scholarly journals Preparing Student Teachers to Teach with Technology: Case Studies in Finland and Israel

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 19-35
Author(s):  
Olzan Goldstein ◽  
Eero Ropo
Keyword(s):  
Student Teachers ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Administrative Support ◽  
National Level ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
School Level ◽  
Teacher Education Institution ◽  
Institutional Strategies ◽  
Teachers Attitudes ◽  
The Impact

This quantitative study examines the training of student teachers for ICT-based teaching in two teacher education institution, in Israel and Finland. The data was collected in 2015-2017 using a questionnaire administered to 41 Finnish and 44 Israeli student teachers. The results show that most student teachers had practice in ICT-based teaching. However, about a third of student teachers in both institutions practiced only two times or less using ICT. Those who practiced mostly used a teacher-centred approach as did their college and school mentor teachers who integrated ICT in their lessons. The variable describing competency in ICT-based teaching correlated with student teachers' attitudes, the number of ICT-based lessons they taught, modelling by the school mentor teacher, and the various schools’ infrastructures and support. The results show that students in Israeli institutions are better prepared to teach with ICT which can be explained by the impact of the latest national reforms. We conclude that students' perception of their TPACK is the function of a variety of factors: on a personal level (attitudes towards the contribution of ICT to teaching and learning); on an institutional level (curriculum, modelling by faculty, institutional strategies); on a field practice school level (modelling by school mentors, infrastructure, pedagogical, technological, and administrative support); and on a national level (reforms and their implementation models). All these factors must be considered to promote the pedagogically innovative integration of ICT in teacher training and the overall education system. The best strategy to achieve this goal is to support collaboration between TEIs and schools on the national level. Wide-scale implementation of ICT in teaching demands significant investments in infrastructure and training. Hence much of its success depends on the national vision and priorities given to this purpose.

scholarly journals “You would expect the successful person to be the man”

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 303-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sally Jones
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Entrepreneurship Education ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Symbolic Violence ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Multiple Method ◽  
The Impact

Purpose – This paper aims to to explore power and legitimacy in the entrepreneurship education classroom by using Pierre Bourdieu’s sociological and educational theories. It highlights the pedagogic authority invested in educators and how this may be influenced by their assumptions about the nature of entrepreneurship. It questions the role of educators as disinterested experts, exploring how power and gendered legitimacy “play out” in staff–student relationships and female students’ responses to this. Design/methodology/approach – A multiple-method, qualitative case study approach is taken, concentrating on a depth of focus in one UK’s higher education institution (HEI) and on the experiences, attitudes and classroom practices of staff and students in that institution. The interviews, with an educator and two students, represent a self-contained story within the more complex story of the case study. Findings – The interviewees’ conceptualization of entrepreneurship is underpinned by acceptance of gendered norms, and both students and staff misrecognize the masculinization of entrepreneurship discourses that they encounter as natural and unquestionable. This increases our understanding of symbolic violence as a theoretical construct that can have real-world consequences. Originality/value – The paper makes a number of theoretical and empirical contributions. It addresses an important gap in the literature, as educators and the impact of their attitudes and perceptions on teaching and learning are rarely subjects of inquiry. It also addresses gaps and silences in understandings of the gendered implications of HE entrepreneurship education more generally and how students respond to the institutional arbitration of wider cultural norms surrounding entrepreneurship. In doing so, it challenges assertions that Bourdieu’s theories are too abstract to have any empirical value, by bridging the gap between symbolic violence as a theory and its manifestation in teaching and learning practices.

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 Use of ICT in Teacher Education

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mr. Parmanand Barodiya ◽  
Mr. Saurveer Singh ◽  
Mrs. Anupam Choudhary
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Teacher Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Integration Of Technology ◽  
Teacher Education Institution ◽  
Do So

Professional development to incorporate ICTs into teaching and learning is an ongoing process. Teacher education curriculum needs to update this knowledge and skills as the school curriculum change. The teachers need to learn to teach with digital technologies, even though many of them have not been taught to do so. The aim of teacher training in this regard can be either teacher education in ICTs or teacher education through ICTs. A teacher‘s professional development is central to the overall change process in education. In planning the integration of technology in Teacher education it is important for teacher education, Institution to understand the knowledge and skills necessary for teachers to effectively use ICT in their instructions. Teachers need technical assistance to use and maintain technology. In this paper discuses to study of Teacher education, to know the Significance of ICT in teacher education and to provide the some Suggestions of teacher education.

scholarly journals Reflection in Teaching

2005 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-20
Author(s):  
Ghassoub Mustafa
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Small Sample ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Collaborative Reflection ◽  
Teachers Attitudes ◽  
Definition Of

The first part presents a review of concepts relating to reflection, drawing on the literature in this area. This literature review relates to the following aspects of reflection: the definition of reflection, the process of reflection, strategies in reflection, content of reflection, barriers to reflection, and advantages of reflection. The second part of this paper presents an investigation into the perceptions of a small sample of English language educators and supervisors, through personal interviews with 9 teachers and 3 supervisors from one higher education institution and other educational institutions in the United Arab Emirates. The findings of the investigation are analyzed with respect to the dimensions that appear in the literature review. These findings show that the teachers do have some knowledge of reflection. They reveal that the teachers: attitudes towards reflection and its applicability in the teaching and learning process is largely positive, mixed with some degree of skepticism. Teachers agree that reflection is useful, but many seem uncertain about how it can be applied in their situation. In some cases the interviewees seemed to be more concerned about the technicalities of their job, making collaborative reflection appear less of a priority.

scholarly journals “Walking on egg shells”: Brexit, British values and educational space

2019 ◽  
Vol 62 (9) ◽  
pp. 981-997
Author(s):  
Francis Farrell
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Initial Teacher Education ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Content Type ◽  
School Settings ◽  
Transformative Teaching ◽  
Civic Nationalism ◽  
The Impact

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to critically explore and foreground secondary religious education (RE) student teachers’ accounts of the dilemmas they experienced in their classrooms and schools in a highly racialised post referendum environment. Teacher narratives are analysed in order to suggest ways in which a transformative teaching and learning agenda drawing from a pluralistic human rights framework can be reasserted in place of government requirements to promote fundamental British values (FBV). Design/methodology/approach Qualitative data were collected in focus group interviews to gain insights into how the referendum environment was experienced phenomenologically in localised school settings. Findings The interview data reveals the complex ways in which the discourses circulating in the post referendum milieu play out in highly contingent, diverse secondary school settings. These schools operate in a high stakes policy context, shaped by the new civic nationalism of FBV, the Prevent security agenda and government disavowal of “multiculturalism” in defence of “our way of life” (Cameron, 2011). A key finding to emerge from the teachers’ narratives is that some of the ways in which Prevent and FBV have been imposed in their schools has reduced the transformative potentials of the critical, pluralistic RE approaches to teaching and learning that is promoted within the context of their university initial teacher education programme. Research limitations/implications The findings suggest that existing frameworks associated with security and civic nationalism are not sufficient to ensure that young citizens receive an education that prepares them for engagement with a post truth, post Brexit racial and political environment. Transformative teaching and learning approaches (Duckworth and Smith, 2018), drawing upon pluralistic, critical RE and human rights education are presented as more effective alternatives which recognise the dignity and agency of both teachers and students. Originality/value This paper is an original investigation of the impact of the Brexit referendum environment on student teachers in a university setting. In the racialised aftermath of the referendum the need for transformative pluralistic and critical educational practice has never been more urgent. The data and analysis presented in this paper offer a compelling argument for a root and branch reformulation of current government security agendas in education.

Individual and Collective Reflection: Deepening Early Childhood Pre-service Teachers’ Reflective Thinking during Practicum

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lydia Foong ◽  
Mariani Binti ◽  
Andrea Nolan
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Reflective Thinking ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
Direct Observations ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Teacher Education Institution ◽  
The Uk

THIS STUDY EXPLORED INDIVIDUAL and collective reflection as pedagogical approaches to support early childhood pre-service teachers’ reflection during practicum. Current trends in the literature show a shift from individual reflection to collective reflection, with an emphasis on social constructivist perspectives. This qualitative study focused on a Malaysian teacher education institution conducting an undergraduate early years program from the UK as the selected case. Sources of evidence came from interviews, direct observations and documents such as student teachers’ teaching portfolios, their reflection journals and assessment forms. The results show that collective reflection supported higher levels of reflective thinking during practicum at the integration, validation and appropriation levels of reflection, compared to when they reflected individually. Collective reflection provided Malaysian teachers with a new platform for problem-solving, connecting theory to practice, as well as the sharing and consideration of multiple perspectives, resulting in a deeper understanding of classroom practices.

scholarly journals CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF STUDENT TEACHER ABSENTEEISM IN TEACHER EDUCATION INSTITUTION

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (7) ◽  
pp. 480-484
Author(s):  
B. S. Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Student Teacher ◽  
Classroom Environment ◽  
Random Sampling ◽  
Female Student ◽  
Male Student ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Teacher Absenteeism ◽  
Teacher Education Institution

A school was a place to get knowledge. A student absentee is a major concern for lecturers at institutions of teacher education learning. Absences create a dead, tiresome, unpleasant classroom environment that makes students who come to class uncomfortable and the lecturer irritable. The objective of the study was to study the causes of student teacher absentees in teacher education institution. The investigator selected the sample through random sampling, 994 student teachers were selected from teacher education institution from Allahabad. To collect the data researcher has used Absenteeism Inventory constructed by researcher. The salient finding of the study was the Male student teachers are more absent in their Teacher education Institution than Female student teachers and student teachers in Private Teacher education Institution are more absent in their Teacher education Institution than student teachers in Government Teacher education Institution.

scholarly journals Teachers’ Attitudes to Team Teaching in Japanese Elementary Schools

2019 ◽  
Vol 2018 (1) ◽  
pp. 109
Author(s):  
Frances Shiobara ◽  
Keiko Sakui
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Schools ◽  
Team Teaching ◽  
English Education ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
School Level ◽  
Secondary School Level ◽  
Teachers Attitudes ◽  
Homeroom Teachers ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Japanese English

Team teaching (TT) has been playing an important role in Japanese English education, especially at the secondary school level, since it started over 30 years ago (Reed, 2016). With the expansion of English education at the elementary school level, the impact of TT on English teaching is going to be even greater. This paper explores the current practices in TT by interviewing teachers who have been participating in it in elementary schools. The interviews offer insights from the different perspectives of homeroom teachers (HRTs), Japanese teachers of English (JTEs), and assistant language teachers (ALTs) to show how TT has been conducted in practice. The results imply that TT is a complicated system in which the roles of the three types of teachers are intertwined and are not necessarily clearly defined. The paper offers suggestions for optimizing educational outcomes within the system of TT. ティームティーチング（TT）は、日本の中高等学校の英語教育において３０年以上大切な役割を果たしてきた（Reed, 2016）。小学校の英語教育の早期化・教科化にともない、TTはこれまで以上に重要な意味を持つと考えられる。本研究は、小学校での英語教育に携わっている小学校学級担任（HRT）、日本人英語教師（JTE）、外国語指導助手（ALT)にインタビューを行い小学校でのTTに関する実践報告を行う。インタビューの分析結果によると、TTはそれを担当する異なる教員の役割が必ずしも明確ではないため複雑なシステムになっていることが明らかになった。これらを受けてTTにおいて教育的効果を上げるための実践的示唆を提示する。

scholarly journals Institutional conditions for preparing critically reflective TEFL teachers in the PGDT Program of three Ethiopian universities

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 321-343
Author(s):  
Roba Danbi ◽  
Dereje Tadesse
Keyword(s):  
Student Teachers ◽  
Reflective Practice ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Practical Knowledge ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Institutional Conditions ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Research ◽  
Teacher Education Institution ◽  
The Government

This paper assesses the role played by the institutional context in the preparation of critically reflective TEFL teachers in the Postgraduate Diploma in Teaching (PGDT) program of Dilla, Haramaya, and Hawasa Universities, Ethiopia. It examines the extent to which structured opportunities for reflection are used in the three institutions. A combination of quantitative and qualitative research methodologies was employed for collecting information regarding reflective practice in the PGDT program of the three universities. Multilevel mixed-method sampling techniques were utilized to select participants. Data were collected using questionnaires, semi-structured interviews and observation, and interpreted using simple statistical analysis and descriptive narrative approach. The study shows that most of the participants lack sufficient theoretical and practical knowledge of reflective practice. It shows that structured opportunities for reflection were not created for student teachers to practice reflection. The researchers, therefore, recommend that the government, curriculum designers, teacher education institution, and teacher educators create a common understanding about the goal of the program, and deliberately setup some structured opportunities to promote reflection in the institutions.

scholarly journals The Impact of ICT Integration on Learning Achievements: The Future of Standardized Tests in Assessment

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. p27
Author(s):  
Habib Allah Soleman
Keyword(s):  
Standardized Tests ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
National Level ◽  
Project Based Learning ◽  
Significant Shift ◽  
Ict Integration ◽  
Oecd Pisa ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Standardized Examinations ◽  
State Examination

The present article discusses the impact of the ICT integration in teaching and learning upon students learning achievements in the context of assessment challenges following the shift in curriculum for the 21st century skills, having introduced the interdisciplinary pedagogy and subsequent new demands for evaluation. In particular, the author relates to the recent abolition of the Meitzav State Examination in Israel. The abolition of the exam, which was extensively criticized in the Israeli media, which marked a significant shift in attitude towards standardized examinations and challenged the accuracy of assessing learning achievement on the national level, as compared to international criteria and standards (OECD/PISA). The author addresses further challenges of assessing the 21st competencies of interdisciplinary and project-based learning, while juxtaposing them to the formal traditional ways of assessment, such as Meitzav.

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