Competence In Teacher Education Research Articles

Trends of competencies in teacher education from 2015 to 2020: A Systematic Review Analysis

Trends of competencies in teacher education from 2015 to 2020: A Systematic Review Analysis

Assessing competence in teacher education: Development of university students’ problem-solving skills

In our research, we examined the development of complex problem-solving skills among 1st-year teachers training undergraduate students in engineering at Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania (N = 73). The research aimed to determine whether knowledge transfer works among students in interpreting life-like, specific problems. A worksheet was used as a measuring tool. In compiling it, we applied the concept that tasks include computer-transferable algorithms (such as cryptography process, parallel computing, and constraints), and their solution does not require any special IT knowledge, only structured and logical thinking. The research reports on the extent to which teacher training students have acquired knowledge and problem-solving strategies related to certain disciplines. The obtained data shed light on the fact that the lack of an interdisciplinary approach hinders the recognition of the connections between the different fields of education. Keywords: Computational thinking; problem-solving skills; Teaching education.

Introducing the PEAT model to frame professional digital competence in teacher education

This paper puts forward a case for using the PEAT model in teacher education, a framework designed to capture the different dimensions of teachers’ professional digital competence (PDC). The model arose from an Erasmus+ funded project exploring digital competence in teacher education. While existing frameworks and conceptualisations of teachers’ digital competence exist, this paper argues that the PEAT model has unique affordances and characteristics. This paper outlines the importance of digital competence before exploring how it is currently conceptualised in teacher education. Following this, some of the current frameworks encapsulating the elements of teachers’ professional digital competence are briefly presented. Finally, the paper presents the PEAT framework and discusses its unique affordances.

Editorial Introduction - Digital Competence in Teacher Education across Europe

Editorial Introduction - Digital Competence in Teacher Education across Europe

Integrating Education for Sustainable Development Competencies in Teacher Education

The aim of this study is to provide a comprehensive overview of the publications focused on integrating education for sustainable development (ESD) competencies into teacher education during the last decade, in an endeavour to identify which competencies have been considered in the literature as key competencies for reorienting teacher education towards sustainability as well as explore the suggested assessment tools and approaches to integrate these competencies into teacher education programmes. The results show increased attention during the last decade to develop a set of ESD competencies for teachers, which reveals the absence of a unified framework for teacher competencies for ESD. However, the extent to which these competencies are effectively integrated into teacher education remains an undiscovered area. This paper highlights the progress and gaps in the research related to mainstreaming ESD competencies in teacher education, providing evidence from the literature that can inform policy and strategy improvement in higher education institutions.

Contribution of formative assessment for developing teaching competences in teacher education

ABSTRACT The employment of formative assessment during teacher education contributes to the development of competencies of future educators and promotes their assessment competence. Thus, the aim of this research is to explore graduates working as teachers and their impressions about the assessment practices during teacher education and how they contribute to competence development; it also aims to analyse university teachers’ subjective beliefs about this process as a basis for recommendations regarding its use during this period. We examined four Spanish graduates teaching in primary and secondary schools and three university teachers. Information was collected through semi-structured interviews, non-participant observations, and documentary analysis. We found that formative assessment during teacher education will contribute to the development of teaching competences if it is performed with clear criteria known to students and evidence is collected throughout the training period, giving proper feedback on the students’ performance and promoting their participation in the assessment process.

Digital competence in teacher education: comparing national policies in Norway, Ireland and Spain

ABSTRACT This paper explores the development of policies dealing with teachers’ digital competence in Norway, Ireland and Spain. Using a documentary research approach, the study analysed relevant policy documents from each country over a thirty-year period to the present day. Analysis of the documents highlights historical differences and similarities in how technology in education policies developed during that period and differences in how teacher education was addressed. Despite these differences, the analysis indicates a convergence in recent years towards a common understanding and the importance of teachers’ digital competence influenced by supranational frameworks. The paper discusses the potential influence of these supranational frameworks and examines the opportunities and challenges of this policy convergence.

Telecollaboration for Civic Competence and SDG Development in FL Teacher Education

The Civic Competence has been acknowledged essential to support sustainable societies, economies and ecosystems for the development of responsible active citizens in today's increasingly connected world. In this regard, telecollaboration seems to help enhance related media literacy and intercultural skills. However, despite the development of key competences for lifelong learning with telecollaboration has already been the focus of some studies, the measurement of Civic Competence in teacher education with telecollaboration remains still a question for investigation. Following this line of research, this study aimed to explore the own perception of FL student teachers in Civic Competence, and if this competence can be developed working the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) with telecollaboration. The participants of this study were two groups of student teachers at two different European universities. Both groups completed a survey and proposed collaborative strategies to improve the global and Civic Competence. Educational proposals and digital collaborative tools were analysed to measure the improvement of the student teachers´ perception. Forum, e-portfolios and evaluation forms together with pre- and post-questionnaires were used to explore the outcomes. Results indicated that most Civic Competence domains can be enhanced by working SDG and that adopting a reflective, experiential and safe collaborative online international learning approach can help promote further knowledge, skills and attitudes in specific contexts.

Povoando subjetividades na “nova” política para a formação de professores no Brasil: uma discussão acerca das competências

Este artigo foca na centralidade da noção de competências nos documentos normativos para a formação de professores. A aprovação da Resolução CNE/CP n. 2/2019 em substituição à Resolução CNE/CP n. 2/2015 torna relevante a investigação de como vêm sendo interpeladas as subjetividades em torno da noção de competência, normalizando o caráter cada vez mais prescrito da regulação. Objetivamos compreender de que maneira a reiteração das competências na formação de professores processa o povoamento das subjetividades. Referenciamo-nos, especialmente, em Harvey, Santos, Duarte, Ramos, Ball, Brown e Taubman. Nós nos ativemos às evocações ao neopragmatismo e à epistemologia da prática, ao longo do tempo, como sentidos que hegemonizam as competências na formação inicial de professores, explicitando como na política atual as competências produzem dois movimentos fundantes à produção de subjetividades pela razão neoliberal. Elas operam a dessacralização da educação como um valor em geral, ao mesmo tempo em que processam a sedução psíquica e a aceitação das políticas e práticas instrumentais.

Intercultural Communicative Competence in Teacher Education: Cultural Simulation Insights from Hawaiʻi

Intercultural Communicative Competence in Teacher Education: Cultural Simulation Insights from Hawaiʻi

Web Development for Training in Social Competence Pre-Service Education with a Cooperative Learning Strategy

The use of web-based learning is not a new phenomenon in the world of education nowadays. There is a lot of research on web-based learning that shows the result of learning processes that are effective, interesting ang dynamic, flexible to access, choose on time and cheap. In the development of web-based learning (e-learning) as a study to overcome the problem of social competence in teacher education has not been widely done. This idea responds to the ownership of student social competence in teacher education which tends to be less than optimal. For this reason, web-based social competency training is proposed as an alternative solution to improve the social competence of pre-service teacher students. This research is used to develop web media with cooperative learning strategies that will be used for pre-service teacher social competency training. The main objective of this research is to develop web media that is suitable for training. The use of Research and Development methods (R&D) with the beginning of qualitative descriptive research and followed by evaluation. Qualitative research to collect data and information about research objects, situations and environmental settings and describe the stages of web development is followed by evaluation of media experts, material experts, learning experts and linguists. The results of this study are decent web media, using expert judgment on the site www.sosial-klub.com. Future improvements and study plans include developing a web-based training model with cooperative learning strategies to be implemented.

The application of pairwise comparisons to form scaled exemplars as a basis for setting and exemplifying standards in teacher education

ABSTRACT This paper details a two-stage process for standard setting using an extended pairwise comparison method. It describes the application of a new process of establishing a set of scaled and ordered performances as a basis for exemplifying standards. In stage one, the method of pairwise comparison was used to generate data from pairwise judgements made at the criterion level and overall grade. In stage two, judges identified where the pass/fail boundary lay in relation to a selected subset of ordered performances generated from stage one. The combined evidence from the two-stage process demonstrates the method’s application to establish exemplified standards using on-balance judgements across multiple criteria. The approach combines expert judgement and statistical data to provide a basis for comparable cross-institution assessments against standards in the case of a summative assessment of professional competence in teacher education. It may be relevant to any discipline with professional standards and complex performance assessments.

Problem-Based Learning, Assessment Literacy, Mathematics Knowledge, and Competencies in Teacher Education

Problem-based learning could have a great impact in teacher education not only to support prospective teachers’ learning, but also to help them to design and implement learner-centered experiences to satisfy requirements of reform-based curriculum. In this paper, we discuss the nature and role of problem-based learning to support authentic learning opportunities in an undergraduate teacher education program. We address its use in an educational assessment course aimed at developing prospective teachers’ assessment literacy and competencies. We focus on two sections of the course for elementary school prospective teachers in which students were also engaged in activities involving assessment in teaching mathematics and share examples of the content of the course. A study of the impact of the course on the students’ knowledge is in progress.

Prepared to Teach for Sustainable Development? Student Teachers’ Beliefs in Their Ability to Teach for Sustainable Development

The importance of embedding education for sustainable development has been emphasised over many years. At the same time, there has been a massive call for initial teacher education to provide all student teachers with the core of professional competences. What is the status of teacher education today in embedding education for sustainable development and how does it relate to the focus on professional competencies in teacher education? A total of 578 student teachers in seven different teacher education programmes in Europe were surveyed, measuring the students’ beliefs in their ability to work as teachers, as well as their ability to teach in ways that value sustainability and promote environmentally sound ways of living. The results of the survey show that student teachers feel well prepared to handle many aspects of teacher professionalism, but less prepared to educate for sustainability. The survey also indicates that student teacher training in educating for sustainability is not integrated in their other training and is generally just added on.

Relational competence in teacher education. Concept analysis and report from a pilot study

ABSTRACTA supportive relationship between teachers and students has been shown to have positive effects on students’ performance and social development. Preservice teachers’ relational competence is, however, an unexplored area. The purpose of this study is to contribute to educational research about relational competence in teacher education by introducing a Swedish project which focuses on interpersonal aspects. The study has three parts. In the theoretical part, a conceptualization of teachers’ relational competence using Thomas Scheff’s theory of interpersonal relationships is outlined. In the empirical (pilot) part, a methodology for prompting preservice teachers’ analyses of teacher–student relationships is described, as well as a thematic analysis of their responses. The theoretical conceptualization is then used together with the empirical data in the third part, in order to identify development needs of preservice teachers in terms of relational competence. According to the conceptualization, relational competence includes three sub-concepts: communicative, differentiation, and socio-emotional competence. From the analysis of preservice students’ texts, the article identifies development needs in relation to the three sub-concepts. The concluding discussion focuses on lessons learned from the study regarding how to promote teacher students’ relational competence.

Att vetenskapligt förankra ett yrkeslärarprogram: Erfarenheter från ett utvecklingsprojekt

Demands on the scientific foundation of Swedish Vocational Teacher Education has led to a development project on academic competence at Dalarna University in 2018. The project contained two sub-projects; the construction of a matrix, to display the progression of students’ academic competence; and the implementation of a series of seminars on VET research. This article presents the point of departure and the methods used, together with the results of mappings and analysis of four different aspects of academic competence. This inventory of features of academic competence in teacher education, evokes a wide range of questions on the meaning and consequence of scientific foundation, the research-practice relationship and concrete questions concerning course content.

Gaining a Better Understanding of Self: A Self-Study in Cultural Competence in Teacher Education

ABSTRACTThis articles describes a year-long self-study in cultural competence. Armed with the understanding that “teachers first need to know their own cultures,” a small group of faculty researchers engaged in systematic self-study to better understand their own cultural competence in an effort to enhance teacher candidates’ cultural competencies. The overarching goals of the study were: for faculty researchers to better understand their own cultural competence and for faculty researchers to better understand their ability to create safe spaces in which teacher candidates could develop deeper understandings of their cultural competencies. Hence the faculty researchers worked collaboratively for the broader purposes of re-imaging classrooms as communities that foster new and more equitable opportunities for teaching and learning.

Sustainability competencies in teacher education: Making teacher education count in everyday school practice

The need for sustainable development and societal transformation is gaining more and more relevance. Social learning processes will be needed to contribute to real change which is why the 2030 Agenda (UN, 2015) and the Global Action Programme pick up on the importance of education and establish it as one of their priorities. Strengthening the competencies of multipliers is one goal on the way to ensuring inclusive, quality education for all and to empowering everyone to support sustainable development.Thus, teacher education has to be taken into account - implementing education for sustainable development will depend not least on competent and committed teachers who are motivated to act as change agents. This goes hand in hand with the question of what knowledge and abilities teachers should acquire in order to be active change agents and what is needed to make the development of appropriate competencies possible.But how can teacher education respond to this challenge? To answer this question, the authors introduce and analyze the design of an open learning environment based on the idea of living laboratories. In this setting students work on sustainability issues together with experienced practice partners from school in a transdisciplinary manner on real-world projects. As a result not only does learning occur among students but actual projects are carried out, changing educational practice as well contributing to societal transformation.

Educating digitally competent teachers: A study of integration of professional digital competence in teacher education

The present study focuses on the integration of professional digital competence in initial teacher education programmes. Data analysed are from three national questionnaire surveys conducted among teacher educators, mentor teachers and pre-service teachers in Norway. The study shows that there are weak positive correlations between positive management, management's development support, and teacher educators' digital competence, but stronger positive correlations between teacher educators' self-reported efficacy and digital competence. Results are discussed in relation to teacher education's role in qualifying for professional work in digital classrooms.

Valid Competency Assessment in Higher Education

The aim of the 15 collaborative projects conducted during the new funding phase of the German research program Modeling and Measuring Competencies in Higher Education—Validation and Methodological Innovations (KoKoHs) is to make a significant contribution to advancing the field of modeling and valid measurement of competencies acquired in higher education. The KoKoHs research teams assess generic competencies and domain-specific competencies in teacher education, social and economic sciences, and medicine based on findings from and using competency models and assessment instruments developed during the first KoKoHs funding phase. Further, they enhance, validate, and test measurement approaches for use in higher education in Germany. Results and findings are transferred at various levels to national and international research, higher education practice, and education policy.