Instructional Interactions and Literacy

2021 ◽  
pp. 261-282
Author(s):  
David A. Adams ◽  
Bridget K. Hamre ◽  
Lawrence Farmer
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Development ◽  
Diffusion Of Innovations ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Skill Development ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Classroom Organization ◽  
Instructional Interactions ◽  
Classroom Assessment Scoring System ◽  
Support Domain ◽  
Cue Recognition

Teacher social emotional competence has been connected to literacy development as well as broader academic outcomes through the domains of Emotional Support and Classroom Organization of the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS). Despite these findings, teacher development has yet to place an emphasis on social emotional skill development in line with such research. Drawing on diffusion of innovations literature, the authors offer a conceptual model that ties teacher social emotional skill development directly to the instructional support domain of the CLASS, thereby increasing the compatibility of social emotional learning to teaching and learning outcomes, including literacy. The analysis identified perspective-taking and social cue recognition as key opportunities for instructionally-aligned teacher social emotional skill development. The authors make recommendations for methods to increase these skills for teachers.

Assessing Teachers’ Classroom Management Competency: A Case Study of the Classroom Assessment Scoring System–Secondary

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 475-492
Author(s):  
Tanner LeBaron Wallace ◽  
Alyssa K. Parr ◽  
Richard J. Correnti
Keyword(s):  
Classroom Management ◽  
Scoring System ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Classroom Assessment ◽  
Classroom Organization ◽  
Instructional Interactions ◽  
Management Quality ◽  
Video Viewing ◽  
Classroom Assessment Scoring System ◽  
Effectiveness Studies

One popular observational instrument to evaluate teaching is the Classroom Assessment Scoring System–Secondary (CLASS-S). Yet, the secondary version of the CLASS poorly discriminates classroom management quality beyond identifying extremely chaotic classrooms with teachers’ scores clustering in the most positive ranges of effectiveness. Studies of adolescents’ perceptions of teachers’ classroom management practices, however, clearly suggest more nuance and complexity. Assuming this discrepancy between results (i.e., lack of differentiation vs. nuanced complexity) might be an artifact of this particular observational protocol rather than a reflection of reality, this study microanalyzed the source material influencing adolescent and adult evaluative assessments of classroom management, using transcripts generated from video viewing sessions. Comparisons between (a) adolescents’ indigenous interpretations, and (b) adults’ trained interpretations of CLASS-S classroom management instructional interactions suggest that adolescents view student engagement and positive climate as particularly relevant to assessments of classroom management, whereas the CLASS-S does not include these as dimensions of effective teaching assessed as part of the Classroom Organization domain.

scholarly journals Biography, policy and language teaching practices in a multilingual context: Early childhood classrooms in Mauritius

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Aruna Ankiah-Gangadeen ◽  
Michael Anthony Samuel
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Teacher Development ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
African Country ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Primary Teachers ◽  
Language Policies ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Implementation Level

Language policies in education in multilingual postcolonial contexts are often driven by ideological considerations more veered towards socio-economic and political viability for the country than towards the practicality at implementation level. Centuries after the advent of colonisation, when culturally and linguistically homogenous countries helped to maintain the dominion of colonisers, the English language still has a stronghold in numerous countries due to the material rewards it offers. How then are the diversity of languages – often with different statuses and functions in society – reconciled in the teaching and learning process? How do teachers deal with the intricacies that are generated within a situation where children are taught in a language that is foreign to them? This paper is based on a study involving pre-primary teachers in Mauritius, a developing multilingual African country. The aim was to understand how their approach to the teaching of English was shaped by their biographical experiences of learning the language. The narrative inquiry methodology offered rich possibilities to foray into these experiences, including the manifestations of negotiating their classroom pedagogy in relation to their own personal historical biographies of language teaching and learning, the policy environment, and the pragmatic classroom specificities of diverse, multilingual learners. These insights become resources for early childhood education and teacher development in multilingual contexts caught within the tensions between language policy and pedagogy.

scholarly journals Hastening slowly: insights about teacher development from an evaluation of courses at the WCED’s Cape Teaching and Leadership Institute

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Meyer ◽  
Lydia Abel
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Teacher Development ◽  
Professional Learning ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
School Level ◽  
Western Cape ◽  
Leadership Institute ◽  
Service Training ◽  
Education Administrators ◽  
The Impact

In the area of teacher professional development, South African education administrators face the challenge of reconciling two imperatives that have entirely different implications for programme time frames and budgets. On the one hand, there is an urgent need to improve the pedagogic content knowledge of many teachers to improve the overall standard of teaching and learning in the public school system. Considering the scale and urgency of the matter, centralised course-based in-service training seems to be the only affordable alternative. On the other hand, researchers have long warned that once-off course-based training on its own has limited impact on teachers’ practice, and has to be accompanied by further professional support in the school and classroom, or be abandoned in favour of more enduring professional learning communities. The Western Cape Education Department (WCED) has grappled with this dilemma in the Department’s various professional development initiatives for teachers, a mainstay of which is the training offered by the Cape Teaching and Leadership Institute (CTLI). This paper presents some of the data and findings from an external evaluation that ORT SA CAPE conducted in 2011–2012 of courses offered by the WCED at the CTLI. The hierarchy of INSET outcomes proposed by Harland and Kinder (1997) was applied to record changes in the practice of 18 teachers at eight schools. The progress of five of the teachers is discussed to illustrate the interplay between school-level factors and the experiences of individual teachers which influenced the impact of CTLI training on their teaching.

scholarly journals Introduction: 5 years of ELEUK

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Amparo Lallana ◽  
Lourdes Hernández Martín ◽  
Mara Fuertes Gutiérrez
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Professional Development ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Teacher Development ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Spanish Language ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Uk

We are delighted to be able to present to you this fifth anniversary volume which inaugurates a series of publications emanating from conferences organised by ELEUK, the Association for the Teaching of Spanish in Higher Education in the United Kingdom (www.eleuk.org). Nearly a decade ago, Spanish Language Teaching (SLT) was going from strength to strength across higher education; however, there were hardly any conferences or professional development events within the UK dedicated specifically to the teaching of Spanish. University colleagues and language professionals got together to launch a space from where to promote the teaching and learning of Spanish, foster research in SLT, provide opportunities for teacher development, facilitate collaboration among its members, and enhance subject expertise.

scholarly journals Instructional Leadership in Malaysia

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (6S3) ◽  
pp. 537-547
Keyword(s):  
Student Achievement ◽  
Instructional Leadership ◽  
Teacher Development ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
School Leaders ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Strong Relationship ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
The Right ◽  
Improving Student Achievement

Leadership of school leaders regardless principals or headmasters is among the key factors that can affect the academic achievement of students directly or indirectly. Based on previous research, a strong relationship between student achievement and leadership of school leaders was proven. The Ministry of Education Malaysia (MoE) has outlined three approaches to improving student achievement through the improvement of school leaders' performance. One of the approaches is school leaders should act as instructional leaders who are actively involved in teacher development activities by planning, coordinating and evaluating the teaching and learning process (T&L) at school. This concept paper will discuss several matters related to instructional leadership such as background and development of instructional leadership, instructional leadership definitions, the development of instructional leadership concepts, instructional leadership models and the issues and challenges that exist in implementing this leadership styles. The analysis was done in the context of Malaysia and abroad. The paper is written based on extensive secondary data analysis. After analyzing matters relating to instructional leadership, it can be concluded that instructional leadership is a form of leadership that every school leader needs to practice for excellence achievements in a school. With a lot of challenges nowadays, it needs to be addressed so that the direction of the school is on the right track and students’ achievement can be enhanced.

Pedagogy of Inclusion

2018 ◽  
pp. 87-102
Author(s):  
Maluleka Khazamula Jan
Keyword(s):  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning By Doing ◽  
Inclusive Classroom ◽  
Gifted Children ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Right To Education ◽  
The World ◽  
The Right ◽  
Relevant Pedagogy

For far too long, in all parts of the world, the most vulnerable members of society have been excluded from schools. All children, regardless of their physical, intellectual, social, emotional, linguistic, or other conditions, including disabled and gifted children, have the right to education and the relevant pedagogy of inclusion. The teaching methods used should accommodate all members of the society. People who are planning the teaching strategies should also know that people learn better when they do things. The purpose of this chapter is to determine how the theory of constructionism can be applied in the teaching and learning of students in the inclusive education. Information collected from literature on teaching and learning in inclusive education is critically analyzed through the theory of constructionism. Various theorists found that constructionism is relevant to an inclusive classroom since it encourages learning by doing.

Epilogue

2021 ◽  
pp. 158-162
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Music Teachers ◽  
Emotional Health ◽  
Music Teaching ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Music Making ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The One ◽  
Music And The Arts

The epilogue addresses the observations of the editors and authors of this volume regarding their observations of the pedagogical shifts needed to address music teaching and learning during a global pandemic such as the one unleashed by Covid-19. When a great deal of musicking, teaching, and learning needed to happen remotely, having access to technology and understanding how to employ it for supporting creative and collaborative music making and remote instruction was of paramount importance for many music teachers and musicians. Yet for too many students and school districts around the globe, the digital divide heightened the lack of educational equity in countless communities. While many districts merely focused on content delivery though whatever digital or non-digital means were available, the authors noted the crucial role that a focus on social-emotional learning plays in the lives of our students, with a particular emphasis on how music and the arts can support our emotional health and sense of connection.

PAUL

2010 ◽  
pp. 173-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charoula Angeli ◽  
George Veletsianos
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Development ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Virtual Communities ◽  
Learning Systems ◽  
Pedagogical Content ◽  
Computer Based Learning ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Content Domain ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Virtual Communities Of Practice

Adaptive e-learning systems can be extremely valuable tools in developing innovative learner-centered environments in any content domain. One area that can benefit greatly from adaptive e-learning systems is teacher development in the educational uses of computers. In this chapter, we discuss the design of PAUL, an adaptive computer-based learning environment for the development of ICT-related pedagogical content knowledge, a unique body of knowledge that teachers need to develop in order to be able to teach with ICT. PAUL combines two opposing trends in adapting instruction, namely instruction that is both controlled by the learner and the system. We expect the impact of PAUL to be significant as it will provide a venue for effective teacher professional development situating learning in virtual communities of practice and supporting teacher thinking about the educational uses of ICT in teaching and learning.

scholarly journals POETRY INTERVENTION IMPACTS PERSPECTIVES ON DEMENTIA AND CAPABILITIES AMONG YOUNG VOLUNTEERS

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S198-S199
Author(s):  
Daniel B Kaplan ◽  
Gary Glazner
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Emotional Health ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Group Settings ◽  
The Arts ◽  
People With Dementia

Abstract Poetry for Life (PFL), is a teaching and learning initiative that brings students together with older adults in meaningful community service workshops. PFL capitalizes on the skills and passions of young poets by offering opportunities to serve elders by leading poetry workshops at settings where older adults receive care. This study examines measurable impacts of training, exposure, and experience in poetry-based intergenerational workshops on students’ knowledge, attitudes, and values. Participating groups of students receive instruction in performing and creating poetry in group settings. They visit local elder care settings to facilitate PFL workshops and then write reflections on their experiences. Students agree to complete pre- and post-program surveys to document the impacts of PFL experiences on students' social/emotional health and on their knowledge, attitudes, and values related to older adults, dementia and dementia care, poetry and arts-based interventions, and careers in healthcare, aging fields, and the arts. To date, 33 young people from one middle school, one high school, and one graduate college program have volunteered to participate in the program and completed the study. Findings reveal significant impacts on students’ perceived capabilities working and communicating with people with dementia as well as leading poetry activities. Additionally, significant positive impacts were demonstrated on 12 of 20 items on the Dementia Attitudes Scale across participating students. The PFL experience did not, however, lead to significant impacts on student self-esteem or work interests. These findings suggest benefits and limitations of this service-learning experience. Implications for future programming will be discussed.

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