scholarly journals Identification of the Gaps between Actual Performance and Expected Performance of English Teachers at Elementary Level

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. p1
Author(s):  
Muhammad Qasim Javed Marral ◽  
Dr. Muhammad Arfan Lodhi
Keyword(s):  
Performance Indicators ◽  
Classroom Observation ◽  
English Teachers ◽  
Elementary Level ◽  
Government Schools ◽  
Actual Performance ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Expected Performance

Teachers hold central figure in the propagation of effective education in educational milieu. The present study attempted to explore the key performance indicators (KPIs) of English teachers working in government schools at elementary level of education. The KPIs were identified and determined by examining the gap between their existing performance and their expected level of proficiency. The study focused its attention to evaluate the gap in English teaching domain only. The data was collected and analyzed quantitatively in this survey oriented descriptive research. A total number of 200 students and 40 teachers were restricted as the sample of the study taken from 04 tehsils of district Bahawalpur. Furthermore, data was collected by developing and administering 02 instruments i.e. questionnaire and classroom observation. The data taken from observation checklist was quantified to obtain empirical results of the investigation. The findings of the study revealed significantly huge gap between the existing and desired level of teachers’ proficiency. This gap was relatively apparent in teachers’ language proficiencies as well as instructional capabilities. Majority of the teachers couldn’t demonstrate the optimal standards of English teaching due to multifaceted factors. Furthermore, study revealed that there is dire need of target oriented instructional workshops and teacher trainings to be arranged for teachers to get the maximum outcomes.

scholarly journals THE ADJACENCY PAIRS ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH TEACHING AND LEARNING IN HEARING-IMPAIRMENT STUDENTS

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
Nahar Nurun Nafi' ◽  
Desika Rinanda ◽  
Sularti Sulari
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Special Needs ◽  
Hearing Impairment ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Classroom Observation ◽  
English Teachers ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
English Teacher ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
English Classroom

ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to investigate the components of adjacency pairs which appear in a conversation between an English teacher and hearing-impairment students in a special need classroom. Another aim is to find the dominance of English teacher in the special need classroom. Data are collected from a classroom observation, recording and transcribing their conversation during the teaching and learning activities in English classroom. Meanwhile, data analysis is carried out by identifying, analyzing and classifying based on Mc Charty’s theory of adjacency pairs., It is then found that there are 9 kinds of adjacency pairs committed from the interaction between English teachers and the hearing-impairment students as follows: (1) Compliment / Acceptance, (2) Information / Acknowledgement, (3) Greeting / Greeting, (4) Invitation / Acceptance, (5) Offer / Refusal, (6) Question / Answer, (7) Summons / Answer, (8) Accusation / Denial, (9) Offer / Acceptance. This study reveals a fact that various adjacency pairs occur in the special need classroom even though the teacher’s role is also quite powerful in the special need classroom. The finding of this study may become the reference for the teachers and practitioners who need deep understand toward characteristics of the special needs students especially for the impairment students.  Keywords: Adjacency Pairs, Teaching and Learning, Hearing-impairment Students

scholarly journals NATIVE ENGLISH TEACHERS IN EFL SPEAKING CLASSES: DEPICTING THEIR STRATEGIES TO TEACH VIETNAMESE STUDENTS

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Miftahul Mahrus ◽  
Novinda Rosayanti
Keyword(s):  
Classroom Observation ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Role Play ◽  
English Teachers ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
National University ◽  
Story Completion ◽  
Speaking Skills

The aims of this research are; (1) to know the strategies used by native English teachers to teach speaking to the students of Vietnam National University of Agriculture, (2) to describe how the strategies contributed to the students speaking skills, and (3) to explain the problems faced by native English teachers in EFL speaking classes. This research is descriptive research with a qualitative approach. The data were collected through classroom observation, interviews, and documentation. It presents the result of the study in the form of a descriptive explanation. The findings of this research are the strategies used by native English teachers to teach speaking to the students of Vietnam National University of Agriculture, namely (a) group discussion, (b) role play, (c) brainstorming, (d) storytelling, (e) story completion, (f) describing picture, (g) game (guessing the word), (h) using target language/interview. Based on those strategies, the results show that the strategies help students to improve their speaking skills, vocabulary, and confidence. Also, it can help students to solve problems, increase sensitivity, think critically, and express their ideas. Furthermore, the findings of the problems faced by native English teachers in speaking class are (a) pronunciation, (b) lack of confidence, (c) lack of ending sounds, (d) no vocabulary and grammar.

Public Accountability or Fiscal Control? Benchmarks of Performance in Australian Schooling

1996 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise Watson
Keyword(s):  
Performance Indicators ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
School Effectiveness ◽  
Measuring System ◽  
Government Schools ◽  
Public Resources ◽  
Government Education ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽  
Performance Benchmarks

The Industry Commission review of service provision in school education aims to define performance benchmarks for Australia's eight government education systems, by providing comparative measures of efficiency in education provision. Such benchmarks are likely to lead to a reduction in the level of public resources for government schools unless it is possible to demonstrate the link between expenditure on schooling and school effectiveness. If efficiency audits like the Industry Commission review are to deal with issues of school effectiveness adequately, they should avoid the tendency of previous public sector audits to focus on financial data on schools expenditure to the exclusion of data on student achievement. This paper suggests an approach to measuring system performance which would establish benchmarks that reflected both the efficiency and effectiveness of Australian school systems, and warns against the misuse of performance indicators as an instrument in the determination of funding levels for schools.

English teaching profiles at islamic Of elementary schools in kuranji - padang

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Rasmita Rasmita
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Elementary Schools ◽  
English Teachers ◽  
Islamic State ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
Purposive Sample ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

    The design of this research was descriptive qualitative that to draw about  English teaching profiles at Islamic of Elementary Schools in Kuranji – Padang. The researcher takes three schools by using purposive sample. They were Islamic State of Elementary schools Korong Gadang, Islamic State of Elementary School Gunung Sarik and Private Islamic State of Elementary School Sungai Sapih. The respondents consisted of three English teachers and the headmasters. In gathering the data, the researcher did observation and interview as instruments. In analyzing the data, the resercher followed two ways, namely; pure analysis and analytic. Pure analysis and analytic in order to describe the data naturally and connect it to the theory. The findings of this research showed that the English teachers at Elementary School should graduate from English pedagogical, because of that the teacher have to good techniques in teaching. In spite of the English teachers must able to prepare the suitable media with the material. The English teachers also use  good methods and evaluation to increase the students’ achievement.    

scholarly journals CONCEALED CHARACTER VALUES ON LECTURERS’ VERBAL FEEDBACK IN ENGLISH TEACHING

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Adetya Norizkyka ◽  
Yulieda Hermaniar
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Corrective Feedback ◽  
Main Concern ◽  
Verbal Feedback ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
Evaluative Feedback ◽  
Positive Perspective ◽  
Character Building ◽  
Interactive Feedback

Integrating values in the teaching and learning of English becomes the main concern of education in Indonesia. There are 18 values of character building in national character and cultural education which are demanded to be integrated in the teaching and learning process. However, the implementation is mostly heard from lower level of education. Therefore, it is considered important to conduct the study on the higher level of education or university, especially in the productive course such as speaking class. This leads to the interest on conducting study on the lecturers’ verbal feedback in English teaching as the reflection of teaching character values. Preliminary study was conducted by interviewing students of speaking class to get information related to the technique, method, and material used in the speaking class. Three speaking class’ lecturers will be the subject of the research. Observation is conducted to collect the data by using observation sheet and recorder as instrument. The interview takes students as the object in order to get their perspective to the feedback give. The result shows that there are three kinds of verbal feedback used. They are corrective feedback, interactive feedback, and evaluative feedback. The result of interview shows students positive perspective toward the feedback and the values they acquired from the feedback give. From the observation and interview, it can be concluded that the concealed values taught during the speaking class, they are disciplines, curious, respect, democracy, and communicative.

scholarly journals Developing a Handbook on Multimedia Integration in Mathematics Teaching for Indonesian Primary School Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 236-251
Author(s):  
Herry Agus Susanto ◽  
Hobri Hobri ◽  
Theresia Kriswianti Nugrahaningsih
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Mathematics Teachers ◽  
Mathematics Teaching ◽  
Elementary Level ◽  
Primary School Students ◽  
School Students ◽  
Mathematical Skills ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Technological Integration ◽  
Research Analysis

This study has developed a digital mathematics handbook that helps students to strengthen their mathematical skills at the elementary level of education. A survey of mathematics teachers collected data. In developing an integration manual on technology based on a survey of the state of technological integration in schools, it employed a research and development (RD) approach. A number of 24 teachers participated in the material creation. The multimedia materials produced during the trial were developed and used. Participants consisted of primary learning children. Results have shown that the trainers' preferred theory is undergraduate, and most of them have a poor capacity to integrate creativity into a research analysis. In the presentation of the under-graduates in mathematics the material produced was extremely good.

scholarly journals EL EFECTO DE LA CALIDAD EN UN PROGRAMA DE ESTUDIO ACREDITADOS: CASO DEL BACHILLERATO EN LA ENSEÑANZA DEL INGLÉS EN LA UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL, COSTA RICA

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-199
Author(s):  
Lindsay A. Chaves-Fernández ◽  
Didier Rojas-Cerdas ◽  
Olga L. Chaves-Carballo
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
English Teachers ◽  
Teaching Quality ◽  
Bachelor's Degree ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
Freshmen Students ◽  
Adequate Education ◽  
Senior Students

La Escuela de Literatura y Ciencias del Lenguaje de la Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica posee un Bachillerato en la Enseñanza del Inglés, acreditado por SINAES desde el año 2006. Este artículo presenta una investigación acerca del alcance de esta carrera en la preparación adecuada de sus estudiantes. Para realizar esta investigación, los estudiantes de primer ingreso, así como los de cuarto año realizaron una encuesta sobre la acreditación y el plan de estudios, respectivamente. Los resultados muestran que más del 94% de los estudiantes están informados sobre la acreditación, y manifiestan satisfacción con las competencias pedagógicas y lingüísticas adquiridas en su plan de estudios. Los investigadores concluyen que este bachillerato está cumpliendo con los objetivos de mejora permanente que implica tener una carrera acreditada.Abstract The School of Literature and Languages of the Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica has a Bachelor’s Degree in English Teaching, accredited by SINAES since the year 2006. This article presents a research about the scope of this major on the students’ adequate education.  Freshmen students of the major answered a survey related to their awareness regarding the accreditation, and senior students answered a questionnaire about the quality of the major’s curriculum. The results show that over 94% of the students are informed about the accreditation, and express satisfactory feelings about the pedagogical and linguistic competencies acquired in the major. The researchers conclude that this degree is accomplishing the objectives of the ongoing improvement required by SINAES accreditation.Keywords: English teaching, quality, accreditation, curriculum, English teachers.

scholarly journals Role Controversy among Team Teachers in the JET Programme

2004 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean Mahoney
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Negative Pressure ◽  
English Teachers ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
General Classroom ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Japanese English

This article attempts to identify and clarify incongruous and problematic perceptions of team-teachers' roles held by JET Programme Assistant English Teachers (AETs) and their Japanese English-teaching colleagues (JTEs). Confusion over who should do what, and especially the frustration resulting from belief conflicts between team teachers, produces negative pressure on partners that could be detrimental to English lessons and general classroom atmospheres. Using data collected from long-answer sections of a nationwide questionnaire involving over 1,400 junior and senior high school educators, the author investigates discord found between and within AET and JTE groups at both levels. While respondents generally concurred on the main (i.e. top three) roles expected of themselves and their partners, discrepancies did arise regarding other, less commonly perceived roles. 本稿はJETプログラムの英語指導助手（AET）と日本人英語教師（JTE）によるティームティーチング（TT）授業において、両者の役割に関する問題や齟齬を指摘し、詳述するものである。英語の授業におけるそれぞれの担当内容、特に教育方針の違いから生じる不満が積もると、両者に否定的なプレッシャーを与え、教室内の雰囲気に悪影響を及ぼすことになるだろう。中学校・高等学校で教えている全国1,400名以上の英語教師からの自由記述データを利用して、筆者がAET集団とJET集団間、及び、それぞれの集団内部の問題を検討する。全般的に、回答者からは各々のパートナーに期待されている主要な役割分担に関して共通の認識を持っている割合が高かったが、双方に差異が見られる場合、役割に関する共通認識の割合が低い傾向があった。

scholarly journals Effectiveness evaluation for geothermal heat recovery in closed mines of Donbas

2020 ◽  
Vol 201 ◽  
pp. 01008
Author(s):  
Dmytro Rudakov ◽  
Oleksandr Inkin ◽  
Nataliia Dereviahina ◽  
Vadym Sotskov
Keyword(s):  
Performance Indicators ◽  
Heat Recovery ◽  
Evaluation Method ◽  
Feasibility Studies ◽  
Effectiveness Evaluation ◽  
Geothermal Heat ◽  
Heat Transfer Theory ◽  
Expected Performance ◽  
Mine Condition ◽  
Exchange Parameters

The study aims to develop a method of effectiveness evaluation for geothermal heat recovery in closed mines of Donbas using relations of heat transfer theory in rocks and fluids. Geothermal heat is proposed to recover using coaxial geothermal probes to be installed in flooded closed mines. As a result of evaluation and ranking, five top promising sites with the highest expected performance indicators among 27 closed mines located in Donbas have been identified. The evaluation method takes into account geological settings, mine condition, and heat exchange parameters of the probe with mine water. The locations of the most promising sites were found to correlate with the areas of higher geothermal flux and the deeper mines. The results obtained can be used in feasibility studies on installation and operation of geothermal probes in closed mines.

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