Test Feedback Class Sessions: Creating a Positive Learning Experience

Abstract

Educators are becoming increasingly sensitive to accommodating the needs of students from diverse backgrounds in their classes while ensuring that learning occurs. Group work often is the vehicle chosen to stimulate participation and positively affect learning. In this paper, we describe the development of parallel case studies related to diversity issues and motivational strategies for use in educational psychology and introductory human resource management courses, the reactions engendered, and issues related to classroom discussion groups. Overall, the cases were effective in stimulating higher-level thinking about real world, diversity-related issues.     

Creating Leaders Through the Teacher Learning and Leadership Program

Leadership is a skill that can be learned through professional development, mentoring, and leadership development programs. In Ontario, the Teacher Learning and Leadership Program (TLLP) helps educators develop their leadership skills through a Ministry of Education–funded project that addresses student learning needs in their classrooms. This article examines how the TLLP built the foundation for a teacher to lead beyond his classroom and continues to develop leadership skills in others across the province.     

Creating a Context for the Learning of Science Process Skills Through Picture Books

This article provides suggestions on ways in which science process skills can be taught in a meaningful context through children’s literature. It is hoped that the following examples of how process skills can be taught using children’s books will provide a starting point from which primary teachers can create additional examples. Many possibilities exist within the world of children’s literature to develop process skills in a meaningful way.     

为交互式演示文稿创建导航系统

使用PowerPoint软件制作交互式演示文稿是目前较为流行的一项教学活动,本文就如何在交互式演示文稿中创建一套有效的导航系统进行了详细探讨,提出了两种学习界面设计模式,并分别给出了两种模式下导航系统的具体创建方法。     

聊天室在外语口语教学中的运用

随着网络学校的蓬勃兴起以及网络课程的逐步普及,聊天室作为语言教学的另外一种课堂逐渐引起了广泛重视.在聊天室里,教师可采用问题教学、角色扮演、辩论等以学为中心的各种模式进行语言教学,促进和提高学生对语言知识的理解和领悟,重点培养学生的言语交际能力.利用聊天室辅助教学已经成为语言网络教学(指包括汉语在内的作为外语教学的所有语言)的一个重要组成部分,特别是那些安排周密、重点突出的同步聊天室学习活动能够给学生提供深刻的网络学习的感受,极大地丰富了网络课程的内容.     

Creating a New Architecture for the Learning College

The publication of A Nation at Risk in 1983 triggered a series of major reform efforts in education that are still evolving. As part of the reform efforts, leaders began to refer to a Learning Revolution that would “place learning first by overhauling the traditional architecture of education.” The old architecture—time-bound, place-bound, role-bound, and bureaucracy-bound—was an artifact of earlier eras when school was designed for an agricultural and an industrial economy. It was easy for educational leaders to “place learning first” by changing their language. Vice Presidents of Academic Affairs became Vice Presidents of Learning; Learning Outcomes became the universal goal; the institutions became Learning Colleges. New mission and value statements began to appear in community college catalogs to reflect the new emphasis on learning. The American Association of Community Colleges joined the revolution with a new mission statement: “Building a nation of learners by advancing America's community colleges.” The really hard work was to “overhaul the traditional architecture.” This brief article takes a first step in suggesting what that “overhaul” might look like for departmental structures, workload formula, grading, late registration, and some of the time-bound artifacts. It is noted that the 5 examples are but the tip of the iceberg if community colleges are to fully engage the Learning Revolution.     

Creating a Safe Frame for Learning

Abstract

This article addresses the significant responsibilities of teachers of trauma courses to conscientiously create a safe frame for learning, in consideration of the student, who is inevitably exposed to the intense emotional and conceptual challenges of trauma study. During their study, many students revisit earlier trauma or loss, perhaps unexpectedly, and in the context of academic demands for achievement. Learning can be deepened as students experience a safe context for the material, and for the recognition of the demands of trauma study and treatment. Curriculum inclusion of: the impact of trauma study on all students; recognition of additional demands on students with a history of trauma; a teaching process attending to class experience; addressing vicarious traumatization and encouraging enhancement of self-care, is included.     

学习环境的社会结构设计

学习科学在学习的社会维度上的强调,要求学习环境的设计超越传统技术中心的设计视界,更加关注学习的社会结构设计。文章概要描述了一个由“文化信念”、“实践”、“社会-技术-空间关系”、“与外部世界的交互”四维度组成的社会结构设计框架,并借此分析了一个智能互动白板技术环境下的课堂社会结构的设计研究案例。研究表明,学习的社会结构是影响整个学习环境设计效果的重要因素,应该引起广大教育技术研究者们的重视与关注。     

创建教育扶贫的新模式

我国到2035年要实现教育现代化,难点和重点在农村。改革开放40多年来,我国农村基础教育取得了重大成就,但地区和社会发展的不平衡,使部分偏远山区依然面临许多困难,教育扶贫任重道远。石家庄外国语教育集团创造了“大家好才是真好”学校共同体教育扶贫新模式,其方向明确,注重扶贫同扶志、扶智相结合,将教育扶贫常态化,达到互利互赢的效果,在国内开创了一种全新的扶贫模式,值得推广。     

Cultivating Hope Through Learning for the Common Good

This article examines how an orientation toward hope can guide institutions of higher education in achieving their ultimate purpose of providing education for the common good of society. In today's cultural context, colleges and universities must navigate a multitude of challenges and competing philosophies, many of which question the validity of their inherent value and purpose. As society continues to press questions of market relevance, sustainability, accessibility, quality, and the value of higher education, a basic question remains: How, amid all of these challenges, can today's postsecondary institutions contribute to the cultivation of a better society? In this regard, faith-based colleges and universities can offer guidance. By carrying out their distinctive mandate of infusing their educational mission with the holistic character formation of students, these institutions can promote the common good by coupling the Gospel message of personal hope in Jesus Christ with the call to cultural influence and transformation. To demonstrate this concept, a framework is offered that describes both a starting point—a biblical foundation for understanding humanity and hope—and a pathway through learning. The application of this framework—uncommon learning for the common good—invites implications for curricular design, the facilitation of learning, and institutional leadership that faculty and administrators from across the spectrum of higher education may find timely and relevant to their own learning contexts.     

民办学校与政府互动合作关系的基础和路径

在提供有特色高水平的教育服务上,我国政府部门和民办学校为了更加自觉、更为主动、更用合力、更有作为地推动民办教育改革和发展,无论从理论还是实践看,双方都显现出互动合作的新型关系特征。政府部门为构建这种互动合作关系,需要明确有关政策规定,夯实大力扶持和规范管理民办教育的法规依据;健全各类工作机制,有效履行政府发展民办教育的重要职责;培育规范中介组织,拓宽共管共促民办教育发展的空间;综合运用各种手段,提高政府的民办教育管理和服务能力。     

转变教学观念 努力营造交互式英语教学氛围

文章在对比两种不同教育理念下的课堂教学方式的基础上，指出要改变我国英语教学现状，必须转变传统教育观念，引入先进的、实用的教育理念。笔者倡导交际英语教学法，培养学生的交际能力。同时，指出了营造交互式英语教学课堂的理论依据和模式。     

研究性学习：学习方式的变革

教育部颁布的《全日制普通高级中学课程计划（试验修订稿）》，将“研究性学习”作为“综合实践活动”四项内容之首定为必修课，且占有比较多的课时。“研究性学习”的开设是我国基础教育改革，特别是课程改革深入发展的必然产物。它为以培养创新精神和实践能力为重点的素质教育提供了新思路和生长点；势必引发学生学习方式的深刻变革，为学生个性和创造力的充分发展开辟新天地和新途径。本文拟从现代教学论的视野，对研究性学习的一些主要问题试作探讨。一、研究性学习的基本涵义研究性学习是当今世界性基础教育改革和发展的一个共同关注的…     

论网络环境下的交互学习

网络环境下的交互学习是一种真正有效的学习交互方式，这种交互要以多媒体计算机和网络通讯技术为工具，以建构主义学习理论为基础。本对网络交互学习的含义、特征及其具体策略作了分析与探讨。     

资源型学习交互策略的探讨

资源型学习是一种以学习者为中心的学习方式,强调学习者独立的处理学习资源获得有效信息,以达到解决问题的目标。本文通过分析资源型学习的交互原则,提出了它的几种交互形式,进而在此基础上设计了基于资源型网络学习平台的交互模型。     

个体学习、组织学习与学习型组织之辨析

本文从行政组织理论和学理比较角度,对学习型组织的核心概念:个体学习、组织学习和学习型组织三者之间的区别和联系以及个体学习和组织学习的转化机制、知识传递机制进行了研究和辨析,结果显示:个体学习是构建学习型组织的基础,组织学习是个体学习的系统性整合,学习型组织是组织学习的学习指导理念与奋斗目标.     

Screening Students for Potential Learning Disabilities

The present study indicates that prenatal/birth complications, developmental delays, head injury history and family histry of learning disabilities occur at higher frequencies among college students with learning disabilities, but a family history of diabetes or hypoglycemia, and chronic ear infection history do not occur more often among students with learning disabilities.