scholarly journals Education for Prevention of Alcohol and Tobacco Consumption in Secondary Education in Cubal

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 10-17
Author(s):  
Adelino Pena Calei ◽  
Augusto José Fazenda
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Education ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
School Principals ◽  
Tobacco Consumption ◽  
Second Trimester ◽  
School Year ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Break Time ◽  
Teaching Learning

 The objective of the study was to characterize the current situation of alcohol and tobacco consumption in secondary school, with a view to the health education, in Cubal, Benguela province, Angola. The study was carried out in the first and second trimester of the school year and the survey to the teacher and student, interviews with school principals and participant`s observation during class and in the playground were used as methods. The sample was taken from the Fist Cycle of Secondary Education at "Kilamba" School and it concluded that teachers and students presented themselves to classes after comsuming alcohol and used to consume tobacco during break time in the court-yard. Although teachers and students were aware of the negative effect of alcohol and tobacco consumption, it was noticed that the problem at issue was not systematically addressed in the teaching-learning process of Geography, which would contribute to the prevention of alcohol and tobacco consumption in school and in general life of the citizen.

The Processes of Appropriation of Technological Tools in the Classroom

2020 ◽  
pp. 250-264
Author(s):  
Stéphanie Boéchat-Heer ◽  
Maria Antonietta Impedovo ◽  
Francesco Arcidiacono
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Learning Tool ◽  
Teaching Process ◽  
School Year ◽  
Technological Tools ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Technological Tool ◽  
Teaching Learning

This chapter aims to investigate how teachers perceive the usefulness of introducing technological tools (namely, iPad) for the learning/teaching process in a professional secondary school. More specifically, the authors intend to understand how the process of iPad appropriation is identified by the teachers as a learning tool. Through the analysis of focus groups involving different teachers belonging to the same school, the authors intend to detect teachers' self-efficacy and beliefs concerning the appropriation of the use of the iPad in the classroom along a school year. The findings of the study highlight diverse facilitating and hindering elements in the process of teachers' appropriation of such technological tool. The study opens further spaces to examine teachers' and students' perceptions in mastering new technological tools and in building new processes of teaching/learning.

An Analysis of Teachers' Processes of Technology Appropriation in Classroom

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stéphanie Boéchat-Heer ◽  
Maria Antonietta Impedovo ◽  
Francesco Arcidiacono
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Learning Tool ◽  
Teaching Process ◽  
Technology Appropriation ◽  
School Year ◽  
Learning Contexts ◽  
Teaching Learning

This paper aims to investigate the “sense” of appropriation of the iPad use by teachers in a professional secondary school. As iPads are increasingly employed in the teaching process in classroom the authors intend to understand how the process of teachers' appropriation of iPad use is perceived as a learning tool. Through the analysis of focus groups with teachers, they intend to detect changes in the sense of appropriation of the iPad in classroom during a school year. The findings of their study allow to identify facilitating and hindering elements that support the process of teachers' appropriation of iPads and open further spaces to investigate the role of new technologies in teaching/learning contexts.

scholarly journals Reflection on exam grades to improve calibration of secondary school students: a longitudinal study

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 291-317
Author(s):  
Marloes L. Nederhand ◽  
Huib K. Tabbers ◽  
Joran Jongerling ◽  
Remy M. J. P. Rikers
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Education ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
School Students ◽  
The Third ◽  
School Year ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Actual Grade ◽  
Calibration Accuracy ◽  
The Difference

Abstract Grades provide students with information about their level of performance. However, grades may also make students more aware of how well they have estimated their performance, their so-called calibration accuracy. This longitudinal quasi-experimental study, set in secondary education, examined how to increase students’ awareness of the accuracy of their grade estimates in order to improve their calibration accuracy. During an entire school year, students from year 1, 2, and 3 provided grade estimates after each of their French exams. Subsequently, when students received their grades, the level of reflection support on their earlier estimates was manipulated. The first group of students just received their grade, the second group had to calculate the difference between their estimate and the actual grade, and the third group also had to reflect on reasons for a possible mismatch. We expected that more reflection support would lead to more improvement in calibration accuracy. Results showed that providing grade estimates already improved calibration accuracy over the school year, regardless of level of reflection support. This finding shows that asking for grade estimates is an easy-to-implement way to improve calibration accuracy of students in secondary education.

scholarly journals A sequential school based smoke prevention program in secondary school adolescents

2015 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Di Paco ◽  
R. Boffi ◽  
C. De Marco ◽  
N. Ambrosino
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
School Principals ◽  
Smoking Habit ◽  
Soccer Players ◽  
Second Hand Smoke ◽  
School Year ◽  
School Based ◽  
Show Business ◽  
Smoke Prevention ◽  
And Control

Background and Aim. The hazardous health effects of smoking and second-hand smoke are well known and have been confirmed in several studies. We wondered whether a school based programme involving media models such as those represented by famous soccer players and TV characters, was effective in prevention of smoking habit in secondary school adolescents. Methods. Since October 2006 to May 2007 an anonymous survey was submitted to 1382 secondary schools pupils. After completing the questionnaire all students of 42 out of 70 classes selected by the school principals underwent a prevention programme consisting of 1 hour lecture on smoke healthy hazard with educational material (slides, video, leaflets). Furthermore each pupil was given card games with significant pictures. Since October 2007 to May 2008 and Since October 2008 to May 2009 pupils underwent a 1 hour interactive lesson on smoke related health hazards respectively. On December 2007 pupils in study attended a theatre event with show business characters acting to smoke dissuasion. No intervention was performed on the 568 pupils of the other classes along all the same 2 school- year period (controls). Results. Among other results at the end of the 2-year program 4% pupils of study group and 14% of controls reported smoking habit (p = 0.001) whereas 7% and 27% (p = 0.001) of study and control pupils respectively ignored smoking induced dependence. Conclusion. A school based programme involving media models such as those represented by famous soccer players, TV characters, was effective in prevention of smoking habit in secondary school adolescents.

scholarly journals Role of In-Service Promoted Secondary School Heads in Strengthening Secondary Education in Kohat Division (Pakistan)

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 38
Author(s):  
Qaiser Suleman ◽  
Ishtiaq Hussain
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Education ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Statistical Treatment ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
School Level ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
School Heads

The purpose of the current paper was to explore the role of in-service promoted secondary school heads in strengthening secondary education. The objectives of the study were: (a) to investigate the role of in-service promoted secondary school heads in strengthening secondary education; (b) to investigate the weak areas of in-service promoted secondary school heads in strengthening secondary education; and (c) to suggest workable recommendations to improve the administrative performance of in-service promoted secondary school heads. All the teachers and students at secondary school level in Kohat Division, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Pakistan) constituted the population of the study. The study was delimited to male secondary school heads, teachers and students only. The study was further delimited to 30 secondary schools in each district of Kohat Division i.e., Karak, Kohat and Hangu. In order to ensure adequate representation of the population, 450 teachers and 900 students were selected through simple random sampling technique. The nature of the study was descriptive and questionnaires were used as research instrument. Pilot testing was conducted to eliminate the weaknesses, misconceptions and ambiguities of the questions in the questionnaires. Data was collected through personal visits. Then it was organized, tabulated, analyzed and interpreted. Statistical tools, i.e., percentage and chi square were used for the statistical treatment of the data. After analysis of the data, the researchers arrived at the conclusions that the overall administrative performance of in-service promoted secondary school heads was ineffective and unproductive. They lack the qualities of effective leadership and successful administration. Based on findings of the study, it is strongly recommended that a special professional training programme regarding school administration and management should be institutionalized so that in-service promoted secondary school heads may be equipped with the modern techniques of school management and administration. KEYWORDS: Role, In-service Promoted Secondary School Heads, Strengthening, Secondary Education

scholarly journals Teachers of secondary school as Democracy Coaches: Study of their conceptions during their initial formation

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 01003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario Ferreras-Listán ◽  
José Antonio Pineda-Alfonso ◽  
Elena Guichot-Muñoz
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Education ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Educational Settings ◽  
Initial Formation ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Democratic Learning ◽  
Educational Field

This study has been developed within the framework of a European Erasmus + project called ELEF†. The aim of this project is to develop, implement, evaluate and replicate innovative democratic learning environments. With this purpose, the Democracy Coaches are trained as agents of citizen participation and generators of democracy, both in educational centres and in informal educational settings. In this context, and during various training sessions, the Democracy Coaches work with the knowledge and skills they need to acquire. This paper focuses on the study and analysis carried out on the concepts expressed by these teachers of secondary education during their training. In order for them to become democracy coaches in the formal educational field, we address concepts such as democracy, citizenship and the most appropriate teaching-learning methodology for illustrating these concepts and competences, bearing in mind that they should educate citizens with full awareness of their rights and duties.

scholarly journals A DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF CLASS INTERACTIONS

2020 ◽  
Vol LXVIII (2) ◽  
pp. 49-69
Author(s):  
Elena Ungureanu
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Classroom Interactions ◽  
Discursive Space ◽  
School Year ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Romanian Literature ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Audio Video

In this article I analyse the discursive context of two classes of students bringing into discussion the concepts of educational knowledge and the organization of teaching-learning activities. Although there is much research that provides nuanced insights into how teachers and students are involved in the social construction of classroom discourses about knowledge, in Romanian literature the issue of classroom interactions has been approached from the perspective of teachers ‘ and students’ perceptions, while school knowledge has been studied only incidentally Therefore, I present a qualitative study, based on a critical discourse analysis that highlights how different versions of knowledge are socially constructed in the discursive space of the classroom, in order to point out ways in which the classroom and school can become spaces in which interactions no longer revolve around knowledge defined only by reference to disciplinary content. Bimonthly observations and audio-video recordings were made in the 2017-2018 school year during language and communication activities, in two classes, from two different schools. The results show that classroom interactions and participation structures differ depending on the purpose of the activities, and student participation is not only based on generally accepted communication rules, but varies depending on the implicit or explicit purpose of the activities.

scholarly journals Effects of School Building on Academic Achievement of Secondary School Students in Southern KP, Pakistan

2020 ◽  
Vol V (II) ◽  
pp. 28-34
Author(s):  
Nasir Ali ◽  
Abdul Basit Khan ◽  
Tanveer Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
School Building ◽  
Basic Building Block ◽  
School Students ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
The Impact

Without proper building, the teaching-learning process is incomplete. The importance of school building has been acknowledged as a basic building block of humanity from past till now as teachers and students' stay is mostly in school building during study hours; and there is close relationship between school building and students' academic achievement. In this study, the researcher has also focused on the school building and its effects on the academic achievement of students. The main objective of the study was to know the impact of School building on Secondary School students in Southern districts of Khyber Pakthunkhwa, Pakistan. The study was descriptive. Dichotomous questionnaire was used to collect data from the respondents. Despcritive and inferential statistics were used to attain the desired objective the study. The results of the current study show that there is a significant relationship between students' academic achievement and school building.

scholarly journals Integrating Sustainable Development Requirements into the Secondary Stage Chemistry Curriculum in Egypt

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-154
Author(s):  
Shaimaa Abdul Salam Abdul Salam Selim
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Secondary Education ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Third Grade ◽  
Second Grade ◽  
Chemistry Curriculum ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
The Third ◽  
School Year ◽  
Secondary Stage

Abstract The problem of the current research lies in the need to integrate some requirements of the sustainable development (SD) in secondary school chemistry curriculum. The research specifically seeks to answer the following question: What “requirements of sustainable development” should be taught in the secondary school chemistry curriculum in Egypt? To that end, the researcher analyzed the content of chemistry curricula in the three grades of secondary education in Egypt for the school year 2017–2018, and prepared a list of 57 SD requirements. It should be noted that fifteen requirements of sustainable development at the second-grade secondary stage were distributed into five units; the third unit included one requirement; the fourth unit comprised four requirements; and the fifth unit – one requirement. Regarding curriculum at the third-grade secondary stage, 17 requirements of sustainable development were integrated and distributed along five units.

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