Summary: | 碩士 === 國立高雄師範大學 === 科學教育研究所 === 86 === The purpose of this study was to investigate the reflections
and actions of a junior high school biology teacher in changing
her teaching practices and the factors which promoted it. With
the interpretive research methodology, the data had been
collected by classroom observation, interviews for teacher and
student questionnaire. These were analyzed and confirmed with
constant comparison and triangulation. The result of this study
reveals the teacher''s belief, educational resources and the
teacher''s
personal disposition were the promoting factors of changing
teaching practices. The beginning of these changing processes
were some instructional problems related to teaching methods,
teaching materials, students'' learning and the teacher herself.
Some related new information induced the teacher to start the
changing actions. After the teaching actions, the teacher''s
evaluations were focused on the effects of students'' learning.
The teacher''s reflections and actions in the changing processes
promoted
the growth of the teacher''s pedagogical knowledge.
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