英文摘要 |
This study proposes a theoretical framework for collaborative inquiry that helps teachers to keep their focus on students' learning performances during classroom observations and the following discussions, and aims to investigate the difficulties teacher face. Four teachers and one administrator from an elementary school were invited to participate in the study. The participants were required to undertake four classroom observations and the following post-observation debriefings, based on a collaborative inquiry framework, over the course of three months. The data, including written notes, dialogue voices in post-observation debriefings, and the semi-structured interview transcripts of each participant, were collected and triangulated. The study demonstrated that the participating teachers paid more attention to the low-achieving students' problematic behavior rather than to the students' cognitive difficulties in learning their material. During the post-observation debriefing, the participating teachers did not discuss adaptive teaching strategies. Moreover, they were willing to listen to one another and have dialogues concerned with developing a more positive teaching culture. However, due to their lack of collective reflection on the most favorable means of instruction, the teachers' collaborative culture still presented a challenge. The primary goal of this study was to help teachers to modify their negative attitudes toward classroom observations and post-observation debriefings. If schoolteachers want to support students' achievements as well as to promote their own professional development by implementing classroom observation and post-observation debriefings, further training in the diagnosis of students' learning difficulties and further culture collective reflection on instructional strategies could be considered. |