scholarly journals Inquiry-based learning: an effective approach to teaching science aiming to develop students’ competencies

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-68
Author(s):  
Linh Thi Ngoc Bui ◽  
Vu Thuan Khuu
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Core Competencies ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
School Life ◽  
School Students ◽  
Educational Approach ◽  
Teaching Goals ◽  
Competency Based ◽  
Based Instruction

Competency-based learning is among major changes of 2018 in Vietnam’s school curriculum, where teaching and learning aim to help school students develop core qualities and competencies in order to be successful in school, life, and prospective workplace. As this educational approach is relatively unfamiliar to Vietnamese teachers, they may feel confused about appropriate teaching strategies allowing them to obtain the new teaching goals. This would be the case when teachers have to teach integrated subjects such as Science in lower-secondary education. This paper will elaborate why inquiry-based instruction could be an effective approach that enables secondary teachers to accomplish their professional work in terms of facilitating their students to develop core competencies and those in Science. Some recommendations on teacher education and training will be made to enhance the successful implementation of inquiry-based teaching in Vietnamese classrooms.

scholarly journals Content Based Lesson Plans inside the English Rural Classrooms

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 130
Author(s):  
Josefina Quintero Corzo ◽  
Catherine Julieth Lopera Lopera
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
State Institution ◽  
Lesson Plans ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
School Students ◽  
Core Content ◽  
English Classroom ◽  
Based Instruction

<p class="apa">This piece of work gives account of a classroom research project done in a rural state institution in Colombia whose main purpose was to contextualize the foreign languages teaching and learning in line with the current curriculum regulations stated by the National Ministry of Education. Content-based instruction inside a rural English classroom was examined and informed. The results revealed that the content-based instruction approach was useful to integrate environmental issues with the grammar and the communicative uses of the language. Rural high school students get more motivated when they feel a stronger and real connection between the language they learn and their touching and closest reality they perceive. It was also found that applying these environmental issues in a rural scholar context caused awareness in students according to the use and importance the English as a foreign language can be imply in their social development highlighting the real relevance in their current lives. Conclusions highlight some perspectives and implications derived from the application of several lesson plans incorporating the crisis of the planet and its possible solutions as the core content.</p>

scholarly journals Competencies and their Role in Teaching Human Sciences: "The Didactics of History in Tunisia as a model": الكفايات ودورها في تدريس العلوم الإنسانيّة: تعلّميّة التّاريخ في البلاد التّونسيّة أنموذجا

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramzi Ben Mohamed Tej
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Historical Perspectives ◽  
Interactional Pattern ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Competency Based ◽  
Based Instruction ◽  
Sound Foundation

The present study seeks to investigate a research topic that has long been contentious for curriculum designers and experts in education and didactics. It presents a concise depiction of the main reasons that lay behind the failure of traditional teaching paradigms. Accordingly, this study highlights the necessary resort to modernization following new international standards that may expunge the drawbacks of former teaching pedagogies. The methodological framework of the present paper is based on rigorous scientific methods: • A historical research method: It seeks the clarification of historical perspectives in relation to education in general and to pedagogy in Tunisia in particular. As such, it depicts a comparison that aims to justify the abandonment of current teaching styles and the adoption of contemporary teaching reforms. • A descriptive approach: It is meant to meet the specificities of the methodological design in order to define the profile of Tunisian educational reality. In this way, the clear chronological pattern opted for in this study helps readers to account for the modifications that have occurred in educational systems. As a result, this study highlights the following major findings: • Competency-based approach has a pivotal role in creating a dynamic atmosphere in teaching and learning, where learners are at the core of the learning process. • The transformation of the interactional classroom pattern from the teacher to the learners, to a more collaborative interactional pattern becomes a necessity. Therefore, this research argues for the necessity to definitively cease rote learning, and above all to accentuate on the profound restructuring of education mainly the establishment of sound foundation for the proper implementation and success of competency – based instruction in the short and long run.

Education and Advocacy: Improving Teaching and Learning Through Student Participatory Action Research

2004 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 20-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marlene Berg
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Middle School ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
After School ◽  
School Students ◽  
School Settings ◽  
Using Data

Youth PAR has demonstrated success with marginalized urban high school and middle school students, in after school settings. To be successful, however, the approach must address significant gaps in literacy, science and math skills resulting from inadequate schooling and institutionalized educational and other structural disparities. One way to address this and at the same time to achieve the dual goals of scaling up the approach and transforming urban educational instructional practices, is to engage middle and high school teachers in a partnership that introduces Youth PAR in their classrooms. This article describes the process of integrating PAR into school curriculum using data from a pilot project introduced in four urban Connecticut middle schools. As a case example, it illustrates the approach, highlights some of the lessons learned and addresses some of the challenges faced in introducing the approach in middle school settings.

What makes a hospital manager competent at the middle and senior levels?

2013 ◽  
Vol 37 (5) ◽  
pp. 566 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhanming Liang ◽  
Sandra G. Leggat ◽  
Peter F. Howard ◽  
Lee Koh
Keyword(s):  
Health Service ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Service Management ◽  
Core Competencies ◽  
Public Hospitals ◽  
Future Health ◽  
Educational Approach ◽  
Managerial Training ◽  
Competency Based ◽  
Service Managers

Objective. The purpose of this paper is to confirm the core competencies required for middle to senior level managers in Victorian public hospitals in both metropolitan and regional/rural areas. Methods. This exploratory mixed-methods study used a three-step approach which included position description content analysis, focus group discussions and online competency verification and identification survey. Results. The study validated a number of key tasks required for senior and middle level hospital managers (levels II, III and IV) and identified and confirmed the essential competencies for completing these key tasks effectively. As a result, six core competencies have been confirmed as common to the II, III and IV management levels in both the Melbourne metropolitan and regional/rural areas. Conclusions. Six core competencies are required for middle to senior level managers in public hospitals which provide guidance to the further development of the competency-based educational approach for training the current management workforce and preparing future health service managers. With the detailed descriptions of the six core competencies, healthcare organisations and training institutions will be able to assess the competency gaps and managerial training needs of current health service managers and develop training programs accordingly. What is known about the topic? A competent health service management workforce is critical to the effective functioning of the healthcare system. Consequently, a competency-based educational approach has been proposed to prepare current and future health professionals including health service managers. Although the literature has suggested that core competencies exist for different management levels in different healthcare settings, there has been no study which has provided valuable data to indicate what the core competencies are for hospitals managers in Australian public hospitals. What does this paper add? This paper identified and confirmed that six core competencies are common to middle to senior level managers (levels II-IV) in Victorian public hospitals in both Melbourne metropolitan and regional/rural areas. What are the implications for practitioners? The findings of the study is the first step towards supporting the competency-based educational approach for training and preparing current and future health service managers for their roles. The six identified core competencies provide a very useful guide to the identification of competency gaps and managerial training needs, and the further development of the health service management training curriculum.

scholarly journals The Relationship between Learning Motivation and Competency-Based Learning with Fashion Designing Skills for Fashion Design Programme Students at Vocational College

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4S) ◽  
pp. 259
Author(s):  
Zaharah Abd Aziz ◽  
Rahimah Jamaluddin ◽  
Suhaida Abdul Kadir
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Strong Relationship ◽  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
Learning Motivation ◽  
Fashion Design ◽  
Competency Based ◽  
Vocational Colleges ◽  
Based Instruction ◽  
The Relationship

Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET) highlights the mastery of skills as a key element before entering a career field. This study was conducted to identify the relationship between learning motivation and competency-based learning (CBL) and fashion designing skills for students in the Fashion Design Programme at Vocational colleges. This quantitative study with correlational research design involved 200 Diploma in Fashion Design Programme students. Simple random sampling technique was used, and data was collected through questionnaires. Findings of inferential analysis showed that fashion designing skills and learning motivation were at a moderate level with mean = 2.88 (SD = .43) and mean = 4.05 (SD = .30). Meanwhile, Competency-Based Learning recorded a mean of 3.08 with a standard deviation of .35. It was found that learning motivation had a weak relationship (r = .249, p <0.05) while CBL had a strong relationship (r = .542, p <0.05) with fashion designing skills. These findings indicate that motivation and competency-based instruction implemented during Teaching and Learning are related with mastery skill. Following that, lecturers need to ensure that the knowledge and skills imparted can be mastered by the students. It can be concluded that the management of Vocational colleges needs to provide continuous motivation to the students as well as support the lecturer to increase their knowledge on CBL in order to produce students who are highly skilled in Fashion Design.

scholarly journals Problems of the Project Management Approach Implementation in the Professional Guidance among Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 136-149
Author(s):  
Erkezhan T. Meirkhanova ◽  
Saule T. Kupeshovа
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
School Students ◽  
Professional Orientation ◽  
High Stage ◽  
Competency Based ◽  
Senior Stage ◽  
Professional Guidance

The article revels the challenges of using project-based management for professional orientation of students at the senior stage of the secondary school in Republic of Kazakhstan. The competency-based approach as a fundamental paradigm has been identified for successful implementation of the project-based management at the senior (high) stage of the secondary school, which, in turn, is a determining factor in the situation on the labor market. The stages of implementation of project-based management for professional orientation of high school students have been worked out. The current situation of project-based management implementation has been investigated based on sample.

scholarly journals A Model of Creating Instructional Materials Based on the School Curriculum for Indonesian Secondary Schools

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eny Syatriana
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Learning System ◽  
Instructional Materials ◽  
Developmental Study ◽  
Design Development ◽  
School Students ◽  
Need Analysis ◽  
English Achievement

English performance and competence of Indonesian secondary school students are low. This may result from poor instructional materials so that they do not meet the students’ need; and this should be the main objective for English teachers to improve the learning outcome of students. The purpose of this study is to develop a model of creating instructional materials based on school curriculum. Creating a model of designing instructional materials is part my developmental study consisting of need analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation; this paper discuss need analysis to create a model of creating instructional materials through deep discussion among teachers of secondary schools. The result presents some main procedures need analysis, designing, developing the materials, implementation, and evaluation (ADDIE). The other components include purpose, school curriculum, application of pedagogical aspects, contextualization. The model is derived from ADDIE, Dick and Carey, Jolly &amp; Bolitho, and Instructional Development Learning system (IDLS). Instructional materials with different strategies and various materials improve the English achievement of the students. Both teachers and students argue that appropriate instructional materials are good enough to be used in the teaching and learning process to increase the English achievement of the students.

scholarly journals KOMUNIKASI GURU DAN ORANG TUA SISWA DALAM MENGOPTIMALKAN PEMBELAJARAN PADA MASA PANDEMI DI SDI AL-ITTIHAD TUKUM TEKUNG LUMAJANG

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-139
Author(s):  
Chayati12345
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School Students ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Study Groups ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
School Students ◽  
Teachers And Parents

One of the keys to the successful implementation of the learning process during the COVID-19 pandemic is intensive communication between teachers and parents. Because without communication there will be obstacles because elementary school students still need the guidance of teachers and parents. The purpose of this study was to describe the communication between teachers and parents in optimizing learning during the pandemic at SDI Al-Ittihad Tukum Tekung Lumajang. This study uses a phenomenological qualitative approach. Collecting data in this study using interviews and documentation. To test the validity of the data obtained, the researcher used triangulation of data sources and triangulation of methods. The results of this study are: 1) Communication between teachers and parents at SDI Al-Ittihad during the covid 19 pandemic in carrying out the teaching and learning process using the sambang teacher program, namely visiting students' homes to carry out the learning process. Sometimes making small study groups of about 2-3 children per group which is carried out at students' homes and accompanied by their respective class teachers so that communication between teachers, parents, and students is more closely related. In addition, communication between teachers and parents is to form a whatsapp group for each class. 2) Obstacles or challenges faced by teachers and parents during the COVID-19 pandemic are limitations in using mobile phones, increased expenses due to having to buy quotas, and availability of network/internet signals.  

The English Camps as Method of Promoting Fun English at Elementary School Level in Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 174
Author(s):  
Meida Rachmawati ◽  
Suzana Widjajanti ◽  
Ahmad Ahmad ◽  
Aslan Aslan
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Curriculum Design ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
School Level ◽  
English Learning ◽  
Learning Method ◽  
School Students ◽  
Scientific Publications

This article aimed to promote English in elementary school students through a fun learning method, called the Fun English Camp. Several studies had been conducted to encounter the best solution to handle this issue. The researchers used PRISMA Protocol as an instrument to collect the data that has been widely used in the process of selecting relevant articles. The researchers reviewed twenty five scientific publications, related to Fun English Camp that has become an English learning approach for beginner students. Through a review of twenty five scientific publications, for instance book and journal, the researchers got scientific evidence that introduction of a learning method with the term Fun English camp has an impact on promoting language learning for elementary school children in Indonesia. Thus, the fun English camp method can be an interesting method to be applied by elementary school curriculum design in Indonesia. Keywords: English Camps, Learning Method, Fun English Learning

PENGARUH CONTEXTUAL TEACHING AND LEARNING (CTL) TERHADAP PEMAHAMAN MEMBACA SISWA

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 30
Author(s):  
Anni Holila Pulungan
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Junior High ◽  
School Students ◽  
Lecture Method ◽  
Contextual Teaching ◽  
Better Than

The study deals with the Contextual Teaching and Learning of the students’ reading comprehension at junior high school. Contextual Teaching and Learning is a new alternative for every teachers to relate the materials to the real world. The aims of the research are to analyze the effect of non and CTL method of the students’ reading comprehension.  The research method is an experimental method. The data analysis is taken from the two classess. Then, they divided into two  groups, the control and experimental group. The major findings of the study shows that the effect of Contextual Teaching and Learning on the students’ reading comprehension is better than the non CTL method-lecture method for the junior high school students.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document