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This study examined the sense of efficacy of final-year Australian pre-service primary teachers and the sources of information that contributed to it. The findings revealed that these beginning teachers have a healthy sense of efficacy for teaching as they begin their professional lives, with the majority feeling they can influence the education of their students quite a bit. Furthermore, the results suggest that respondents did not make any differentiation between classroom management, instruction or student engagement tasks. Finally, the pre-service teachers appeared to use four distinct sources of information when assessing their sense of efficacy in classroom behaviour management: enactive mastery experiences/verbal persuasion, personal qualities, vicarious experiences and physiological and affective states.
Published: 2012
Updated: Aug. 05, 2015
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This study explores the preparedness in managing specific problem behaviours, familiarity, and confidence in using management strategies and models of final-year pre-service teachers in Australia. The findings reveal that the completion of mandatory, or a combination of mandatory and elective classroom behaviour management units, was associated with higher feelings of preparedness for all categories of problematic behaviours. Furthermore, pre-service teachers indicated they were familiar with a broad range of options for managing student misbehaviour from their coursework preparation.
Published: 2012
Updated: Jul. 28, 2015
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This pilot study successfully demonstrated the efficiency, feasibility, and acceptability of a school-based Multicomponent training (MCT) strategy in the training of four teachers of students with severe disabilities in the use of simultaneous prompting (SP). The MCT strategy utilized demonstrated the efficacy of a research-based performance feedback process.
Published: 2014
Updated: Jun. 14, 2015
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This paper reports the findings from the first nationwide survey of Australian primary pre-service teacher educators coordinating units and programmes with CBM content. Stand-alone units were offered in 68% of programmes and embedded in 96% of programmes. They commonly included applied behaviour analysis, decisive discipline, positive behaviour intervention and support, and choice theory/reality therapy, among the 36 approaches/models listed. More than half of the stand-alone units and only 20% of embedded units were coordinated by an academic with a stated CBM research interests.
Published: 2012
Updated: Nov. 25, 2013
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The aim of the project was to explore the impact of a small-scale, personalized professional learning project on the opportunities that teachers provided for students to communicate and on their responsiveness to potentially communicative behavior. The project activity was based on the principles described by Gersten and colleagues. It was found that there was an increase in the opportunities teachers offered, with larger effects in two of the classes.
Published: 2011
Updated: Aug. 29, 2011
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The article describes a project which aimed to explore the implementation of a new model of pedagogy to the education of severely disabled students. The study included an analysis of the development of communication skills relating to deep knowledge, deep understanding and high order thinking. The study results point at a pedagogy framework that can be applied to teach cognitive skills that are usually taught by teachers of normally developing students.
Published: 2007
Updated: Jan. 10, 2008