High school teachers' perceptions of cyberbullying prevention and intervention strategies

Recent meta‐analyses indicate that bully prevention programs produce minimal change in student behavior. This study examined 66 high school teachers' perceptions regarding the effect of cyberbullying on students, which intervening strategies teachers would use when dealing with cyberbullying, and which prevention strategies would assist in preventing cyberbullying. Almost one fourth of teachers indicated cyberbullying does not have long‐lasting negative effects and that cyberbullying “prepares students for life.” Fewer than half of teachers favored implementing a formal cyberbully prevention program. Teachers perceived the following strategies as most helpful in addressing cyberbullying: increasing parental involvement, warning students about consequences for cyberbullying, and increasing consequences for cyberbullying. School administrators should consider teachers' perceptions before implementing prevention programs that target cyberbullying. Additionally, strategies should consider fostering greater teacher buy‐in, thus improving intervention fidelity and creating a unified effort focused on decreasing student cyberbullying. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

Making the invisible visible: disciplinary literacy in secondary school classrooms

In Ireland, policy on literacy now aims to expand the role that post-primary teachers of all subjects have in developing students' literacy skills. This paper draws on data from a wider research study carried out in secondary schools in 2010 and focuses on the classroom support with disciplinary literacy provided by subject teachers for students who have literacy difficulties. A brief outline is provided of the context and perspectives informing the study as well as the research methods used. Findings are examined against the backdrop of policy developments for literacy at second level and within the context of wider policy change. Teachers' lack of professional knowledge, combined with barriers at wider system level, is identified as a significant challenge to pedagogical change at classroom level. Implications for policy implementation, for initial teacher education and for cultural change at school level are discussed. It is argued that literacy must be repositioned as a central aspect of subject pedagogy and teachers, as subject experts, supported in unpacking and sharing with students, the discourse practices and ways of viewing and communicating about the world that are characteristic of their academic disciplines.     

Emotional intelligence profiles and learning strategies in secondary school students

The aim of this study was to analyse the relationship among emotional intelligence (EI) and learning strategies, identifying different emotional intelligence profiles and determining possible statistically significant differences in learning strategies through the identified profiles. Thousand and seventy one Spaniards secondary school students aged 14–17 participated in the study, completing the Trait Meta-Mood Scale-24 (TMMS-24) and the Cuestionario de Estrategias de Aprendizaje [Learning Strategies Questionnaire] (LSQ). Cluster analysis identified four differentiated EI profiles: a group of adolescents with a low EI profile, a group with high scores in attention and low scores in repair, a high EI profile group, and a group of adolescents with predominance of low attention and high repair. The results also revealed statistically significant differences among the profiles in most of the learning strategies, in which students with high general EI and those with predominance of low attention and high repair use more learning strategies than the other groups, suggesting the importance of developing programmes of emotional skills to study in greater depth EI and its influence on students’ learning strategies.     

中小学校本课程的发展:观念与对策

针对中小学校本课程发展中遇到的现实问题,阐述校本课程发展应明确三个基本观念,提出促进我国校本课程发展的四项对策。     

中小学教师继续教育面临的困境及对策研究

在终身教育背景下,中小学教师继续教育逐渐发展成为一种趋势。受多种客观因素的制约,目前国内中小学教师继续教育的质量仍难以保障,面临观念落后、经费投入不足、培训效果不佳及管理体制不完善等困境,为走出教育困境,需要从更新继续教育观念、加大经费投入、科学构建培训体系以及完善教育管理体制等方面努力。     

浅析中学音乐教育对教师素质的要求

本文通过对21世纪中学音乐教育与素质教育的联系及我国基础教育现状的分析，详细论述了中学音乐教师应具备良好的思想品德修养、综合的音乐学科专业修养和技能、与各门基础学科相结合的教学能力、教学实践和多种形式辅助能力，音乐教育教学科学研究等5个方面的能力。     

农村初中教育现状及其提高办学质量的对策

当前我国农村初中教育存在教育意识陈旧、师资力量薄弱、学生流失现象严重、课程结构不科学以及教学设施落后的情况，严重地制约了教育水平的提高不能适应为21世纪培养合格人才和劳动的需要，提出了提高农村初中办学质量的五点意见。     

Equity and leadership: research-based strategies for school leaders

Principals are required by policy, regulation, legislation and democratic discourse to promote equity of outcomes. This integrated review investigates research on equity issues facing five student groups: special needs students; religious, cultural and racial minorities; groups disadvantaged by socioeconomic status; gender groups; and students differentiated by their sexual orientations. Sixteen research-based strategies for reducing the gap in achievement between advantaged and disadvantaged students are generated, the strategies being organised within four domains of principal influence: curriculum interpretation, instruction, assessment, and community involvement.     

中学生学习方式分析及教学对策

本文对奈欣斯和雷诺等人关于学生学习方式 (或风格 )进行总结和概述。结合不同学习风格在教学和学习中的表现来阐述学习中应注意的问题及教学对策 ;从认知方式上进行分析 :( 1)场独立和场依存 ;( 2 )整体性策略和系列性策略 ;( 3)求异思维和求同思维 ;( 4 )冲动性思维和反省性思维 ;( 5)内倾和外倾。本文最后指出 ,教育应该是一种帮助 ;并从当今社会对人的学习的要求和学习方式的转变出发、提出教师更新教育观念 ,改革教育方法 ,以及提高自身素质的迫切性和重要性     

US teachers' and school counsellors' strategies for handling school bullying incidents

A sample of 735 US teachers and school counsellors completed an online survey asking how likely they would be to use various strategies to respond to a hypothetical bullying incident. Analyses examined their use of five strategies: Ignoring the incident, Working with the bully, Working with the victim, Enlisting other adults, and Disciplining the bully. Differences in mean scores based on these strategies were found by gender of participant, the presence or absence of school anti‐bullying policies and programmes, and previous anti‐bullying training. Teachers and school counsellors differed on four of the five scale scores. Qualitative comment data add to the findings. Implications of the findings are discussed.     

浅谈解决中职生心理障碍教学策略

关注中职生心理健康已成为教育工作者不可回避的重要议题。我们应加强对中职生心理障碍的成因分析,调动社会、家庭、学校的力量,共同寻求这一课题的解决措施,帮助中职生顺利成才。     

Inclusion: developing an effective whole school approach

There is very little research that specifically looks at how autism spectrum disorders are perceived in various communities. This qualitative research was conducted with parents who had children on the autistic spectrum belonging to four different ethnic communities (White British, Somali, West African and South Asian – 63 in total) and living in the UK. The study found that the importance that the parents give to various social skills varied on the basis of their cultural background and the gender of the parent. This is an important aspect to consider while providing support and services to individuals on the autism spectrum and their family members if the services have to be appropriate for their needs. This consideration would also enable the individuals on the autism spectrum to develop appropriate social skills required within their cultural groups. This is a preliminary study and further research on the topic is required.     

Achievement goals and school achievement: The transition to different school tracks in secondary school

During the transition from elementary school to secondary school, in Germany, students are assigned to different school tracks, academic or non-academic, that differ markedly in compositional and institutional characteristics, e.g., the level of cognitive activation and performance standards are higher in academic tracks than in non-academic tracks. Currently, there is a lack of research examining the changes in achievement goals (mastery-approach, performance-approach, and performance-avoidance goals) and in the association between achievement goals and school achievement during the transition to these different school tracks. There were 1646 students who participated in a large-scale, three-wave longitudinal study from Grade 4 to Grade 6. While results revealed only slight differences between the two school tracks, the three types of achievement goals declined over time. In elementary school mastery-approach goals were positively and performance-approach goals negatively associated with school grades. After the transition to secondary school mastery-approach goals predicted school grades positively, whereas performance-approach goals negatively influenced achievement (academic track). Overall, the results indicate that between-school-tracking plays a minor role for the development of achievement goals and the relation between goals and achievement.