Teachers’ Work Engagement and Burnout Profiles: Associations With a Sense of Efficacy and Interprofessional Collaboration at School

This study provides new insights into the work-related well-being of teachers, defined here as engagement and burnout, by investigating their associations with the teachers’ sense of efficacy and interprofessional collaboration in schools. Using a person-oriented approach and latent profile analysis, a sample of Finnish comprehensive school teachers (N = 355) were classified based on their work engagement and burnout. Three profiles were identified: engaged, engaged-exhausted, and burned-out. Teachers with distinct profiles differed from each other in terms of their sense of efficacy and experiences of interprofessional collaboration, suggesting that both might have an important role in enhancing work engagement and preventing burnout.

Comprehensive Nutrition Interventions in First Nation-Operated Schools in Canada

Comprehensive school-based nutrition interventions offer a promising strategy to support healthy eating for First Nations children. A targeted strategic review was performed to identify nutrition interventions in 514 First Nation-operated schools across Canada through their websites. Directed content analysis was used to describe if interventions used 1 or more of the 4 components of the Comprehensive School Health (CSH) framework. Sixty schools had interventions. Nearly all (n = 56, 93%) schools offered breakfast, snack, and (or) lunch programs (social and physical environment). About one-third provided opportunities for students to learn about traditional healthy Indigenous foods and food procurement methods (n = 18, 30%) (teaching and learning) or facilitated connections between the school and students’ families or the community (n = 16, 27%) (partnerships and services). Few schools (n = 10, 17%) had a nutrition policy outlining permitted foods (school policy). Less than 1% (n = 3) of interventions included all 4 CSH components. Results suggest that most First Nation-operated schools provide children with food, but few have nutrition interventions that include multiple CSH components. First Nation-operated schools may require additional financial and (or) logistical support to implement comprehensive school-based nutrition interventions, which have greater potential to support long-term health outcomes for children than single approaches.

The new scientific and methodological model of creating a digital health passport for monitoring physical and mental state and physical preparedness of comprehensive school students

School nowadays is focused on students’ health as a prerequisite for a successful performance. The health status is a multifaceted concept which is gauged by various indicators. Determining the health status of children takes a lot of time resources on the part of educational staff engaged in systemizing and analysing the data and making practical recommendations for optimising students’ health. Boosting the quality of health monitoring can be achieved via modern IT systems by creating a digital health passport for school students. This research is based on the methods of theoretical analysis, synthesis, data generalisation, analytical modelling of the content and organisational process of health monitoring via modern information technology. An attempt was made to create a scientific and methodological model for collating and evaluating data on school children’s physical health, mental health and physical preparedness. The data are presented in the form of a digital health passport. The data were used as a basis for the computer programme The Health Passport which allows the user to obtain information on the general health status and differentiated aspects of health, such as physical or mental health and physical preparedness. The programme can also give individualised practical recommendations by analysing the test results; store statistically relevant information on individual and group performance; conduct comparative analysis of individual and group performance of comprehensive school students on the methodological basis of mathematical statistics.

Tapaustutkimus seitsemäsluokkalaisten musiikin oppitunneilla tekemien lyhytelokuvien audiovisuaalisista kerronnan keinoista monilukutaidon näkökulmasta

Nuorten elämään liittyy vahvasti audiovisuaalinen media eri muodoissa. Omien teosten tekeminen ja niiden jakaminen ovat helpottuneet digitalisaation ja sosiaalisen median myötä, mutta millaisia audiovisuaalisen kerronnan keinoja nykypäivän yläkoululaisilla on käytössään? Perusopetuksen opetussuunnitelman perusteissa monilukutaito määritellään eri muodoissa olevien viestien tuottamisen, tulkitsemisen ja kriittisen arvioinnin taidoksi.Tässä artikkelissa tarkastelemme, millaisia audiovisuaalisia kerronnan keinoja seitsemäsluokkalaiset käyttävät koulun musiikin tunneilla tehdyissä lyhytelokuvissa, ja pohdimme, miten lyhytelokuvien tekeminen voidaan nähdä osana monilukutaidon tukemista. Yleisesti ottaen oppilailla on kykyjä käyttää erilaisia kerronnan keinoja, joskin oppilaiden itse tekemistä lyhytelokuvista osa sisältää paljon erilaisia audiovisuaalisen kerronnan keinoja, kun taas osassa keinovalikoima on suppea kaikilla kerronnan osa-alueilla.Monilukutaidon pedagogiikan mukaan monilukutaidon prosessissa edetään omien kokemusten jakamisen, teoretisoinnin ja ohjauksen kautta kohti uusintavaa käytäntöä. Omien kokemusten ja merkitysten jakaminen yhteisöllisesti ja toisaalta niiden asettaminen laajempaan viitekehykseen mahdollistavat sen, että oppilaat voivat kukin kehittyä omista lähtökohdistaan. Lyhytelokuvien tekemisen ja audiovisuaalisten kerronnan keinojen erittelemisen kautta voidaan tarjota oppilaille tilaisuus kehittyä audiovisuaalisen kerronnan keinojen käyttämisessä, ymmärtämisessä ja niiden kriittisessä arvioinnissa.Avainsanat: monilukutaito, audiovisuaalinen viestintä, peruskoulu, musiikkikasvatus, mediakasvatus, elokuvakasvatusCase study on audiovisual storytelling of 7th grade students’ short films made during music lessonsDigitalization and social media have increased and made it easier to make and share one’s own audiovisual products, but what exactly do we know about young people’s audiovisual storytelling? In the Finnish National Core Curriculum, multiliteracy is defined as an ability to produce, interpret, and critically evaluate texts in various forms.The purpose of this article is to explore what modes and forms of audiovisual storytelling the 7th graders use in their self-made digital short films and how the making of short movies can be seen as a way of promoting students’ multiliteracies. The students have the capacity for audiovisual storytelling although storytelling varies a lot between self-made short films. Some of them include various forms of storytelling while the storytelling is limited in others.According to the pedagogy of multiliteracies, learning is a process in which learners proceed from experience to conceptualization, analysis, and to finally applying new practices. Students proceed from their own standpoints while they share their own experiences in collaborative making processes and learn to analyze and conceptualize their works. By making short films and conceptualizing audiovisual storytelling students can be promoted in multiliteracies.Keywords: multiliteracies, audiovisual storytelling, comprehensive school, secondary school, music education, media education, film education

FORMATION OF FUNCTIONAL LITERACY OF STUDENTS

The article considers the issues of teachers’ development and training and ways of increasing their and their students’ functional literacy that is seen as an indicator of mastering the competencies required in education. The authors explore methods of develop teachers and students’ ability to conduct joint search for solutions to current problems and meet modern challenges in real life situations, which determines practical and theoretical significance of the research. The article aims to study the development of functional literacy of school and university students, changes in teaching methods and ways of improving skills of a modern teacher in a comprehensive school and teaching staff at a pedagogical university.

School-Level Factors within Comprehensive School Health Associated with the Trajectory of Moderate-to-Vigorous Physical Activity over Time: A Longitudinal, Multilevel Analysis in a Large Sample of Grade 9 and 10 Students in Canada

(1) The majority of Canadian youth are insufficiently active, and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) decreases substantially during secondary school. School factors within the comprehensive school health (CSH) framework may help attenuate this decline. This study aimed to examine how youth MVPA changes over a three-year period and evaluate the school characteristics associated with preventing the decline in MVPA over time, guided by the CSH framework. (2) This study uses COMPASS survey data from 78 secondary schools in Ontario and Alberta that participated in Year 2 (2013/14), Year 3 (2014/15), and Year 4 (2015/16), and 17,661 students attending these schools. Multilevel (linear mixed effects) models were used to determine the association between school-level factors and student MVPA (weekly minutes) over time, stratified by gender. (3) Both male and female students had a significant decline in MVPA across the 3 years, with a greater decrease observed among female students. Within the CSH framework, the school’s social environment, partnerships, and policies were associated with student MVPA over time, however the specific school factors and directions of associations varied by gender. (4) School-based interventions (e.g., public health partnerships) may help avoid the decline in MVPA observed in this critical period and support student health.

School Without Racism? How White Teachers in Germany Practice Anti-Racialism

This qualitative study investigates how white teachers at a German Catholic comprehensive school conceptualize issues of “race” and racism in the context of being a “School without Racism – School with Courage” (SOR-SMC). By collecting signatures and exhibiting yearly projects, more than 3,300 schools in Germany brand their school to be “without racism”. I found the branding of my researched school to be a form of “anti-racialism” that opposed “race” and racism as concepts but did not tackle any underlying racist structures (Goldberg 2009, 10). The teachers I interviewed took the SOR-SMC branding for granted and assumed that the school was racism-free. They thereby engaged in silent racism and reproduced racist connotations and structures without challenging them (Trepagnier 2001). Being anti -racist is not accomplished by declaring a school as racism-free. Instead, white teachers need to understand that anti-racism involves a deeper engagement with the structures that keep “racial” inequality in place (Goldberg 2009, 10).