Specifying Hybrid Models of Teachers’ Work During COVID-19

2022 ◽  
pp. 0013189X2110693
Author(s):  
Lora Bartlett
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
Teacher Perception ◽  
Student Experience ◽  
Hybrid Models ◽  
Future Analysis ◽  
Experience Teaching ◽  
Teacher Workload ◽  
Structural Hybrid ◽  
K 12

The term “hybrid” emerged as a common descriptor of pandemic-modified schooling configurations. Yet this umbrella term insufficiently captures the variations among hybrid models, particularly as it pertains to the structure of teacher workdays and related workload demands. Drawing on qualitative research documenting K–12 U.S. teachers’ experience teaching during COVID-19, this brief introduces and explicates three terms specifying structural hybrid models—parallel, alternating, and blended—and their implications for teachers’ work. Differentiating among the models facilitates future analysis of the implications of hybrid schooling for teacher and student experience. Initial analysis indicates teachers experienced one model, blended hybrid, as more challenging than others. This teacher perception highlights the need to discern among the three hybrid models more closely when analyzing schools’ responses to the pandemic. Differentiating among hybrid models may prompt future analysis of hybrid schooling for teacher workload and student learning.

UPAYA MENINGKATKAN HASIL BELAJAR ILMU PENGETAHUAN ALAM DENGAN PENERAPAN METODE DEMONSTRASI SISWA KELAS IV SD NEGERI 010 BANJAR PANJANG KECAMATAN KERUMUTAN

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 307
Author(s):  
Deden Kusdinar
Keyword(s):  
Student Learning ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Preliminary Data ◽  
Student Learning Outcomes ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Science Students ◽  
Experience Teaching ◽  
Improving Student Learning ◽  
Class Iv

Based on the author's experience teaching for this in SD Negeri 010 Banjar PanjangKerumutan, and based on observation and early reflections by the author seen low creativityof students in learning that ultimately ends up in the low student learning outcomesthemselves, especially on the subjects of Natural Sciences. After many tests on the midtermturns lower student learning outcomes. Completeness class only reach 50% or 10 out of 20students, KKM for subjects of Natural Sciences which has been set in the class IV SD Negeri010 Banjar Panjang Kerumutan is the number 70. As Judge things that cause children lowvalue, from the aspect of teachers are: teacher always using methods lectures, learningachievement of children have been considered equally by teachers, and the learning processis dominated by the teacher. This research is a classroom action research (PTK). Class actionresearch through the stages of planning, implementation, observation and reflection. Fromthe research data is a result of learning of natural science at the top can be seen learningoutcome science students from the action on the preliminary data for the first cycle to thesecond cycle by improving student learning outcomes that menigkat are significant, the initialdata of students who achieve mastery only 50 % and cycle to the first increase has reached70% and the thoroughness of the class in the second cycle reaches 85%.

scholarly journals Game-Informed Assessment for Playful Learning and Student Experience (Part II)

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (42) ◽  
pp. 19-30
Author(s):  
Maria Pavlou
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
Lyric Poetry ◽  
Student Experience ◽  
Educational Value ◽  
Depth Interviews

AbstractThe educational value of play has long been acknowledged. During recent decades, much attention has been paid to video games and the multifarious ways in which they can promote and enhance learning. My main objective in this study is to weave game principles, learning and the notion of playfulness into assessment principles, in an attempt to investigate how what I call ‘Game-Informed Playful Assessment’ (GIPA) can affect student learning and particularly students’ experience of learning. The GIPA was designed with a view to promoting students’ agency, autonomy, collaboration and playfulness, and was introduced in an undergraduate course on archaic Greek lyric poetry at a Greek-speaking university. My data was generated through in-depth interviews with ten of the students that attended the course. While the GIPA was favourably and even enthusiastically received by students, the research also brought to the fore several other issues that call for attention, such as the stress that innovative assessment may provoke in students and the readiness of students to be playful within an academic framework that typically contrasts serious work with playfulness and play in general.

Teaching and Learning to Communicate

2013 ◽  
pp. 579-599
Author(s):  
Cynthia J. Benton ◽  
Kathleen A. Lawrence
Keyword(s):  
Preservice Teachers ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Communication Competence ◽  
College Level ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Professional Success ◽  
Evaluating Methods ◽  
K 12

Effective presentation skills and communication competence are important developmental qualities for teachers’ professional success and K-12 students’ learning. Yet identifying the definitive qualities and methods to practice and evaluate those skills has had minimal emphasis in current education programs. In addition to traditional abilities such as making clear presentations, speaking well, and articulating an argument, K-20 learners are faced with an explosion of options for accessing, organizing, and presenting information using technology. This study documents methods for college-level instruction and assessment of presentation skills, which serve as evidence of preservice teachers' readiness to demonstrate effective communication skills for K-12 student learning. The report summarized in this chapter tracks two years of creating and evaluating methods for promoting professional presentation and communication skills, and includes rubrics focused on the development and evaluation of those skills.

Adult Learners Learning Online

2010 ◽  
pp. 947-961
Author(s):  
Danilo M. Baylen
Keyword(s):  
Instructional Technology ◽  
Adult Learners ◽  
Adult Learning ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
Effective Practice ◽  
Online Experience ◽  
The Creation ◽  
K 12 ◽  
Specific Technology

This chapter presents a case study in which an onlineexperience for adult learners facilitated improved understanding of blogs and its applications to K-12 classrooms. Data were primarily derived from archived documentation provided by students as components of several completed course assignments. The case studyillustrates and examines how the online experience, specifically the creation and maintenance of a blog, supported student learning about use and application of a specific technology. The chapter discusses processes and results given the contexts of adult learning and instructional technology as well as suggests directions for effective practice.

Assessment in Authentic Environments

2012 ◽  
pp. 32-57
Author(s):  
Thomas C. Hammond ◽  
R. Curby Alexander ◽  
Alec M. Bodzin
Keyword(s):  
Social Studies ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Instructional Strategy ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Student Learning Outcomes ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Conducting Research ◽  
K 12

The TPACK framework provides researchers with a robust framework for conducting research on technology integration in authentic environments, i.e., intact classrooms engaged in standards-aligned instruction. Researchers who wish to identify the value added by a promising technology-supported instructional strategy will need to assess student learning outcomes in these environments; unfortunately, collecting valid and reliable data on student learning in classroom research is extremely difficult. To date, few studies using TPACK in K-12 classrooms have included student learning outcomes in their research questions, and researchers are therefore left without models to guide their development, implementation, and analysis of assessments. This chapter draws upon the literature and our own research and assessment experiences in technology-integrated, standards-aligned classroom instruction to give examples and advice to researchers as they develop, analyze, and write up their observations of student learning outcomes. In particular, we focus on standard items, specifically multiple choice items, as an accepted (if limited) method for assessing student understanding. We seek to fill an existing gap in the literature between assessment advice for educational psychologists (who typically work outside of classroom settings) and advice given to teachers (who have lower thresholds for issues such as validity and reliability). Classroom researchers will benefit from this advice to develop, validate, and apply their own objective assessments. We focus on the content areas of science and social studies, but this advice can be applied to others as well.

Teaching Strategies and Tactics in K-12 Blended Education

2016 ◽  
pp. 222-251
Author(s):  
Anne Katz ◽  
Jackie Hee-Young Kim
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
School District ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Flipped Classroom ◽  
Instructional Methods ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
K 12 ◽  
Educational Field

With a mission of creating a new paradigm of instructional methods to increase engagement in student learning in order to help develop more resilient students in a high-needs school district, this study examined implementation of the flipped classroom model in an early childhood and childhood education setting. This chapter will start by locating challenges in the current K-12 educational field. It will then examine how flipped classroom model approaches will simultaneously help educators meet long-standing challenges and support teachers to meet the diverse needs of students. This chapter will further discuss a pedagogical rationale for the flipped classroom model. It will then proceed to showcase best practices in utilizing the Flipped Classroom (FC) Model through the presentation of multiple teacher case studies. Lastly, this chapter will discuss considerations that should be examined while executing the Flipped Classroom model.

Improving Course Coherence & Assessment Rigor: “Understanding by Design” in a Nonmajors Biology Course

2016 ◽  
Vol 78 (6) ◽  
pp. 463-470
Author(s):  
Julie Minbiole
Keyword(s):  
Student Learning ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Final Exam ◽  
Traditional Course ◽  
Understanding By Design ◽  
Course Planning ◽  
Undergraduate Institutions ◽  
Core Concepts ◽  
Course Material ◽  
K 12

Instructors in two- and four-year undergraduate institutions face a variety of challenges in designing and delivering high-quality courses for their students and in creating accurate assessments of student learning. Traditional course planning (a linear, start-to-finish process based on the knowledge and perspective of the instructor) can lead to lack of clarity of learning objectives for students, uncertainty about course priorities for both instructor and students, and poor alignment between course material and assessments. To address these issues, Understanding by Design (UbD), a course-planning protocol widely used in K–12 education, was implemented to redesign a one-semester, nonmajors “Sensation & Perception” course at a four-year liberal arts college. This implementation improved the instructor's understanding of desired student learning outcomes, allowed core concepts and science competencies to be prioritized as recommended by the “Vision and Change” reform initiative, and led to decreased lecture time in favor of greater lab and student-driven discussion time. In addition, this process allowed components of evidence-based reasoning and scientific process to be incorporated authentically into assessments. Despite the increasing rigor of assessments, there was a statistically significant increase in students earning an A or B on the final exam after UbD implementation.

Ensuring Student Wellbeing and Learning via Effective Classroom Assessments

2020 ◽  
pp. 102-125
Author(s):  
Nancy P. Gallavan
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Teacher Candidates ◽  
Classroom Assessment ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Qualitative Research Methods ◽  
Classroom Assessments ◽  
K 12

Teacher candidates reflect upon their most favorite and their least favorite classroom assessment experiences in K-12 and higher education. Through qualitative research methods, their vivid images, compelling influences, and enduring implications are analyzed to reveal clear indicators of teacher presence, practice, and professionalism. Evident in the immediate importance for advancing their understanding and application of their awareness, communication, and self-efficacy, teachers benefit greatly by connecting effective classroom assessments to ensure student well-being and learning for every student.

scholarly journals Exploring the Complexity of Student Learning Outcome Assessment Practices Across Multiple Libraries

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donna Harp Ziegenfuss ◽  
Stephen Borrelli
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Student Learning Outcomes ◽  
Interview Data ◽  
Learning Assessment ◽  
Assessment Practices ◽  
Institutional Contexts ◽  
Student Learning Assessment

Objectives – The purpose of this collaborative qualitative research project, initiated by the Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA), was to explore how librarians were involved in the designing, implementing, assessing, and disseminating student learning outcomes (SLOs) in GWLA member academic libraries. The original objective of the research was to identify library evaluation/assessment practices at the different libraries to share and discuss by consortia members at a GWLA-sponsored Student Learning Assessment Symposium in 2013. However, findings raised new questions and areas to explore beyond student learning assessment, and additional research was continued by two of the GWLA collaborators after the Symposium. The purpose of this second phase of research was to explore the intersection of library and institutional contexts and academic library assessment practices. Methods – This qualitative research study involved a survey of librarians at 23 GWLA member libraries, about student learning assessment practices at their institutions. Twenty follow-up interviews were also conducted to further describe and detail the assessment practices identified in the survey. Librarians with expertise in library instruction, assessment, and evaluation, either volunteered or were designated by their Dean or Director, to respond to the survey and participate in the interviews. Interview data were analyzed by seven librarians, across six different GWLA libraries, using constant comparison methods (Strauss & Corbin, 2014). Emerging themes were used to plan a GWLA member Symposium. Based on unexpected findings, after the Symposium, two GWLA researchers continued the analysis using a grounded theory methodology to re-examine the data and uncover categorical relationships and conceptual coding, and to explore data alignment to theoretical possibilities. Results – Seventeen categories and five themes emerged from the interview data and were used to create a 3-part framework for describing and explaining library SLO assessment practices. The themes were used to plan the GWLA Assessment Symposium. Through additional qualitative grounded theory data analysis, researchers also identified a core variable, and data were re-evaluated to verify an alignment to Engeström’s Activity and Expansion Theories (Engeström, 2001, 2004). Conclusions – The findings of this multi-phased qualitative study discovered how contextual, structural, and organizational factors can influence how libraries interact and communicate with college departments, and the larger institution about student learning outcomes and assessment. Viewing library and campus interaction through the activity theory lens can demonstrate how particular factors might influence library collaboration and interaction on campuses. Institutional contexts and cultures, campus-wide academic priorities, leadership at the library level, and changing roles of librarians were all themes that emerged from this study that are important factors to consider when planning the design, implementation, assessment and dissemination of library SLOs.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document