Proceeding of International Conference on Teaching and Science Education

Global Warming: Facing Confirmation Bias And Cognitive Dissonance With Hands-On Activities

Leontýna Šlégrová — 2020-08-21

Although global warming is an irrefutable scientific fact, many people, including those who often call themselves skeptics and critical thinkers, are doubtful about this unambiguous fact. An extensive longitudinal survey amongst the students showed that even future teachers are not resistant to these misconceptions, even if they are presented with the conclusions of the scientific studies.In this paper, we show simple hands-on classroom activities in which publicly available climate data are studied with methods previously known to students, and simple atmospheric models are presented. These simple exercises can help future teachers to establish their own opinion on global warming based on the analysis of data and physical models, and not on information from obscure websites and social networks.

Learning Strategies in Elementary Schools During COVID-19 Pandemic in North Sulawesi

Asep Supena — 2020-08-21

The psychological impact of physical distancing experienced by teachers and students during the COVID-19 pandemic. The quality of teacher and student relations in learning interactions does not proceed as usual. Various learning strategies strived for teachers to remain productive and professional in carrying out their duties as a teacher and educator. Teacher strategies adapted to the places and conditions of each region has its uniqueness. The learning strategy undertaken by the teacher is influenced by the family spirit that is the hallmark of the Indonesian nation's culture. This study aims to explore the experience of elementary school teachers and analyze the level of participation and supporting factors and constraints experienced by teachers, in implementing learning strategies for elementary school students during COVID-19 pandemic in North Sulawesi. A total of ten teachers who live in rural areas and five teachers who live in urban areas narrate their experiences related to learning strategies in this pandemic period. Teachers in rural areas are more involved than teachers in urban areas, because the number of elementary schools in North Sulawesi is mostly in rural areas. Data was collected using semi-structured interview techniques and analyzed using narrative content analysis. The results of the analysis found that the learning strategy by visiting students directly at home is done by teachers in rural areas because of the shorter distance and relatively short travel time to visit students' homes. Whereas the strategy carried out by teachers in urban areas was more dominant carried out by utilizing virtual facilities through interactions via smartphones and learning with internet-based applications.

New Curriculum: The Concept of Freedom Learning In Music Learning in Department of Music Education

Dani Nur Saputra — 2020-08-21

Currently, the learning system has demanded in 21st-century skills competencies. Freedom learning concept-independent campus learning is presented to improve the education system in Indonesia. This research aimed to support the new curriculum of policies by applying music learning methods based on the freedom of learning-an independent campus policy for the students. Music education students are educated and trained to be ready to face all challenges in the era of the digital industry 4.0 and society 5.0 today. This type of research is a descriptive qualitative approach to the study of literature relating to the new curriculum of the concept of freedom learning-an independent campus. The results of this study stated that the concept of a freedom learning- an independent campus in music learning was carried out with internships, fieldwork practices, teaching practices, student exchanges, research, entrepreneurship activities, humanitarian programs, as well as across study programs and universities. The new policy requires 21st-century skills competency so that music education graduates can be employed and able to compete in today's global industry.

Digital Skills and Literacy among Prospective Teachers of Sukkur Pakistan: A Conceptual Framework

Muhammad Mujtaba Asad — 2020-08-21

The importance of information and communication technologies in the teaching and learning process has been highlighted several times in different studies worldwide. Digital literacy is a serious concern to prospective teachers because they are the main source for students to learn about digital tools and technologies to compete with others and it is only possible when teachers are digitally literate and eager to accept this as a need for 21st-century education. According to National Education Policy 2017 (the main pillars of ICT policy are the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) to strengthen the quality of teaching and enhance student learning and develop complementary approaches to ICT in education) and in light of 4th goal (Quality Education) of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) it is significant for the integration of ICT in teaching and learning process in Pakistan. Whereas, the objective and proposed hypothesis of this study are to assess whether the teachers are digitally literate or interested to accept this digital transformation in education. In the context of methodology, for assessing the digital literacy among the student-teachers the data will be collected through a quantitative research approach from approximately 200 students of the Education department at Sukkur IBA University. Whereas, the gathered data will be analyzed by using the SPSS software by using Mann-Whitney-U Test and Independent Sample T-Test. The expected outcome of this research will be helpful to ensure the quality education and integration of ICT in teaching and learning processes for the betterment of the Educational system in Sindh, Pakistan because our educational system is so backward in technology. In conclusion, this study will enhance the knowledge and technological skills of prospective teachers through ICT integration. It will also increase the interest of prospective teachers in digital literacy through ICT based training

Student’s Satisfaction Level Towards Teachers’ Pedagogical Skills: A Conceptual Action Plan for Sindh Pakistan

Muhammad Mujtaba Asad — 2020-08-21

Pedagogical skills are essential for every teacher to promote the process of teaching and learning and to make it more effective. In this modern era of technology and advancement, pedagogical skills have also become a very important domain of concern among educational institutions. Therefore, this study will focus on the indication of the satisfaction level of students towards teachers' pedagogical skills at government schools of Ghotki Sindh, Pakistan. Whereas, the research design of this study will be quantitative. The respondents of this study will be 200 students from both urban and rural government higher secondary schools of district Ghotki ( the statistics are determined by the report of school education data 2016-2017) during the academic year of 2019-2020 will be surveyed for this study. The major aim of this research is to analyze the satisfaction level of students towards the teacher's pedagogical skills. Moreover, a survey questionnaire will be adapted for this study based on previous researchers' contributions. The descriptive (Mean and Standard Deviation) and inferential statistical (Independent sample T-Test and Mann–Whitney U approaches will be utilized by using SPSS 22 software for data analysis of this proposed study. The outcome of this study will contribute to the specification of effective pedagogical skills of teachers and the level of satisfaction among urban and rural students of Ghotki, Sindh. The findings of this study will help teachers to work and improve their deficiencies in their teaching methods and approaches.

Teachers’ Performance and Students’ Learning Outcome in the North Cluster, Division of Cavit

Betty Rojas Ereje — 2020-08-21

The study is to determine the correlation between the teachers' performance and learning outcomes assessment on grade 10 students' first periodic test for the school year 2019-2020 in the north cluster, division of Cavite. The teachers' performance was assessed by headteachers and students in terms of knowledge of the subject matter and teaching pedagogical approaches such as constructivism, collaborative, integrative, inquiry-based, and reflective approaches. As to the knowledge of the subject matter and teaching pedagogical approaches, the teachers' performance was outstanding as assessed by headteachers. Amongst the pedagogical approaches, the integrative approach obtained the highest meanwhile the reflective approach got the lowest mean. Nonetheless, the teachers' performance was highly satisfactory as assessed by students. Amongst the pedagogical approaches, the constructivist approach acquired the highest meanwhile the reflective approach got the lowest mean. There is a significant difference on teachers' performance as assessed by headteachers and by students and there are a significant relationship and weak positive correlation on teachers' performance on learning outcomes of students' first periodic test and on the assessments of students as to knowledge of the subject matter and pedagogical approaches except for reflective approach which has a very weak positive correlation.