scholarly journals Learning to Foster Autonomy: The Role of Teacher Education Materials

2011 ◽  
pp. 15-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hayo Reinders ◽  
Cem Balcikanli

In recent years there has been an increased appreciation of the interrelationship between learner autonomy and teacher autonomy, both in the classroom and in the self-access centre. One obvious impact on learners’ autonomy is their teachers’ understanding of what autonomy means, and their ability to implement it in the classroom. Especially for beginning teachers, knowledge of learner autonomy is likely to be shaped in large part by the professional training they receive and the amount of attention given to the topic during their teacher education. It is therefore important to ask to what extent teacher training courses prepare teachers for fostering autonomy, including those teachers working in self-access centres. This study attempts to answer that question by critically investigating a range of popular teacher training course materials widely used in professional programmes worldwide. We apply an evaluative framework to identify 1) what information teachers are given about learner autonomy, and 2) the extent to which the materials cover the teaching of different skills for independent learning. Perhaps surprisingly, despite the growing interest in autonomy, it was found that the selected books included almost no information about learner autonomy at all and did not, with one or two minor exceptions, focus on the development of skills for supporting autonomous learning.

Relay Journal ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 251-256

We are excited to present you Volume 2 Issue 2 of Relay Journal published by the Research Institute of Learner Autonomy Education at Kanda University (KUIS), Japan. The Relay Journal aims to foster a dialogue spanning the globe discussing topics related to learner autonomy. This issue of Relay Journal is dedicated to teacher and advisor education for learner autonomy. The topic is particularly important, since –– apart from some exceptions –– autonomy is not always integrated into curricula for teacher education, and in addition, very few programmes exist for advisor education. Therefore, it is crucial to include opportunities for in-service professional development and reflection on how to foster autonomy and how to support language learners as teachers or as advisors. This can be done in the form of teacher training, mentoring and/or tutoring programmes, action-research, or reflection in- and on-practice.


2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 313-322 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simona Cerrato ◽  
Valentina Daelli ◽  
Helena Pertot ◽  
Olga Puccioni

Why do scientists volunteer to be involved in public engagement in science? What are the barriers that can prevent them participating in dialogue with society? What can be done to facilitate their participation? In this paper we present a case study of the Children's University programme of the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) (Trieste, Italy), discussing the three-year experience, and reporting the outcomes of a series of focus groups conducted with the young scientists who volunteered in the programme. Two kinds of motivations emerged. The first is personal, for example volunteers' desire to improve their own communication abilities, or their curiosity for a new activity. The second is related to the perceived role of scientists in society: many volunteers feel a sense of duty and the need to promote science and its importance in society, to have an impact on the public perception of science and to seed the love for science in young people. After the first year of their involvement, volunteers expressed the need to keep improving their communication skills and participating in professional training courses, and agreed that science communication should become part of all standard training programmes of PhDs. In order for the outreach not to remain a sporadic experience, it is essential that a strong institutional commitment exists to promote, recruit, encourage, professionally train and support those involved.


2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 317-331 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samantha Shields ◽  
Megan Murray

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore beginning teachers’ perceptions of the role of the mentor in the early stages of developing a professional identity. The beginning teachers in the authors’ study are defined as having been awarded qualified teacher status at the end of an initial teacher education programme or having completed their first term as a new teacher with responsibility for a class of pupils. Design/methodology/approach The research design was a qualitative, inductive study. The concepts of communities of practice, legitimate peripheral participation and power dynamics within a community underpinned this study. The data set was collected over a period of 18 months, through six focus groups and 40 questionnaires with beginning teachers across 34 schools altogether. The data set was analysed using interpretive phenomenological analysis (IPA). Findings The findings indicated that the ways in which mentors use their power to recognise (or not) the legitimacy of beginning teachers as being part of the school community influences the development of beginning teachers’ professional identities. The thematic analysis of the data indicated the different types of support that mentors may provide: “belonging”, “emotional”, “pedagogical” and “space”. Research limitations/implications Further research into how mentors perceive their role in supporting new entrants into the profession is needed. Originality/value These findings are pertinent in England, as the increase in school-based initial teacher training provision will intensify the role of school mentors. These findings will be of value to other countries that are moving towards an increase in school-based teacher training.


2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 87-92
Author(s):  
Oksana Romaniuk

Abstract In the article the author considers recent trends in teacher education and pedagogical mastery, issues of carrying out improvements to the teacher training system in European countries, analyzes programmes of cooperation in education that facilitate forming of teachers’ professional competency, studies typical problems in teacher education in Europe and possible ways for its improving. Based on the study of European experience in teacher training the author has concluded that lecturers are extremely interested in identifying the patterns of teacher training and pedagogical mastery as a theoretical, methodological and practical problem and has justified the importance of the structural organization and modernization of teacher professional training in higher education, the development of new forms in relations between the teacher training system and higher education institutions, which are based on systematic, scientific, interdisciplinary approaches and the idea of continuity. The importance of special cooperation projects in teacher education launched in the European Union in terms of pedagogical mastery has been emphasized in the article. The author also focuses attention on new ways of solving the existing problems in developing the professional competency of students obtaining teacher education as well as the development of pedagogical mastery. There have been described main directions in the functioning of European countries’ teacher training systems that can be useful in identifying development trends in teacher education in Ukraine, namely, teacher education based on worldwide recognized researches, the shift in orientation of the teacher education philosophy: from quantity to quality, clearly defined educational standards as well as criteria for their assessment, the review of procedures for accrediting teacher training institutions, the use of multimedia technologies.


Author(s):  
José De La Cruz Diaz-Ledezma

This article presents a vision of the relationship that can be established between education and art in our country, starting from the analysis of the objectives of teacher education and the role it plays in the educational process, presents a critical analysis of the intentionality of Basic education and teacher training. It is an intentional study of the role of the teacher in a country where the role of the educating State takes on the functions of designing, orienting, organizing and directing, through the school the destinies of the new generations, forming them in an educational process according to the interests and needs of. Objective: to identify the influence that the State exerts through education, in active teachers, in the training of teachers and in students of the different educational levels of our country. Methodology: qualitative documentary research, where different moments of teacher training are analyzed in the light of theory, educational laws and others related to the subject. Contribution: originate discussion points around the educational process and the State's aims in educational matters, from the training of teachers and their performance in the classroom as an agent not of transformation, but as a reproductive agent of the wishes of the State.


2021 ◽  
pp. 98-103
Author(s):  
Kolisnichenko A.I.

The scientific article is devoted to the formation of the international qualification requirements list and general and specific standards for the foreign language teacher training in the European model of teacher education. The author highlights the state of research and analyzes the European requirements for the profession of teacher in general and foreign language teachers in particular, which provided an opportunity to explore key aspects of the profession and ways of its development in the nearest future. The topicality of the researched question,which consists of the introduction and observance of the international requirements in the course of foreign languages teacher training during formal pedagogical education, is defined. The publication also defines the concept of “professional foreign language teacher training”, as a result of which the compliance of teacher training programs and international requirements with standards which are implemented in the European educational area is analyzed.The article reviews the stages of creating an international qualifications framework, and the preconditions for its emergence, as well as clarifies which framework were the basis and the time of its adoption and implementation. The author reveals the features of the national qualifications framework of European countries, their purpose and function.The publication identifies the stages of creating a list of international requirements for the quality of specialist qualifications, describes their essence and features. The study revealed the structural components of the qualification framework, including knowledge, skills, and competencies. The structure of qualification requirements for the foreign language teacher profession is also exposed.In the process of reviewing the qualification framework, the requirements for professional training, which are specified in the educational standards of the countries and the concept of standard in teacher education, are revealed. There are four main goals of international standards for FL teacher training and their types. The list of standards for the future foreign language teacher training is defined, which are divided into three basic sections: professional values and qualities; professional knowledge; professional skills. As a result of the qualification requirements, the qualification framework study, international requirements and standards of foreign language teaching, a positive impact on the quality of foreign language teacher training in pedagogical education of the European educational area was revealed.Key words: qualification requirements, professional training standards, national qualification framework, professional foreign language teacher training, quality of formal pedagogical education, European educa-tional area. Наукова стаття присвячена питанню формування переліку міжнародних кваліфікаційних вимог та загальних і специфічних стандартів до підготовки вчителів іноземних мов у європейській моделі педагогічної освіти. Авторка висвітлює стан дослідження питання та здійснює аналіз загальноєвро-пейських вимог до професії педагога загалом та вчителя іноземних мов зокрема, який дав можливість дослідити ключові аспекти професії та шляхи її розвитку у найближчій перспективі. Визначено актуальність досліджуваного питання, яка полягає у впровадженні та дотриманні запропонованих міжнародних вимог у процесі підготовки вчителів іноземних мов протягом формальної педагогічної освіти. У публікації наведено визначення поняття «професійна підготовка вчителя іноземних мов», унаслідок чого аналізується відповідність програм підготовки вчителів міжнародним вимогам та стандартам, які впроваджені у європейському освітньому просторі.У статті здійснено огляд етапів створення міжнародної кваліфікаційної рамки та передумов її виникнення, а також з’ясовано, яка рамка було базовою, час її прийняття й запровадження. Авторка розкриває особливості національних кваліфікаційних рамок країн Європи, їх мету створення та функції.У публікації визначено етапи створення переліку міжнародних вимог до якості кваліфікацій фахівців, описано їхню сутність та особливості. У результаті дослідження виявлено структурні компоненти кваліфікаційної рамки, серед яких слід назвати знання, уміння, компетентності. Також наведено структуру кваліфікаційних вимог до професії вчителя іноземних мов.В процесі огляду кваліфікаційної рамки у питанні якості підготовки фахівців виокремлено вимоги до професійної підготовки, які зазначені в освітніх стандартах окремих країн, а також розкрито поняття стандарту у педагогічній освіті. Виокремлено чотири основних цілі укладання міжнародних стандартів для підготовки вчителів та їх види. Визначено перелік стандартів для підготовки майбутніх учителів іноземних мов, які поділяються на три базові секції, такі як професійні цінності та якості; професійні знання та вміння; професійні навички. У результаті дослідження кваліфікаційних вимог кваліфікаційної рамки, міжнародних вимог та стандартів навчання іноземних мов виявлено позитивний виплив на якість підготовки вчителів іноземних мов у педагогічній освіті Європейського освітнього простору.Ключові слова: кваліфікаційні вимоги, стандарти професійної підготовки, національна кваліфікаційна рамка, професійна підготовка вчителя іноземних мов, якість формальної педагогічної освіти, Європейський освітній простір.


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. s071-s084
Author(s):  
Anhelina Roliak ◽  
Hanna Dutka ◽  
Kostyantyn Mylytsya ◽  
Olena Matiienko ◽  
Natalia Oliinyk

Nowadays every European knowledge-based society demands a highly qualified, competent workforce being able to adjust to modern innovative production. To educate such specialists is the aim of contemporary teachers. So efficient and innovative pedagogic education becomes an integral part of the European education system. The article deals with the analysis of problem-based technology in the modern system of Danish teacher training in pedagogical higher educational institutions. Analyzing works of European scientists and problem-based model of teacher education in Denmark, working with university and college programs and documents we came to the conclusion that principles of problem-based technology in professional teacher training are similar in the whole European educational environment and in general they may be described as an approach to learning and instruction that has the following characteristics: 1) the use of problems as the starting point for learning, 2) small-group collaboration, 3) flexible guidance of a tutor, 4) student-initiated learning, 5) time availability for self-study. The findings imply that well-designed problem-based learning may lead to better educational results. Multiple sources in Ukrainian, European, and Danish educational environments at various time points from 1990 till 2020 have been used in data collection for this study. Pedagogic education in Ukraine requires a substantial adjustment at the legislative, structural, and technological levels. European experience in this sphere of teacher education modernization can become a valuable asset of the comparative pedagogic science. This practice will lead to effective technological change in teacher professional training in Ukraine.


2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 303-312
Author(s):  
Áurea Lúcia Magalhães Cardoso de Medeiros FERREIRA ◽  
Vera Lúcia Trevisan de SOUZA

This paper presents the results of a PhD research that investigated the role of language mediation in the training of professionals to teach indigenous people, seeking to investigate its influence on the changes and preservation of indigenous culture. This study was based on theoretical and methodological assumptions of cultural-historical Psychology. The present study investigated a teacher training course, Tamî'kan - Indigenous Teacher Education, in the State of Roraima, and the data were collected through classroom observations and semi-structured interviews that were conducted with 10 students and 3 course coordinators. The results indicate difficulties undergone by the indigenous students resulting from previous teaching experiences by non-indigenous teachers, especially regarding the Portuguese language. This relationship leads to contradictions in terms of indigenous culture and can influence the students' character and professional life.


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