A Critical Study of Class Ten Our English Book

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 90-99
Author(s):  
R.K.P. Shrestha ◽  
Ramnath Khanal
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Learning Outcome ◽  
Critical Study ◽  
Knowledge Transmission ◽  
Important Place ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Communicative Ability ◽  
The Government

A textbook holds an important place in ELT programme, particularly in an EFL setting where most teachers depend totally on the approved books, and don't bother to prepare tailor-made teaching materials. Objectives: The main objective is to critically examine the current English textbook for class ten used by all the government as well as English-medium private schools across Nepal. Methodology: A descriptive qualitative research design was adopted to evaluate the quality of the book on mainly two criteria: what to teach and how to teach, At the same time, many other things have been taken into consideration, for example, what is the quality of the input in the book from the viewpoints of four elements of language and four macro skills as well as their constituent micro skills, what is the learning outcome of the book, and so on. Result: There seems to be serious loopholes in the organization of the presentation and practice materials of the book from both viewpoints: knowledge transmission and communicative ability development. Conclusion: The book needs to be adapted and rewritten.

scholarly journals The Nurses’ Experience during the Caring of Coronavirus (COVID-19) Patients: A Descriptive Qualitative Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Indah Sri Wahyuningsih ◽  
Fitria Endah Janitra ◽  
Rebriarina Hapsari ◽  
Sarinti Sarinti ◽  
Muhammad Mahfud ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Direct Contact ◽  
Infected Patient ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Hospital Environment ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Deep Meaning ◽  
Research Analysis

COVID-19 transmission in the hospital environment can be catalized by a direct contact and droplets. Nurses are at the forefront of having the longest contact with the infected patient during the treatment. This research aims to dig on the deep meaning on the nurses’ practice during treating the COVID-19’s patients. This is a qualitative research design with a descriptive explorative approach. The sampling technique used in this research was a purposive side. The Data collection were carried out on five nurses who were in charge of caring the COVID-19 patients at two Semarang city’s hospitals. The research data were in the form of conversation transcripts which were analyzed using content analysis. This qualitative research analysis brought the results in three themes: first, the challenge of being a COVID-19 nurse in the emergency room, ICU and Covid care room, second, the resilience and resilience of nurses, third, the professionalism of nurses. This study indicate that the experience of nurses caring for COVID-19 patients has many challenges, namely fatigue, discomfort, anxiety, fear of contracting and stress. Anxiety creates psychological problems for nurses, which reduces the quality of service during the pandemic. Resilience and toughness are the main foundations for nurses during the pandemic.There is a need for further research with qualitative methods to look at the factors that impact on successful nursing care in COVID-19 patients during the pandemic.

Meaning and Affecting Factors of Spirituality in Adolescents

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 362-372
Author(s):  
Ebru Kilicarslan Toruner ◽  
Naime Altay ◽  
Ciğdem Ceylan ◽  
Tuba Arpaci ◽  
Ciğdem Sari
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Quality Of Care ◽  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Ethical Principles ◽  
Affecting Factors ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Meaning Category ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
Depth Interviews

Purpose: The aim of this study was to explore the perceptions of adolescents about spirituality via semistructured, in-depth interviews. Method/Design: A qualitative research design using interviews was performed with 17 adolescents in a mostly Muslim region in Turkey. Interviews were conducted via five open-ended questions. Findings: Three main categories and eight themes emerged from the analysis. The “Spirituality Meaning” category included five themes, such as mind, emotions, mind/emotions, ethical principles, and religion. Personal practices and environmental factors as well as mind, emotions, ethical principles, and religion themes were in the “Factors That Increase Spirituality” category. The theme living negativity was in the “Factors That Decrease Spirituality” category. Most of the adolescents (58.8%) stated that the meaning of spirituality was love, respect, and the ability to think, analyze, and synthesize. Conclusion: It is important to determine and evaluate the perceptions and experiences of children about spirituality in different cultures to improve the quality of care.

scholarly journals Nurses’ Experiences of Promoting Healthy Aging in the Municipality: A Qualitative Study

Healthcare ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 131
Author(s):  
Fan Wu ◽  
Eva Drevenhorn ◽  
Gunilla Carlsson
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Older Adults ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Healthy Aging ◽  
Elderly Care ◽  
Team Work ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Qualitative Research Design

The purpose of this study was to describe nurses’ experiences of promoting healthy aging in municipalities. A descriptive qualitative research design based on semi-structured interviews with 13 nurses was employed. The nurses described the importance of giving older adults the possibility to live as individuals, but also that the organization matters as too does the nurses’ own desire to work professionally and with passion. Nurses in the municipality noticed that in today’s world, there is a changing perspective of older adults. They more often want to continue their previous life and care greatly about quality of life and because of this, they also expect more service from their health care. Our study suggests that nurses should be supported to specialize in elderly care and measures should be taken to reduce the gap between vision and reality when it comes to team work.

scholarly journals Complaint Management Analysis variabel anteseden dan Konsekuensi: Studi Eksplorasi

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-249
Author(s):  
Sri Hartini
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Public Health Services ◽  
The Public ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Health Care Institutions ◽  
Complaint Handling ◽  
The Media

Goal of this research is a model of complaint handling strategy on health care institutions for the quality of service. The specific targets to be achieved are: the identification of attributes essential health services, identify performance attributes of health services, idenfifikasi complaint regarding health care received by the public, the media used in the delivery of the complaint and the complaint handling process health-care institutions. Exploratory qualitative research design used with in-dept interview to determine the behavior of the public complaint related to health care institutions and attributes of the expected public health services. To determine the relationship between variables based on qualitative research results in previous studies. model of service quality expected by society and complaint handling are ideal to create excelent service in health care institutions. The result are 4 proposition.     Key words : complain handling,service excellent,layanan kesehatan

scholarly journals Manajemen Program Traveling and Teaching dan Smart Center Komunitas 1000 Guru Malang dalam Peningkatan Mutu Sekolah

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 104
Author(s):  
Asriadi Asriadi ◽  
Ahmad Yusuf Sobri ◽  
Sultoni Sultoni
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Research Design ◽  
School Facilities ◽  
Management Program ◽  
Teaching Program ◽  
Social Event ◽  
Qualitative Research Design

<div align="center"><table width="645" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" width="439"><p><strong>Abstract:</strong> This research described about the management program of traveling and teaching, also the smart center of 1000 Guru Malang community in enhancing the quality of the schools. Traveling and teaching program was a social event in learning aspects that was carrying out the concept of fun learning in primary school and giving donation through traveling and giving, while the smart center was continuity event and or long term program that was focus on giving direct assistance whether physical and non-physical assistance in 12 months. The researcher used qualitative research design by using multi-sites research design. The result of the management programs that was consisting of planning, implementing, and evaluating that was done by the 1000 Guru Malang community showed that the indicators of the achievement school's quality that was consisting of enhancing the society's participation, academical and non-academical achievements, school image in the society, and the quality of school facilities.</p><p><strong>Abstrak:</strong> Penelitian ini mendeskripsikan manajemen program <em>traveling and teaching </em>dan <em>smart center </em>komunitas 1000 Guru Malang dalam peningkatan mutu sekolah. Program <em>traveling and teaching </em>merupakan kegiatan sosial di bidang pendidikan yang mengusung konsep pembelajaran menyenangkan di sekolah dasar dan pembagian donasi yang dikemas melalui penjelajahan sambil berbagi. <em>Smart center </em>merupakan kegiatan lanjutan dan atau program jangka panjang yang fokus pada pemberian bantuan langsung ke sekolah baik secara fisik maupun non fisik dalam jangka waktu 12 bulan. Peneliti menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif dengan jenis rancangan studi multi situs. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa manajemen program yang terdiri dari perencanaan, pelaksanaan, dan evaluasi yang dilaksanakan komunitas 1000 Guru Malang menunjukkan indikator pencapaian mutu sekolah yang meliputi peningkatan partisipasi masyarakat, prestasi akademik dan non akademik, citra sekolah di masyarakat, dan kualitas fasilitas sekolah.</p></td></tr></tbody></table></div>

scholarly journals ENHANCING EFL LEARNERS’ QUALITY OF INTERACTION THROUGH GROUND RULES INCORPORATED IN COLLABORATIVE STRATEGIC READING

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 279
Author(s):  
Fatemeh Khonamri ◽  
Marjan Sangari ◽  
Baqer Yaqubi
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Design ◽  
English Language ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Strategic Reading ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Intermediate Learners ◽  
Collaborative Strategic Reading ◽  
The Impact

The present research tries to investigate the impact of teaching Ground Rules (GRs) on EFL learners’ quality of interaction while they are implementing Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR). To this purpose, five Iranian EFL intermediate learners who were learning English language in an institute in Iran were selected.  In this study, after three sessions of implementing CSR, 5 GRs were explicitly taught to the learners, and learners’ interaction was analyzed for three subsequent sessions to investigate whether teaching GRs has influenced learners’ quality of interaction during the implementation of CSR. The study was done on the platform of adobe-connect. The researcher recorded learners’ interactions during six sessions for further analysis. Qualitative research design was applied in this study to examine the changes in the quality of learners’ interaction. The result of the study indicated that teaching GRs promoted the quality of learners’ interaction during the implementation of CSR.

Language Teachers' Professional Development and New Literacies: An Integrative Review

Aula Abierta ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 603-614
Author(s):  
Dara Tafazoli
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
New Literacies ◽  
Great Majority ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Integrative Review ◽  
Language Pedagogy ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Teachers Professional Development

The aim of this paper is to synthesize the themes and topics addressed language teachers’ new literacies in the published articles between 2010–2020 to understand research and approaches to the new literacies of language teachers. To this end, the researchers applied an integrative review of 29 papers selected from a body of 503 published papers in nine databases. The review showed that most papers related to new literacies in professional development focused on the term digital literacy. Moreover, most of the published papers are from Asia and Europe and were conducted on in-service teachers. A great majority of published papers relied on qualitative research design, and web 2.0 technologies are the dominant technologies in the reviewed studies. My findings potentially pave the way for future researchers to recognize and classify new possible areas of research as regards the use of new literacies as a necessity for language pedagogy.

scholarly journals The Investigation of Teachers’ Metaphoric Perceptions about Professional Development

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 120
Author(s):  
Nihal Yurtseven
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Teaching Process ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Teachers Professional Development ◽  
E Mail

Professional development is an ongoing process in which teachers review their teaching practices and learn how to respond to their students’ needs. To make the professional development process more effective, we need to define the identity of a teacher correctly and clarify the perspective about teachers’ professional development. The purpose of this study is to investigate teachers’ metaphoric perceptions about professional development. The study was carried out through qualitative research design. The data was collected via an electronic form. The participants were 526 teachers that the researcher contacted through e-mail or social media sites. The data was analyzed through content analysis. The findings of the study indicated that the participants often associated the concept of professional development with an object. In addition, they regarded professional development as a growing and developing entity as well as a demanding occupation that involved change. In this respect, it is important that the teachers are provided with the required resources, budget and time to continue their professional development. Moreover, it is crucial that professional development activities are not limited to seminars and teachers are given the initiative to conduct research about their teaching process.

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