EDU433 Midterm Current Questions July 2022

Current Question Edu 433 july 2022

 system of interaction

Teaching is a process by which a teaching guides the learners in the acquisition of knowledge, skills and attitudes. It is essentially a system of interaction involving

• The teacher
• The learner
• The learning materials

 The Agency of Practitioners

• The agency of professional is an important element
• It can give rise to new knowledge
• Professionals are easily able to exercise professional agency in practice.
•  incorporated into the process of managing public service organizations (5Marks)

Accountability movement of the late 1970 onwards succeeded to curtail the power of the public service professions, including teaching. Professionalism was conceptualized as the efficient delivery of a client demand-led service. It also became substantially incorporated into the process of managing public service organizations such as schools.

This incorporation had two aspects:

1. The structural aspect entailed head teacher and teacher roles and tasks becoming increasing managerial.
2. The cultural aspect entailed the incorporation of head teachers and teachers into the ideology of managerialism, particularly through their internalization of the emerging language of management.

The Institutional Incorporation of Teaching

Incorporation entails assimilating the professional mode of organizing work into the managerial mode of organizing work. This form of incorporations has generated relatively little overt teacher resistance. There are also strong imperatives for head teachers and teachers to accept incorporations of teaching into management. Successful teaching career eventually took teachers out of the classroom and into a headship. A successful career in education now entails passage through succeeding roles.

 Elements of Effective professional Development

1. Content Focused
2. Active learning
3. Collaborative approach

 Functional Trust

All people have an equal need for respect. Respect is the basic foundation of all healthy relationships. Each team member is equally important and each team member’s work is equally important.

Mutual Respect

All people have an equal need for respect. Respect is the basic foundation of all healthy personal relationships. Each team member is equally important and each team members’ work is equally important.

 Qualities of a Good Teacher: (5 marks)

Qualities of a teacher are universal.

Every teacher is expected to have such qualities in order for him/her regarded as a true teacher. Throughout the world, a successful teacher is expected to have qualities stipulated in the following domains:

1. Should be knowledgeable in terms of what he/she is teaching
2. Should know the teaching methodologies as well as education psychology
3. Should have a sense of humor and love to all his/her pupils
4. To have appositive attitude
5. To have high expectations
6. Love of justice and democracy
7. Should be a role model
8. Flexible and likes to learn more

 Causal Responsibility (5 marks)

A purely descriptive sense of responsibility Example: The operator was responsible for turning off the control switch. The But-for conception of being casual responsible. X= was casually responsible for Y=but for the occurrence of X, Y would not have happened. Example: but for the operator turning off the switch, the control would not have went off.

Liability-Responsibility

Liability for one’ action means that one can rightly be made to pay for the adverse affect of ones action on others. We are usually liable for payment to cover the costs of damage to other persons or property as long as we are casually responsible, even if our actions were unintentional. It does not necessarily involve moral responsibility for the action.

 The New Professionalism

Basically, new professionalism is the concept that highlights the shift from professionalism based on the notions of partnership, collegiality, discretion, and trust to an increasing level of managerialism, bureaucracy, standardization, assessment, and performance reviews. For example, the teacher has autonomy and teacher has a partnership/ collegiality. This was considered as the prevailing professionalism, but the new professionalism means the teacher has shifted from this teacher autonomy, etc., trust and increase the level of professionalism, now it is shifted to the managerialism and standardization.

 Improving the Status of Teachers

Improving the status of teachers has been a big debate throughout the world as to how to raise the status and improve the standards of teachers' professional standards, personal standards, etc. For improving teacher status, there is a need to upgrade the teaching and learning process through different ways and means and different approaches, like i i. better qualified teachers through upgrading programmes and programmes of the teacher training programs. And like in Pakistan, we now have a four-year teacher training programme. And this was envisioned in the 2009 education policies for teacher training programs,

ii ii. encouraging teachers to implement child-centered education,

iii iii. and implementing a model of teacher professional development.

 Stages of Accountability

There are three stages:

1. Defining accountability to whom or for what
2. Informing the stakeholders
3. Judgement, which can lead to affirmation or sanctions.

 Teaching as a profession

• Teaching is a profession that lies at the heart of both the learning of children and young people and their:

The teaching profession demands:

• Good communication with professional experts, colleagues and students
• Sound knowledge in the subject and related duties that is to be performed
• Technical skills of teaching explicitly and focused content orientation