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Motivation of students to study Pre-school Teacher Training, for the teaching profession
TUPÁ, Jana
The bachelor's thesis deals with the topic of motivating students to study Kindergarten Teaching at the Faculty of Education in České Budějovice and preparing students for the profession of kindergarten teacher as part of preparatory education. The aim of the bachelor's thesis is to find out the students' motives for studying the given field of study. In the theoretical part, the basic terms related to the teaching profession are explained. The focus is on the concept of teacher, then it is devoted to the concept of motivation and types of motivation and the career path of a teacher, with which the concepts of professional vision and professional portfolio are also connected. The last chapter in this section is dedicated to the current research in the given area. The practical part presents the results of a research study carried out through essays focused on motivational factors among full-time students of the 1st year of Kindergarten Teaching.
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The pre-service chemistry teachers' professional vision development
Honskusová, Linda ; Rusek, Martin (advisor) ; Škoda, Jiří (referee) ; Pavlasová, Lenka (referee)
Teachers' ability to reflect on teaching is one of the essential attributes that enhance the quality of teaching. Therefore, it is necessary to focus on teachers' professional development and cultivate their professional vision (PV) over a long period of time. PV is an important set of discursive practices that enable one to see a meaningful event and is associated with selective attention and knowledge-based reasoning. This dissertation focuses on three main objectives: (1) to describe current findings on PV development in teachers and to select the means by which PV will be developed in prospective chemistry teachers, (2) to identify the PV skills of chemistry student teachers and the factors that influence its development, and (3) to suggest appropriate teaching innovations. In order to determine the degree of PV development of future chemistry teachers and the possibility of developing it through systematically guided reflections, students' input and output written reflections were analysed using a methodology based on Sherin and van Es (2009) and supplemented with information from a questionnaire of personally perceived teacher proficiency. Influencing factors were identified through semi- structured interviews. The research was conducted on three groups of Chemistry student teachers of the...
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Analysis of biology lessons focused on the professional vision a reflection of future teachers
Němečková, Linda ; Pavlasová, Lenka (advisor) ; Škoda, Jiří (referee) ; Čížková, Věra (referee)
Pedagogical practice is a substantial component in the education of future teachers, because during it, the specific knowledge that is important for the performance of the teaching profession are developed. This dissertation thesis is dedicated to professional vision and the ability to reflect by future biology teachers during their pedagogical practice. The thesis specifically deals with the analysis of individual reflections of students and observation interviews. The research is conducted using several studies. The first study was performed with the analysis of 130 written reflections taken before and also after individual watching video recordings of 65 students' own lessons. For the analysis of written reflections, the categorical system submitted by Sherin and van Es (2008) was used. For students doing their first practice at lower secondary school, a statistically significant shift across a wide range of professional vision categories was detected after watching a recording of their own lessons. This was unlike the students doing their second practice at upper secondary schools. Further analysis was carried out, and was aimed at deeper research into the nature of the evaluative statements. The analysis was conducted by 10 future teachers of biology and 40 written reflections were reviewed....
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"Twelve and Holding" - content analysis of student essays
Nechutná, Gabriela ; Voda, Jan (advisor) ; Uhlířová, Jana (referee)
The topic of the diploma thesis is the professional vision of the students of teaching and their view on problems of adolescent children. Based on a literature review, we first define the concepts of pubescent and factors affecting adolescence and professional vision in the theoretical part. That research part deals with content analysis of essays about Michael Cuesta's Twelve and Holding (2005), which was developed by the students of the 1st year of combined study, the branch of teaching for primary school (hereinafter referred to as "students") as part of the teaching of the subject Introduction to Pedagogy at the Department of Primary Education at the Faculty of Education of Charles University. The goal of this research is to describe how students, at the beginning of their studies, are able to perceive the problems of the children presented in the film. KEYWORDS pubescent, developmental psychology, professional vision, essay, film education
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Professional vision of Teachers in Art Education
Ochová, Daniela ; Novotná, Magdalena (advisor) ; Uhl Skřivanová, Věra (referee)
The diploma thesis will deal with the professional vision of teachers as one of the actual concepts of didactics, given to art education. It is based on the knowledge that professional's thinking does not take place only in terms but also through images. It will deal with vocational vision in connection with professional knowledge and action in close relation to the teaching reflection. In the research part the student will participate in the analysis of concrete art lesson recorded by video study method. She will study and compare the comments of student teachers at the observational concepts and sub-processes. In the practical part student will create and carry out own art project that will respond to selected categories of the observed video study. She will apply it to the skills of primary school pupils. She will reflects in detail implemented project in relation to the analyzed concepts. Keywords reflection, art education, didactics of art education, discourse, teacher, student, teacher learning, Professional development, professional vision, teacher knowledge, video cases, analysis, concept
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