Summary of thesis of educational science: Developing instructional skills for cooperative learning for lower secondary teachers

Research Developing instructional skills for cooperative learning for lower secondary teachers purposes: to build strategies to develop skills of cooperative teaching for lower secondary teachers used in in service teacher training activities at provincial level.
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Summary of thesis of educational science: Developing instructional skills for cooperative learning for lower secondary teachers DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING UNIVERSITY OF THAI NGUYEN NGUYEN THANH KINHDEVELOPING INSTRUCTIONAL SKILLS FOR COOPERATIVE LEARNING FOR LOWER SECONDARY TEACHERS Field: Educational Reasoning and History Code: 62.14.01.01SUMMARY OF THESIS OF EDUCATIONAL SCIENCE THAI NGUYEN - 2010 1 INTRODUCTION1. RATIONALE OF THE RESEARCH To meet objectives of the renovation of teaching and learning methodology at lowersecondary education level, it is neccesary to improve teaching and learning methodology toincrease educational quality. Cooperative and active learning is presently a strategicmeasure in the renovation of teaching and learning methodology in our country. Toimplement collaborative and active learning successfully, both teachers and students need toattain neccesary skills which should be in line well with instructional principles andrequirements of cooperative teaching and learning. Recently, many schools have gained pedagogical experience in the renovation ofteaching and learning methodology. However, experience in instructions is still limited,especially relating to organizing active learning to maximize collaboration among studentsand with teachers in general, in particular subjects, creative tests and assessments applyingdifferent instructional techniques such as cooperative learning, exploration, small groupwork, project based learning, problem solving etc. Cooperative learning and teaching skillhas been considered a big gap in lower secondary schools over the past years. Therefore we decided to select the research theme of “Developinginstructional skills for cooperative learning for lower secondary teachers” asdisertation of my Doctoral research.2. RESEARCH PURPOSES: To build strategies to develop skills of cooperativeteaching for lower secondary teachers used in in-service teacher training activities atprovincial level.3. OBJECT OF THE RESEARCH Process of development instructional skills and organization of in-service teachertraining activities for lower secondary education teachers in conditions of renovation inteaching and learning methodology at this educational level.4. SCIENTIFIC HYPOTHESIS Instructions towards cooperative learning in lower secondary schools will contributeto the improvement of educational quality and effectiveness if teachers are provided withessential cooperative learning and teaching skills taking advantages of educationalphilosophy and characteristics of in-service teacher training activities from provincial todistrict and school levels.5. RESEARCH TASKS5.1. Identify theoretical and practical conditions of cooperative teaching and learning skill development of lower secondary teachers5.2. Identify a set of skills required for cooperative teaching and learning of lower secondary teachers based on cooperative instruction requirement and principles 25.3. Develop recommendations for improving teaching skills for cooperative learning for lower secondary teachers during the in-service teacher training process5.4. To pilot in-service teacher training in cooperative teaching and learning for lower secondary teachers in some schools in TayNinh province6. SCOPE OF THE RESEARCH6.1. Skills involved in cooperative teaching and learning are those applied in teaching all subjects, not only for teaching a particular subject6.2. Strategies to develop cooperative teaching and learning will be applied in scope of the in-service teacher training or professional development for teachers6.3. Pilots/experiments will be implemented in a number of lower secondary schools in TayNinh province, while the research scope is expanded to a number of South East provinces7. RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES:1/Theoretical research; 2/Experimental research;3./Other methodologies8. MAIN THEORRTICAL POINTS FOR DEFENSE 8.1. Renovation of instructions in schools can only be effectively achieved if there isan appropriate combination of renovation of teaching and learning methodologies.Cooperative teaching and learning in lower secondary schools will be main focuses of ourresearch with aims at contributing to the renovation of instructions in general schools inVietnam. Collaborative requires a combination of pedagogical principles as well ascooperative learning theory. One of the most modern theories in cooperation lies incooperative learning. 8.2. Cooperative learning sets a clear pedagogical requirements and principles so itbuilds or develops important values of collaboration such as accountability, interactions,social skill development, coordination, effective collaboration demonstrated incollaborative environment and its diversity etc. These values fit well with teachers andstudents in lower secondary schools in Vietnam since it is also an ultimate requirement forschools in the process of renovation of teaching methodology. 8.3. One of core elements in the renovation of teaching methodology is to changeinstructions. It is neccesary for teachers to attain instructional skills following itsphilosophy of teaching and students should be adapted to this new method of learningunder facilitation of teachers. 8.4. Cooperative teaching requires teachers to have specific techniques and skillsfrom the lesson planning, teaching, management of cooperative learning and assessmentof learning of students. 8.5. Probably develop cooperative teaching skill for lower secondary teachersthrough provincial in-service teacher training activities which are implemented under ...