Category: Teaching Experiences, Pedagogy, Practice & Praxis
Investigating Algerian Lecturers’ Views and Classroom Practices on Language Teaching Through CALL: A Case Study
Bringing new perspectives to the formal learning contexts caused a massive change in the teaching and learning process. Indeed, in recent years, the incorporation of Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) in language education has become increasingly prevalent, offering new opportunities for language learning and teaching. However, its implementation and impact vary across contexts. In fact, the …
Reducing Māori Student Disengagement in Education: Profiling the Critically Conscious, Culturally Responsive Educator
Māori learners as minority students in New Zealand are over-represented in the negative disengagement indices in mainstream secondary education, despite Māori only representing 17.4% of the New Zealand population. Compared with non-Māori students, Māori are more likely to receive disciplinary action excluding them from mainstream. Te Tiriti o Waitangi (The Treaty of Waitangi) as New …
Developing Graduate Attributes Through Active Feedback in Experiential Settings
In traditional course design, much of the assessment focusses on an individual submission, encouraging students to focus on the summative assessment instead of developing the expertise (Gibbs & Simpson, 2004). By embedding active feedback within class activities there is a shift in students’ focus on assessment outcomes to also being focussed on skills development. The …
How to Improve Choral Teaching Efficiency? An Experimental Research of Structured Teaching Model in Primary Choral Education
In recent years, various choral exhibition festivals and choral competitions have emerged, which is an effective way to promote the prosperity of choral teaching, but under the performance-oriented evaluation method, it will lead to too utilitarian choral teaching and weaken the educational significance of choral teaching itself. In choral education within primary schools, a successful …
Revealing History Through Design: An Exploration of Pedagogy in Projects Rooted in Reconciliation and Remembrance
A broader historical narrative of the colonization of the southern United States is being told by historians such as Ric Murphy who in his book “The Arrival of the First Africans in Virginia”, aims to recognize them and to “… ensure that their contributions and legacy no longer remain unknown in American History.” At the …
A New Didactic-Andragogical Tool to Consolidate Knowledge Applied to the Active Methodology PBL
Literature and teaching experience show the need to reflect upon teaching-learning strategies that take advantage of students’ prior knowledge and that promote opportunities to develop autonomy, especially when teaching adults. This work aims to present the strategy named Circle of Knowledge (CK) and contextualizes it in the light of andragogy by demonstrating two practical applications …
Preservice Teacher Perceptions of Using 360° Cameras and Virtual Reality for Education Preparation
Using XR technological tools such as 360° cameras and virtual reality in education preparation has been found to be a beneficial way for preservice teachers (PSTs) to reflect on their teaching styles and experience the virtual classroom (Ardisara & Fung, 2018; Coffey, 2014; Ferdig & Kosko, 2020; Feurstein, 2019). Additionally, utilization of XR in PST …
Collaborative Lessons in a Cross-Border Space: Learning Each Other’s Language, Literature and History on the Basis of the CoBLaLT Model
In the paper we propose a new paradigm for teaching literature, language and history in cross-border territories from the point of view of cross-border didactics and cross-curricular collaboration at the higher elementary school level. Based on the CoBLaLT model, we propose interdisciplinar activities for students of two cross-border classes on both sides of the Slovenian-Italian …
Brilliant Club Scholar Programme Case Study: Teaching Climate Change With KS2 Pupils
Since the autumn of 2022, I have become a Brilliant Club Scholar Programme tutor, delivering university-style lectures on Climate Change to KS2 pupils with underprivileged background. I appreciate the opportunity to contribute and be part of pupils’ progress in their understanding of this subject and try to engage them in a range of learning activities. …
Revolutionizing Teacher Education: Preparing Language Teachers for the Plurilingual and Digital Age of Language Education
The COVID-19 pandemic has presented unprecedented challenges to language educators worldwide, including in Canada, who had to swiftly adjust their teaching methods to incorporate technology. This shift required significant training and adaptation, and many educators faced difficulties in engaging students and keeping their attention in a virtual environment. Unfortunately, inadequate support and training led to …
The Effect of Group Poster Competition on Student Motivation in a Rural Primary School in Southwest China
Motivation has always played an essential role in determining students’ academic performance. The intent on boosting student motivation has led to different pedagogies. This study focuses on how group poster competition designed for 27 sixth grade students in a rural elementary school in China may affect students’ levels of motivation in English classes. The group …
Escape Room and Trivial as Tools to Reduce Anxiety Before Exams
One of the biggest causes of anxiety for students at any level in the academic field is taking tests. This study aims to reduce the levels of anxiety expressed by students in class. In this sense, an attempt is made to generate confidence in the knowledge acquired through review sessions, in which online games specifically …
The Effect of Teacher Immediacy as Leverage Technology on Online Students’ Participation, Academic Achievement and Knowledge Retention
COVID-19 pandemic has led to a major shift towards online learning, emphasizing the importance of teacher immediacy in promoting students’ participation, academic achievement and knowledge retention. The transition to online learning has become increasingly prevalent, necessitating a deeper understanding of the factors that influence students’ academic performance in environment. One such factor is teacher immediacy, …
Protecting Children: Reflective Practice for Future Educators
In Italy, Bachelor’s degree courses in Education Sciences prepare future educators who can work within public, private and third sector organizations in the planning, implementation and evaluation of educational interventions. A curricular traineeship of 250 hours is foreseen, preceded by a 50-hour training course on critical situations in educational contexts. During their traineeship, students participate …
SCIFARI: Exploring the Effectiveness of Team Teaching in Science on Middle School Students
In the Middle School Science department at Mallya Aditi International School, Bangalore, India, a team of teachers designs and delivers course content to enhance learning experiences. The pedagogy of the Middle School departments includes deliberations among the team regarding lessons, hands-on activities, experiential learning opportunities and evaluation processes before and during implementation. This has been …
Strength in Numbers: Analysis of the Effectiveness of Team Teaching in Mathematics in Middle School
Mallya Aditi International School, Bangalore, India, is an inclusive school that caters to a wide range of students from high-end socio-economic backgrounds to economically underprivileged students, admitted under the Right to Education Act. The students have been exposed to team teaching from the early years of school and continue to experience the same in Middle …
Active Learning: Portuguese as a Non-Native Language (PNNL) Teaching Experience to Chinese
As part of a teaching experience in Higher Education, this communication aims to share a set of active learning strategies, using technologies, adopted in a Portuguese as a Non-Native Language speaking subject, composed by 14 Chinese students, enrolled in a bilateral partnership (China-Portugal). Due to constraints arising from the Covid-19 pandemic, and for a period …
Means of Expression of Metaphorical Thinking in Primary School Lithuanian Language Textbooks
The development of metaphorical thinking occupies a significant place in the process of holistic (total) education of the personality. The development of children’s metaphorical thinking is a current issue that opens up new opportunities for scientific and practical researches in the field of cognitive potential of childhood; therefore it is especially important that this education …
The Role of Reflection in Changing Student’s Conceptions About the Teaching Profession: Navigate Towards Meaning Physical Education
In initial Teacher Education Programs, students face a different reality than expected due to the opportunities to engage in deeper reflection and critical thinking. Therefore, this study explored the reflective dimension’s role in changing students’ initial conceptions about the teaching profession during the first semester of a teacher education program. One hundred and twenty-two students …
The Implementation of an Asynchronous E-learning Course in Higher Education – Lessons Learned
The pandemic boosted the use and impact of electronic learning (e-learning) in many life areas including education (Monira et al., 2022). Based on that externally forced experience, the Business Information Technology Bachelor degree program (BIT) at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW) radically changed the learning-teaching set-up from traditional face-to-face (F2F) …
Diagnosing Misconceptions in First-Year Calculus
Learning tertiary mathematics is challenging and has been an obstacle for many students. Calculus students are unaware of their misconceptions. This makes understanding and progress difficult and prevents students from being successful in mathematics, especially in first-year calculus modules. Focusing on misconceptions in calculus is essential for enhancing student learning and is needed in developing …
Just Between Meme and You: Online Memes as Health Communication Tools in Design and Media Arts Higher Education Curricula
This study posits that current online trends of mistrust in health policies may be partly overcome through an exploratory employment of memes. It aims at filling a critical gap whereby unexpected communication channels might succeed in addressing subjective bias seemingly immune to fact-based cognitive persuasion channels. We propose that the classroom may be a particularly …
Ingenuity in the Pandemic: A Cross-Course Science-Literacy Integration Project
When faced with compressed hybrid courses amidst the pandemic, two university teacher educators sought to leverage the opportunity into an innovative, collaborative project to increase authentic learning experiences for their students. Pre-service teachers in one elementary literacy and one elementary science education course collaborated on a science-literacy integration project, bringing their content expertise and shared …
Faculty Motivations for Participating in Interactive Seminars and the Impact of Student Non-Engagement: A Conceptual Framework
In a virtually driven world, the advancement and usage of technology has been seen to have many direct and indirect implications for educational practice. Against this backdrop, our paper reconceptualises academic faculty’s motivations for engaging with their students in interactive seminars. Extant research suggests that student and faculty interaction can be considered as a key …
Exploring Content and Tools Tailored on Gen Z University Courses: A Case Study
University education plays a crucial role in the development of young individuals, serving as a vital foundation. However, it is not uncommon for there to be a concealed sense of discontentment regarding the quality of services provided by universities. Because of Generation Z (Gen Z) members particular traits, traditional methods to course design are sometimes …
The Views of Romanian Teachers on the Sexual Development and Education of Children
The topic of sexuality passes for a taboo in our country even today, there being no open treatment of the subject, not even in the closest family circle. There is no sexual education in schools, while sexual enlightenment is restricted to 1-2 hours, provided at the age of 13-14. Our goal is to determine the …
Restructuring Interdisciplinary Teaching Materials: Crossing Over From Non-STEM to STEM
This study presents seven types of visual modifications to customize teaching materials for an interdisciplinary course called “The Role of Hydrogen Energy for Net Zero Emission and Practice.” An instructional designer with a non-STEM background worked with a team of instructors to redesign their lecture slides, with the goals of appealing to students from a …
An Initial Attempt of A.I. in the ESL/EFL Writing Classroom: Lessons Learnt
Recently, artificial intelligence (A.I.) and its use in the language classroom is a topic that has sparked widespread discussion across the globe recently. Amongst these A.I. models, one particular software is called Jenni AI, which supports writers in creating pieces of writing step-by-step. In this paper, the teacher-researcher reports on his experience in using Jenni …
Rethinking Work Integrated Learning Pedagogy: Reflections Post COVID-19
The consistent battle to ensure quality outcomes in work integrated learning (WIL) experiences has been an ongoing matter for higher education institutions. For universities that offer WIL modules, it is essential to ensure consistency from one year to the next concerning student experiences, as well as outcomes. During the COVID-19 pandemic, universities moved to emergency …
Foundation Phase Teachers’ Views on the Role of Proprioceptive Development in School Readiness
This exploratory case study reports on the views of six purposively selected Foundation Phase teachers from an independent school in Gauteng, South Africa, on the role of proprioceptive development in school readiness. The study was guided by Ayres’ sensory integration theory, which is based on the assumptions that the brain can change and that this …
Cultural Institutions as Spaces for Education: Artistic Expressions in Initial Teacher Training at the University of Madeira
This communication aims to highlight the formative and artistic role of three socio-cultural institutions in the island territory of the Autonomous Region of Madeira, Portugal, as spaces that preserve various local cultural aspects while promoting artistic education, inclusion and citizenship from a perspective of education for all — basic elements in the training of future …
Exploring the Efficacy of Context-Based Instructional Strategy in Fostering Students’ Achievement in Chemistry in Agbani Education Zone, Enugu State Nigeria
The study investigated the effect of Context-Based Instructional Strategy (CBIS) on students’ achievement in chemistry. CBIS was used as experimental group and Expository Instructional Strategy (EIS) as control group, sources showed that students’ poor achievement in chemistry is from teaching strategy adopted by the chemistry teachers. Two research questions were answered and two null hypotheses …
Under Fire: Developing Micro-Level Partnership Practices Between a Ukrainian and United Kingdom University as a Rapid Response to Threats to Higher Education During Military Invasion
This research uses a case study design (Creswell and Creswell, 2022) to engage in a framework of reflection-in-action (Schön, 1983) exploring the implementation and impact of a series of small-scale micro-level events initiated between departments of education at a Ukrainian and UK university. This was as a response to the challenges faced by Higher Education …
Design of the Performance Evaluation Indicators for Tunnel Engineering Course
The world is increasingly challengeable. High education would play an active role in this situation. As a traditional course needs redesigning, well-designed assessment for the course is necessary. Here is the design of the performance evaluation indicators for the Tunnel Engineering course at Chang’an University in China. Following the student-centred principle, an assessment system integrating …
Environmental Education in Indonesia Secondary School Teachers’ Perspective: A Systematic Review
Environmental education (EE) as a means to implement natural awareness and eco-friendly behavior among students is influenced by the teacher’s perspective towards it. In the previous Indonesian school-based curriculum (KTSP), EE is incorporated and mentioned distinctly as a subject. However, the alternation of KTSP into the 2013 curriculum has removed EE as a unit in …
A Study on the Effectiveness of Active Learning in Different Learning Environments: Active Learning Method in the Field of Business Management
With the spread of active learning (AL), various teaching methods have been proposed in business management education. However, it is difficult to understand a pragmatic science like business management for undergraduate students who do not have business experience. In this situation, we proposed an active learning method based on the PDCA cycle to draw out …
Locating Your Inclusive Practice: A Reflective Heuristic and Workshop
Conceptions and theoretical understanding of what constitutes Inclusive Pedagogy abound (Hernández-Torrano et al., 2020; Hockings, 2010; Lawrie et al., 2017; Livingston-Galloway & Robinson-Neal, 2021). Furthermore, wide-ranging recommendations proliferate, complicating implementation. Building on the groundwork of Lewis and Norwich (2004) and Moriña’s (2020) the facilitator provides a heuristic for attendees to clarify their own conception, implementation, …
Evidence-Based Reflective Practice to Help Engineering At-Risk Students in Supplementary Lesson Context
This paper documents the author’s application of reflective practice to enhance quality teaching, in a supplementary lesson context at Singapore Polytechnic (SP). Conceive-Design-Implement-Operate educational framework standards were implemented in active teaching and learning methods as well as enhancement of faculty teaching competence, via evidence-based reflective practice (EBRP). To help engineering at-risk students to pass their …
Chinese Preschool Educators’ Language Use for Meaning Making During Shared Reading with Wordless and Text-based Picture Books
This study analyzed Chinese preschool educators’ language use for meaning making that were differed in shared reading with wordless and text-based picture books with the same topic of Aesop’s fable story (The lion and the mouse). We transcribed the verbal interactions of two cohorts of educators who read the books to preschool children. One cohort …
Challenges of Implementing Social Justice in University Classroom
The purpose of this study was to explore the challenges that university teachers face while implementing social justice in their classrooms. It also examined teachers’ conceptions regarding social justice teaching. Implementation of social justice in stereotypical classrooms is a task that needs examination at both the micro and macro scales. This study pursued to find …
Experiences and Pedagogical Reflections on Virtual Teaching Practice in Mexico
Digital platforms help us establish sociocultural and educational communication with the ethical other. They have facilitated pedagogical follow-up for our students during the pandemic period through the intermediation of the digital interface and the emerging pedagogical mediation of students’ parents. With the purpose of acquiring data regarding the everyday experiences of teachers during the COVID-19 …
Research Supervision During COVID-19: A Comparison Between Supervisors’ and Supervisees’ Experiences
The COVID-19 pandemic shaped teaching, learning, and research activities and imposed an urgent online transition. Technology was extensively used to facilitate research and mentoring purposes, including research supervision. The importance of this research project stems from the need to explore the experiences of research students and research supervisors during the pandemic to assess the way …
Efficiency in Learning Computer Programming Through Blended Learning Methods
The COVID-19 pandemic has shifted the way education is delivered, leading to a widespread adoption of online learning methods. Online education has adopted many methods of learning, such as synchronous, where teaching is present during instruction, and asynchronous, where pre-recorded video learning is provided for students. In addition, there is also blended learning, where both …
Influencing Learner Interest With Authentic Materials in a Tertiary CLIL Context
Authentic materials are an extremely valuable tool for instruction particularly in Content Language Intergraded Instruction (CLIL) contexts but often instructors shy away from using these materials, citing the linguistic difficulty for students. This presentation will discuss a mixed methods research project focusing on the effect on learner interest (LI) with the incorporation of English authentic …
Towards Creating a Transformative Arabic Language Classroom: A Pedagogical Model
Language learning is interrelated with learners’ identities (Temples, 2010; He, 2010). However, research that explores Arabic teachers’ innovative identity-targeted pedagogic practices in creating transformative Arabic classrooms is limited. This qualitative study draws upon the field of Positive Futures (Kraft, 2022) where positive perceptions of the future enrich students’ learning outcomes and asks: what pedagogic innovations …
Controlling the Level of Anxiety in L2 Presentation Performance: Case Study of EFL Students in Japan
The main objective of this research is to investigate the impact of pedagogical techniques involving L1 on reducing anxiety in L2 presentation performances among Japanese university students learning English as a foreign language (EFL). In our English presentation class, seventeen EFL students gave a short presentation in English based on homework in which they write …
Enhancing Student Learning Outcomes in Educational Measurement and Evaluation: Integrating Blended Learning Approaches and Concept-Based Instruction
The development of student learning outcome should possess effective learning experience in which the directly effective approaches. This study investigates how blended learning approaches and concept-based instruction affect to students’ educational measurement and evaluation capability. The research method is deemed as one-group pretest-posttest experimental design which a treatment is implemented into group of college students …
Getting Ready for F2f Learning: Teaching Factory in the Fashion Design Program
This study investigates the implementation of teaching factory learning at SMKN 1 Bancak in Semarang Regency, Indonesia, for the 2021/2022 academic year. The research utilizes a qualitative methodology, including observations and interviews with vice principals and teachers to gather primary data. The study aims to assess the readiness of SMKN 1 Bancak in implementing teaching …
Teaching Science in Remote Schools: The Struggles and Successes of Teachers From the Perspective of an Ethnographer
The remote population in Ghana has been on the increase in the last decade with the number of males being slightly higher compared to females. This affected the share of educational resources as the remote schools were disadvantaged in human and material resources. However, the basic schools in the remote communities had their students in …
Inspirational Curriculum Innovation: 21st Century Teachers Leading the Way – Teaching in Aotearoa New Zealand
The rapid advancements of education in the 2Ist century makes the value of innovation a priority and an integral part of teacher education. Eclectic teaching practices and the changing role of the teacher, signal the need for innovative approaches to curriculum development. In Aotearoa New Zealand early childhood teachers lead the way as innovators within …
A Design Project Aimed to Promote Social Change: From the Classroom to the Community
This study reports on pedagogical practice carried out in an academic context with undergraduate students from the 1st year of Communication Design at Lusófona University of Porto (ULP) in the first semester of 2021/22. A collaboration project with Pedro Hispano Hospital (PHH). Students were invited to design posters integrated into The Organization for Economic Cooperation …
Teaching and Learning Process and Information and Communication Technologies From the Remote Perspective
This article reports the experience of the pedagogical consultants responsible for the curriculum development of Senac São Paulo courses when facing the emergency need to maintain the pedagogical process in their schools in the face of the Covid 19 pandemic. The urgent adjustment to distance education resulted in the improvement of the process and the …
Teaching and Learning in COVID-19 Situation: The Design of an Online Pedagogical Seminar Course
This study examined the effectiveness of an assessment approach that focuses on three aspects of presentation (content, presentation skills, and answering) in a seminar course. The research also investigated the relationship between presentation and student development, specifically regarding communication skills, teamwork, public speaking, and problem-solving abilities. The study also aimed to determine the feasibility of …
Designing a Couse for Building Effective Pre-writing Skills of Academic Thesis
Today, the number of Japanese universities has decreased to less than 70%, requiring students to write a senior thesis as part of the graduation requirements (Kawaijuku, 2017). It may result from the weak motivation toward writing that Japanese students have. That might be because not a small number of students perceive writing a senior thesis …
The Study Conceptual of Professional Learning Community and Teacher’s Practice in School in Thailand
The research aims to study the concept of the teacher professional learning community and the practice of using the teacher professional learning community process. This research collects data from 360 teachers by using online questionnaires. Questionnaires consist of multiple choices about general information, the concept of teacher professional learning community, and rating scale questions about …
Investigating Pre-service Secondary Mathematics Teachers’ Mathematics Proficiency and Critical Citizenship in the Design of Social-Issue-Themed Mathematics Online Lessons
Conditions that recently threatened the breakdown of social order led the authors to question the role of mathematics in addressing these conditions. In the light of these conditions, this study aimed to explore the tension between the need for pre-service secondary mathematics teachers (PSMTs) to be mathematically proficient and society’s expectations of them to develop …
Surviving Distance Learning Calculus: Students’ Perspective, Practices, Experience and Performance on a Modular Instruction Class
The absence of in-person classes due to COVID-19 compelled the teacher-researcher to deviate from the traditional face-to face class and lecture instruction delivery. This cycle 2 of an action research study using the Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) model determined the students’ perspective, practices, and performance on a fully modular calculus class. Survey questionnaires, reflective journals, and focus …
Higher Education Beyond COVID-19 Pandemic: Students’ Perspectives on Design Thinking: A Q-methodology Study
The purpose of this study is to examine and categorize the epistemological views of college students and correlate and group those who share similar patterns of views regarding the use of Design Thinking (DT) in their Philosophy course at De La Salle–College of Saint Benilde, Philippines. Q-Methodology which is a mixed research method was used …
The Faceless Learners, the Perplexed Instructors, and the Dilemma of Webcams: A Survey of Instructors at Two Bahraini Universities
After more than two years of teaching remotely in an emergency mode due to the Covid-19 pandemic (between March 2020 and October 2022), the interaction between university students and instructors in Bahrain has shifted tremendously due to the lack of social, visual, and physical presence associated with the more traditional face-to-face teaching practice. This paper …
Designing the Support Framework for New Students in the Postgraduate Module “Open and Distance Education: Theory, Institutions and Operations” at the Open University
Student support has been at the core of the research interests of the practitioners and the organizations that provide distance learning services since the very beginning. Besides their individual needs and capabilities, distance learning students have specific common characteristics that are linked to the context in which they study, which differs from the traditional way …
A Comparative Analysis of Flexible Learning and Performance in Computer Programming Course
Learning computer programming entails conceptual and imperative knowledge. Learning difficulties often arise when novice learners apply conceptual knowledge to practice to gain imperative skills. In the post-pandemic era, learners at all levels suffered as learning overturned from fully online to hybrid learning. Lecture recording, live classes, online game-based tools, social and digital media, and collaborative …
Campus Resilience: Educational Strategies to Elucidate Impact Factors and Implement Recommended Recovery Methods in Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic
Through utilizing diverse methods, education provides a unique path both to discovering the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and recommending recovery methods. During 2021-2022, we implemented a variety of educational opportunities – including special topics and directed studies courses, campus-wide presentations, and extracurricular activities – toward this end. Initially, we offered a special topics course …
Instructors’ Perceptions of the Opportunities and Challenges of Integrating Technology in Crisis-prompted Online Language Instruction in the Times of Covid-19
This mixed-method study investigated higher education language instructors’ experiences during the pivot from face-to-face teaching to online teaching during the stay-at-home order in the Spring of 2020. Eleven participants discussed their approach to teaching online for the first time. The present study provided a comprehensive view of language instructors’ use of technology, their experiences, challenges, …
The Effects of Instructional Scaffolding in Students’ Conceptual Understanding, Proving Skills, Attitudes, and Perceptions Towards Direct Proofs of Integers
Students find mathematical proving a challenging task and often perform poorly in proving despite its importance in developing students’ critical thinking and reasoning skills. The purpose of the study is to determine if instructional scaffolding can improve students’ conceptual understanding, proving skills, and attitudes and perceptions towards proving. The instructional scaffolding strategies used were providing …
Impact of Teacher Beliefs on Planning ESL Reading Lessons
The challenges brought about by the pandemic have reaffirmed that individuals’ beliefs are integral to humans, as they help orient and interpret our social and personal experiences. Similarly, teacher beliefs towards education are shown to be an ever more important factor in shaping frontline practitioners’ teaching practices. In the Chinese classroom, however, teacher beliefs and …
A Model for Using Data and Differentiated Instructional Strategies to Support Students’ Learning Needs
Learning Analytics is an important area in education, with limited evidence that it improves student outcomes and supports learning and teaching needs (Viberg et. al, 2018). In a creative school, the use of data to understand students’ needs is even less straightforward because many of our learning goals are more subjective and not as easily …
L1 Use in the L2 Classroom: A University Instructor’s Perceptions of His Language Choices
First language (L1) use in English as a foreign language (EFL) classrooms has been researched for over three decades. Scholars have studied classroom L1 use from different perspectives, for example, the functions of teachers’ L1 use (Sert, 2005; Forman, 2016) and its pedagogical effects (Lee & Macaro, 2013; Lee & Levine, 2020). Although English-only policies …
Effectiveness of Modified Individual Learning Monitoring Plan on Science Achievement and Student Engagement Among the Grade 11 Academically Challenged Learners
Monitoring student’s progress is one of the key roles of a teacher because the goal of education is the academic achievement of the learners. With this, the researcher devised a modified individual learning monitoring plan patterned to that of the DepEd to assess its effectiveness in student engagement and academic achievement among the Grade 11 …
Make the World a Better Place: Design Skills in an Academic Context
This article aims to present a pedagogical practice carried out in an academic context with undergraduate students from the 2nd year of the Communication Design course at Lusófona University (UL) in the second semester of 2021/22. A proposal that provides continuity to a project developed in the 1st semester in partnership with this NGO. A …
The Dichotomy Between Final Year Undergraduate New Zealand Nursing Students’ Reports of Learning and Their Practice Intentions in Aged Residential Care: Challenges and Surprises
The aged healthcare sector internationally is facing a crisis in attracting and retaining a nurse workforce. Alongside the global rise in longevity, the sector is experiencing an increasing demand on their services. Yet undergraduate nursing students are often reluctant to consider aged residential care (ARC) with perceptions that a lack of opportunities, compared to hospital …
Learning Beyond Teachers’ Lesson Plans – Implementing the Ignorance-driven Teaching and Learning Model in College Classes
Knowledge and non-knowledge, or ignorance, seemingly antithetical, are actually symbiotic. In essence, knowing is about learning about (what is), learning from (what causes and what is the consequence of), learning with (how to deepen learning with the better exploration of), and learning for (how to pursue a greater) ignorance. That is, ignorance sets off, drives, …
Addressing the Shortage of ESL/EFL Teachers Amid the Pandemic: An Investigation Into Teacher Burnout in a Profit-Driven Context
The conundrum of ESL/EFL shortage has been exacerbated due to the Covid-19 outbreak as many Vietnamese public schools have undergone an alarming spike in teacher turnover rates. One of the influencing factors of teachers’ decision to leave their profession has been reported to be being drained from work. Very little, however, is known about the …
EFL Teachers’ Experiences and Attitudes to Emergency Remote Teaching at Japanese Universities
In 2020 teachers worldwide faced an unprecedented situation in the form of the COVID-19 pandemic. In Japan, this forced educators to quickly adapt face-to-face programs to online ones as the new academic year started in April 2020. Although Japan is a technology rich society, the use of technology in education had been limited up until …
Common Pronunciation Mistakes in English for Students From South-East Asia Influenced by Their First Foreign Language
The opportunity to study English language in the country of its origin is a privilege not available to everyone. Thus many students choose to learn English in a non-native environment alongside another foreign language. This article is a part of a big research dedicated to the process of adaptation of the students from the countries …
Investigating the Impact on Learner Interest With the Incorporation of Active Learning Activities in a Tertiary CLIL Context
This interactive presentation will discuss the benefits and time-saving nature of the inclusion of Active learning(AL) techniques emphasizing the positive effect on learner interest (LI) in Japanese tertiary Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) oriented classes. This presentation will offer a brief background into the concept of AL as a methodology for instruction as well …
Physical 3D Model Teaching and Learning Kits for CMOS Integrated Circuits Physical Implementation Lesson
There is a popular call for CMOS (complementary metal oxide semiconductor) ICs (integrated circuits) design courses recently due to the global competition in IC chips. In PCB (printed circuit board) design, the layout, the circuits, interconnect routing etc. can be clearly visualized. However, this is not the case for ICs chips design, where all the …
Developing a Framework for Using Online Feedback on Teaching Effectiveness to Improve Student Learning
Student feedback on teaching is typically received from formal end-of-course evaluations with the purpose of giving insights into the effectiveness of a lecturer’s teaching. However, such evaluations are usually summative, and the timing of their administration restricts any teaching adjustments that could have been done earlier in the course. This study investigated the development of …
Teachers’ Readiness, Teaching and Research Competence in the New Normal: Implications to Educational Policy
This descriptive-correlation research was conducted to determine the levels of readiness, teaching and research competence of teachers in the Schools Division of Iloilo as they adapt to the new normal. There were 380 public secondary junior and senior high school teachers who were surveyed using an adapted and modified questionnaire. They were categorized into age, …
Challenges Encountered by Non-araling Panlipunan Teachers Teaching Araling Panlipunan Department of Education General Santos City, Philippines: Basis for Capability Building
This study intended to describe the challenges encountered by Non-Araling Panlipunan teachers Teaching Araling Panlipunan (AP). It sought to identify the coping mechanism, interventions and identify capability building programs as a solution to the problems. The study employed qualitative phenomenological research to examine individual life experiences of Non-Araling Panlipunan Teachers who have specialization-workload mismatch. Key …
Blended Professional Learning Community Sessions on Action Research
Action Research (AR) has shown a significant contribution toward improving teacher practice. Challenges in its conduct have led to teachers’ struggle in completing such projects. Professional Learning Communities (PLC) had created an improvement in participatory transformation in teaching through collaborative learner-centered solution-making. Thus, the Action Research Professional Learning Community named “SAHA” was formed to address …
Catch Them in Situ: Exploring Pre-service Science Teachers’ Understanding of Indigenous Knowledge Integration in a South African University
Higher education institutions in South Africa are in the midst of a student-driven revolution of curriculum decolonisation through the introduction of indigenous knowledge (IK) in higher education. This design-based qualitative study used individual and group interviews to explore the understandings and experience of pre-service Life Science teachers regarding IK integration during their training and their …
Koto-tsukuri: Education at the Interface
The move to online was a serious disruptor. We reflect here on almost three years of fully online educational work at university level in a science-based curriculum in Japan. Presented as a workshop at the conference, participants experienced a real-time deployment of a class management system put together with low-code tools. Initial setup was to …
Learning From Events
What can be learned from the successful production of large-scale real-world arts events that is useful in the classroom? Through practical examples, this paper attempts to make some connections. We start with a short story of how the same software came to be used to deliver university-level classes on AI and also co-ordinate the international …
Dancing With Digital Tools: Discourses on Teaching and Learning in School-Age Educare in Sweden
Internationally, there is a growing interest in School-Age Educare and the meaning of aesthetic aspects of teaching and learning in educational settings. Even if dancing is beneficial for human wellbeing and can be understood as both a physical activity as well as an aesthetic expression there are few studies that examine dance in School-Age Educare. …
Problems Encountered by Teachers During Online Learning at the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Catanduanes State University Experience
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, like other universities worldwide, the Catanduanes State University (CATSU), the lone state university in the island-province of Catanduanes in the Philippines, was forced to implement online and modular learning in order to be able to deliver instruction to tertiary level students. Thirty (30) out of the 235 regular …
Graduate School: Next Level Asynchronous Engagement Using 15-minute Snippets
Through reviewing this presentation, faculty can learn how to take video utilization in the online classroom to the next level. Dr Dulce Ruelas and Professor Danielle Henderson created “Public Health Snippets”, a YouTube Channel with short videos (in 15 min snippets or less) that are used as an instructional strategy to increase public health student …
Digital Traffic Flow in Undergraduate Engineering Course Sites Before and During Covid-19
In this work the author examines how the digital traffic flow has changed during the past 10 years in undergraduate Engineering course sites, relating to both lec-turer announcements and student’s queries. The assumption is that students in 1st and 2nd year tend to ask more questions than students in their 3rd or 4th year and …
Pert Analytic Effect of Psycho-Demographic Factors as Determinants of Secondary School Teacher Effectiveness in South-West, Nigeria
Teacher effectiveness is a critical factor in the teaching and learning process as it facilitates academic achievement and socially desirable behaviours of students. Extant studies have shown that secondary school teachers in the South-West Nigeria have low teacher effectiveness. Previous studies have focus largely on teacher’s personality, self-esteem, self- efficacy, work experience, job satisfaction, age …
Dare to Imagine: Creative Scaffolding for Transformative Teachers’ Praxis
The purpose of the proposed paper is to generate the discussion of teachers’ learning as transformative praxis that leads to the development of teachers’ commitment to social change. In this interdisciplinary qualitative study such learning is conceptualized as a sequence of socially constructed and culturally mediated joint learning activities. Scaffolded with the mastery of such …
Giang Hoanga Contextual Teaching and Learning Approach in Understanding the Life and Works of Dr Jose Rizal: An Advocate of Internationalization
Republic Act 1425, mandates all Philippine schools to offer the course on Rizal’s life and works. The study aimed to determine the impact of learning activities and REACT strategies in understanding the life and works of Rizal. The importance of the study is to stir a profound appreciation of the life and works of the …
Every Teacher Is Special: Stories of Heroism
Teachers are modern-day heroes contributing to the development of every child. This study primarily aimed to recognize and value the heroism of SPED teachers through real-life success stories of individuals with developmental delays who underwent the Community- based Early Intervention Program (CBEIP). The study followed a descriptive research design that targeted five participants who were …
Perspective Convergence of HIPs, Moments, and Active Learning in Construction Management Education: Comparing and Combining Findings From Multiple Research Projects
High-Impact Educational Practices (HIPs), the importance of memorable experiences throughout one’s education, and active learning seek to magnify the student experience. The convergence of these strategies, known as Transformational Active Learning Experiences (TALEs), has importance to the student-centered educational experience in higher education. Four recent studies in construction management education have yielded separate and distinct …
Teacher Candidates’ Perspectives on Teacher Education Instruction: Online vs. Face-to-Face Modalities
COVID-19 ushered in a forced time of online instruction for many universities across the United States. As such, faculty had to quickly adapt their pedagogy in order to provide students with quality instruction in this new mandated virtual environment. At the researcher’s institution, post COVID students increasingly desire more choices in learning modalities. The researcher …
Using Multiple Representations to Teach Energy– An Alternative Conceptual Approach
Energy is a principal concept in the learning of Physics, yet it is a concept that students found abstract and challenging to grasp, especially the key ideas of Transfer, Transform and Conservation. This paper proposes that a multiple representation approach in the teaching and learning of this topic helps support and deepen students’ learning of …
The Lived Online Education Experiences and the E-Competencies of the Teacher Education Institutions
The sudden shift into online education has greatly affected the Teacher Education Institutions (TEIs) since they were forced to move to the virtual classroom without preparations. Thus, using concurrent nested mixed-method research, this study investigated the lived experiences of 59 teachers of the 4 TEIs in their conduct of online learning. An open-ended questionnaire was …
Technology in Education: Toward a New Student-Centered Approach
Technology has a powerful influence on a variety of disciplines, including education. It is affecting our everyday lives at an increasing rate; thus, educators have been attempting to modernize the teaching and learning process using contemporary technology tools. Since learners need to demonstrate knowledge and skills in their disciplines in an Artificial Intelligence (AI) world, …
Reform and Practice of Project-Based Teaching Mode of Visual Communication Design Course in the Context of Application Transformation
Project-based learning, as a crucial component of the training objectives of applied undergraduate visual communication design talents, is the backbone and key to enhancing students’ employability in light of the transformation and upgrading of the industrial structure of national and local economies. This article suggests reform strategies by interpreting the national strategy on “application transformation” …
Students’ Perspectives of Attendance Taking and Student-Teacher Communication Via the ARS During the First Year of Emergency Remote Teaching
The move to emergency remote teaching (ERT) in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic forced instructors to seek ways of providing their course content remotely. It also compelled them to consider how they might carry out their standard non-content-related classroom practices of taking attendance and creating and maintaining student-teacher communication channels while distanced from students. …
A Structural Equation Model of Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK), School Culture and ICT Literacy on the Technostress of Science Teachers
Teachers’ Information and Communication Technology (ICT) literacy skills in employing teaching-learning modalities opened new avenues for making the teaching and learning process more dynamic and engaging. This study developed a model of TPACK, School Culture, and ICT Literacy Skills on Technostress of Science Teachersin secondary schools of Bukidnon Divisions in the School Year 2021-2022. The …
Job Satisfaction of Special Education Teachers of La Union, Philippines in the New Normal
The shift from traditional classrooms to the use of different learning modalities transformed the 21st century educational landscape during the new normal. Situating education at a different setting poses a challenge on the job satisfaction of teachers more so in special education where SPED teachers elaborate guidance and specialized skills are matched to the specific …
Effects of Reflection-Oriented Inquiry Instruction on Grade 9 Students’ Understanding on the Nature of Science
This study aimed to investigate the effects of reflection-oriented inquiry instruction on Grade 9 students’ understanding on the Nature of Science (NOS) specifically on the aspects of observation and inference, and imagination and creativity. The study employed quasi-experimental research design with pretest-posttest control group design. The participants of the study involved two intact sections of …
Retracing, Reimagining and Reconciling Our Roots in Social Work Education
This paper contributes to discussion regarding creative and arts-based research methods for researchers interested in pedagogies aiming for more meaningful engagement with decolonization and Indigenous reconciliation in graduate/undergraduate education of social workers in postsecondary university settings. We share our research and pedagogical process from SSHRC funded research carried out in a recent postsecondary course. We …
Zombie Transformable SafeHouse: Engaging in Contextual Sustainability
The importance of sustainability and its integration in built environment design is critical as we experience dramatic changes in climate every year. Strategies toward sustainability vary on a micro and macro scale. It is one of the challenges for educators to draw alertness and serious state of the environmental problems to the curriculum in a …
Online Classes: Does Increased Familiarity With the Mode of Teaching Actually Lead to Improved Learner Performance?
Although the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a tremendous expansion in the provision of online education, especially at the tertiary level, it was a sector that was already growing pre-2019. Research from both before and after the outbreak of the coronavirus has tended to compare student satisfaction levels or results in terms of performance for …
Taking Risks: Learning to Teach Musical Instruments During the Pandemic and Beyond
The pandemic crisis has had a significant impact on musical education worldwide. Although virtual instrumental education has existed for quite a while, it was generally considered a substitute for in-person instruction pre-pandemic. Many teachers, students and parents regarded in-person instrumental instruction as the optimal format for transferring performance techniques and cultivating musicality given that much …
Learning Analytics Through Video Analytics and Wearable Sensors
It is important to monitor the students’ attention level during lesson to encourage their engagement in participating the learning activities. The main purpose of this study it to carry out action research for real-time learning analytics aiming to improve the teaching and learning for on-site lessons. The methodology includes the learning activities, collecting only the …
Study of the Attitudes and Manifestations of Non-Standardness of Primary Teachers in the Educational Environment
Non-standardness is a specific personality construct that manifests itself both in the intellectual-creative and behavioral sphere of personality. Non-standardity is regarded as human potential, which has different degrees of manifestation or even varies as a substance. Therefore, non-standardness does not develop, but can only be stimulated. The subject to developmen are the skills for non-standard …
Fostering the Entrepreneurial Mindset of Students Through Pioneering Teaching Pedagogies: An Empirical Study on a B-School
Recent studies have shown the importance of entrepreneurship on the economy of a country. Universities and Educational institutions play a vital role in nurturing students. The study focuses on the impact of innovative teaching pedagogies such as TAP (Teaching, Application and Practice) on the entrepreneurial mindset of students. The mindset of the students was measured …
Academic Adaptation and Stress Associated With University Life: Insights From First-Year Students
University attrition rate is increasing around the world and there is a consequence for the student who is dropping out, the university, and society as a whole including costs, psychological issues associated with the perceived feeling of failure, and issues around employability and job satisfaction (Sosu & Pheunpha, 2019). The university attrition rate is increasing …
Effects of Concept Scaffolding Teaching Approach on Grade 7 Students’ Conceptual Understanding and Problem Solving Performance in Mathematics
Teachers must encourage their students to embrace mathematics and study it as simple as possible because majority of the students consider mathematics as one of the difficult subjects. This study aimed to investigate how the conceptual understanding and problem- solving performance of the students in mathematics were affected by the concept scaffolding teaching approach on …
Teachers’ Readiness Assessment on Teaching HIV/AIDS Preventive Education to Senior High School Students – Philippines
The Department of Health (DOH) reported that HIV/AIDS cases among adolescents aged 15- 21 in the Philippines are rapidly increasing. In this correspondence, the Department of Education (DepEd) has joined forces with the DOH and the Commission on Population and Development (POPCOM) to launch a government-wide response to reproductive and healthcare-related issues among the youth, …
Docs in EAP Courses: Investigating and Promoting Collaborative Writing Experience
Currently, technologies are widely used in education as they are important for assisting language teaching and learning. There are several technologies that can be integrated into language learning and teaching to improve students’ writing skills. Google Docs is a tool that allows students to work collaboratively and develop their skills. Various studies have been done …
Promoting Teacher Confidence With Technology Through Risk Taking and Organisational Changes: A Welsh Perspective
There is no doubt that technology is a powerful pedagogical tool, playing an important role in learning within and outside of the curriculum at varying levels of education. In Wales, the recent curriculum changes, and the emergence of the Digital Competence Framework (DCF) means that primary and secondary schools and teachers across are now responsible …
Can Blended Learning Replace Face-to-Face Teaching in Machine-Knitting Courses?
Over the past two years, the COVID-19 pandemic has made unprecedented impacts on teaching and learning (T&L). In tertiary education, face-to-face classes were replaced by online teaching, while most of the hands-on classes and practicums were suspended. The transition was challenging yet it gave us a chance to rethink about the pedagogy and T&L direction …
Fish Out of Water: An Analysis of the Practicum Experiences of Student Teachers
Teaching practicum is an important aspect of any teacher education program. This qualitative study sought to analyze student teachers’ (STs) experiences during their teaching practicum. Specifically, it aimed to describe their triumphs and struggles concerning the different aspects of an ST’s life. Purposive sampling was used in selecting 12 batches of STs from a teacher …
COIL, COILer, COILing: English Language Learners Participating in Collaborative Online International Learning
This practitioner research in education paper is based on the experiences of two English language educators taking part in a collaborative online international learning project, otherwise known as COIL. Synchronous and asynchronous teaching methods were used for English language learners to meet and work with students from other countries. The collaboration took place virtually between …
COIL, COILer, COILing: English Language Learners Participating in Collaborative Online International Learning
This presentation of practitioner research in education is based on the experiences of an English language teacher taking part for the first time in a collaborative online international learning project, otherwise known as COIL. Synchronous and asynchronous teaching methods were used for English language learners to meet and work with students from other countries. The …
Does Effort Payoff in Learning? Statistical Analysis on Statistics e-Learning Experience Outcome
Due to COVID-19 and safe-distancing measures in Singapore, most of the university classes have been moved to online for the past 2 years. With the change, we have provided two channels to facilitate students learning experiences – the online class participation and a non-compulsory e-learning activity. The online class participation involves students’ effort in presenting …
Teachers’ Perspectives on Digital Technologies and Educational Practices: Challenges and Resilience in a Brazilian Public Educational Context
The current paper aims to present and discuss some of the results obtained between May 2020 and December 2021 by the coordinator of the inter-institutional project “Digital Technologies, Society and Culture: educational interfaces from the literacies studies perspective”. The data shows teachers’ accounts on their own working contexts and praxis with digital technologies which were …
Teaching Undergraduate Research Writing: A Systematic Literature Review
In the Philippines, finishing a thesis is one of the prerequisites before graduating. Due to its significance, the teaching of research writing is a concern among teachers. They need to implement effective strategies and processes for students to write a good research paper. With numerous research articles on teaching research writing, there is a need …
High Impact Practices & Transformative Learning Experiences of a Mentor-led, Field-based, Cohort Model for Teacher Preparation
High Impact Practices (HIPs) are intentionally designed transformative learning experiences (Kuh, 2008). These hands-on, collaborative, practices are considered “high impact” because they promote student persistence and they hold the power to change lives. This presentation will: a) describe the university-wide institutionalization of transformative experiences (GC Journeys); b) highlight the unique dimensions of a mentor-led, field-based …
Teaching in Times of Crisis – What Have We Learned (So Far)?
Coronavirus disease has made an enormous impact on many fields of functioning, including the educational system. This impact was pronounced in higher educational system and accelerated the transition toward remote learning strategies in medical education, leading from traditional to online education during crisis. The aim of this article is to review the body of literature …
How Did Students, Teachers, and School Management Perceive Effectiveness of Virtual Flipped Classrooms in Hong Kong Secondary Schools?
Funded by The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust, two Hong Kong universities carried out the Jockey Club “Flipped Learning” Pilot Project and recruited 15 secondary schools as partner schools during the pandemic. These schools adopted the virtual flipped classroom approach in English Language and Mathematics classes at the junior secondary level (i.e., Secondary 1-3) …
International Collaboration in Higher Education: A Reflection of Student and Lecturer Experiences
The influence of international collaboration opportunities on student and lecturer experience in higher education is unmistakable. Not only do international collaboration projects provide the opportunity for internalisation, the improvement of cultural sensitivity and understanding, as well as problem-solving in culturally diverse teams, it also provides a reflection opportunity for lecturers on current lecturer teaching practices …
Exploring a Standardized Training Framework That Provides Individualized Student Experiences
Since modern workplaces and universities are becoming increasingly diverse, there is mounting pressure for universities to provide intercultural competency training for students. Various approaches for teaching intercultural competencies exist and are reliant on intercultural experts. Not all universities can provide intercultural experts to deliver training internally. Meanwhile, outsourcing to external trainings may not adequately address …
Using a 3CAPs Conceptual Framework to Explore Hong Kong Kindergarten Teachers’ Perceptions About Visual Arts Education
In the past decades, the visual arts in early childhood education were dominated by conventional approaches to shaping children’s artistic output. Craft making formed the major content of visual arts activities in kindergartens, and teachers relied on product-oriented instructions to deliver visual arts teaching to young children. However, there was a revision of the Hong …
Multimodal Learning
According to Bouchey et al. (2021) global digitalization has dramatically changed the way we learn. These authors claim that digitalization poses a challenge for teaching and learning in 3 ways: The first one is an abundance, or over-abundance of information provided in several forms: audios, videos, texts and multimedia. They state that these new forms …
The Impact of the COVID-19 on Teachers’ Sense of Efficacy and Their Attitudes Towards Online Learning
Teachers’ sense of efficacy has been pinpointed in a rich array of recent studies to determine the teachers’ readiness and success in adapting themselves to online teaching during the abrupt school closure amid the Pandemic. With attempts to ensure the quality of teaching and learning, acknowledgement of teachers’ self-efficacy and attitude towards the new form …
Challenges and Potentialities of Using ICT in Initial Teacher Education: A Comparative Study With Students From Portugal and Spain
The use of digital technologies in a conscious, critical and creative way is one of the challenges proposed in initial teacher training, since we are witnessing a time of change that requires the preparation of future teachers for the 21st century. This article is part of the IFITIC Project which aims to rethink educational practice …
The Freirean Legacy in Innovative Educational Practices: Maker Culture, Active Methodologies, Digital Technologies and Transdisciplinarity
Currently, the challenges of contemporaneity impose a new social contract for a fairer, more democratic and inclusive society. This idea implies a new vision of education and, consequently, a re(think) and innovation of school curricular practices with the purpose of contributing to the education of all citizens in this new era. In this context, we …
(Re)framing Outdoor Play: ‘Snakes, Scorpions and Sand …oh My’
This paper is situated within the expanding body of research in Early Childhood Education (ECE), that suggests a shift away from dominant romanticized discourses of developmentalist theories of early childhood learning about the natural world. Turning to posthumanism, we work with ECE teachers, pedagogy and culture to explore the ‘desert school’ encounters within the non-human, …
Effectiveness of Bite-Sized Learning for Organisations: The Certis Continuing Professional Development Case Study
Bite-sized learning has been touted to be the next best thing for Learning & Development professionals in large organisations. With access to digital devices and digital apps, and with adult learners becoming more savvy and less interested in long durations of courses or learning programs due to falling attention spans (Clark, et. al.), bite-sized lunch …
Teaching Real-Time Programming for Embedded Microcontrollers by Using Cloud-Based Simulator
In “normal” times, students of electronic department enrolled in the course “Real-Time Digital Signals Processing” (RT-DSP) use real hardware – dedicated development boards containing microcontrollers and additional electronic components, and dedicated software (installed on the personal computer) to program those development boards. However, because of COVID 19 limitations, the distribution of development boards and dedicated …
Practical Teaching in Times of a Pandemic
This communication seeks to reflect on teaching, particularly graphic design in a time of pandemic (covid-19). The challenges that were unexpectedly posed to teachers, who were forced to change the way of teaching from face-to-face to virtual from one moment to the next. The facilities and difficulties that both, the teacher and the students, felt …
Fundamentals of Arnis Self-learning Module: Experts’ Validation and Learners’ Feedback
Arnis is a national sport, and learning about it is an excellent way to foster patriotism among students and teachers. Further, Arnis should remain an essential subject/lesson taught among Filipino learners despite the pandemic. The study examined how experts validated the researcher-made Arnis module and how learners could use and provide feedback successfully. The study …
The Emergence and Nature of Student-generated Questions in Virtual and Face-to-Face Secondary Science Classes
Questioning is a crucial part of scientific inquiry and meaningful learning of science. Questions asked by students help them to fill the gaps or discrepancies in knowledge, build better understanding, and direct their learning. They also indicate the learner’s curiosity and deep thinking about presented scientific concepts. Student questioning has been found crucial in problem-solving, …
Remote Experiment for Electrical Engineering
Handson experience is mandatory for engineering courses such as electrical power system, and power electronics. However, the laboratory is not accessible during lock-down period. In such case, remote experiment setup is required. This work shares a laboratory setup is assisting the remote experiment for electrical engineering instructors and students. The setup involves electrical training equipment, …
Cultivating Kindness among Preschoolers: Student-Centered Instructional Modules for Teachers
The preschool period is a significant stage of self-construction in a child’s life. This is the time when they make sense of the world and things around them. Hence, it is essential that at this point, prosocial character traits and behaviors must be instilled in them. Kindness is one of the most important human attributes …
Crisis as Opportunity to Try Something New: Student-centered Pedagogy During the Onset of COVID-19
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Spring of 2020 forced a sudden and unexpected disruption of the usual modes of schooling around the world. In the United States, lack of federal, state and district leadership left most teachers to negotiate the chaotic early months of the pandemic on their own. This study examined …
Foster Critical Thinking Skills through Movies and Multimedia
The purpose of this presentation is to illustrate how to foster students’ critical thinking skills by adopting multimedia and film in the classroom. In the current practice of the learning and teaching paradigm of student-centered approach, creating an environment to promote the learners’ critical thinking abilities by actively engaging them in the processes of analysis, …
Empowering Learners: Online Radio Broadcasts to Enhance the Students’ Speaking Skills
The speaking skill is one of the most challenging skills to develop in the Content and Language Integrated Learning Classroom (CLIL) since it requires the student to have enough confidence and language proficiency to communicate their ideas and opinions about a topic effectively. Noticeably, students lack opportunities to talk in the classroom and use the …
Shared Leadership Education: The Experiences of Music Teachers in a Music School
In all levels of professional music education – music school, conservatory/art gymnasium, music academy, shared leadership is a new and little researched concept. Most of what is known in music education are that a teacher is the leader of education, who leads the education – prepares a program, marks fingers above notes, puts together dynamic …
Chat-Based Learning Management Assistant Hybrid Learning
The communication channel for distance learning has been evolved from physical mail, teleconferencing, and email. However, the current trend of the most common communication channel has shifted to online chat. It has replaced the email for most of the communication, and it is almost real-time as well as easily accessible. The work introduces a new …
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Mental Health and Professional Performance of Teachers
The COVID-19 pandemic is associated with highly significant levels of psychological distress that, in many cases, would meet the threshold for clinical relevance of helping professions – occupations in the fields of psychology, psychiatry, counseling, medicine, nursing, social work, physical and occupational therapy, teaching, and education. Mitigating the hazardous effects of COVID-19 on mental health …
A Model-Based Inquiry Activity Using LEGO to Promote System Thinking of Grade 11 Students on Buffer Solution Topic
System thinking in chemistry education aims to prepare future students who can relate the chemistry knowledge addressing real-world complex phenomenon and having more holistic perspectives. The system thinking skills are divided into three levels: (1) analysis of system, (2) synthesis of system, and (3) implementing knowledge to the real-world issue. In this study, a model-based …
Enhanced MELCs-based Curriculum in Reading and Writing Skills in a Blended Pedagogy
Due to COVID-19’s exponential spread, the world has coined the term “New Normal” as it continues to battle this pandemic. The realm of education has not also escaped from this change, so it adopted the “new normal” educational schemes. Blended learning is one of the modalities that schools adopt during this pandemic. Thus, this study …
The Effect of Praising and Mutual Trust on Student’s Learning
Research has proven that praising is always considered an effective strategic way to motivate students in the classroom, raise their self-esteem and promote their positive behavior (Floress, 2017; Allday, 2012). The literature defines two types of praise: general praise (GP) which is a general statement of approval, and behavior-specific praise (BSP) which describes a specific …
Concept Mapping Strategy to Improve Non-computer Science Students’ Learning Achievements in Logical Database Design
This study aims to investigate the effects of using concept mapping on student’s performance on logical database modeling and to examine their satisfaction towards the use of concept mapping strategy in the database design process. One hundred and two undergraduate students participated in the study. These students were assigned into three groups with three different …
Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and Its Incorporation Into Formal Education in Japan: An Explanatory Case Study
Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is vital to create sustainable societies. Successive governments in Japan have advocated the incorporation of ESD into its education system. This paper investigates teachers’ understandings of Sustainable Development (SD) and ESD and the extent to which ESD has been incorporated into lessons. The current work is an explanatory case study, …
Experiential Learning and Case Study Immersion to Develop Entrepreneurial Self-efficacy and Opportunity Recognition: Comparing the Pedagogical Impact Longitudinally
The ‘how’ of teaching method seems to vary in its effectiveness with ‘who’ the instructors, ‘what’ content it intends to deliver and for ‘whom’ the course is targeted for. As there has been critique on the lack of rigorous experimental design, we employed a longitudinal research design to examine the effectiveness of experiential learning and …