新督导模式带来的启示

新督导模式是通过借鉴发达国家和地区教育督导的先进经验,特别是中英甘肃基础教育项目的成果,结合西南地区项目县的实际情况,融入新的督导理念和方法,探索和形成新的中小学学校督导模式。论述新督导模式与传统督导模式的区别与联系,指出新模式对督导工作的启示。     

Lessons Learned from Exemplary Schools

This article presents lessons learned about successful professional development for promoting technology integration from eight exemplary schools. Through a qualitative investigation into school leaders’ and teachers’ intentional goals of improving student engagement and achievement, formal, informal, and individual opportunities are described from these schools. The data led to a deep understanding of the ways these schools implemented PD; in most schools purposeful reconfiguration of the entire curriculum was a corollary to the professional development. We found that the most effective models incorporated district wide, school based, formal and informal opportunities that accommodated preferences in both learning and delivery models.     

The Rise and Fall of a Required Interdisciplinary Course: Lessons Learned

In order to meet the South Dakota Board of Regents requirements for an upper level writing course with global perspective for all graduates, the administration at the University of South Dakota established an interdisciplinary course to be taken by all majors. Two faculty members from different disciplines were assigned to teach each section with support from an English Ph.D. student. The institution built an active learning classroom for 18 teams of 6 students taught simultaneously in each section. However, after only four semesters, the administration canceled the course. In this article, we offer an analysis of this situation and suggest lessons learned, both positive and negative, during the development, implementation, and redesign of this interdisciplinary course.     

Academically Supporting STEM Students From a Distance Through Videoconferencing: Lessons Learned

Student demand for distance learning, changing student demographics, and low retention compel institutions of higher education to develop alternative forms of academic support that can effectively serve the increasingly diverse needs of students. Videoconferencing provides institutions with the capacity to provide interactive real - time academic support that can successfully accommodate these needs. This article discusses the technical, pedagogical, staffing, training, and marketing factors that were important in the development and management of an online academic support program delivered synchronously through videoconferencing to students in high-risk Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) courses. The factors emerged from a mixed-method study that showed the efficacy of the online academic support program and identified influences that affected student adoption of academic support through videoconferencing.     

Lessons Learned from Large-Scale Randomized Experiments

Large-scale randomized studies provide the best means of evaluating practical, replicable approaches to improving educational outcomes. This article discusses the advantages, problems, and pitfalls of these evaluations, focusing on alternative methods of randomization, recruitment, ensuring high-quality implementation, dealing with attrition, and data analysis. It also discusses means of increasing the chances that large randomized experiments will find positive effects, and interpreting effect sizes.     

Designing a Mathematics Course for Chemistry and Geology Students

Many mathematics departments usually teach a variety of courses for students from different science departments and even from different faculties. These service courses are usually taught in the same way as the courses for mathematics major students. However, in science, because of the need to better analyse and interpret experimental data and the increased use of mathematical tools in chemistry and geology textbooks, it is becoming necessary to teach these science students quantitative skills beyond the scope of first year mathematics courses. This paper describes the design of a one-semester second year mathematics course, mainly for chemistry and geology students, with three specific objectives: to develop students ability to quantitatively analyse problems arising in their own field, to illustrate the great utility of mathematical models to provide answers to key chemistry and geology problems, to develop students appreciation of the diversity of mathematical approaches potentially useful in the chemical and geological sciences.     

Asian Students in the United States: Lessons That Can be Learned

This article is the result of a research review of Chinese-American students' academic performance. The key research questions are: 1) How are Asian students, especially Chinese-American students, doing academically in the United States compared with other American students? 2) How do they do well and why do they excel? 3) What are the main factors that contribute to their outstanding performance? In answering these questions, endeavours and attempts are made to explain reasons why they are doing well and to provide findings in search of factors affecting their advantages. The major purposes are to present to Singaporean and other Asian students the lessons they can learn from Chinese-American students to succeed academically and socially.     

从电子系统综合设计谈学生工程实践能力的培养

工程实践能力是工程师最重要、最基本的能力。通过总结一个典型的电子系统综合设计课题对学生实践能力培养的收获,介绍培养学生工程实践能力的方法。     

Lessons Learned From a Consultation Process Overseas

In this commentary I discuss three international school consultation experiences, highlighting aspects that serve as lessons for professional development and the implementation of effective and helpful strategies that meet the needs of children and youth in school systems. Relationships developed and maintained between the consulting teams and the consultees were oriented toward three intervention goals: psychoeducational services, well-being in adolescents, and instructional procedures. In general, the projects described in the three articles were successful and support the utility of international systems-level consultation as a means of helping improve the quality of outcomes in the school contexts in which they worked. I end my commentary by providing some general observations and questions to be considered when engaging in international school consultation.     

Academic and Extracurricular Support for Refugee Students in the US: Lessons Learned

This article examines students’ experiences as resettled refugee and asylee students in international schools in New York City. Specifically, it looks at how teachers and school leaders provide critical academic and extracurricular support to facilitate students’ adjustment to academic environments that differ markedly from those compared in their countries of origin or the countries of asylum visited prior to their arrival in the United States. Drawing on a qualitative study conducted in New York City at two international schools, as well as program staff from an outside organization that often collaborates with international schools hosting refugee and asylee students, the article documents promising practices and offers practical recommendations for teachers working with refugee students.     

美国高校保证本科课程教学质量的方法及其启示

简要评述当今美国高校培养本科生、保证本科课程教学质量的基本方法,并指出今后中国高校在培养本科生尤其是保证本科课程教学质量方面可以从中得到一些借鉴.     

Z校该如何摆脱危机?

Z校三年前发生的校园暴力事件,使得这所学校前后三年的教师队伍建设、学校领导班子建设、学校民主建设走入研究者视野。总的来说,工具理性、官本位、组织目标的单一性与伦理反思缺失等具有极大的危害性。学校应该改革领导体制,建立委员会制度;推行举贤政策,加强教师队伍建设;改革学校评价考核机制,建立学校管理中心,加强学校民主管理。     

李吉林成长历程的启示

李吉林老师是一个不倦的学习。她刻苦学习马克思主义教育理论，学习语言学、美学、现代心理学和脑科学的最新成果。她善于从外语教学中运用情境、进行语言训练得到启示，借鉴我国古代论中的“意境说”，吸取传统教学中注重读写以及近代直观教学的有效资源。她从暗示导向原理、情感驱动原理、角色转换原理及心理场整合原理，找到情境教育的理论支撑。她不仅向书本学习，向专家、领导、同行学习．还向孩子学习。     

Designing the Sustainable Foodshed: A Cross-Disciplinary Undergraduate Environmental Studies Course

This article demonstrates the educational value of an undergraduate course that integrates design and the liberal arts to teach about ecological systems, using study of the university campus as the means to connect theory and practice. It presents the curricular goals, objectives, results, and lessons learned from a qualitative case study of a cross-disciplinary course that required design and liberal arts students to develop innovative solutions to improve the sustainability of The New School’s food system. Student and faculty evaluations suggest that an integrated design and liberal arts course can be an effective and enjoyable method to learn about sustainability and urban systems; and it helps students learn different techniques for research, problem-solving, and communication.     

Teaching an Innocence Case Review Course to Undergraduate Students

After two years of experience in overseeing groups of undergraduate and graduate criminal justice students in an Innocence Case Review course at the University of Central Missouri (UCM), the authors reviewed the structure of the course and the attitudes of the participating students. An examination of Innocence Case Review current procedures in undergraduate institutions and law schools provides background for course design. This article summarizes the findings of the students’ experiences, reactions, and attitudes of their yearlong case screening efforts, and to the criminal justice system in general. The first part of this article examines the literature on innocence case review classes at both undergraduate institutions and law schools exploring different learning styles and strategies inherent in this type of class. It also explores the skills necessary for case review, and the skills students can take to other classes and professions. The second part reviews the structure of our courses as initially created and implemented for the last two academic years at UCM and the modifications the instructors felt necessary for the future. The third part examines the survey conducted by the UCM’s Innocence Case Review class, including student suggestions for class improvements and advice to students selected for the new academic year. The benefits and abilities gained by the students through this course become apparent. The fourth part discusses and evaluates the current class structure and reforms suggested by the UCM students, the professors’ experience, and as indicated by other universities. The conclusion reviews findings gathered from the current course as well as examining other universities’ courses, and the value students experience from participating in this experiential or engaged learning.     

医学院校课程整合的经验教训:学生、课程负责人与改革领导者的观点

美国医学院校的课程整合改革方兴未艾.加州大学旧金山分校医学院从2001级新生开始对课程体系进行大幅调整,本研究调查了该校参与改革的不同群体,包括教育改革的领导者、受到直接影响的学生、新建课程的负责人等对课程改革的态度,了解其对课程整合实施一年内的成绩和挑战的看法.结果表明,他们对跨学科教学、跨学科系室协作、课程关联的建立、课程内容的排序及框架构建等四个主题有相同的看法,也有不小的分歧.     

德国理工大学联盟战略管理的实践及启示

大学联盟已经成为世界工程教育改革与发展的新方向。TU9以保证德国科学、技术和工业的领先地位、提升德国国际竞争力为使命,以推动工程和自然科学领域的发展、培养卓越的工程技术人才为战略目标。TU9通过强化声誉效应、异质资源、合作基础的内部优势,利用国际流动壁垒消除、国家战略支持外部机遇实施国际化战略和质量保障战略。借鉴德国经验,明晰战略目标以打造理念共同体、立足战略环境以实现特色发展、提升战略管理能力以推进联盟治理现代化是我国一流工程教育联盟建设的关键。     

从翻译职业化的角度谈英语专业本科翻译教学的改革

经济的全球化和科技的迅猛发展要求我们培养专业型、复合型和实用型的翻译人才。本文从翻译职业化的角度入手,分析英语专业本科翻译教学在新形势下所面临的困境及其改革的必要性,并提出相应的改革措施。认为翻译教育者应以学生为主体、注重学生翻译职业能力的培养,精心挑选翻译教材,完善和创新翻译教学评估体系,培养社会需要的合格的实用型翻译人才。