Co-teaching in the college classroom

This paper serves as a phenomenological reflection about the meaning of a co-teaching experience at the college level for two graduate teaching assistants. When two teachers combine planning and teaching efforts it is called co-teaching. As a pedagogical method for both instructors and students, co-teaching was beneficial because it modeled a collaborative teaching style required of the students in their curricular work. Utilizing the interpretivist discourse of phenomenology, the authors dialog about the meaning each makes of the coursework, the pedagogy, the students, and the teacher effectiveness through a co-teaching model. The dialog and reflection on the phenomenon of co-teaching contributes to more productive co-teaching instruction for pre-service teacher instructors.     

Radicalizing the college classroom

Peter Shaw is editor ofAcademic Questions and, most recently, Will and Ariel Durant Professor of Humanities at Saint Peter's College.     

课堂应答系统在大学课堂教学中的应用

信息技术在当今高校教育中已经得到广泛应用,但是在构建师生互动课堂方面,中国高校教学方式没有太大改变。课堂应答系统作为在国外教学中应用比较成熟的一种教学手段,对于改进我国高校教学是一个很好的补充。主要介绍了什么是课堂应答系统,其应用环境及使用流程,介绍了两种基于课堂应答系统的最常用教学模式,并对此系统在应用过程中的优势与不足进行了分析。     

Satisfaction and dissatisfaction in the college classroom

Fifty-eight undergraduates were interviewed to elicit classroom incidents which left them feeling satisfied and incidents which left them feeling dissatisfied.The critical requirements of these incidents were classified into five categories: teacher affect, teacher task, student process, student outcome, and student evaluation. In most incidents, the dominant figure was the teacher and the dominant issues were related to affect.Satisfactory incidents occurred in classes where features, such as teacher role and classroom climate, were consistently related. Such consistency was not found in classes where unsatisfactory incidents occurred.It is recommended that course evaluation questionnaires give more explicit attention to issues of affect and of consistency.Revision of a paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Montreal, April, 1983. We thank Robert Kozma for his comments on an earlier draft.     

大学课堂教学中讨论式教学的组织

讨论式教学法对于培养学生形成批判性思维,增进协作意识,提高学生的口头表达能力和自主学习能力具有重要作用。本文着重探讨了讨论教学组织过程中讨论题目选择、讨论方式选择、讨论技巧和总结评价中应注重的问题。     

Project work in the graduate classroom: Teachers as students apply skills beyond the classroom

Abstract

Through the use of a long‐term project in a graduate teacher education course on the importance of play, students learned skills beyond those usually required in a graduate classroom. Students used their understanding and knowledge of play, constructive practice, and project work to develop a family play day at the university lab school. As part of the project, students helped to develop a play‐style instrument that served as a self‐study for their own classrooms as they observed the play among their own students. The project culminated with the students hosting the families of the lab school at a fun day and preparing a brochure that gave families information about the importance of play.     

大学英语阅读技巧探析

“阅读”是外语学习者必须掌握的基本技能,是外语学习中获得信息的一种手段。为提高学生的阅读能力,学生有必要养成良好的英语阅读习惯,掌握尽可能多,尽可能实用的阅读技巧。     

Deep teaching in a college STEM classroom

Cultural Studies of Science Education - The retention of underrepresented students remains a significant challenge in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) disciplines. A broad range...     

大学语文课堂教学中的一些思考

大学语文是高校大学生文化教育中的重要一环,但由于各种主客观因素的影响,该课程在教学实际中长期处于尴尬状态。本文结合教学实践过程中碰到的问题,有针对性的提出一些改良建议,希望能够为大学语文教学效果的提升有所助益。     

非言语交际在高校英语课堂教学中的运用

本文从非言语交际在高校英语课堂教学中的应用入手,阐明在高校英语教学中只有意识到非言语交际的重要性,并且培养学生的应用能力,外语教学质量才能提高,只有既注意语言教学又不忽视非言语的外语教学,才是完整的、成功的教学。     

浅析大学英语的课堂互动教学

所谓互动教学既是一种师生之间的互动,又是一种学生之间共同配合老师掌握知识的教学过程。本文分析了互动教学模式的基本内涵和主要优势,并且指出了互动教学可以激发学生的学习兴趣,培养学生的自主学习能力,使学生形成健康的学习心理。     

浅谈新教师如何提高课堂教学技能

课堂教学技能在教师教学技能中占重要地位。本文从课前准备、教学语言、问题讲解三方面分析新教师如何提高课堂教学技能,希望对新教师的教学实践有一定的帮助。     

Bringing Total Quality Improvement into the college classroom

This paper describes a recent effort to infuse the Total Quality Improvement (TQI) approach, popularized by Deming and others, into an upper-division, junior-senior economics course at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The process of infusing TQI into instruction has received relatively little attention. Most efforts to bring TQI into higher education focus on improving administrative operations and establishing courses and programs for students to learn how to apply TQI in their future jobs. The challenge is in using TQI to help students realize their potential for learning in traditional courses.The TQI instruction approach developed for use in the course had three major elements. Customer Focus is represented by the proficiencies emphasized in the course and expected of graduating economics majors. Student Involvement is represented by team-centered research projects whose purpose is to enhance the proficiency of creating new knowledge. Continuous Improvement is represented by ongoing student evaluations of the course and instructor, carried out by a student team.After discussing the motivation for adopting this approach and the independent development of the concept of proficiencies in the economics major, the paper moves on to discuss the planning, implementation, and execution of the course. Particular attention is given to discussing the operation of the teams and the development of a multi-faceted ongoing evaluation process to assess the effectiveness of the TQI Instructional Approach.The evaluation results indicate strong student satisfaction with the TQI orientation of the course, while at the same time pointing out ways of improving what was done.The author is grateful to Jacob O. Stampen and Mark Finster for helping him learn about TQI, and to Ian Hau whose seminar stimulated this effort to infuse TQI into the classroom. Helpful comments on a draft of this paper came from Jacob O. Stampen, Maury J. Cotter, Charles A. Liedtke, Paul Weiss, and Michael L. Williamson. Special thanks for generating much of the underlying data go to the Evaluation Team of Kevin Brumm, Kimberly Klatt, and John Kittilstad, and to the Proficiency Team of Evan Anderson, Deana Lynn Grobe, and Tom Yale. Ilona Loser and Kris Feggestad assisted in assembling the results of the surveys. Suzanne Vinmans handled the typing, Vicki Szypulski made the visuals, and Elaine Moran provided helpful editorial suggestions. Laura A. Guy, Data and Program Library Service, facilitated access to the Current Population Survey tape used by several teams, and Kurt Neuwirth, Social Science Microcomputer Laboratory, created a user-friendly approach to the Current Population Survey data.     

浅谈高校英语课堂教学改革

随着社会的快速发展,对英语的要求越来越高。给高校的英语教学带来挑战:传统的英语教学模式已不再适应,需要改革。在传统的教学模式中,学生是被动的客体,教师是主体,填鸭式地灌溉知识给学生,教学效果差。传统的英语课堂教学改革要求教师把学生的英语学习主要看成是一个学生主动进行语言实践应用的过程,所以英语教师应该充当英语教学活动的设计者和组织者的角色,而不是知识传授者的角色。     

浅析技巧策略训练在英语课堂讨论中的应用

本文选取了三个主要的讨论技巧,即:寻求澄清,澄清和证实。通过在进行技巧策略练习应用前后,对学生的讨论的分析,结果发现:在进行讨论技巧训练后,学生们在讨论中能够更有效的使用寻求澄清和澄清自己。这个结果在两方面有力支持技巧策略训练,一是语言支架作用有支持技巧策略的效应;二是讨论中合作互帮技巧的重要性。     

Student feedback in the college classroom: A technology solution

Technology in the university classrooms has made great strides in the area of presentation of materials. Ceiling-mounted projectors and media carts with projection capabilities have made the multimedia classroom presentation a routine event for much of the worl of higher education. Now there is technology that permits the instructor to solicit student responses during class via wireless keypads. This allows all students to respond simultaneously and the instructor to know the results immediately. This article reports the results of a pilot study on student reaction to a specific system (LearnStar). Students were uniformly positive in their appraisal of this technology as a teaching tool. The proposal for a classroom with LearnStar capability was funded by the Auburn University College of Liberal Arts. The College has a technology fund to encourage development of new and innovative technologies.     

Note-taking in the college classroom as evidence of generative learning

College student notes were analysed with respect to the amount of words copied directly, omitted and added to the teacher’s overheads or PowerPoint slides in order to understand the effect of teacher scaffolds on student generative learning during initial encoding. Scores on quizzes taken at the end of classes from which notes were collected were analysed with respect to the content of student notes and teacher scaffolds. Statistically significant results were found when comparing how much students copied, added and omitted, whether teachers used PowerPoint presentations or overheads, and with respect to the amount of information teachers presented visually. Significant effects also were found on performance quiz items with respect to the amount of information that teachers provided.