Connecting student interests and questions with science learning goals through project-based storylines

In this conceptual paper, we describe the approach in storylines that builds on principles of project-based learning and focuses on supports for making science learning coherent from the students’ perspective. In storylines, students see their science work as addressing questions and problems their class has identified. We present design principles that guide the teaching and enactment of storyline units and explore the connections of these principles to ideas of project-based science. We illustrate how these design strategies are reflected in a high school biology unit co-developed by teachers and researchers. We present student artifacts that document the agency students take on in this work. We then summarize results from earlier studies examining students’ learning and perceptions of coherence of their learning experiences.

MINAT SISWA SEKOLAH MENENGAH ATAS TERHADAP LITERASI NUMERASI BERBASIS BUDAYA ACEH

This research was initiated because of the change in the national examination assessment system (UN) to a Minimum Competency Assessment (AKM) and a Character Survey. In addition to students' ability to answer questions, it is also necessary to pay attention to student interests, especially their interest in AKM questions. The number of AKM questions faced by students cannot be separated from everyday life. Culture is something that is very often faced by students in their lives.This study aims to analyze students' interest in numeracy literacy questions based on Acehnese culture. The study used a descriptive qualitative type with the subject of 70 students of class X SMA. The data was obtained by distributing online questionnaires asking students with indicators of interest, namely feelings of pleasure, attention, interest, and student involvement in Acehnese culture-based numeracy AKM questions. The data were analyzed using the percentage technique. The results obtained are 62.96% for the first indicator (feeling happy), 70.62% for the second indicator (attention), 66.61% for the third indicator (interest), and 63.48% for the fourth indicator (involvement). From these results, it can be concluded that the tenth graders of SMA Negeri 1 Lhokseumawe have a good interest in Acehnese culture-based numeracy literacy assesment

Teachers' Perception of the Reality of Geography Education in Nepal

This paper analyzes the teachers' perceptions of the reality of geography education in Nepal. The term teachers' perceptions refer to a how teachers attach meaning to experience in the realities of geography education. It is based teachers involved in teaching geography at the campus university level in the Kathmandu Valley. It looks at the contribution that geography can make in the education of young people and the flourishing of the subject of geography in Nepal. For this purpose, a descriptive survey method was employed. The information used in this paper was obtained through questionnaires, focus group discussions, and observation. A purposive sampling technique was employed to select teachers. The results indicated that input is a dominant factor for the quality of geography education. Other factors like government policy, student interests, job markets, and perceptions of people, planners, policymakers, and administrators are also indicators that received the lowest rating of geography education in the study area. The findings show that the relationship between policies and practices of teaching-learning processes influenced the teachers’ perception of geography education.

A student-centered seminar course as a complementary approach to a traditional journal club

Graduate physiology programs strive to provide students with in-depth expertise in a particular academic discipline, often facilitating this process in the form of a departmental seminar course. Within the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at the University of California Irvine (UCI), students are required to attend a seminar course, most often designed as a journal club, each quarter until they are ready to graduate. While this format may work well in departments where research topics are closely related, it has historically been less successful in UCI's Department of Physiology and Biophysics, where wide-ranging interests make for little overlap in foundational knowledge, limiting meaningful engagement with the material or with peers in the class. In this paper, we describe a complementary approach of developing a syllabus around student interests and covering topics that are critical for student success but often omitted from graduate curricula, such as interview skills, grant writing, and scientific communication. Results from our pre-class survey motivated this approach to the class, and our retrospective survey demonstrated the substantial differences in student engagement, enthusiasm, and perceived benefits of this course relative to the journal club style course. We hope that the success of our course may serve as an exemplar for strategies to engage students more effectively and provide critical training in diverse skillsets that will help students after graduation.

Pelatihan Pengembangan Minat dan Bakat Siswa di SMAN 1 Tanjung Jabung Barat Provinsi Jambi

The implementation of this service activity aims to improve the understanding and ability of teachers at SMAN 1 Tanjung Jabung Barat in implementing strategies for developing student interests and talents. Using lecture methods, simulations, individual and group presentations with the duration of activities for one month according to the schedule. This activity involved 6 teachers and 20 students as participants. The result of this community service activity is that the participants have the understanding and ability to implement strategies for developing student interests and talents. it is suggested to the school, especially to the principal and teachers to be able to follow up this activity on a wider scale, so that the interests and talents of the students can be detected properly and can also be developed to the fullest.

Enseñar ciencias con actividades secuenciadas a partir de los intereses de los estudiantes: Una mirada desde las percepciones y aprendizajes

La organización y la secuenciación de contenidos y actividades de enseñanza son un punto neurálgico para la enseñanza de las ciencias, debido al tiempo, metodologías y otros conocimientos profesionales. El objetivo de esta investigación es explicar cómo influye la secuenciación de actividades a partir de los intereses de los estudiantes, en sus percepciones sobre la enseñanza de las ciencias y en los aprendizajes de nociones científicas específicas. La investigación es mixta y cuenta con tres fases para detectar intereses de los estudiantes. Los resultados muestran que los estudiantes lograron altos niveles de aprendizajes y sus percepciones mejoraron, llevándolos a ser más partícipes de las clases y a proponer mejoras generales, disposicionales y concretas para la enseñanza de las ciencias. The organization and sequencing of content and teaching activities are a key point for the teaching of science, due to the time, methodologies and other professional knowledge. The objective of the research is to explain how the sequencing of activities influences the interests of students, their perceptions about the teaching of science and the learning of specific scientific notions. The research is mixed and has three phases to detect student interests. The results show that the students achieved high levels of learning and their perceptions improved, leading them to be more involved in the classes and to propose general improvements, dispositional and concrete ones for the teaching of sciences.

Facilitating and Assessing Academic Writing to Graduate Students in a Pilot English for Academic Purposes Course: An Activity Theoretical Perspective

This paper reports on a pilot course responding to facilitating academic writing for an academic writing program implemented at a provincial key university in China. Taken from an activity theoretical perspective, it discusses the practical experience collected during a pilot process of designing, implementing, and assessing a genre-based approach to facilitating graduate students’ academic writing and assessing their academic writing competence. It argues that it is essential to take varied student interests into account in the structuring, delivery, and assessment to ensure academic success and that EAP programs are fruitful places for nurturing academic writing.

EFEKTIVTIAS PEMBELAJARAN DARING PADA PENDIDIKAN VOKASI

<p><em>This study aims to describe the effectiveness of online learning in vocational colleges in Hindu theory courses and electrical installation practices. Assessment indicators are student learning outcomes, learning completion, student interests and motivations as well as attractive learning experiences experienced by students during online learning. Quality research with qualitative descriptive research approach is used in this study. Data collection techniques using questionnaires in the form of essays are disseminated through the google form platform and interviews conducted with google meet. Respondents numbered 50 students. The results of online learning research are effective if reviewed from indicators of the value of learning outcomes and complete materials but are not effective if reviewed from behavior changes. Indicators of attractive learning experience will be fun assuming the media used and lecturers can package materials in an interesting, interest and motivational learning students more to the obligation to get value and no other learning alternatives except online</em>.</p><p><em><br /></em></p>

Investigating The Correlation Between Classroom Management and Student Interests in EFL Environment

The research aimed were to find out the correlation between classroom management and student’s interest. This research uses quantitative with survey method that apply correlation technique there are two variable in this research, namely dependent variable and independent variable. The independent variable is classroom management while dependent variable is students interest the population of this research as two classes of ABA UMI year 2016-2017. The samples of this research are 20 respondents taken through purposive sampling technique . in analysis the data of this research, the write used ( Correlation ). The findings of this study shows that there is any significant correlation between classroom management and student’s interest at the second grade of social class ABA UMI. This is proved by the value of the pearson product moment is -025 it means the correlation. And classroom management and student’s interest is weak. And correlation classroom management has an important role in learning process because if there is in classroom management the student’s will not be interest in learning process.

Creating Entrepreneurs through Vocational High School to Reduce Unemployment in Indonesia

In many nations, including Indonesia, unemployment is one of the key problems. the percentage rate ofunemployment in Indonesia is still relatively high compared to other countries, although it has droppedevery year. Vocational High School (VHS) graduates dominate the largest number of unemployedindividuals in Indonesia. Creative entrepreneurs are one option since they can build their own work. Butthe entrepreneurial interest of VHS students in Indonesia is still low. The objective of this research is todevelop strategies for creating entrepreneurship in conjunction with the skills needed to becomeentrepreneurs. Primary data was gathered with eleven headmasters of VHS in Indonesia through focusgroup discussion (FGD) and secondary data collected from literature research. The data analysis wasprocessed through stakeholder analysis and the house model to create an effective strategy and decision.The study results indicate that synergistic cooperation from a quadruple helix consisting of universities,entrepreneurial societies, government, and industry is required in order to achieve 'one student, onebusiness' mission as the output. Furthermore, organizing talent management to provide the mindset asCEO for vocational students and training school principals is a way out of this issue in order to create linksand match VHS student interests and providing the growth of CEO mindset training for the VHS principals.Therefore, VHS Students can establish their own company and become entrepreneurs according to theirinterests and ambitions, both before and after graduating from VHS.