Teaching and Teacher Education最新文献

This study examines tensions in teachers' conceptions of assessment following an assessment reform in Finland, which has traditionally been a low-stakes assessment culture. There are no national examinations in comprehensive education; instead, teachers assign students' final grades. Recently, the country has introduced more detailed criteria for the final assessment to improve the comparability of grades. The analysis of 28 teacher interviews reveals that this relatively minor reform has created four significant tensions in teachers’ conceptions of assessment. We call for assessment reforms to be culturally sensitive, carefully considering the context in which they are implemented and paying attention to possible tensions.

This article introduces the Teacher Emotions in the Classroom Q-sort (TEC-Q) as a systematic means to identify different combinations of teacher emotions within the classroom settings. Reflecting six discrete emotions, the TEC-Q was implemented using a sample of 40 secondary school teachers who performed a card-sorting task. The participants were divided into three groups based on their shared emotional profiles, namely bridging engagement and enjoyment, from misbehavior to the mix of anxiety and anger, and pride with tempered enjoyment. The findings revealed diverse emotional profiles which highlight the complex interplay between teacher emotions and classroom events.

This study examined educational projects that Dutch secondary teachers consider to be inclusive and their agency in implementing them. Using Banks' (1993) Multicultural Education (ME) model, we analyzed inclusive projects that twelve expert teachers mentioned having developed and used Personal Project Analysis (Little, 1983) to capture teachers' accompanied agency. Inclusive projects were considered meaningful, but poorly manageable and connected with daily teaching practice. A high degree of agency hinged on the ability to connect with existing curriculum and a management that supports teachers' inclusive initiatives. This paper refines ME's dimensions and uncovers misconceptions hindering teachers' agency in inclusive practices.

This article provides a systematic review of 46 empirical studies published between 1990 and 2022 on identities of non-English-dominant teachers undertaking transnational language teacher education in universities in English-speaking countries. The study characterizes the current state of existing research and conducts a research synthesis of existing research to identify themes in the research findings, using identity-in-practice and identity-in-discourse as a theoretical lens. The findings revealed that there is a more dominant presence of themes about identity-in-discourse than those about identity-in-practice in existing research, and that relatively little is known about the links between language teacher identity and language teacher education.

This study explores pre-service teachers' (PSTs') ways of understanding, observing, and supporting self-regulated learning (SRL). The implementation of an open-ended questionnaire (N = 118) was followed by a qualitative analysis based on Zimmerman's SRL framework. The PSTs reflected on their understanding of the phases of SRL: forethought, performance, and reflection. The PSTs demonstrated a theoretical understanding of SRL but a weaker understanding of how to observe and support students' SRL skills and their development. The findings have practical implications for teacher education and teachers' professional development.

This study explores stress, burnout syndrome, resilience, and technostress in 168 teachers in Region of Murcia. The general objective was to predict the teacher's resilience levels, as well as analyse the relationship between the variables under study and see the influence of age and gender. The results achieved showed statistically significant relationships in the correlational analysis between stress, technostress, emotional exhaustion, and depersonalisation. Analyses on resilience showed a significant and negative relationship with factors the factors above, but a positive and statistically significant relationship with personal accomplishment. Also, we found age effects on technostress and stress. Furthermore, an artificial neural network (ANN) was created, obtaining a model with a capacity to predict resilience levels in an 86.7% of cases. Personal accomplishment is the most relevant factor to predict resilience levels in teachers, although stress, age and gender are also important.

This qualitative case study explored educators’ aspirations to transform arts pedagogy into a culturally sustaining praxis. Twenty-four educators engaged in a 20-h online training, including engaging with prints in the Artura.org print collection, reading culturally sustaining scholarship, dialoguing, and decolonizing lesson plans. Twenty educators participated in dyadic interviews, revealing a deeper understanding of cultural identities and pedagogical changes to shape positive cultural identities for students. Findings highlight how art contributes to social justice teaching goals emphasizing intentional educator self-reflection to anticipate challenges and avoid cultural exploitation. Recommendations include utilizing online art databases with diverse artists in teacher professional development.

This study examines the relationship between professional learning communities (PLCs) and teacher performance, including 396 public primary school teachers from 18 schools in Guiyang, China. Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) analysis revealed that all five PLC dimensions (Shared values and vision, shared and supportive leadership, supportive conditions, collective learning and application, and shared personal practice) positively correlate with teacher performance. Interestingly, shared values and vision indirectly influenced performance by mediating the other four dimensions. These findings highlight the importance of well-designed PLCs for teacher development in China. Limitations, implications, and suggestions for future research are discussed.

The COVID-19 pandemic might have lasting effects on university students' well-being and motivation. However, existing studies examining students’ well-being and motivation have not covered the entire pre, during and post-pandemic period. This study investigated German university students' well-being (emotional exhaustion, study satisfaction) and motivation (dropout intentions, enthusiasm) from 2020 to 2023. Latent Change Score Models from 1967 students indicated increased emotional exhaustion and dropout intentions in 2021–2023 compared to 2020. Study satisfaction initially rose during the 2021 lockdown but declined subsequently, while enthusiasm remained stable. These findings emphasize the need for ongoing university support to mitigate pandemic-related student distress.