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Research Of Aptitude Cultivation About Education Technology On Elementary And Middle School Teachers—The Growth Of Reflective Teacher

Posted on:2011-07-28Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:C XuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2167330332961586Subject:Education Technology
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The cultivation and improvement about education technology on elementary and middle school teachers is the key factor in the success or failure of the new round of reform of basic education, to optimize the quality of classroom teaching and to improve teaching has some significance, is also a teacher professional development and information technology education in our country an important manifestation, especially is a necessary requirement for lifelong learning of teachers. It is undeniable that in recent years, through the educational technology training, the capacity and quality of their education technical has been the improvement in general, for instructional design, development and application of teaching resources have improved to some extent, however, it is discoveries that there is a gap from educational technology theory to teaching practice through surveys and interviews. Teacher reflection is the connecting bridge between theory and practice and the backbone of the advanced concepts and methods applied to classroom instruction. Teacher professional development is the process of self-reflection, the U.S. psychologist Posner (G. J. Posner) also gives the "Teacher Growth = experience + reflection" of the teacher development model.This article is from the perspective of the training "reflective teacher" that in the process of the cultivation of the educational technology capacity is the lack of the training in reflection on the ability of teachers and points out the factors of affecting teachers to reflective. By empirical studies it has shown that these factors and teacher reflection ability of the correlation factors are existed. Finally, according to these factors it is put forward the proposal that in the process of educational technology training how to train teachers the ability to reflect.The following is the research done:1.By consulting the core of educational technology journals,books,the sites about teacher educational technology skills and use of engine to find concept and characteristics, and the ability of teachers to reflect on the composition and impact of teachers the ability to reflect factors, which has laid a theoretical foundation for this study. 2. Through the access to information and with experts, interviews with teachers find out the study variables. Independent variable is reflective factors that affect teachers and the author proposes four factors - the quality of teachers in educational technology, achievement motivation, teaching efficacy and teachers experience, the dependent variable is the ability to reflect teachers. The ability to reflect teachers is composed of the teachers' capacity of teaching monitoring (teaching reflection) and the teachers' capacity of self-monitoring ability (self-reflection). This framework theoretical hypothesis of this study: each independent variable on each dependent variable has a significant effect. With these assumptions it is designed a questionnaire on teacher reflection ability-《Teachers the ability to reflect the questionnaire》. 3.Through the questionnaire data analyzed proposes the strategy the training capacity of teachers reflect in the educational technology training:(1) enhance the quality of teacher educational technology to promote teacher reflection.(2) Use a variety of ways and forms of training to advance the achievement motivation of teachers.(3) Guide teachers to self-correct attribution of conduct to improve efficacy of teachers.(4) Coordinate successful experience with the teachers to change the old perceptions.
Keywords/Search Tags:Cultivation about Education Technology on Elementary and Middle School Teachers, Reflection, Reflective Teacher
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