scholarly journals Strategies of Developing General Competencies of Pre-service Teachers of Music

Pedagogika ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 112 (4) ◽  
pp. 39-45
Author(s):  
Jolanta Lasauskienė
Keyword(s):  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Music Teachers ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Music Teacher ◽  
Learning To Learn ◽  
Educational Project ◽  
Teacher Student ◽  
Musical Activity ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Student Reflections

According to the Lithuanian and foreign experience of educationalists, the present article discusses possibilities of developing general competencies of pre-service teachers of music by applying the project method. The research is related to analysis of opportunities to improve students’ competencies of reflection and learning to learn, as well as communication and cooperation. The problem of the research formulated: in what way and what impact project activities can exert on general competencies of future teachers of music; what are the basic strategies for developing general competencies of students involved in music pedagogy. The purpose of the research is to highlight basic strategies of developing general competencies of pre - service teachers of music. The methods of the research are as follows: analysis of scientific literature and documents, educational project, written student reflections, qualitative content analysis. Conclusions: The most important strategies connected with future music teacher general competencies by means of musical activity are related to the following: 1) promotion of students’ independent involvement in musical project activities (by strengthening the practice of socially important musical activities); 2) strengthening of teacher - student cooperation; 3) encouragement of learners to reflect and self - assess their own activities. Application of strategies related to development of general competencies during the educational project helped to fi various features connected with development of the competencies discussed above. It can be stated that the application of foreseen education strategies in project activities could have influenced the development of general competencies of future music teachers. While improving the study programmes for future music teachers, it is important to pay more attention to reflective teaching (learning) strategies and methods. While organizing project activities, it is advised to use the partnership based principles of pedagogy, which are validated on esteem, confidence and cooperation. While enhancing the independent student‘s involvement into musical project activities, it is advised to give the alternatives for students of activity selection.

Teaching a Course in Learning to Learn

1987 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul R. Pintrich ◽  
Wilbert J. McKeachie ◽  
Yi-Guang Lin
Keyword(s):  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Learning To Learn ◽  
Important Goal ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Test Taking ◽  
Test Taking Strategies ◽  
Approach To Teaching ◽  
Teaching Learning

Teaching students to be life-long learners is an important goal of higher education. Students need to be taught explicitly how to use learning strategies to achieve this goal. We have designed a course to teach college students a variety of learning strategies. The course provides instruction in theory and research in cognitive psychology and in the application of learning strategies for studying. Topics covered include learning from lectures, texts, and discussions; memory models and strategies; motivation; writing skills; test-taking strategies; problem solving; and self-management. The course promises to be a useful approach to teaching learning strategies.

scholarly journals THE STEAM-ORIENTED EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT ORGANIZATION FOR GENERAL EDUCATION BY GOOGLE SERVICES

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (191) ◽  
pp. 161-164
Author(s):  
Natalia Soroko ◽  
◽  
Iryna Pylypchuk ◽  
Keyword(s):  
General Education ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Educational Environment ◽  
Google Earth ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Joint Research ◽  
Educational Project ◽  
Teacher Student

The article deals with Google services to create and maintain STEAM-based learning environment of general education institution. Analysis of major Google services on implementation STEAM-approach in general education schools gave teachers the opportunity to offer key solutions using them to organize, support and management STEAM-oriented educational environment school. It is determined that Google services (Google Classroom, Google Forms, Google Sites, Google slides, Google Suite + Lucidchart, Google Earth VR, Google Play, Google Lens, etc.) take into account such user requirements as enabling participants of STEAM projects to conduct joint research in the online environment; remotely control the learning process; use tools that allow group work on documents of different formats; data sets representing information from already conducted research; control over the research process; combination in the environment of special programs to create space for other educational projects. Attention is drawn to the distribution of roles in the Google Classroom, which is controlled by the teacher who is the author of the curriculum and course for a particular level of education, namely: teacher – student, where the teacher places materials, attaches files necessary for lessons, creates tasks, and the student processes the provided educational information, performs tasks, receives grades, challenges the teacher's grades and provides arguments for challenging their grades, while receiving advice, explanations and suggestions from the teacher; teacher - parents, where the teacher gives parents access to learning materials, student-made tasks, his assessments and chat to discuss further learning strategies; teacher - administration, where the teacher gives access to their online lessons as open to all who wish to attend these lessons and provide suggestions for improving their quality. It is determined that Google services can be used to organize, maintain and manage the school's STEAM-oriented educational environment, namely: provide teachers with tools for: modeling an STEAM educational project, creating joint communication with students within this project, evaluating students' activities in it, creating archives of these projects and their results, working with colleagues, parents and professionals (chats and forums); provide students with feedback from teachers and other professionals involved in the educational project, free access to educational and scientific materials necessary for the project, communication with students who are part of a group within a particular educational project, tools, that can help to obtain data and check designs, models, etc. Prospects for further research are related to the creation and implementation of STEAM-oriented educational environment based on Google services, testing the effectiveness of this environment in accordance with the results of STEAM projects in general education institutions.

Technology in PerspectiveWho is in Control?

2017 ◽  
pp. 310-316
Author(s):  
Patricia Gonzales
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Music Teachers ◽  
Music Educators ◽  
Learning Technologies ◽  
Music Teacher ◽  
Traditional Teaching ◽  
Music Teacher Education ◽  
Innovative Teaching ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Teaching Learning

It is commonly known that the assimilation and use of technology that is vertically mandated, without a critical consideration of final users, presents various risks such as an inadequate and unreflective use of technology. For instance, new technological tools tend to be used only to facilitate aspects of traditional teaching practices, without changing previous pedagogical paradigms. One of the main causes is that many teachers have not acquired the expertise to take full advantage of innovative teaching/learning technologies. For adequate music education provision, music educators must respond distinctively and effectively by considering the sociocultural and educational context. This chapter argues that music teacher education and professional initiatives must be focused on empowering music teachers to critically decide the degree of technological assimilation and distinction in order to meet the standards of quality education.

scholarly journals Teacher Competences for Active Learning in Engineering Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (16) ◽  
pp. 9231
Author(s):  
Renato Martins das Neves ◽  
Rui M. Lima ◽  
Diana Mesquita
Keyword(s):  
Active Learning ◽  
Engineering Education ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Learning Context ◽  
Teacher Student ◽  
Teacher Competences ◽  
Class Context ◽  
Teaching Learning

The implementation of active learning strategies in engineering education still encounters barriers when facing conventional teaching-learning practices. This work aims to contribute to the discussion on teachers’ pedagogical competences required for active learning. This contribution is developed from the perceptions of 205 engineering teachers of Brazilian higher education institutions, centered on significant teaching competences necessary for teachers of engineering courses and how to develop them in the active learning context. The results show that essential competences identified by the participants are (I) teamwork (teachers’ cooperation); (II) teacher–student relationships (empathy); (III) feedback about students’ performance throughout the learning process; (IV) information and communication technology (ICT) competences; (V) selecting and adapting the teaching-learning methodologies to the class context; and (VI) creativity. A complementary logistic regression model suggested that female Ph.D. full-time teachers are more likely to employ active learning. Differences in active learning adoption among Brazilian regions were also captured by the model. The identified competences are essential for the sustainability of the innovation of teaching practices in the context of active learning, which may be used to inform more effective professional training of engineering teachers in the current globalized scenario.

scholarly journals The power of EFL student-researchers: A critical discourse analysis project “Hey, teachers, leave them kids alone”

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 26
Author(s):  
Nihal Sadek ◽  
Rena Sassi
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Analysis Model ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Action Research Project ◽  
Classroom Discourse Analysis ◽  
Teacher Student ◽  
Critical Skills ◽  
Student Reflections

Learner autonomy has been called for by many researchers in language teaching. Learner independence can be achieved through empowering students (Ss) by training them on ways to learn certain learning strategies rather than just teaching them certain linguistic features. This goal can be attained through implementing the learner-as-researcher approach called for by many researchers due to its potential ability to involve Ss in their learning process. This paper presents the findings of a multifaceted action research project intended to enhance Ss’ critical skills through implementing the Riggenbach Model (1999) to a linguistic micro aspect; learn more about Teacher –Student (T-S) interactions through critically analyzing a number of T-S interactions using Dobbs’ analysis model presented in Celce-Murcia and Olstein (2000), and use critical classroom discourse analysis (CCDA) to provide a macro-analytic explanation of identity and power relations of the Ss by examining student reflections and final products.

Courses for Secondary Instruments

2019 ◽  
pp. 344-363
Author(s):  
Molly A. Weaver
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Music Teachers ◽  
Music Teacher ◽  
Promising Practices ◽  
Education Curriculum ◽  
Music Teacher Education ◽  
Teaching Activities ◽  
School Based ◽  
Secondary Instrument ◽  
Institutional Model

The main purpose of this chapter is to synthesize the literature regarding courses for secondary instruments in the interest of making recommendations for promising practices. The chapter also is intended to “push boundaries from within the system” of music teacher education. That is, it is intended to be a resource for those who prepare preservice music teachers (PMTs) for the realities of P-12 school-based music education and who aspire to instill in these new colleagues a disposition toward change. The chapter is divided into six sections: importance of secondary instrument courses, characteristics and configurations of secondary instrument courses, focus and content of secondary instrument courses, peer teaching activities and field experiences within secondary instrument courses, recommendations for promising practices (including professional development beyond the preservice music education curriculum and an institutional model for secondary instrument courses), and future considerations.

Developing Effective Dispositions for Teaching Music

2019 ◽  
pp. 321-344
Author(s):  
Michael Raiber
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Music Teachers ◽  
Developmental Stages ◽  
Music Teacher ◽  
Teacher Dispositions ◽  
Teacher Concerns ◽  
Teaching Music ◽  
The Impact

The impact of teacher dispositions on the professional development of preservice music teachers (PMTs) has been substantiated. This chapter describes an approach to dispositional development within the structure of an introduction to music education course. A teacher concerns model is used to organize this systematic approach through three developmental stages that include self-concerns, teaching task concerns, and student learning concerns. A series of 11 critical questions are presented for use in guiding PMTs’ dispositional development through these developmental stages. Activities to engage PMTs in the exploration of each of these questions are detailed for use by music teacher educators desiring to engage PMTs in dispositional development.

scholarly journals Impact of students evaluation of teaching: a text analysis of the teachers qualities by gender

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kingsley Okoye ◽  
Arturo Arrona-Palacios ◽  
Claudia Camacho-Zuñiga ◽  
Nisrine Hammout ◽  
Emilia Luttmann Nakamura ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Emotional Valence ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Educational Models ◽  
Process Innovations ◽  
Educational Domain ◽  
Teacher Student ◽  
Evaluation Of Teaching ◽  
Teaching Learning

AbstractToday, modern educational models are concerned with the development of the teacher-student experience and the potential opportunities it presents. User-centric analyses are useful both in terms of the socio-technical perspective on data usage within the educational domain and the positive impact that data-driven methods have. Moreover, the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in education and process innovation has emerged due to the strategic perspectives and the process monitoring that have shown to be missing within the traditional education curricula. This study shows that there is an unprecedented increase in the amount of text-based data in different activities within the educational processes, which can be leveraged to provide useful strategic intelligence and improvement insights. Educators can apply the resultant methods and technologies, process innovations, and contextual-based information for ample support and monitoring of the teaching-learning processes and decision making. To this effect, this paper proposes an Educational Process and Data Mining (EPDM) model that leverages the perspectives or opinions of the students to provide useful information that can be used to enhance the end-to-end processes within the educational domain. Theoretically, this study applies the model to determine how the students evaluate their teachers by considering the gender of the teachers. We analyzed the underlying patterns and determined the emotional valence of the students based on their comments in the Students Evaluation of Teaching (SET). Thus, this work implements the proposed EPDM model using SET comments captured in a setting of higher education.

Characteristics of Early Childhood and Elementary General Music Methods Coursework for Preservice Music Teachers

2021 ◽  
pp. 105708372110245
Author(s):  
Karen Salvador ◽  
Mara E. Culp
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Teacher Candidates ◽  
Music Teachers ◽  
Music Educators ◽  
Music Teacher ◽  
Teacher Education Programs ◽  
General Music ◽  
Music Teacher Education ◽  
Music Methods ◽  
Elementary General Music

Although many music teacher candidates begin university studies planning to teach secondary ensembles, most will ultimately be certified to teach younger children and may be called to do so. The purpose of this study was to examine how music teacher education programs prepare preservice music educators to teach music to children from birth through elementary school through coursework. We emailed survey invitations to representatives from 512 institutions accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music to prepare music educators. We received 134 usable responses (response rate = 26%). Nearly all respondents offered elementary general music methods (EGMM), and over three quarters required EGMM for all students in initial licensure programs. Only about one in ten responding institutions offered early childhood music methods (ECMM). We describe findings on EGMM and ECMM course structures, content, and materials as well as the employment status, degree background, and other qualifications of the person who typically taught this coursework

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