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Williams, Tracy. "Teacher leaders in formal roles a qualitative study /." Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University, 2009. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Dissertations/Spring2009/T_Williams_043009.pdf.
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Kukla-Acevedo, Sharon. "TEACHER EFFECTIVENESS: THE ROLES OF TEACHER CHARACTERISTICS, PREPARATION, AND TURNOVER." Lexington, Ky. : [University of Kentucky Libraries], 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10225/881.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Kentucky, 2008.Title from document title page (viewed on October 30, 2008). Document formatted into pages; contains: vii, 89 p. : ill. (some col.). Includes abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 85-88).
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SENIOR, Rosemary, and r. senior@curtin edu au. "The good language class: teacher perceptions." Edith Cowan University. Education And Arts: School Of Education And Arts, 1999. http://adt.ecu.edu.au/adt-public/adt-ECU2006.0002.html.
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This is a qualitative, descriptive study of group processes in classes of adult language learners, viewed from the perspective of practising teachers. The study has an internal narrative which takes the reader through the process of the research, from the initial question raised by a casual classroom conversation to the discussion chapter which questions a number of assumptions underlying current English language teaching practices within western educational contexts. The study falls into two distinct phases. The first phase uses the constant comparative method of data collection and analysis to integrate the perceptions of 28 experienced language teachers into the following theory: teachers judge the quality of their classes in terms of the degree to which they function as cohesive groups. The second phase uses the social-psychological framework of class cohesion to explore the perceptions of eight language teachers concerning a range of everyday behaviours and events occurring within their classes. The data were gathered through classroom observations and extended weekly teacher interviews and were supplemented by information from student interviews.
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Groves, Terri. "LEADERSHIP ROLES FOR NATIONAL BOARD CERTIFIED TEACHERS IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS SCHOOL DISTRICTS." OpenSIUC, 2010. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/147.
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Title: LEADERSHIP ROLES FOR NATIONAL BOARD CERTIFIED TEACHERS IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS SCHOOL DISTRICTS National Board Certified Teachers (NBCTs) are highly skilled in the latest research-based instruction and understand the importance of data-driven instruction and its impact on student learning. Because of their expertise, NBCTs have the potential to become leadership agents for producing high-performing schools. However, there is little to no evidence that NBCTs are being encouraged to use their expertise to improve school performance. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to explore NBCTs in leadership roles in southern Illinois schools. To accomplish this purpose, three areas were explored: the extent to which NBCTs participated in leadership roles in schools and the nature of those NBCT leadership roles, NBCTs' perceptions regarding their leadership role significance, and the enablers and barriers to NBCT leadership. Mixed methods were used to interpret, analyze, and draw conclusions from quantitative and qualitative data. The findings show that prior to November 2007, 150 NBCTs were actively teaching in Regional Areas V and VI in southern Illinois school districts. Sixty-two percent (n=93) of those NBCTs responded to the request that they participate in the survey. Of those responding to the survey, over one half (59%) of NBCTs were involved in leadership roles in schools. In addition to their regular teaching assignments, the majority of these NBCTs were involved in multiple leadership roles in the seven core areas of professional growth and staff development, mentoring, curriculum development, student achievement, grant writing, school improvement, and support groups. Forty-one percent (n=38) of NBCTs indicated not having a leadership role. To determine NBCTs' perceptions of leadership role significance, NBCTs ranked the significance of their leadership role(s). The findings show that NBCTs perceived their leadership role(s) to have the most significance when addressing the following areas: (a) improved classroom practices, (b) communicating and operating from strong ideals about teaching and learning, (c) coaching and facilitating teams of teachers in school wide professional and staff development, (d) disaggregating and analyzing test scores data to increase student learning, and (e) promoting shared goals and vision. NBCTs perceived less significance when their leadership role(s) were involved in collaborating with administrators in creating and sustaining internal conditions, acting as change agents to inspire peers, leading the recognition and celebration of school accomplishments, facilitating sessions on current theories and practices, and addressing and adapting to negative undercurrents within the organization. The enablers and barriers to NBCT leadership roles were explored. The findings show that factors associated with administrators, colleagues, and circumstances beyond one's control contributed to the enabling or barring of NBCT leadership in schools.
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Walker, Amy. "A case study of teacher roles in engaging with student aspirations." Thesis, Federation University of Australia, 2019. http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/174751.
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This thesis investigated the complex role teachers play, both formally and informally, in relation to engaging and supporting student aspirations. Due to the links that have been established between aspirations and school completion and involvement in tertiary education, aspirations are important in an educational context. Yet, despite the abundance of aspiration related research, most has focused on student or parent perspectives, with few scholars targeting teacher perceptions of their roles in relation to student aspirations. This research is therefore significant as it addresses this gap through a single case study investigating perceptions of P-12 teachers from a peri-urban independent school in Victoria, Australia. Data were collected from 57 teachers via survey, interviews, and school document analysis. A lens of research-as-bricoleur, incorporating the theoretical frameworks of Bronfenbrenner (1979; 1994), Turner (2001), Gottfredson (1981, 1996), and Patton and McMahon (2015), provided the interpretative basis for the applied thematic analysis of the different data sets. Findings demonstrated differences in the way that teachers conceptualised their role in engaging with student aspirations. While teacher participants identified various formal and informal roles that they played in relation to engaging student aspirations, they also reported a lack of clear guidance or guidelines, necessitating the development of personal processes to direct their involvement. Other important findings highlighted a number of factors that teacher participants perceived as facilitating or impeding possible roles they could play in engaging student aspirations. The understandings emanating from this research provide substantive assistance to stakeholders, including school administrators and teacher educators, in appreciating and appropriately responding to an area of practice which remains misunderstood and without clear policy or guidelines. Ultimately, this research adds to the growing body of research into student aspirations and the concomitant importance of teachers in helping students aspire to and achieve their goals.Doctor of Philosophy
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Wagner, Jo Ann. "High School Principals' Roles in Teacher Professional Development." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/77085.
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As the key leader at the school level, the principal plays a central role in the implementation of professional development programs and measurement of the outcomes of these activities (Elmore, 2000). This investigation explored high school principals' roles in and principals' perceptions of teacher professional development as a mechanism for improving teacher instructional practices. The 15 high school principals interviewed for this study were from one region in a southeastern state.
Using the professional development standards developed by the National Staff Development Council (NSDC) (2001) to frame this study, a non-experimental descriptive research design was employed. Specifically, data collection methods included focus group interviews and document analysis. Three focus group interviews were conducted, each lasting approximately 90 minutes. Data sources were the transcripts from the focus group interviews with principals and information from each principal's school improvement plan. Data from both the transcripts and document review were sorted and categorized using the long-table approach (Krueger & Casey, 2000). Data were organized into the NSDC domains of context, process, and content.
The findings indicated that principals assumed the responsibility for providing professional development at their school and reported that as part of that responsibility they performed the following eight roles: (a) connected the professional development to school and/or division goals, (b) allowed teachers to play a part in their professional development, (c) provided the resources of funding and time for professional development, (d) provided support and encouragement for implementation of the professional development, (e) held a variety of professional development activities at their school, (f) collected student achievement data to determine the professional development needs, (g) determined the effectiveness of the professional development in classrooms, and (h) allowed teachers to choose the professional development activity to attend. The two roles, supported in the literature, which only a few principals discussed were: implementing PLCs and providing on-going, continuous professional development with follow-up. One area of concern reported by the principals was the reality that all teachers do not implement the professional development in their classrooms.
Five major conclusions were drawn from the findings in this study. Principals value teacher professional development as a mechanism to change teachers' instructional practices and accept the responsibility for implementing professional development at their schools. The majority of the professional development activities reported by the principals were generic type professional development activities that related to all teachers. However, principals do not expect that all teachers will implement the innovations in their classrooms. PLCs, in which teachers are working collaboratively to improve student achievement, are not being implemented in all reporting participants' high schools. Time is an important factor in determining the implementation of the professional development in the classroom.Ed. D.
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Steers, van Hamel Debra. "Rethinking mentor roles and relationships an exploration of discourse communities and beginning teacher identity /." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3139158.
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WYATT-ROSS, JANICE K. "SPECIAL EDUCATOR ROLE CONSTRUCTION WITHIN RESPONSE TO INTERVENTION: A QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1196101187.
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Hartnell-Young, Elizabeth. "Towards knowledge building : reflecting on teachers' roles and professional learning in communities of practice /." Connect to thesis, 2003. http://eprints.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00000921.
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Armbrust, John Walter. "Perceptions of teacher and student roles : views of Japanese businessmen." PDXScholar, 1992. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4273.
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Research provides a vast amount of information detailing the learning styles and preferences of learners and the influence of one's culture on that individual's perceptions of the world. Little of that research, however, has been applied to studying the effects of culture on the learner's perceptions of teacher and student roles, specifically in the area of second language learning. What is available often appears in the form of anecdotal descriptions of teaching and learning experiences abroad. A possible reason for the lack of investigation of student views in this area has been the absence of an adequate measuring device with which to gauge the responses of potential informants.
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Hawkley, Melissa Noel. "Roles and Relationships in Learning and Teaching: A Case Study of the Development and Worldwide Implementation of a New Religious Curriculum." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2014. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/4204.
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This in-depth case study examines perceptions of teacher and learner roles and relationships that were the basis for common understanding in the creation and implementation of the new youth curriculum, Come, Follow Me: Learning Resources for Youth, for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The assumptions and beliefs of teachers and learners directly influence each other in their perception of their roles and thus, directly influence the type of teaching and learning they engage in. The curriculum was intentionally designed to help members of the Church teach and learn for conversion. Teachers who understand both their role and that of the learners, can invite this type of learning through their teaching. Reciprocity of roles, living what you teach, and principle-based teaching, all contribute to correct perceptions of roles and relationships. Teacher councils—where participants counsel together, look for the good in each other's teaching, practice, and then reflect— help facilitate a climate where teachers risk and try new things, break out of old paradigms of misperceptions of roles and relationships, and move toward an effective teacher role.
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Garland, Irene Mary. "Workforce Reform : Exploring the Boundaries Between teacher and assistant roles." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.500095.
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Mpate, Hawa M. "Stakeholders’ roles in shaping pre-service teachers’ experience of teaching practice in a College of Teacher Education in Tanzania." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2020. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/2302.
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Worldwide, it is acknowledged that of all the educational resources, quality teachers are a vital component of students’ achievement. However, in Tanzania, despite various efforts to improve the quality of teacher preparation, there has been ongoing concern that teachers’ knowledge and skills at the various levels of education are not satisfactory, and this has contributed to the poor quality of education.
Since quality teacher preparation is identified as critical in preparing qualified teachers, and they help to improve the quality of education, this study examines teachers’ preparation during teaching practice in a Diploma Teacher Education college in Tanzania. Specifically, the study explores stakeholders’ roles in shaping pre-service teachers’ experience of their teaching practice. Guided by a constructivist theory of learning, this study deploys a qualitative research approach informed by an interpretive paradigm. Through a multiple case study design, a sample of eighteen participants was drawn from a population of mentor teachers, supervisors, preservice teachers and Heads of Schools. This sample represents the key roles in the triad relationship evident in pre-service teachers’ experience of teaching practice, between, college supervisors, school mentor teachers and pre-service teachers. Data were collected through interviews, focus group discussions, document analysis and observation.
The collected data and findings reveal that some members of the triad do not explicitly understand their roles and the roles of each other, and that pre-service teachers are not sufficiently prepared during their coursework to effectively embark on their teaching practice. The study also reveals that during teaching practice, pre-service teachers’ experiences were negatively impacted by the absence of the triad relationship and, ineffectiveness of the support of some members of the triad group (i.e. mentor teachers and college supervisors). The study concludes that the absence of a triad relationship between mentor teachers, supervisors and pre-service teachers hinders pre-service teachers’ professional growth in teaching practice. Therefore, the study recommends that there should be purposeful efforts to strengthen triad relationships in order to enhance pre-service teachers’ learning in teaching practice.
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Sweat, Ashley Dawn. "What is the Nature of the Professional Practice of Artist-Teachers? Four Case Studies." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2006. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/art_design_theses/3.
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Many artist-teachers struggle to nurture and pursue their ambitions in their dual roles. The purpose of this research is to explore the nature of the professional practices of artist-teachers. While there is a substantial amount of research that provides models of artist-teachers, who teach at the post secondary levels, there are not many models for artist-teachers who teach primary and secondary age groups. Four artist-teachers, whose practices are currently contributing to the art world, as well as the educational world, were interviewed for a multiple case study. The roles represented in the study include painters, sculptors, a ceramist, a musician, a performance artist, art teachers, a music teacher, and a performance-art educator. This multiple case study provides four models of artist-teachers whose professional practices contribute to their identity and fulfillment in their dual roles. The study reveals the artist-teacher’s practice as an artist, practice as a teacher and relationship between the dual roles.
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Kusanagi, Yuka. "The roles and functions of teacher gesture in foreign language teaching." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2015. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/357117.
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This study is a qualitative and descriptive investigation of teacher gestures in EFL education. The specific aim is to describe the types, roles, and functions of gestures that are produced by native English speaking teachers in English as foreign language (EFL) classrooms in Japan by examining naturally occurring interactions. In addition to teacher gesture, I included some nonverbal behaviors such as suprasegmental features, nodding, and gaze direction so as to understand classroom interaction and communication in EFL classrooms. In order to accomplish these aims I employed a qualitative case study approach in five EFL classrooms at a university in an urban area in Japan. The primary data come from classroom interactions of a native English speaking teacher and his 26 students of one classroom over one semester that were analyzed through a microanalysis of videotapes of the naturalistic classroom interactions. In addition to videotapes, to better understand the interactions that occurred in the classroom, I gathered and analyzed observation notes from my perspective as a peripheral observer. I also collected retrospective stimulated video recall interview data from the teacher and some volunteer students for further analysis. Furthermore, in order to have wider understanding of multimodal foreign language (FL) classroom interactions, I observed four more EFL classes that were taught by two other native English speaking teachers at a university that was situated in a municipal capital in Japan as additional observations and a post-lesson survey with the teachers and students for additional analyses. My aim is not to seek causal explanation but to present plausible descriptions and interpretations of naturally occurring interactions in EFL classrooms. Analysis revealed that various types of teacher gesture were used by the teachers from five EFL classrooms. They were categorized into representational, referential, emphatic gestures, and emblems. The findings were further analyzed for the following functions: In EFL instruction, the teacher’s speech and gestures influence the transmission of knowledge and information as comprehension aids, classroom management, and students' affective states. All three teachers heavily relied on multimodal behaviors, primarily gestures. However, they not only used gestures, but also various nonverbal behaviors. The teachers selected a mode or a combination of modes according to their instructional purposes and personal styles such as giving knowledge and information, and giving directions. It was confirmed that the teachers presented visual input even when learners were not looking at them. The teachers' awareness of their gesture use differed individually. Whereas teacher 1 was not aware of his gesture production, Teacher 2 and Teacher 3 were conscious about their gesture uses and intentionally used certain types of gestures for pedagogy. Student interviews and survey suggested that the students perceived teachers’ gestures positively. Close analysis of the transcribed data suggests that multi-modes of communication including gesture serve to potentially enhance meaning-making in classroom interaction and communication. I assume that integration of these gestural functions of teacher gesture scaffold learning to some extent although the degree of its influence cannot be determined from this study. The teachers’ gestural and speech instruction might contribute to learning, in particular to multimodal semiotic meaning construction for the case of teacher gestures that function as comprehension aids, and that this kind of instruction definitely contributes to classroom management and atmosphere. Students reacted nonverbally to the teachers’ rich input in speech and gestural explanations, and followed the teachers’ speech and gestural directions. In addition, the classroom cohesion was promoted through the use of humor presented by bodily motions such as mimes and the use of students. This finding was confirmed by interview and survey results. This study contributes to the research on gesture in second and foreign language (L2 / FL) education, to the pedagogy of language education and subject matter education in the first language, and possibly to the larger body of research on gesture.
Temple University--Theses
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Ruffin, Cedrina Monique. "School Social Workers' Roles Involving Teacher-Student Sexual Misconduct and Exploitation." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/4481.
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Incidents of sexual misconduct by educators continue to become more prevalent in the United States, resulting in negative social, emotional, and psychological effects on many students. School social workers are professionals with backgrounds in prevention, intervention, and advocacy; however, very little literature has examined the roles of school social workers in preventing and addressing teacher-student sexual misconduct. This case study explored school social workers' roles and their perceptions thereof in relation to incidents that involved teacher-student sexual misconduct and exploitation. General systems theory provided the framework for understanding the roles of social workers and their approaches to working with the different systems associated and connected with the entire education system, including teachers and students. Nine school social workers participated in 30-45-minute audiotaped, in-depth, face-to-face interviews and provided data for this study related to their roles and responsibilities in addressing sexual misconduct in schools. Transcribed interviews were coded, first using emergent open coding and then using focused/axial coding, to form 2 main themes. School social workers in this district were identified as having no well-defined primary or secondary roles related to prevention of and response to teacher-student sexual misconduct, which was reported to result from a number of barriers to school social workers' ability to deliver effective services. A reevaluation of school social workers' roles to include addressing crises such as sexual misconduct has the potential to promote positive social change by improving the educational system and the school's ability to provide a healthier educational environment for students.
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Senior, Rosemary. "The good language class: Teacher perceptions." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 1999. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/119.
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This is a qualitative, descriptive study of group processes in classes of adult language learners, viewed from the perspective of practising teachers. The study has an internal narrative which takes the reader through the process of the research, from the initial question raised by a casual classroom conversation to the discussion chapter which questions a number of assumptions underlying current English language teaching practices within western educational contexts. The study falls into two distinct phases. The first phase uses the constant comparative method of data collection and analysis to integrate the perceptions of 28 experienced language teachers into the following theory: teachers judge the quality of their classes in terms of the degree to which they function as cohesive groups. The second phase uses the social-psychological framework of class cohesion to explore the perceptions of eight language teachers concerning a range of everyday behaviours and events occurring within their classes. The data were gathered through classroom observations and extended weekly teacher interviews and were supplemented by information from student interviews.
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Brown, Patricia. "The roles and responsibilities of the effective literacy teacher : an internship report /." Internet access available to MUN users only, 2003. http://collections.mun.ca/u?/theses,172662.
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Cannard, Kelly. "National Board Certification: A Career Imprint That Transfers to Teacher Leadership Roles." Thesis, Harvard University, 2017. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:33052845.
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Since its inception in 1987, the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards has certified over 112,000 accomplished teachers in its effort to professionalize teaching. During this same period, districts have added teacher leadership positions to improve the instructional practice of teachers and meet the complex needs of students, something the Board envisioned for National Board Certified Teachers (Carnegie Forum on Education and the Economy, 1986). However, there is a lack of research about if and how NBCTs holding formal teacher leadership roles utilize their expertise to improve instruction among their peers. This qualitative study sought to examine this issue through semi-structured interviews with forty-three teacher leaders who are National Board Certified Teachers in four public school districts and one state context.
In this dissertation, I make the case that National Board Certification served as a career imprint (Higgins, 2005) that National Board Certified Teachers subsequently transferred to their work as teacher leaders and encouraged in their peers. The imprint consisted of capabilities in knowing one’s students, constructivist and differentiated instruction, and observing, describing, and reflecting continuously on instructional practice The cognitive aspects of the imprint included a belief that understanding one’s students was central to instruction, a commitment to assuming internal responsibility for student learning, and an assumption that reflecting continuously on their instruction would lead to improved teaching and learning. The participants indicated that, although National Board Certification prepared them as excellent teachers, they still needed organizational supports to extend what they learned through the process to other teachers. In the absence of some supports, they said that they could not fully transfer the imprint. In a few unique cases, NBCTs reported that they were able to alter the policy context in order to create a more favorable environment for the principles and practices from National Board Certification to take hold among other teachers.
The findings suggest that NBPTS could work collaboratively with other organizations and policymakers to more explicitly advance the principles and practices underlying National Board Certification imprint as well as promote NBCTs as teacher leaders beyond their classrooms. Steps that NBPTS, districts, states, and teacher leaders could take to strengthen the extension of the Board imprint in order to improve instruction and learning in schools are outlined. Avenues for further research are explored.
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Al-Waaili, Mahmoud. "iEARN facilitators' perceptions of roles, motivating and inhibiting factors." Thesis, University of Leeds (United Kingdom), 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1524882.
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The purpose of this study was to identify the perceptions of iEARN online facilitators with regards to successful online facilitator’s roles and their current practice roles. Additionally, the study also attempted to identify the 5 top motivating and inhibiting factors that influence iEARN facilitators’ roles and affect their performance. The study revealed that iEARN facilitators generally possess a relatively high perception of the successful online facilitator roles. The results of the quantitative questionnaire used to collect data from 35 subjects also demonstrate that iEARN facilitators’ perception of their current practice of the successful roles do not match with their perceptions of successful facilitator roles. Moreover, the results also showed that iEARN facilitators view intrinsic incentives as the top motivating factors that influence their performance. The study also revealed the 5 top inhibiting factors as per the subjects of the study. This dissertation has helped to bridge the gap between what iEARN facilitators view as successful roles and what they actually do in reality along with the most influential motivating and inhibiting factors.
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Conaway, Kathryn A. "HEAD START TEACHERS’ INTENTIONS TO IMPLEMENT SUGGESTIONS FOLLOWING MENTAL HEALTH CONSULTATION: AN INVESTIGATION OF THE ROLES OF WORKING ALLIANCE AND TEACHER EFFICACY." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1182373197.
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Schechter, Amy June. "A Case Study of the Roles and Perceptions of Writing Coaches." Scholar Commons, 2014. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5305.
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The purpose of this intrinsic case study was to explore the roles, responsibilities, and perceptions of writing coaches, a form of embedded professional development, which had the opportunity to assist teachers in deepening their pedagogical knowledge of writing instruction. Furthermore, this inquiry sought to describe middle school teachers' (N = 235) perceptions of how writing coaches may have impacted their beliefs and pedagogy with regard to writing instruction. At the time I conducted this case study, no extant literature existed to describe the roles, responsibilities, or perceptions of writing coaches, and this inquiry sought to fill that void.
In an intrinsic case study, the researcher's own interests guide the inquiry. Qualitative data from interviews, observations, and archival data informed the inquiry. Furthermore, a non-experimental quantitative survey complemented the qualitative data. I analyzed qualitative data as I collected it through constant-comparative analysis beginning with open coding of individual cases, proceeding to axial coding across site cases, and finishing with selective coding across site cases, at which point I integrated relevant empirical research. I reported descriptive statistics for the non-experimental quantitative survey data.
The findings of this inquiry do not generalize to other populations, but the results of data analysis may inform future study and practice. I uncovered teachers regarded the writing coaches in this inquiry positively, but did not explicitly communicate any change in beliefs or practice with regard to writing instruction. Furthermore, I discovered although writing coaches are deemed "coaches," they spend more of their time performing responsibilities which categorize them as teachers and administrators. A posteriori data trends revealed writing coaches faced many challenges: high-stakes testing, unclear roles and responsibilities, balance of their many roles and responsibilities, micromanagement, and inability to impact teacher practice. Lastly, I outline a model, which requires future testing under experimental conditions, to explain how the challenges writing coaches face may serve to lower their loci of control, perceptions of effectiveness, and job satisfaction.
The themes I discovered through data analysis led me to make recommendations with regard to future research and practice. This inquiry described three writing coaches' roles, responsibilities, and perceptions, but future study, both qualitative and quantitative, is needed to more fully describe and explore the phenomenon. The model I developed through qualitative data collect and analysis would require testing in inquiries with an experimental design. I recommend future research in the causal cascade to discover how the efforts of writing coaches and other academic coaches may impact teacher pedagogy and practice and eventually student learning. Furthermore, I endorse future studies into academic coaches' loci of control and challenges. Although this study sought to explore the roles, perceptions, and perceived impact of writing coaches, it truly became a study of the challenges perceived by writing coaches and the factors which may contribute to job dissatisfaction and perceived ineffectiveness. For this reason, I make specific recommendations to support writing coaches in their attempts to perform their jobs excellently.
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Lev, Leora. "The contribution of teacher training to special education teachers' performance in the roles of leaders and managers of interdisciplinary teams." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/30847.
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This action research examines the special education teachers' role perception as manager/leader of an interdisciplinary team. The need to examine the "problem sensation", which was defined and verified in this study, resulted from the implementation of the special education law in Israel (1998). The study examines the effect a training process has over the development of the special education teacher's leadership skills, if it includes: a place where the teacher is heard, empowerment processes towards realizing a sense of personal capability, a reflective discourse, knowledge and skills acquisition, and developing beliefs and positions regarding the leadership of an interdisciplinary team.;The study's findings were documented using three case studies, each based on the conclusions of the previous one, all interlinked by a category layout formed in the Pre-Test phase. The category layout formed the basis for all the content analysis of the participants' discourse, and pointed to the existence of a "problem sensation" regarding the change process/style they experienced.;In all three-research cycles, the majority of the discourse regarded the role perception as influenced by coping with the need to lead a team and lead change in a team. A direct connection was found between the intensity of the sense of capability to lead a team, and the level of coping with conflicts while performing the role. There was a noticeable difference in the change process style the two groups underwent. The power of the team was accentuated and there was an awareness to the knowledge and skills acquired.;The study's conclusions show: (1) the direct connection between the special education teacher's sense of personal capability and her leadership behaviour, (2) a demand for reassessing the special education teachers' training program regarding management and leadership roles, (3) a need for a formal assistant training program, which would be a formal team for their employment.
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Morton, Beth A. "The Effect of a Data-Based Instructional Program on Teacher Practices: The Roles of Instructional Leadership, School Culture, and Teacher Characteristics." Thesis, Boston College, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:107100.
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Thesis advisor: Henry I. BraunData-based instructional programs, including interim assessments, are a common tool for improving teaching and learning. However, few studies have rigorously examined whether they achieve those ends and contributors to their effectiveness. This study conducts a secondary analysis of data from a matched-pair school-randomized evaluation of the Achievement Network (ANet). Year-two teacher surveys (n=616) and interviews from a subset of ANet school leaders and teachers (n=40) are used to examine the impact of ANet on teachers’ data-based instructional practices and the mediating roles of instructional leadership, professional and achievement cultures, and teacher attitudes and confidence. Survey results showed an impact of ANet on the frequency with which teachers’ reviewed and used data, but not their instructional planning or differentiation. Consistent with the program model, ANet had a modest impact on school-mean teacher ratings of their leaders’ instructional leadership abilities and school culture, but no impact on individual teachers’ attitudes toward assessment or confidence with data-based instructional practices. Therefore, it was not surprising that these school and teacher characteristics only partially accounted for ANet’s impact on teachers’ data practices. Interview findings were consistent. Teachers described numerous opportunities to review students’ ANet assessment results and examples of how they used these data (e.g., to pinpoint skills on which their students struggled). However, there were fewer examples of strategies such as differentiated instruction. Interview findings also suggested some ways leadership, culture, and teacher characteristics influenced ANet teachers’ practices. Leaders’ roles seemed as much about holding teachers accountable for implementation as offering instructional support and, while teachers had opportunities to collaborate, a few schools’ implementation efforts were likely hampered by poor collegial trust. Teacher confidence and attitudes varied, but improved over the two years; the latter following from a perceived connection between ANet practices and better student performance. However, some teachers were concerned with the assessments being too difficult for their students or poorly aligned with the curriculum, resulting in data that were not always instructionally useful
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2016
Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education
Discipline: Educational Research, Measurement and Evaluation
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Wilmot, Ann-Marie. "HOW ENGLISH LANGUAGE HEAD OF DEPARTMENTS PERCEIVE THEIR ROLES in TEACHER DEVELOPMENT AND TEACHER EFFICACY: A STUDY of EIGHT JAMAICAN SCHOOLS." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2017. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/468994.
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This qualitative study sought to gain deeper insights into how English Language Heads of Department (H.O.D.) perceive their roles in teacher development and efficacy, what leadership style inform their role enactment and the different skill sets and beliefs they take to their H.O.D. roles. The population was limited to selected schools in central Jamaica with a sample size of eight Heads of Departments in upgraded and traditional high schools. The motivation to conduct this research arose out of the concerns about Jamaica’s poor ratings in CXC English Language passes and my perception that insights into how H.O.D.s perceived their roles could possibly generate a solution to enable them to facilitate teaching learning experiences that could redound to improved CXC English Language results. Extensive case-based interviews, ranking activity and stimulated recall of artefacts were my primary sources of data, and I used open coding axial coding systems to analyze my data. Presently H.O.D.s engage in more traditional roles align them to a transactional approach as their leadership style. However, the changing roles of the H.O.D.s demand a more transformational leadership style. The findings suggest that some H.O.D.s’ approach is transformational, some transactional, while others display no distinct leadership style. Some play an excellent role in teacher development and efficacy, others play very little or no role. H.O.D.s perception of their role conflict with how they enact these roles and what they believe about them. The conclusion is that i H.O.D.s need a comprehensive system of training in their H.O.D.s specific roles and to help them develop and utilize more transformational leadership skills for use with their departments. Keywords: transformational and transactional leadership, heads of department/department chairs, Jamaican education
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Doepker, Gina Marie. "A study to determine the status of the roles, responsibilities, and practices of university supervisors who serve middle childhood preservice teacher candidates in the state of Ohio." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1173125185.
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Kampangkaew, Phairot. "A Study of the Percepts in Leadership Roles of Department Chairpersons in the Faculty of Education at Six Teacher Colleges." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1992. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc332615/.
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The focus of this study is a comparison of the perceptions and expectations of the leadership role and function of the department chairpersons in the faculty of education by the respective department chairpersons, deans, and all faculty members from each of the six public teacher colleges in Bangkok, Thailand. In conclusion, role conflict between the department chairpersons can be reduced if the department chairpersons concentrate on the expectations of faculty members. The department chairpersons need to reevaluate their leader behavior in relation to both deans and faculty members in order to fulfill the organizational goals and personal needs.
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Galjour, Chiasson Jenna L. "Stories of Principals’ Roles as a Result of High Stakes Teacher Evaluations in Louisiana." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2015. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1965.
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In 2010, the Louisiana legislature passed Act 54, a law that requires public school teachers to undergo a performance-based accountability evaluation. COMPASS (Clear, Overall Measure of Performance to Analyze and Support Success) asks principals to evaluate teachers using a rubric with components of Charlotte Danielson’s Framework for Teaching to evaluate teacher effectiveness (Act 54). Act 1, passed in 2012, ties Louisiana public school teacher’s pay and tenure to their score on COMPASS. Principals of Louisiana are now asked to evaluate teachers in a high stakes evaluation that is linked to teacher tenure and pay.
A qualitative study using narrative research design was conducted to explore how principals described their roles as high-stakes evaluators through the implementation of COMPASS. Data was collected from seven participants in the form of in-depth interviews and each was recorded and transcribed for data analysis. Restorying and story mapping were used to compose narratives that describe the roles of the participants in their implementation of COMPASS. Using the theoretical frameworks of Contingency theory and Instructional Leadership theory, two roles emerged from their narratives: Instructional Coach and High Stakes Evaluator. The information gleaned from this study can help to inform future policy about possible issues with COMPASS in implementation as well as impact future practice for evaluators from the stories of the participants.
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Fischler, Gail. "Actual and Ideal Roles of Music Teachers in Community Schools of the Arts Pertaining to Community, School, and the Profession." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/195791.
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The purpose of the study was:1. To develop an inventory of music teacher roles which pertained to the setting, community schools of the arts (CSAs).2. To discover how music teachers perceive their actual job roles vs. their ideal job roles in CSAs.An instrument was structured using the roles found in the work of Onderdonk (1995), Barnes (1972), Moller (1981), White (1964), and input from experts. Roles were categorized into three areas: community, school, and professional. The population of teachers was drawn from member schools of the National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts (NGCSA) for the year 2005-2006. The final study population consisted of 139 CSA teachers from 16 schools across the USA.Overall, teachers indicated that roles in the professional category were and should be performed more often than community and school roles. The school and community categories were deemed equal to each other (actually and ideally). Teachers indicated that community, school, and professional roles in CSAs were complex, consisting of 31 roles (7 community, 10 school, and 14 professional). A ranked and tiered inventory of the 31 valid roles and a portrait of the CSA music teacher were created. As an aggregate, teachers ideally desired to increase the frequency with which they performed the following roles: Advocate, Attendee of Faculty/Committee Meetings, Attendee of School Activities, Performer/Demonstrator/Coach, and Student/Lifelong Learner. As an aggregate, teachers desired to decrease the frequency with which they performed the role of School Leader. Teachers indicated balance in regard to modeling, performing, parental education, discipline, tradition, and leadership.Implications for CSA administrators, personnel of the National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts, teacher educators and trainers, and future research include: finding paths to develop part-time leaders, developing content for coursework and professional development specific to CSA teachers, and promoting awareness that investment in current/future teachers should be given similar value and energy to fundraising efforts. In order to educate/train future CSA teachers, coursework which includes preparation as instrumental/pedagogical experts, as well as content which provides training in educational philosophy, history, curriculum development, role modeling, culture, and technology were recommended.
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Marshall, Esther. "Identity, Power, and Conflict in Preschool Teaching Teams." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2017. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6714.
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Despite the common occurrence of teaming in preschool classrooms, very little research has explored the experiences of teachers working in such a context. Due to a high turnover of preschool teachers and a recent change in the educational requirements of lead teachers in Head Start, it is anticipated that the number of young and inexperienced lead teachers is likely to increase. The purpose of this case study research is to illuminate the teaming relationships between young, recently qualified lead teachers and their assistants working together within one classroom. Over the course of a school year, interviews and observations were conducted of two Head Start teaching teams. Five major themes were revealed through data analysis: understanding of roles; organization of work; use and resistance of power; development and management of conflict; and support from within and outside the team. Analysis across the findings of both cases showed that identity and power played a central role in team functioning. The teachers' identities, perceived threats to their identities, and their understanding of the power differential played a significant role in the way the teams organized their work, the way the teachers viewed their roles within the team, and the conflict and support they experienced. Conclusions of the study are discussed through the lens of identity process theory and elements of Bourdieu's theory of power and practice. Implications for teacher professional development and the need for increased institutional support for teaming in preschool is presented.
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Wellman, Linda L. "Teachers' and speech-language pathologists' definition of reading and perceived roles of school-based speech-language pathologists relationship to teacher referral practices /." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2006. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=ucin1148285026.
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Delp, Don J. "The Effect of Professional Development Training for Secondary Mathematics Teachers Concerning Nontraditional Employment Roles for Females." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2002. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3258/.
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This quasi-experimental study, utilizing quantitative and qualitative descriptive methods, examined the sex-egalitarian attitudes of secondary mathematics teachers from the Ft. Worth Independent School District. A video tape, Women in the Workplace, was used as a training intervention to test the effectiveness of professional development training in altering the mathematics teachers' sex-egalitarian attitudes towards female employment. Information on the video presented seven jobs that provide opportunities for female students in the science, engineering, and technology fields that are considered nontraditional jobs for females. Subjects completed 19 Employment Role domain questions on the King and King (1993) Sex-Role Egalitarianism Scale. A one-way ANOVA was applied to the data to test for a significant difference in the means of the control group, who did not see the video, and the experimental group that viewed the video. Findings concluded that there was no significant difference in the sex equalitarian mean scores of the control group and the experimental group. The research indicated that it takes an intensive and prolonged training period to produce a significant change in people's attitudes. This study supports the research on length of training needed to change sex egalitarian attitudes of classroom teachers. There were data collected on four demographic areas that included gender, age, ethnicity, and years of teaching experience. A two-way ANOVA was applied to four demographic variables to test for interaction and main effect. A significant difference was found between the sex-egalitarian attitudes of male and female mathematics teachers' responses. There were no significant differences found in the sex egalitarian attitudes of secondary mathematics teachers when categorized by levels of age, ethnicity, and years of teaching experience. The information in this study should interest and benefit teachers, parents, students, administrators, and industry leaders.
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Astin, Paul. "Personalization in small learning communities supporting teachers' new roles in a conversion small learning community middle school /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1693037431&sid=3&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Williams, Kelly M. "Dynamics of Efficacy for Teachers in Formal Leadership Roles: A Case Study." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2503.
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Effective leadership has a positive impact upon schools and student achievement. Teacher inclusion in leadership efforts has grown during a time of school reform. In order to sustain and define teacher leader responsibilities, efficacious teachers need to be supported by school and district administrators. A case study was used to understand the dynamics of self-efficacy as it pertains to teacher leaders in the Oak Ridge School District in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Purposive sampling was used to select 5 teacher leaders and 2 district administrators for the case study. Interviews along with observations of meetings facilitated by teacher leaders allowed for inductive analysis of the phenomenon of self-efficacy for teachers in formal leadership roles.
Self-efficacy of teacher leaders can be nurtured through various structures, climates, and learning opportunities. School districts can purposefully design teacher leadership opportunities with a clearly defined vision for all stakeholders. The findings of the study support and extend the literature on the sources of self-efficacy. Attention to the sources of efficacy for teacher leaders could help administrators plan successful leadership opportunities and assists in retention for teacher leadership roles.
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Svotaitė, Jurgita. "Mokytojo vaidmenys organizuojant darbą heterogeninėse klasėse." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2007. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2007~D_20070816_171054-57150.
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Magistro darbe yra iškeltas tikslas išsiaiškinti mokytojų vaidmenis organizuojant darbą heterogeninėse klasėse. Buvo išanalizuoti ir susisteminti įvairūs Lietuvos ir užsienio autorių vadybinės, pedagoginės, psichologinės srities darbai. Atlikta Lietuvos Respublikos teisinių dokumentų, reglamentuojančių švietimo ir specialiojo ugdymo organizavimą, analizė. Darbo tikslui ir uždaviniams pilnai atskleisti buvo naudojamas anketinės apklausos metodas. Tyrimo duomenys patvirtino literatūros apžvalgoje minimus mokytojo vaidmenis, atskleidė dominuojančius pedagogų, dirbančių heterogeninėse klasėse, vaidmenis, jų realizavimo dažnumą. Taip pat tyrimo duomenys atskleidė rečiausiai arba ne taip intensyviai atliekamus mokytojo vaidmenis, į kuriuos derėtų atkreipti dėmesį, įdėti daugiau pastangų jiems atlikti.The aim of this master‘s final paper is to clear up the roles of teachers organizing the work in heterogeneous classes. Different works of Lithuanian and foreign author‘s management, pedagogics, psychology spheres were analised and structured. The analysis of the Republic of Lithuania documents, regulating education and special education, was done. The method of questionnaire was used to reveal the aim and the objectives of the work fully. The resuls of the research confirmed the teacher‘s roles mentioned in literary review, relealed the dominant teacher‘s working heterogeneous classes roles, and the frequency of these roles. The results of the research also shuowed rarely or not so intensively performed teacher‘s roles, which one shuold pay more attention at, and make more effors to perform them.
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Nauyoma-Hamupembe, Ladipaleni Ndadiinina. "Teachers' leadership roles at a public rural school in the Ohangwena Region, Namibia." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003679.
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The changing global and local circumstances and shift for democracy posed particular problems for school administration and leadership and made it difficult for principals to fulfil leadership responsibilities in schools alone. Hence principals require the assistance of all stakeholders in the school, and teachers in particular, to work together as a team and share the diverse leadership load for the improvement of schools. Thus, leadership in schools needs to be shared and distributed in a collaborative manner among teachers and principals working as a group to accomplish the primary objective of their schools, which is to improve learners’ achievement. For this idea to be embraced, I suggest it may require an urgent need for advanced knowledge and understanding of teacher leadership in schools, among teachers and principals, if schools are to thrive. This research studied the phenomenon of teacher leadership at a public rural school in the Ohangwena region of Namibia. It explored the teachers’ experiences of their leadership roles, and specifically the challenges inherent within the practice of teacher leadership in a school. A qualitative interpretive case study was conducted, employing document analysis, semi‐structured interviews and observations to produce data with regard to teachers’ experiences of their leadership roles, challenges inherent within its practice and possible strategies to promote teacher leadership. The analysis and the triangulation across the data sets suggested that teacher leadership existed in the case study school where it appeared in four different areas of leadership practice. These areas of leadership practices (Grant, 2008, p. 93) were, for example, in the classroom, outside the classroom in curricular and extra‐curricular activities, in school‐wide leadership development and between other neighbouring schools in the community. The school had a view of teacher leadership which was strongly located within the classroom and outside the classroom in curricular and extra‐curricular activities where teachers worked and interacted with their colleagues and learners. Teacher leadership was severely limited in the area of whole school development and almost non‐existent in the area outside the school between teachers across neighbouring schools, at circuit or district level and in the community. The study suggested that the nature of teacher leadership in the case study school was a restricted form of teacher leadership (Harris and Muijs, 2005) due to a range of factors which impeded its practice. The factors were, for example, a lack of involvement of all teachers in whole school leadership and school‐wide decision‐making. Other factors were limited time for teachers in the school, a lack of leadership development amongst the principal and teachers as well as resistance for teachers to leadership in the case study school.
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Aljabreen, Haifa. "A Comparative Multi-Case Study of Teacher Roles in U.S. Montessori Preschool and Saudi Public Preschool." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1492596882767711.
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Penczarski, Jennifer Marie. "Lessons from Transformational Teacher Leaders within a Learning Organization." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1586861617039983.
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Heineken, Sarah Elina. "German Teacher Candidates' Perceptions of Their Roles in the Lives of Syrian Refugee Students in Dresden." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1563406288112669.
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DeMoulin, Jade Lin. "Corrective Feedback and Teacher/Student Roles in the Acquisition of the Passé Composé and the Imparfait." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/579010.
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This thesis explores the differences between the Passé Composé and the Imparfait and why it can be difficult for students of the French language to correctly employ these two past tenses. I will examine the use of corrective feedback in French second language classrooms and the teacher/student role in the acquisition of the Passé Composé and the Imparfait by reviewing the literature in this field, and provide didactic suggestions going forwards.
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Cervantes, Cynthia Crystal, and Vanessa Vazquez. "Knowledge of School Resource Officer's Roles and Their Perceptions on School Social Worker's Roles." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/716.
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The study examined the perception of school resource officers (SROs) role in a school setting, the training they received prior to working in a school setting, their interaction with students, and their relationship with school administration, staff, and school social workers. Previous studies discussed SROs’ roles to be ambiguous and their primary focus of a school resource officer to maintain school safety, while other studies discussed the criminalization in schools due to the placement of law enforcement in the school settings.
The study employed a qualitative design with face-to-face interviews with seven participants who serve or have served as a SRO's in a public school, grades kindergarten through twelfth grade. The study found that SROs knew their roles very well and did not feel their role was ambiguous. The study also revealed that and that school administrators might cause issues if they did not fully understand the role and limitations of the SRO’s. Another finding of the study was that SRO’s roles do not collide with school social workers (SSWs). Based on the findings of the study, we recommend that school administrators and staff work on understanding the role of SROs to better work with the students they serve. The study findings also encourage SROs, SSWs and school administrators to work collaboratively to better serve students on campus effectively and work with better understanding each disciplines knowledge.
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Eksteen, Truter. "Educators' understanding of their roles at a school of skills." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/2066.
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Thesis (MEd (Specialised Education))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009.The site for the study is a Western Cape school for industry that became a school of skills in 1999. According to the S.A. National Association for Specialised Education (SANASE) (2001:1), a school of skills, also referred to as a special school, caters for intellectually mildly disabled learners (IMD learners) who are characterised by their poor scholastic abilities in reading, writing and arithmetic skills, low self-esteem, poor self-concept, lack of motivation to study and their inability to cope with academically orientated work. These would be learners who were previously in mainstream schools but whose learning difficulties resulted in their being placed at special schools. These learners pose particular challenges to their school environments, and teachers who work with such special needs learners require specialised training to equip them for their tasks. Teachers at schools of skills, however, generally have no additional training. This study had as focus teachers' understanding of their roles at a school of skills. This study uses an ecosystemic approach within an interpretive research framework to obtain in-depth data on teachers' understanding of the learners' learning needs and the concomitant challenges to classroom learning and their teaching. It also explored teachers' interpretations of their professional positioning amidst the demands posed by an outcomes-based curriculum. The study found that, despite ongoing in-service training initiatives, teachers insist that they need learner-specific guidance as they were incapable of providing suitable learning to their learners. They believe that their learners will need life-long learning support. Such beliefs create barriers to successful learning and can also marginalize learners, preventing them from being part of the mainstream of community life. The study found that the successful implementation of inclusive classroom learning is left largely to teachers' personal initiative. Although some teachers achieved positive results, the majority of teachers at the site failed to provide successful learning. It seems that learning success at schools of skill is dependent on positive teacher expectations of learners learning.
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Paškevičienė, Violeta. "Mokytojo vaidmenų kaita šiuolaikinėje visuomenėje." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2008. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2008~D_20080924_183401-04843.
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Pasaulio globalizacijos procesas, Lietuvos švietimo integracija į Europos Sąjungos švietimo erdvę inicijuoja naujus reikalavimus mokyklos tiek vadovams, tiek ir mokytojams. Šiandien mokyklai ypač reikalingi aukščiausios kvalifikacijos mokytojai. Jie turi būti kompetentingi, turintys reikiamų žinių ir įgūdžių, nuolat tobulinantys savo kvalifikaciją bei profesinius gebėjimus,jie turi būti iniciatyviais kaitos proceso dalyviais.
Atsižvelgiant į tai, buvo iškelta tyrimo problema- tradiciniai vaidmenys neužtikrina įvairiapusio moksleivio ugdymo šiuolaikinei visuomenei.
Tyrimo objektas - mokytojo vaidmenys ir jų kaita šiuolaikinėje visuomenėje.
Tyrimo tikslas - išanalizuoti mokytojų vaidmenų kaitą šiuolaikinėje visuomenėje.
Tyrimo uždaviniai:
1. Išryškinti mokytojų vaidmenis istorinės raidos kontekste.
2 Apibūdinti mokytojo vaidmenų įtaką ugdymo proceso kaitai.
3. Ištirti bendrojo lavinimo mokyklų mokytojų požiūrį į svarbiausius mokytojų vaidmenis šiuolaikinėje visuomenėje
Tyrimo imtis- Atsitiktinės atrankos būdu atrinkti 150 mokytojų iš keturių Vilniaus miesto bendrojo lavinimo mokyklų.
Tyrimo metodai: mokslinės literatūros, dokumentų analizė , anketinė analizė ir duomenų statistinė analizė atlikta panaudojant SPSS 13 programinį paketą.
Darbe atlikta ir pateikta studijuotų užsienio ir šalies mokslininkų teorinių darbų analizė apie mokytojų vaidmenų kaitą šiuolaikinėje visuomenėje.
Atlikus empirinį tyrimą paaiškėjo, kad kelta nulinė hipotezė, jog pedagogai atlieka visus... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]In the globalization process, integration of Lithuanian educational system into the European Union educational space enhances many requirements for schools leaders and teachers. Today’s school is in need of high competence teachers and tutors. They not only have to be competent, to have deep professional knowledge and skills, but also keep improving their own professional qualification. Teachers have to be able to influence changes to existing processes of schools operations. Taking in consideration these facts, the problem of this research arises – the traditional role of a teacher is no longer suitable for multifunctional education of nowadays society. The object of the research – ever-changing roles of the teacher in nowadays society. The aim of the research – to analyze the new roles of the teacher and their fluctuation of peculiarities. The targets for the research: 1. To analyze the historical evolution of teachers role. 2. To specify the influence of teachers role in the fluctuation of educational processes. 3. To find out the point of views of teachers on their own most important roles in nowadays society. Focus of the research: 150 teachers from the four school of basic education located in capital of Lithuania. The methods of research: theoretical analysis of historical documents and publications, the anonymous questionnaire, the statistic analysis of the data based on SPSS13. After the completion of the empiric research, the original hypothesis that teachers are... [to full text]
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Ellis, Norm. "Toward a common agenda, a case study of teacher and student roles in an innovative secondary school." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/mq24128.pdf.
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González-Howard, María. "Interactional patterns in argumentation discussions: Teacher and student roles in the construction and refinement of scientific arguments." Thesis, Boston College, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:107343.
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Thesis advisor: Katherine L. McNeillRecent science education reform documents and standards, such as the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), call for school science to better reflect authentic scientific endeavors by highlighting the centrality of students engaging in science practices. This dissertation study focuses specifically on argumentation (through the modality of talk), one of the eight science practices emphasized in the NGSS. Although extensively studied, argumentation rarely occurs in classrooms. The absence of this science practice in classrooms is partly due to the student-driven exchanges required by argumentation differing greatly from the interactions that occur during traditional instruction, where students primarily speak to and through the teacher. To transform the type of talk that occurs in science classrooms it is necessary to examine discourse patterns, as well as the roles classroom members take on, in order to identify and develop strategies that can facilitate the shift in discourse norms. This dissertation employs a mixed-methods approach, using social network analysis (SNA), multiple case study methodology, and discourse analysis (DA), to deeply examine video recordings of three middle school classrooms engaged in argumentation through a science seminar (a type of whole class debate). Findings from the SNA highlight the importance of argumentation research integrating a focus on argument structure with dialogic interactions, and point to the benefits of using multiple types of representations to capture engagement in this science practice. Furthermore, examining the manner by which teachers articulated student expectations and goals for the argumentation activity suggest the need to continue supporting teachers in developing and using rich instructional strategies to help students with the dialogic component of argumentation. Additionally, this work sheds light on the importance of how teachers frame the goals for student engagement in this science practice, specifically as being either individual goals or communal goals. Lastly, findings from the DA stress the relationship between discourse patterns and interactional norms, and also suggest the need to expand our perspectives of who can prompt for critique during an argumentation activity
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Valter, G. (Gábor). "Mechanism of choice in the road end’s village:a qualitative study of teachers’ perceptions of the system of parental choice in primary education and their professional roles in rural contexts on Hungary." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2013. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201306051469.
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Parents’ right to choose a primary school for their children is a central, instrumental element of education not only in Hungary but in the broader domain of European education systems as well. Choice mechanisms in education are connected to an ideological stand of extending market mechanisms within education. Choice mechanisms are instrumental to create and maintain a competitive domain within the sphere of education. Literature about choice also reveals its negative social impacts through stratifying education systems.
In the context of Hungary, choice mechanism is also connected to other processes, such as various forms of segregation, for instance. While this theses places choice at the focus of study, the research is concerned with educators’ conceptualizations, and perceptions of choice mechanisms in settings where choice is limited.
The research topic and the research design are aided by a critical theoretical view, utilizing theoretical constructs aided by critical pedagogy. The research is a construct attempting to give voice to teachers in discussing education beyond the immediate experience of the classroom, allowing teachers to construct an understanding together with the researcher on choice mechanisms, their settings and their professional roles within the setting.
Empirical data has been collected in rural Hungary; recorded, in depth, and unstructured conversations with practicing teachers in several settings. The thesis employs qualitative content analysis as the instrument for organizing and describing findings. Data is combined and analyzed utilizing a combination of approaches searching for and categorizing specific meanings.
Teachers who participated in the research often identified and described similar views within the same topic areas. They willingly shared their views and perceptions of choice mechanisms within primary education. Educators in the contextual setting of the study were also keen to describe and find justifications for their positions, as well as consider it in relation to or within the education system.
Topics also emerged from the data beyond the original focus of study. The perceptions and descriptions of events direct the research to take a closer look at aspects of rural education, governance and provision of education.
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Bowles, Susan S. "The perceived influence of the STARR teacher program on professional growth of program participants and their subsequent career roles." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/5575.
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Thesis (Ed. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2008.The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on July 22, 2009) Includes bibliographical references.
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Tan, Winnie. "The leadership roles of the child care centre supervisor in Singapore." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 1997. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/906.
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The purpose of this study was; (a) to describe the current situation of child care provision in Singapore; (b) to define the meaning of leadership and the responsibilities involved in effective leadership in a child care setting; and (c) to investigate and describe the leadership roles that child care centre supervisors need to perform in the day to day running of their centres from the perspective of the child care supervisors. A total of 15 supervisors from the private sector were interviewed in-depth. They were asked to describe all facets of their leadership roles in their centres. The results of this study suggest strongly that the child care centre supervisors are relatively young and inexperienced. Most of them have very little training in management and leadership skills. Many have acquired management and leadership knowledge through trial and error. Therefore, more systematic and effective training needs to be employed before most of them can become effective leaders in the child care profession.
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Bao, Xuehua. "Who makes the choice? rethinking the roles of self-determination and relatedness in Chinese children's motivation /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2005. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B36429417.
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Kehrwald, Jane. "Learner autonomy in the LOTE classroom: a case study of teacher and student beliefs about roles and responsibilities." University of Southern Queensland, Faculty of Education, 2005. http://eprints.usq.edu.au/archive/00003184/.
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[Abstract]: Learner autonomy in language learning has been described as the ability to take charge of one’s own learning by determining the objectives, defining the contents and progressions, selecting methods and techniques to be used, monitoring the procedure of acquisition and evaluating what has been acquired (Holec, 1979). Few would doubt that learner autonomy in language learning is a positive thing and can lead to learners who are more proficient in the target language. These sentiments are echoed in many language programs, which have as their explicitly stated goal the development of autonomous, self-directed learners. This project is a pilot study with the aim of investigating one such program: the Languages Other Than English (LOTE) (Indonesian) program at a regional public high school.Taking a collective case study approach this investigation sought to determine two LOTE (Indonesian) learners’ and their teacher’s beliefs about roles and responsibilities in the language learning process and how these beliefs are translated into their teaching and learning behaviour. Prior to any interventions aimed at facilitating the transfer of responsibility for the management of the learning process from the teacher to the learner, it is essential to access learners’ and teachers’ beliefs and attitudes as these have a profound impact on their learning and teaching behaviour and erroneous beliefs may lead to less effective approaches to learning, ultimately impacting on learners’ success in language learning (Horwitz, 1987).The data, collected through structured interviews and classroom observations, suggest that the subjects simultaneously exhibit characteristics consistent with and in contradiction to the profiles of autonomous learners and of a teacher who engages in pedagogy aimed at the development of autonomous learners. The two LOTE learners’ beliefs, and their learning behaviour, suggest that they defer responsibility to the teacher for the technical aspects of their learning, such as identifying learning objectives and topics, selecting learning activities and resources. On the other hand, through their expressed beliefs, and from the observed lessons, it appears that the two learners accept some level responsibility for reflecting and evaluating their learning and fully accept responsibility for maintaining their interest and motivations in learning the LOTE. While the LOTE learners defer responsibility for the technical aspects of their learning to their LOTE teacher, the LOTE teacher herself defers responsibility to the LOTE syllabus. However, the LOTE teacher was observediiiworking with learners, helping them to evaluate and reflect upon their learning and maintaining their interest and motivation in learning the LOTE.Recommendations for pedagogy to promote the development of learner autonomy and further research are presented.