基于实践课程的实习教师身份认同考究

作为实践类课程的教育实习,可以为高师学生提供真实的身份体验场域。在此场域之下,实习教师经历着原有学生身份的顺延、教师身份认同焦虑以及他者镜像下的群体身份认同、自我建构后的教师身份自觉等几个阶段。在充满教育意义的实习实践中,实习教师完成的是"此刻我是谁"的身份认同,实习教师既可能在今后的专业生命历程中进一步建构其教师身份,也可能削弱乃至摧毁教师感觉,从而在教师个体的职业生涯中形成身份的断裂。     

论在教育实习中如何培养师范生的身份认同感

教师的身份认同对于推进课程改革的顺利实现具有重要的现实意义,在教育实习过程中,撰写实习日记、构建学习共同体、建立新型师徒关系、协作反思等是培养师范生的教师身份认同的有效方式。     

话语在实习教师职业认同中的作用

专业身份(认同)作为教师教育的重要组成部分,目前已成为教师教育研究关注的热点问题.实习(职前)教师对教师职业身份认同的实现是实习教师不断与实习环境的多种构成要素之间互动的结果.在实习环境的构成要素中,人际互动对实习生身份认同的影响最大,而人际话语沟通是人际互动中最显著的方式.文章通过个案展现了话语在一位硕士实习教师对小学教师职业认同过程中所起的作用.认同的过程是在外部权威话语和内部话语的张力作用中伴随着自我效能感的提高而实现的.     

师范实习生身份认同过程

对于高等师范大学的学生而言,四年大学教育经历促使个体反思性地理解"教师是谁""我是谁""我的教育信念是什么"等问题。在四年大学的教育经历中,高师学生不断地建构着个体的身份认同。相比较而言,作为实践类课程的教育实习,可以为高师学生提供真实的身份体验场域,促使实习教师在实践层面上真正体验到教师之感,这种来自实践层面的体验会积淀在个体的生命之中。学生身份的顺延在教育实习实践中,实习教师经历着原有学生身份的顺延、教师身份认同焦虑以及他者镜像下的群体身份认同、自我建构后的教师身份自觉等几个阶段。     

从情态意义看实习教师身份认同重构——基于个案的研究

采用个案研究的方法,通过从情态意义的角度分析一位无指导教师的英语专业实习生H的话语,试图了解非师徒式方式下实习教师身份认同发展的过程及其特点.结果表明:实习生H的教师身份认同经历了从稳固状态到“模糊和反思”状态的转变,且较长时间地处于后者;而在其身份认同重构的过程中,H能够选择更符合自己教学观的身份认同.案例研究表明:在当今较为普遍的师徒制实习模式中,指导教师应给实习生更多的自由空间,从而使实习生的教师身份认同更健康自然地发展.     

师范生实习期间身份认同的困境与出路

身份认同是教师主动建构的对教师职业身份的主观认知,它对教师专业发展有着重要的作用。对于师范生而言,实习期间建构的身份认同会直接影响此后的职业生涯。由于多年"学生"身份造就的"身份惯习"与高师院校实践课程的不当导向,当前师范生实习期间的身份建构一定程度上陷入"个体身份迷茫""社会身份游弋""专业身份混沌"的认同困境。可从"强化专业情意教育""注重实践课程的正确导向""引入合宜的实习评价"等方面入手,帮助师范生在实习期间建构合宜的身份认同。     

顶岗实习：合法的边缘性参与——泰山学院教师教育模式创新

基于对现代教师教育模式的反思与审查,教师教育逐步由个人认知取向的“知识中心论“转型为“身份”与“知识”并重的人类学的教师教育模式.其方式是将“顶岗实习”作为创新点,通过让大学生“合法的边缘性参与”中小学教学实践共同体来形成身份认同和专业知识.建构专业身份认同是教师教育的核心,建构与身份相适应的专业知识是教师教育的重要内涵.自2010年以来,泰山学院教师教育学院以顶岗实习为突破口,让师范生通过“合法的边缘性参与”中小学的教学实践,以此推动教师教育实践的转型,实现了教师教育模式创新.     

基于电子对话的混合编队教育实习模型

单科集中定点的实习模式有许多弊端,混合编队教育实习模式整合了多学科的实习生与指导教师到一实习点,容易得到实习学校的支持与认同,但在实践中存在的问题是实习生在教育实习过程中难以得到指导教师的专业支持。本研究提出了一个基于电子对话的混合编队教育实习模型,以此促进实习点、实习生与指导教师的协作与对话,提高教育实习指导效率,促进实习生主体意识的形成和完善教育实习评价。     

中加职前教师教育实习课程比较——RLTESECC项目交换生实习经历的启示

职前教师教育实习课程对于职前教师实践能力及其身份认同的培养至关重要.研究选取“中国与加拿大教师教育和学校教育互惠学习”项目(RLTESECC)中6名赴加拿大的交换生作为研究个案,通过深度访谈,基于情境学习理论对中加的职前教师教育实习课程进行了跨文化比较研究,挖掘两国实习课程中值得互惠互鉴的方面,以期对中加实习课程的互惠学习和改进提供参考.     

我国中小学心理教师身份认同感现状分析

学生心理健康问题是目前我国中小学教育中一个比较突出的问题,而心理教师是学校心理健康教育的实施者,他们对自身的身份认同程度的高低直接影响了中小学心理健康教育的效果.受多方面因素影响,目前我国中小学心理教师身份认同模糊,甚至出现偏差,主要表现在专业认同、功能认同及自我评价等方面存在着误区.     

Conceptions of mentoring: An empirical study of conceptions of mentoring during the school-based teacher education

This article discusses the mentoring given by the mentor (cooperating teacher) during the practical part of teacher training. This mentoring is empirically described by studying and describing how it is conceived of by a group of mentors and student teachers. The differences in conceptions found concerning the functions are discussed in terms of a reflecting and a taken-for-granted perspective of professional knowledge of teachers. As regards conceptions of the content, it is discussed whether student teachers' practice teaching is an object of reflection or an occasion for practice. Conceptions and patterns of behaviour as regards the form of mentoring are discussed in terms of a principle-oriented strategy and an episode-oriented strategy. The variation described in this way in terms of the disparate perspectives could reflect different types of theoretical awareness of the phenomenon of mentoring that exist among mentors and student teachers.     

Mentoring support and the professional development of beginning teachers: a Chinese perspective

For a long time, there has been a tradition in China of experienced teachers helping beginning teachers. This empirical school study investigates the kinds of support that are provided by eight dyads of mentoring teacher and first‐year secondary school teachers in Guangzhou of southern China and the major factors affecting mentoring support. In addition, this research focuses on the professional development of first‐year teachers in areas of subject knowledge, student, teaching and classroom management. The findings reveal that mentors provide four forms of support: provision of information, mutual lesson observation, collaborative lesson preparation and discussion in the office. Factors affecting mentoring support include teaching workload, grade and subject, style of mentor–protégé interactions, relationships between mentor and mentee, incentives for the mentors, and collegial culture in the case study schools. It is notable that there are positive and negative developments perceived by the protégé and the foci of mentoring tend to be the teaching of content rather than curriculum and pedagogy.     

Technical Communication Teachers as Mentors in the Classroom: Extending an Invitation to Students

In this article, we argue that mentoring of technical communication students must occur within the classroom. In our survey of students, we found that most students felt they had not been mentored. In our ethnography, we found that although students could define the term “mentor”, many were conflicted about its value. This confusion made students less likely to seek out or recognize mentoring opportunities. Students recognized mentoring practices that teachers implemented; however, they did not necessarily identify those practices as “mentoring”. We conclude that confusion arose from students' ambiguous views about mentoring and the lack of standard mentoring practices in the humanities. Therefore, teachers who intend to mentor in the classroom must (a) be more explicit in implementing elements that distinguish mentoring from teaching (e.g., intent and involvement), (b) extend an invitation to students to be mentored, and (c) help students develop a professional identity.     

Key experiences in student teachers’ development

This study focuses on the question of why student teachers stay in teaching even after a profound ‘practice shock,’ i.e., a shock that in itself seems to characterize the complex and emotionally challenging first year of student teaching. Using a line drawing technique, the study investigates student teachers’ views of their first year of teaching by examining how they picture their development, their key experiences during that development, and the ways in which they coped with these experiences. The results suggest that most student teachers perceive their own development not as a steadily ascending line as is often suggested by research on the development of teachers’ professional identity. Instead, we now surmise that most student teachers view their development as a path with highs and lows that include transformative moments or periods. This relates to the idea of transformative learning and to theories on identity development that suggest people need a crisis for identity development to occur. During such a crisis, we saw that student teachers explicitly reconsidered their connections to teaching and that this reconsideration led to a regained motivation for teaching. It appeared that supervisors or mentor teachers played a significant role in first‐year (student) teachers’ regaining motivation for teaching.     

“They made me feel like a teacher rather than a praccie”: sinking or swimming in pre-service drama education

Support, professional guidance and modelling of teaching practice offered by quality mentor teachers are important components in preparing teachers for the profession. Yet research confirms the impact of poor mentoring on pre-service teachers’ developing pedagogy. This paper reports findings from a qualitative study with pre-service drama teachers and their mentors as a way of better understanding how mentoring impacts their developing pedagogy, in a learning area that is highly interactive and relational. Data comprised of observations of planning and teaching, participant interviews, journals and field notes representing five pre-service drama teachers’ experience of mentors during an extended teaching practicum. These data revealed the considerable variance and disparities in mentoring styles and quality and the repercussions for the pre-service drama teachers. The discussion addresses the implications of these findings in light of those mentor attributes identified as most conducive to creating competent and confident beginning drama teachers.     

Extending the apprenticeship of observation: how mentee experiences shape mentors

Although the importance of mentor teachers in clinical teacher preparation is well established, few researchers explore the social identity development of these individuals. Through our study we contribute to the body of research by exploring mentor teachers’ social identity development through the concept of Apprenticeship of Observation – specifically, how they felt their own mentoring experiences influenced their approaches to mentoring. The multi-case study includes findings about mentoring beliefs and practices during the laboratory school component of an Alternate Route to Licensure program. Incorporating semi-structured interviews and video analysis, the findings demonstrate how four mentor teachers’ prior experiences as mentees – including Alternate Route to Licensure, traditional teacher preparation programs, and inservice teaching – influenced their interactions with teacher candidates as mentors. Recommendations for practice and implications for future research are provided.     

Experiences of beginning teachers in a school‐based mentoring program in Sweden

Even though teacher education has been successful in preparing students for their future profession, the classroom reality can differ greatly from the inservice training. Many novice teachers therefore find the transition from student teacher to inservice teacher overwhelming To support beginning teachers, mentoring programs—where more experienced teachers support novice teachers—have become commonplace in many schools worldwide. In Sweden, mentoring for beginning teachers has been a frequent feature of support since 2001. This study, conducted in Sweden, examines seven novice teachers and the impact the mentoring process had upon them during their first‐year teaching. Based on interviews, it was found that these experienced both professional and personal support from their mentors. The study also showed the significance of observant leaders within the mentorship program following up on the development of the mentor–mentee relationship.     

Mentor teacher professional identity development in a year-long teacher residency

In this article I examined the professional identity development of five mentor teachers in a year-long, clinically rich teacher residency partnered between a university-based teacher education program and schools in a southern state of the United States. Qualitative data were collected through classroom observation and individual semi-structured interviews with a focus on participants’ mentoring activities and the ways they enacted and described their identities. Participants came to new mentoring beliefs and practices as they navigated the residency and developed a multifaceted identity to mediate their learning to become mentors and teacher educators. Implications for mentor teacher professional support, teacher preparation, and future research were discussed.     

Contexts of mentoring and opportunities for learning to teach: a comparative study of mentoring practice

Drawing on data from twenty-three US, UK, and Chinese mentor teachers, this study explores the relationship between contexts of mentoring and mentoring practice. It discusses learning opportunities created by mentoring in different contexts for novices to learn to teach. Through comparative analysis, it finds that mentoring practices show greater differences across programs and countries than within. This is the case even when mentors are practicing or moving toward practicing a kind of teaching as expected by education reformers. These differences are reflected in mentors’ beliefs about what novices need to learn, their interaction patterns and foci with novices. Three instructional contexts in each setting shape such differences: structure of school curriculum and assessment, organization of teaching and mentoring, and student population. These findings suggest that the reform-minded teaching practice that mentors developed does not necessarily guarantee the effective mentoring that supports teacher learning and teaching reform. Teacher educators should pay attention to the influences of instructional contexts on mentoring and the kinds of learning opportunities that mentoring creates for novice teachers in different contexts. When designing mentoring programs and arranging mentoring relationships, teacher educators need to consider how to restructure school contexts and help mentors learn how to mentor.