scholarly journals Secondary School Science Teachers’ Views about Their Reflective Practices

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdulwali H. Aldahmash ◽  
Saeed M. Alshmrani ◽  
Abdo N. Almufti
Keyword(s):  
Science Teachers ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
School Science ◽  
Teaching Profession ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Reflective Practices ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
High Level ◽  
Almost All

AbstractThe importance of reflection in teaching and learning lies in encouraging one to view problems from different perspectives. Reflective practice can be useful in designing teacher education and sustainable professional development. Conscious reflection is an important element for helping teachers and learners in problem-solving and decision-making processes and fostering their critical-thinking abilities. The aim of the present research was to investigate teachers’ views about the nature of their experiences with reflective practices and reflective teaching. A survey consisted of three dimensions used to collect the data. It was distributed to 458 (237 male and 221 female) science teachers working at high schools in Saudi Arabia. The results have indicated that teacher practices of almost all reflective activities included in the three dimensions “the extent of practicing reflection”, “areas of practicing reflection”, and “ways of practicing reflection” are at “high” level from their point of view. The results have also shown that there are no significant differences in the teachers’ views about their practices of reflective activities related to their gender, or experiences in the teaching profession.

scholarly journals Ngāti Whakaue Iho Ake – An Iwi Science Education Exploration

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Hiria Stacey McRae
Keyword(s):  
Science Education ◽  
Student Engagement ◽  
Learning Styles ◽  
Science Teachers ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Local Environment ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
School Science ◽  
Secondary Science ◽  
Tribal Community

<p>This thesis aims to provide a pathway to improve Māori student engagement with science education. Internationally, some indigenous communities have worked with schools in the delivery of science programmes, resulting in positive indigenous student engagement. These outcomes show that together indigenous students, schools and indigenous communities can contribute to the development of their particular place when science programmes allow the exploration of self, relating to others, the local environment and the wider world. This thesis investigates the perceptions of Māori students, teachers and kaumātua of science education in the Māori tribal community of Ngāti Whakaue to identify how Ngāti Whakaue is recognised in school science programmes. Individual and focus group interviews were conducted with local Māori elders, Māori secondary science students, and secondary science teachers from six English and Māori medium secondary schools in Rotorua. Data analyses revealed that participant perceptions and experiences of place, science and the Māori culture were disconnected from Ngāti Whakaue, despite its rich potential as a setting for science education. Participants held diverse perceptions and views within and between groups, including student and teacher understandings of Māori culture, attitudes regarding the place of Māori culture and knowledge in science education, and preferences regarding teaching and learning styles. Findings are examined as to how schools and Ngāti Whakaue could work together to better support positive Māori student engagement with science education and suggestions are made about how these relationships could be improved.</p>

Professional Development Needs and Priorities of La Salle University (LSU) Faculty

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Flordelis J. Ejercito
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Classroom Management ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Teaching Profession ◽  
College Faculty ◽  
Service Needs ◽  
Professional Development Needs ◽  
Almost All ◽  
La Salle University

The quality of instruction depends on a large extent of the capability, the strength, and the excellence of the faculty. For the faculty to perform their roles and fulfill their responsibilities, Colleges must first show that they understand what the faculty needs and values most. The purpose of this descriptive study was to determine the professional development needs and priorities pertaining to teaching and learning of the college faculty (n=71) of La Salle University to guide the administrators and faculty in crafting enrichment activities. Sixty-three percent of the 113 teachers completed a survey instrument. Calculated means and frequency-percentage distribution describes the prioritization of in-service needs while weighted means determine the performance of the college faculty as appraised by the students. The results of this study showed one-thirds of the teacher-respondents as new to the teaching profession while 69% have more than three years of teaching experience. The study concludes that the colleges vary in their needs for professional development. However, there are areas common to almost all colleges. Their top priority need for classroom management is ending the class on time. For the evaluating students’ learning, the top priority is mastery of the subject matter. For evaluating students’ learning, the priority is constructing questions that cover topic discussed.  Keywords – Management, professional development needs and priorities, teaching profession, teaching experience, enrichment, descriptive design, Philippines

OUTLIERS OF ACTION RESEARCH – THE IDENTITY CONSTRUCT OF FUTURE TEACHERS

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 290
Author(s):  
Jiří Kropáč ◽  
Štefan Chudý
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Teaching Profession ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Future Teachers ◽  
Educational Preparation ◽  
University Environment ◽  
The University

Queries, activities and those sufficient solutions of teaching and learning situations are daily bread of the teaching profession. Thus, in learning of future teachers exist possibilities how to influence the progress of the teachers’ identity construction with self-creative and critical tools which are connected to the complexity of the personality. However, action research helps to deeply understand techniques which are behind the line of the traditional point of view and helps to understand the situations from the pragmatic way of natural learning in the process of preparation at the university. The research aim is focused on the support of integration of the action research as a tool for the teachers’ preparation in the good practice of the university environment. Mixed research methods are based on the narrative corpus which consists of the coded interviews and specific tasks connected to the educational preparation. Results reflect the current various ways of developing future teachers and their impact on future teachers‘ identities.  

scholarly journals CHALLENGE LEARNING FOR TEACHERS IN RURAL GWERU ZIMBABWE

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 295
Author(s):  
Gladwin Bhebhe ◽  
Matiya Mugurani
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Science Teachers ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
School Science ◽  
Direct Impact ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Secondary School Science ◽  
Attitudes Towards Science ◽  
Home Background

The study established that rural day secondary school science teachers face a number of challenges, including inadequate teaching and learning materials, students’ negative attitudes towards science, conflicts between students’ home background and school science, and absence of science teachers’ associations. These challenges could have a direct impact on the teaching and learning of science in rural day secondary schools. The opening of rural day secondary schools in Zimbabwe was a great challenge in terms of providing science education to all students because the newly opened secondary schools did not have conventional laboratories and equipment that would facilitate the teaching and learning of science. This study sought to find out the challenges faced by rural day secondary school science teachers in Gweru district of Zimbabwe and propose a way forward. Questionnaires, interviews and observations were used to collect data pertaining to the challenges that were faced by the teachers.

scholarly journals Ngāti Whakaue Iho Ake – An Iwi Science Education Exploration

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Hiria Stacey McRae
Keyword(s):  
Science Education ◽  
Student Engagement ◽  
Learning Styles ◽  
Science Teachers ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Local Environment ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
School Science ◽  
Secondary Science ◽  
Tribal Community

<p>This thesis aims to provide a pathway to improve Māori student engagement with science education. Internationally, some indigenous communities have worked with schools in the delivery of science programmes, resulting in positive indigenous student engagement. These outcomes show that together indigenous students, schools and indigenous communities can contribute to the development of their particular place when science programmes allow the exploration of self, relating to others, the local environment and the wider world. This thesis investigates the perceptions of Māori students, teachers and kaumātua of science education in the Māori tribal community of Ngāti Whakaue to identify how Ngāti Whakaue is recognised in school science programmes. Individual and focus group interviews were conducted with local Māori elders, Māori secondary science students, and secondary science teachers from six English and Māori medium secondary schools in Rotorua. Data analyses revealed that participant perceptions and experiences of place, science and the Māori culture were disconnected from Ngāti Whakaue, despite its rich potential as a setting for science education. Participants held diverse perceptions and views within and between groups, including student and teacher understandings of Māori culture, attitudes regarding the place of Māori culture and knowledge in science education, and preferences regarding teaching and learning styles. Findings are examined as to how schools and Ngāti Whakaue could work together to better support positive Māori student engagement with science education and suggestions are made about how these relationships could be improved.</p>

scholarly journals Evaluation of the Third Class Science Text Book from the Teacher’s Perspective at Madaba Municipality

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Osama M. Kraishan ◽  
Ismail Almaamah
Keyword(s):  
Science Teachers ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Third Grade ◽  
Main Question ◽  
Science Textbook ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Text Book ◽  
The Third ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
High Level

<p class="apa">This study aimed at evaluating the science textbook of the third grade primary school in Jordan from the point of view of the teachers who have taught this textbook, in order to find out how suitable and relevant this textbook is to the structure of the curriculum and its guidelines, by trying to answer this question: What is the evaluation of science textbook of the third grade from the standpoint of science teachers in the following aspects: general appearance, the book’s introduction, content of the book, aids and activities in the book, the contribution of the book to the development of students’ attitudes toward science, evaluation methods contained in the book, the appropriateness of the number of weekly classes to the content of the book, the availability of laboratories and the necessary materials to carry out activities, and finally the language of the book. The study population consisted of all 110 science teachers in governmental schools in Madaba who have taught the science textbook. While The study sample consisted of (51) teachers who were selected randomly, then the researchers prepared a questionnaire as an instrument for their study consisting of (62) paragraphs displayed by a number of arbitrators and specialists for the sake of verifying its validity and reliability, and it covers nine aspects. Results related to study main question showed that the total score of teachers evaluating for science textbook of the third grade was high as the percentage reached (70.6), and this is evident that the Jordanian experience in curriculum development and design is a rich experience and with high level, parallel with the experiences of other countries. Finally, the researchers recommend that science teachers and their supervisors should necessarily take part in designing the science textbook because they are only the ones who work with it. They also recommend that more studies on science textbooks should be done for the sake of the development of its curriculums.</p>

Reflective On-Line Discourse for Pre-Service Teachers

2011 ◽  
pp. 64-75
Author(s):  
E. Gregory Holdan ◽  
Mary Hansen
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Teaching Profession ◽  
Reflective Practices ◽  
On Line ◽  
Reflective Discourse ◽  
Do So

More and more, evidence suggests that the competent teacher is one who, through reflective practices, becomes thoughtful, clear in beliefs and actions based on these beliefs, and self-initiating (Wasserman, 2009). However, because the teaching profession is sometimes one of isolation and disconnectedness (Sparks & Hirsh, 1997; Wong & Wong, 2001; Zmuda, Kuklis & Kline, 2004), teachers may not get opportunities to engage in thoughtful discourse. With advances in on-line education, however, teachers who might otherwise not have opportunities to engage in meaningful, reflective discourse about teaching and learning can easily do so at their own relative convenience. Through an on-line venue, teachers can get involved in substantive communication about teaching and learning, address valid and invalid preconceptions about the profession, and work to improve their practice through directed meta-cognitive reflective activities.

Primary School Science Teachers’ Attitude Towards Using Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) In Teaching Science

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammed Yousef Mai ◽  
Ghaneshwary R. Muruges
Keyword(s):  
Science Teachers ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
School Science ◽  
Virtual Learning Environment ◽  
Teaching Science ◽  
Primary Science ◽  
Female Teachers ◽  
Cameron Highlands ◽  
Female Data ◽  
Primary School Science

The aim of this study is to identify the attitude of science teachers towards the usage of Frog VLE in teaching and learning primary science. The sample consisted of 148 science teachers in Cameron Highlands and Taiping (45 male and 103 female). Data is collected by questionnaire which contains 40 questions with 5 Likert scale. The independent t test and One-way ANOVA is used to answer the research questions. Findings indicated that the science teachers in Cameron Highlands and Taiping have neutral attitude towards the usage of Frog VLE in teaching primary science. There are no any significant differences in the attitude towards Frog VLE among science teachers between male and female. Teachers with less experience (younger teacher) have greater attitude compared to old teachers. Science teachers with higher professional grade have greater attitude compared to the teachers with lower professional grade. Hence, science teachers are encouraged to attend courses and develop skills in using Frog VLE to increase their attitude in usage of Frog VLE in teaching science.

scholarly journals DESIGNING INFOGRAPHICS FOR THE EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY COURSE: PERSPECTIVES OF PRE-SERVICE SCIENCE TEACHERS

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-18
Author(s):  
Hidayah Mohd Fadzil
Keyword(s):  
Educational Technology ◽  
Science Teachers ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Science Curriculum ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
School Science ◽  
Service Science ◽  
Upper Secondary

Despite the existing research on technology use in tertiary education, there is limited scholarly literature on the use of infographics in education or on the effective design of infographics specifically for educational settings. By employing qualitative research, the researcher attempts to explore the learners’ perception of the use of infographics. This research involved the researcher working independently on an in-class research project with 40 third-year undergraduate students. The pre-service science teachers were required to individually create an infographic related to the upper secondary school science curriculum. The findings indicated that the pre-service teachers expressed positive viewpoints about the infographics assignment. When the pre-service teachers were engaged in the learning process, they had a sense of agency and responsibility for their learning. The findings also indicated that this research created a meaningful experience for the pre-service teachers in engaging technology. This research essentially promoted innovations in teaching and learning of the course that encouraged student engagement with technology. Keywords: educational technology, infographic, pre-service science teachers, science education.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document