The main purpose with this study is to describe teachers? use of textbooks and other teaching materials in upper secondary school (gymnasiet) in Sweden, and to discuss the use according to school subject and teacher style. Data was collected in two different ways. At first twenty classroom observations were made during lectures concerning the subjects Swedish (mothertounge), English (foreign language) and religion. Then four open interviews were carried out with the teaching teachers.

Eklind, Ann-kristin & Elvirsson, Lars (2007). Lärarrollens förändring genom Teknikcollege. Changes in role of the vocational teacher through technical college. Syftet med detta arbete har varit att studera förändringar av yrkeslärarrollen utifrån visioner av teknikcollegesamverkansformen. Näringslivet ställer krav på engagerade lärarteam med målbilden klar för eleven.

Title: Brain Gym®? An approach to increase self-knowledge in situations of learning?- A study at the Malmö Academy of Music from a teacher and student perspective. Brain Gym® is a method developed by Paul Dennison in his studies of physiology and aims to eliminate potential blockages during the process of learning. During the influence of stress, as in learning, we do not possess a total access to our perceptive ability. Instead we are limited to our so called dominance profile.

This study means to research the importance and significance of the social and informal learning opportunities offered at a workplace. With Wenger?s theory about social learning and communities of practice as a starting point, this study will create understanding about how teachers at a school comprehend their opportunities for learning within the teacher community. The study is conducted at an independent school in Sweden, and is based on interviews with eight of the teachers employed at the school. The purpose of the study was to research how employees perceive how their social interactions with their colleagues can create learning, and what obstacles they might face along the way.

My purpose with this study was partly to examine how some Swedish science teachers teach and their knowledge of the science curriculum, and how this affects their teaching. I also aimed to compare the Swedish and Irish science curriculum. The method I undertook to achieve this study was to carry out six interviews with science teachers in Sweden. I also completed a text analyse of both the Swedish & Irish science curriculum. The results of the interviews showed that the teachers think the curriculum is important but they do not always keep to it.

In outdoor education the empirical outdoor experience is an important basis for a learning process ? the teacher can affect learning with the choice of location. In order to develop the model in school, we need to build on teachers' perception of how their every day schoolwork looks like. This paper takes as its starting point at three teachers' perception of their learning environment and outdoor environments as well as a theoretical model of the site's importance in the learning process. The paper addresses both the importance of a structured and a unstructured meeting with outdoor sites.

The purpose of this study is to gain knowledge about how teachers in preschool regard their participation in children's play. Through this study you will get an insight into how teachers' involvement affects children's learning. I have chosen to look at the study from a socio-cultural perspective.The study is based on qualitative interviews with four pre-school teachers.The result shows that teachers believe that it is important to attend in children's play to support, challenge and develop their play. One sees that teachers take different roles based on the needs of the children?s group, such as actively participate in the play, being a supportive teacher, serve as inspiration or to be an observer.

Syftet med studien är att bidra med kunskap om hur pedagogerna synliggör matematiken genom lek i sandlådan tillsammans med barnen. Två metoder har valts för att kunna undersöka detta vilka är ostrukturerade observationer och semistrukturerade intervjuer. Dessa metoder valdes för att kunna komplettera varandra för att få fram ett så tydligt resultat som möjligt.I resultatet framgår det att pedagogernas medvetenhet om vilken matematik som sker i sandlådan har stor betydelse. Pedagogerna bör vara delaktiga i barnens sandlådelek för att vara med och benämna olika matematiska begrepp som förekommer i leken. Genom att pedagogerna benämner matematiken så synliggörs den för barnen.

The study focuses on the use of poetry in language teaching in the lower grades in the Swedish school. Poetry has a reputation of being an art form with such specific rules and structures that children and teachers think that it is something that they do not have the ability to work with.  The purpose of this study is to get an understanding of how poetry is used in educating children. My research is based on the following questions. To which extent is poetry being used in schools and how is it being used?Can you as a teacher see any effects on childrens language development by using poetry?As a part of my study I have met with and interviewed four different people, who in one way or another is involved in teaching children. Two working teachers in the lower grades, one pedagogical resource and one artist that work with teachers in reaching different goals through the help of aesthetic processes.

This paper set out to investigate how teachers of Swedish in Sweden implement the grammar objectives of the curriculum in their teaching, through interviewing six teachers. It has been important to compare their methods to modern research of grammar teaching and teaching in general. They have been asked a series of questions to answer whether or not they use grammar terminology as mediating tools, if they intergrate dialogue among students in grammar teaching and to what extent the teachers? knowledge of and attitude towards grammar influence their teaching methods. The results show that grammar is used as mediating tools primarily when it comes to feedback on pupils? texts, though not to a great extent; dialogue between pupils is rare when it comes to grammar teaching; and the teachers? grammar knowledge and attitude affect the teaching methods, primarily in the sense that seeing value in grammar knowledge increases the teacher?s desire to develop new methods for grammar teaching..

The purpose of the essay is to study documentation of teachers in reports of students? development at school. The study will concentrate on what teachers write in the reports, to what degree the written text refers to the aims of the Swedish curriculum and also to study what kind of language the teachers use in the reports, based on theories of professional language. The material used consists of written reports from two classes, one in the 6th and one in the 8th grade from two different schools. The reports come from six teachers altogether, and the text has been divided in phrases which have been categorized in different groups depending on the content and the language used.

Empati och självkänsla hos kvinnliga pedagogerAnna IwarsonSyftet med denna studie var att se om det fanns ett samband mellan empati och självkänsla hos pedagoger. En enkätundersökning med 38 kvinnliga pedagoger genomfördes där de fick läsa fiktiva berättelser och skriva ner sina upplevelser av berättelserna. Studiens resultat visade inte något samband mellan empati och självkänsla. Däremot visade resultatet att empatin varierade med situationen: de äldre uppvisade mer empati än de yngre för en berättelse om att mista ett husdjur, samtidigt som de yngre uppvisade mer empati än de äldre för en berättelse som handlade om att mista en förälder. Resultatet visade även att bassjälvkänslan var högre hos respondenterna i medelåldern.

SammanfattningSyfte och frågeställningarSyftet med den här studien är att undersöka vad lärare har för tankar om hälsa och hur deras tankar påverkar undervisningen inom ämnet idrott och hälsa.  De huvudfrågorna som har ställts i den här studien var: Vad är lärarnas tankar om hälsa? Vad lär idrottslärarna ut om hälsa under idrott och hälsa lektionerna? På vilka sätt görs hälsoundervisningen meningsfull inom idrottsämnet? Hur kan idrottslärare utveckla området hälsa inom idrottsämnet i skolan? MetodAnsatsen är den kvalitativa där det utvalda verktyget är intervju med öppna frågor. Utöver de huvudfrågorna skapades det underfrågor för att föra diskussionen.  Lärare som är yrkeserfarna och utbildade inom idrottsämnet hade eftersökts.  Dessa egenskaper var ett krav eftersom frågeställningarna berör hälsa inom ämnet idrott och hälsa. Intervjuerna utfördes antingen på plats eller via telefon och intervjufrågorna skickades i förväg.  Samtalen spelades in och transkriberades elektroniskt.  Alla lärarnas svar samlades under respektive fråga för att underlätta analysen.  Svaren relaterades till den salutogena modellen.ResultatSex tillfrågade lärare från Stor-Stockholm och sydöstra Sverige deltog. Idrottslärares tankar om hälsa handlade generellt om att ha en fysisk och psykisk hälsa så att man orkar med sin vardag mentalt.

Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) is a relatively new method for learning a foreign language. CLIL programs are growing in popularity and more and more schools are adopting it all around the world. There is still no special education for the teachers working with CLIL, though research suggests it may be an effective method for achieving good results.To get a realistic view of the work of a CLIL teacher, I have interviewed four different mathematic teachers who work at CLIL international schools in Spain with English as the foreign language. I have compared their methods and experiences with the main ideas of current research in this particular field.The survey shows that the teachers? views about how CLIL is to be used do not completely correspond to that of the research.

AbstractBy finding out the pupils' choice of strategies for problem solving, we as teachers, can get a better understanding of their way of thinking, and thus also help them develop in their learning of mathematics. In a classroom environment where several different strategies could be found, the pupils' learning is facilitated as they, with the help of classmates, find positive and negative attributes of different kinds of strategies. The pupils are, in other words, each other's resources, rather than competitors. The main point is that the classroom environment, as well as the role of the teacher in the classroom, are both key elements for good mathematics learning.In order to increase the understanding of the pupils' choice of learning strategies, a survey was performed based on two school classes, one third grade and one six grade class at the same school. Both classes received the same mathematical problem to work with, and the strategies observed were analyzed and compared.