What can we learn about teachers' professional vision from eye-tracking data?

Sokolová, L.¹, Lemešová, M.^1
1Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Education, Račianska 59, 813 34, Bratislava

 

Submission type

Poster only

Scheduled

Poster Sessions 3 (15.00-15.30)

Keywords

professional vision, teachers, eye-tracking, personality

Summary

Professional vision is considered to be one of the important parts of teachers’ classroom management skills. It is advisable to train these skills both in pre-gradual and continuing teacher education. Current research in educational psychology helps understand how teachers develop their professional vision in the course of the practice and opens new training opportunities. The aim of this study is to summarize and discuss the results of the project VEGA 1/0409/17 “Teachers' personality and professional vision related to dealing with challenging situations in the classroom during the transition into service”. We analysed personality profiles, eye-tracking data and verbal comments on four classroom situations from 106 pre-service and in-service teachers. The triangulation of these data revealed that the vision patterns differ not only across career levels, there are also differences related to the personality variables and the situational context. Based on our results, suggestions for teacher education and psychology courses for teachers are discussed.

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