Teacher-centered Environment Research Articles

The student-teacher experience as a model for students as partners (SaP) and for enhancing student engagement among Japanese students

Education in Japan and other Asian countries advocates the traditional passive style of learning where students learn through rote memorization in a teacher-centered environment. However, this is now changing due to globalization with Japan’s Ministry of Education promoting learning strategies to involve students in the learning process actively. Many studies involving students as partners have stated that students feel more at ease when they learn with and from their peers and that working in groups makes them learn significantly better and allows them to put into practice what they have taught to others or learned from others. This case study on the Student-Teacher Experience activity aims to present the concept of students as partners to enhance active learning in Japan and its possible application in other countries and fields of study with a similar learning environment as Japan. The activity allowed students to actively engage in class and enhanced learning.

Student Teachers’ Perception of Science Teaching in Croatia

In the Republic of Croatia, all education-related documents, reforms, and changes at all levels of education rest on a constructivist approach to learning and teaching. The initial teacher education system should take responsibility for introducing new methodological scenarios, didactic design of spaces, and equipment that are compatible with contemporary learning theories and support multiple learning styles. This paper aimed to identify and compare the perceptions of teacher education students in the Republic of Croatia regarding the teaching of Science. Students’ perceptions in the academic year 2022/23 were compared to the academic year 2011/12 when the research was first conducted. This paper included teacher education students in their 2nd (N=366) and 5th year (N=386) of study from three Croatian universities. Students’ perception of teaching was assessed through drawings, the analysis of which indicates the students’ self-perception as teachers during the teaching of Science and reveals their preconceptions about teaching and learning. The results show that 2nd-year students are more likely to perceive themselves in teacher-centered environment. Furthermore, 2022/23 generation students are more likely to perceive themselves in teacher-centered environment when compared to students 11 years ago. For 5th-year students, there is no statistically significant difference in the perception of teaching between the 2011/12 generation and the 2022/23 generation. However, when the results are categorized on the continuum of teaching theory, it is evident that 24% more of them perceive themselves to be in teacher-centered classes in 2022/23 and 20% less in student-centered environment as opposed to 11 years ago. Therefore, it is recommended to modernize higher education teaching with new didactic solutions, strategies, and technologies that will help students change their perceptions of teaching and learning, and subsequently implement it once they start working.

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Dance education is still at its nascent stage, especially in terms of applicability of edutech, and the adoption of professional dance educational contents and programs using edutech is still low. In this context, this study explores the potential applicability of educational contents using ICT (edutech) in the fields of dance education - more specifically, in terms of development of professional dance educational contents such as functional anatomy for dance. This study also explores the effectiveness of development of professional dance educational contents using edutech. The key implication of this study is that it has laid the groundwork for the actual application of dance educational contents using edutech - it will enable a shift towards a learner-centered environment from a traditional teacher-centered environment, and experiential learning driven by learner’s interest will improve the effectiveness of learning in the fields of dance education. The author hopes that this study will lead to further studies and developments of dance education using edutech, which would contribute to a new learning and education model in dance education.

Higher Secondary Students Engagement And Attitude Towards Blended Learning Environment

At present, classroom instruction should be self-regulated process and the learner who is self-motivated to explore problems and situations. For learning, the students are learn through web as a source of knowledge, the learning environment should be shifted to a learner centered rather than teacher centered environment. Commerce education is to be directed towards mastery in its conventions and principles, towards thinking and solving problems in scientific ways, towards developing a positive outlook to the discipline at higher secondary level. Attitude towards learning is associated with the academic performance of commerce related task and improving the achievement, it should be one of the basic features in designing effective commerce classroom instruction. In the present study, students’ attitude can be enhanced by using blended learning instructional strategy targeting the variables of learner attitude towards learning of instructional transaction, learning task, classroom interaction and assessment. The study employs Pretest-posttest non-equivalence control group design under the quasi-experimental method. The sample consists 80 students of standard XII, 40 students each in experimental group and control group. Statistical techniques of descriptive statistics, t-test and Cohen’s d were used for comparing the pretest and posttest scores of attitude towards learning and measuring the effect size between experimental and control groups. The findings of the study showed that there is significant difference in the mean posttest scores of attitude towards learning between experimental group and control group and the blended learning instructional strategy is more beneficial in developing the attitude of higher secondary school students when compared to constructivist teaching strategy.

The Effect of Content-Based Approach in Student vs. Teacher-Centered Environment on Improving Speaking among Iranian Intermediate EFL Learners

<p>Speaking is the most important skill of language. Speaking a language is especially difficult for foreign language learners because effective oral communication requires the ability to use the language appropriately in social interactions, and in suitable context and situation. Purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between Iranian intermediate EFL learners who learn speaking based on content approach in student-centered environment and their learning in the traditional teacher-centered environment. To this end, there are two classes, one as the experimental and the other as the control one. The same teacher taught them both. The subjects were all homogenous regarding their age, gender, and first language. During the experiment, the experimental group, who were in the environment of content-based approach in student-centered, was received quizzes. The results indicated that a statistically significant positive relationship existed between giving the students the central role in content-based approach class and yielding in better performance of speaking ability. The results revealed the positive relationship between content-based approach in student-centered class and the improvement of EFL Iranian students’ speaking ability. Preparation of such a system for teaching speaking to learners, learning English as a foreign language will facilitate the teaching and learning process for both teachers and learners.</p>

TEACHERS’ TEACHING METHODS AND STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC PERFORMANCES IN IBARAPA EAST LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA SECONDARY SCHOOLS

This study was to investigate the differential relationship between teaching methods and students’ academic performances in Ibarapa East Local Government area Secondary schools. A sample of 100 students drawn from the Sciences, Commercial and Arts departments of all the secondary schools in the local government area were used for the study. Using the inferential statistics, students’ assessment test scores were derived from the internal class test prepared by some Measurement and Evaluation teachers. The differential relationship of the three major teaching methods on students’ academic performances was analysed using the General Linear Model based univariate ANOVA technique. The F(2, 107) statistic (= 10.13; p < 0.05 level of significance) and the Tukey HSD post-hoc results indicate that there is significant differences in the relationship between the three teaching methods and students’ academic performances. The mean scores results demonstrate that teacher-students interactive method was the most effective teaching method, followed by student-centered method while the teacher-centered approach was the least effective teaching method. Among the recommendations suggested were: New approaches to teaching – learning processes which connect to the learning needs of students should be put in place in order to reduce the menace of students performing poorly in school and eventually dropping out of studies. Student-centered learning environment should be encouraged in our secondary schools because it produces higher-level learning outcomes more efficiently than a traditional teacher-centered environment. There should be no bias in the selection of teaching methods by teachers in areas in which they possess exclusive monopoly knowledge to improve students’ academic performances in our secondary schools. Teachers should create an atmosphere conducive for learning in order to enhance the development of students’ learning experiences.

Synthetic Cognitive Apprenticeship Model – Possible Way to Enhance Students’ Metacognitive Skills

The article presents the kaleidoscopic view on the concept of metacognition. There are a lot of implications showing the link between metacognitive skills, learning and teaching. Metacognitive skills such as self-direction, self-evaluation, and self-control, as well as orientation, planning, monitoring, testing, diagnosing, repairing, evaluation and reflection play an important role in facilitating the process of transition from teacher-centered environment to autonomous foreign language studies. Synthetic Cognitive Apprenticeship m odel is suggested as possible way to help students enhance their metacognitive skills thus becoming more prepared for autonomous foreign language studies.

Design and Use of Instructional Materials for Student-Centered Learning: A Case in Learning Ecological Concepts

Efforts to improve students’ learning outcomes have suggested the need to embed the use of educational technology in a learner-centered learning environment where students construct their own meanings. In this study, video documentaries that asked students to explore problems associated with farmers’ use of ecologically unsound agricultural techniques were developed and used in a student-centered class. Their learning outcomes and experiences were compared to a group of students who studied the same topics in a teacher-centered learning environment. Results showed that the improvement of the student-centered group’s understanding of the problems was consistently higher than the teacher-centered group. Data on learning experiences also showed that the learner-centered learning environment tended to engage students in knowledge construction, while the teacher-centered environment, information absorption. Overall findings suggest that technology can change and improve the quality of learning outcomes if designed to support knowledge construction in a learner-centered learning environment.

The beliefs and perceptions of pre-service teachers enrolled in a subject-area dominant teacher education program about “Effective Education”

Teacher educators and researchers have studied the improvement of teacher education programs so that pre-service teachers may be well prepared. Research has shown that not only teachers’ knowledge but also their beliefs have major influence on their approach to teaching. This present research examined the mathematics and science pre-service teachers’ beliefs and perceptions in Turkey. Specifically, the study focused on the student–teachers’ perspectives on “effective education” at the end of their subject area dominant program before the student teaching and the changes in those beliefs after having teaching experience. Many pre-service teachers described the teacher-centered environment as effective, and those who supported a student-centered environment discussed difficulties they faced in creating it during student and full-time teaching.

Supporting teachers' intervention in collaborative knowledge building

In the context of distributed collaborative learning, the teacher's role is different from traditional teacher-centered environments, they are coordinators/facilitators, guides, and co-learners. They monitor the collaboration activities within a group, detect problems and intervene in the collaboration to give advice and learn alongside students at the same time. We have designed an Assistant to support teachers' intervention in collaborative knowledge building. The Assistant monitors the collaboration, visualizes it and provides advice to the teacher on the subject domain and the collaboration process. The goal of the research present in this paper is to explore the possibilities of enriching Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) environments with tools to support collaborative interaction.

Learner-centered principles in teacher-centered practices?

In the study reported here, I compare Learner-Centered Battery (a questionnaire of students’ perceptions of the classroom) results and the observation and interview data gathered in one sixth-grade classroom noting first a discrepancy between the descriptions of the classroom that stems from each. I review this discrepancy, highlighting a need for triangulation using different types of data collection methods so as to better understand this particular classroom. Further, the analysis indicates that principles of a learner-centered perspective can be embedded within a traditional teacher-centered environment, at least for this particular classroom.

Bridging the Gap: Supporting Beginning Science Teachers

It is widely recognized that support systems for beginning science teachersfacilitate the process of socialization into the existing school culture (Atkinson D Gold, 1996; Henry, 1989; Loughran, 1994). Beginning scienceteachers need support as they struggle with the mechanics of implementing student-centered inquiry activities in teacher-centered environments (Loughran, 1994; SalishI Research Project, 1997; Sanford, 1988), and they need support as they confrontthe disparity between their student-centered ideology and their survival-basedteacher-centered practice (Salish I Research Project, 1997). Salish I Project (1997)researchers concluded, after following 300 induction science teachers from 11universities, that providing support for secondary science teachers during theirfirst three years is critical if they are to develop and maintain the inquiry-basedclassrooms described in the

Knowledge constructing through hypermedia authoring

According to prominent learning theorists, learning is much more than gathering information in a well-designed, teacher-centered environment; learning is promoted when students pursue individual interests, when they build on prior knowledge, and when they engage in hands-on and authentic activity. Although a great deal of literature exists describing ideals such as these, research examining the implementation of these ideals in classrooms is scarce, and using technology for more than information giving is even scarcer. The purpose of this study was to examine a graduate course at a large, Midwestern university to discern how educational theory translates into classroom practice. In the course, students learned about educational theory by designing and creating a hypermedia chapter for a World Wide Web-based book. Qualitative data were collected across a 16-week semester and revealed both student and teacher perspectives regarding the course, including the strengths and limitations of a student-as-multimedia-author approach. The findings indicated that most all students were highly satisfied with the course, that some transferred learning, and that students developed skills and knowledge with instructional design, educational theory, and technology.