Promoting Professional Development in Higher Education through Portfolio Assessment

The evaluation of the capacity for reflective and critical thinking at the transition stage from pre‐service education to working life is a challenging task for the development of quality assessment in higher education. Beginning teachers can organise their plans, reflections, observations and work samples in what is called a portfolio, reflecting on their experiences. The purpose of the present study is to evaluate professional development in higher education based on personal portfolios during a year‐long induction programme. The trainees were new teachers about to enter working life. The development essays and interviews with the participants based on their personal portfolios were analysed through qualitative methods. The results indicate that self‐assessment is an important tool for professional development.     

浅议美国教师专业发展的社会基础

美国教师专业发展事业是一项系统工程，它依托于经济保障、政治支持、法律保证、舆论导向等社会基础。     

Toward Sustainable Educational Changes through School-Based Professional Development on ELL Assessment for New Teachers

Developing teachers' knowledge about assessing English language learners (ELLs) is critical for achieving intended policy outcomes of improving teaching under Race to the Top policy and Common Core State Standards. In addition to teachers' expressed concerns about teaching Common Core State Standards to ELLs in a national survey published in Education Week (Gewertz, 2013 Gewertz, C. (2013, February). Standards worrying teachers. Education Week, 32(22), 12–13. [Google Scholar]), the formation of two assessment consortiums (i.e., Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, or SBAC, and Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, or PARCC) indicates the urgency for teachers to demonstrate their assessment knowledge and for schools to provide meaningful professional development opportunities in that area. In this article, we detail the rationale for school-based professional development targeting assessment, especially for new teachers, and outline a proposed procedure for providing such training.     

加强顶岗实习管理 促进服装专业发展

顶岗实习是职业院校培养技能型人才的重要模式,加强顶岗实习管理,严格顶岗实习期间的纪律,做好走访工作,及时沟通,注重各个岗位的能力锻炼,让学生充分利用企业资源,是保障顶岗实习顺利完成的关键。     

开发第二课堂强化高职学生专业技能

第二课堂是师生在规定教学活动之外,继续开展与教学内容相关的活动的一种教育方法,其特点为活动目标具有导向性、内容具有广泛性、时空具有开放性等,有利于进一步强化高职学生的专业技能,是高职院校培养高素质技能型人才教学环节的重要补充。本文介绍了杨凌职业技术学院十多年来在第二课堂强化高职学生专业技能方面的经验做法,可为同类高职院校学生专业技能的强化培养提供参考。     

Appropriating Assessment: Possibilities for an Alliance Perspective through Teaching Social Foundations in Unusual Places

In this article, I explore teaching with a social foundations perspective in the unusual place of an Introduction to Assessment course for second-year, undergraduate, teacher candidates. By bringing the work of three candidates together with the four concerns of the proposed third edition of the Standards for Academic and Professional Instruction in Foundations of Education, Educational Studies, and Educational Policy Studies—P-12 students; professional educators; democratic educational practices; and research, policy, and advocacy—I argue for the possibility of alliance among educators through engagement of the interpretive, normative, and critical perspectives. Alliance did not emerge in the work of the three candidates—instead the Standards, as embodied in my teaching, furthered the dominance of the modern myths of progress and individualism. I propose however, that the addition of an alliance perspective to the three existing social foundations perspectives upon which the Standards rely might better allow for work within and across the concerns delineated in the Standards.     

以专业社团活动为载体加强新校区学风建设——以桂林电子科技大学职业技术学院为例

大学生处于思想最活跃期,也处于实践能力最强的阶段。他们除了积极参加丰富多彩的校园文化活动外,还积极参与以及组建与本专业知识相关的专业类社团,把自己所学所感实践于社团活动之中。这不仅有利于丰富社团形式,还能让学生在社团活动中受到教育,从而能提升学生的专业技能以及社会技能,是值得提倡的。     

澳中两项教师专业发展举措及其实施的比较与分析

20世纪90年代末,澳大利亚政府和中国政府相继推行了两项至关紧要的教师专业发展举措——AGQTP和继续教育工程。本研究对上述两项举措各自出台的背景进行描述,并就它们的目标、经费投入、构成及实施、收效等内容进行阐述与比较,进而揭示澳中两国政府在教师专业发展举措实施方面的相似点与差异性。     

真实性评价与教师专业发展

真实性评价是一种要求学生应用所学的知识和技能完成真实世界的任务的评价方式,既有助于学生的成长,也有助于教师专业发展。真实性评价对教师提出了新的素质要求而推动教师专业发展,又以直接向教师反馈教学信息而帮助教师有目的、有针对性地进行专业发展。     

论指向教师专业发展的动态评估

教师专业发展是教育发展的必然要求。通过动态评估这一特殊的价值判断活动,可以有效地获得教师专业发展过程的信息,并利用这些信息为教师专业发展提供动力,指引教师专业发展方向。为达到上述目的,我们必须遵循动态评估的原则,并在此基础上明确评估主体,进而实施动态评估。     

Foundations for self-awareness: An exploration through autism

Developmental psychopathology holds promise for elucidating the structure of self-awareness. Here we studied social emotions in matched groups of children and adolescents with and without autism. Our aims were to determine whether there are potentially dissociable aspects of self-awareness, and to reconsider how the qualities of young children's engagement with other persons influences the development of their sense of self. Parent interviews yielded evidence that children with autism are limited in social-relational and emotional domains of self-awareness; for example, few were reported to show guilt, embarrassment, or shame. Yet according to parent report, most were affected by the moods of others, showed some degree of pity and concern, and manifested jealousy. When presented with videotaped scenes, participants with autism were similar to those without autism in identifying pride, guilt, and shame, and they were able to describe their own experiences of pride and, more rarely, guilt. In situations designed to elicit emotions, participants with autism were rated as showing pride, but they manifested lesser degrees and atypical qualities of guilt and coyness. Relatively few showed personal forms of self-consciousness when asked to pose for a photograph. We argue that in order for children to achieve depth in self-awareness, and to relate to themselves as occupying a distinctive stance within a framework of mutual self-other relatedness, they need to identify with the attitudes of other people. We interpret the present studies in terms of dissociations among three forms of social emotion: "person-centered" qualities of relational self-awareness that require identification and are specifically limited among children with autism, more diffuse modes of relational self-consciousness, and a third group of social emotions, epitomized by jealousy, situated in a separate developmental line. We propose a rebalancing of emotion theory that gives greater prominence to children's developing forms of interpersonal and intra-psychic relatedness.     

Professional Development of Counselor Education Students: An Exploratory Study of Professional Performance Indicators for Assessment

Although training standards for counseling students emphasize the importance of student evaluation, there is a lack of research that specifically describes how counselor educators may systematically assess the professional development of counselors-in-training. This exploratory study sought to determine a set of performance indicators for each of five identified components of professional development to provide counselor educators with an initial framework for assessing the professional growth of master's-level counseling students.     

Designing Personalized Online Teaching Professional Development through Self-Assessment

Many institutions use a one-size-fits-all approach to faculty development for online teaching, which does not meet the needs of faculty who often have different levels of experience, skill, and self-efficacy in online teaching and learning. To address these issues, the [university name removed] [center name removed] designed and implemented an online teaching readiness self-assessment. The instrument was developed based on key attributes and skills needed for proficiency in online teaching, in three areas: online teaching experience and attitudes, learning management system proficiency, and access to technology. The self-assessment was distributed through a web-based survey tool to faculty who were identified to develop new online courses. Individual results were used to create personalized frameworks of professional development offerings (workshops, institutes, videos, and consultations) and just-in-time resources to support faculty in their development process.     

以培训促进下位交流教师的专业发展

教师交流制度改变了教师流动"单向上位流动"趋势,促进了"下位交流"。教师专业发展是保障教师下位交流质量和效果的内生动力,可以通过共性问题培训和情境问题研修的教师培训来促进下位交流教师专业发展。     

客观对待教师绩效评价和发展性教师评价

教师绩效评价有其特定的内涵,既包括对教师教学工作过程的评价,也包括对教师教学工作结果的评价。由于教育目标更具模糊性与教育效果的复杂性,对教师的绩效评价就更应侧重于对教师教学过程的评价。许多研究者与管理者却把教师绩效评价曲解为“不正确”的教师评价,而把发展性教师评价神化为“正确”的教师评价。他们错误地认为教师绩效评价只能调动少部分人的积极性,绩效评价是针对过去的、对未来没有意义,唯有发展性教师评价才能促进教师发展,而教师绩效评价不能促进教师专业发展。实际上,发展性教师评价关于“自我实现的人”的人性假设及其人文主义的管理范式也有其内在的缺陷。虽然,发展性教师评价是更高境界的教师评价,但它必须以教师绩效评价所达到的严格、精确为现实基础。由于我国现阶段教师管理中面临的最严重的问题是科学化不足,因此,应当认真对待教师绩效评价,而不是盲目地推崇发展性教师评价。     

Professional Development in Student Assessment for Educational Administrators: An Instructional Framework

What assessment tasks do administrators perform? What knowledge and skills do they need for these tasks? How is this information useful for professional development?     

增强高职院校专业主任专业发展领导作用探赜

针对高职院校专业主任工作存在的问题,文章探讨增强高职院校专业主任专业发展领导作用的路径。专业主任要注重增强专业能力,发挥专业引领作用;提升自我素质,增强团队建设能力;更新专业知识,创新专业发展途径;搭建校企合作平台,提升科研能力;同时学校也要明确保障措施,健全考核机制。     

采用同伴观摩的方法促进外语教师的专业发展

作为促进外语教师专业发展方法之一的同伴观摩在我国高校较少采用。因此,基于理论基础和实施方法上对同伴观摩方法做一介绍,并对学校在采用这一方法中可能出现的问题提出建议,同时揭示同伴观摩方法的特点和价值,希望高校采用这一手段促进外语教师的专业发展。     

浅论加强图书馆员职业道德建设

图书馆员职业道德建设是图书馆整体建设的重要组成部分，对图书馆为社会主义物质文明和精神文明建设服务起关键作用。文章从职业道德的源头谈起，进而阐述了图书馆员职业道德建设的重要性以及如何加强图书馆馆员的职业道德建设。