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Promoting Mentally Healthy Classrooms: Evaluation Of Online Mental Health Literacy Instruction In Pre-Service Teacher Education, E. Robyn Masters Oct 2019

Promoting Mentally Healthy Classrooms: Evaluation Of Online Mental Health Literacy Instruction In Pre-Service Teacher Education, E. Robyn Masters

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

To better understand how to prepare large numbers of pre-service teachers for their role in creating and leading mentally healthy classrooms, this program evaluation explores outcomes related to an online mental health literacy course at a large central Canadian university. The course was delivered to 275 teacher education students simultaneously over 10-weeks and 20-hours of online instruction and professional reflection. Results indicated significant improvement in self-reported levels of mental health literacy, stigma toward mental illness, and self-efficacy for teaching students with diverse challenges. Qualitative reviews of participant feedback identified the most valuable aspects of the course and the ways in …


A Space To Learn, Amy R. Goods May 2019

A Space To Learn, Amy R. Goods

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

In this dissertation, I explore what it means to different people, in different places throughout life’s spectrum to create a space to learn. This dissertation is a collection of work that I have written throughout my time at the CUNY Graduate Center. The chapters herein represent an arch of my learning over the past five years. The title, A Space to Learn, has multiple meanings. For one, writing this dissertation has provided me a space to explore and reflect on a variety of topics, ranging from memory loss, to teacher preparation programs, to eugenics and special education, to tracking and …


Escuela, Formación Docente Y Práctica Reflexiva En Maestros De Ied Los Pinos E Ied Alfredo Iriarte De Bogotá, Cindy Johana Suárez Daza Jan 2019

Escuela, Formación Docente Y Práctica Reflexiva En Maestros De Ied Los Pinos E Ied Alfredo Iriarte De Bogotá, Cindy Johana Suárez Daza

Licenciatura en Español y Lenguas Extranjeras

El presente trabajo de investigación indaga, sobre las comprensiones que tienen los maestros de instituciones educativas distritales de Bogotá sobre práctica reflexiva, formación docente y Escuela. El propósito de la investigación por parte de los integrantes del semillero de investigación EVA, del grupo de investigación Educación y Sociedad consistente, en rastrear y analizar la relación que los maestros tienen de Escuela a partir de la percepción de su formación inicial y sus experiencias, la reflexión de las acciones y procesos que pueden surgir en la Escuela. La investigación se realizó dentro del paradigma cualitativo, utilizando la fenomenología como método de …


Escuela, Formación Docente Y Práctica Reflexiva En Maestros De Ied Debora Arango Pérez E Ied Brazuelos, Katherine Escobar Garzón Jan 2019

Escuela, Formación Docente Y Práctica Reflexiva En Maestros De Ied Debora Arango Pérez E Ied Brazuelos, Katherine Escobar Garzón

Licenciatura en Español y Lenguas Extranjeras

El presente trabajo de investigación, indaga sobre las comprensiones que tienen los maestros de instituciones educativas distritales de Bogotá sobre práctica reflexiva, formación docente y escuela. El propósito de esta investigación por parte de los integrantes del semillero de investigación EVA, del grupo Educación y Sociedad consiste en rastrear y analizar la relación que los maestros tienen de escuela a partir de la percepción de su formación inicial y sus experiencias, la reflexión de las acciones y procesos que pueden surgir en la escuela. La investigación se realizó dentro del paradigma cualitativo, utilizando la fenomenología como método de estudio en …


Teachers’ Self-Efficacy Beliefs In Relation To Perceived English Proficiency And Teaching Practices: An Investigation Of Chinese Primary English As A Foreign Language (Efl) Teachers, Yun Zhang Jan 2019

Teachers’ Self-Efficacy Beliefs In Relation To Perceived English Proficiency And Teaching Practices: An Investigation Of Chinese Primary English As A Foreign Language (Efl) Teachers, Yun Zhang

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Research on self-efficacy has been a productive field and abundant research has shown that teachers’ self-efficacy beliefs influence teachers’ actions and performances and thus affect students’ learning outcomes. However, there is a lack of literature on EFL teachers’ self-efficacy beliefs and even less research was set in Chinese EFL contexts. On the one hand, this study was conducted to provide a general picture of the current status of EFL teachers’ perceived English proficiency, self-rated self-efficacy beliefs and self-reported teaching practices in terms of some demographic perspectives; On the other hand, it aimed to explore the correlations among Chinese primary EFL …