The Features of a Standard INSET

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Selma Deneme ◽  
Handan Çelik
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Training ◽  
Needs Assessment ◽  
Training Program ◽  
Top Down ◽  
General Picture ◽  
Active Involvement ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Shed Light

Adopting a qualitative descriptive methodology, the current study aims to explore whats and hows of planning, delivery, and follow-up in in-service teacher training. While doing this, together with presenting the general picture of in-service teacher trainings in Turkey, the study also makes use of a delivered in-service teacher training program so as to find how issues regarding planning, delivery, and follow-up were dealt with. The data collected through semi-structured written interview and supported with informal dialogues and telephone conversations revealed what was done and how was done for the three components. However, similar to many other trainings, the findings showed that lack of needs assessment, hands-on practice, and follow-up unfortunately makes the training to be restricted to what is known as traditional and top-down. For this reason, the findings shed light on the reality to consider teachers' needs, their active involvement, and on-going practice for effective in-service teacher trainings.

The Features of a Standard INSET

2018 ◽  
pp. 1389-1402
Author(s):  
Selma Deneme ◽  
Handan Çelik
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Training ◽  
Needs Assessment ◽  
Training Program ◽  
Top Down ◽  
General Picture ◽  
Active Involvement ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Shed Light

Adopting a qualitative descriptive methodology, the current study aims to explore whats and hows of planning, delivery, and follow-up in in-service teacher training. While doing this, together with presenting the general picture of in-service teacher trainings in Turkey, the study also makes use of a delivered in-service teacher training program so as to find how issues regarding planning, delivery, and follow-up were dealt with. The data collected through semi-structured written interview and supported with informal dialogues and telephone conversations revealed what was done and how was done for the three components. However, similar to many other trainings, the findings showed that lack of needs assessment, hands-on practice, and follow-up unfortunately makes the training to be restricted to what is known as traditional and top-down. For this reason, the findings shed light on the reality to consider teachers' needs, their active involvement, and on-going practice for effective in-service teacher trainings.

Preparing teachers in behavior disorders through an innovative teacher training program

1988 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 4-9
Author(s):  
Bonnie Joyce ◽  
Wilfred Wienke
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Training ◽  
Training Program ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Behavior Disorders ◽  
Computer Applications ◽  
Instructional Programs ◽  
Teacher Training Program ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Q Sort ◽  
Portable Computers

This article describes a unique teacher training program available to individuals who are teaching students with behavior disorders in rural areas of West Virginia. The program incorporates those competencies in behavior disorders and in rural education that have been field tested and identified as important for BD teachers in the state. Use of portable computers for collecting, recording, and analyzing student data, provide the participants with hands-on experience in computer applications and in methods for evaluating the effectiveness of behavioral and instructional programs in the classroom. Q-sort methodology, specially designed seminars, and videotaped vignettes of participants’ teaching performances make this program an individualized experience for all participants.

Empowering a Community from the Inside Out: Evaluation of a Yoga Teacher Training Program for Adults in Custody

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-29
Author(s):  
Heather Freeman ◽  
Christiane Brems ◽  
Paul Michael ◽  
Sarahjoy Marsh
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Training ◽  
Training Program ◽  
Correctional Officers ◽  
Program Completion ◽  
Volunteer Teachers ◽  
Teacher Training Program ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Key Informant ◽  
Prison Community

Abstract The current study evaluated a yoga teacher training program to understand the effect of bringing yoga psychology (as an integrated eight-limbed system) to adults in custody (AIC), who were trained to become yoga teachers who will in turn teach other AICs. The study used quantitative and qualitative measures to assess the yoga teacher training program's impact on individuals, their relationships, and the overall prison environment. The study included assessments and interviews with 12 AICs and nine yoga teacher volunteers, as well as key informant interviews with two correctional officers and five administrators who work within or directly with the Department of Corrections on the implementation of the program. Quantitative results revealed significant enhancements and sustainability in all key outcome variables (self-compassion, mindfulness, perceived stress, understanding of yoga philosophy, and teaching skills) from pretest to program completion and from completion to 3-month follow-up. Additionally, AIC yoga teachers became more similar on all outcome measures to the volunteer teachers from pretest to program completion and from completion to follow-up. Qualitative methods (used for 31 key informant and focus group interviews) revealed themes that illuminated positive effects on the prison community regarding participants' personal experiences, attitudes and values, behaviors, relationships, yoga philosophy in prison, culture, and future directions. Implications and recommendations are provided to support sustaining the current program and to help with the creation of new programs to infuse yoga philosophy into corrections departments.

scholarly journals Peritoneal Dialysis University for Surgeons: A Peritoneal Access Training Program

2016 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
John H. Crabtree ◽  
Todd Penner ◽  
Sean W. Armstrong ◽  
John Burkart
Keyword(s):  
Peritoneal Dialysis ◽  
Training Program ◽  
Course Evaluation ◽  
Surgical Simulators ◽  
Surgeon Training ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Catheter Complications ◽  
Class Average

Background A functioning catheter is vital to the success of peritoneal dialysis (PD). Catheter complications related to the insertion procedure remain a major hindrance to PD utilization. Most catheters are placed by surgeons. Suboptimal catheter outcomes appear to be related to inadequate training and experience during surgical residency and the absence of educational opportunities to remedy this deficit once the surgeon is in practice. Objective The aim of this report is to describe a 1-day comprehensive surgeon training program in PD access surgery and to convey the results of the first 7 courses. Methods Needs assessment data served as the foundation for formulating course objectives and content. A disease-based approach to PD was taken to provide both didactic instruction and laboratory exercises. Surgical simulators permitted skills development for each key task in catheter placement. Educational outcomes were measured with pre- and post-tests, course evaluation, and follow-up survey. Results Seven courses were attended by 134 surgeons with an average faculty to participant ratio of 1:4 during hands-on laboratory sessions. Pre- and post-testing demonstrated a class-average normalized educational gain of 50%. On a 5-point Likert scale, the course was scored highly on 14 areas of evaluation with average responses ranging from 4.4 to 4.9. A follow-up survey conducted a mean of 28 months after the programs revealed significantly increased utilization of all 10 course-targeted PD access skills. Participants gave mean scores of 4.6 for improved confidence in case management and 4.4 for better catheter outcomes. Conclusions A comprehensive 1-day peritoneal access training course can produce long-term self-assessed improvement in surgical management and PD catheter outcomes.

Evaluation and Facilitation of an In-Service Teacher Training Program

2017 ◽  
pp. 230-245
Author(s):  
Enisa Mede ◽  
Yesim Kesli Dollar
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Teacher Training ◽  
Training Program ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Teacher Education Programs ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Quality Of Teaching ◽  
The Impact

This study aims to evaluate and facilitate a two-week INSET program designed for the primary English teachers working at private schools in Istanbul, Turkey. Specifically, this chapter not just focuses on the perceptions of the participating teachers regarding whether the program was planned and implemented parallel to the determinants of effective INSETs suggested in literature, but also, investigates the impact of such a training program on teachers' class practices. Additionally, the challenges the participating teachers went through while implementing what they learned into their teaching contexts were examined as well. In an attempt to facilitate follow-up, the findings of this study are hope to serve basis by providing suggestions for the development, improvement and implementation of new in-service teacher education programs; in return, it will also increase the quality of teaching and learning both in pre- and in- service teacher education.

scholarly journals COMMUNICATING COMPOSTING TO THE PUBLIC.

HortScience ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 444f-444
Author(s):  
Sandra A. Balch ◽  
Dick L. Auld
Keyword(s):  
Visual Information ◽  
Community Gardens ◽  
Environmental Concerns ◽  
Education Curriculum ◽  
The Public ◽  
Active Involvement ◽  
Hands On

As the public becomes more aware of environmental concerns, there has been a renewed interest in composting. Municipalities are promoting composting as a way to save diminishing landfill space. Although there are many successful composting programs, many would-be composters are thwarted by a lack of expertise, information, and follow-up support. Brochures, videos, and slide presentations present visual information, but hands-on instruction and active involvement in on-going programs has increased the likelihood of success. Integrating composting into established programs, such as community gardens, institutional programs, education curriculum, and demonstration sites, has proven an effective method of conveying composting information to the public.

Young Islam

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Avi Max Spiegel
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Political Islam ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Religious Ideology ◽  
Secular World ◽  
New Recruits ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Islamist Movements

Today, two-thirds of all Arab Muslims are under the age of thirty. This book takes readers inside the evolving competition for their support—a competition not simply between Islamism and the secular world, but between different and often conflicting visions of Islam itself. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research among rank-and-file activists in Morocco, the book shows how Islamist movements are encountering opposition from an unexpected source—each other. In vivid detail, the book describes the conflicts that arise as Islamist groups vie with one another for new recruits, and the unprecedented fragmentation that occurs as members wrangle over a shared urbanized base. Looking carefully at how political Islam is lived, expressed, and understood by young people, the book moves beyond the top-down focus of current research. Instead, it makes the compelling case that Islamist actors are shaped more by their relationships to each other than by their relationships to the state or even to religious ideology. By focusing not only on the texts of aging elites but also on the voices of diverse and sophisticated Muslim youths, the book exposes the shifting and contested nature of Islamist movements today—movements that are being reimagined from the bottom up by young Islam. This book, the first to shed light on this new and uncharted era of Islamist pluralism in the Middle East and North Africa, uncovers the rivalries that are redefining the next generation of political Islam.

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