Pedagogical Preparation of Pre-service Primary School Teachers: The Challenges of the Professional Experience in Fiji

The research was purposed to explore how teachers learn from their professional experience to become ‘good’ at what they do. The research was a replication of the a study project conducted by School of Education at University of Aberdeen in 2012 . The current research was an effort to investigate the teachers’ learning from their professional experience in different context and participants. The study is an interpretation of narratives of two primary school teachers from SD Muhammadiyah Klaten Utara, Indonesia. The narratives materials are taken from the research project undertaken in Klaten jointly conducted by the Department of Education at Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta and SD Muhammadiyah Klaten Utara. This study is a narrative reseach approach. The analysis in this report is using narrative approach because the materials are the narratives of two teachers of primary teachers. The finding shows that two things that makes them become good teacher. The first one is the teacher’s will to always learn from problems they faced. Their persistent concern to make a positive rapport with children and parents

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AN EVALUATION OF TEACHERS' VIEWS OF PRIMARY SCHOOL PRINCIPALS' PRACTICE OF DEMOCRATIC VALUES

Social Behavior and Personality An International Journal ◽

10.2224/sbp.2008.36.4.483 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 36 (4) ◽

pp. 483-492 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Salih Zeki Genç

Keyword(s):

Primary School ◽

Educational Level ◽

School Principals ◽

Professional Experience ◽

Democratic Values ◽

School Teachers ◽

Primary School Teachers ◽

Primary School Principals

The purpose of the study was to evaluate teachers’ views about the level of practice of democratic values by primary school principals. Participants were 300 primary school teachers from four different regions of Turkey. The data were collected through a questionnaire, and analyzed by using t test and ANOVA tests. Results indicate that gender, educational level, and membership of a union make a difference in terms of practicing democratic values. Furthermore, some meaningful differences were noted in the subdimension of the questionnaire depending on the teachers' professional experience and on the present number of students as variables.

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PEDAGOGICAL COMPETENCES OF PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS IN THE ASSESSMENT OF TEACHERS AND PARENTS

Polityka Społeczna ◽

10.5604/01.3001.0015.2409 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 565 (4) ◽

pp. 15-27

Author(s):

Zdzisław Czajka

Keyword(s):

Primary School ◽

Learning Outcomes ◽

Professional Experience ◽

Competence Assessment ◽

School Teachers ◽

Professional Advancement ◽

Primary School Teachers ◽

Teachers And Parents ◽

The Impact ◽

Education Process

The article presents the scope and level of competences of primary school teachers defined in legislation and their assessment by teachers and parents in terms of the requirements of the teaching and education process. The article uses research among 210 teachers. Article presents: the requirements of competence, the assessment of the implementation of the standards of education in pedagogical studies, the impact of learning outcomes on the development of competences, the impact of professional promotion on the development of competences, the usefulness of different competences in the teaching and education of children are presented. Many teachers see skills gaps, not all competences are used to work with children. Teachers see an increase in their competences mainly as their professional experience and level of professional advancement increase. There are differences in competence assessment between teachers and parents. For parents, the most important thing is the competences supporting the teaching process

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Gender Differences in Emotional Intelligence: A Comparative Study of Primary School Teachers

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e570452013-001 ◽

2012 ◽

Author(s):

Bhagat Singh ◽

Arun Kumar

Keyword(s):

Gender Differences ◽

Emotional Intelligence ◽

Comparative Study ◽

Primary School ◽

School Teachers ◽

Primary School Teachers

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Role of Teachers in Building the Concept of Sustainable Development: Success or Failure

Journal of Applied Research and Multidisciplinary Studies ◽

10.32350/jarms/2020/0101/906 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Ayaz Muhammad Khan ◽

Amber Jamshaid ◽

Tayyibah Roohi ◽

Amna Ramzan

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Primary School ◽

Sampling Technique ◽

School Teachers ◽

Primary School Teachers ◽

Primary Level ◽

Significant Difference ◽

Role Of Teachers ◽

Major Factors

Sustainable Development (SD) is a rich, challenging and thought-provoking construct in social sciences. The main purpose of this paper was to identify and explore the role played by primary school teachers in building up the idea of sustainable development (SD) among students. This paper was intended to identify that how a teacher can successfully execute the concept of SD by influencing students’ minds at the primary level. Quantitative survey technique were utilized for data collection. All the primary school teachers of Lahore division comprised the population of the study. Through multistage sampling technique, 352 primary school teachers were selected as participants of the study. A self-developed SD questionnaire incorporating four major factors (teachers’ awareness, pedagogy, curricular and co-curricular activities) with Cronbach’s alpha value = .93 was used to measure the role of teachers in building the sustainability concept among students at primary level. The results indicated a significant mean score difference among SD scores of teachers, sector wise (private and public). Furthermore, the results also reconnoitered the significant difference (p=.04) between the mean scores of female and male teachers in building up the SD concept in students’ minds.

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The Performance of Primary School Teachers In the Unit of Education Technical Implementation, Banyumanik, Semarang

JOURNAL OF TEACHING AND LEARNING IN ELEMENTARY EDUCATION (JTLEE) ◽

10.33578/jtlee.v1i2.5878 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 81

Author(s):

Muhamad Afandi ◽

Sari Yustiana

Keyword(s):

Elementary School ◽

Primary School ◽

Learning Process ◽

Random Sampling ◽

Sampling Technique ◽

Lesson Plans ◽

School Teachers ◽

Primary School Teachers ◽

Assessment Of Learning ◽

Overall Performance

The purpose of this study is mainly to describe the performance of primary school teachersin the unit of education technical implementation in Banyumanik, Semarang. This researchwas conducted in January- August 2017. The sample of this research is 162 primaryschool teachers selected by random sampling technique in order to get the same opportunityas sample. The instruments used in this study were the assessment sheets, the RatingSheet consisted of 64 items of question, and 3 indicators of Primary School TeacherPerformance. The results show that each of Implementation of lesson plans is categorizedvery well (90, 9%), the execution of the learning is 83.4%, assessment of learning is good(82.8%). The Overall performance of primary school teachers is categorized good( 85 , 7 % ). In other words, the primary school teachers of the unit of education technicalimplementation in Banyumanik Semarang can arrange the lesson plans, carry out learningand teaching process and assess the learning process in elementary school.

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