Pub Date : 2022-10-20DOI: 10.1080/13664530.2022.2132281
Debra Taylor Hall, R. Hite
ABSTRACT In-service K–12 teachers require preparation and support to conceptualize and incorporate global competence into their classroom teaching practices. The state of North Carolina created a state-wide framework for such professional development: the Global Educator Digital Badge (GEDB). The GEDB focuses on developing knowledge and practices of globally competent teaching. To explore state policy to school practice, this intrinsic case study reports findings from teachers, administrators, and professional development providers from a K–5 school with 90% teacher participation in the GEDB. Tenets of effective PD and the Global Competence Teaching Continuum served as frameworks to analyze surveys, focus group, interviews, classroom observations, and documents to discern teachers’ abilities to conceptualize and enact globally competent teaching (via curriculum and instruction). Findings describe teachers’ abilities to define global education, embed global competencies within their curriculum, and implement recommended pedagogical strategies. Shifts in teachers’ practices toward globally competent curriculum and instruction are discussed.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-12DOI: 10.1080/13664530.2022.2130420
M. F. Alkan, Özge Maviş Sevim
ABSTRACT Learning agility is a relatively novel concept and has the potential to be considered an important characteristic of an effective teacher. Thus, a scale to measure it might be beneficial especially for selecting and recruiting teachers. Based on this notion, the purpose of this study was to develop a scale to measure the learning agility of pre-service teachers. Two independent participant groups took part in the study: 311 pre-service teachers in the exploratory phase and 252 pre-service teachers in the confirmatory phase. Exploratory factor analysis revealed that 15 items had significant loadings under five factors explaining 54.64% of the total variance. Confirmatory factor analysis indicated an acceptable fit. Convergent and divergent validity were also established. It was concluded that the Learning Agility Scale is a promising instrument to assess the learning agility of pre-service teachers, which paves the way to making more informed selections among teacher candidates during the recruitment process.
{"title":"The development and psychometric properties of the Learning Agility Scale for pre-service teachers","authors":"M. F. Alkan, Özge Maviş Sevim","doi":"10.1080/13664530.2022.2130420","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13664530.2022.2130420","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Learning agility is a relatively novel concept and has the potential to be considered an important characteristic of an effective teacher. Thus, a scale to measure it might be beneficial especially for selecting and recruiting teachers. Based on this notion, the purpose of this study was to develop a scale to measure the learning agility of pre-service teachers. Two independent participant groups took part in the study: 311 pre-service teachers in the exploratory phase and 252 pre-service teachers in the confirmatory phase. Exploratory factor analysis revealed that 15 items had significant loadings under five factors explaining 54.64% of the total variance. Confirmatory factor analysis indicated an acceptable fit. Convergent and divergent validity were also established. It was concluded that the Learning Agility Scale is a promising instrument to assess the learning agility of pre-service teachers, which paves the way to making more informed selections among teacher candidates during the recruitment process.","PeriodicalId":46208,"journal":{"name":"Teacher Development","volume":"26 1","pages":"644 - 664"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47752758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-29DOI: 10.1080/13664530.2022.2123849
Jayce R. Warner, Debra L. Plowman, David J. Osman, D. Schallert
ABSTRACT This study takes a sociocultural approach in examining how mathematics professional development facilitators and teachers enacted a professional development program in a statewide network of trainings. Facilitators (N = 11) and teachers (N = 62) were surveyed before and after implementation to capture how facilitators understood and then implemented the program with teachers, and how teachers interpreted and then enacted the program with students. Differences in uptake (intended use) and implementation (actual use) were investigated in two separate analyses that looked for differences (1) across levels of iteration (i.e., from original program to facilitators to teachers) and (2) between groups of teachers who participated in the trainings. Results showed substantial variation across levels and between groups such that, although less true of some groups than others, intention to use the program was higher than actual use. Insights are offered into how collective and individual sensemaking processes influence program implementation.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-28DOI: 10.1080/13664530.2022.2126883
Christopher C. Martell
ABSTRACT This article reports the results of a six-year longitudinal interpretative case study on the development of five elementary teachers’ beliefs and practices related to historical inquiry. Using activity theory as the lens, the researcher found: (1) the teachers’ conceptual tools remained relatively consistent over time, and they believed inquiry was the instructional method best aligned with their beliefs; (2) although the teachers occasionally used historical inquiry, it did not become a regular part of their practice; and (3) the teachers described their school contexts and a lack of practical tools as major barriers to implementing inquiry-based instruction. This study highlights the need for more support and time for inquiry-based history instruction at the elementary level.
{"title":"A longitudinal study of beginning elementary teachers’ beliefs and inquiry-based practices in the history classroom","authors":"Christopher C. Martell","doi":"10.1080/13664530.2022.2126883","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13664530.2022.2126883","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article reports the results of a six-year longitudinal interpretative case study on the development of five elementary teachers’ beliefs and practices related to historical inquiry. Using activity theory as the lens, the researcher found: (1) the teachers’ conceptual tools remained relatively consistent over time, and they believed inquiry was the instructional method best aligned with their beliefs; (2) although the teachers occasionally used historical inquiry, it did not become a regular part of their practice; and (3) the teachers described their school contexts and a lack of practical tools as major barriers to implementing inquiry-based instruction. This study highlights the need for more support and time for inquiry-based history instruction at the elementary level.","PeriodicalId":46208,"journal":{"name":"Teacher Development","volume":"26 1","pages":"627 - 643"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48798913","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-26DOI: 10.1080/13664530.2022.2122546
Francisca Romo-Escudero, Jennifer LoCasale-Crouch, B. Hamre
ABSTRACT Positive early classroom interactions are crucial for children’s development. Increasingly, more professional development programs focus on improving interactions and their underlying skills. Research on interventions has focused on their effectiveness in changing teachers’ classroom interactions; however, less is known about how this occurs. This study investigated how teachers who changed their classroom practice in an intervention developed their reflective skills through conferences with a coach. Results indicate that the coaching support is associated with teachers’ reflective skills. Coaches and teachers, over time, engaged in more cumulative exchanges, enabling spaces for teachers to reflect more about their practice, and specific types of exchanges promoted more reflection and willingness to change. This is relevant as increasingly more children are in classroom settings at an early age, and little research is available to guide improvement efforts. This article can serve for designing interventions to improve early childhood teachers’ skills and their children’s development.
{"title":"Early childhood teachers’ noticing skills in the context of an intervention: supporting teachers to effectively reflect on practice","authors":"Francisca Romo-Escudero, Jennifer LoCasale-Crouch, B. Hamre","doi":"10.1080/13664530.2022.2122546","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13664530.2022.2122546","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Positive early classroom interactions are crucial for children’s development. Increasingly, more professional development programs focus on improving interactions and their underlying skills. Research on interventions has focused on their effectiveness in changing teachers’ classroom interactions; however, less is known about how this occurs. This study investigated how teachers who changed their classroom practice in an intervention developed their reflective skills through conferences with a coach. Results indicate that the coaching support is associated with teachers’ reflective skills. Coaches and teachers, over time, engaged in more cumulative exchanges, enabling spaces for teachers to reflect more about their practice, and specific types of exchanges promoted more reflection and willingness to change. This is relevant as increasingly more children are in classroom settings at an early age, and little research is available to guide improvement efforts. This article can serve for designing interventions to improve early childhood teachers’ skills and their children’s development.","PeriodicalId":46208,"journal":{"name":"Teacher Development","volume":"26 1","pages":"683 - 705"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48328202","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-14DOI: 10.1080/13664530.2022.2121747
Erhan Gülşen, D. Atay
ABSTRACT Teacher autonomy refers to a teacher’s empowerment in the classroom, school, and community, leading to instructional efficacy and professionalism. Despite its proven contribution to pedagogical decision-making, studies reveal that many teachers lack sufficient autonomy mainly owing to institutional constraints. It is suggested that teachers embrace such restraints and become autonomous by initiating dialogic reflections with their colleagues and reaching contextualized decisions within a community of practice. So far, no study has explored how dialogic reflections can be performed among EFL (English as a Foreign Language) teachers. To fill the gap, the researcher investigated the process of dialogic reflections and explored whether it would affect the autonomy levels of Turkish EFL teachers. The data were collected through a teacher autonomy scale and by investigating the participants’ dialogic reflections. The results indicated that teacher autonomy levels increased thanks to social interdependence through collaborative decision-making.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-08DOI: 10.1080/13664530.2022.2105939
Elizabeth A. Cutrer-Párraga, Kendra M. Hall-Kenyon, E. Miller, Morgan Christensen, Jessi Collins, Emily W. Reed, Tyler Beer
ABSTRACT Special education (SPED) teacher preparation programs are intended to help preservice teachers (PSTs) learn and adopt effective teaching practices to serve students with special needs. To help SPED-PSTs learn needed skills, SPED mentor teachers (MTs) must employ high-leverage practices (HLPs) such as performance feedback, conferencing, and modeling. Although most teacher preparation programs utilize modeling in preparing PSTs, little is known about how SPED-MTs use this mentoring tool. An interpretative phenomenological analysis was conducted to explore how SPED-MTs engaged PSTs in modeling practices during a practicum experience. Data from semi-structured interviews were analyzed to describe SPED-PST and SPED-MT attitudes, experiences, and use of modeling over the course of a special education practicum, focusing on MTs’ modeling strategies and PSTs’ subsequent behaviors. The relative impacts of simple and cognitive modeling on the PST-MT relationship were compared. SPED-MTs’ modeling foci were compared to recommended HLPs. This preliminary study provides recommendations for SPED-MTs’ use of modeling with SPED-PSTs.
{"title":"Mentor teachers modeling: affordance or constraint for special education pre-service teachers in the practicum setting?","authors":"Elizabeth A. Cutrer-Párraga, Kendra M. Hall-Kenyon, E. Miller, Morgan Christensen, Jessi Collins, Emily W. Reed, Tyler Beer","doi":"10.1080/13664530.2022.2105939","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13664530.2022.2105939","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Special education (SPED) teacher preparation programs are intended to help preservice teachers (PSTs) learn and adopt effective teaching practices to serve students with special needs. To help SPED-PSTs learn needed skills, SPED mentor teachers (MTs) must employ high-leverage practices (HLPs) such as performance feedback, conferencing, and modeling. Although most teacher preparation programs utilize modeling in preparing PSTs, little is known about how SPED-MTs use this mentoring tool. An interpretative phenomenological analysis was conducted to explore how SPED-MTs engaged PSTs in modeling practices during a practicum experience. Data from semi-structured interviews were analyzed to describe SPED-PST and SPED-MT attitudes, experiences, and use of modeling over the course of a special education practicum, focusing on MTs’ modeling strategies and PSTs’ subsequent behaviors. The relative impacts of simple and cognitive modeling on the PST-MT relationship were compared. SPED-MTs’ modeling foci were compared to recommended HLPs. This preliminary study provides recommendations for SPED-MTs’ use of modeling with SPED-PSTs.","PeriodicalId":46208,"journal":{"name":"Teacher Development","volume":"26 1","pages":"587 - 605"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46928434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-08DOI: 10.1080/13664530.2022.2108129
C. Mullen, T. K. Hunt
ABSTRACT This interview study with special education teachers in rural and urban school divisions within Virginia, USA, reports instructional strategies that support outcomes for students with social emotional mental health (SEMH) needs. Evidence-based strategies from the interviews are delineated for teachers who work with this highly vulnerable population. K–12 teacher–student relationships (TSRs) and four relational phases – appraisal, testing, agreement, and planning – were analyzed. Strategies for influencing students socially, academically, and behaviorally were also identified. Research questions probed (a) the role of TSRs for students with risk factors and (b) strategies for achieving desirable results in SEMH contexts. TSRs were examined relative to supports and risks associated with students’ development and success. A literature synthesis of strategies and models for advancing knowledge is included. The article offers insight into what teachers do in actual situations to foster student growth and outcomes.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-25DOI: 10.1080/13664530.2022.2097734
Ximena D. Burgin
ABSTRACT This exploratory case study examined two approaches to school improvement with teachers from an urban area of Ecuador. An all-day workshop with elementary-level teachers focused on how to improve teaching utilizing network improvement communities (NICs) and the plan-do-study-act (PDSA) cycle. Hands-on activities helped participants reflect on their role as educators and the quality of their interactions with other educational stakeholders. Qualitative data were collected through group discussions, focus groups, and open-ended questions before, during, and after the workshop. Results examined utilizing Ecuador’s educational policies indicated that the teachers’ recognition of external and internal barriers that impact academic improvement focused on the limited supports available from school administrators and parents. The participants became aware of the significant role of NICs and the PDSA cycle to improve schooling.
{"title":"Empowering Ecuadorian teachers through network improvement communities","authors":"Ximena D. Burgin","doi":"10.1080/13664530.2022.2097734","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13664530.2022.2097734","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This exploratory case study examined two approaches to school improvement with teachers from an urban area of Ecuador. An all-day workshop with elementary-level teachers focused on how to improve teaching utilizing network improvement communities (NICs) and the plan-do-study-act (PDSA) cycle. Hands-on activities helped participants reflect on their role as educators and the quality of their interactions with other educational stakeholders. Qualitative data were collected through group discussions, focus groups, and open-ended questions before, during, and after the workshop. Results examined utilizing Ecuador’s educational policies indicated that the teachers’ recognition of external and internal barriers that impact academic improvement focused on the limited supports available from school administrators and parents. The participants became aware of the significant role of NICs and the PDSA cycle to improve schooling.","PeriodicalId":46208,"journal":{"name":"Teacher Development","volume":"26 1","pages":"550 - 566"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46528003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-07-12DOI: 10.1080/13664530.2022.2092203
Lennart Van Eycken, Mieke Van Houtte
ABSTRACT Considerable research concerning determinants of teacher efficacy focuses on teachers’ individual characteristics. School characteristics, such as the socioeconomic and gender composition of the school, are largely overlooked. The scant research including schools’ student composition suggests that teachers feel less efficacious when teaching boys with a low socioeconomic status (SES). A multilevel analysis, using data from 1247 teachers in 59 Flemish secondary schools, shows that teachers’ feelings of efficacy do not appear to differ very much between schools, although many studies assumed that the greater part of variance in teacher efficacy could be found between schools. The socioeconomic composition of the school does not affect teacher efficacy. Gender composition, however, does influence teacher efficacy, as teachers display more efficacy in classroom management and experience more general efficacy when teaching mostly boys. The unexpected finding that teachers seem to feel more efficacious in classroom management when teaching mostly boys is discussed.
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