Teaching and Teacher Education最新文献

Since the 1980s, there has been a push in teacher education to increase clinical experiences and build closer relationships between school districts and colleges of education. In 2010, Zeichner introduced the theory of Third Space to school-university partnership research. This was followed by a number of other articles in which the researchers applied the same theory—including in much of the work on teacher residencies. In this theoretical critique and brief systematic literature review, I connect Third Space theory back to its postcolonial roots and attribute the Scholars of Color who created the theory. I unpack the theory's original intent and critique research written by white teacher educators who whitewashed the theory. To accomplish this goal, I compiled the ten most cited articles on Third Space in teacher education research in a brief, focused review of the literature. I convey how this whitewashing has also occurred in work on teacher residency programs. I then present potential ways for addressing this whitewashing including means of addressing racism, power, oppression, and politics and highlight recent work on Third Space that has moved this goal forward.

Analyzing bilingual/ESL preservice teachers' multimodal autobiographies allowed us to investigate the role of one's linguistic/ethnic identities in professional development. Participants were 30 preservice teachers, mostly first-generation college students, in a teacher preparation program. Findings highlighted participants' selection of particular modal resources as they recounted their lived language/literacy history, pointing to participants' response to the language demands of their schooling contexts. Some reported difficult transitions to English-only classrooms, others expressed struggles to maintain their heritage language, and many recounted challenges with language proficiency in either or both languages. These experiences became a lifelong catalyst for pursuing a teaching career.

We explored teacher agency in a policy context of hyper-accountability drawing on interviews with ten experienced secondary school chemistry teachers in Chile. Constraints included successive reforms of the national curriculum, a resource-poor and high-surveillance education culture, and a low-priority culture of professional learning. Strategies enacted to sustain teacher agency included identifying ‘pockets of possibility’ to realise authentic chemistry education for all, developing trusting relationships with students and proactively nurturing their own professional development. These strategies have the potential to enhance the practice of teachers and teacher educators, and to inform a reorientation of policy away from high-stakes accountability.

This paper examined connections between core Project-Based Learning (PBL) elements, curricular design features, and teacher enactment of PBL practices. Twenty-five teachers in underserved communities were interviewed, submitted videos, and provided curricular features of a PBL unit. Artifacts/Interviews were coded according to presence or absence of PBL elements, and videos were coded according to teachers' presence or absence of support. Presence of support was sub-coded as low- and high-support PBL practices. Results revealed that teachers’ design features related to PBL elements; however, design features mainly did not correlate to PBL high-support practices. Additional support may be needed in bridging the gap between PBL instructional designs and their effective realization in the classroom.

This study longitudinally tracked how a CoP focused on sharing emotional vulnerabilities contributed to three novice language teachers’ agencies across the three dimensions of belonging (engagement, imagination, and alignment). Multi-stage analyses of data sources (interviews, reflective journals, observations, and online interactions) revealed that the CoP provided a space for the teachers to engage in dialogism that mitigated the negative effects of emotional vulnerabilities on their growth and enhanced their ability to better exercise agency. We show how personal attributes shaped CoP membership, which in turn reshaped those personal attributes toward the desirable goals of openness to vulnerabilities, dialogism, and enhanced agency.

This paper presents a quantitative examination of teachers' emotional labor strategies (ELSs) during online teaching. By integrating multidisciplinary theories into Grandey's (2000) improved mediation model, we explore the antecedents of teachers' technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) and perceived school information leadership (PSIL), as well as the consequences of work and nonwork strains. Structural equation modeling based on 636 Chinese teachers reveals the protective effects of TPACK and PSIL on mental health through ELSs and highlights the allostatic load mechanism linking emotional exhaustion to depression and anxiety. These findings offer practical strategies to alleviate well-being challenges during times of pandemic.

Numerous teachers face significant challenges teaching students with SEN, possibly stemming from a lack of guidance in translating broad principles formulated in teacher effectiveness frameworks into context-specific effective teaching behaviors. This study addresses this issue by outlining teachers' translations and comparing them across teachers from two classroom settings. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 12 mainstream and 12 special education teachers and a template analysis revealed: (1) teachers mentioning a multitude of translations, highlighting numerous general effective teaching principles and (2) key differences between the two teacher groups concerning the ‘within-class differentiation’ and the ‘activating or reviewing prior and background knowledge’ indicator.

Teachers play a vital role in socializing children's anti-biased beliefs. Kindergarten through second grade teachers (N = 147; 99% women; 93% White, non-Hispanic) in the U.S. responded to hypothetical vignettes of peer-based racial and gender discrimination. Content analysis revealed 21 practices across three themes: Anti-Bias, Minimizing, and General. Teachers more frequently referenced Anti-Bias and Minimizing practices and less frequently referenced General practices in gender versus racial contexts. Further, the specific types of Anti-Bias and Minimizing practices were more varied in gender versus racial contexts. Findings have implications for ways teachers promote inclusive spaces for all children, including children of color and girls.

This mixed-method study explored teachers' motivational messages before exams and their impact on students' intrinsic motivation, engagement, and academic performance. High school students in Spain (N = 419) completed questionnaires on motivation and engagement and described teachers’ motivational messages. Messages encouraging effort and capability were the most reported, followed by reassuring messages. Serial mediations showed a positive link between reassuring messages and academic performance via intrinsic motivation and engagement, while lack of messages had a negative effect. No moderation effect of gender was found. These findings underscore the importance of reassuring messages during exam periods.

21st century skills prepare students to adapt to a rapidly changing world, ensuring their capability of continuous learning and problem-solving. This review provides a systematic overview of how 21st century skills are addressed in research. It focuses on the context of secondary education and uses a PRISMA flow diagram to analyze 82 research articles. Results reveal that research on 21st century skills focuses on educational stakeholders’ opinions and attitudes, their potential effects and how they are implemented or assessed. The findings highlight a need for research to enhance the implementation of 21st century skills in secondary education.