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Issa, Reem. "ESP and EGP teaching methodology in Syria : Exploring teachers' beliefs and their classroom practices." Thesis, University of Essex, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.531552.
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Michael, Maureen K. "Precarious practices : artists, work and knowing-in-practice." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/21879.
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This study presents a new perspective on work practice in conceptual art. Using ethnographic evidence from five visual artists, the study used a combined visual arts and practice orientated perspective to explore the materiality of their everyday work and the sociomaterial practices shaping it. Close scrutiny is given to the forms of expertise embedded in this through concepts of knowing-in-practice and epistemic objects. Emerging from the findings is clearer understanding of how an arts-based methodology might enhance knowledge about artists’ knowing-in-practice. Popular representations of contemporary artists often ignore the realities of precarious work. This is reflected in the professional education of artists with its concentration on studio-based activities and emphasis on the production and products of artmaking. This study reconfigures and reconceptualises the work of artists as assemblages of sociomaterial practices that include, but are not limited to artmaking – so providing a different representation of the work of artists as a continuous collaboration of mundane materials. The study identified seven sociomaterial practices, defined as movement-driven; studio-making; looking; pedagogic; self-promotion; peer support; and pause. As these practices are subject to ever-changing materialities, they are constantly reassembled. Analysis revealed hidden interiors of underemployment and income generation to be significant factors embedded in the mundane materialities of everyday work, revealing resilience and adaptability as key forms of expertise necessary for the assembling of practices. Further, the arts-based methodology of ‘integrated imagework’ created ways of visually analysing the materially-mediated, socially situated nature of knowing in practice, and demonstrated how relational concepts relating to knowing-in-practice might be better analysed. Findings indicate how the professional education of artists – particularly the way the workplace of the studio is understood – could be re-envisioned to support the fluidity of contemporary artistic practices. The studio itself is a form of knowledge – ever changing – forming and being formed by the practices of artists. Adopting this view of studio-based education would be a radical departure from current studio-based pedagogies in contemporary art education. Further, resilience – the capacity to sustain practices that are emergent and constantly unfolding – becomes a form of expertise central to the professional education of artists.
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Bastos, Heloisa Flora. "Changing teachers' practice : towards a constructivist methodology of physics teaching." Thesis, University of Surrey, 1992. http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/919/.
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Cavedon, Carolina Christmann. "The Power of Reflective Professional Development in Changing Elementary School Teachers' Instructional Practices." PDXScholar, 2014. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/2075.
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With the new goal of K-12 education being to prepare students to be college and career ready at the end of high school, education needs to start changing at the elementary school level. The literature suggests that teachers need reflective professional development (PD) to effectively teach to the new standards and to demonstrate change to their current instructional practices. This mixed-method multiple-case study investigated the impacts of a reflective professional development (PD) in changing elementary school teachers' instructional practices.
Teachers Instructional Portfolios (TIPs) were scored with a TIP rubric based on best practices in teaching mathematics problem-solving and science inquiry. The TIPs were also analyzed with a qualitative coding scheme. Case descriptions were written and all the collected data were used to explain the impacts of the reflective PD on changes in teachers' instructional practices.
While we found no predictive patterns in relation to teachers changing their classroom practices based on the reflective PD, we claim that teachers' desire to change might contribute to improvements in instruction. We also observed that teachers' self-assessment scores tend to be higher than the actual TIP scores corroborating with the literature on the usage of self-assessment to evaluate teachers' instructional practices.
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Cunningham, Deborah Lynn. "Professional practice and perspectives in the teaching of historical empathy." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2004. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:5bf95dbe-0fd9-49c2-9cc2-d2893d13da45.
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To empathise, in a historical sense, generally means to entertain the perspectives and values of people in the past through consideration of the circumstances they faced. Widely acknowledged as a fundamental part of the historian's craft, empathy has had a more tenuous place in school history due to the conceptual confusion of the term, its association with the promotion of a leftist political agenda, and its difficulty for pupils. Scholarship on empathy has focused upon its philosophical meaning and students' thought processes, but has largely neglected to explore teachers' knowledge and practice about how to cultivate it. Instead, it has tended to offer norms for good practice that take little account of differing contexts or the sometimes competing goals that teachers seek to achieve. It has been guided as well by a particular image of empathy teaching as dedicated exercises, often involving immersion in many historical sources. My study begins to address the lack of attention to teachers' actual ideas and practices for fostering empathy by presenting a case study of four experienced history educators in England. Through extensive analysis of lesson and interview transcripts, I derive a new framework for thinking about empathy teaching that takes into account both the major activities and smallscale discourse strategies - heretofore largely unexamined - that the teachers use to promote understanding. It attends to their ways of conceptualising empathy, their means of establishing the conditions they view as essential, their negotiations of myriad factors helping or hindering their efforts, and their complex deployments of various types of relevant knowledge. The framework shows how, in making decisions about empathy teaching, they consider student factors such as capacities, preconceptions and motivation, structural factors such as time, resources, and examination priorities, and factors concerning their own knowledge, beliefs and state - then utilise a broad and flexible repertoire of strategies to address the shifting variables they encounter. Finally, the study explores curriculum as an interaction between teachers, pupils and educational context, recognising the influence of each on understanding in particular classrooms. Significant divergences between how teachers think and practice and how empathy teaching is discussed in the educational literature emerge for a spectrum of issues. These include how empathy is conceptualised, what sorts of strategies are enacted, who the historical subjects of empathetic efforts are, how students' achievements are assessed, and how empathy-related dilemmas are construed and managed. All of these discrepancies suggest that research stands to benefit by attending more closely to teachers' ideas. For their part, the teachers appear to be oriented toward self-improvement - learning and changing through experience, collegial contact, and focused reflection of the sort prompted by this research. Implications for teachers' professional development and for future research approaches are explored.
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Kloock, Lois Gayle. "Direct teaching methods naturally practiced by effective and less effective teachers." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/39749.
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During the past decade, direct instruction has been cited as one characteristic of effective schools. In response to increased accountability, many school districts and schools have incorporated the methods of direct instruction as a way to improve teaching performance and student achievement.
This study was designed to determine if the teachers who were identified as effective would naturally practice the elements of direct teaching to a greater extent than less effective teachers where neither the effective nor the less effective teachers had been trained in specific models of direct instruction.Ed. D.
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JUNQUEIRA, Maria Ang?lica da Silva e. Carvalho. "Atitudes dos estudantes do ensino m?dio dos cursos t?cnicos em Agroecologia e Meio Ambiente do CTUR-UFRRJ em rela??o ? matem?tica e ?s pr?ticas docentes." Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, 2015. https://tede.ufrrj.br/jspui/handle/jspui/1686.
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The objective of this research was to investigate the attitude of students towards teaching practices in mathematics. Research subjects were 228 students from the Agroecology and Environment technical program of Col?gio T?cnico da Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro. A numerical scale was used to measure the student?s attitude towards mathematics. A survey with open and closed questions was also distributed on different classes, to describe the students and to correlate description variables that could be associated with the students attitudes towards mathematics. Data were submitted to quantitative and qualitative analyses using content analysis module from IBM - SPSS version 20,0 software. A significant correlation was found between gender and attitude towards mathematics: male students seem to have a more positive attitude; students with better general performances also had more positive attitude towards math. Significant correlations between attitude and ?relation with the teacher? and between attitude and teaching methodology were also found. Sutdent age and grade was not correlated ti their attiute towards math. Second year students seemed to have a more positive attiute than the others.
A pesquisa teve como objetivo correlacionar ?s atitudes dos alunos em rela??o ? matem?tica e o papel docente. Os sujeitos da pesquisa foram 228 alunos do Ensino M?dio dos Cursos T?cnicos em Agroecologia e Meio Ambiente, do Col?gio T?cnico da Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro. Foram aplicados: a escala que mede a atitude em rela??o ? matem?tica e um question?rio com perguntas abertas e fechadas nas turmas, para caracterizar os alunos e correlacionar alguns fatores que podem influenciar tais atitudes. Os dados foram submetidos ? an?lise quantitativa e qualitativa, com o recurso da an?lise de conte?do e do programa SPSS, vers?o 20.0 da IBM. Pode-se concluir que: existe uma correla??o significativa das atitudes dos alunos em rela??o ? matem?tica, quanto ao g?nero, sendo que o masculino apresentou atitude mais positiva; alunos com maior desempenho apresentaram atitudes mais positivas; houve uma correla??o significativa entre atitude e sua rela??o com o professor e entre atitude e a metodologia de ensino utilizada em sala. N?o foi registrada correla??o significativa da atitude, em rela??o ? matem?tica, quanto ? s?rie e idade dos alunos. As turmas do segundo ano dos referidos cursos apresentaram atitudes mais positivas em rela??o ? matem?tica.
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Abdelaty, Ahmed, and Joseph Shrestha. "Current Practices of Experiential Learning in the United States Construction and Technology Programs." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/5470.
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Construction education is dynamic and practice oriented. As such, effective construction programs require significant collaboration with the construction industry. This collaboration, in the form of internship or cooperative programs, increase the student readiness for the job market by providing valuable field experience. Construction programs in the United States (US) established several internship requirements that range from being optional to multiple required internships. This study focuses on scanning the current internship requirements set by construction and engineering technology programs in the US by gathering information including; 1) Number and length of required internships, 2) Internship prerequisites, 3) Internship deliverables, 4) assessment method. The outcome of this study is expected to help construction programs improve their internship or cooperative requirements by considering the prevailing practices developed by other schools. Additionally, the study provides recommendations to enhance the effectiveness of internship for positive experiential learning.
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Salavati, Sadaf. "Novel Use of Mobile and Ubiquitous Technologies in Everyday Teaching and Learning Practices : A Complex Picture." Licentiate thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för informatik (IK), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-31341.
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As of autumn 2011, all schools in Sweden have adopted and applied the latest curriculum for the compulsory school system. The following is written in concern to technology: "The school is responsible for ensuring that each pupil on completing compulsory school: [...] can use modern technology as a tool in the search for knowledge, communication, creativity and learning." (Skolverket, 2011, pp.13-14) With this said, there are no guidelines or manuals on how this is to be conducted. In a report from the Swedish Schools Inspectorate it was concluded that the investment in technology is not being used for school education. The education systems keep investing in technology in the belief that schools and teachers will sooner or later adopt and benefit from the use of mobile and ubiquitous technologies. The aim of this study is to “create an understanding of the aspects that have an impact on adopting novel use of mobile and ubiquitous technologies in everyday teaching and learning practices in compulsory schools.” The empirical foundation will be based upon three projects: Geometry Mobile (GeM); Learning Ecology with Technologies from Science for Global Outcomes (LETS GO); and Collaborative Learning Using Digital Pens and Interactive Whiteboards (Collboard). All were conducted at local compulsory schools in Växjö municipality, Sweden, in collaboration with teachers, students and fellow researchers from the CeLeKT research group at Linnaeus University. Two Thematic Analyses have been conducted: the first, an inductive analysis exploring the Students’ and Teachers’ Experience of using Mobile and Ubiquitous Technologies in their learning and teaching environment. The second analysis is deductive and uses themes from the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology models with the aim of understanding the Perception and Acceptance of Teachers’ use of Mobile and Ubiquitous Technologies. In the results from the two analyses there are clear indicators on the added value that mobile and ubiquitous technology brings to the classrooms: students are able to actively participate, collaborate and discuss in different learning settings, which enhances their understanding of the subject at hand. The challenges are mainly to be found in the lack of training and education in use of the technology as a supporting tool for teaching and learning. Further factors influencing the teachers and the students are ease of use and reliability of the technology and societal changes. The results of the analysis and the theoretical base of Technology Enhanced Learning have been illustrated with Soft Systems Methodologies Rich Picture, providing a holistic view of the problematic situation and making it possible to discuss the various parts as well as the situation as a whole. This study indicates that there are several factors influencing the adoption of the novel use of mobile and ubiquitous technologies in everyday teaching and learning within a complex situation on different levels.
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Chitumwa, Chemunondirwa Christopher. "Pre-service teachers’ concerns on teaching practicum: a mixed methods case study from Zimbabwe." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/14840.
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The purpose of this study was to identify and examine pre-service teachers’ concerns relating to their teaching practicum in Zimbabwe and to suggest strategies that could be used to support them in a digitalised era. This study was necessitated by the desire to understand the concerns that pre-service teachers experience during teaching practicum in a fast changing world and in a depressing, unstable socio-politico-economic environment. The study employed a meta-conceptual approach comprising constructivist and social cognitive epistemology as its theoretical framework. A concurrent mixed methods research design was utilised to address the research questions. Both quantitative and qualitative methods were used to design the study, collect, and analyse data. Thirty participants comprising of 24 pre-service teachers and six college supervisors were purposively selected for the qualitative study from United College of Education in Zimbabwe. Qualitative data was collected by means of interviews and analysed through a thematic analysis. For the quantitative phase, 300 pre-service teachers were chosen through stratified random sampling from the same institution and were asked to complete a questionnaire. One hundred and ninety-three questionnaires were returned and usable, giving a return rate of 64%. Data from the survey were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Findings from the study revealed that pre-service teachers experience diverse concerns during teaching practicum that included classroom management, teacher knowledge, socio-economic factors, workload, interpersonal relationships and assessment anxiety. Findings from the quantitative phase revealed some differences in the levels of concerns among the year groups. A general downward trend in the levels of concerns was detected except for teacher beliefs concerns that remained constant. Findings from the qualitative phase of the study revealed that the concerns that pre-service teachers experienced during teaching practicum had negative impact on their classroom practice. Most of the student teachers had devised some coping strategies to deal with their concerns and they were satisfied with the quality of support from mentors and peers, but not that from their supervisors. In an increasingly globalised world, the researcher felt that teaching practicum related concerns could be minimised by exploiting the benefits of digitalised knowledge and communities of learning.
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Stanford, Myah D. "Transfer of Instructional Practices From Freedom Schools to the Classroom." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2016. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc849712/.
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The instructional practices of three current classroom teachers who formerly served as Servant Leader Interns (SLIs) in the Children’s Defense Fund Freedom Schools (CDFFS) Program were examined. Haskell (2001) outlined eleven principles of transfer of learning, which were used to survey the levels of transfer established from service in Freedom Schools to practice in the traditional classroom. Individual surveys, The Freedom School Pedagogies Teacher Observation Record (FSPTOR) along with interviews of each participant were used for data collection; all three components were used to triangulate the findings. The findings from this study verified that low transfer was observed when the minimal application of the principles of learning was applied. This study revealed that for transfer to occur at high levels, it is imperative that adherence to all 11 principals is made, and the understanding of transfer, the application of transfer, and reflection on transfer are implemented. If the transfer of instructional practices is a goal of CDFFS for SLIs, the CDFFS program should consider implementing transfer of learning theory in future SLI training.
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Björkegren, Susanne. "Improvisation för klassiska musiker : tabu, onödigt, användbart eller vitalt?" Thesis, Kungl. Musikhögskolan, Institutionen för musik, pedagogik och samhälle, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kmh:diva-1328.
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Arbetet handlar om improvisationens förekomst i dagens undervisning på klassiska instrument. I den klassiska musiken har improvisation inte haft någon större roll de senaste 150 åren. Jag ville framförallt få reda på om dagens klassiska instrumentallärare på musik och kulturskolor använder sig av improvisation i sin undervisning och vilka tillvägagångssätt de i så fall har. Men även vad de anser att improvisation är för en klassisk musiker, därav min titel på arbetet. Jag har intervjuat fem lärare som har olika ålder, arbetslivserfarenhet och undervisar på olika instrument. Det visade sig att alla lärarna, i varierande utsträckning, använder sig av improvisation i sin undervisning och anser att improvisation är bra för en klassisk musiker. Jag önskar att mitt arbete kan inspirera klassiska instrumentallärare och musiker till att låta improvisationen ta ett kliv tillbaka in i den klassiska musiken, för jag är övertygad om att den hör hemma där.This work intends to show improvisations presence in classical instrument teaching. Improvisation has not been an obvious part of classical music in the past 150 years. I wanted to find out if teachers with classical instruments use improvisation with their students and if they do, what course of action they use. But also what they think improvisation is to a classical musician. I have interviewed five teachers with different instruments, ages and professional experience. It turned out that all teachers, to some extent, use improvisation with their students and they consider that it is good for classical musicians to be able to improvise. I hope my work will inspire teachers and musicians to let improvisation return to classical music, because I am convinced that it belongs there.
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Reynolds, Ruth, and Monika Vinterek. "Globalization and classroom practice: insights on learning about the world in Swedish and Australian schools." University of Newcastle, Australia, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-27728.
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Globalization and global education implies changes to practices at the classroom level to adapt to new imperatives associated with technology use and awareness, and environmental sustainability. It also implies much more. It implies that teachers apply their classroom pedagogy to take account of students’ new found global understandings of which they, and the school community, is largely unaware. This article addresses and discuses three key consequences of globalization for classrooms worldwide; an increased diversity of experience of the students within the classroom, an increased competitiveness of educational outcomes between national states and subsequently some standardisation of curriculum across nations to enable this, and an increased emphasis on teaching skills and values associated with intercultural understanding. Young children’s map knowledge and their resultant, and associated, interpretations of the world from a comparative study a from Swedish and Australian primary classrooms is used as examples of some of these implications of the impact of ‘global culture’ and ‘global issues’ on current and future classroom practice.
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Simmonds, Shan Robyn. "Primary school learners' understanding of human rights teaching-and-learning in classroom practice / S.R. Simmonds." Thesis, North-West University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/6257.
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The National Curriculum Statement (2002), in line with the South African Constitution (1996), views human rights, inclusivity and social justice as priorities in all learning areas of the curriculum. However, a document such as the Manifesto on Values, Education and Democracy (2001) illustrates the complexities of addressing this in practice. One of the reasons is that there are misconceptions about how the concept of 'human rights' should be interpreted in the educational realm.
This study sets out to explore how primary school learners understand human rights teaching-and-learning (from a moral and value stance) and what factors influence this. The intention is to rethink and redefine human rights teaching-and-learning from a learner's perspective as well as to investigate the notion that regards human rights as 'misunderstood'. This research offers a new perspective on human rights in that it focuses on primary school learners. Therefore this study will provide another lens through which to consider human rights teaching-and-learning in classroom practice.
A literature study and empirical research have been undertaken to investigate how learners understand human rights teaching-and-learning. The literature study explores ontological, epistemological and methodological perspectives of human rights teaching-and-learning. Qualitative observation, written narratives and focus-group interviews formed the bases of this empirical research. Ongoing triangulation is used to ensure that the research findings are valid and trustworthy.
It seems that primary school learners do have an understanding of human rights teaching-and-learning, which is characterized by an emphasis on legal rights and the contextualisation of human rights within South African, value and educational contexts. Educational and societal factors are two of the factors that influence this understanding.
It is clear that learners' understanding of human rights teaching-and-learning is not one-dimensional. However, there are certain ontological ambiguities in the views that learners hold of the significance of human rights teaching-and-learning -both within and beyond the curriculum. An indication of this is that learners' responses reveal that they are often uncertain about why they have to learn about human rights and the contexts and/or learning areas (other than Life Orientation) in which human rights teaching-and-learning should take place.
Recommendations highlight the need to gain a better understanding of classroom practices so that teaching-and-learning can infuse a culture of human rights; to acknowledge that human rights teaching-and-learning should be more flexible; to use an implicit way of generating an understanding of human rights; to make human rights teaching and learning in classroom practice more authentic; and to consider 'a human rights beyond the curriculum approach'.
This study also identifies areas in which further research should be done.Thesis (M.Ed.)--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2010.
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Persson, Elin. "Undervisningspraktikens roll i utvecklingen av matematiskt begåvade elever : En systematisk litteraturstudie inom ämnet matematik." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för naturvetenskap och teknik, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-51570.
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Syftet med studien är att genom tidigare forskning undersöka hur elever med begåvning för matematik kan stödjas genom utformning av undervisningen. Inom denna forskningsöversikt studeras området undervisningspraktikens utformning för matematiskt begåvade elever. Att begåvade elever inom ämnet matematik behöver stöd och hjälp för att utvecklas råder det ingen tvekan om. Däremot existerar det olika åsikter för hur undervisningen skall bedrivas för att gynna de begåvade eleverna. Studiens metod är litteraturstudier, följd av textanalys där objektiva värden prioriterats. Utifrån den systematiska litteraturstudiens resultat presenteras två huvudkategorier för elevutveckling, nämligen undervisningsmetodik och påverkansfaktorer. Forskningsöversikten beskriver vidare nödvändigheten av att de båda huvudkategorierna samspelar i undervisningen av matematiskt begåvade elever. Det konstateras mestadels positiva resultat i utvecklingen av matematiskt begåvade elever, med några negativa invändningar vilket poängterar vikten av vidare forskning inom området begåvning och begåvningsutveckling. Slutsatsen är att undervisningspraktiken med fördel kan utformas med stöd av undervisningsmetodik och påverkansfaktorer.The purpose of the study is through previous research examining how gifted students in mathematics can be supported through the development of teaching. In this research review, the areas of teaching practice design for mathematically gifted students are examined. There is no doubt that gifted students in mathematics need help and support to develop. However, there exist different views of how teaching should be conducted for the benefit of the gifted students. The study's methodology is a literature review, combined with text analysis in which objective values are prioritized. Through a systematic literature review, study results presented two main categories of student development, teaching practice and influencing factors. The research review describes the necessity of the two main categories interacting in teaching of mathematically gifted students. It is found mostly positive results in the development of mathematically gifted students, with a few negative objections, which emphasizes the importance of further research in the area of giftedness and their development. The conclusion is that teaching practice can advantageously be designed with the support of teaching practice and influencing factors.
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Belluigi, Dina Zoe. "Excavating the 'critique' : an investigation into disjunctions between the espoused and the practiced within a Fine Art studio practice curriculum." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003413.
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This report presents the findings of a case study excavating the event of the ‘Critique’ (crit), the formative assessment method within a Fine Art Studio Practice curriculum. Arguments informed by critical postmodernism, education theories and contemporary art criticism are utilised to construct a dialectic of higher education, contemporary art and fine art studio practice. An emphasis is placed on the importance of agency, expressed through intentionality and critical thinking, with a recognition of the relationship between ‘the self’ and ‘the other’. Using critical discourse analysis, the disjunctions between the espoused and practiced curriculum are explored. The researcher analyses how the assessment practices of the case studied are influenced by unexamined agentic factors, such as inter-departmental relations, lecturers’ assumptions and prior learning, and structural determinants, such as the medium-specific Bachelor of Fine Art degree structure and prevailing artistic traditions. The research findings indicate that these are underpinned by tensions between two orientations, the espoused curriculum’s discourse-interest informed by critical theory, and the theory-in-use. The latter is shown to have unexamined modernist leanings towards formalism and a master-apprentice relationship between lecturer and students, which encourages reproduction rather than critical, creative thinking. The dominant discourses in the case studied construct a negative dialectic of the artist-student that can be seen to deny student agency and authorial responsibility. Findings suggest that students experience this as alienating, to the extent that to preserve their sense of self, they adopted surface and strategic approaches to learning. An argument is made for lecturers’ critically reflexive engagement with their teaching practice, and thereby to model ethical relationships between ‘self’ and ‘other’ during ‘crits’. In addition, emphasis is placed on how assessment practices should be more aligned with the espoused curriculum, so that the importance of a reflexive relationship between form and content, process and product, intentionality and interpretation is acknowledged.
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Alves, Dulcinéia de Jesus. "ENEM: efeitos nas práticas curriculares de professores de língua portuguesa do ensino médio em Salvador." Faculdade de Educação, 2013. http://repositorio.ufba.br/ri/handle/ri/14575.
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O estudo investigou os efeitos que o Exame Nacional do Ensino Médio - ENEM produz nas práticas pedagógicas e curriculares dos professores de língua portuguesa do ensino médio, em uma escola particular de Salvador. Utilizou-se como contribuição a abordagem do ciclo de políticas formulada por Stephen Ball (2006). Para tanto, entre os cinco diferentes contextos abordados (influência, produção do texto, contexto da prática, resultados/efeitos e estratégia política), reportou-se, especificamente aos da prática e dos resultados/efeitos. Para atingir os objetivos propostos, usou-se o referencial do contexto da prática através da realização de diferentes estratégias de coleta de dados, fontes orais e escritas, análise de documentos, dados estatísticos, entrevistas e observações. O levantamento de dados verificou se havia um diálogo entre a política avaliativa do ENEM e as práticas curriculares dos professores, através das práticas pedagógicas e da metodologia de ensino e de aprendizagem. Inferiu-se com os resultados alcançados que o exame repercute diretamente no trabalho pedagógico dos professores e apontam tendências que se constituem em mudança de concepção, reorganização da dinâmica curricular, alteração dos espaços e tempos da escola gerando uma possível transformação da cultura escolar. Entre os elementos constituintes da prática, os que mais sofreram os efeitos estão o ensino dos conteúdos disciplinares, a forma de ensiná-los e de avaliá-los. Assim o planejamento dos professores da 3ª série do Ensino Médio passou a priorizar os conhecimentos do ENEM.
Abstract The study invest igated the effects that the National High School Exam - ENEM produces in the curricular and pedagogical practices of teachers of Portuguese language of the high school, in a private school of Salvador. It was used as a contribution the policy cycle approach formulated by Stephen Ball (2006).For how among the five different contexts adressed (influence, production of the text, results/effects and political strategy) speci fically those of practice and results/effects were reported. To achieve the proposed objectives, it was used the context of practice through different data collection strategies, oral and written sources, document analysis, statistical data, interviews and observations. The survey data checked to see if there was a dialogue between the evaluation policy of ENEM and curricular practices of teachers, trought educational practices and teaching and learning methodology. Inferred with the results achieved that affects directly in the pedagocial work of teachers. Amogn the constituent elements of practice, the most suffered are the teaching effects of disciplinary content and how to teach them. So the planning of the teachers of the 3 rd grade of high school went on to prioritize the knowledges of ENEM
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Аушева, Тетяна Олександрівна. "Реалізація принципу практичної спрямованості в навчанні шкільного курсу «Природничих наук»." Магістерська робота, ЗНУ, 2020. https://dspace.znu.edu.ua/jspui/handle/12345/3436.
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Аушева Т. О. Реалізація принципу практичної спрямованості в навчанні шкільного курсу «Природничих наук» : кваліфікаційна робота магістра спеціальності 014 "Середня освіта" / наук. керівник В. В. Перетятько. Запоріжжя : ЗНУ, 2020. 57 с.UA : Робота викладена на 57 сторінок друкованого тексту, містить 6 таблиць та 5 рисунків. Список літератури включає 52 джерела. Об’єкт дослідження – освітній процес вивчення курсу «Природничі науки» в закладах загальної середньої освіти. Предмет дослідження – методичні засади реалізації принципу практичної спрямованості в процесі навчання курсу «Природничі науки». Мета роботи – науковому обґрунтуванні методичної системи реалізації принципу практичної спрямованості на вча ння та їх впрова дже ння в проце с викладання інтегрованого курсу «Природничі науки». Методи дослідження – теоретичні: теоретичний аналіз і узагальнення наукової літератури з педагогіки, методики навчання, для з’ясування рівня опрацювання проблеми, визначення понятійно-категоріального апарату; емпіричні: педагогічний експеримент, спостереження, тестування, анкетування, статистичні. В результаті експериментальних досліджень було виявлено, що за суб’єктивними (анкетування та діагностика навчальної мотивації) та об’єктивними показниками (успішність учнів з курсу «Природничі науки») розроблена нами методика навчання продемонструвала свою ефективність. Наукова новизна: розроблена методична система реалізації принципу практичної спрямованості в навчанні інтегрованого курсу «Природничі науки, яка визначає дієвість певних засобів реалізації. Практичне значення роботи полягає у тому, що вчителі інтегрованого курсу «Природничі науки» можуть використовувати у практичній діяльності методичну систему.
EN : The work is presented on 57 pages of printed text, contains 6 tables and 5 figures. The bibliography includes 52 sources. The object of research is the educational process of studying the course "Natural Sciences" in general secondary education. The subject of research - methodical bases of realization of the principle of practical orientation in the course of training of a course "Natural sciences". The purpose of the work is to scientifically substantiate the methodical system of realization of the principle of practical orientation on learning and their implementation in the process of teaching the integrated course "Natural Sciences". Research methods - theoretical: theoretical analysis and generalization of scientific literature on pedagogy, teaching methods, to clarify the level of elaboration of the problem, to determine the conceptual and categorical apparatus; empirical: pedagogical experiment, observation, testing, questionnaire, statistical. As a result of experimental research, it was found that the subjective (questionnaire and diagnosis of learning motivation) and objective indicators (student performance in the course "Natural Sciences") developed by us teaching methods have demonstrated their effectiveness. Scientific novelty: a methodical system of implementation of the principle of practical orientation in teaching an integrated course "Natural Sciences", which determines the effectiveness of certain means of implementation. The practical significance of the work is that teachers of the integrated course "Natural Sciences" can use in practice the methodological system.
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Watts, Lynelle. "Thinking differently about reflective practice in Australian social work education: A rhapsody." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2015. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1758.
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There are many different ways of thinking about reflective practice in social work education in Australia. This research utilises a musical metaphor to illustrate this diversity. Written as a piece of music with album notes, the study utilises a reflexive methodology with a qualitative mixed method approach. Three studies were conducted to explore how reflective practice is understood in social work education and practice in Australia. The first study examined my own learning and teaching of reflective practice through an autoethnographic process. The findings indicated a range of models of reflective practice potentially available to the educator. Also explored in this study were the kinds of reflection these models make possible and visible to educators and students. The second study traced the emergence of reflective practice within Australian social work education by conducting a Foucauldian inspired archaeology. This study demonstrated the emergence of specific models in social work education and how their adoption has transformed the language and discourse of problem-solving within the discipline through the use of specific kinds of social theory. In the final study qualitative interviews with social work students, practitioners and educators were undertaken. This study explored the beliefs, attitudes and values held by participants about reflective practice. The final study illustrated the social and oral nature of reflective practice within the discipline. Participant interviews also indicated that reflective practice is a significant means for solving problems and building understanding for learning and practice for social workers. Overall, the study establishes that current models of reflective practice could be enhanced if more attention was paid to instructing students in critical reflection skills such as deconstruction, evaluation, critique, problematisation and interpretation. This would contribute greatly to the ability of social workers to effectively test the limits of their knowledge and practice in the interests of the people they serve.
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Jackelman, Susan Iona. "Investigating the dual influences of theory and practice on the design and implementation of a learning programme." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003473.
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It is widely recognized that educational research and theory should be motivated by the desire to continually improve the practice of teaching. However, bridging the divide between theoretical research outcomes and the practical constraints of classroom-based teaching has proved somewhat challenging. The involvement of teachers as the 'bridge-builders' between theory and practice could provide an effective mechanism for achieving this integration. The purpose of this study is thus to investigate whether the involvement of teachers in developing and implementing a theory-based teaching module would improve teaching practice in the classroom. A teaching module was collaboratively developed by a group of teachers for Grade 9 linear functions using: the principles of mathematical proficiency postulated by Kilpatrick, Swafford and Findell, (2001); the teaching phases formulated by van Hiele (1986); and the cognitive classification of classroom activities developed by Stein and Smith (1998). This module was then taught to six Grade 9 classes by four teachers in one school in the Eastern Cape, South Africa over a period of 5 weeks. The effectiveness of the module, and its application in the classroom, was assessed in terms of: (i) the extent to which theory could be used to inform the design and development of teaching materials; (ii) the efficacy of this teaching material in promoting teaching for mathematical proficiency; and (iii) the effects of extraneous influences on the usefulness of the module in teaching for mathematical proficiency. While the theoretical framework provided a sound basis for developing the teaching module, it was found that collaboratively transforming this theory into a teaching module for practical use in the classroom is certainly possible, but it requires considerable time and effort that practising teachers do not have. Developing the depth of understanding required for mathematical proficiency also takes time - a commodity often in short supply as teachers grapple with the demands of the curriculum. Teaching for mathematical proficiency is a layered process. It starts with thinking about an idea (like a graph) that is developed out of a related concept that then has a set of characteristic algorithms and actions which are learnt and performed in sequence. Building understanding in this way ends with a student being able to visualize and conceive the graph as a structure that can be described as if it were an object (encapsulating all the previous concepts belonging to similar graphs in one idea). This development of understanding is important for mathematical proficiency but is not necessarily easy. When teaching with the module, it was necessary to create an extra opportunity for students to use procedural knowledge and repetition in order to provide enough examples to help them see the link: between linear number patterns and linear graphs. Extraneous influences on teaching for mathematical proficiency were grouped into two categories - endogenous and exogenous influences. Endogenous influences were teacher related and included the attitudes, decisions and disposition of the teacher. Exogenous influences were more contextual (and in effect out of the control of the teacher) and included teaching time available, curriculum, external assessments etc. Both of these influences were seen to affect teaching for mathematical proficiency, either promoting or inhibiting it. This research affirmed the central role that teachers play in teaching for mathematical proficiency. It is considered critical that research actively involve teachers in the evolution of mathematical theory. The development of an enabling environment (including institutional support, time, capacity, resources, skills and tools) for teachers will further enhance their capacity to teach for mathematical proficiency.
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Lima, Leiliane Lopes. "O ensino de quÃmica: a relaÃÃo teoria-prÃtica como estratÃgia pedagÃgica de uma aprendizagem significativa." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2012. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=7819.
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nÃo hÃEsta pesquisa analisou o potencial pedagÃgico da relaÃÃo entre a teoria e a prÃtica no ensino da QuÃmica atravÃs de prÃticas laboratoriais no ensino profissional de nÃvel mÃdio. Teve a seguinte questÃo de pesquisa: de que modo o ensino da QuÃmica, aliando teorias e prÃticas laboratoriais, potencializa a melhoria na qualidade da aprendizagem? Este estudo partiu da hipÃtese de que tal associaÃÃo contribui positivamente na melhoria do ensino de QuÃmica, bem como na relativizaÃÃo da assertiva de que a referida disciplina à de difÃcil compreensÃo por parte dos alunos. Esta pesquisa se caracterizou pelo uso dos mÃtodos dedutivo e indutivo, sendo uma pesquisa de campo de cunho bibliogrÃfico e de carÃter descritivo, utilizando-se a tÃcnica de pesquisa atravÃs de questionÃrios. A amostragem teve como base as turmas dos cursos de Enfermagem, InformÃtica e ComÃrcio, do 1 ano do ensino mÃdio da Escola de Ensino Profissional Manoel Mano, localizada no municÃpio de CrateÃs, no SertÃo dos Inhamuns, no Estado do CearÃ. Trata-se de uma amostragem por conveniÃncia. Teve resultado mensurado por critÃrios relativos à melhoria da qualidade da aprendizagem, pautada num rendimento acima da mÃdia, bem como na manutenÃÃo da regularidade dessa qualidade no decorrer do ano letivo.
This research examined the pedagogical potential of the relationship between theory and practice in Chemistry teaching through laboratory practice in professional education of high school level. It had the following research question: in which way the teaching of Chemistry, combining theories and laboratorial practices, enhance the improvement in the quality of learning? This study hypothesized that this association contributes positively to improve the teaching of Chemistry as well as relativizes the assertion that this discipline is difficult to understand by students. This research was characterized by the use of the deductive and inductive methods, being a field research of bibliographical and descriptive aspects, using the survey technique through questionnaires. The sampling was based on some classes of the courses of Nursing, Information Technology and Trade, in the first year of High School in Escola de Ensino Profissional Manoel Mano, in the city of CrateÃs, a small city in SertÃo dos Inhamuns, in CearÃ. It can be defined as a convenience sampling. Its result was measured by criteria related to the improvement in quality of learning, based on above average income, as well as the maintenance of this quality regularity during the school year.
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Bailey, J. B. "Law teaching methodology." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.355850.
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Guess, David R. "Repetition as teaching methodology." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1985. http://www.tren.com.
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Collins-Warfield, Amy E. ""Ubuntu"-- philosophy and practice an examination of Xhosa teachers' psychological sense of community in Langa, South Africa /." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1225405676.
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Girot, Etienne. "Practical implementation of SCRUM and associated practices." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för datavetenskap, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-100123.
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Even though Scrum is nowadays widely known in the Software Industry field and its theoretical frame extensively described in the literature, its implementation is far from being straightforward. As a matter of fact, the literature describes a meta-process that new practitioners must adapt to their project specific constraints. However, this practical aspect is crucial and very scarcely tackled. To that extend, this thesis work describes the difficulties we faced while putting Scrum into practice and how, through the study of the project contextual factors, the insight of a Proof Of Concept and the support of a couple of agile practices, we worked it out.
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Gungor, Almer. "Teaching Practices Enhancing Students'." Phd thesis, METU, 2010. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12612581/index.pdf.
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This study was aimed to provide insight about affective teaching practices that influence students'affective characteristics in physics lessons using mixed methodology. Affective characteristics consisted of attitudes and motivation. For this purpose Keller'
s ARCS (attention, relevance, confidence, satisfaction) model was revised by adding Communication category. The Affective Teaching Practices Questionnaire, including these categories, was administered to 1,138 students and 31 physics teachers in Ankara. Moreover, the Affective Characteristics Questionnaire was administered to students to find out the relationship between students'
affective characteristics and their perceptions about the teaching practices used by teachers. Four physics teachers, who were performing teaching practices frequently, were purposefully selected according to results of quantitative phase. In qualitative phase, observations were conducted in these teachers'
classrooms to find out teaching practices used to enhance affective characteristics and their effects. Besides, interviews were conducted to support observations. The quantitative data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, while qualitative data were analyzed by cross case analysis. Results revealed that affective teaching practices are related to students'
affective characteristics. Assisting comprehension and providing role models to students are effective for enhancing affective characteristics. Similarly, providing students concrete materials
arousing their inquiry
organizing what is taught from simple to difficult
attributing success to effort
relating topic to students'
experience
stating clearly what is expected of students
providing feedback
using positive outcomes
giving enough time to students
using clear, understandable, fluent language in lessons
caring about teaching
being self-confident
caring about students
and providing an atmosphere suitable for learning are also effective.
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Moreira, Shelly Jeanne. "Student perceptions of good teaching practices." Scholarly Commons, 2002. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/2552.
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The purpose of this research was to describe a set of teacher characteristics that are perceived by high school students as good teaching practices. It also determined how both alternative, or at-risk, high school students and traditional high school students ranked those good teaching practices. The research involved a pilot study in which students from an alternative and a traditional high school wrote an essay on what they think ‘makes a good teacher.’ From the list of characteristics, a “Survey of Good Teaching Practices” was developed. This survey was then given to alternative and traditional high school students to determine their rankings of good teaching practices. The findings of the study indicate that students are looking for characteristics in teachers that fall into four categories: instructional skills and strategies, individualized assistance, interpersonal skills and student-teacher relationships. The majority of those top ten characteristics that students look for in a ‘good teacher’ relate to interpersonal skills and student-teacher relationships. Students want to be treated equally, they want their teachers to listen to their opinions and ideas and they want to be known by name. Students want their teachers to try hard to help them be successful and they want learning to be fun. They don't want teachers to put students down; they want respect. They want teachers to make sure every student understands what is being taught and they want them to know the subject matter. They want teachers with a positive attitude. They want teachers to explain things well and make it interesting. They want teachers to believe in all students, no matter what kind of grades they get. They don't want teachers to talk down to students. They want teachers who are honest. The study provides insight into the opinions of the stakeholders in their educational process. Through this study, students have been given a voice in what works best for them. Recommendations for how to use this information to improve services to students are also provided.
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Brown, Beth Lynne. "Improving Teaching Practices through Action Research." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/26869.
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This study investigated teachersâ perceptions of the influences of action research on their thinking about instructional practices and the impact of this thinking on teaching practices. The four specific areas of investigation were teachersâ perceptions about (a) the overall teacher role, (b) teachersâ knowledge about teaching, (c) teaching practices, and (d) reflective practices. The data were collected from interviews with teacher researchers, informal classroom observations, and collection of teacher and student work and related artifacts. The data revealed that teachers perceived changes in the four areas of investigation. Engaging in the stages of action research provided teachers with a methodical structure for implementing and analyzing the teaching and learning process. This defined structure guided teachers through more systematic and conscious data collection, data analysis, and reflection.Ph. D.
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Mandla, Siyabulela. "Second life: a support teaching methodology for entrepreneurship." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1019728.
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The constant evolution of technology and the prevalent demands of the 21st century continue to put pressure on both the business and education sector. Business is ever looking for competent workers to meet these progressive demands, while the education sector continues to struggle to produce such competent workers to meet the heightened needs of the business sector. Universities and business schools have a greater role and responsibility in ensuring that these competent employees are produced. The use of virtual platforms like Second Life has gained significant popularity in the education sector. Therefore the objective of this study was to explore and examine some of the prevalent benefits associated with using Second life for teaching entrepreneurship. This study was also extended to cover the following areas: The benefits of Second Life for business and education sector; - The benefits of Second Life for teaching and learning environment. The study followed an exploratory research design in an attempt to answer the main research question and the respective sub-questions related to the study. Using a qualitative approach, student’s perceptions, opinions, assumptions, observations and experiences during their interaction with Second Life were identified and reflected in the study. The research discovered that the associated benefits of Second Life were coherent with the reviewed literature findings. The research study concluded that Second Life can be used as a support teaching methodology for entrepreneurship for third year MBA students at NMMU Business School. In addition, the research also highlighted some recommendations regarding the introduction and implementation of Second Life at NMMU Business School and future research opportunities.
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Wells, Keith P. "An educational strategy for teaching theological research methodology." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1992. http://www.tren.com.
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McMurtry, Kim. "Effective Teaching Practices in Online Higher Education." NSUWorks, 2016. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/gscis_etd/372.
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In the context of continuing growth in online higher education in the United States, students are struggling to succeed, as evidenced by lower course outcomes and lower retention rates in online courses in comparison with face-to-face courses. The problem identified for investigation is how university instructors can ensure that effective teaching and learning is happening in their online courses. The research questions were: What are the best practices of effective online teaching in higher education according to current research? How do exemplary online instructors enact teaching presence in higher education? What are the best practices of effective online teaching in higher education?
The purpose of this descriptive case study was to understand and describe the teaching practices of exemplary online faculty, and “exemplary” was defined as recognized with a national award for effective online teaching form a non-profit organization within the last five years. A purposeful sampling strategy identified four exemplary online instructors, who taught in different disciplines at different institutions in the United States. Data collection included a pre-interview written reflection, a semi-structured telephone interview, examination of a course syllabus and other course materials, and observation of a course. Data analysis included repeated close reading and coding of all data collected and then reducing the codes to a manageable number of themes.
Two key themes emerged in the findings: human connection and organized structure. Exemplary online instructors seek to connect with students so students know and feel the care, support, and respect of the instructor. Exemplary online instructors also maintain a clearly structured environment that is logically organized, delivered in small chunks, and sufficiently repetitive to keep each student focused on the content.
These results contribute to the body of knowledge by allowing online faculty to learn from the best online faculty. First-time online faculty as well as online faculty who seek to improve their online pedagogy may be able to enhance teaching and learning in their courses, which in turn will hopefully yield higher student satisfaction and lower attrition in online education.
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Lindquist, Christopher R. "Wild Practices: Teaching the Value of Wildness." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2004. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4501/.
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The notion of wildness as a concept that is essentially intractable to definition has profound linguistic and ethical implications for wilderness preservation and environmental education. A survey of the ways in which wilderness value is expressed through language reveals much confusion and repression regarding our understanding of the autonomy of nature. By framing discussions of wilderness through fact-driven language games, the value of the wild autonomy in nature becomes ineffable. In removing wildness from the discourse on wilderness we convert wilderness value from an intrinsic value into a distorted instrumental value. If we want to teach others that wilderness value means something more than a recreational, scientific, or economic opportunity, we need to include other ways of articulating this value in our education programs. Through linking the wildness of natural systems with the wild forms in human language games, I examine the conceptual freedom required for valuing autonomy in nature. The focus on what is required of language in expressing the intrinsic value of wilderness reveals that wilderness preservation and environmental education need complementary approaches to the current science-based frameworks, such as those used by the National Park Service. The disciplines of poetry, literature, ethics, and aesthetics offer alternative language games that allow for a more fluid, imaginative, and open-ended understanding of the autonomy of nature, and a means for articulating the value of this wildness that implies an ethical position of humility.
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BELTRAO, ANDRE LUIS FERREIRA. "PEDAGOGICAL STRATEGIES IN TEACHING DESIGN: FOR AN ACTIVE METHODOLOGY." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2017. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=30026@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROCOORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR
PROGRAMA DE SUPORTE À PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DE INSTS. DE ENSINO
Esta dissertação tem como objetivo analisar práticas pedagógicas no ensino de Design Gráfico baseadas nas Metodologias Ativas (MA). A pesquisa fez um mapeamento de tais metodologias, que foram originalmente concebidas para aplicação em áreas de conhecimento relacionadas às disciplinas exatas. Partindo da articulação das MA e práticas pedagógicas para o ensino de Design, foram estruturados, propostos e experimentados em sala de aula exercícios e dinâmicas relacionados às metodologia em questão. Realizou-se um estudo de campo de pesquisa-ação em disciplina projetual de Design ao longo de três semestres e, no último semestre, registrou-se o diário de bordo da disciplina, aula a aula, além da realização de entrevistas com professores de Design com o intuito de conhecer suas práticas pedagógicas. Também foram feitas entrevistas com alunos participantes, que foram gravadas e analisadas à luz da taxonomia do aprendizado significativo de Fink (2007). Os resultados foram registrados, classificados e documentados, e criou-se um instrumento de análise das práticas pedagógicas relatadas, cuja interpretação consolidada, no capítulo final, resultou na proposição e reflexão acerca das estratégias pedagógicas que se buscava atingir.
This dissertation aims to analyze pedagogical practices in Graphic Design teaching based on active methodologies. The research mapped out such methodologies, which were originally designed for application in areas of knowledge related to exact subjects. Starting from the articulation of AM and pedagogical practices for the teaching of Design, exercises and dynamics related to the methodologies in question were structured, proposed and experienced in the classroom. An action-study field study was carried out in a projectual Design discipline over three semesters, and in the last semester a class diary was written, besides interviews with Design teachers on purpose to know their pedagogical practices. Student interviews were recorded and analyzed in light of Fink s (2007) taxonomy of significant learning. The results were recorded, classified and documented, and an instrument of analysis of the reported pedagogical practices was created, whose consolidated interpretation, in the final chapter, resulted in the proposals and reflections about the pedagogical strategies that were sought to achieve.
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Kleemann, Michael. "Insights in Entrepreneurship Education : Integrating Innovative Teaching Practices." Thesis, Internationella Handelshögskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, IHH, Företagsekonomi, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-21456.
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The purpose of this study is to identify and analyze reoccurring insights in Entrepreneurship Education (EE) literature, fill gaps in the scholarly discussion, and develop innovative teaching tools for entrepreneurship educators. The study is based on an in-depth review of the current EE literature drawing on insights from about 70 studies. The analysis finds a clear need for: EE on the university level; clear goals and objectives; clear program descriptions; a more practical orientation; and true alumni networks. Additionally it finds that EE should be interdisciplinary, student-centered, practical, as well as containing strong elements of reflection, support, and networking. These findings are a valuable resource for educators interested in innovative teaching practices and entrepreneurship program design in a university context. This paper develops three suggestions on the use of innovative teaching practices, namely a course on business models, an adapted form of business simulation with a focus on cross-disciplinary networking, and a comprehensive class in entrepreneurial venturing that takes the student through all steps of establishing and growing a business.
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Gorham, Jennifer Jones. "Examining culturally responsive teaching practices in elementary classrooms." Thesis, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3562901.
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This qualitative study examines the enactment of culturally responsive teaching practices (Gay, 2010) within two African American elementary teachers' classrooms. Teacher interviews, classroom observations, and classroom documents were collected and analyzed to examine the supports and barriers these teachers encountered as they attempted to enact culturally responsive teaching practices. The descriptive case study reveals that both teachers engage culturally responsive teaching in similar ways. However, the difference in school context makes this effort more challenging for one teacher than another. Barriers included institutional requirements, classroom disruptions, student issues, and teacher isolation. Additionally, by implementing a collaborative coaching model as part of the study design, I briefly explored the role a teacher educator might play in supporting practicing teachers' engagement of culturally responsive teaching. Based on the findings, school structures are critiqued and suggestions for developing systems to support the enactment of culturally responsive teaching practices are introduced.
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Friedrich-Nel, H. S. "Appraising the quality of teaching and assessment practices." Interim : Interdisciplinary Journal: Vol 9, Issue 1: Central University of Technology Free State Bloemfontein, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11462/342.
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Published ArticleReflection and reflective practice as a method to inform facilitators' teaching and learning practices has been in use for a long time. It was first introduced by Dewy in 1933. The methodology consisted of a qualitative approach supported by a quantitative analysis and was prompted by a number of questions pertaining to reflective teaching. This article communicates how reflective teaching was embedded in the Radiographic Pathology module for undergraduates in 2007 as well as the outcomes of the process.
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Kelly, Christa D. "Teaching practices that affect student attitudes toward writing." < Digital Thesis and Dissertation Collection > Username and password required for access, SU only, 2004. http://www.su.edu/library/digitalthesis/kellychrista.pdf.
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Brent, Wayne Barry. "Uses of Technology to Support Reflective Teaching Practices." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/195179.
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This dissertation researched and reported on how technology was used to facilitate and inform reflective teaching practices. It also identified the characteristics of benefits and barriers in using technology for teaching and reflection.The study, descriptive in nature, was designed to determine the reflective practices of instructors and how emerging technologies could be used to enhance that reflection. To obtain this information, a Grounded Theory approach was used.Data were gathered and evaluated from a national survey of instructors on their teaching practices, technology used in teaching, how they reflected on their teaching, how they used technology to reflect on their teaching, and barriers to using technology for teaching and reflection.Seventy-three completed survey responses were received and coded into code families. These individual codes and code families were then analyzed to determine themes on how instructors used technology for more effective reflection on their teaching.The findings identified a number of themes related to (a) reflective teaching practices, (b) how instructors used technology to reflect on teaching, (c) the characteristics of learning technologies that supported reflective teaching practices, and (d) the barriers to using these technologies. The themes showed examples of how reflecting with technology supports effective teaching and learning.
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Mason, Denise Ryan. "Teaching Abroad and Implementing Culturally Appropriate Instructional Practices." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/4076.
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The increasingly diverse population of the United States is reflected in classrooms across the country. Teachers often struggle with understanding students' cultural differences in the classroom and therefore also struggle with implementing culturally appropriate instructional strategies. The results of this study provide educational leaders with a viable option to enhance intercultural competence for implementing culturally appropriate instructional practices through the experiences gained in teaching abroad programs like Apufram International. This exploratory case study investigated how teaching experiences abroad contributed to implementing culturally diverse instruction in multicultural classroom settings. The multicultural educational theory of Banks was the theoretical framework used for this study. The research question addressed how a travel abroad experience contributed to the participants' insights into the cultural differences of students and strategies for implementing culturally diverse instruction in the multicultural classroom. The analytic process included a series of semi structured interviews and classroom observations, and a two-step process (thematic followed by open) to identify common themes. Eight teachers who participated in a teaching abroad experience with the Apufram International within the last 5 years provided the data that addressed the research question. The results of this study found that participating in a teaching abroad program increased cultural awareness and understanding of the need for implementation of culturally diverse instructional practices. Providing teachers with a creative means of improving student academic success helps develop students into global leaders for positive social change.
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Shuster, David R. "Teaching Hope| The Influence of College Faculty Teaching Practices on Undergraduate Student Success." Thesis, Frostburg State University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10936358.
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Within the framework of hope defined by Snyder et al. (1991) as being comprised of agency and pathways thinking in the context of goal achievement, this study investigated the potential of faculty hopeful teaching practices to positively influence college student hope and success. Hope functions in student success frameworks as a factor that contributes to improved academic outcomes including test scores, GPA, persistence, and graduation. It has state and trait-like qualities that may be influenced during a student’s time on campus, particularly through interaction with faculty. Hope has been previously shown to correlate with improved outcomes across multiple life-domains relevant for post-graduation and lifelong success, achievement, and happiness.
Using a quantitative, self-report survey methodology, student perceptions of the frequency of hopeful faculty teaching behaviors were collected from a convenience sample of undergraduate students (N=236) via the Hopeful Teaching Practices Inventory (HTPI), an instrument developed specifically for this study. Factor analysis resulted in the HTPI structure consisting of three distinct scales representing faculty caring, hope, and feedback practices as suggested by Snyder (2005), all with α reliability scores > .84.
The frequency of the teaching practices measured by these scales were moderately correlated to student hope, and significantly related when controlling for background characteristics. The HTPI scale scores, and particularly the scale representing Snyder et al.’s (1991) conceptualization of hope, predicted student success when controlling for background characteristics. Student hope was also found to be a significant predictor of student success, confirming prior research on the positive benefits of hope. Several interactions with student and professor background characteristics were also observed, yielding further insight into how student-faculty interactions based in hopeful teaching may individually influence student hope and success outcomes.
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Gilbert, Marion Grantham Youngs Richard Chalmer. "Cognitive development and humor comprehension with implications for teaching methodology." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 1990. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p9115223.
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Thesis (Ed. D.)--Illinois State University, 1990.Title from title page screen, viewed November 23, 2005. Dissertation Committee: Richard C. Youngs (chair), Walter D. Pierce, Elmer A. Lemke, Larry D. Kennedy. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 69-76) and abstract. Also available in print.
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McLain, Nina E. "Anesthesia Clinical Performance Outcomes: Does Teaching Methodology Make A Difference?" Availabe to VCU users online at:, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10156/1778.
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Kelton, Alan J. "Formation and Composition of Students Groups as a Teaching Methodology." Thesis, New York University, 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=13426072.
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Research on the "why" of collaborative learning is fairly extensive for a disciplinary focus that is comparatively young. Research on one critical aspect of collaborative learning, group work, has focused more on group functionality once they are together, as opposed to determining the most pedagogically sound method for forming the groups and determining their composition. The formation and composition of groups in a learning environment presents unique challenges. Structured as a phenomenological study, this study was not designed or intended to produce generalized solutions, it was designed to see what could be learned from the lived experience of seven full-time, tenured or tenure-track faculty teaching an undergraduate class and utilizing group work.
Group work is an established part of the educational experience and considered a critical component of a collaborative learning model (Hoadley, 2010; Slavin & Cooper, 1999; Strijbos & Weinberger, 2010; Webb, 1982; Webb, Troper, & Fall, 1995; Yeh, 2010). Although learning collaboratively promotes "higher achievement than competitive and individualistic learning situations" (Johnson, Johnson, & Stanne, 1986, p. 383), it can also create more problems than its use might solve (Johnson & Johnson, 1999; Linn & Burbules, 1993).
Even though some of the benefits of effective and functional group work have been documented, the formation and composition, and support of student groups, is often wrought with complicated and time-consuming problems. Problems will always vary, but some of the more common examples include: the group member who does not do his/her share (or any) of the work; general resistance by students to working in groups; or pairing group members who do not have appropriate skills or work styles to complete the learning objective.
There are many things to consider when determining if group work is the appropriate pedagogical approach. This research is predicated on the understanding that the instructor has already determined that group work is the best pedagogical approach for the assignment, project, or class in question.
Although there are some fundamental differences between working in groups or teams in-person versus online, the location of the group work was treated as another variable in the decision-making process of the instruction leader. Technology used by the instructor for the group formation and composition process is discussed briefly here, but the focus of this study was not about how instructors implemented their decisions, but why they made those decisions in the first place.
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Deshpande, Shweta. "A Study Of Software Engineering Practices for Micro Teams." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1299620089.
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Yan, Hau-sim. "The effects of teacher efficacy on teaching method." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2002. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B29791376.
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Salomon, Yves P. "Novice Teachers' Mathematics practices: Do School Demographics and Teaching Pathway Matter?" Thesis, Boston College, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/3897.
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Thesis advisor: Joseph J. PedullaThere is no question that teachers play an important role in student learning. In the last decade, researchers have shown evidence pointing to the prominence of teachers compared to other factors that are known to influence student achievement (Wright, Horn, and Sanders, 1997). They have empirically demonstrated that teacher effects are large and persist for up to four years (Kain, 1998; Mendor, Jordan, Gomez, Anderson, and Bembry, 1998; Rivers, 1999). Multiple variables are known to influence teacher quality, including teacher preparation. This dissertation explored the relationship between the teacher education pathway and teaching effectiveness. Although multiple measures of teacher effectiveness exist, this study focused on reformed instructional practices as its measure of teaching effectiveness. In teaching mathematics, in particular, constructivist-based, inquiry-oriented approaches have been shown to be more effective than traditional methods (Abbott and Fouts, 2003; Klein, Hamilton, McCaffrey, Stecher, Robyn, and Burroughs, 2000). Using two groups of novice teachers (N=22) from two preparation pathways, this observational comparative study also investigated the relationship between school composition and teaching practices. There is a large body of literature showing that urban schools serving high proportions of non-white, poor, and low performing students (Darling-Hammond, 1995; Kain and Singleton, 1996; Presley White, and Gong, 2005) tend to have higher percentages of less qualified teachers compared to their suburban counterparts. In light of this, the current study also explored the relationship between school composition and teachers' use of reformed teaching practices. The findings of this investigation indicate that the instructional practices of teachers working in the urban school district where this study was conducted were generally reformed, and did not vary based on the student demographics of the schools in which they taught. In addition, no statistically significant relationship was found between teaching pathway and teachers' instructional practices. Many similarities were found in the instructional practices of teachers from the two preparation pathways. The similarities in the teachers' instructional practices were attributed to the significant congruence in the teacher preparation programs' curriculum, requirement of clinical experience, selectivity, and the programs' explicit social justice missions
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2010
Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education
Discipline: Educational Research, Measurement, and Evaluation
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Perez, Araos Agustin. "A methodology to support knowledge sharing networks and manufacturing excellence practices in SMEs." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.511244.
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Star, Rachel Padma. "Constructivist teaching practices middle and secondary school science teachers /." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2005. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=ucin1123797028.
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Thesis (Dr. of Education)--University of Cincinnati, 2005.Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed Mar. 23, 2006). Includes abstract. Keywords: Constructivist Teaching Practices; Science Teachers. Includes bibliographical references.
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Farmer, Vickie L. "Effective teaching practices in the linguistically diverse university classroom /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/7894.
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Cusano, Janice M. "Music specialists' beliefs and practices in teaching music listening /." Electronic version Electronic version, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3209909.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Indiana University, 2004.Computer printout. Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-03, Section: A, page: 0878. Adviser: Mary Goetze. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 205-223), abstract, and vita.