Teachers’ preferences to contemporary teaching practices that include interaction. Benefits, disadvantages and possible difficulties in their implementation.

Teachers’ preferences to contemporary teaching practices that include interaction. Benefits, disadvantages and possible difficulties in their implementation.

Teachers’ preferences to contemporary teaching practices that include interaction. Benefits, disadvantages and possible difficulties in their implementation.

Stavros Giotas

Abstract

"It is evident that the latest years traditional “passive” teaching practices, which are undoubtedly teacher-centered, are inclined to disappear. The current educational system has transitioned to a student-centered scheme and several scholars have studied the use of various interactive teaching practices, in regular and multicultural SLL contexts. Also, there have been studies about the effects of these practices to students’ education and both their benefits and challenges during their implementation. The purpose of this study is firstly to examine how Greek teachers in multicultural classes of primary education, perceive interaction and its effect regarding the current educational system. Secondly, to identify which specific practices teachers prefer to use during their lesson and the ways that they implement them. Last but not least, to detect which are the possible benefits, drawbacks and challenges of these practices during their implementation. The study includes interviews with ten teachers of primary education that have teaching experience with students that acquire Greek as second language. It is a qualitative study, in which have been used semi-structured interviews with open-ended questions, in order for the data to be collected. The paper starts with an introduction to the study and continues with a theoretical background, which explains the basic terms and issues that are presented in the paper. Afterwards, is presented the adopted methodology and is followed by the findings of the study. Based on the latter, the most crucial points of perspectives about interaction, interactive teaching practices and both their benefits and disadvantages/challenges that were suggested by the literature have been identified. The paper closes with a conclusion and some recommendations for further research."

Reference

Giotas, S. (2025). Teachers’ preferences to contemporary teaching practices that include interaction: Benefits, disadvantages and possible difficulties in their implementation (Master’s thesis). University of Central Florida. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/etd2023/23/

Keywords

Interactive Teaching Practices, Student-Centered Learning, Multicultural Classrooms