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Whether the identification of attitudes and behaviors good teachers should have is a daunting task, the assessment of these aspects, which is normally undertaken by students or agencies exterior to schools, is even more so. This study devised a new rating system to appraise the competences of secondary school teachers (SEVADES) through an in-depth literature review and questionnaires collected from 22 secondary education institutions in Santander (Spain). The application of the new tool aimed to self-evaluate 88 teachers from private and state schools, who obtained an average score of 8.341 points (Very good). For state secondary schools, scarce differences between the assessment of managers and teachers were reported. Regarding private institutions, managers slightly outperformed lecturers' scores. Whilst Leadership was the most appreciated attitude, Vocation was assigned the lowest rates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to analyse a didactic and innovative experience and to reflect on its implications within the frame of learning ecologies. We will be describing how a Spanish Language and Literature Secondary school teacher transforms and enriches his educational practices while fostering new learning formats outside the physical classroom. In this case, the use of theatre makes sense as a potentially pedagogical tool together with the social network TikTok, the latter becoming a virtual environment offering new educational opportunities. A qualitative methodology based on observation and document analysis was used for this purpose, allowing us to gain a deep understanding of the object of study, its educational reality and its implications from the perspective of learning ecologies. Results show the value of long-life learning experiences, both for the teacher and for the participants, together with the impact on their identities. There is an evident need to use ICT resources such as TikTok in the classroom. These resources may encourage learning experiences, consistent with the sociocultural needs of the individuals, fostering curriculum enrichment, and stimulating a comprehensive and expanded idea of education in all levels. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The curricular transformations and the legislative changes occurred in the Spanish context do not seem to have addressed the demands that key organizations such as OMS or UNESCO have made about sex education. In the specific context of Spanish Secondary Compulsory Education, the present article taps into the past and present of concepts such as the body, emotions, interpersonal relationships and issues linked to equality and gender. To this end, we conducted a review of the educational legislation from the LGE of 1970 to the current LOMCE with a view to tapping into the most important implications of these legislative frameworks. This article also aims to picture the reality of the academic framework of sexology and sex education looked at as areas of knowledge, highlighting the most significant trends. Finally, we map out the current situation of sexual education as a theoretical body in secondary education. We also highlight the keys which might encourage the incorporation of sex education in the educational curriculum and in the initial and continuous training programs for education professionals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to respond to the concern raised in the Conference of Deans of Education of Spanish Universities regarding the implementation and development of the Master's Degree in Secondary Education Teacher Training. We aim to provide data that serve as a situation map about the reality of these studies and the differences in their implementation. Data were obtained through a questionnaire completed by 35 universities, of the 72 that teach this master's in Spain. The results show a great heterogeneity, mainly in four aspects: the offer of seats and specialties, the structure of the curriculum, the professional profile of the teaching staff and the development of school trainings and master's theses. The results highlight the need for the master's to be managed academically by the university faculties in charge of initial teacher training, as well as the need for precise clarifications, on the part of the evaluation agencies, with a view to homogenizing accreditation processes for all universities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This exploratory study examines the beliefs of secondary school students at different academic levels regarding the construction and nature of scientific knowledge and scientific models. To this end, a questionnaire was administered to 151 secondary school students in grades 8-12 (ages 12-18). Items included in the questionnaire relate both to nature, elaboration and validation of scientific knowledge and to nature, role, formulation and validation of scientific models. Based on the scores obtained by students and the analyses of variance undertaken, it can be concluded that: a) students' knowledge about the nature of science and scientific models is not epistemologically appropriate and does not improve the higher academic level is; b) students' ideas about scientific models are significantly better than ideas about the construction of scientific knowledge, regardless of academic level; and c) students tend to overvalue the role of observation and experimentation in the processes of scientific knowledge construction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main objective of this piece of research is to understand the importance of career guidance for young people who return to compulsory secondary education through the Centers for adult Education. Career guidance should be seen as an indispensable tool that must be present in students' most critical moments and whose main aims should be to focus on students' training needs, educational and professional level. Career guidance should also take into account the interests, abilities and needs of each moment and the current situation of the labor market in which young people, unlike in previous decades, are prone to have short-term jobs. The research methodology was developed through an exploratory factor analysis, performed according to the method of the main components, analyzing a total sample of 878 students enrolled in the four years of Compulsory Secondary Education at the Centers of adult Education in Ciudad Real. Data were collected through the completion of a questionnaire designed for this purpose and research results indicate that 84% of students surveyed believe that guidance throughout life needs to be informed and motivated at all times, and 75.6% believe that career guidance is an instrument that helps the employability of young people. Both those students who have gone to a professional counselor and those who have not, confirm the importance of guidance: 57.4% admit that they would not have dropped out had they received adequate vocational guidance and 61.6% confirm that when they finish Secondary Education they will visit a professional counselor to ask for help in finding employment and 74.7% of students will do the same in order to obtain information about formal and informal education possibilities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The work presented results from an investigation about the presence and development of aquatic activities in the subject Physical Education in Secondary Education and about the educational nature of these activities, from the point of view of specialist teachers. It was done in educational centres of the Region of Murcia, under the promotion of the Department of Education of the Region of Murcia. It was developed through a qualitative study based on 30 semistructured interviews. The results show insufficient training in the specialists, how positive aquatic activities are for holistic training, and the markedly educational nature of these activities. Results also highlight the difficulties for including these activities in the curriculum, the low status they are given, and that Lorca and Cehegín are the towns where these activities are more developed and the city of Murcia and Jumilla where they are done less frequently. Some of the findings are: the need for teacher basic and further training, the recognition of a higher status for aquatic activities as compared with other physical education activities and the overcome of the drawbacks that appear in the implementation of these activities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article shows that the intertextual connection between cinema and literature promotes life-long learning among students of compulsory educational stages. This is due to the projection of the existing semiotic link between the two artistic disciplines towards the design of complex tasks of comprehension and oral, written and audiovisual expression with media coverage, where contextualised and strategic knowledge of the basic skills can be developed cooperatively. Thus it contributes to solving a problem traditionally inherent in school education: the specialisation cannon which imposes conceptual contents that are not only far away from the learners' world but also only assessable by means of simple control tasks, whose linguistic and instructing model is unsustainable in the 21st century's globalised horizon that requires people to be trained to flexibly adapt themselves to a changing and interconnected world. Therefore, here we suggest a methodology for research-action in the classroom that has been validated with innovative interventions made during three consecutive academic years in the stages of primary and secondary education, where, by means of traditional stories and recent films, a significant, constructivist and heuristic learning has been promoted. The creative hypertexts and didactic materials of this kind of learning have been published on the Internet and their empirical findings confirm this interdisciplinary work hypothesis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Music teachers in Spain can get access to a position in secondary school through several routes. This means that their approaches to music teaching may differ depending on their initial education. Given the increasing presence of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in both society and education, teachers need proper training in order to effectively respond to this new challenge in education. This paper aims to understand ICT training of music teachers and the impact it has on the factors allowing the implementation of ITC in class. We designed a questionnaire which was completed by 53 music teachers in secondary schools all over Andalusia. Data analysis showed that teacher ICT training has an impact on the shaping of their views, approaches and emotional reactions to using ICT in the classroom. Therefore, it is essential to improve and extend teacher ICT training so that they can get closer to a social reality they already belong to. This would be most beneficial in the case of music teachers, given that, according to many studies (Aróstegui, 2005; Delalande, 2004; Savege, 2007; Crawford, 2009; Ward, 2009), this subject has specific educational technological resources which would make music learning much more attractive and motivating. Les professeurs de musique peuvent accéder à l'enseignement secondaire par plusieurs chemins, ce qui engendre la présence, dans les salles de classe, de professeurs qui ont diverses formations initiales ainsi que différentes manières de concevoir l'éducation musicale. La croissante présence des Technologies de l'Information et la Communication (TIC) dans la société et l'enseignement fait que les professeurs doivent répondre à cette nouvelle situation à travers une correcte formation. Pour cela, dans cette recherche nous essayons de connaître quelle est la formation en TIC des professeurs de musique et son influence sur les facteurs qui permettent l'utilisation de ces technologies en classe. Dans ce but, nous avons analysé un questionnaire qui a été complété par 53 professeurs de musique dans divers établissements d'enseignement secondaire en Andalousie. Les résultats montrent que la formation en TIC des professeurs a une incidence sur les croyances, les perceptions et les réactions émotionnelles face à l'usage des TIC. Par conséquent, il est fondamental d'aborder, d'améliorer et de développer la formation des professeurs dans ce cadre afin qu'ils puissent se rapprocher à une réalité sociale dont ils font déjà partie. Cela est important surtout dans le cas des professeurs de musique, car, d'après plusieurs recherches (Aróstegui, 2005; Delalande, 2004; Savege, 2007; Crawford, 2009; Ward, 2009) cette matière dispose de ressources technologiques spécifiques avec une importante application didactique qui permettrait de rapprocher la musique et les élèves d'une manière plus attractive et motivante. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study proposes epistemological and didactic bases to consider literary education as a humanistic social science that encourages cooperative and creative learning of an interdisciplinary nature taking the classics as a starting point. It is part of a hypothesis based on semiotic theories of the hypertext: the educational consideration of literary classics as modern works because its social interest and reference to diverse matters has been thriving along the centuries. It contributes to solve a problem that threatens the current challenge of key competency-based learning: the academic habit of confusing literature with the history of literature and writing with a mere representation of orality, which undermines the heuristic learning inherent in the connective and reflective cognition that encourages interdisciplinary educational practices. Therefore, it proposes a research-action methodology in the classroom that has been validated with numerous interdisciplinary interventions in the stages of primary and secondary education, where literary classics have been matched with authentic contexts by their XXI century readers: children and adolescent create hypertexts which have been gathered in tribute-books which have been analyzed qualitatively. The resulting didactic model is a pioneering teaching reference for interdisciplinary literary education oriented toward a competency-based educational approach comprising task-based learning and projects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]