scholarly journals Higher Education Music Teacher Educators and Assessment: Their Understandings, Efficacy, and Satisfaction

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-53
Author(s):  
Kelly Anne Parkes ◽  
Jared Robert Rawlings
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Professional Development ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Mixed Methods Study ◽  
Music Teacher ◽  
Factor Analyses ◽  
Parallel Design ◽  
Quantitative Factor ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Assessment Pedagogy

In this study, we report what music teacher educators (MTEs, N = 149) in higher education understand about assessment. We include their assessment pedagogy, their levels of assessment pedagogy efficacy (APE) at both programmatic (unit level) and personal levels (ProAPE and PeAPE respectively), and the relationship this efficacy has with their (MTEs) satisfaction of assessment pedagogies within their institutions. This mixed-methods study uses a convergent parallel design, with qualitative inductive coding and quantitative factor analyses, correlational analyses, and non-parametric tests. We determine that MTEs report some misunderstanding of the assessment lexicon nevertheless they hold mostly high levels of both personal and programmatic assessment pedagogy efficacy. Differences were observed between MTEs that graduated after 2008 than those who graduated prior to 2008. Findings center on higher education faculty comfort with assessment in higher education with implications for professional development and continued research in the area.

scholarly journals Towards an Understanding of the Work of Teacher Education Professoriate in India

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-114
Author(s):  
Rajashree Srinivasan
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Professional Development ◽  
Teacher Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Teacher Educator ◽  
School Education ◽  
Work Identity ◽  
Education In India ◽  
New Vision

Reforming the teacher education system has been a key government policy towards improving school education in India. While recent curriculum and governance reforms articulate a new vision of teacher education that underscores a symbiotic relationship between teacher education and school education, it fails to engage enough with the most important participant of the teacher education system—the teacher educator. Changes to curriculum and governance process in the absence of a pro-active engagement of teacher educators with the reforms can do little to influence the teacher education processes and outcomes. The work of pre-service teacher educators is complex because their responsibilities relate to both school and higher education. The distinctiveness of their work, identity and professional development has always been marginalized in educational discourse. This article analyses select educational documents to examine the construction of work and identity of higher education-based teacher educators. It proposes the development of a professional framework of practice through a collective process, which would help understand the work of teacher educators and offer various possibilities for their professional development.

scholarly journals Teacher Educators’ Professional Identity in English-Medium Instruction at a Finnish University

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 9-33
Author(s):  
Sotiria Pappa ◽  
Josephine Moate
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Professional Identity ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Language Awareness ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
English Medium Instruction ◽  
The Relationship

Although different forms of English-medium instruction (EMI) are being recognised, the different ways in which EMI can impact the pedagogical activities and expertise of higher education educators have received less attention. Using face-to-face and written interviews with nine teacher educators at a Finnish university, this study examines the most important aspects teacher educators perceive in their work through EMI and how these aspects connect to the understanding of their professional identity. The study is theoretically premised on the interconnected concepts of pedagogical doing, pedagogical being, pedagogical relating, and pedagogical language awareness. The thematically analysed data highlighted the ways in which pedagogical being, doing, and relating revolve around the presence and role of the foreign language in EMI, as well as the concurrent disjunctures and opportunities EMI creates. Pedagogical being informed EMI teacher educators’ orientation to their work and the different ways language impinges on the sense of self as the teacher educators share how they try to understand and respond to the disjunctures of EMI. In terms of pedagogical doing, EMI impinges on how teacher educators enact their practice and the relationships developed with students. However, the focus of pedagogical relating addresses the relationship between the EMI teacher educators and their workplace. The findings from this study will hopefully contribute to the development of EMI teacher preparation and support critical discussions on the ‘Englishisation’ of higher education.

The Relationship Between Transformational Leadership Characteristics and Multicultural Education Practices in Teacher Educators

2018 ◽  
pp. 1154-1170
Author(s):  
Cheresa Greene-Clemons
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Transformational Leadership ◽  
Multicultural Education ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Teacher Educator ◽  
Leadership Characteristics ◽  
Teacher Student ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This study focuses on the relationship of transformational leadership characteristics in teacher educators and their multicultural education practices as an avenue to prepare and produce more teachers for the increasingly diverse P-12 student population in the 21st century. The more transformational leadership characteristics teacher educators possess, the more multicultural education practices are carried out by them towards producing and transforming teachers to carry out the same characteristics and practices in their classroom. Examples in this study illustrate the importance of the relationship in the teacher educator/teacher-student cycle. Overall, the research findings support that there is a relationship between teacher educators' transformational leadership characteristics and multicultural education practices. Finally, this study highlights the need to provide professional development for teacher educators to enhance their transformational leadership characteristics as well as their multicultural education practices.

Becoming music teacher educators: Learning from and with each other in a professional development community

2014 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 462-477 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristen Pellegrino ◽  
Bridget Sweet ◽  
Julie Derges Kastner ◽  
Heather A. Russell ◽  
Jill Reese
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Music Teacher

scholarly journals Staff Use of E-Learning and Graduate Competencies for the Knowledge Economy: A Study of the Misalignment between Rhetoric and Practice

2005 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 224-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicos Souleles
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Professional Development ◽  
Staff Development ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
Graduate Employability ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
The Relationship

E-learning is part of the wider debate on the changing role of higher education (HE). It is associated with the agenda on graduate employability and competencies for the knowledge economy (KE). Policy documents make explicit that participation in the KE is congruent with the acquisition of meta-skills. The role of HE is to provide for these competencies and e-learning is presented as assisting this objective. A primary prerequisite, however, is appropriate staff development. This qualitative study examines the relationship between the rhetoric and the practice of e-learning, and argues that issues associated with professional development exist at both institute and staff levels.

scholarly journals The professional development of higher education-based teacher educators: needs and realities

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (5) ◽  
pp. 848-861 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann MacPhail ◽  
Marit Ulvik ◽  
Ainat Guberman ◽  
Gerry Czerniawski ◽  
Helma Oolbekkink-Marchand ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Professional Development ◽  
Teacher Educators

The Relationship between Transformational Leadership Characteristics and Multicultural Education Practices in Teacher Educators

2016 ◽  
pp. 1603-1619
Author(s):  
Cheresa Greene-Clemons
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Transformational Leadership ◽  
Multicultural Education ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Teacher Educator ◽  
Leadership Characteristics ◽  
Teacher Student ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This study focuses on the relationship of transformational leadership characteristics in teacher educators and their multicultural education practices as an avenue to prepare and produce more teachers for the increasingly diverse P-12 student population in the 21st century. The more transformational leadership characteristics teacher educators possess, the more multicultural education practices are carried out by them towards producing and transforming teachers to carry out the same characteristics and practices in their classroom. Examples in this study illustrate the importance of the relationship in the teacher educator/teacher-student cycle. Overall, the research findings support that there is a relationship between teacher educators' transformational leadership characteristics and multicultural education practices. Finally, this study highlights the need to provide professional development for teacher educators to enhance their transformational leadership characteristics as well as their multicultural education practices.

The Mountain Lake Colloquium and the Mountain Lake Reader

2019 ◽  
pp. 160-187
Author(s):  
Janet R. Barrett ◽  
Diane Persellin ◽  
Janet Robbins ◽  
Sandra L. Stauffer
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Professional Learning ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Music Teacher ◽  
Mountain Lake ◽  
Biennial Conference

The Mountain Lake Colloquium, a biennial conference held since 1991 in Virginia, has become a robust and dynamic site for the professional learning of music teacher educators. The colloquium aspires to serve as a welcoming space for new colleagues, a seedbed of ideas, a forum for dialogue, a venue for disseminating scholarship, and a community of practice. This chapter captures the dimensions of the scholarship, practice, conversation, inquiry, reflection, and collegiality that have come to characterize participation in this community. It also describes the parallel creation and publication of six issues of the Mountain Lake Reader, a journal for disseminating related examples of practice and scholarly essays in artistic forms. The playful and polyvocal qualities of experience integral to the colloquium may inspire those interested in the professional development of music teacher educators and colleagues who are on the search to integrate scholarship and practice more fully and imaginatively.

Examining the long-term impact of participating in a professional development community of music teacher educators in the USA: An anchor through turbulent transitions

2017 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristen Pellegrino ◽  
Julie Derges Kastner ◽  
Jill Reese ◽  
Heather A. Russell
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Teacher Educator ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Music Teacher ◽  
Long Term Impact

Peer mentoring and participating in professional development communities (PDCs) have been documented as supporting individuals through the transition into the teacher educator profession. However, Gallagher, Griffin, Parker, Kitchen, and Figg (2011) suggested future researchers examine the lasting impact of participating in PDCs. The purpose of this study was to explore and describe the long-term impact of participating in a PDC of music teacher educators. We, as four participant-researchers and one participant, were five early-career women music teacher educators in tenure-track positions at different institutions, reflecting back on our PDC and collaborative research experiences. We used a social constructivist framework to examine how we made sense of our experiences. Data included individual interviews, paired interviews, reflective journals, and a Facebook group. Findings included: (a) feeling empowered through a sense of community and support; (b) coming to new understandings of ourselves as music teacher educators; (c) experiencing benefits and challenges of our collaborative research process; and (d) still learning/becoming. The sense of community and support, benefits from collaborating on research, and opportunities to “play” with our developing identities had lasting professional and personal implications, which helped us successfully navigate the transitions and provided an anchor during the turbulent process of becoming music teacher educators.

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