{"title":"BUILDING ON SUCCESS: REVISITING THE TELE-ARAL PROGRAM THROUGH THE LENS OF APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY","authors":"Joelash Honra","doi":"10.20319/pijtel.2023.72.147170","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20319/pijtel.2023.72.147170","url":null,"abstract":"As the pandemic challenges the education sector, alternative and innovative delivery of quality education has to be done. Notably, this study focused on a qualitative investigation of the successes and strengths of the Tele-Aral program using the 4-D process of Appreciative Inquiry (AI). The data were gathered using both semi-structured interviews and focus group discussions. Guides for the interviews and FGDs were aligned with the research questions and validated by experts. Similarly, I followed the ethical research standards to protect human subjects while maintaining the study's trustworthiness. Additionally, nonprobability sampling techniques such as purposeful and criterion sampling were used in determining the study participants. Then, the data were thematically analyzed and methodologically triangulated. The findings revealed that the Tele-Aral program gave specific benefits to its stakeholders during the discovery stage. Participants envisioned that the program would become more successful in catering to struggling learners in the future. To achieve and sustain these visions, the participants looked into personal and collective upskilling and promoting the program to the local government units to reach more learners. Furthermore, I recommend that education stakeholders explore using appreciative inquiry in making various school reforms. Likewise, further studies are encouraged, focusing on the limitations of this study.","PeriodicalId":500647,"journal":{"name":"PUPIL: International journal of teaching, education and learning","volume":"134 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135485435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"REFINING THE ENGLISH SYNTAX COURSE FOR UNDERGRADUATE ENGLISH LANGUAGE STUDENTS WITH DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES","authors":"Božena Horváthová","doi":"10.20319/pijtel.2023.72.95113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20319/pijtel.2023.72.95113","url":null,"abstract":"The English syntax course plays a crucial role in preparing future English language teachers. To enhance the teaching and learning of this subject in philological study programs, a blended approach was adopted, and a Moodle course was created. This course aimed at improving students' linguistic competence, digital skills, and time management abilities. The online course features a combination of uploaded PDF and audio lectures, scanned study materials and exercises, as well as online assignments with solutions that serve as e-portfolios, providing students with feedback on their learning progress and achievement. This study evaluates the teacher's experiences and the students’ attitudes towards the online course to determine whether incorporating digital technologies simplifies or complicates the teaching of this subject. The research methods employed are teachers' self-reflection and a questionnaire survey. In the future, further research should focus on exploring the challenges and benefits of incorporating digital technologies into linguistic education.","PeriodicalId":500647,"journal":{"name":"PUPIL: International journal of teaching, education and learning","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135485747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CORRECTING STUDENTS CORRECTLY: AVOIDING GRAMMAR MISCONCEPTIONS IN THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASSROOM","authors":"Todd Hull","doi":"10.20319/pijtel.2023.72.125146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20319/pijtel.2023.72.125146","url":null,"abstract":"Grammatical accuracy is a justifiable goal in language teaching classrooms. But misconceptions about grammar can hinder this goal. The main misconception is that native speakers make grammar errors when using their own native language. They do not. The idea that native speakers can make grammar mistakes in their own languages is detrimental to foreign language classrooms because when language teachers attempt to find answers to grammar questions, they encounter conflicting information and are sometimes not able to give their students useful answers. The main cause of the misconception that native speakers can make grammar errors in their own language is the conflation of formal and informal style, a conflation of grammar and style, which leads to informal usage being incorrectly stigmatized as incorrect grammar. This paper will outline three major misconceptions arising from this fundamental confusion of style and grammar: 1) the idea that native speakers use words incorrectly; 2) native speakers using words that are said not to be real words; and 3) conflation of emphasis and redundancy. This issue will be addressed in the context of the English language. But the principles apply across languages. Knowledge of these misconceptions will allow language teachers to answer and advise students.","PeriodicalId":500647,"journal":{"name":"PUPIL: International journal of teaching, education and learning","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135484652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ROLE OF LEADER IN EDUCATIONAL MANAGEMENT","authors":"Salome Chkheidze","doi":"10.20319/pijtel.2023.72.171179","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20319/pijtel.2023.72.171179","url":null,"abstract":"The main objective of this article is to describe a role of leader and define its importance in educational management. The role of a leader in educational management is critically important to make the educational institution provide high-quality education to students, to create an effective management system and motivate the staff to go towards the aim (Eacott, 2015). On the educational context, leadership influences the process, which finally leads to the achievement of desired purpose. A good leader should develop a vision on values of their educational institutions on personal and professional sides. A successful leader makes the staff love their job and be determined to achieve success. Educational leadership is a process, where a leader takes the initiative to facilitate the following conditions for implementing change in teaching and learning (Surya, 2011). The leader in educational leadership is responsible for setting the vision and mission of the educational institution, which serves as a guiding principle for all stakeholders, including students, teachers, and staff. Moreover, the leader must ensure that the educational institution environment is conducive to learning, which includes creating a safe and respectful atmosphere for students and teachers.","PeriodicalId":500647,"journal":{"name":"PUPIL: International journal of teaching, education and learning","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135486238","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"EVALUATING THE INTEGRATION OF WORD PROBLEMS, WORLD EXPERIENCE, AND MATHEMATICAL KNOWLEDGE IN YOUNG CHILDREN","authors":"Linda Kwan Yuet Ling","doi":"10.20319/pijtel.2023.71.5778","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20319/pijtel.2023.71.5778","url":null,"abstract":"This study arose from research conducted in a school where students aged seven to nine struggled to solve mathematical problems. The study's goal was to find out how children make sense of their problems. Students were given a few simple arithmetic problems and then individually interviewed to determine and comprehend the difficulties that the students were experiencing. The problems' stories involved a quantity being increased by or combined with another quantity to form a total. The quantities were small natural numbers that did not exceed 20. The findings revealed a number of problems with mathematics learning. The results were derived from how students understood the word problems, the relationship between the word problems and real-life experience, the relationship between real-life experience and mathematical knowledge, and the integration of word problems, world experience, and mathematical knowledge. How students work and verify their answers in order to better understand their thinking was observed. The usefulness of word problems in school can be realized only if students' understanding of a particular situation can be elicited, enriched, or embellished with their experience before that experience can be re-examined in light of the theory that is applied to the real-life situation.","PeriodicalId":500647,"journal":{"name":"PUPIL: International journal of teaching, education and learning","volume":"1099 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135748294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}