Enabling Behaviors Exhibited by Selected Virginia Postsecondary Vocational Technical Instructors.

Autor/inn/en	Smick, Regina A.; Crunkilton, John R.
Titel	Enabling Behaviors Exhibited by Selected Virginia Postsecondary Vocational Technical Instructors.
Quelle	(1989), (5 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Community Colleges; Critical Thinking; Instructional Effectiveness; Modeling (Psychology); Postsecondary Education; Questioning Techniques; Teacher Effectiveness; Teacher Role; Teaching Models; Teaching Styles; Vocational Education Teachers; Virginia; Flanders System of Interaction Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Community college; Community College; Kritisches Denken; Unterrichtserfolg; Modeling; Modelling; Modellierung; Post-secondary education; Tertiäre Bildung; Befragungstechnik; Fragetechnik; Effectiveness of teaching; Instructional effectiveness; Lehrerleistung; Lehrerrolle; Lehrmodell; Lehrstil; Unterrichtsstil; Ausbilder
Abstract	Thirty postsecondary vocational technical instructors from five community colleges in Virginia were observed using the Flanders Interaction Analysis System for 30 minutes to detect their use of three of four behaviors determined to be enabling to learners. The additional enabling behavior of modeling was determined through 15 minutes of passive observation. The enabling behavior of questioning was found to be used in approximately 4 percent of class time, whereas for 80 percent of class time, instructors were exhibiting structuring behavior. Responding behaviors were practiced by the instructors for about 11 percent of total class time. The study concluded that (1) the community college instructors observed are not using the enabling behavior of questioning that "best" stimulates critical thinking or modeling behaviors that will enhance students' abilities to think critically; (2) the amount of pedagogical course work taken by the teachers did not seem to influence the teachers' use of enabling behavior; and (3) the students thought their instructors were stimulating critical thinking. Further research and more training for college instructors in using enabling behaviors were recommended. (KC)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC