scholarly journals Teachers Who Make a Difference According to Teachers’ Perceptions

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-64
Author(s):  
Abdullah Çetin ◽  
Serkan Ünsal

: This research aimed to explore the characteristics of the teachers who make a difference along with the activities they did, the actions they took and the contributions they made to society. Having a qualitative research design, this research utilized a phenomenological design. The working group of the research consisted of 12 volunteer teachers who completed their master degree at the department of Educational Sciences in Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam University during the 2018-2019 academic year and who had teaching experience. The research employed semi-structured interview form prepared by the researchers. Content analysis was used during data analysis. The teachers making a difference were found to differ from their colleagues with these characteristics such as taking responsibility in the solution of the social problems, producing practical solutions to problems, being open to criticism, having a unique personality. The teachers were determined to make a difference by doing social activities, solving social problems, guiding the society and bringing innovation. Besides, they demonstrated some behaviours like breaking out of the routine and not following the procedures. Various recommendations were provided in order to raise teachers who make a difference. Formal procedures should be reduced and free/democratic environment should be created during in-service training, while teachers should be specifically selected for the profession and faculty members should be role models during pre-service training. The teachers who make a difference contributed to the social integrity, development, meeting the needs of the society, bringing individuals into society and making individuals gain values.

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 1175-1180
Author(s):  
Christine Atieno ◽  
Jane Kathom

Among the Mwimbi linguistic group, expressions exist or are used for a variety of purposes including communication and all are geared towards socialization of societal members so as to enable each fit in their expected caliber. In the social context words and expressions have been used by Mwimbi speakers to explicitly devalue women by normally not saying what they mean. The purpose of this study therefore, is to establish the notions expressed by cultural and social beliefs and practices upon which devaluing of women is based. The objective of this paper is to find out the cultural and social notions and expressions used to devalue women in Kimwimbi Language. Halliday's Social Semiotics Theory was used. A qualitative research design was used. Data was collected in Mwimbi in Ganga Ward Maara sub county, Tharaka Nithi County, Kenya. The population includes all the expressions that contribute to devaluing women in Kimwimbi. Speakers of the language were selected through purposive sampling. Data was collected using focus group discussion guides and a semi structured interview guide. The paper established that the Kimwimbi Language uses expressions that are heavily embedded on cultural and social attitudes to devalue women.


2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Kenneth V. Anthony ◽  
Melissa Baneck

Teachers serve as gatekeepers to the implementation of curriculum in their classroom (Thornton, 2005). Their beliefs about a topic and the wider political environment can influence what they teach. To this end, our goal was to investigate whom preservice teachers identify as heroes and why, which heroes should be included in the curriculum, and how this might influence instruction of the NCSS theme Individual Development and Identity. This study was an exploratory study using the qualitative methods of an open-ended survey and focus group. We were guided by the research question: How do preservice elementary teachers conceptualize heroes? The participants were elementary preservice teachers in their final semester prior to teacher internship. We surveyed participants to determine their perceptions of heroes. We conducted a follow up focus group with five participants. The participants conceptualized heroes as serving a pedagogical function. We learned that these preservice teachers had a balanced concept of heroes and considered heroes valuable to the school curriculum. They saw heroes as role models for students to imitate. Of interest to the study of heroes in the social studies curriculum, these preservice teachers were able to overcome the barrier of the flawed hero. Rather than shifting away from teaching heroes and focusing on heroic actions as Barton and Levstik (2004) recommend, they were able to keep the curricular gate open (Thornton, 2005) to teaching heroes by developing the concept of the gray hero.


Author(s):  
Waldez Cavalcante Bezerra ◽  
Dolores De Fátima Faustino dos Santos ◽  
Stéphany Conceição Correia Alves Guedes Reis

Apesar de a terapia ocupacional social ter surgido no Brasil nos anos de 1970, os maiores investimentos teóricos e metodológicos nos campos do ensino e da pesquisa, em níveis de graduação e pós-graduação, e o seu reconhecimento como subárea de atuação só ocorreram nas duas últimas décadas. Devido a esse processo de consolidação tardio, o presente estudo teve como objetivo analisar a percepção dos docentes acerca da terapia ocupacional social, bem como a sua inserção na matriz curricular do curso em uma universidade pública do Nordeste. Trata-se de uma pesquisa de campo, de caráter qualitativo, na qual participaram 20 docentes respondendo a um roteiro de entrevista semiestruturada. Os dados foram analisados com a técnica de análise de conteúdo, a partir da qual se elaborou as seguintes categorias temáticas: Conhecimentos dos docentes sobre terapia ocupacional social; Entre a afirmação e a negação da especificidade do campo social; e Percepções dos docentes sobre a inserção da área na matriz curricular do curso. As percepções dos docentes sobre a terapia ocupacional social, em geral, foram coerentes com a literatura da área, apesar de apresentar algumas fragilidades, sendo a maior destas a incompreensão sobre a sua especificidade. Os docentes, em sua maioria, percebem a inserção da subárea na matriz curricular do curso de forma positiva, configurando-se como um ganho para todos da universidade e para a própria sociedade. Ressalta-se a necessidade de ampliar as discussões sobre a terapia ocupacional social na realidade local, visando divulgá-la e consolidá-la na formação e no mercado de trabalho. Abstract: Although Social Occupational Therapy emerged in Brazil in the 1970s, the largest theoretical and methodological investments in the fields of education and research, undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and their recognition as a sub-area of action only occurred in the two decades. The objective of the study was to analyze the teachers' perception about Occupational Social Therapy and its inclusion in the curricular matrix of the course at a public university in the Northeast. This is a field research, of qualitative and exploratory nature, in which 20 teachers participated, responding to a semi-structured interview script. The data were analyzed using the content analysis technique, from which the following thematic categories were elaborated: Teachers' knowledge about Occupational Social Therapy; Between affirmation and denial of the specificity of the social field; and teachers' perceptions about the insertion of the area into the curricular matrix of the course. The teachers' perceptions about Occupational Social Therapy, in general, were consistent with the literature of the field, although it presents some fragilities, the greater of these being incomprehension of subarea specificity. Teachers, for the most part, perceive the inclusion of the subarea in the curricular matrix of the course in a positive way, configuring themselves as a gain for all of HEI and for society itself. The need to broaden the discussion on Occupational Social Therapy in the local reality is emphasized, aiming to disseminate it and consolidate it in.Keywords: Occupational Therapy, Teachers, Curriculum.  Resumen: A pesar de que la terapia ocupacional social surgió en Brasil en los años 1970, las mayores inversiones teóricas y metodológicas en los campos de la enseñanza y la investigación, en niveles de graduación y posgrado, y su reconocimiento como subárea de actuación sólo ocurrieron en las dos últimas décadas. Debido a este proceso de consolidación tardía, el presente estudio tuvo como objetivo analizar la percepción de los docentes acerca de la terapia ocupacional social, así como su inserción en el plan de estudios del curso en una universidad pública del Nordeste. Se trata de una investigación de campo, de carácter cualitativo, en la que participaron 20 docentes respondiendo a un cuestionário de entrevista semiestructurada. Los datos fueron analizados con la técnica de análisis de contenido, a partir de la cual se elaboraron las siguientes categorías temáticas: Conocimientos de los docentes sobre terapia ocupacional social; Entre la afirmación y la negación de la especificidad del campo social y Percepciones de los docentes sobre la inserción del área en el plan de estudios del curso. Las percepciones de los docentes sobre la terapia ocupacional social, en general, fueron coherentes con la literatura del área, a pesar de demostrar algunas debilidades, siendo la mayor de ellas la incomprensión sobre su especificidad. Los docentes, en su mayoría, perciben la inserción de la subárea em el plan de estudios del curso de forma positiva, configurándose como una ganancia para todos de la universidad y para la propia sociedad. Se resalta la necesidad de ampliar las discusiones sobre la terapia ocupacional social en la realidad local, con el objetivo de divulgarla y consolidarla en la formación y en el mercado de trabajo.Palabras - claves: Terapia Ocupacional, Docentes, Plan de Estudios.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Szu-Yu Chen ◽  
Natalya A Lindo ◽  
Sarah Blalock ◽  
Dina Yousef ◽  
LaToya Smith ◽  
...  

Children’s relationships with their teachers are a potential resource for enhancing developmental and academic outcomes. The effects of positive or negative teacher–child relationships can be either beneficial or detrimental to students’ academic progress, behaviors, and emotions. In the current study, we utilized a qualitative research design to examine 18 pre-kindergarten to fourth-grade teachers’ perceptions of teacher–child relationships, student behavior, and classroom management. Analysis of in-depth interviews yielded five major themes: (a) beliefs in children, (b) teaching strategies, (c) acknowledging individual differences, (d) challenges, and (e) relationships. Findings of this study have the potential to inform in-service training regarding relationship-building skills and attending to children’s social-emotional development. We discuss the limitations of the study, implications for professional school counselors, and recommendations for future research.


2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 59
Author(s):  
Fatma Mohamed Al Kharusi ◽  
Abdo Mohammed Al-Mekhlafi ◽  
Ali Hussain Al-Bulushi ◽  
Ahmed Yousuf Abdulraheem

<p><em>This study investigated whether EFL Post-Basic education teachers’ perceptions toward teachers’ practice of written corrective feedback (WCF) varied according to three contextual variables gender, teaching experience, and in-service training on WCF. It also attempted to investigate the challenges teachers encounter when providing WCF. The quantitative data was collected from 156 EFL teachers who were teaching Post-Basic education grades (11-12). The participants were randomly selected from three governorates in Oman: Muscat, Al Batinah South, and Sharqia North. The study showed that the only variable that had an effect on teachers’ perceptions was the number of training workshops/courses received on WCF. It also revealed that teachers perceived the challenge of focusing on all types of errors (content, organisation, and language) simultaneously as the most common difficulty they were experiencing. Some suggested recommendations of the study for the Ministry of Education, EFL teachers, and further studies were finally provided.</em><em></em></p>


1964 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 215-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marvin B. Sussman
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2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (97) ◽  
pp. 202-210
Author(s):  
Natalia V. Bushnaya

Social competence of senior school students serves as their integrative characteristic and acts as the result of education. The formation of social competence in senior students is realized in the school educational environment by means of solving social problems of personal, public and life-futurological content. School educational environment incorporates definite zones which act as incentives to motivate and involve students into the activity of formulating and solving social problems.


2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 84-94
Author(s):  
Ade Tuti Turistiati ◽  
Baby Poernomo

This study aims at answering the questions what causes many junior high school students fall into drug abuse, and what kind of treatment  must be done so that students have self-control and are not subject to drug abuse. This study employed a phenomenological approach of a qualitative research design.  In this study a semi-structured interview is used to understand how participants experienced the phenomenon. The research revealed that the interpersonal communication has a major role in students' self-control so as not to fall into drug abuse. This study contributes significantly to educational field particularly teachers in secondary schools so that it can be used as a reference to provide counseling to parents about the importance of interpersonal communication to build students’ self-control to prevent teens from falling into drug abuse.


2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-34
Author(s):  
Mohammed Assiri

Abstract This study aimed to investigate the extent to which school leaders practice the ethics of educational leadership to make decisions. A mixed-methods research design was used in this study. The quantitative data of this study were obtained from the participation of 260 teachers, and the qualitative data of this study were collected from nine school leaders. The questionnaire and the semi-structured interview were used to collect the data. The study was conducted during the school year of 2017-2018. The study found that the overall extent to which school leaders practice the ethics of educational leadership to make decisions was classified as “always occurs". The findings showed that there were statistically significant differences between participants with different gender and school levels on the overall and all dimensions of the extent to which school leaders practice the ethics of educational leadership to make decisions, while there were not statistically significant differences between the groups of the participants with different teaching experience. The qualitative findings provided some common factors that influence school leaders’ practice to making ethical decisions. These factors were explained based on two concepts including management knowledge and leadership skills as well as the context of school's culture.


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