scholarly journals Challenges and Recommendations for Improving Chemistry Education and Teaching in the Republic of North Macedonia

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-166
Author(s):  
Marina Stojanovska ◽  
Ivanka Mijić ◽  
Vladimir M. Petruševski
Keyword(s):  
Chemistry Education ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Chemistry Teaching ◽  
Teaching Resources ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Mutual Cooperation ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Continuous Support ◽  
The Republic

The study aims to present the development of education in North Macedonia from the country’s independence to the present day, as documented in several national reports and other official documents. The focus is on development and changes in chemistry education throughout the years of primary, secondary and higher education. Particular attention is devoted to the introduction of the new curricula of natural sciences courses in primary education, which is an adapted curricula of the Cambridge International Examinations, and the use of information and communication technology in increasing the efficiency of the education system. Despite numerous reforms over the years, the country is still faced with various challenges and issues regarding chemistry teaching. Investment in education is constantly decreasing and no notable improvements in conditions for teaching chemistry are being made. Recommendations are made regarding the need for appropriately educated, qualified and motivated teaching staff, well-equipped laboratories and teaching resources, continuous professional development of teachers, mutual cooperation of all stakeholders in the educational process, and continuous support from the authorities and policy makers for gifted pupils and chemistry teachers at all levels.

Problems of development of a cloud-oriented educational environment of the university

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-56
Author(s):  
Bakhytzhan Akhmetov ◽  
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Valery Lakhno ◽  
Asselkhan Adranova ◽  
Baurzhan Kassymbergebayev ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Educational Environment ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Digital Competence ◽  
Comprehensive Development ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The University ◽  
Cloud Technologies

This article discusses the problems of ever-increasing demands on the organization and quality of the educational process on the part of society. Today there are new opportunities for the comprehensive development of students of the XXI century, new, more effective information and communication technologies (ICT), in particular cloud- oriented learning environments (COLE), are developing rapidly. The problems of the development of theoretical and methodological foundations for designing a cloud-oriented educational environment of the university and the justification of the structural scheme of its interaction with the methodological center of the ministry based on the use of cloud technologies are analyzed. It is necessary to introduce such models of the learning environment, which will allow to fully satisfy the demands of teaching staff on the organization and conduct of classes of a new type, the activation of educational activities of students, the formation of digital competence and the comprehensive development of personality. Such opportunities are provided by the use of a cloud-based educational environment of the university.

scholarly journals STUDY OF THE USE OF THE THREE LEVELS OF THINKING AND REPRESENTATION

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Stojanovska ◽  
Vladimir M. Petruševski ◽  
Bojan Šoptrajanov
Keyword(s):  
Educational Process ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Chemistry Teaching ◽  
Republic Of Macedonia ◽  
Chemical Knowledge ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Electronic Sources

As is well-known, the chemical knowledge is acquired at three levels: the macroscopic and tangible (what can be seen, touched and/or smelt); the sub-microscopic (atoms, molecules, ions and structures) and the representational (symbols, formulae, equations, mathematical manipulation, graphs etc.). In order to acquire real knowledge, all factors involved in the educational process (authors of textbooks, teachers, electronic sources of information and students) should do everything possible to avoid formation of school-made erroneous notions (misconceptions). Reported here are the findings of a study on the presence of students’ misconceptions regarding the three levels of representation in the chemistry teaching in the Republic of Macedonia. As our study showed, many school-made misconceptions are due to the fact that students do not distinguish between the three levels of think-ing/representation.

Application and Empirical Study of Educational Informationization

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (S1) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Fei Gao
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Development Education ◽  
Education Development ◽  
Teaching Resources ◽  
Local Conditions ◽  
Balanced Development ◽  
Information And Communication

With the steady development and growth of economic society, remarkable achievements have been made in the construction and application of teaching resources, the establishment, and development of teaching staff, the innovation of the teaching and learning model, and the in-depth application of information and communication technology. In particular, is the thriving education undertaking? At the time local governments accelerating economic and social development, education is always the priority. They took education informatization as an essential solution to improve education development, promoting education informatization. This article takes Chengchuan Elementary School as an example, introduced the balanced development of urban and rural education and the cooperation with universities, and summarized its practical experience in applying education informatization under local conditions.

Teaching interpreting online for the Translation and Interpreting Degree at the University of Vic

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 172-182
Author(s):  
María Perramon ◽  
Xus Ugarte
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Teaching Resources ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
University Degree ◽  
The University ◽  
Academic Year

Abstract At a time when the advances in information and communication technologies meant that new approaches to virtual teaching and learning could be proposed, the teaching staff on the degree in Translation and Interpreting at UVic decided to offer part of the degree in distance learning mode. This learning mode was launched in the 2001–2002 academic year, with optional face-to-face teaching sessions some Saturdays and coexisted with the traditional face-to-face courses. During the first years, the fourth-year interpreting specialisation subjects were not taught online for technical and pedagogical reasons. Since the 2014-2015 academic year, we also teach these subjects online. The challenge that we face starting the 2017-2018 academic year is twofold: 1. To adapt the online teaching of interpreting subjects to groups with a high number of students in the new Inter-university Degree in Translation, Interpreting and Applied Languages jointly offered by the University of Vic and the Open University of Catalonia (UOC). 2. To adapt the contents and methodology of interpreting subjects to changes in professional practice: telephone and videoconference interpreting, especially in liaison interpreting. In our paper, we will show some online teaching resources, as well as several online tools which we use in our courses.

scholarly journals ЕЛЕКТРОННІ КВЕСТ-ПОСІБНИКИ У ФАХОВІЙ ПІДГОТОВЦІ МАЙБУТНІХ УЧИТЕЛІВ МАТЕМАТИКИ

2019 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 100
Author(s):  
Valentyna H. Bevz ◽  
Tetiana L. Hodovaniuk ◽  
Vitalii V. Dubovyk
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Educational Material ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Learning Material ◽  
Learning Tools ◽  
Electronic Learning ◽  
Information And Communication

One of the priority directions of modernization of the system of teaching staff training in Ukraine is the introduction of modern information and communication technologies into the educational process. This encourages research and pedagogical staff to use the learning tools that helps to present educational material in an interesting and accessible form. One of the tools is electronic learning quest-manual. The electronic educational quest-manual is called an electronic publication, which promotes the intensification of the learning process, the development of students’ creative thinking, formation of their skills to work in the information and communication environment, etc. The article describes the interface and structure of the electronic manual «Matrixes and operations on matrices», built with the use of gaming technologies, elements of educational material and hyperlinks visualization. The structural blocks of the quest-manual are subdivided into the blocks with theoretical material and assessment blocks.The quest manual is developed in accordance with the methods of teaching: consciousness and activity, visual impact, systematic method, method of consistency, scientific and method of accessibility. The content of this pedagogical software tool corresponds to the curriculum and work program for linear algebra for students of the specialty 014.04 Secondary education. Mathematics. It deals with the topic «Concepts and types of matrices», «Properties and operations on matrices». It is established that electronic quests-manuals should be used for students’ independent work and in practical classes. The introduction of this software in the learning process provides access to training for all categories of students, the ability to study at any pace, at any time, accelerate the memory of learning material, save time, etc. It is shown that the introduction of electronic manuals in the process of preparing future mathematics teachers contributes to raising the interest and students’ motivation for studying, developing their information culture and forming readiness for future pedagogical activity, individualization and intensification of the educational process. The article presents the students' feedback on the use of electronic learning tools, in particular quest-guides.

scholarly journals ІНФОРМАЦІЙНО-КОМУНІКАЦІЙНІ ТЕХНОЛОГІЇ ЯК ІНСТРУМЕНТ ПІДВИЩЕННЯ ЯКОСТІ ДОШКІЛЬНОЇ ОСВІТИ

2019 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Halyna A. Nazarenko ◽  
Tetiana K. Andriushchenko
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Preschool Education ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Preschool Age ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Significant Potential ◽  
Information And Communication

The article highlights the results of the research on information and communication technologies potential possibilities for preschool education quality improvement. During conceptual-diagnostical, organization-preparational, formational and test-generalizing stages of pedagogical experiment in educational establishments there were created necessary material-technical conditions for effective use of ICT in different spheres of preschool education. The research of pedagogical software required for qualified preschool education and other digital educational resources was carried out. It was provided teachers training to use ICT in organization of preschool education and in personal professional development, as well as created methodological support for the implementation of ICT in sphere of preschool education. It has been proved that the quality of preschool education characterizes both the educational process and its results, reflects the level of achieving the aim and tasks of education, upbringing and development of preschool age children and also the level of fulfillment of teachers’, children’s and their parents’ expectations from the use of ICT in the educational process at preschool educational establishments. This article ascertains a significant potential of ICT in the development of preschool teachers IC-competency, organization of education, upbringing and development of children of the upper preschool age, testifies to the importance of cooperation with parents of preschoolers. It presents the experience of using ICT as a didactic tool, which contributed to a more effective realization of the tasks of the main lines of education, which are defined as a basic component of preschool education: “Child’s personality”, “Child in the society”, “Child in the environment”, “Child in the world of culture”, “Child’s game”, “Child in sensory-cognitive space” and “Child’s speech”. The article reveals the significant potential of the use of information and communication technologies for raising the parental awareness about the quality of educational services in the preschool educational institution, as well as for establishing a partnership between the teaching staff and the parent community on all issues of preschool education.

scholarly journals INTRODUCTION OF RENEWED PROGRAM IDEA TO THE PHYSICS TEACHING PRACTICE

2021 ◽  
pp. 89-97
Author(s):  
Z. Aimaganbetova ◽  
Azamat Abdrakhmanov ◽  
A. Kalibaeva
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Main Task ◽  
Informational Support ◽  
Physics Teaching ◽  
New Information ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Republic

Informational support of educational process is based on increase of effectiveness and quality of all levels of educational process achieving the goals of developing training with the use of new information technologies and directing training of individual. In the law of the Republic of Kazakhstan «About Education»: «The main task of educational system – to create the conditions of education directed to the formation of individual and professional development on the basis of national and civil values and practice achievements, to set new educational technologies, informational support of the educational process, to go out into the world international communicative network», – were written. Thereby there are some tasks in front of teachers, not only give the knowledge to the students, but also to develop a many-sided, free, creative and competitive individual. One of our main goals is the development of new innovative technologies in the development of education and science. In this regard, the introduction of more information technology, new teaching methods is becoming one of the most pressing issues. Many modern technologies used in educational process are directed to the development of an individual and effective education. One of them, the use of information and communication technologies is an effective way of knowledge quality increase.

scholarly journals Teachers’ readiness to use ICT in the conditions of inclusive education

2021 ◽  
Vol 258 ◽  
pp. 07021
Author(s):  
Aliya Oralbekova ◽  
Saule Begalieva ◽  
Akmaral Ortaeva ◽  
Akmaral Magauova ◽  
Madina Suleimen
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Inclusive Education ◽  
School Children ◽  
Professional Competence ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Model Formation

This article focuses on the formation of future pre-school teachers’ readiness to use the information and communication technologies (ICT) in the conditions of inclusive education and their training at universities. Authors justify the necessary of formation students’ capability in modern ICT area. In the article, using of the ICT in the conditions of inclusive education for the eldest pre-school children is identified based on the theoretical analysis of scientific literature. The article shows survey results about identifying the main reasons of the obstacles of implemention ICTs in the educational process of pre-school organizations in the Republic of Kazakhstan. The structural and content model “Formation students’ professional competence of ICT using in inclusive environment” was presented. This article was written under project number АР0805340 “The development of a computer-educational program “Аlemdy Tanu” for the adaptation of pre-school children to school in the conditions of inclusive education” supported by National Scientific Council.

scholarly journals Exploring Primary School Teachers’ Intention to Use E-Learning Tools during the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 695
Author(s):  
Marina Aivazidi ◽  
Christos Michalakelis
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School Teachers ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Learning Tools ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Primary School Teachers ◽  
Learning Platform ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
E Learning

It is commonly accepted that the COVID-19 pandemic has had a crucial effect on many aspects of people’s lives. The limitations placed on human relations have also affected education. The mandatory implementation of e-learning and the use of the information and communication technology tools in the teaching process have been the most important changes at all educational levels. However, the teaching staff plays a key role in every educational change. In this study, we examined the intention of elementary school teachers to use an e-learning platform. Our findings are consistent with those of previous studies, which have found that teaching skills, teachers’ beliefs, and the appropriate infrastructure are all critical factors for the successful implementation of information technology in the educational process.

scholarly journals Principals’ Attitudes towards International Exchange Activities in the Context of Taiwan

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 97
Author(s):  
Wei-Ting Huang
Keyword(s):  
International Education ◽  
White Paper ◽  
International Exchange ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Learning And Development ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Mutual Cooperation ◽  
Implementation Challenges ◽  
Cross Country ◽  
Unexpected Outcomes

Globalization has rendered frequent and convenient cross-country interaction and thus led to the emergence of international education. Drawing on an international education white paper specifically designed for students at primary and secondary schools in Taiwan, this study explores attitudes of principals towards the advantages, disadvantages and implementation challenges of the white paper. A self-developed questionnaire was utilized and distributed to 120 principals in Taiwan with a return rate of approximately 74%. The results indicate that while many benefits brought by international exchange activities have been recognized, some unexpected outcomes have also been identified as possible hindrances for students’ learning and development. Extra exchange activities may increase students’ pressure for learning; instructors’ subjective international outlook may cause misleading international cognition, and focusing on powerful countries may lead to a narrowed international outlook. In addition, some implementation challenges explored in this research also manifest the existing administrative problems embedded in school systems such as lack of qualified teaching staff and administrators and lack of mutual cooperation among faculty. These findings can be referenced by Taiwanese policy makers to improve or revamp the white paper in the future.

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