Innovative Teaching Research Articles

The Teaching Reform and Innovation Exploration of Wushu Sanda Course in Higher Vocational College

As the country exerts importance on the development and innovation of Chinese excellent traditional culture, more traditional projects are applied in education and teaching. As an important output of training professional talents, higher vocational education colleges should pay more attention to the application of excellent traditional culture in education and teaching. Wushu Sanda is a traditional sport with a long history in China, which is gradually loved and welcomed by young people. It shines in higher vocational physical education curriculum. However, compared with other traditional sports teaching, the Wushu Sanda course in higher vocational colleges has less research, which is in the process of active exploration and development. Moreover, under the impact of traditional teaching forms, it is difficult to develop a more diversified and innovative teaching mode, which is not conducive to the improvement of students’ comprehensive quality. On this basis, this paper will focus on the three major courses of martial arts in higher vocational colleges, start from the significance of martial arts Sanda teaching, and then briefly analyze the practical difficulties encountered in the development process. Finally, it puts forward relevant teaching strategies, aiming at improving the teaching quality and efficiency of martial arts Sanda courses, enhancing teaching effectiveness, and cultivating students’ good physical quality and Sanda skills. Lay a good foundation for the development of students’ comprehensive ability.

Self-innovativeness within school context: multilevel study of the relations between teacher job crafting and innovative behaviour

ABSTRACT Innovativeness is one of the crucial teacher professional competencies that can be enhanced top-down or bottom-up. This study aimed to examine the multilevel relations between teacher job crafting and innovative behaviour. Data collected from 429 teachers from 47 Serbian schools were analysed using multilevel modelling techniques. The results revealed that several dimensions of teacher job crafting positively predict teacher innovative behaviour within the school. Furthermore, school means ratings of two dimensions of teachers’ job crafting, namely increasing structural and social job resources, had positive between-school effects on innovative behaviour. According to the obtained findings, school leaders should support teacher job crafting to enhance the whole process of innovative teacher behaviour. Nevertheless, research that considers the temporal dynamics of teacher job crafting and innovative behaviour is needed to expand the results of this study.

Penerapan Modul Ajar Literasi Inovatif Berbantuan Teks Narasi Imajinatif untuk Peningkatan Kemampuan Membaca Pemahaman Siswa Kelas 2 SD

This research aims to improve students' reading comprehension skills in material on maintaining personal health in the Indonesian language subject for grade 2 students at SDN Wates 01 through the application of innovative literacy teaching modules assisted by imaginative narrative texts. This research uses a mix method which combines quantitative and qualitative approaches. The research results showed a significant increase in the average student score from 65 (42% completeness with quite effective criteria) on the pretest to 85 (85% completeness with very effective criteria) on the posttest. Innovative literacy teaching modules assisted by imaginative narrative texts have been proven to improve students' reading skills and understanding of material on maintaining personal health, especially dental health, Indonesian language subjects.

DYNAMIC SIMULATION INTEGRATION IN PROCESS CONTROL EDUCATION: A CASE STUDY ON METHANOL-WATER SEPARATION USING AVEVA PROCESS SIMULATION

This study explores implementing a novel teaching methodology for process control education using AVEVA Process Simulation software. The methodology integrates interactive simulations and practical problem-solving exercises, focusing on the dynamic simulation of an ethanol-water distillation process. In this scenario, students are tasked with evaluating the performance of controllers integrated into the simulation, allowing them to engage with dynamic process behaviors in a virtual environment. The results indicate a significant improvement in students' understanding and assimilation of process control concepts. Feedback gathered through questionnaires, with six participants, highlighted the effectiveness of the adopted methodology. All six participants reported an enhanced understanding of PID controller tuning (average score of 4.83), demonstrating the positive impact on both practical and theoretical learning. This innovative teaching strategy demonstrates its potential to modernize process control education and bridge the gap between academic instruction and industrial applications.

Upaya Guru Bidang Studi Aqidah Akhlak dalam Membina Akhlak Siswa Kelas VI Madrasah Ibtidaiyah Darul Falah 2 Cilodong - Depok

This research is driven by the bad impact of the digital world on the learning process, which spontaneously affects students' attitudes and behaviors. One of these impacts is students' social attitudes. The study examines the crucial role of teachers in the Aqidah Akhlak subject in instilling moral values in sixth-grade students at MI Darul Falah 2 Cilodong, Depok. Data collection methods included observation, interviews, and documentation of activities, which were then assessed descriptively. The outcomes of the teaching methods utilized by the teachers can be drawn in the changes in students' attitudes and the way teachers teach Aqidah Akhlak. These changes are evident from students' discipline towards school rules, the habituation practices applied in the classroom, and the exemplary actions of the teachers as models for students to follow. The study concludes that teachers' understanding of their crucial role through workshops, training, and seminars on moral education strategies is effective in promoting the utilize of innovative teaching methods such as interactive lectures, role-playing, and extracurricular activities to instill positive character traits. Collaboration between schools, parents, and the community is also deemed essential for effectively monitoring and supporting students' moral development. Continuous evaluation of moral education efforts involving students, parents, and school authorities is crucial for enhancing the quality of moral education in the future. Overall, this research aims to foster a generation with strong character and noble behavior through the dedicated efforts of teachers in the Aqidah Akhlak subject.

Validation Tool for Chemistry Teaching Innovations: Polytomous Rasch, Confirmatory Factor, and Reliability Analyses

The study developed and validated the Chemistry Teaching Innovations Validation (CTIV) tool to meet the changing needs of chemistry teaching and enhance student engagement and understanding. The CTIV tool, built on the ADDIE concept, has five main components: pedagogical approach, content relevance, technology integration, assessment strategies, and teacher support and professional development. Item creation, scale formulation, and scale evaluation were all part of the validation process, including thorough testing for validity and reliability. Seven experts validated the created items, fifteen in-service teachers further improved and verified the items as included in the scale, and 264 in-service teachers participated in the pilot-testing of the revised tool. The CTIV was evaluated using various statistical analyses, including the infit and outfit values, which confirmed its reliability. The robustness of the instrument was validated by strong Cronbach’s alpha values and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), which showed good internal consistency and precise measurement of the desired components. The CTIV tool offers teachers a systematic way to assess and use teaching innovations, guaranteeing conformity to curricular requirements and improving the quality of Chemistry education. With the help of this comprehensive validation tool, which connects theory and practice in education, Chemistry and Science classrooms can become more productive and interesting places to learn.

The Integration Path and Theoretical Teaching Innovation of Ideological and Political Education in Medical English Courses

The Integration Path and Theoretical Teaching Innovation of Ideological and Political Education in Medical English Courses

Implementing Mobile Cloud Computing in Higher Education Institutions: A Qualitative Investigation of Influential Factors

Aim/Purpose: The primary goal of this research is to analyze the factors that influence the implementation of Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). Background: Despite MCC’s benefits in lowering technology and administration costs, HEIs, particularly in developing countries such as Palestine, are skeptical and hesitant to use this technology. This research provides a model of MCC implementation based on the Technology-Organization-Environment framework (TOE) combined with the Diffusion of Innovation (DOI) model. Methodology: Data were collected through qualitative semi-structured interviews with a targeted sample of ten IT experts and professionals from Palestinian Higher Education Institutions (PHEIs) and local cloud service providers. The obtained data was examined using thematic analysis in the NVIVO software. Contribution: The findings can be used as a guide for introducing MCC in higher education settings. It will lead to a better understanding of MCC implementation by HEIs, which can help institutions harness the benefits and progress offered by MCC, enabling them to overcome challenges and enhance their operations. The study will provide valuable suggestions for the initial steps HEIs can take towards MCC implementation. Moreover, it will benefit cloud service providers, as it will enhance their understanding of the factors that influence MCC implementation in HEIs. This will help them tailor their services and solutions better to meet the unique needs and requirements of the higher education sector. Findings: The results show that data security risks, relative advantages, compatibility, complexity, top management support, competitive pressure, and cloud service provider support all have a substantial impact on MCC implementation. The interviewed IT specialists also proposed two new contributing factors (technology readiness and government support). Recommendations for Practitioners: The results are expected to aid decision-makers at HEIs and cloud service providers by focusing on the crucial role of the factors that appeared in the study. Recommendation for Researchers: It is recommended that researchers in future studies test the proposed model in settings and cultures different from the context in which this study was conducted. In addition, surveying the opinions of other stakeholders and adding other factors not included in the research are important to provide different perspectives and generalize the results. Impact on Society: Understanding the factors that influence the implementation of MCC in HEIs can enhance access to educational resources for both learners and teachers while promoting innovation in teaching and learning. Additionally, this understanding aids in the development of educational institutions, enabling them to contribute to societal progress by improving the quality of education and fostering global cooperation, ultimately leading to the advancement of society. Future Research: Examining the long-term effects of MCC implementation on educational outcomes, student performance, and institutional efficiency will offer valuable insights into the enduring advantages and possible limitations of these technologies. Future research should also investigate the impact of emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) in enhancing the functionality and effectiveness of MCC within educational environments. Furthermore, conducting comparative research across various regions and educational systems might help to identify the socioeconomic factors that influence MCC acceptance and implementation.

Communicative and management strategies in innovative teaching: exploring and analyzing key elements in prompting teachers and students to become societal practitioners

Communicative and management strategies in innovative teaching: exploring and analyzing key elements in prompting teachers and students to become societal practitioners

Wwireless mobile technology in innovative teaching in universities

Wwireless mobile technology in innovative teaching in universities

Integration and Innovation of Organic Chemistry Teaching and Synthetic Biology in Higher Education Institutions

Integration and Innovation of Organic Chemistry Teaching and Synthetic Biology in Higher Education Institutions

Application of traditional Chinese auspicious patterns in computer graphic design teaching

Background: Computer graphicdesigners utilize technology to adapt and blend text, images, color, font, and music to produce emotions and suggest messages to viewers. It makes concepts easier to visualize, supports creative design processes, improves user interfaces, and helps to investigate simulations.Objective: This study aims to develop an innovative computer graphic design teaching model using traditional Chinese auspicious patterns. Traditional Chinese auspicious patterns are imbued with cultural consequence and symbolism that offer students deeper consideration of visual aesthetics and cultural heritage in computer graphic design. Methods: In this study, a novel horse herd optimized poly-kernel support vector machine (HHO-PSVM) is proposed to forecast student performance in computer graphic design teaching. Student data is collected and analyzed by monitoring and assessing their commitment with computer graphic design teaching activities. The data was preprocessed by normalization. Then features are extracted from independent component analysis (ICA) from preprocessed data. Results: The findings of this study demonstrate that Chinese auspicious patterns in computer graphic design teaching improve students' understanding of cultural aesthetics and enhance creativity and engagement. A comparison of metrics' numerical results pre and post pattern was implemented. The improvement in recall from 68% to 90%, accuracy from 65% to 89%, precision from 63% to 87%, and F1-score from 64% to 88% was positive. Conclusion: This study contributes to the broader interaction of traditional art forms with digital activities by contributing education in digital design

Research on Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Teaching Method Innovation of College Students Based on Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process

Research on Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Teaching Method Innovation of College Students Based on Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process

Political and philosophical theories that dominate the structure of the Greek educational system

Modernism and postmodernism are two opposed approaches that are directly related to how each human mind sees and perceives the world and how to make it better. In the Greek educational system, in both primary and secondary education, an effort is made to general restructure the curriculum by promoting the use of new teaching methods in the educational process. Through the presentation of the two opposing perspectives the evolution of knowledge into a more complex process, which aims at learning and specialization serving the purposes and goals of a society that moves within a globalized economic environment. The study adopted a qualitative approach through document analysis. Regarding the research, the official texts-legislations from the Ministry of Education and Religions were used as the primary material to ensure the validity and reliability of the data. The documents used concerned the legislation contained in the reforms concerning the education system of Greece. The successful implementation of educational technology in schools does not depend solely on accessibility or the lack of any factor. It depends on a dynamic process that includes several interrelated factors, such as adequate support from managers, the existence of forecasting and planning of the supply chain to keep pace with new technological developments, equitable digital infrastructure of schools, acceptance the usefulness of the use of technology and the continuous information and acquisition of knowledge by teachers concerning information and communication technologies, as well as their correlation with innovative teaching methods. The flow of the study of the reforms of the Greek education system recognizes a smooth transition from the period of modernism to postmodernism, albeit with a delay compared to the rest of Europe. The continuous reforms in education have brought positive results in terms of the transformation of the public good of education into a postmodern version of it. Consistency and the need for improvement are guided by ensuring the quality of education and the preservation of the participants (students, teachers, families, and society) in it. However, it is worth noting that reform changes, which did not have substantial real changes, created an unstable environment, which hurt education itself.

Influence of innovative teaching methods on academic performance of students with moderating effect of active learning in higher education sector

Influence of innovative teaching methods on academic performance of students with moderating effect of active learning in higher education sector

Preparing future physics teachers to conduct entertaining experiments using the infrastructural potential of innovative educational centers

Introduction. The modern education system requires future teachers not only to have deep theoretical knowledge of the subject, but also practical skills in using innovative equipment that helps schoolchildren learn the educational material more effectively. Therefore, the problem of preparing future teachers to use modern technologies and innovative teaching methods in the educational process is relevant. The aim of the article: to develop and implement a modular curriculum for professional education that will enable teachers to effectively use the infrastructural potential of innovative educational centers. Methodology and methods. The study was conducted at the Chuvash State Pedagogical University named after I. Ya. Yakovlev and educational institutions in Cheboksary and the Chuvash Republic (Russia). More than 100 physics teachers, 80 schoolchildren, and 45 students of the pedagogical university took part in the pedagogical experiment. Methods of the experimental study: survey, observation, analysis, synthesis, and questionnaires. A survey was organized to identify the main difficulties that teachers encounter when performing laboratory work with schoolchildren during class and extracurricular activities. A program of professional training of future teachers was prepared and implemented, aimed at developing skills in working with laboratory equipment, the ability to plan and implement physical experiments that motivate both the students themselves and the pupils. A questionnaire was organized to understand the level of interest in the subject and the involvement of schoolchildren in the activity. Results. The majority of respondents (75.3%) do not use the equipment of the children's technopark "Kvantorium", 73.3% of respondents actively use the equipment of the "Growth Point" center in their work. According to the majority of survey participants (43.8%), high-quality work requires an expansion of the types of equipment, as well as the development of accessible guidelines for performing laboratory work using modern equipment. Conclusion. The findings of the study demonstrate the effectiveness of using the infrastructure capabilities of modern educational centers to improve the quality of physics education. The recommendations are aimed at stimulating teachers to actively use practical methods and digital technologies of new centers in the educational process. The results obtained open up new horizons for further research to improve the effectiveness of using the educational potential of centers through expanding thematic experiments and adapting programs to the diverse educational needs and interests of students. The proposed recommendations can become the basis for implementing similar programs with students of other pedagogical universities.

ENHANCING READING EFFECTIVENESS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS: EXPLORING THE SYNERGY BETWEEN SCHOOL-BASED MANAGEMENT AND PROJECT MODELO'S READING INITIATIVES

This study examined the impact of School-Based Management (SBM) on the effectiveness of Project MODELO's reading initiatives in elementary schools. SBM's decentralized decision-making structure empowers schools to tailor policies to local needs, fostering accountability, flexibility, and stakeholder involvement. Key factors for success include strong leadership, collaboration, innovative teaching strategies, and ongoing professional development. Despite challenges like resource constraints and limited parental support, Project MODELO has significantly improved literacy outcomes, as evidenced by increased reading skills and comprehension among students. The high level of stakeholder engagement, as reflected in weighted mean scores, underscores the importance of their involvement in SBM practices. However, enhancing collaboration and ensuring diversity among stakeholders remain areas for improvement. Overall, the principles of SBM create a supportive environment that sustains effective reading initiatives, contributing to long-term educational success.

Research on a Teaching Innovation to Reduce Benevolent Ageism among Undergraduate Healthcare Major Students

Research on a Teaching Innovation to Reduce Benevolent Ageism among Undergraduate Healthcare Major Students

Students Engagement in Classroom Teaching by Innovative Pedagogy: A desk-based Review of Existing Literature

The use of modern teaching methods in the social sciences classroom under higher levels of education is presently required to increase learning achievement through student participation. The pace of change in educational structures, curricula, teaching-learning activities, and learning outcomes should be able to keep up with all kinds of developments taking place in the world. Innovative is one of the newly developed approaches that can be used to increase students' active engagement, particularly in social science disciplines. A thorough literature search technique was employed to find the literature relevant to this study. The datasets up to 2024 were utilized for descriptive analyses of effective instructional techniques. The research-based articles and reports were used from digital and physical libraries. The easily accessible web search engine Google Scholar and other freely accessible databases such as Academia, ResearchGate, NAPJOL, JSTOR, ProQuest, and Elsevier were used. The findings indicate that innovative teaching methods promote the active participation of students through hands-on experiences. This approach significantly enhances learning outcomes in social science and helps for applying theories in real life. This technique promotes a more dynamic learning environment by encouraging teachers to adopt innovative and creative teaching methods, which in turn increases student engagement, motivation, and academic achievement. Integrating innovative pedagogies into activity-based instruction techniques empowers teachers to cultivate pupils' success, equipping them with essential skills for thriving in the 21st century.

Effectiveness of Virtual Reality Media Assisted by Millealab on The Cognitive Abilities of Junior High School Students on The Concept of Virus

Background: Education plays an important role in shaping a highly skilled workforce. In the era of technological advancement, especially in the field of education, new opportunities are emerging for the advancement of more innovative and efficient teaching methodologies. Virtual reality (VR) stands out as an important technology in this regard. Its utilization in educational settings offers an engaging and interactive learning experience, with the potential to enhance the understanding of abstract concepts, especially in secondary school settings. Methods: The study was conducted to Class IX at SMP Muhammadiyah 1 Sukabumi with a total of 10 students. The instruments used in this study were cognitive ability questions. Data analysis using hypothesis testing through SPSS version 29. Results: the use of Virtual Reality media assisted by Millealab has an effect on the Cognitive ability of Junior High School Students on the Virus Concept with a significance value of 0.001. The average N-Gain achievement on cognitive ability indicators is 0.45 (medium). Indicator C1 (knowing) has the highest N-Gain value of 0.53 and indicator C3 (applying) has the lowest N-Gain of 0.39. Conclusion: Virtual Reality media assisted by Millealab can improve the cognitive abilities of junior high school students on the concept of viruses. Keywords : Virtual Reality; Millealab; Viruses