scholarly journals Strategies to Improve Teaching Effectiveness of Beginning Teachers in a School Setting

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 261-268
Author(s):  
Ige Akindele Matthew
Keyword(s):  
Beginning Teachers ◽  
Effective Teaching ◽  
Teaching Effectiveness ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
School Setting ◽  
Beginning Teacher ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
School Administrator ◽  
Knowledge And Skills

That teachers are important in a school setting, cannot be overemphasized. A teacher however has to be equipped with knowledge and skills necessary for effective teaching of his/her pupils/students. Apart from the knowledge already acquired in educational institution(s), a teacher has to garner enough experience, to be effective in teaching. A beginning teacher possesses less teaching experience, compared to an old teacher. He/she needs adequate attention in school, to achieve his/her objectives, and most importantly, the school objectives, as well as effective teaching of pupils/students. In this paper, the strategies that can be adopted by school administrator, to improve the teaching of such teachers, such as: orientation, mentoring, exposure to workshops, conferences and seminars, among others, are examined.

scholarly journals Beginning generalist teacher self-efficacy for music compared with maths and English

2012 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne Garvis
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Beginning Teachers ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Repeated Measures ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
School Administrators ◽  
Beginning Teacher ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Teacher Self Efficacy ◽  
Teaching Music

In 2008, 201 beginning generalist teachers throughout Queensland, Australia, responded to a questionnaire intended to create a snapshot of current self-efficacy beliefs towards teaching music. Beginning teachers were asked to rank their perceived level of teacher self-efficacy for music, English and maths. Results were analysed through a series of repeated measures ANOVAs to compare the mean scores for statistical difference. Findings suggest that generalist beginning teacher self-efficacy for music declines as years of teaching experience increase, while teacher self-efficacy for English and maths increases during this period. Results provide key insights for teacher educators, school administrators and policy makers into the likelihood of long-term music teaching in the generalist classroom. Greater support is required to reverse the documented snapshot of low teacher self-efficacy for music education in Queensland generalist teacher classrooms.

The Role of School Administrators in the Induction and Mentoring of Early Career Teachers

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Kutsyuruba ◽  
Keith D. Walker
Keyword(s):  
Beginning Teachers ◽  
Teacher Induction ◽  
Teacher Development ◽  
School Administrators ◽  
Beginning Teacher ◽  
Early Career ◽  
School Administrator ◽  
Mentoring Programs ◽  
Early Career Teachers

Teachers’ quality and abilities are the most significant school-based factors contributing to student achievement and educational improvement. Helping new teachers in their transition and socialization into school contexts and the profession is important for their teaching careers. However, despite heavy financial and educational investments to enable their teaching careers, a large number of beginning teachers quit the profession in their first years. Researchers claimed that induction programs with effective mentoring in the early teaching years are capable of positively affecting beginning teacher retention and student achievement as well as reducing the waste of resources and human potential associated with early-career attrition. Due to the overall school leadership role, school administrators are responsible for ensuring that adequate teacher development and learning takes place in their schools. School administrators’ engagement is vital for the success of the induction and mentoring processes in schools. Implicit in much of the literature is that school administrators have an “overseer” or “manager” role in the teacher induction and socialization processes. In order to explore the administrators’ specific roles and responsibilities in induction and mentoring programs, the empirical literature that directly or indirectly makes reference to the formal or informal involvement of in-school or building-level administrators (e.g., school leaders, principals, head teachers, headmasters, and vice and assistant principals) in the beginning teacher induction and mentoring programs was reviewed. The review of the literature on role of the school administrator in teacher induction and mentoring programs elicited the emergence of the following four categories: (1) objective duties and responsibilities for early career teacher support; (2) types, patterns, and formats of support; (3) benefits and impacts of school administrators’ involvement; and (4) leadership and commitment to programs. Implicitly and explicitly, the majority of the sources indicated that school administrators had an overall objective responsibility for supporting beginning teachers’ personal and professional development due to their legal and rational role of duty as leaders for teacher development and support in their schools. Various formal and informal duties of school administrators were discussed in the reviewed literature, varying from informal interactions with beginning teachers to scheduled formal meetings and teacher supervision, whereas assignment of mentors to beginning teachers was the most widely detailed aspect of the school administrator’s role. School administrators were found to play an important role in teacher induction and mentoring program implementation through the provision of various types of support to beginning teachers. School administrators’ core tasks in terms of teacher induction program success included recruiting, hiring, and placing new teachers; providing site orientation and resource assistance; managing the school environment; building relationships between school administrators and teachers; fostering instructional development through formative assessment; providing formative and summative evaluation; and facilitating a supportive school context. Studies noted direct and indirect impacts of the school administrator on the effective outcomes of teacher induction and mentoring programs and ultimately, teacher retention and development. In contrast, researchers also found negative outcomes of school administrators’ perceived lack of involvement or provision of support for early career teachers. Finally, literature noted the significance of school administrators’ leadership and commitment to the program if teacher induction and mentoring programs are to succeed.

scholarly journals The Relationship between Emotional, Social, Cultural, Spiritual Intelligence and EFL Teachers’ Teaching Effectiveness

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jahanbakhsh Nikoopour ◽  
Nadimeh Esfandiari
Keyword(s):  
Effective Teaching ◽  
Social Intelligence ◽  
Teaching Effectiveness ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Spiritual Intelligence ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Intelligence Scale ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Efl Teachers ◽  
The Relationship

The present study attempted to investigate the relationship between EFL teachers’ emotional, social, cultural, spiritual intelligence and their teaching effectiveness in EFL contexts. Teaching effectiveness was investigated as perceived by EFL teachers, observers and learners based on a data-triangulated procedure. A total of 126 EFL teachers, 266 learners and 31 EFL observers selected randomly from various educational districts in Tehran participated in the study. The EFL teachers were required to answer self-report questionnaires of Teaching Effectiveness Scale (TES), Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire (TEIQue), Cultural Intelligence Scale (CQS), Tromsø Social Intelligence Scale (TSIS) and Integrated Spiritual Intelligence Scale (ISIS)  respectively. The EFL observers and learners were also required to answer Teaching Effectiveness Scale (TES) to reveal their perception of their teachers’ teaching effectiveness. The study revealed that among EFL teachers, there was a significant correlation between teaching effectiveness and TEQ, but the correlation between teaching effectiveness and the three other types of intelligence (SQ, CQ, & SPQ) was not significant. The three groups of participants (teachers, observers, and learners) showed a significant difference in their perception of effective teaching. In further analysis, gender made a significant difference in TEQ, but female and male EFL teachers did not show a significant difference in their CQ, SQ, SPQ and effective teaching. University degree caused a significant difference in SQ and TEQ, but not in TE, SPQ and CQ. However, teaching experience and age made a significant difference in all four variables under the study.

Beginning teacher induction program for technology integration in CLIL

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 22-33
Author(s):  
Thooptong Kwangsawad
Keyword(s):  
Technology Integration ◽  
Beginning Teachers ◽  
Teacher Induction ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Beginning Teacher ◽  
Lesson Plans ◽  
Video Observation ◽  
Induction Program ◽  
Beginning Teacher Induction ◽  
Almost All

Beginning teacher induction is a transition from pre-service teacher preparation to teaching professional which brings a shift in a role orientation and an epistemological move from knowing about teaching through formal study to knowing how to teach by facing daily teaching challenges. This paper deals with the implementation and evaluation of beginning teacher induction programs for technology integration in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) for 24 beginning teachers from the northeastern region in Thailand. Both quantitative and qualitative data were collected. Quantitative data were collected from the assessment of the lesson plans and implementation of the lesson plans then analyzed using mean and standard deviation. Qualitative data were collected from three sources: (1) written logs by the participants, (2) data from video observation by the researcher, and (3) field notes by the researcher. Findings from the assessment of the lesson plans and implementation of the lesson plans were at a low level. Almost all participants reported having difficulties in technology integration in CLIL.

Attrition of Beginning Teachers and the Factors of Collaboration and School Setting

RMLE Online ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dwight D. Haun ◽  
Barbara N. Martin
Keyword(s):  
Beginning Teachers ◽  
School Setting

TA Teaching Effectiveness: The Impact of Training and Teaching Experience

1998 ◽  
Vol 69 (4) ◽  
pp. 440 ◽  
Author(s):  
David M. Shannon ◽  
Darla J. Twale ◽  
Mathew S. Moore
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Effectiveness ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals Work-home conflict among female teachers in basic educational institution in the Cape Coast municipality of Ghana

2000 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 15-26
Author(s):  
Clement K. Agezo ◽  
Joseph M Dzinyela
Keyword(s):  
Educational Institution ◽  
School Administrator ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Cape Coast ◽  
Female Teachers ◽  
Paid Employment ◽  
Excessive Strain ◽  
Organizational Work

One of the factors that contributes most significantly to the success of an organization is the effectiveness of its staff. This is particularly true of educational institutions. No matter how efficient and well-intentioned the school administrator is, he can hardly achieve success without the support and co-operation of well qualified, didicated, committed and effective staff. The study cirtically examines work home conflict among female teachers at the Basic Eduwtion level. and its impact on effectiveness in the classroom and other organizational work in the school. Data from questionnaires and interviews with 268 female teachers and 25 heads respectively suggest that there is a relationship between work-home conflict and effectiveness of female teachers. The combination of paid employment with the care of the home and children involves an excessive strain and stress which negatively affects effectiveness of female.

scholarly journals INVESTIGATING EARLY-CAREER TEACHERS’ ADAPTATION CHALLENGES: A CASE OF INDONESIAN EFL TEACHERS

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 367
Author(s):  
Yogi Saputra Mahmud
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Classroom Management ◽  
Beginning Teachers ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Teaching Resources ◽  
Efl Teachers ◽  
Teacher Professional

Teacher professional development has recently become a central focus in the Indonesian context, particularly after the implementation of the post-bachelor teacher professional education program or Pendidikan Profesi Guru (PPG) for both pre-service and in-service EFL teachers in 2013. However, studies reveal that the transition from teacher education programs to the initial teaching career at schools has been described as a challenging phase. Despite the growing attention of scholars in exploring beginning teachers’ challenges, studies focusing on the early-career Indonesian EFL teachers, particularly those who just completed the PPG program, are considered limited. Therefore, drawing on a qualitative case study with two beginning Indonesian secondary EFL teachers, this study aims to unravel the challenges during their first-year teaching experience at school after completing the PPG program. By thematically analysing the semi-structured interviews, this study indicated that the teachers experienced four significant challenges: 1) pedagogical (classroom management, lack of teaching resources, test-based learning atmosphere), 2) professional (complex self-identification), 3) social (maintaining rapport with senior teachers), and 4) personal (mood management).  Despite having been trained professionally through the PPG program, the result suggested that the beginning teachers still faced considerable challenges during their initial endeavour as an English teacher at school. Pedagogical implications are discussed in terms of the need for continuous professional development for the newly certified teachers during their initial career at schools.

scholarly journals Pedagogical principles in the activity of state service for education quality of Ukraine

2021 ◽  
pp. 208-218
Author(s):  
Svitlana Tsyura ◽  
◽  
Taras Ilechko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Education Quality ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
State Service ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Pedagogical Principles

Based on the analysis of educational and regulatory documents, the main pedagogical principles of the State Service for Education Quality of Ukraine (SSEQU) are summarized: a) basic pedagogical principles of SSEQU’s activity, which are defined by the legislator as basic principles of state educational policy (people orientedness; primacy of the law; ensuring the quality of education and equal access to education; humanism; democracy; unity of teaching, upbringing and development, etc.); b) principles that determine the legal sphere of the SSEQU’s activity (institutional separation of control functions and functions ensuring the activities of educational institutions; transparency and publicity of management decisions; responsibility and accountability of education authorities and educational institutions to society; public administration; public partnership etc); c) pedagogical principles that guide and structurally organize SSEQU’s activities (universal design and reasonable adaptation; scientific nature of education; diversity of education; integrity and continuity of education; integration with the labor market; freedom of choosing the types, forms and pace of education, educational program, educational institution; academic integrity; academic freedom, etc. Empirical data analysis based on the educational process participants’ views on the factors, which comprise educational quality, revealed that the interviewees valued most the level of qualification, experience, knowledge and skills of their teachers, educational and methodological support, the use of new technologies and innovations in teaching for achieving quality education. Interaction and cooperation between education stakeholders was identified as important by teachers and students, and less important – by parents. Interviews with students - prospective educational experts revealed that they valued the sequence of communication skills, knowledge and skills of expert activity, experience and knowledge of pedagogical activities. Keywords: quality of education; SSEQ of Ukraine; state system of monitoring the quality of education; educational expert, audit of educational institutions.

scholarly journals Lessons Learned from Research on Student Evaluation of Teaching in Higher Education

2021 ◽  
pp. 237-256
Author(s):  
Bob Uttl
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Effective Teaching ◽  
Teaching Effectiveness ◽  
Student Evaluation ◽  
High Stakes ◽  
Student Evaluation Of Teaching ◽  
Knowledge Class ◽  
Teaching Awards ◽  
Student Preference ◽  
Evaluation Of Teaching

AbstractIn higher education, anonymous student evaluation of teaching (SET) ratings are used to measure faculty’s teaching effectiveness and to make high-stakes decisions about hiring, firing, promotion, merit pay, and teaching awards. SET have many desirable properties: SET are quick and cheap to collect, SET means and standard deviations give aura of precision and scientific validity, and SET provide tangible seemingly objective numbers for both high-stake decisions and public accountability purposes. Unfortunately, SET as a measure of teaching effectiveness are fatally flawed. First, experts cannot agree what effective teaching is. They only agree that effective teaching ought to result in learning. Second, SET do not measure faculty’s teaching effectiveness as students do not learn more from more highly rated professors. Third, SET depend on many teaching effectiveness irrelevant factors (TEIFs) not attributable to the professor (e.g., students’ intelligence, students’ prior knowledge, class size, subject). Fourth, SET are influenced by student preference factors (SPFs) whose consideration violates human rights legislation (e.g., ethnicity, accent). Fifth, SET are easily manipulated by chocolates, course easiness, and other incentives. However, student ratings of professors can be used for very limited purposes such as formative feedback and raising alarm about ineffective teaching practices.

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