scholarly journals The Influence of Teachers’ Professional Development Activities on the Factors Promoting ICT Integration in Primary Schools in Mongolia

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shengru Li ◽  
Shinobu Yamaguchi ◽  
Javzan Sukhbaatar ◽  
Jun-ichi Takada
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Supporting Evidence ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Ict In Education ◽  
Ict Integration ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Primary School Teachers ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Teachers Professional Development

This paper examines the influences of professional development activities on important teacher-level factors that are important for the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in education for primary school teachers in Mongolia. The study utilizes the survey data collected in 2012 (n = 826) and 2016 (n = 1161) to identify the changes in factors that are important to the use of ICT in education. The study result shows that six teacher level factors that are important for the ICT integration have been improved over time through professional development activities. These are professional competency in educational use of ICT, collaboration for ICT integration, benefits on use of ICT, autonomy to innovate, recognition as a professional, and skills and practices in educational use of ICT. This provides supporting evidence to educational practitioners for the implementation of effective professional development programs to promote ICT integration in education, especially in the developing country’s context.

scholarly journals Differentiation in key learning areas for gifted students in regular classes

2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mantak Yuen ◽  
Serene Chan ◽  
Cheri Chan ◽  
Dennis CL Fung ◽  
Wai Ming Cheung ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Gifted Students ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Differentiated Curriculum ◽  
Primary School Teachers ◽  
Gifted Learners ◽  
Service Professional ◽  
Regular Classes ◽  
Development Practice

Gifted students usually require much less time spent in practising and revising basic skills; instead, they benefit greatly from opportunities to work through the curriculum at a faster pace (acceleration). Teachers currently working with mixed-ability classes do not always find it easy to differentiate their teaching approach in this way, so there is a need to facilitate in-service professional development to provide teachers with practical strategies for implementing effective differentiation for gifted learners. In response, a project for primary school teachers was organized by a university in Hong Kong. The purposes of the project were (a) to enhance the confidence of teachers in planning and delivering differentiated lessons in specific key learning areas (KLAs) with particular reference to gifted students; (b) to empower teachers with knowledge and strategies necessary for designing and implementing a differentiated curriculum in KLA domains and (c) to establish a professional development practice that connects local academics with schools and teachers. The project was implemented by inviting curriculum leaders, panel chairpersons and subject teachers from primary schools to attend a 3-hour lecture and a 6-hour workshop in which differentiation practices were explored. The project was later evaluated based on feedback from participants and university consultants. Overall, the feedback was positive, but suggestions are provided here for enhancing future projects of a similar nature.

scholarly journals Primary School Teachers in 21st Century in Bangladesh: Some Potential Aspects for Professional Development Identified from Relevant Literatures

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 48
Author(s):  
A. K. M. Badrul Alam ◽  
Luo Shengquan
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Primary School ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Development Program ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Primary School Teachers ◽  
Competency Based ◽  
Teaching Learning

In the context of 21st century, the changes in different educational aspects are taken place rapidly. This is because to respond to the needs of the fast growing technology-based educational opportunities that require more capable teachers with multifaceted competencies. Bangladesh has paid highest attention to implement competency-based curriculum for its primary level of education. National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCTB) in Bangladesh reformulated its competency-based curriculum goal, objectives, terminal competencies along with the related attainable competencies, subject specific competencies, learning outcomes and other related aspects. Besides, NCTB initiated to incorporate the international updated teaching-learning methods and techniques, interactive instructional strategies, formative assessment procedures in each grade and each subject to address the 21st century teaching-learning needs in its last revised curriculum in 2012. However, the teachers with multifaceted competencies that address their appropriate level of knowledge, skills and attitude can positively influence in creating such a supportive classroom practices for 21st century learners. The Forth Primary Education Development Program (PEDP4) of Ministry of Primary and Mass Education (MoPME) in Bangladesh has highly emphasized to implement Continuous Professional Development (CPD) as an approach to strengthen its professional competencies for the government primary school teachers. This paper has been prepared based on the ideas explored through some relevant literature review. It basically identified some potential aspects for the teachers’ professional development of government primary schools in Bangladesh in 21st century context. This paper explored that the process of promoting teachers’ competencies need to be followed by set of activities with multifaceted continuous and regular manner at school setting.

scholarly journals The import of professional development programmes for primary school teachers in Nigeria

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (10) ◽  
pp. 48-55
Author(s):  
OSIESI Mensah Prince
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Teacher Development ◽  
Effective Teachers ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
School Teacher ◽  
Primary School Teacher ◽  
Effective Teacher ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Primary School Teachers

The paper discussed the import of professional development programmes for primary school teachers in Nigeria. It highlighted the relevance of the primary school teacher; effective development programmes for them in relation to their teaching competences; the primary education in Nigeria, its functions and challenges confronting it; challenges facing primary school teachers. The paper further explored the objectives and forms of teachers’ development and barriers to effective teacher development programmes in Nigeria. It concluded that Mechanisms for effective teachers’ professional development should be put in place by stakeholders on a regular basis; as this is tantamount to enhancing teachers’ teaching competences and that teachers at the primary schools need regular on-the-job professional development programmes. A number of recommendations were articulated to ensure continuous and effective teachers development for practicing primary school teachers in Nigeria.

scholarly journals Primary School In-Service Teachers Perceptions about Reflective Teaching Practice

2020 ◽  
Vol V (I) ◽  
pp. 23-30
Author(s):  
Sumera Imran ◽  
Amir Zaman ◽  
Abdul Ghafar
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Reflective Practice ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Reflective Teaching ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Primary School Teachers ◽  
The Government

The purpose of this qualitative study was to understand the reflective practice as a process of continuing professional Development (CPD) implemented in different parts of the government primary schools of Pakistan recently. Case study design was adopted for a single school as it aims to understand the perceptions of primary school teachers about reflective teaching practice with the help of enriched data using semi structured interview. For data analysis content analysis method was applied and analysis was presented thematically for clarity and vividness. It was revealed that most teachers perceived reflective teaching as a helpful tool in improving professional capacity, valuable to share reflective practice with colleagues, constructive in receiving guidance in professional development and useful for assessing self-skills and considered its role in identifying developmental needs of their skills and prospective training. It is suggested that primary school teachers should engage in reflective practice on regular basis and should be provide internet facilities at school to strengthen their knowledge of using creative applications of reflective practice.

scholarly journals Primary school teachers’ professional development through the learning ecologies lens: new ways for keeping up to date in uncertain times

PUBLICACIONES ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 21-70
Author(s):  
Albert Sangrá Morer ◽  
Juliana E. Raffaghelli ◽  
Mercedes González Sanmamed ◽  
Pablo César Muñoz Carril
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Formal Training ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Primary School Teachers ◽  
Margin Of Error ◽  
Teacher Professional ◽  
Teachers Professional Development ◽  
Learning Ecologies

Learning is evolving, just as the world and society are. In this context, teachers are also experiencing new ways for updating their professional development. The metamorphosis of learning is currently being pushed by four main catalysts: the connectivity of networks, the empowerment of the students, the overcoming of space and time barriers, and the assumption of the existence of silent, unnoticed learning. But these uncertain times have added a new, recent catalyst for change in learning and education: the COVID-19 pandemic. In the framework of the ECO4LEARN research project, a study was designed and carried out to check to what extent the learning ecologies approach could provide information on how primary school teachers organise their learning and how they make decisions about it. A survey was sent to the entire population of primary school teachers in Catalonia, getting 1,253 answers. The calculated margin of error was ±3.14%. Data analysis was conducted along three steps: a) Descriptive statistics; b) Principal Component Analysis (PCA); and c) Multiple Regression. Results show that the learning ecologies approach proves to be useful for analysing the actual means teachers use for their professional development and updating. Although some teachers are more advanced, practices do not respond to what could be expected regarding the use of less formal training for teachers and its mediation through the use of technologies. Regarding the sample analysed, the digital dimension of teacher professional development practices is still in its inception. Some recommendations are provided.

scholarly journals DISTANCE LEARNING OF FUTURE PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS AS A PREREQUISITE OF THEIR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT THROUGHOUT LIFE

2018 ◽  
Vol 66 (4) ◽  
pp. 42
Author(s):  
Oleksii P. Mukoviz ◽  
Kateryna R. Kolos ◽  
Natalia A. Kolomiiets
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Distance Learning ◽  
Primary School ◽  
School Teacher ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Primary School Teacher ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Primary School Teachers ◽  
Distance Training ◽  
Information And Communication

The article demonstrates the expediency and ways of organizing distance training of future primary school teachers: forming theoretical knowledge and skills basis in students for the mastery and effective use of computer devices and information and communication technologies in professional activities and the fundamentals of information culture, information and communication competence; establishing a foundation for further mastery of teaching curriculum and technologies of distance learning in the area of primary education; as well as implementing the electronic learning courses Modern Information Technologies of Learning and The Fundamentals of Distance Learning in Primary School (developed at LMS Moodle). It is noted that the distance training of a future primary school teacher is an interdisciplinary pedagogic category that characterizes the degree of individualization, intensity and controllability, is subjected to the goals of the professional development of independent cognitive activities of teachers based on information and communication technology means with the indirect interaction (synchronous and asynchronous) with learning process participants located remotely from one another, under the supervision of a tutor. The readiness of the future primary school teacher to distance learning in the system of pedagogical education as an integral property of the individual, reflecting the comprehensive interaction of the motivational and value, cognitive and operational components, is determined. An experimental study was carried out; its results showed that the implementation of such distance courses into the educational process of experimental groups enabled a positive dynamics of the levels of future primary school teachers’ readiness to develop their own vocational and pedagogical competence in the conditions of distance learning. In the experimental groups of future primary school teachers compared with the control ones, the increase in the indicators of high readiness for distance learning was observed.

scholarly journals The import of professional development programmes for primary school teachers in Nigeria

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (7) ◽  
pp. 111-118
Author(s):  
Osiesi Mensah Prince
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Teacher Development ◽  
Effective Teachers ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
School Teacher ◽  
Primary School Teacher ◽  
Effective Teacher ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Primary School Teachers

The paper discussed the import of professional development programmes for primary school teachers in Nigeria. It highlighted the relevance of the primary school teacher; effective development programmes for them in relation to their teaching competences; the primary education in Nigeria, its functions and challenges confronting it; challenges facing primary school teachers. The paper further explored the objectives and forms of teachers’ development and barriers to effective teacher development programmes in Nigeria. It concluded that Mechanisms for effective teachers’ professional development should be put in place by stakeholders on a regular basis; as this is tantamount to enhancing teachers’ teaching competences and that teachers at the primary schools need regular onthe-job professional development programmes. A number of recommendations were articulated to ensure continuous and effective teachers development for practicing primary school teachers in Nigeria.

scholarly journals Analysis of the main activities of regional teachers associations

2021 ◽  
Vol 54 (6) ◽  
pp. 555-575
Author(s):  
Natalia V. Belinova ◽  
◽  
Elena G. Gutsu ◽  
Nadezda N. Demeneva ◽  
Svetlana A. Zaitseva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Professional Associations ◽  
Teaching Profession ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Primary School Teachers ◽  
Teaching Community ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
Teachers Professional Development

Introduction. Regional pedagogical associations are a mechanism of teachers' professional development, their creative growth, competence enhancement. The research purpose was to analyze the areas of regional teachers association's activity, to identify the most important and interesting types of work in professional communities. Materials and methods. As part of the study, the experience of regional pedagogical associations' work was analyzed and the main areas, forms and types of their activities were identified. A survey of primary school teachers in Nizhny Novgorod was carried out, in which 117 teachers with various work experience in school took part. Research results. Based on the survey results, it was determined that teachers consider the most important and interesting areas of the regional pedagogical association's activity the informational and advisory support of teachers (more than 75% of the respondents), raising the prestige and popularization of the teaching profession (more than 65%), professional development (more than 55%), exchange of work experience (over 65%), conducting scientific-educational events for schoolchildren and their parents (over 60%). The most significant types of the association's work are as follows: advising teachers in the field of protecting their rights and protecting the interests of the teaching community on topical issues of professional activity; informing teachers through the association's website about education-related documents and materials and ongoing activities; conducting master classes, open lessons and other events for the exchange of work experience by teachers. Discussion and conclusion. The teachers' assessment of the importance of areas of the pedagogical association's work can be used to develop indicators of efficiency of professional associations' activities.

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