反思性实践教师教育模式及其对职前外语教师教育的启示

文章分析了反思、教学反思性实践的内涵,介绍了反思性实践的教师教育模式及其意义,并提出了反思性实践职前外语教师教育的启示:制定以实践为导向的职前外语教师培养目标、以实践为导向的职前外语教师教育课程设置、职前外语教师反思能力的发展、教师教育者思想观念的跟进。     

反思性教学的文化理据、范型与方法

在教师专业化发展的语境下,开展反思性教学及其研究是外语教师实现专业化发展的必由之路。反思性心理学、批判理论、后现代主义和学校探究文化等理论为反思性教学及其研究提供了文化理据;高尔与巴特莱特、麦克塔格特与凯米斯等学者也提出了相应的开展反思性教学的研究范式。实践反思、叙事反思、合作反思和资源反思等方法有助于外语教师开展反思性教学和实现专业成长。     

外语教师专业发展的反思性教学视角探究

反思性教学是教师教育研究关注的核心问题,能有效促进教师专业发展.文章从反思性教学的视角,分析了教学反思在外语教师专业发展中的重要作用.反思性教学对教师专业发展具有很强的实效性.在以专业知识和教学经验为基础的教学实践活动中,外语教师对教学中存在的问题要有高度的敏锐意识,善于分析问题,寻求解决问题的办法,改进教学方法和手段,规范教学行为,提高教学质量,实现教师的专业发展.     

反思性外语教学研究述论

反思性外语教学是反思性教学一般理论与外语教学特点的结合。西方学者对反思性外语教学具体过程和外语教师教育反思模式的描述,从课堂教学的视角对反思性外语教学的理论与实践和外语教师自我发展等的探讨,以及我国学者对反思性(外语)教学的引介与研究,均有力地推动了反思性外语教学理论与实践的发展。目前,我国专业研究者和教师对反思性外语教学的研究出现了与具体教学情境相结合、逐步重视教学实践的研究趋势,但我国实际具有中国特色的反思性外语教学理论完整的体系尚未建立。     

反思性外语教学与教师专业发展

随着外语教育改革和教学科研的不断深入,教师的专业发展已经成为提高外语教学质量的关键,而教师专业发展的核心就是反思。通过对反思性外语教学的内涵、特点、实施过程及反思策略的分析,指出教师的专业成长应以反思实践为基本路径,在教学中开展反思性教学能使外语教师走出经验的误区,建立和发展自身的教学风格和教学理念,将教学和科研融为一体,最终实现自我完善。     

反思性外语教学与教师专业发展

随着外语教育改革和教学科研的不断深入,教师的专业发展已经成为提高外语教学质量的关键,而教师专业发展的核心就是反思.通过对反思性外语教学的内涵、特点、实施过程及反思策略的分析,指出教师的专业成长应以反思实践为基本路径,在教学中开展反思性教学能使外语教师走出经验的误区,建立和发展自身的教学风格和教学理念,将教学和科研融为一体,最终实现自我完善.     

反思性外语教学研究述论

反思性外语教学是反思性教学一般理论与外语教学特点的结合.西方学者对反思性外语教学具体过程和外语教师教育反思模式的描述,从课堂教学的视角对反思性外语教学的理论与实践和外语教师自我发展等的探讨,以及我国学者对反思性(外语)教学的引介与研究,均有力地推动了反思性外语教学理论与实践的发展.目前,我国专业研究者和教师对反思性外语教学的研究出现了与具体教学情境相结合、逐步重视教学实践的研究趋势,但我国实际具有中国特色的反思性外语教学理论完整的体系尚未建立.     

反思性教学促进外语教师专业发展

文章阐述了反思性教学的意义、特征和途径,探讨了外语教师通过运用反思性教学,不断对自己的教学实践进行反思,进行自我设计、自我追求、自我完善,从而促进外语教师专业发展。     

反思性教学在大学英语课堂的应用

近年来,随着教师专业化研究的不断深入,反思性教学已成为外语教师教育研究的一个新课题。该文从"反思"这一概念着手,着重介绍用行动研究法在外语课堂展开反思性教学的研究过程。教师通过对课前的规划、课堂观察与分析、课后的反思以及对自己教学的自我反省,将自己的教学理论与实践切实的结合了起来,从而提高了教师自身专业化程度,促进了外语教师自身发展。     

关于反思性实践课程中职前教师学生意识发展变化的调查研究

本文通过对海南师范大学外语系2006级实习生的实习进行跟踪调查并整理分析其实习文本,发现职前教师的学生意识以及对教学的理解在反思性实践课程前后有很大的变化。影响职前教师学生意识和教学理解发生变化的主要因素有以下几个方面:职前教师的教师理想和专业基础、实践、个人反思及各种互动性反思形式,如:反思会,与实践导师和教师教育者的交流、与同伴教师的合作与交流。其中实践与反思是影响职前教师学习教学的关键因素,尤其是各种不同的互动性反思对职前教师学生意识和教学理解产生了极为重大的影响。     

“To make the tacit explicit”: Teacher education, emerging discourse, and conceptions of teaching

The influence of teacher education on teaching is a problematic area, both in practice and in research. Often, because much research adopts a “first-order” perspective which focuses on teachers' behaviors, influences of teacher education are seen as temporary, negligible, or difficult to determine. The study reported here grew out of a general concern to document, via a “second-order” perspective which examines their thinking and perceptions, how teachers modify or improve what they do through formal teacher education. It addresses three important areas which have received little attention in recent research: foreign language teaching, in-service graduate education, and the role of a shared, professional discourse in developing teachers' conceptions of teaching. The paper presents a summary of the findings of an 18-month longitudinal study which examined how foreign language teachers' conceptions of their classroom practice developed as they took part in an in-service teacher education program. The paper discusses how the program's shared professional discourse contributes to increasing the complexity of the teachers' thinking about their teaching and suggests that as they learn to articulate their de facto ways of thinking in the shared discourse, the teachers gain greater control over their classroom practice and are thus more able to shape it to their own ends.     

New directions in preparing professionals: examining issues in engaging students in communities of practice through a school–university partnership

A new school–university partnership in NSW has created exciting opportunities for preservice teacher preparation. The paper examines the results of a pilot study and outlines the main teacher preparation activities undertaken in the partnership. The paper focuses on how engaging preservice teachers in the community of practice of teachers assisted in the development of students’ professional knowledge. The paper outlines three examples of preservice programmes, which incorporated legitimate peripheral participation as a meaningful component of the preservice teachers’ academic studies. The major issues associated with developing legitimate peripheral participation activities as part of a preservice teacher education course are discussed.     

Taking the risk to engage in race talk: professional development in elementary schools

Developing public education where every child has the right to learn requires that teachers pay attention to and engage in race talk – open discussion about race, social construction of race, and racism. While it is clear that children engage and reflect critically about these aspects of race even at a young age, teachers rarely engage in race talk with them. In this study, an African-American preservice teacher and a White teacher educator explore how African-American, Polynesian, and White in-service teachers, participating in Courageous Conversations professional development, address or avoid race talk in their elementary schools through the lens of Critical Race Theory (CRT) and what risks they take when they do. Findings, through in-depth, semi-structured interviews, demonstrate that (1) racism was observed and/or experienced by all teachers in elementary schools; (2) lived racial experiences impacted teachers’ approach to conversations about race; (3) creating an open space was crucial for race conversations; (4) Courageous Conversations provided a ‘new language’ to talk about race; and (5) administrative support facilitated more attention to race. Findings indicate the road to greater equity in schools requires more professional development about race talk in elementary schools.     

Rethinking Equity: Preservice Teachers' Perceptions and Practice Around Policy

Despite the body of literature around practicing teachers and policy (Knapp, Ferguson, Bamberg, &; Hill, 1998; Kumar &; Scuderi, 2000; Lortie, 1975/2002), little is known about the involvement of their preservice counterparts. Preservice teachers have limited exposure to policy-related coursework in their professional training (Floden &; Meniketti, 2005) and scholarship is relatively silent regarding preservice teachers' experiences with educational policies and their sense-making process (Spillane, 2004; Weick, 1995; see Heineke, Ryan, &; Tocci, 2015, for a notable exception).

This paper examines preservice teachers negotiating and making sense of a particular policy, the Massachusetts' Rethinking Equity and Teaching for English Language Learners (RETELL). It addresses the following questions: First, what do preservice teachers know about policy in general and the RETELL language policy in particular? Second, how do preservice teachers make sense of the implementation of the RETELL policy in the various settings of their professional training? Third, in what ways do preservice teachers' experiences with the policy influence their orientations toward teaching emergent bilingual students? This analysis demonstrates that preservice teachers have limited general knowledge of educational policy process, and limited specific knowledge around the RETELL language policy. Yet, they learn important lessons about how to “do” policy from their field supervisors and play an important role in policy implementation. The impact of the RETELL policy on preservice teachers' beliefs about teaching emergent bilingual students is mediated by the lack of policy information they receive and by their experiences in the field. This paper adds to the limited literature around preservice teachers involvement in policy and offers recommendations for highlighting the importance of policy education in teacher training.     

Preservice Special Education Teachers' Reflections on Their Developing Professional Awareness Via In-Context Learning

The highly complex demands of the profession often overwhelm new teachers. Burnout and attrition are known consequences of inadequate preparation, burdening the education system with costly turnover and schools with disproportionate numbers of inexperienced teachers, including special educators. Many teacher preparation programs embed field experiences as a formative aspect of professional development with the intention of exposing candidates to the realities and demands of the profession. Little is known, however, about the ways in which preservice teachers’ professional awareness develops via in-context learning through field-based experiences. Using an exploratory, qualitative approach we analyzed end of course reflections of 31 special education preservice teachers for insights into the development of their professional awareness (professional roles and responsibilities) following a strategically aligned field experience. Findings suggest that participants expressed a growing understanding of professional practices, teacher dispositions, and professional relationships. A discussion of the findings and implications for teacher preparation are presented.     

An Anticolonial Framework for Urban Teacher Preparation

Our contemporary apprenticeship model of teacher education often places preservice teachers in learning environments where they never witness the types of dynamic and engaged practice they desire to emulate. Either there are structural limits within the classroom placed by school or district leadership or there are preselected veteran mentor teachers who do not value the same kinds of critical practice. These challenges necessitate a radical rethinking of how and where preservice teachers learn their craft. We pose an anticolonial model of teacher development, one that situates teachers and students in collaborative networks where they work powerfully together via Youth Participatory Action Research on projects that have significant social, cultural, and digital relevance. The purposes of this article are (a) to propose the essentiality of anticolonial approaches to reimagine the preparation of preservice teachers and (b) to demonstrate how these approaches are enacted in our own practice within critical, project-based clinical experiences with preservice educators toward the development of an anticolonial model for urban teacher preparation.     

The Difficulty of Teacher Dispositions: Considering Professional Dispositions for Preservice English Teachers

This article explores the place of teacher dispositions in English teacher preparation by contextualizing the issue of dispositions in English teacher preparation. This allows consideration for the importance of developing professional dispositions during English teacher preparation by recognizing that various stakeholders (teacher educators, university supervisors, mentor teachers, and preservice teachers) in teacher education often understand dispositions differently. The authors reflect and offer suggestions on how professional dispositions might be more effectively addressed in an English teacher education program through richer interactions among all stakeholders.     

Integrating Technology in Physical Education Teacher Education: A Socialization Perspective

ABSTRACT

Physical education teacher education (PETE) programs are encouraged to develop teachers capable of delivering technology integrated learning experiences. Technological pedagogical content knowledge provides a framework for integrating technology into teacher education programs. Occupational socialization theory describes an educator’s recruitment, training, and socialization in the teaching profession. The purpose of this article is to propose a conceptual framework for helping preservice physical educators develop technological pedagogical content knowledge that is grounded in occupational socialization theory. We specifically recommend a four-phase approach to help preservice teachers (a) build their knowledge and learn to value technology in physical education, (b) observe and explore through instructor modeling and integration, (c) experiment and collaborate with mentoring and scaffolding, and (d) discover through innovation and utilization. These suggestions acknowledge the sociopolitical aspects of learning to teach with technology and implications are discussed along with the need to help preservice teachers transfer technology integration into their professional careers.     

Professional identity creation: Examining the development of beginning preservice teachers' understanding of their work as teachers

The importance of reflection in supporting the continued professional learning of preservice practitioners is well recognised. This study examines one aspect of the outcomes of preservice teachers' reflection: the development of their own self-image as a teacher. In making the transition from student to teacher, preservice teachers create their own professional identity. Their ability to articulate this identity is examined through a new construct, a “teachers' voice”. A teachers' voice, develops when preservice teachers interpret and reinterpret their experiences through the processes of reflection. A teachers' voice is articulated as part of the persons' self-image. The construct, a teachers' voice, was investigated by examining changes in preservice teachers' contributions in an online discussion forum. Two complementary approaches of content analysis were applied. Both methods revealed changes in preservice teachers' levels of engagement and showed that in the first semester of preservice teacher education, the majority of preservice teachers moved towards a more professional stance in their contributions.