La formación de maestros y la promoción de la competencia comunicativa de alumnos sordos

La mejora de la educación de alumnos sordos en contextos escolares inclusivos requiere la formación de maestros en relación con sus estrategias para promover la competencia comunicativa de sus alumnos. El objetivo de la investigación es mejorar las estrategias de una maestra de una escuela inclusiva de Brasil a través de una formación docente con el fin de promover la competencia comunicativa de sus alumnos. Los participantes son la maestra bilingüe y tres alumnos sordos de educación infantil. Los instrumentos utilizados son: 1) la aplicación digital EVALOE-SSD para la formación, y 2) un cuestionario de valoración final. Durante cuatro meses la maestra utilizó la aplicación para autoevaluar sus clases, tomar decisiones, e introducir cambios en su práctica docente y al final respondió al cuestionario de valoración final. Durante el mismo período, el equipo de investigación realizó tres observaciones en el aula y las evaluó con la misma aplicación. Los resultados indican que la formación supone un reto para la maestra, así como mejoras en su práctica docente y en la competencia comunicativa de los alumnos en lengua de signos. Se derivan implicaciones para la formación inicial de maestras de alumnos sordos

Empowering teachers' self assessment of their own practice on student's oral skills: EVALOE decision support system

School is an essential context that contributes to children's communicative competence. Decision Support Systems (DSS) are tools that can help teachers to assess their own practice and to make decisions to improve it (Gregg, 2009). Our aim is the construction, implementation and validation of a digital Decision Support System (EVALOE-DSS), conceived as a teacher empowerment tool for self-assessment and decision making about their teaching practice concerning students' oral skills. Participants are 4 teachers and their groups of students of 4 diverse schools. The research procedure includes: 1) design and development of a DSS for different type of schools; 2) researcher assessment of one classroom observation using EVALOE-DSS; 3) weekly teacher self-assessment of classroom observation and decision making using EVALOE-DSS; 4) analysis of self-assessments, decision making and changes in teaching practices; 5) teacher-researcher assessment of the helpfulness of DSS and introduction of changes. EVALOE-DSS is a multimedia tool consisting of 30 items that assess 5 dimensions: teaching management, instructional design, communicative functions and teacher strategies, students' communicative functions, and students' management. It includes, also, a brief description of each item and a variety of resources to help teachers to make decisions and introduce the actions in their teaching practice.Peer ReviewedPostprint (author's final draft

Empowering teachers' self assessment of their own practice on student's oral skills: EVALOE decision support system

School is an essential context that contributes to children's communicative competence. Decision Support Systems (DSS) are tools that can help teachers to assess their own practice and to make decisions to improve it (Gregg, 2009). Our aim is the construction, implementation and validation of a digital Decision Support System (EVALOE-DSS), conceived as a teacher empowerment tool for self-assessment and decision making about their teaching practice concerning students' oral skills. Participants are 4 teachers and their groups of students of 4 diverse schools. The research procedure includes: 1) design and development of a DSS for different type of schools; 2) researcher assessment of one classroom observation using EVALOE-DSS; 3) weekly teacher self-assessment of classroom observation and decision making using EVALOE-DSS; 4) analysis of self-assessments, decision making and changes in teaching practices; 5) teacher-researcher assessment of the helpfulness of DSS and introduction of changes. EVALOE-DSS is a multimedia tool consisting of 30 items that assess 5 dimensions: teaching management, instructional design, communicative functions and teacher strategies, students' communicative functions, and students' management. It includes, also, a brief description of each item and a variety of resources to help teachers to make decisions and introduce the actions in their teaching practice.Peer Reviewe