Reflections and Actions of A Junior High School Biology Teacher in Changing Teaching Practices

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 me...

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Main Authors: Wang, Hsin-Yung, 王心詠
Other Authors: Iris, T. C. Huang
Format: Others
Language:zh-TW
Published: 1998
Online Access:http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/91619089211288296420
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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.