Sentences with phrase «on teacher dispositions»

Her current research focuses on market - based education reforms in urban communities, and its cultural and pedagogical impact on teacher dispositions, teacher professional autonomy and identity, and the development of inclusive classroom practices.

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Building upon a solid foundation of yoga and / or teaching experience, the Bent On Learning Teacher Training Program assists participants in developing further knowledge, skills and dispositions necessary to become caring and effective yoga teachers in the ever - changing classroom.

Nor, as Frederick Hess explains, is there any scientific evidence that requiring teachers to have certain views about «sexuality or social class» ensures that they teach all students: «Screening on «dispositions» serves primarily to cloak academia's biases in the garb of professional necessity.»

Advocates of dispositions assessments of the kind in place at WSU defend the screening of pre-service teachers, whether at program entry or later on in the certification process, as standard practice and argue that «dispositions» are merely those attitudes and behaviors necessary to successful teaching.

The screening of prospective teachers for maladjustment 50 years ago and the dispositions assessments going on today have remarkable similarities.

Leaders of AL teams at CPAHS have drawn from Lingard and Renshaw's assertion that teachers must take on a «researcherly disposition'to improve their practice and that this is further strengthened when «research - informed» teachers collaborate with researchers (Lingard, & Renshaw, 2009).

Implicit in the prior discussion and Figure 1 are strong reasons for schools to focus on skills rather than dispositions: Skills can be taught, are typically publicly observable and specific, lend themselves readily to selection based on what the school or teacher intends students to learn, and aren't heavily constrained by genetics.

• Reformers continue to develop new «dispositions» in teacher certification on grounds of diversity and multiculturalism, but reformers devised dispositions long ago on grounds of emotional and physical vitality.

Did you miss AACTE's webinar last month on what teacher candidates need to know about the intersection of educator dispositions, ethics, and law?

sj's research is framed around trans * + disciplinary perspectives on social justice, which cut across theory, epistemology and pedagogy and links across socio - spatial justice, Urban Education, preservice and inservice secondary language arts teacher dispositions, and marginalized / undervalued student literacies and identities.

Challenges encountered in the professional development sessions included getting teachers to focus on technology, issues, and pedagogy collectively in lieu of focusing simply on technology and the teachers» disposition toward new technology.

This interactive workshop will focus on building knowledge, skills and dispositions to help teachers encourage students to choose to participate.

Findings from the study suggest that Web - based GIS activities had a positive effect on preservice teachers» dispositions toward teaching spatial thinking in their future classrooms.

Digital storytelling: An empirical study of the impact of digital storytelling on pre-service teachers» self - efficacy and dispositions towards educational technology.

Because mentor teachers play an important role in ensuring that residency and induction programs are effective, mentors should have track records of success in the classroom; receive training on the disposition and skills necessary to guide new teachers to success; and receive additional compensation for their new role.

This study examined the effect of a minimal Web - based GIS experience within a semester - long methods course on enhancing preservice teachers» dispositions regarding the use of geospatial technologies for teaching.

Much attention has recently focused on how to enhance teacher knowledge about using GIS (e.g., Baker, 2015; Bryant & Favier, 2015; Doering, et al., 2014; MaKinster & Trautmann, 2014) but has been far less focused on how to enhance teacher dispositions toward implementing GIS into classrooms.

Principal mentors are provided a toolkit of mentoring resources and work with mentees to create a customized mentoring plan that focuses on developing the skills and dispositions in four critical areas of school - level leadership: interpersonal and facilitation skills, teacher observation and feedback, effective school - level practices and classroom - level practices, and using data to improve instruction.

Empirical evidence is lacking about the effect of teacher dispositions on the uses of GST in the classroom, although researchers have emphasized willingness among teachers to learn more about and undertake an intellectual endeavor for teaching with GST as one of the key factors to achieve successful integration of GST in education (Coulter, 2014).

In addition, they reported that their teacher education program: • Taught me the knowledge, skills and dispositions that I needed to be an effective teacher (Mean = 3.3) • Ensured that I reached a high standard for content knowledge in my discipline (Mean = 3.35) • Helped me to understand the expectations of the teaching profession in my field (Mean = 3.09) Was relevant to the responsibilities I meet on the job (Mean = 3.08)

It suggests that at this point, academic research was having only a small to moderate influence on decision making relative to other sources, despite teachers generally reporting a positive disposition towards research.

At time 0, the children's degree of shyness - BI was evaluated by a questionnaire that was filled in by appropriately trained teachers, and by direct observation of the number of spontaneous comments made in the presence of an unfamiliar adult, based on previous descriptions of children with BI.12, 14 The questionnaire included a set of items seeking to identify temperamental disposition to BI and symptoms of possible social anxiety disorder proper, and included the Italian translations of the Stevenson - Hinde and Glover Shyness to the Unfamiliar, 35 Cloninger and coworkers» Harm Avoidance Scale, 36 and the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale37 adapted for children.