scholarly journals The Role of Teacher Educators in Curriculum Reforms in Lesotho Schools

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 386-402
Author(s):  
Julia Chere-Masopha ◽  
Tebello Tlali ◽  
Tankie Khalanyane ◽  
Edith Sebatane
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Success Rate ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
School Reforms ◽  
Teacher Preparedness ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Limited Knowledge ◽  
Curriculum Reforms

To a certain extent, many curriculum reforms that have been introduced in Lesotho schools have been unsuccessful. Teachers’ preparedness to implement these reforms has been the major factor for the failures. Involving teacher education providers in the preparation of teacher preparedness could improve the success rate of these school reforms. Therefore, understanding how education educators prepare teachers for curriculum reforms could assist to understand why school teachers often appear to be ill-prepared for curriculum reforms. Accordingly, this paper investigated the views of six teacher educators about their role in the preparation of teachers for curriculum reforms in Lesotho schools. A questionnaire was used to collect data that were analysed thematically. The results obtained indicate that: teacher educators are involved in a limited way in Lesotho curriculum reforms; and they have limited knowledge about the current reforms. As a result, their training practices do not target to prepare teachers for the reforms introduced in schools. This explains why many studies have found teachers to be ill-prepared for any curriculum reforms in Lesotho. These findings raise awareness on the issue that teacher educators should be involved in the reforms in Lesotho. Therefore, the main recommendation of this study is to engage teacher education providers so as to make the reforms successful.

scholarly journals TEACHERS, TEACHER EDUCATORS AND TEACHER EDUCATION IN THE DIGITAL ERA (FUTURE DIRECTIONS OF CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND THE WAY FORWARD)

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Masataka Kizuka
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Teacher Education ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Continuing Professional Development ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Remote Areas ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Essential Components

Focusing on the central role of Continuous ProfessionalDevelopment (CPD) in the digital era, this article addressesthree most essential components of the CPD. First, thenecessity of CPD for school teachers is discussed. Then followsthe discussion on issues and problems of CPD in remote areas.Illustrations on matters related to CPD practices in schooleducation on remote areas in Japan and United Kingdom arethen presented to conclude the article.

scholarly journals Practice Teachers’ Role in Teacher Education – Individual Practices across Educational Curricula

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-192
Author(s):  
Kirsten Elisabeth Thorsen
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Education Reform ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
New Teacher ◽  
Theoretical Studies ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Broad Perspective ◽  
Teacher Education Reform ◽  
Depth Interviews

Praksislærere har en sentral rolle i lærerutdanning. Forskning peker imidlertid på at både tilfeldigheter og uklarheter er knyttet til utøvelse av rollen. Forskningsprosjektet “Teachers` Professional Qualifications” (TPQ), undersøker intensjoner med den nye lærerutdannings­reformen i Norge i et bredt perspektiv. Denne artikkelen undersøker hvordan praksislærere oppfatter sin rolle og sine oppgaver på bakgrunn av at reformen har ambisjoner om praksis­lærere som likeverdige samarbeidspartnere i lærerutdanning. Studien har utgangspunkt i en spørreundersøkelse med 45 praksislærere i tillegg til dybdeintervju med åtte andre.Resultatene viser at det som kjennetegner rollen som praksislærer, først og fremst er lang erfaring som lærer. I tillegg viser resultatene at generelle læreroppgaver har mer oppmerk­somhet i praksisperioder enn det som er mål i lærerutdanningsprogrammet. På den måten legitimerer praksislærere sin rolle ut av en lærerutdanningskontekst. Studien bekrefter også det internasjonal forskning viser: behovet for å involvere praksislærere i felles prosesser for å utvikle sammenhenger mellom teoristudier og praksisopplæring i lærerutdanning.Fire år etter implementering av lærerutdanningsreformen i Norge er det grunn til å stille spørsmål ved i hvilken grad intensjonene i reformen har blitt realisert. Diskusjonen er i hovedsak knyttet til profesjonalisering av praksislærerrollen og praksislærere som likeverdige samarbeidspartnere i lærerutdanning.Nøkkelord: lærerutdanning, lærerutdannere, praksislærere, forholdet teori-praksisAbstractPractice teachers have a central role in teacher education. However, research indicates ran­domness and obscurity in performing this role. The research project “Teachers’ Professional Qualifications” (TPQ) examines objectives regarding the new Teacher Education Reform in Norway from 2010 in a broad perspective. As the reform places high demands on practice teachers as equal participants in teacher education, this article examines how they perceive their roles and tasks with respect to the intentions. The study is based on a survey of 45 practice teachers and in-depth interviews with eight others.The main results reveal that the role of practice teachers as mentors is based on signifi­cant experience as school teachers and that general teacher activities are more focused than the claims of the educational programs. Practice teachers seem to legitimate their role out­side of the context of teacher education. The study also seems to confirm what international research strongly indicates: the need to involve and cooperate with practice teachers to increase coherence in theoretical studies and school practice.Four years after the implementation of the reform, there are reasons to question the degree to which the reform intentions have been realized. The discussion is related, in particular, to the professionalization of the role of the practice teachers and their role as cooperating participants in teacher education.   Keywords: teacher education, teacher educators, practice teachers, theory-practice relation­ship

Seeking Support in Teacher Education for Racial Knowledge: The Role of Professional Networks and Social Identities

2021 ◽  
pp. 004208592110584
Author(s):  
Lisette Enumah
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Teacher Learning ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Teacher Education Programs ◽  
Race And Racism ◽  
Professional Networks ◽  
Racial Identities ◽  
Racial Knowledge

Drawing from the narrated experiences of teacher educators (TEs) at different institutions, this paper analyzes TEs’ perceptions of support related to their work in teaching about race and racism. TEs varied in the extent to which they viewed their institution as supportive, and they identified factors that signaled that their institution supported teacher learning about race and racism. TEs also described how their racial identities and positional privilege related to tenure status informed engagement with peers both for providing and seeking support. Implications for teacher education programs in providing support for TEs who teach about race and racism are discussed.

Pre-Service Secondary Teacher Education Programme: Some Concerns of Sustainability

2021 ◽  
pp. 29-37
Author(s):  
Indrajeet Dutta
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Education Programme ◽  
Secondary Teacher ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Teacher Education Programme ◽  
Teaching Pedagogy ◽  
Secondary Teacher Education ◽  
Do So

With the onset of a new academic session, teacher education programmes across the county will be in a new avatar. The revamping of a teacher education programme has been on the cards for several years but stiff resistance from different quarters of the educational community made it impossible to do so. The revised secondary teacher education programme is new in several counts. Firstly, curricular areas have been made more contextual, class, student and community based. Secondly, teaching pedagogy has been made more child centred, experiential and reflective. Thirdly, internship model has been introduced giving more thrust on acquisition of skills and competencies in actual classroom and real settings rather than artificial settings. But, the reform has brought several challenges in its realm which teacher education programmes and institutes have to face. The present paper deals with the new challenges like demand for teacher education programmes, the role of private teacher education institutes and their increasing focus on commercialization, demand for teacher educators and whether the new system is pro-rich or pro-poor student etc.

scholarly journals Learning to Unlearn, and then Relearn: Thinking about Teacher Education within the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 521-546
Author(s):  
Alessandra Coutinho Fernandes ◽  
Sandra Regina Buttros Gattolin
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Technology In Education ◽  
Traditional Teaching ◽  
Personal Lives ◽  
Deep Process ◽  
Use Of Technology

ABSTRACT For decades now, in the context of teacher education, we have been discussing the importance of paying attention to the fast and profound changes both in society and in people’s personal lives, as a consequence of the widespread use of new digital technologies. Yet, not much has changed in schools, where traditional teaching still rules. Students continue to be more knowledge consumers than active knowledge producers; besides, the use of technology for educational purposes remains as either a threat or an unattainable goal. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has compelled educational institutions to rethink the role of technology in education. In this article, we comment on the crisis that has struck higher education and how it has set our institutions and ourselves, as professors and teacher educators, into a deep process of rethinking our past practices and reimagining our future.

scholarly journals Elkarrizketak irakasleen prestakuntzarako bitarteko: irakasle-bideratzaileen jarduna ezaugarritzen

Tantak ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-116
Author(s):  
Eneritz Garro ◽  
Nagore Ipiña ◽  
Arantza Ozaeta
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Initial Teacher Education ◽  
Education Teacher ◽  
The Way

ABSTRACTThe aim of the present paper is to analyse and characterise the way in which teacher educators work with student teachers when conducting analyses of their own practice by means of selfconfrontation interviews. The corpus of this work consists of 10 self-confrontation interviews carried out by 5 teacher educators. The role of those teacher educators was analysed using the transcriptions of the interviews and 9 categories were identified. Two categories were found to be the most common: demanding specifications and creating controversy. Differences were also found as regards teacher educators’ profile. As a result, in-depth training for teacher educators has been considered as needed.KEYWORDS: initial teacher education, teacher educators, analysis of the activity, self-confrontation interviews.LABURPENALan honen helburua da aztertzea eta ezaugarritzea unibertsitateko irakasle-bideratzaileek zer nolako bidaidetza mota egiten duten etorkizuneko irakasleekin euren praktikaren analisia bideoaren aurreko autokonfrontazio elkarrizketak egiten ari direnean. 5 irakasle-bideratzailek egindako 10 autokonfrontazio elkarrizketak osatutako corpusean,. aztertu da irakasle-bideratzaile horien rola ikasleekin egindako autokonfrontazio elkarrizketen transkribapenetan eta euren jarduna 9 kategoriatan banatu da. Horietatik bi zehaztapenak eskatzea eta kontrobertsia sortzea, dira elkarrizketetan erabilienak. Irakasle-bideratzailearen profilaren arabera, ordea, ezberdintasunak sumatu dira jarduteko moduetan eta, ondorioz, prestakuntza eredua partekatua izan dadin irakasle-bideratzaileen prestakuntzan sakondu beharko litzateke. GAKO-HITZAK: irakasleen hasierako prestakuntza, irakasle-bideratzailea, jardueraren analisia, autokonfrontazio elkarrizketa.

scholarly journals A NECESSARY REFLECTION ON: DISCIPLINE AND INDISCIPLINE IN THE CLASSROOM

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (7) ◽  
pp. 843-853
Author(s):  
Livia Maria Franco Moreira dos Santos
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
School Environment ◽  
Emotional Stability ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
The Subject

This text deals with the issue regarding discipline and indiscipline in the context of teaching Brazilian education, the role of didactics in teacher education, as well as the role of school and family along with the issue that permeates teaching which is discipline and indiscipline. In this way, the text deals with a literature review on the subject, through an analytical descriptive dialectic, with the objective of identifying, analyzing and reflecting the issues of discipline and indiscipline. The discussion showed that indiscipline is one of the biggest and most serious problems in the school environment, as it has the contribution of the school, teachers, students and family. The undisciplined behavior of the student is present throughout the school trajectory and stage, thus indicating indiscipline as one of the deficiencies of the pedagogical process due to compromising the students' learning, affecting their emotional stability and the performance of the teachers and the student.

Historians, Archivists, and Museum Educators as Teacher Educators: Mentoring Preservice History Teachers at Cultural Institutes

2020 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Patterson
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Preservice Teacher ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Preservice Teacher Education ◽  
Teacher Education Programs ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
History Teachers ◽  
Educative Mentoring ◽  
Museum Educators

A relatively new phenomenon in teacher education involves preservice history teachers conducting fieldwork in museums, archives, and other cultural institutes. However, researchers have yet to generate understandings supported by empirical observations of the inner workings of such fieldwork experiences. Using interviews, observations, and artifacts, this article analyzes the pedagogies historians, archivists, and museum educators use when adopting the role of teacher educators. Findings offer possibilities for a collaborative and site-based structure of teacher education, running contrary to traditional models. Important to the development of preservice history teachers, mentors at cultural institutes conceptualize their work through an inquiry lens, growing intuitively out of their work as disciplinary experts. In addition, educative mentoring, while typically conceived of as a classroom-based method, was observed in practice at cultural institutes. This article concludes by offering suggestions for applying principles from this model to existing preservice teacher education programs.

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