Download or read book The Impact of Teacher Training and Professional Development on Novice Teachers Beliefs about Parental Involvement written by Shelley Fandel and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Evaluating Teacher Beliefs and Perceptions About Professional Development in Order to Positively Impact Implementation Practices written by Angelina Reinbolz and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Districts and schools spend billions of dollars on professional development in hopes of improving student achievement. There is increased pressure to show improvement among high needs populations such as special education, English learners, and foster youth. The purpose of this study was to determine what elements of professional development cause teachers to consider implementation in their classrooms. Professional development is a waste of time and money if it does not cause a shift in teacher pedagogy. Previous research focused on current critiques of teacher training, teacher self-efficacy, and the role of administration. In this study a mixed methods convergent parallel study was conducted to determine teacher beliefs about professional development. Quantitative survey questions and open-ended qualitative questions were analyzed for themes and compared to previous research. Results were also compared to two previous surveys given to the same teachers. Results showed accessibility had the largest impact on whether or not a teacher chose to implement a new practice or strategy. Teachers were more receptive if the information related to an immediate need they had. There is a need for research showing the effects of teacher training on student achievement. There is a lack of studies in this area due to the multitude of variables involved. The study concluded the education field would benefit from a core framework to measure effectiveness of professional development against. With an agreed upon framework schools could use information learned about their staff needs and beliefs to choose a vetted program that will serve their needs.
Download or read book Rethinking Field Experiences in Preservice Teacher Preparation written by Etta R. Hollins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-12 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus of this book is the centrality of clinical experiences in preparing teachers to work with students from diverse cultural, economic, and experiential backgrounds. Organized around three themes—learning teaching through the approximation and representation of practice, learning teaching situated in context, and assessing and improving teacher preparation—Rethinking Field Experiences in Preservice Teacher Preparation provides detailed descriptions of theoretically grounded, research-based practices in programs that prepare preservice teachers to contextualize teaching practices in ways that result in a positive impact on learning for traditionally underserved students. These practices serve current demands for teacher accountability for student learning outcomes and model good practice for engaging teacher educators in meaningful, productive dialogue and analysis geared to developing local programs characterized by coherence, continuity, and consistency.
Download or read book Portals of Promise written by Debbie Pushor and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-10-30 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working with parents is a significant aspect of educators’ roles, yet it is rare to find curriculum in teacher education programs designed to prepare individuals to consider, in philosophical, theoretical, and pedagogical ways, who they will be in relationship with parents and why. Schools, therefore, remain hierarchical structures in which parents are marginalized in relation to decisions affecting teaching and learning. This book begins with Pushor’s conceptualization of a “curriculum of parents,” a curriculum which explores beliefs and assumptions about parents, a vision for education in which educators work alongside parents and family members in the learning and care of children, and a desire for reform. She describes a curriculum of parents, in the form of three graduate teacher education courses, which she lived out in relationship with students. Graduate students then capture their experiences immersed in this curriculum – what they each took up, how it shaped their knowledge, attitudes, and practices, and how they lived it out as they returned to their classrooms, schools, and early learning centres. This book is a storied account of their intense immersion in a curriculum of parents and the resulting impact living that curriculum has had on who they are in relation to parents and families. It is an honest and vulnerable account of their shared and individual journeys. They puzzle over the complexities and the successes of their work and the resulting impact. This is not a book of best practice, but an invitation to other educators to consider, as they did, what they do and how it could be different.
Download or read book Teacher Professional Development for Improving Quality of Teaching written by Bert Creemers and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-11-05 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book makes a major contribution to knowledge and theory by drawing implications of teacher effectiveness research for the field of teacher training and professional development. The first part of the book provides a critical review of research on teacher training and professional development and illustrates the limitations of the main approaches to teacher development such as the competence-based and the holistic approach. A dynamic perspective to policy and practice in teacher training and professional development is advocated. The second part of the book provides a critical review of research on teacher effectiveness. The main phases of this field of research are analysed. It is pointed out that teacher factors are presented as being in opposition to one another. An integrated approach in defining quality of teaching is adopted. The importance of taking into account findings of studies investigating differential teacher effectiveness is argued. Another significant limitation of this field of research is that the whole process of searching for teacher effectiveness factor was not able to have a significant impact upon teacher training and professional development. For this reason it is advocated that teacher training and professional development should be focused on how to address grouping of specific teacher factors associated with student learning and on how to help teachers improve their teaching skills by moving from using skills associated with direct teaching only to more advanced skills concerned with new teaching approaches and differentiation of teaching. The book refers to studies conducted in different countries illustrating how the proposed approach can be used by policy and practice in teacher education. Specifically, the book provides evidence supporting the validity of the theoretical framework upon which this approach is based. Moreover, experimental and longitudinal studies supporting the use of this approach for improvement purposes are presented and suggestions for further research utilising and expanding the Dynamic Approach for teacher training and professional development are provided.
Download or read book Teacher and Parent Beliefs and Expectations of Parental Involvement and how it Relates to Student Academic Achievement written by Jennifer Nichole Garcia and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the association between teachers' and parents' beliefs and expectations of parental involvement and the achievement of students in three title I elementary schools. Methods: Using the School and Family Partnership Surveys of Teachers and Parents in the Elementary and Middle Grades (Epstein & Salinas, 1993), teachers and parents at each of the three elementary schools completed survey questions to attain their beliefs and expectations of parental involvement based on Epstein's framework of Six Types of Involvement for a School, Family and Community Partnership. Results: Results: A total of 1, 205 consented student (n=579), parents (n=579), and teachers (n=48) participated in this study. For each sample type (i.e. student, parent, teacher), N= 579 students and parents and N=48 teachers provided consent to participate in the study. The correlational analysis revealed that although there were no significant relationships between parents' and teachers' beliefs and expectations of parental involvement and student achievement, a parent's level of education was related to their expectations of parental involvement and their child's achievement. The qualitative findings of this study indicate that parents and teachers find that the most important form of parental involvement is communication and after school trainings for parents. These findings could help inform parental involvement efforts targeting Title I elementary schools.
Download or read book Conjoint Behavioral Consultation written by Susan M Sheridan and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-08-23 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reader-friendly second edition of Sheridan and Kratochwill’s important work offers innovative applications of CBC as an ecological, evidence-based approach. In this new edition, the authors combine best practices in consultation and problem-solving for interventions that promote and support children’s potential, teachers’ educational mission, and family members’ unique strengths. A step-by-step framework for developing and maintaining family/school partnerships takes readers from initial interviews through plan evaluation. Practical strategies illustrate working with diverse families and school personnel, improving family competence, promoting joint responsibility, and achieving other collaborative goals.
Download or read book Professional Support Beyond Initial Teacher Education written by Anna Elizabeth Du Plessis and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-08-26 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the professional learning needs of teachers beyond initial teacher education, focusing on teachers in complex teaching positions, such as out-of-field teaching practices. The information presented here will help to improve professional learning strategies, while also offering an in-depth understanding of teachers’ needs, leaders’ perceptions, and what complex teaching situations mean for teachers’ professional learning and development. Further, Du Plessis shares the perceptions and lived experiences of teachers, parents, leaders and students as key stakeholders in quality teaching and learning environments. In light of new evidence-informed findings on the out-of-field phenomenon and continuing professional learning, Du Plessis puts forward strategies that will enhance the effectiveness of professional learning and development programs, while also fostering improved decision-making and policy development. In brief, Du Plessis focuses on the impact that complex teaching situations have on teachers’ unique needs, the support that is provided, and the influence of the out-of-field phenomenon on teachers’ responses to continuing professional learning and development programs.
Download or read book Teachers and Parents written by Dorothy Rich and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph for teachers outlines reasons for working with parents. It presents a sampling of practical strategies that teachers can use to foster parent competence and responsibility in the education of their children. It also contains answers to some of teachers' questions about getting parents to visit the school and encouraging them to become involved in their children's education. An introduction in Chapter 1 is followed by a discussion of new roles and new facts about families and teachers in Chapter 2. Chapter 3 concerns what parents and teachers want. Chapter 4 discusses educational responsibility in the home. Chapter 5 describes what teachers can do to increase parent involvement. Chapter 6 provides tips concerning the parent-teacher conference. Chapter 7 deals with special experiences and needs of single parents that teachers may want to consider. Chapter 8 articulates four basic rules for parent involvement programs. Appendices provide discussions of parent involvement strategies, the MegaSkills home curriculum, ways to meet family needs, and characteristics of effective families. Over 40 references, as well as 7 filmstrips, are cited. (RH)
Download or read book New Skills for New Schools written by Angela M. Shartrand and published by Diane Publishing Company. This book was released on 1997 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a comprehensive training framework to guide educators in their efforts to improve teacher training in the critical area of family involvement. Includes illustrations of the framework as applied by a number of colleges and univ. Highlights a range of methods to help student teachers develop communication, problem-solving, and collaboration skills and illustrate the opportunities to develop hands-on training with families, schools, and community institutions. Lays out steps that educators, policymakers, and prof'l. org's. can take to ensure that new teachers are prepared to build partnerships with families and communities to promote children's school success.
Download or read book Teacher Agency written by Mark Priestley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent worldwide education policy has reinvented teachers as agents of change and professional developers of the school curriculum. Academic literature has analyzed changes in how teacher professionalism is conceived in policy and in practice but Teacher Agency provides a fresh perspective on this issue, drawing upon an ecological theory of agency. Using this model for understanding agency, Mark Priestley, Gert Biesta and Sarah Robinson explore empirical findings from the 'Teacher Agency and Curriculum Change' project, funded by the UK-based Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Drawing together this research with the authors' international experiences and perspectives, Teacher Agency addresses theoretical and practical issues of international significance. The authors illustrate how teacher agency should be understood not only in terms of individual capacity of teachers, but also in respect of the cultures and structures of schooling.
Download or read book Service Learning as Pedagogy in Early Childhood Education written by Kelly L. Heider and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-14 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the most recent theory, research, and practice on service learning as it relates to early childhood education. It describes several service learning programs, many of which were developed to better prepare pre-service teachers for the challenges they face in today’s early childhood classrooms, including class size, ever-changing technology, diversity, high-stakes testing, parental involvement (or the lack thereof), and shrinking budgets. The book shares stories of positive outcomes from pre-service teachers who, having participated in service-learning programs, report a shift in their attitudes and beliefs including an increased empathy for others, a heightened sensitivity to student differences, more democratic values, and a greater commitment to teaching. In addition, the book examines the effects of service learning and positive outcomes for children and teacher educators as well. Schools today face an increasing number of language learners, the mainstreaming of special population students, and working with a standards-driven curriculum. All of these present new challenges for teachers as they attempt to meet their students’ educational needs. As a result of this new classroom environment, and the educational needs they present, teacher educators must now seek different approaches to prepare prospective teachers to meet these needs because the traditional approaches to teacher preparation, such as coursework independent of fieldwork, are no longer effective in equipping teachers to address these issues. This book examines in detail the new approach of service learning.
Download or read book Parental Involvement Across European Education Systems written by Angelika Paseka and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses central questions regarding parental involvement across European educational systems; exploring the commonalities and differences across European countries and the extent to which current policy and practice pertaining to parental involvement is inclusive of diversity. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach that draws from the fields of education, sociology and psychology, it presents a description of the policy context and empirical research on critical perspectives relating to parental involvement. Comprising a rich varied cross-section of national experiences from eleven European countries and the contexts surrounding them, case studies provide insights into parental involvement across Europe and identify challenges in the field. This volume’s in-depth approach and comprehensive interrogation of parental involvement across European education systems make it an ideal resource for parents, teachers and academics, researchers and post-graduate students in the fields of education policy and comparative education, as well as teacher educators and policy makers.
Download or read book Making Choices for Multicultural Education written by Christine E. Sleeter and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1994 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This leading text examines the meaning of multicultural education from historical and conceptual perspectives. It provides a thorough analysis of the theory and practice of five major approaches to dealing with race, language, social class, gender, disability, and sexual orientation in today's classrooms.
Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Research in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The training of mentor teachers for newly hired teachers in Italy An ecosystemic perspective written by Massimiliano Fiorucci and published by Roma TrE-Press. This book was released on 2024-07-30 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Il volume prende in esame il ruolo e le funzioni del tutor dei docenti neoassunti in una prospettiva ecosistemica in Italia. I contributi approfondiscono la tematica scelta a partire dalla riflessione sugli esiti di un percorso pluriennale di formazione e di indagini conoscitive diacroniche svolte dal Dipartimento di Scienze della Formazione dell’Università degli Studi Roma Tre, in collaborazione con l’Ufficio Scolastico Regionale per il Lazio e Reti di ambito scolastiche. Gli esiti delle indagini annuali svolte e di quella pluriennale condotta successivamente sull’insieme dei dati disponibili, confermano l’importanza di promuovere, in tutti gli attori coinvolti nei processi decisionali e nei processi attivati dalle decisioni assunte, l’adozione di una prospettiva ecosistemica aperta, multiattore e inclusiva. Gli esiti suggeriscono altresì di promuovere con continuità l’iniziativa di formazione e sviluppo professionale dei tutor dei docenti neoassunti. DOI: 10.13134/979-12-5977-348-7
