A Rough Guide to English Teachers

This article examines the way in which the history of English in schools has contributed to differing philosophies of that subject amongst English teachers. It analyses the current philosophies using, as its database, a novel research instrument called the Rough Guide to English Teachers.     

Parents and Teachers: Partners in Improving Reading Skills

How do we know when students have learned? is an important question. By way of a narrative example of a classroom lesson, the Essentialist philosophy is described. This philosophy is teacher-directed and lacks any inherent requirement for student understanding. Rather, a teacher delivers the required information, and students absorb then give back what was delivered. Five missing characteristics of learning—understanding, thinking, problems, questions, and feedback—from the narrative classroom are briefly discussed, and a student-centered philosophy is presented, which has the ability to support and sustain learning that is rich, substantial, and meaningful.     

Value Education as Perceived by Parents,Teachers and Pupils in Israel

Abstract

The perplexity that characterizes moral education was the motive for undertaking this study. A field selection of terminal and instrumental values served as its frame of reference. Two questions were posed by the investigators: Is there any difference in the degree of importance which parents, teachers and pupils attach to these values? Do different schools rate these values differently? A sample consisting of 531 pupils, 251 parents and 38 teachers, randomly selected from five Israeli high schools, were asked to rate the degree of importance they attach to each value and the degree to which they think each value is cultivated in school. All subjects rated instrumental values higher than terminal values. A striking consensus between parents, teachers and pupils was disclosed. Between school variance was significant for both terminal and instrumental values. The study of approaches to values found in schools may contribute to curriculum development and planning of teacher education programmes.     

Effective Collaboration between Teachers and Parents in Israel: A Strategy for Improvement of the Educational Process

Traditionally the roles of schools and parents have been seen as separate activities. More recently, a view has developed that parents and schools should work together in a close and integrated relationship. The writer discusses the nature of this partnership and the roles of both parents and teachers in it. The nature of the school–parent relationship in Israel is considered. In the final section of the paper, the development of such a partnership in a particular Israeli elementary school is described and evaluated.     

正确对待家园合作中不同类型的家长

家长是孩子的保护者,是孩子的第一任教师.但家长也是普通人,文化背景各不相同.有的家长可能不够关心孩子,有的可能会刻意与托幼机构保持距离,有的甚至可能有自觉不自觉伤害孩子的举动.托幼机构要提高保教质量,更好地促进儿童发展,就要研究、了解和理解家长,为家长提供个性化的家园合作服务.     

教师即课程资源——对教师的新解读

"课程资源"是我国新一轮课程改革中提出并迅速引起人们关注的重要概念,是课程设计、课程开发和课程实施的基础和支撑。教师不仅是课程实施的主体,也是一种重要的课程资源。将教师看作课程资源,有利于丰富课程资源的内涵、彰显教师的主体性、重构教师与学生的关系、推进教师主动学习。     

Attitudes of Parents and Teachers toward Mainstreaming

A questionnaire measuring attitudes toward mainstreaming was completed by teachers and parents at two primary schools, one of which had initiated a mainstreaming program in Year 1 classes. Results indicated that attitudes of parents and teachers at this school were more negative than those of their counterparts at the school with no mainstreaming program. Despite this apparent relationship between contact with disabled children and a negative attitude towards mainstreaming, a significant association was found between amount of experience with disabled children and a positive attitude towards mainstreaming. Among explanations proposed for these discrepant findings is the suggestion that attitudes expressed prior to experience with mainstreaming may not be an accurate guide to views held after its implementation.     

Children's Prosocial and Antisocial Behaviour,as Perceived by Children,Parents and Teachers

Within the context of a widespread concern with children's antisocial behaviour, especially bullying, the development of ‘whole‐school’ policies on bullying, and also recent national guidelines which emphasise the importance of fostering children's prosocial behaviours, this research examines the extent to which children, parents and teachers exhibit within‐ and between‐group consensus, both in their perceptions and relative judgements of different forms of child prosocial and antisocial behaviours, and in their responses to such behaviours. Less consensus was found in judgements of prosodal than of antisocial behaviours, both within and between groups, and significant between‐group differences are discussed in the context of the teaching of social behaviour.     

Teachers as Leaders: A critical agenda for the new millennium

Education systems around the world are implementing school-based management organisational reforms resulting in new and enhanced roles for teachers. As a result, traditional notions of what skills, knowledge, competencies and attitudes teachers need to carry out their roles and responsibilities are changing. Fundamental to the necessary changes for teachers is promotion of a 'teachers-as-leaders' agenda, one which is conceptualised around a leadership framework that facilitates a rethinking of teachers' work and that has similarities with that usually associated with school administrators. This paper uses current developments in Queensland government schools to illustrate this changing world for teachers.     

论教师与家长的互动

教师与家长的互动是指教师与家长间发生的一切交互作用和影响.本文试图通过分析教师与家长互动的原因、障碍,揭示更好实现教师与家长互动的若干策略.     

A Model for Parent Participation

Garry Hornby, lecturer in special education at Hull University, suggests a model for parent participation in special education. The model focuses on meeting parents' needs and on using their contributions in order to offer guidelines to teachers on ways of working with parents.