Teachers' perceptions on self-directed professional learning in Newfoundland and Labrador
Bibliographic record
Abstract
To fill a gap in the literature with regard to teacher self-directed professional learning practices in Newfoundland and Labrador context, this qualitative study explored the experiences and perceptions that teachers have about professional learning programs and practices, with a focus on the role of teachers as adult learners, in the planning of such programs. For this purpose, this study employed a phenomenological approach to document and explore representations of the lived experiences of nine (9) teachers [four (4) male and five (5) female] through in-depth semi-structured interviews. These participants were teaching at the elementary, junior high, and high schools in the greater St. John’s area, with one participant from Corner Brook. Based on the representations of the nine participants in this study, self-directed professional learning seems to be practiced by teachers in Newfoundland and Labrador, and the teachers interviewed say they are continuously improving their teaching skills through a variety forms of formal and informal learning strategies. The findings also show that the quality of professional learning programs seems to have improved. There is a reasonable balance between teachers’ professional needs and the system’s priorities in terms of teacher professional learning’s contents and focus, and teachers feel they have been able to contribute to the planning of formal professional learning programs in a number of ways. The research also identified some challenges such as insufficient time; lack of facility or reluctance to use technology; lack of support, anxiety and isolation among learners, and; risk of low reward for invested time and effort. Recommendations for educational leaders and areas for further research are suggested.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".