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Teaching Today's Diverse Student Population In Schools, Elizabeth F. Hurdle
Teaching Today's Diverse Student Population In Schools, Elizabeth F. Hurdle
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The primary purpose of this study was to investigate teacher candidates' attitude and knowledge level toward the adequacy of their teacher training for meeting the needs of a diversified school population and to make recommendations for any restructuring in a University teacher training program. A survey research method using a convenience sample size of (N = 240) was used to collect data for this study. The sample of 240 participants included graduate and undergraduate teacher candidates who had completed student teaching and alumni from the last five years. A self-developed questionnaire with 35 Likert-type questions and four open-ended questions was …
Promoting And Investigating Students’ Uptake Of Reflective Practice: A Pakistan Case, Jane Rarieya
Promoting And Investigating Students’ Uptake Of Reflective Practice: A Pakistan Case, Jane Rarieya
Institute for Educational Development, Karachi
Today reflection is considered one of the essential principles underlying good teaching practice and teacher education. However, this tacit acknowledgement that teachers need to be reflective practitioners and the development of reflective practice has largely been in the West. Teachers in Pakistan and most of the developing world are generally unaware of what the term ‘reflective practice’ means. This article presents findings of a study that was undertaken to observe course participants' uptake of an alternate approach to engaging students in reflective practice during a module offered to students in the Masters programme at the Aga Khan University–Institute for Educational …
Reflective Dialogue: What’S In It For Teachers? A Pakistan Case, Jane Rarieya
Reflective Dialogue: What’S In It For Teachers? A Pakistan Case, Jane Rarieya
Institute for Educational Development, Karachi
Reflective dialogue is still very much an unexplored area in teacher education in Pakistan. This article presents findings of a study that engaged four teachers in the process of reflective dialogue in a school in Karachi, Pakistan. It explores the teachers’ response to the process and possible reasons. It also examines the role played by those who help teachers to become reflective (reflective coaches). Findings indicate that reflective dialogue is an alternative teacher professional development strategy, and that a teacher’s level of reflection is dependent on the teacher’s commitment to teaching, personal reasons and responsibilities. Teaching experience also influences one’s …