Exploring Neuroscience: A Guide for Getting Started

Neuroscience becomes more relevant for disciplines pertaining to children's development and education with each passing year. Thus, there is an urgent need for scholars and practitioners in these disciplines to educate themselves about the structure, function, and development of the brain, and to explore the neuroscience literature connected with their areas of professional expertise. A detailed rationale, study strategies, and resources for beginning this process are presented, based on the author's recent experiences. They provide a framework and specific guidelines for those who wish to begin to integrate a neuroscience perspective into their teaching, research, and interactions with the community, and they may arouse the curiosity of those who are not yet interested. Numerous examples of pertinent neuroscience research are included.     

Exploring Neuroscience: A Guide for Getting Started

Neuroscience becomes more relevant for disciplines pertaining to children's development and education with each passing year. Thus, there is an urgent need for scholars and practitioners in these disciplines to educate themselves about the structure, function, and development of the brain, and to explore the neuroscience literature connected with their areas of professional expertise. A detailed rationale, study strategies, and resources for beginning this process are presented, based on the author's recent experiences. They provide a framework and specific guidelines for those who wish to begin to integrate a neuroscience perspective into their teaching, research, and interactions with the community, and they may arouse the curiosity of those who are not yet interested. Numerous examples of pertinent neuroscience research are included.     

Getting Started in Academia: A Guide for Educational Psychologists

We identify the major tasks facing pre-tenure faculty members and outline advice, based on a review of the literature and our experiences, for succeeding in academia. The challenges encountered by new faculty include learning the culture of the new academic institution, understanding the processes and policies for academic performance review, establishing meaningful and constructive mentoring relationships, creating a sustainable research agenda as well as fostering the writing attitudes and strategies that promote turning research projects into publications. Also included are recommendations for developing expertise in teaching, cultivating healthy and productive relationships with advisees, and fulfilling service responsibilities. Finally, we suggest strategies for balancing the multiple, and sometimes competing, demands and expectations.     

教师成为研究者的教育意义

“教师成为研究者”的提出标志着教师已成为中小学教育研究的主体。“教师成为研究者”的教育意义主要体现在生产教育知识,解决教育实践情景中的实践问题;将教育观念和教育理论转化为实践力量;在研究性变革实践中促进教师的专业发展;有利于教师主体的回归。     

Program-Wide Positive Behavior Support in Preschool: Lessons for Getting Started

There is growing concern over the number of young children who display challenging behavior and preschool teachers are reporting children’s challenging behavior as their greatest concern. Program-wide Positive Behavior Support (PWPBS) is a promising model for supporting appropriate behavior and decreasing challenging behavior in early childhood programs. Implementation in early childhood settings is relatively new and guidance on how to implement PWPBS in early childhood settings is growing. This article documents the implementation process for an early childhood program serving children from 6 weeks to 5 years of age, shares lessons learned and offers practical advice for getting started with PWPBS.     

The Action Researcher as Chameleon

This paper describes how the constraints and problems the writers faced in a large scale action research project problematised their use and development of formal theory. In particular we address the issues around building collaborative agenda, reconnaissance, dissemination of ‘findings’ and ‘jump starting’ institutional change. The writers argue that action researchers within their praxis need to be more aware of the dialectical relationship between formal theory and the context of action research; in that theory is conditioned by the very context it seeks to change.     

The Physical Educator as Researcher

In an attempt to confront society's drug problem, many colleges and universities have implemented drug testing programs for their student-athletes. While more and more institutions continue to initiate drug testing programs, a number of questions concerning the constitutionality of drug testing remain unanswered. constitutional questions such as due protection against self-incrimination, due process guarantees, and protection against unreasonable searches and seizures are at issue. In light of the many unanswered questions surrounding drug testing, administrators should develop not only a philosophical rationale but also a legal rationale for either having or not having drug testing programs for student-athletes.     

I've Never Viewed Myself as a Researcher,but...

Many teacher education programs in the United States (US) face increasing demands to better prepare teachers for entry into and retention in urban schools. Through a US Department of Education grant, a university–school partnership was formed to develop a community‐based model of teacher preparation that placed pre‐service teachers in urban schools for a full year. Based on questionnaires and interviews with university teacher education faculty, and both pre‐service and novice classroom teachers who took their first jobs in urban schools, this research considers the common concerns and disparate roles that the three groups considered paramount in preparing new teachers for urban schools.     

Researcher as Teacher: Lessons Modeled by a Well-Remembered Scholar

While teacher educators may encourage their students to reflect deeply on their teaching, the teachers of teachers rarely seem to examine their own teaching practices. Yet a study of one's own practice can generate profound insights into one's own teaching, can model good teaching to our students, and can serve as the foundation for research about teaching. One teacher–researcher–scholar, Jeff Northfield, developed a powerful set of insights into the value of exploring personal practice while contributing to our general knowledge of teaching. Within the context of the current paradigm wars concerning “best” research in the reform of teaching and teacher education, this paper demonstrates that the work of researchers like Northfield stands as a valuable exemplar of good research of teaching. The paper also explores critical points from Northfield's work that can guide future research into our own teaching.     

提高"英特尔(R)未来教育基础课程项目"培训实效若干问题的思考

"英特尔(R)未来教育基础课程项目",是支持农村中小学现代远程教育工程,提高农村中小学教师和学生的21世纪教学理念、信息技术基本技能和应用水平的培训.本文尝试从项目定位和培训目标、培训内容、培训实施、培训后措施等方面进行分析,认为可以采取以下措施来提高该项目的培训实效:使参与培训各方在培训前对项目定位和培训目标有一明确、统一的认识;努力实现培训内容的本土化;采取各种有效的培训措施(包括受训者需求和现状分析、分级培训、模块学习前告知目标、提前准备好学习资源和素材、重视对未来培训者培训技能的训练等);采取有效的培训后措施(如建立"技术学习和应用计划书"、利用技术替代品进行教学、建立"召回"培训机制等);等等.     

基于活动理论分析研究英特尔未来教育基础课程培训

本文以活动理论为基础全面分析研究英特尔未来教育基础课程的培训,总结出了该培训的特点和系统活动图,并指出了培训活动过程中可能出现的矛盾问题.这使更多的人了解这种培训的设计理念,掌握这种培训的活动组织和培训系统中的一些关键环节,可以进一步地改进此项目培训中的不足.当然也可以将这种培训理念及研究方法借鉴到其它相关的师生培训中,全面有效地提高各类培训的质量.     

“行动研究”模式与学者型外语教师的培养

教学行动研究过程是教师职业发展的核心。“行动研究”模式以培养未来教师的创新精神和课堂教学研究能力为目的 ,有效地解决师资培训领域理论与实践相脱离的问题     

对"教师即研究者"命题的探析

长期以来,对教师做研究的质疑主要表现在对其研究的合理性与有效性等问题的反思与批判上.我国新一轮教育改革提出"教师即研究者"的命题,对教师做研究给予了充分肯定.但是,广大教育理论者与实践者要认识到教师做研究与教育专家做研究是不同的,教师所做的研究是教师对学校和课堂工作进行的一种系统的、有目的的探究,是教师与研究者、教学与研究的统一.反思性实践是教师做研究的最好范式,它强调教师对日常的教育教学实践进行反思,使实践与理论相联结.     

Teacher as Researcher,Teacher as Scholar,and Teacher as Leader

ABSTRACT

Too often, because of the static nature of schools and the dominant existence of high-stakes testing, professional learning for teachers is determined by administrators or policy and is facilitated by those who are not part of the school community using prepackaged programs. These initiatives run counter to authentic teacher inquiry where teachers enhance their understanding of students and learning and, ideally, develop new teaching practices (Borko, 2004; Cochran-Smith & Lytle, 1999, 2009; Darling-Hammond, 1997). In this article, we focus on how teachers participating in action research begin to position themselves as teacher leaders.     

When a Teacher Becomes a Researcher: Using Self-Narrative to Define One's Role as Participant Observer

As public servants who work most closely with children, teachers have first-hand knowledge of the needs of the changing demographics of urban public schools in the United States. Teachers who engage in research, and researchers who are former teachers, enjoy unique positions in conducting investigations and sharing and implementing findings. Because much of their knowledge is gained through firsthand experience, self-narrative allows this population of researchers to explore intersections between research and practice that might otherwise remain tacit and inaccessible to a broader audience. Although this methodology applies broadly across educational settings, this article focuses on K–12 schools. Utilizing self-narrative vignettes from her own research in a public, alternative middle school serving a high-risk student population, the author discusses how this methodology was used to define her role as a participant observer. Implications for practitioner scholars and former-teachers-as-researchers are discussed.     

科研型教师培养方式探询

科研型教师已成为中小学教师专业发展的重要方向。在中小学科研型教师培养中,通过理论学习、课题研究、校本培养、经验总结等方式能够有效地促进中小学科研型教师队伍的形成。     

科研型教师培养方式探询

科研型教师已成为中小学教师专业发展的重要方向.在中小学科研型教师培养中,通过理论学习、课题研究、校本培养、经验总结等方式能够有效地促进中小学科研型教师队伍的形成.     

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