Özet:
The current study is an educational design research on the design, implementation and
evaluation a differentiated pedagogy (called Multimodal Pedagogical Model) which is
aimed at improving representational competence skills of teachers of gifted (ToG). It
was aimed to describe design process of the model and developmental process of ToG
during and after the intervention.
Participants were chosen by convenience sampling. The six teachers voluntarily
accepted to participate. Two of them are male, four of them are female. Data were
collected through multimodal representations designed by the teachers, the
interpretations made by them to their representations, the discussions made on designs
and model during classrooms, and the interviews realized with participants and experts.
Data obtained from artefacts were analyzed according to the analytical frameworks
improved by the researcher. Interviews and discussions were analyzed qualitatively
through content analysis.
At the end of the micro cycle 1 and 2, findings showed that teachers gained abilities of
identifying, but they were not qualified at selecting/designing and evaluating
multimodal representations. At the end of the micro cycle 3 and 4, findings revealed
that teachers were able to design different types of multimodal representations, but also
they were able to identify different types of intermodal mechanisms, and for what
purposes they designed. At the end of the micro cycle 5, results indicated that teachers
were able to identify and analyze adequacy of multimodal representations, they were
also able to criticize to what extent the representation reflects the intermodal relations
pointed. Briefly, these parameters showed that teachers can be called as
representational competent.
At the end of the educational design research, the MpM and its design principles
revealed as a result of all these iterations in a solid structure/a desirable design.
Findings revealed that applying the MpM and its principles improve representational
competence skills of ToG.
