sciencedirect.com har udgivet: Highlights • The majority of teachers noticed and analyzed content-specific teaching and learning issues. • Few teachers noticed the key teaching and learning issues that led to students’ confusion. • Teachers noticed teaching-related issues in a wide range of areas such as use of probing questions. • Teachers noticed student-related issues in three areas: engagement, ability, and understanding. Abstract Teachers’ noticing is an important skill for learning from and improving their teaching. We investigated what teachers noticed in short video clips of a real classroom teacher’s interaction with students around a mathematics problem by collecting data from 496 U.S. fourth- and fifth-grade teachers from 48 states. Our analyses indicated that 67.5% of teachers’ responses focused on content-specific teaching and learning events, whereas 14% of them attended to… Continue Reading →
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sciencedirect.com har udgivet: Highlights • Five archetypes of callings are found in in-depth interviews with 76+ teachers. • Spiritual and religious comprehension of callings is exposed through narratives. • The meaning of work expressed as a calling is prevalent in high school teachers. Abstract In examining how teachers discover, live, and define their calling to teach, this qualitative study on veteran teachers in different countries in the Americas introduces five archetypes of callings: the listeners, the martyrs, the embedders, the builders, and the chosen ones. Each of them portrays a particular aspect of the experience of having a calling to teach. The narratives of these five teachers, augmented by the 76 teachers interviewed who group themselves within these focal narratives, illuminate the power of calling and suggest a rethinking of… Continue Reading →
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sciencedirect.com har udgivet: Highlights • Three profiles of second career teachers are identified, based on entry-related variables. • Push factors fulfill an important role in explaining their career transition. • The profiles differ significantly in terms of teachers’ sense of efficacy. Abstract In this study, we present and evaluate a way to profile second career teachers in technical and vocational education and training schools that goes beyond the traditional motivational approach. More specifically, by considering multiple entry-related variables (entry motivation, career adaptability, and prior job satisfaction). Analyses based on a mixed methods design (262 prospective and in-service second career teachers for the latent profile analysis and 7 in-service teachers for the multiple case study) revealed three profiles with their own specific characteristics, and predicting different levels of sense of efficacy… Continue Reading →
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sciencedirect.com har udgivet: Highlights • Rhizomatics and self-study of teacher education practices produced non-linear insights on becoming teacher educators. • Teacher educators were becoming collaborative, accountable, and innovative. • Collaborative self-study of teacher education practices supported intra-departmental professional learning. Abstract The purpose of this research was to explore how we were becoming teacher educators as we built and engaged in relationships through collaborative teaching and research practice. By engaging with collaborative self-study as methodology-pedagogy and rhizomatics, our data pertaining to teaching-research (i.e., group and pair meetings, reflective diaries) highlight how collaborative self-study produced evolving and meaningful practices, learning, and relationships that resulted in our becoming collaborative, committed, and innovative teacher educators. This study demonstrates the potential of using collaborative self-study together with relational and non-linear frameworks such as rhizomatics to… Continue Reading →
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sciencedirect.com har udgivet: Highlights • Most teenage Australians who plan a teaching career abandon their plans before they turn 23. • Plans to pursue a teaching career stabilize in early twenties. • The gender gap in teaching career plans is similar at ages 16, 23 and 26. Abstract Prior research on teenage interest in teaching careers hinges on the assumption that many adolescents, who expect to become teachers, realise their plans in adulthood. However, little is currently known about whether this is the case for recent youth cohorts. This issue is explored here using the nationally representative data from the Australian PISA 2006 cohort who participated, between 2006 and 2016, in the Longitudinal Survey of Australian Youth. The findings indicate that two-thirds of teenage students who wanted to become teachers… Continue Reading →
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sciencedirect.com har udgivet: Highlights • Supportive cycles of relational and practical learning experiences are needed for deepening assessment learning. • Assessment approaches shifted to research-based practices via coursework/practicum cycles and peer/mentor feedback. • Findings confirmed Fink’s (2003) findings that significant learning involves interactive and non-hierarchical experiences. • Data suggest teacher candidates need more explicit attention on learning how to learn. Abstract Teacher candidates are required to learn substantial fundamental and practical knowledge often within short, fast-paced initial teacher education (ITE) programs. This study examined assessment education through a case study of 35 teacher candidates enrolled in an assessment/evaluation concentration at one Canadian institution. Using a slow movement framework with Fink’s (2013) significant learning experiences taxonomy, pedagogies were analyzed that provoked slow and significant learning. Findings from multiple data sources revealed… Continue Reading →
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sciencedirect.com har udgivet: Highlights • Three technologies were used to develop three components of noticing expertise in mathematics pedagogy courses. • Three-point Framework including Key point, Difficult point, and Critical point was incorporated into technology intervention. • Effects of using Three-point framework along with technology on development of noticing expertise were assessed. • The goal of these interventions was to incorporate noticing expertise as a regular professional practice. Abstract This study investigated effects of employing the Three-point framework (Key Point, Difficult Point, Critical Point) and three technology-aided interventions (online discussions, clinical interviews, and graphic lesson plan construction) on developing preservice teachers’ noticing skills in elementary mathematics pedagogy courses. Pre- and post-intervention assessments revealed significant improvement in the treatment group’s scores, and two case studies illustrated how the interventions can help… Continue Reading →
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sciencedirect.com har udgivet: Highlights • Teachers’ written solutions to fraction multistep word problems were analyzed. • Teachers’ strategy and representations use moderately explained their solution correctness. • Teachers’ background characteristics accounted for little variance in solution correctness. • The use of informal strategies and representations were key to correct solutions. Abstract Examining teachers’ knowledge of fraction word problems is important in light of research demonstrating difficulties in both teaching and learning fractions and word problems involving fractions. This study examined fourth- and fifth-grade teachers’ (N = 350) written solutions to three fraction multistep word problems to unearth the salient factors contributive to performance on word problems. We found teachers’ strategies explain teachers’ success in solving word problems. In contrast, the characteristics of teachers’ backgrounds account for little variance in success in solving… Continue Reading →
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sciencedirect.com har udgivet: Highlights • School CCTV surveillance affects both teachers’ and students’ privacy. • Teachers have a professional obligation to protect their students’ rights. • Some teachers consider their own rights while disregarding their students’ rights. • This differential rights consciousness relates to teachers’ low social status. • Understanding differential rights consciousness may assist in shaping PD courses. Abstract This article explores the rights consciousness of teachers as agents having a professional obligation to promote students’ rights. The case study comprises Israeli teachers, whose social status is low, in the context of school CCTV surveillance. Based on 55 interviews, the findings revealed three clusters of perceptions: dismissing students’ privacy as a discrete consideration in assessing school surveillance; acknowledging students’ privacy as a discrete consideration; and merging students’ and teachers’… Continue Reading →
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sciencedirect.com har udgivet: Highlights • A four-arm randomised controlled trial examining PD effects on student achievement. • PD intervention was pedagogy-focused Quality Teaching Rounds (QTR). • QTR has significant impact on students’ mathematics achievement. • PLCs undertaking peer observation insufficient for growth in achievement. • QTR is a powerful form of PD with significant potential for wider impact. Abstract Improving student achievement through professional development (PD) is both highly sought-after and elusive. This four-arm randomised controlled trial evaluated effects of Quality Teaching Rounds (QTR), a pedagogy-focused form of PD, on mathematics, reading, and science outcomes for elementary students (n = 5478). Outcomes at baseline and 8-month follow-up were compared for QTR, QTR trainer-led, peer-observation, and wait-list control groups. Students in the QTR group made 25% more progress in mathematics than the control… Continue Reading →
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