Implementation of Workplace Hazardous Material Information System Training in Teacher Education: Keeping Our Teachers and Students Safe

2013 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-252
Author(s):  
Katarin MacLeod ◽  
Gerald Laronde
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Information System ◽  
Hazardous Material ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Material Information

Inquiring into Notions of Educational Improvement by Teaching Where We Think: Philosophical Meditations as a Practice of Teacher Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 122 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Maria Paula Ghiso ◽  
Stephanie A. Burdick-Shepherd
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Early Childhood ◽  
School Change ◽  
Educational Improvement ◽  
High Stakes ◽  
Global Marketplace ◽  
Assessment Scores ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Philosophical Meditation

Background This paper is part of the special issue “Reimagining Research and Practice at the Crossroads of Philosophy, Teaching, and Teacher Education.” Early childhood initiatives have joined a nexus of educational reforms characterized by increased accountability and a focus on measurement as a marker of student and teacher learning, with early education being framed as an economic good necessary for competing in the global marketplace. Underlying the recent push for early childhood education is what we see as a “discourse of improvement”—depictions of school change that prioritize achievement as reflected in assessment scores, data collection on teacher effectiveness, and high-stakes evaluation. These characteristics, we argue, foster increasingly inequitable educational contexts and obscure the particularities of what it means to be a child in the world. Purpose We use the practice of philosophical meditation, as articulated in Pierre Hadot's examination of philosophy as a way of life, to inquire into the logics of educational improvement as instantiated in particular contexts, and for cultivating cross-disciplinary partnerships committed to fostering children's flourishing. We link this meditational focus with feminist and de-colonial theoretical perspectives to make visible the role of power in the characterization of children's learning as related to norms of development, minoritized identities, and hierarchies of knowledge. Research Design: In this collaborative inquiry, we compose a series of meditations on our experiences with the logics of improvement inspired by 12 months of systematic conversation. Our data sources include correspondence between the two authors, written reflections on specific practices in teacher education each author engages with, and a set of literary, philosophical, and teacher education texts. Conclusions/Recommendations Our meditations illuminate the value of collective inquiry about what constitutes improvement in schools. We raise questions about how the measurement of learning is entwined in historical and present-day relations of power and idealized formulations of the universal “child” or “teacher” and argue that we must work together to reimagine the framings that inform our work. Ultimately and most directly, these meditations can support dynamic attempts to cultivate meaningful and more equitable educational experiences for teachers and students. Philosophical meditations at the crossroads of philosophy, teaching, and teacher education thus extend beyond critique toward imagining and enacting a better world in our classrooms, even though (and especially when) this path is not clear.

A building material information system

2004 ◽  
pp. 297-302
Author(s):  
H Yaman ◽  
A Dikbas ◽  
E Tas ◽  
L Tanaçan
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Building Material ◽  
Material Information

scholarly journals Research on Campus Education Information System Based on Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence Decision

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Hetiao Hong
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Information System ◽  
Original System ◽  
Functional Testing ◽  
Excellent Performance ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Interface Function ◽  
Artificial Intelligence Technology ◽  
Education Platform ◽  
Better Than

Because of the different reasons between regions, the distribution of educational resources is also different, the development of each school is unbalanced, and the degree of campus education informationization is different. The complex functional structure not only does not facilitate teachers and students but also leads to many problems: the prevention and prevention of campus life safety. It is difficult to keep and use multiple cards owned by one person. Software and education platform cannot be seamlessly connected, and there are various barriers between data and data and people and data. The lack of learning materials leads to the inequality of information. There are no good feedback and solution between teachers and students. It is difficult to manage accurately with a large number of people. This study will be based on the Internet and artificial intelligence technology, to explore how to study a large (or super large), concise and efficient, and excellent performance of campus education information system; this system can meet the teachers and students no matter what year, month, and day of a large number of visits. For some problems in the process of building the system, actively optimize and refine them. After functional testing and analysis of the system, the experimental results show that the interface function of the new system is stable, the usability test is better than the feedback experience of the original system, the response time is reduced by 21.6% on average, and the overall power consumption of the system is reduced by about 1.43% on average.

scholarly journals Assessment of English Learning in a Language Teacher Education Program

2019 ◽  
pp. 193-214
Author(s):  
Leonardo Herrera Mosquera ◽  
Lilian Cecilia Zambrano Castillo
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Education Program ◽  
English Language ◽  
Teacher Education Program ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Language Teacher Education ◽  
Language Teacher ◽  
Course Syllabi ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive

The purpose of this study is to characterize the assessment process in an English Language Teacher Education Program (ELTEP, hereafter) at a Colombian public university. Following a qualitative-descriptive approach, we identified the perceptions of teachers and students facing this process, reviewed some official documents such as course syllabi and test samples, and observed some classes to respond to the main inquiries of the present study. As data collection instruments we used interviews, questionnaires, field diaries, and documentary records, which allowed for the corresponding triangulation of the information. Once the information was collected, we proceeded to its respective analysis through a methodology of descriptive statistics and qualitative analysis with the support of a computer program for the codification and categorization of information. The results of this study allow us to conclude that in spite of the general guidelines proposed by the institution in terms of assessment of learning, and some good evaluative practices implemented by the teachers of the aforementioned Program, the consolidation of an approach is required. An approach understood as criteria and pedagogical procedures that guide both teachers and students, and one that promotes more formative, fair and democratic assessments.

The Adoption of Instructional Technologies in Teacher Education

2018 ◽  
pp. 2183-2197
Author(s):  
Steve Nwokeocha
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Teacher Educator ◽  
Instructional Technologies ◽  
Positive Side ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Multiplier Effect ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Practical Experiences

This chapter advocates for a turn to the positive side of the situation and the need to create a multiplier effect with available technologies and capabilities which at the long run could enable Nigeria to leapfrog and catch up with the advanced countries in terms of quality of teaching and learning. The chapter consequently discusses some of the new ideas and concepts that may well be exploited to improve teacher education through technology. It calls for more research, sensitization and capacity building of teachers and students about such new ideas and concepts for the benefit of the Nigerian education system. The chapter is written primarily based on the practical experiences of the author as a teacher educator and active participant in world conferences that, over the years, have devoted attention to best practical cases that have worked in various developing parts of the world.

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