Worcester, Massachusetts Fall, 2003

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Wendy Luttrell
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
School Culture ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Immigrant Communities ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Communities Of Color

This prelude provides an overview of the author's research conducted at Park Central School in Worcester, Massachusetts. The idea was to give kids cameras to record, represent, and reflect on their everyday lives. The goal was that their photos will serve as a window onto the school culture, and at the same time allow the author and her colleagues to ask other, more complex questions. The author and the principal of PCS, Dr. Galinsky, both agree that there is tremendous value in listening to kids' voices as a way to help educators improve teaching and learning. Thus, the author planned to use the children's photographs and recorded interviews about their images as materials that will engage graduate students and teachers-in-training in assessing their own ways of seeing, and perhaps questioning their own assumptions about children growing up in working-class and immigrant communities of color. A key discovery of this research is the centrality and saliency of how care matters in childhood, in development, and in schooling from kids' own perspectives.

SCHOOL CULTURE: INSTRUMEN UNTUK MEMBENTUK KARAKTER PESERTA DIDIK

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Khozin .
Keyword(s):  
School Culture ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Qualified Teachers ◽  
Life Challenges ◽  
The Development Strategy ◽  
Culture Concept

SCHOOL CULTURE:INSTRUMEN UNTUK MEMBENTUK KARAKTERPESERTA DIDIKOleh :Khozin *)Fakultas Agama Islam UMMABSTRACTThe study described school culture as students’ character shaping instrument. It emphasized on thethree aspects of characters: integrity, discipline, and struggle of life in facing life challenges. Apartfrom teaching and learning process in the class, conducive school culture greatly influencedstudents’ character. Hence, development strategy of school culture also played an important role inencouraging student’s integrity, discipline, and struggle of life. In addition, the study suggestedthree aspects of the development strategy: strong leadership, qualified teachers and staff, andcomprehensive school culture concept as the school’s commitment.Keywords: School culture, instrument,shaping character, students

Tyfu i Fyny/Growing Up interactive bi-lingual resources to support the delivery of sex and relationships education for students aged 5 to 12 years

2015 ◽  
Vol 115 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Training ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Learning Experiences ◽  
Initial Evaluation ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Teachers And Students

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe the development of new interactive, bi-lingual Sex and Relationships Education (SRE) resources called Tyfu i Fyny/Growing Up, suitable for students aged between five and 12 years. It also discusses the evidence used to support the development of the resources, the support provided for teachers and parents and an initial evaluation following their use. Design/methodology/approach – Tyfu i Fyny/Growing Up are interactive bi-lingual (Welsh and English) SRE teaching resources for primary schools suitable for students aged five to 12 years. These resources comprise of two components, an interactive electronic web-based programme and a floor mat illustrating a naked boy and girl. The electronic web-based programme is used to introduce puberty changes, loving relationships, conception, pregnancy and birth and is suitable for students aged nine to 12 years. The floor mat is suitable to be used with students aged between five and 12 years. Teaching activities can include naming body parts, discussing gender differences, personal safety, distinguishing between appropriate and inappropriate touching, discussing puberty changes and other health promotion activities as well as delivering aspects of the National Curriculum for Wales. Findings – The results from the initial evaluation undertaken with year six students and teachers demonstrates how the resources have impacted on the teaching and learning experiences of primary teachers and students. It also demonstrates how the teacher training sessions and using the Tyfu i Fyny/Growing Up resources have increased teachers’ confidence in delivering SRE. Practical implications – The learning experiences of students and their enjoyment of using the Tyfu i Fyny/Growing Up resources were significantly high. The implementation of teacher training improved teaching practice and increased teachers’ confidence in the subject. The resources have facilitated the delivery of effective whole school comprehensive SRE programmes for primary schools. These factors confirm the value of the investment given to their development. The resources could easily be customised in line with diverse ethnic, cultural, linguistic and religious requirements. Originality/value – This paper demonstrates how the Tyfu i Fyny/Growing Up interactive SRE resources have influenced the teaching and learning experiences of primary school teachers and students.

scholarly journals Using Youtube in Colleges of Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-24
Author(s):  
A Srinivasacharlu
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Colleges Of Education ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Learning Tool ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Teacher Trainees ◽  
Present Generation ◽  
Digital Entertainment

Present generation learners are growing up with digitalization. Educators are increasingly understanding and adapting new methods of teaching laced with digitalization. YouTube, an important off shoot of digitalization, is leading the charge as the most multipurpose medium for content transactions in the classroom and outside the classroom. It not only provides digital entertainment but also provides a great environment for learning. YouTube has multiple  advantages for teacher educators and teacher trainees. Teacher educators and teacher trainees search YouTube for any information or clarification on a topic. Using YouTube in the classroom can bring efficiency in teaching and learning. Considering its endless services, there is no surprise that Youtube has been ranked the highest as a preferred learning tool. The teacher educators and teacher trainees can follow the prescribed procedures for creating and uploading effective videos on YouTube. Teacher educators can use YouTube in their class with all precautions and well planning.

Teaching Politics: Graduate Students as Tutors

Politics ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 207-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Hayton
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Teaching Assistants ◽  
Graduate Teaching Assistants ◽  
Training And Development ◽  
Graduate Teaching ◽  
Approach To Teaching ◽  
The Way

Seminars form a key part of undergraduate politics teaching in Britain, and Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) are often at the forefront of this delivery. This article explores the attitudes and understandings of GTAs towards teaching and learning in the Department of Politics at Sheffield. Interviews were conducted with 16 GTAs, covering not only their approach to teaching and learning, but how this manifested itself, for example in the way they organise their seminars. Related issues such as the training and development of GTAs were also discussed. Based on these findings, some initial recommendations for training and mentoring of GTAs are offered in the conclusion.

Labour Woman and the Housewife

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Hunt
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Labour Party ◽  
Food Prices ◽  
Domestic Life ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Way

The chapter discusses how Labour Party women engaged with the newly-enfranchised housewife between the wars. It focuses on how Labour Woman represented the working-class housewife and the degree to which it enabled her to speak for herself. It chose everyday domestic life, traditionally assumed to be beyond politics, as the way to connect with unorganised women in their homes. In its Housewife Column the relevance of politics to women’s daily lives was explored through domestic topics such food prices, housework, washing and making clothes. Even with the increasing dominance of recipes and dress patterns in the 1930s, the journal continued to see the housewife as having agency and a distinct experience shaped by class. For Labour Woman interwar domesticity was neither cosy nor rationalised and modern, it was a space which provided the means to engage with the everyday lives of ordinary women.

scholarly journals Teaching and Learning Research Literacies in Graduate Adult Education: Appreciative Inquiry into Practitioners' Ways of Writing

2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorothy A. Lander
Keyword(s):  
Adult Education ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Participatory Research ◽  
Appreciative Inquiry ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Graduate Program ◽  
Policy Statement ◽  
Research Activity ◽  
Teaching And Learning Research ◽  
Learning Research

Graduate students in Canadian universities who conduct research with human subjects as part of the requirements for their degree must submit a research proposal to the University Research Ethics Board and receive approval on the basis of compliance with the Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans (1998). This reflexive account of teaching and learning research literacies is based on a participatory research activity that the author has used during graduate students' introduction to a research-based, self-directed graduate program in adult education delivered at a distance. For the purposes of this paper, "research literacies" refers to any research practices that culminate in the writing of a research thesis, taking into account the procedures for compliance with the Tri-Council Policy. The focus of the reflexive account is an experiential classroom innovation with multiple cohorts of graduate students (8-12 students each) in which the faculty advisor as the principal investigator involves the graduate students as research participants in appreciative inquiry into practitioners' ways of writing. This participatory research into practitioner and researcher literacies offers some implications for teaching and learning the ethics of representation throughout the research process up to and including publication.

Reshaping School Mathematics in Australia 1788–1988

1988 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 387-405 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. F. Ellerton ◽  
M. A. Clements
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Mathematics Educators

An examination of nineteenth and early twentieth century events reveals the origins of the following three traditions of school mathematics in Australia: 1. Many groups in society will not benefit from having access to any branch of mathematics other than elementary arithmetic. Such groups include females, working-class children, and Aboriginal and other children whose cultures differ from the dominant Anglo-Saxon culture. 2. The main purpose of school mathematics is to prepare students for tertiary courses. 3. Rote teaching and learning procedures associated with rigidly defined courses of study, prescribed text books, and written examinations are desirable. Over the last 25 years the validity of these traditions has been questioned. This paper argues that the heavy dependence on overseas ideas, and the acceptance of tertiary mathematicians' views on school mathematics, which characterised earlier times, have diminished because of the greater involvement of school teachers, and tertiary and government mathematics educators, in discussions on school mathematics.

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