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This paper presents the most relevant results of a research process aiming to know the perception that College students have of what characterizes an excellent teacher at the beginning of the course, in order to apply that information in the teaching-learning process. From a sample of first semester students at the University of Cordova (Bachelor in Business Administration, ETEA), this paper examines their attitudes on this issue to explore new methodological approaches and encourage existing ones. To that end, this article used a questionnaire prepared by Gargallo, Sánchez, Ros, y Ferreras (2010). After a comparative analysis, the results are consistent with other surveys carried out in Spanish and foreign population of similar level; these results, conceived as initial diagnosis, enhance teaching performance in the analyzed group. En este trabajo se presentan los resultados más relevantes de una investigación cuyo objetivo fue conocer, a comienzos del curso, la percepción que tienen los estudiantes universitarios de lo que caracteriza a un buen profesor para poder aplicar esa información en el proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje. A partir de una muestra de estudiantes que cursan primer semestre en la Universidad de Córdoba (Grado en Administración y Dirección de Empresas, ETEA), se analizan sus actitudes en dicho campo para explorar nuevos enfoques metodológicos y favorecer los ya existentes. Para ello, este artículo emplea un cuestionario elaborado por Gargallo, Sánchez, Ros, y Ferreras (2010). Los resultados obtenidos en este caso, tras un análisis comparado, son coherentes con los mostrados por otros estudios realizados en población española y extranjera de nivel similar; unos resultados que concebidos como diagnóstico inicial, permiten mejorar la labor docente con el grupo analizado.

The academic search for principles of high-quality subject-matter teaching has been informed by different perspectives, in particular normative, epistemological, empirical, and pragmatic perspectives. While these perspectives have sometimes been treated as competing, we emphasize the need of their integration to identify sets of principles that can inform professional development programs for quality development. This paper starts from characterizing the four perspectives, and then shows how they are iteratively intertwined in providing a research base for specifying high-quality principles for teaching, in our case exemplified for the school subject mathematics. For this goal, we present the set of five principles that we have deemed as core principles for a new nationwide, ten-year professional development program in Germany: Conceptual Focus, Cognitive Demand, Student Focus and Adaptivity, Longitudinal Coherence, and Enhanced Communication. We will discuss these five principles against their backgrounds stemming from combing normative, epistemological, empirical, and pragmatic perspectives. This set of principles serves as an exemplary case to substantiate our general argumentation that contemporary educational research and professional development activities should not choose between perspectives but strive for combining them.

Teacher quality is an essential element in every school that improves student attainment as well as an important factor contributing to student learning. Understanding of quality in teaching is at a quite early stage of development in many countries. In the review of the works of literature, it was found that there is no exact definition for quality teaching and that quality teaching is a combination of good teaching and successful teaching. Good teaching is the foundation for the idea of expertise as it is associated with the effectiveness of teaching behavior while successful teaching is wholly focused on the attainment of the learner. Again, student engagement in academics was designed to link good teaching and successful teaching. Quality teaching may differ from country to country and as such, policies geared towards teaching must be in line with quality and the role of the teacher to improve student performance. Keywords: quality teaching, good teaching, successful teaching, student engagement. Title: What Makes Quality Teaching? Review of Related Literature Author: Francis Adams, Eric Atta Quainoo, Ernest Opoku International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online) Vol. 10, Issue 2, April 2022 - June 2022 Page No: 409-413 Research Publish Journals Website: www.researchpublish.com Published Date: 01-June-2022 DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6602052 Paper Download Link (Source) https://www.researchpublish.com/papers/what-makes-quality-teaching-review-of-related-literature, International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research, ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online), Research Publish Journals (Publisher), Website: www.researchpublish.com, {"references":["[1]\tBerliner, D. C. (2004). Expert teachers: Their characteristics, development and accomplishments. Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society, 24(3), 200-212.","[2]\tBerliner, D. C. (2005). The near impossibility of testing for teacher quality. Journal of teacher education, 56(3), 205-213.","[3]\tBlanton, L. P., Sindelar, P. T., & Correa, V. I. (2006). Models and measures of beginning teacher quality. The Journal of Special Education, 40(2), 115-127.","[4]\tClarke, C. H. (1970). Validity of Discriminatory Nonresident Tuition Charges in Public Higher Education Under the Interstate Privileges and Immunities Clause. Neb. L. Rev., 50, 31.","[5]\tCoe, R., Aloisi, C., Higgins, S., & Major, L. E. (2014). What makes great teaching? review of the underpinning research. London: Sutton Trust.","[6]\tDarling-Hammond, L. (2010). Recognizing and Developing Effective Teaching: What Policy Makers Should Know and Do. Policy Brief, Mei, 1-12.","[7]\tElmore, R. (2005). Agency, reciprocity and accountability in democratic education. The institutions of American democracy: The public schools, 277-301.","[8]\tFenstermacher, G., & Richardson, V. (2005). On making determinations of quality in teaching. Teachers' college record, 107(1), 186-213.","[9]\tFlanders, N. A., & Amidon, E. J. (1967). The role of the teacher in the classroom. Minneapolis: Association for Productive Teaching.","[10]\tFlanders, N. A. (1976). Research on teaching and improving teacher education. British Journal of Teacher Education, 2(2), 167-174.","[11]\tGreen, T. F. (1971). The activities of teaching. New York: McGraw-Hill.","[12]\tHanushek, E. A., & Rivkin, S. G. (2006). Teacher Quality, Handbook of Economics of Education. Amsterdam, The Netherland: Elsevier.","[13]\tHaskins, R., & Loeb, S. (2007). A plan to improve the quality of teaching in American schools. Brookings Institution.","[14]\tIngvarson, L., & Rowe, K. (2008). Conceptualizing and evaluating teacher quality: Substantive and methodological issues. Australian journal of education, 52(1), 5-35.","[15]\tKennedy, M. M. (2008). Sorting out teacher quality. Phi Delta Kappan, 90(1), 59-63.","[16]\tLoughran, J. (2012). What expert teachers do: Enhancing professional knowledge for classroom practice. New York: Routledge.","[17]\tMorrison, H. C. (1934). Basic principles in education. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company.","[18]\tSenge, P. M. (2006). The fifth discipline: The art and practice of the learning organization (Rev. ed.). New York, NY: Currency Doubleday.","[19]\tSmith, B. O. (1963). A Conceptual Analysis of Instructional Behavior1. Journal of Teacher Education, 14(3), 294-298.","[20]\tWechsler, M. E., & Shields, P. M. (2008). Teaching Quality in California: A New Perspective to Guide Policy. Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning."]}

In the spring of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic induced a rapid shift to online education. University instructors promptly reinvented their teaching methods and developed digital lessons. Cooperative learning has been demonstrated to surpass lecture-based learning (LBL) regarding students’ learning processes, therefore, the question arises as to whether the perks of cooperative learning still hold when switching to online education. This study examines whether the benefits of team-based learning (TBL) regarding good teaching (i.e., perceived teaching quality), satisfaction, and performance persist when switching from face-to-face to online education. A quasi-experiment in an undergraduate advanced accounting course compared a non-COVID-19-affected semester to a COVID-19-affected semester. In both semesters, students could choose between a TBL and a LBL path for tutorial sessions. Quantitative survey data (N = 455) indicate TBL outperforms LBL, even when switching to online tools. Good teaching was perceived as even better in the COVID-19-affected semester, and even more so by students in the team-based setting, compared to the lecture-based setting. Students’ course satisfaction and performance were unaffected by the switch to online education. This paper shows that TBL still benefits students, even in a blended environment.

On mathematics education research in Japan, although research on “students” and “teaching materials (mathematical contents)” has been actively conducted, only a small number on “teachers” have been done. However, mathematics teacher education research should be regarded more as it is important for teachers to teach well. In this paper, we reviewed the positioning and problems of research on mathematics teacher education and how mathematics teachers’ ability is attained. We focused on themes such as a situated approach raised by Kaiser et al. (2017), “noticing” (Sherin et al., 2011) and teacher’s perception, interpretation and decision making (Blömeke et al., 2015). Then, we examined how a teacher’s knowledge (e.g., Pedagogical Content Knowledge by Shulman (1986, 1987) and Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching by Ball et al. (2008)) and views on mathematics (see, e.g., Dossey, 1992) is intrinsically linked to their mathematics teaching competence. Furthermore, we outlined the purpose and goal of mathematics education, and examined these previous studies. Finally, we concluded that “ability for mathematics teachers to teach well” was directly linked to teaching being a method “to enrich their knowledge and views on mathematics and to properly grasp the immutability and fashion of mathematics education”. Also, Ball (2011, p.xxi) put forward “Noticing is not purely neutral attention, but culturally shaped perception”. Because a situated approach depends on the culture of a country, we pointed out the necessity of considering the cultural aspects for mathematics teachers’ pre-service and in-service teacher training.

According to Schön [1] professional knowledge is to a high degree based on tacit knowledge. For university teachers, tacit knowledge includes knowledge about what works – and what does not work - when teaching a specific class of students a specific subject in a specific context. However, it is important to make tacit knowledge explicit for at least two reasons: Firstly, for the individual teacher it may support a more conscious linking of observations and experiences from own teaching practice to general principles of teaching and learning. This linking could enable a systematic analysis and development of own teaching in order to improve student learning [2]. Secondly, it is also beneficial to make one’s tacit knowledge explicit in order to discuss teaching and learning with other persons, e.g. during peer coaching of less experienced colleagues, or collaboration on teaching development with colleagues. This unfortunately seldom takes place and leaves teachers in a limbo of solidarity. Therefore, the authors have developed a board game for university teachers to articulate and share their reflections on teaching and learning in a collective process. The game consists of a board and a deck of cards, where each card contains a statement related to teaching and/or learning. The purposes of the game are to support a team-oriented approach to teaching and thereby to strengthen communities of teaching practices [3], i.e. to develop groups of colleagues, who acknowledge the individual team members’ different ways of teaching and how a manifold of teaching practices fertilises the students’ building of skills, competences and attitudes towards becoming professional engineers.The game has been played at two international engineering education conferences, at an annual education day at a university abroad, and at several faculty meetings at the authors’ university. Data have been collected on the selection and ranking of cards. These represent the players’ reflections on teaching practices and learning, and on consensus reached within groups of players – reflections which influence and are influenced by teaching practice. This paper documents an explorative study of the players’ reflections on teaching and learning based on the selected and ranked cards. In this first study the data has been analysed focusing on the following two questions: What kinds of attitudes towards teaching and learning do the selected cards represent? And which cards are selected most often?

Using the approach of critical discourse analysis this paper presents an examination of the notion of good teaching as constructed in the strategy document Improving the quality of teaching and learning in Europe’s higher education institutions. The aim is to draw attention to, and question how the language used in educational policy documents constructs particular meanings and purposes to concepts such as teaching and learning, as well as creating a particular version of the social relations within educational institutions. This in turn positions teachers and students in particular ways, constructing and limiting who they are and what they do. While contradictory discourses are found about the quality of teaching improvements are presented as being necessary for economic improvement. Similarly contradictory discourses are evident in relation to what good teaching is. However the need for reform is argued. Academics are positioned as passively following an institution-led research agenda, hence uninterested in teaching and in need of training, threats, incentives and monitoring to improve their teaching. Students are positioned as having one choice, to gain the knowledge and skills required for employment.

El objetivo del estudio es analizar una serie de experiencias formativas con tecnologías que se plantean a los docentes en formación inicial o continua. El corpus, analizado siguiendo los principios de la Teoría Fundamentada, está formado por diferentes cursos de formación docente. A partir del trabajo con este corpus, se construyeron categorías que permitieron generar la caracterización de los cursos en función de los diferentes grados de inclusión de las TIC en sus propuestas de enseñanza. Consideramos que el análisis de estas experiencias resulta central puesto que podría tener una gran influencia en las futuras prácticas docentes como diseñadores, realizadores y desarrolladores de propuestas de enseñanza de calidad con TIC. The aim of this paper is to analyze a series of formative experiences with technologies which are offered to teachers in initial and continuous formations. The corpus, analyzed by Grounded Theory principles, integrates a wide-ranging collection of teacher formation courses. Based on the analysis, categories are elaborated to characterize experiences regarding different levels of technology inclusion. The analysis could be central to future teacher practices with ICT. Fil: Alvarez, Guadalupe. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento; Argentina Fil: Moran, Lourdes. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina