Good Teaching Practices Research Articles

Diseño, traducción y adaptación de una entrevista sociocultural a docentes sobre Aprender a Aprender

Se aborda el planteamiento y diseño de una entrevista enfocada en la perspectiva cultural de Aprender a Aprender (AaA) desarrollada como parte de un proyecto coordinado por el Instituto Nacional para la Evaluación del Sistema Educativo y de Instrucción y Formación de Italia y realizado en seis países de Europa (España e Italia) y Latinoamérica (Brasil, Ecuador, México y Uruguay). Se describe desde una aproximación general el proceso de elaboración, traducción y adaptación del instrumento. Este se compuso de nueve núcleos temáticos donde AaA fue perfilado a partir de tres categorías; creación de sentido, afrontar lo nuevo y confianza en sí mismo. La versión final de la entrevista es considerada como un resultado que interpela la compartición de un objeto de estudio multi-local de acuerdo a una perspectiva de investigación intercultural. El estudio pretender identificar la connotación de AaA de acuerdo a la cultura de pertenencia en docentes de estudiantes de 5, 10, 13 y 15 años. Se espera que los resultados beneficien a la investigación educativa aportando evidencia empírica útil para estudios encuadrados en esta perspectiva y contribuyan al diseño de políticas educativas y formación docente a partir de la identificación de buenas prácticas de enseñanza de AaA.Palabras clave: aprender a aprender, profesorado no universitario, investigación intercultural, entrevista sociocultural, competencias de aprendizaje.

Edukacja międzykulturowa w edukacji wczesnoszkolnej: perspektywa historyczno-pedagogiczna i dobre praktyki nauczycieli na przykładzie Prywatnej Szkoły Podstawowej „Mieszko” w Poznaniu

The aim of this article is to present a historical perspective on intercultural education, contemporary methods of supporting foreign students as well as the role of the teacher and the specific competence required to teach effectively in an intercultural environment. Contemporary methods of support are presented based on the example of good educational practice taking place at “Mieszko” Private Elementary School in Poznań. Actions that can be initiated by a teacher in early education have been divided into four areas: physical, didactic, social and in the classroom. The physical area addresses the issue of school space and activities that help to identify and address students’ difficulties in areas related to senses and coordination. The didactic area represents cultural events designed to entertain and educate; there are also examples of how to equalize educational opportunities among students. The subsequent area, encompassing activities carried out within a class group, show intercultural activities included in the curriculum and indicate which activities may help to control difficult behaviours of children. The social area activities are designed to support students in maintaining meaningful relationships with their peers and collaborating with other organizations that can complement and enrich intercultural formal education.

Analysis of the determining factors of good teaching practices of mobile learning at the Spanish University. An explanatory model

The use of mobile devices in education is becoming standardized at the higher education stage. However, it is necessary to evaluate good teaching practices of mobile learning (m-learning) in order to set proper application of mobile devices and favourable learning outcomes for students. The purposes of this paper were, on the one hand, to determine the degree of implementation of m-learning and good teaching practices in Spanish universities; on the other hand, to know the causes that lead university professors not to integrate mobile devices and to determine the socio-demographic factors that influence the development of good teaching practices of m-learning. In relation to the researching method, it was used a quantitative approach focused on the implementation of an online survey. A total of 1544 university professors attached to the Faculties of Education throughout Spain, aged between 20 and 77, participated in the study (M = 45.29; SD = 10.45). The results obtained revealed that: 1) More than 70% of Spanish university professors use mobile devices in the classroom; 2) The main reasons whereby mobile devices are not used in the classroom are ignored, belief that they are a distraction, resistance to change and perceived uselessness; 3) Only 39.56% carried out good teaching practices; 4) The main and possible influential factors good teaching practices of m-learning were professional category, line of research in educational technology, other teaching innovations, believes in the adequacy of mobile devices and the expansion of m-learning in the coming years. Finally, the practical implications of this study are discussed, highlighting the wealth of collected data from this pioneering research on the evaluation of good teaching practices of m-learning.

The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University.

The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University.

Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine.

Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine.

Teaching and Engaging International Students

[ ]it is timely to reflect on how we view and conceptualize the way we engage and work with international students Conceptualize Student Connection Through Formal and Informal Curriculum Dis/connection has been argued to play "an important role in shaping international students' wellbeing, performance and life trajectories" (Tran & Gomes, 2017, p 1) [ ]it is important to frame international student connectedness not only within the context of formal teaching and learning on campus, but also in a broader setting, taking into account the dynamic, diverse, and fluid features of transnational mobility [ ]effective teaching of and engagement with international students is based on understanding not only their academic needs but also other aspects that are interlinked with their academic performance, including pastoral care needs, mental health, employment, accommodation, finance, life plans, and aspirations [ ]a sense of belonging to the content of teaching and learning and the pedagogy used by teachers is essential to international students' engagement with the classroom community

Programa de Educación Ambiental en las actitudes proambientales de estudiantes de educación básica.

Se procedió con la implementación y ejecución de un programa ambiental, dirigido a los estudiantes del nivel secundario, cuyo objetivo es fortalecer y potenciar sus actitudes proambientales a partir de la sensibilización con la problemática ambiental de su entorno y la ejecución de acciones de conservación y preservación. Ellos demostraron disposición y compromiso en las actividades del programa ambiental, logrando mejoras en el conocimiento, en el tratamiento y manejo de residuos sólidos en el reciclaje y reutilización de materiales. También, cultivaron hortalizas en biohuertos e hidroponía; que permitieron ser reconocidos como una buena práctica docente, a nivel de las instituciones educativas de básica regular.

Conhecendo o Rio Gravataí: Plano de uma aula fora da sala

As práticas pedagógicas chamadas de palavra de campo vêm ganhando destaque analítico nos tempos contemporâneos, uma vez que seu reconhecimento como boas práticas de ensino é cada vez mais exigido. Aprender através da prática, a partir de movimentos fora do espaço escolar e, com isso, o reconhecimento de um campo, promove o desejo de aprender. Este texto tem como objetivo principal apresentar um plano de aula na modalidade de trabalho de campo, no qual foi proposta a saída dos estudos para as duas turmas do nono ano do Ensino Fundamental da Escola de Aplicação da UFRGS, para Rio Gravataí, localizada na cidade de Gravataí, na Região Metropolitana de Porto Alegre, com o Projeto Rio Limpo. O plano de aula é apresentado com os seguintes tópicos: dados gerais, nos quais são apresentados os dados da escola, turmas, projeto e carga de trabalho; objetivos, onde os objetivos do plano de aula são apresentados, juntamente com os Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais (PCNs) e a Base Curricular Nacional Comum (BNCC); descrição da classe / sequência de atividades, onde são apresentados os três momentos principais da proposta: aula pré-campo, atividade de campo e referências pós-campo; os recursos necessários para o desenvolvimento da atividade, seja na modalidade de recursos financeiros ou humanos; e, finalmente, a proposta de avaliação encaminhada, cuja centralidade está na preparação de um relatório de campo.

Exploring Good Teaching Practices and Needs for Improvement: Implications for Staff Development

The article presents the results of a study that mapped academics’ teaching excellences, needs and areas for improvement to tailor educational staff development initiatives. Academics from seven Italian universities (Bari, Camerino, Catania, Florence, Foggia, Genoa, Turin) completed a survey that included three open-ended questions, aimed at exploring innovative practices, critical aspects and types of desired support. The study involved 7.278 professors who received the survey; 4.289 completed the main questionnaire, with a response rate of about 59%. Academics’ answers were analyzed by content analysis through the software Atlas.ti. For each question, results offer a wide picture of main elements mentioned by respondents. This experience represents an integrated systemic initiative using research to inform practices, promoting a shared culture of teaching and learning in higher education, that is critical for the vitality of the academic environment, as well as a scholarly approach aimed at valuing teaching and identifying tailored strategies to improve it. In fact, content analysis allowed researchers to design a multi-level action plan, taking into account three different stages: an institutional level, an inter-institutional one, and a national one.

Seven principles for good practice in midterm student feedback

ABSTRACT Midterm student feedback is a common process in post-secondary institutions that can lead to enhanced teaching practices and thereby potentially to higher ratings of instructional skills in summative course evaluations. At McMaster University, midterm student feedback is called a ‘Course Refinement’ and includes consultation with educational developers. As part of a multiphase study investigating teachers’ perceptions of the Course Refinement process and its impact, this analysis presents effective attributes of the process as an adaptation of Chickering and Gamson’s well-known ‘seven principles for good practice in undergraduate education’, as our findings align with their work. To our knowledge, this marks the first educational development adaptation of the ‘seven principles’.

Best practices for teaching and assessing critical thinking in information literacy online learning objects

Critical thinking is widely considered an essential outcome of higher education, and academic librarians may have a significant role to play in its promotion. Librarians often deliver information literacy instruction to students through online learning objects, like tutorials. If librarians value critical thinking as a component of their teaching, it is important that these tools solicit critical thinking in their users. This study uses a thorough literature review to develop a set of best practices for teaching and assessing critical thinking through online learning objects. Those best practices inform a rubric that can be used to evaluate how much an information literacy online learning object is following best practices for teaching and assessing critical thinking.

Models of good teaching practices for mobile learning in higher education

Mobile learning is an emerging teaching methodology in the university system. Every year, the International Horizon Reports highlight the trend of implementing mobile devices in the classroom. Therefore, the Spanish university system presents the current challenge of adapting these resources to improve student learning, in line with the knowledge society in which we are immersed. This requires examples of good teaching practice. The purposes of this paper were to evaluate the mobile learning (m-learning) practices implemented by university teachers and to compile experiences on good teaching practices of m-learning developed in the classroom. A mixed method was used in which the responses of 1125 professors from 59 different universities located throughout Spain were analyzed. The APMU scale developed by the authors was applied for the detection of good teaching practices of m-learning and the structured interview for the collection of concrete experiences of good teaching practices. The results showed that the largest proportion of good teaching practices were concentrated at the University of La Laguna, University of Almeria, University of La Rioja, Camilo José Cela University and University of Seville. Furthermore, three experiences carried out by teachers who were agents of good practice were collected. Based on this, three models of good teaching practices were generated and exemplified through the concept mapping technique. Finally, the main findings and implications of the study are discussed.

Engaging EFL Teachers in Reflective Practice as A Way to Pursue Sustained Professional Development

<p>Reflective practice has become a significant aspect in determining good teaching and learning practices and is an important part of professional practice and professional growth. However, English teachers in Indonesia has not been able to perform reflection on their teaching in order to improve their teaching practice. This study reports the results of an intensive training held by PKM UNS to help teachers develop a reflective teaching habit. The participants were 30 English teachers of Islamic Senior High School in Solo Raya. Observation field notes and teacher assignments were used as the main data collection method. From this program, it was found that the English teachers encountered plethora of challenges in developing reflective practice due to their lack of understanding of reflective teaching. However, the teachers show an improvement in implementing reflective teaching strategies after their participation in the training. Recommendations to include reflective practices in teacher professional development programs is drawn based on the findings.</p>

SIGCSE special projects grants awards

Special Project Grants of up to $5,000 USD are available to SIGCSE members to support projects that will bring some clear benefit to the computing education community in the form of new knowledge, a resource, or good practice in learning, teaching, or assessment.

Effects of Sharing Data With Teachers on Student Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior in the Classroom.

Data-driven decision making is an accepted best practice in education, but teachers seldom reflect on data to drive their physical activity (PA) integration efforts. The purpose of this study was to explore the impact of a data-sharing intervention with classroom teachers on teacher-directed movement integration and students' PA and sedentary behavior. Teacher-directed movement behaviors from 8 classroom teachers in 1 primary school were systematically observed during four 1-hour class periods before (pre) and after (post) an intervention in which teachers individually discussed student movement data with a trained interviewer. Teachers' K-2 students (N = 132) wore accelerometers for 10 school days both preintervention and postintervention. Multilevel mixed effects regression indicated a nonsignificant increase in teacher-directed movement from preintervention to postintervention (+7.42%, P = .48). Students' classroom time spent in moderate to vigorous PA increased (males: +2.41min, P < .001; females: +0.84min, P = .04) and sedentary time decreased (males: -9.90min, P < .001; females: -7.98min, P < .001) postintervention. Interview data inductively analyzed revealed teachers' perspectives, including their surprise at low student PA during the school day. Findings suggest that sharing data with classroom teachers can improve student PA and decrease sedentary behavior at school.

Kvalitet og kunstnerisk kvalitet i kulturskolens fagplan for visuell kunst

I denne artikkelen gjøres en kritisk diskursorientert lesning av kulturskolen rammeplan for å belyse hvordan begrepene kvalitet og kunstnerisk kvalitet opptrer i kulturskolens fagplan for visuell kunst. Hensikten med artikkelen er å bidra med kunnskap om hvordan sentrale tekster i kulturskolens kontekst i og gjennom språket former forståelser om kvalitetsbegrepet og kunstnerisk kvalitet. Når kvalitetsbegrepet bringes inn i kulturskolens kontekst er det interessant å undersøke ulike forståelser som deles og forhandles mellom kulturskolens aktører. Gjennom å analysere fagplanen for visuell kunst i lys av fagplanens høringsutkast, Norsk kulturskoleråds strategi 2020, generell del i Rammeplan for kulturskolen : Mangfold og fordypning, veiledning for lokalt rammeplanarbeid og hjemmesiden www.kulturskoleradet.no forsøker jeg å vise hvordan kvalitetsbegrepet og forståelse for kvalitet og kunstnerisk kvalitet løftes frem som et strategisk grep for å sikre god undervisning i kulturskolens mange klasserom.

Teaching science and technology PhD students in entrepreneurship-potential learning opportunities and outcomes

Whilst doctoral students comprise a large group of researchers at a university and will potentially play important roles in the utilization and transfer of research results, prior research studies have paid little attention to the effect of entrepreneurship education on PhD students with a science and technology orientation. This paper seeks to address this gap in knowledge and examines four key elements in the design and evolution of good practice in entrepreneurship education for this group of students: (1) learning tools, (2) inspiration, (3) interdisciplinarity, and (4) boundary spanning networks. The paper illustrates the importance of identifying the balance between theory and practice that will attract students from across the spectrum of science and technology fields. It also shows that a hands-on experimental methodology is an effective pedagogical strategy that uses learning by doing as an essential tool in problem solving.

The paradox of philosophy for children and how to resolve it

There is a paradox in the idea of philosophy for children (P4C). Good teaching starts from the concrete and particular, and it engages with each student’s individual interests, beliefs, and experiences. Preadolescents (and to some extent everyone) find this approach more natural than a more impersonal one and respond better to it. But doing philosophy involves focusing on the abstract and general and disengaging oneself from one’s personal interests and beliefs. It involves critiquing one’s attitudes, seeing abstract relations, and applying general principles. So, if good teaching focuses on the concrete and personal, and good philosophy on the abstract and impersonal, how can there be good teaching of philosophy to children? I call this the paradox of philosophy for children, and in this paper I explore how teachers should respond to it. Should they sacrifice good teaching practice, adopting a heavily teacher-centred approach in order to correct their students’ natural biases? Should they lower their expectations of what philosophical skills children can acquire? Should they even attempt to teach philosophy to children? The paper will argue that there is a better option, which exploits children’s imaginative abilities. The core idea is that by encouraging children to imaginatively identify with other perspectives, we can use their natural focus on the concrete and particular to lever them into more abstract, critical ways of thinking. In this way, their focus on the concrete and personal can be the very means to get them to think abstractly and critically. The paper will go on to outline a general strategy for implementing this approach, the Scenario-Identification-Reflection (SIR) method, which will be illustrated with examples drawn from the author’s own classroom practice. The paper will also respond to some objections to the proposed strategy and offer some general reflections on the SIR method.

Challenging the traditional curriculum by traditional knowledges: from ethnomathematical fieldwork to classroom practices

This paper provides a discussion related to the development of educational practices, having as basic assumptions the planning, organization and implementation of an ethnographic field research, from the production of decorated and incised bowls, by women artisans, Aritapera region, state from Pará, northern Brazil. We present the initial development of the proposal, carried out in the Aritapera region, based on joint planning with teachers from the region, based on the design of a set of local activities for later implementation in the classroom. With this investigation, it is expected to contribute to the field of research in ethnomathematics, by bringing empirical reflections aiming at the implementation of local curricular practices, based on good educational practices.

Enhancing Student Learning in the Online Instructional Environment Through the Use of Universal Design for Learning

As college faculty who prepare future teachers, we strive to teach our students through instruction and modeling best practices in teaching. We constantly evaluate our teaching and make adjustments to include updated knowledge about effective instruction. The evaluation and adjustments made to our courses lend themselves to action research. We take what we learn from our research and make appropriate changes to better meet the diverse needs of students. This article provides an overview of a final project that used Universal Design for Learning (UDL) for assessing student knowledge. This research focused on the principle of Multiple Means of Action and Expression and the impact the UDL final project had on student learning as well as overall perceptions of the project. Results indicate that participants enjoyed the final project and that it impacted their learning. Students reported enjoying having choice in how they demonstrated their understanding of the content.