Understanding Inquiry Science Teaching in Context: A Case Study of an Elementary Teacher

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Constructing a High-Stakes Community in the Classroom: A Case Study of One Urban Middle-School Teacher

Abstract

A teacher at an urban middle school worked to become part of her students’ communities and utilized the notion of community within her pedagogy. Her example offers hope that engaging with students’ communities and building community within the classroom are attainable and valuable goals. Her example also demonstrates that the concept of community can be relevant and powerful within a testing-focused environment that traditionally fosters competition and privileges the individual.     

A Case Study Exploring the Identity of an In-Service Elementary Science Teacher: a Language Teacher First

Teachers are central to providing high-quality science learning experiences called for in recent reform efforts, as their understanding of science impacts both what they teach and how they teach it. Yet, most elementary teachers do not enter the profession with a particular interest in science or expertise in science teaching. Research also indicates elementary schools present unique barriers that may inhibit science teaching. This case study utilizes the framework of identity to explore how one elementary classroom teacher’s understandings of herself as a science specialist were shaped by the bilingual elementary school context as she planned for and provided reform-based science instruction. Utilizing Gee’s (2000) sociocultural framework, identity was defined as consisting of four interrelated dimensions that served as analytic frames for examining how this teacher understood her new role through social positioning within her school. Findings describe the ways in which this teacher’s identity as a science teacher was influenced by the school context. The case study reveals two important implications for teacher identity. First, collaboration for science teaching is essential for elementary teachers to change their practice. It can be challenging for teachers to form an identity as a science teacher in isolation. In addition, elementary teachers new to science teaching negotiate their emerging science practice with their prior experiences and the school context. For example, in the context of a bilingual school, this teacher adapted the reform-based science curriculum to better meet the unique linguistic needs of her students.

     

弗兰德斯课堂教学评价系统实例分析

弗兰德斯互动分析系统(简称FIAS)是一种专门用来分析课堂教学中师生语言互动行为的观察评价模型,它是由10个语言行为编码组成。利用FIAS对一节高中语文课进行课堂评价分析,这节课是由一名从教两星期的新任教师所讲授的《纪念刘和珍君》。分析这节课中新任教师的教学语言特点及问题,针对课堂上所出现的教学问题提出几点建议,以增强其课堂教学能力,从而能够帮助新任教师专业成长。     

Just-in-Time Teaching for Food Science: Creating an Active Learner Classroom

ABSTRACT: Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT) combines the best features of traditional in-class instruction with the communication potential available via the Web. We describe here how JiTT has been used in Biology Education and how it can be used in Food Science Education. JiTT uses Webbased "Warm Up" assignments due before class to stimulate critical thinking and create a feedback loop between faculty and students. By examining responses to "Warm Up" exercises before class, faculty members determine students' prior knowledge and misconceptions and directly address these misconceptions while discussing course content in class. Assessment results in Biology include decreased attrition rates and increases in student attitudes, motivation, interactivity, study habits, and cognitive gains.     

教学比赛:教师个体成长的阶梯——基于优秀教师PCK建构的个案研究

教师在参加教学比赛过程中,课程改革的推动作用、教研活动的促进作用、名师培养机制和教师合作共同体的支撑,对教师个体专业发展具有非常重要的意义。因此,要加强教学比赛的示范引领作用,开展教研活动,激发教师PCK生成,促进教师专业发展,完善教师在职培养制度,为教师个体专业发展保驾护航。     

案例教学:中小学校长培训课堂教学模式的优化

案例教学的着眼点在于学习者创造能力以及实际解决问题能力的发展,而不仅仅是获得那些固定的原理、规则.中小学校长培训推行案例教学不是单纯的教学方法变革,更是促进中小学校长教育观念的更新、实践反思能力的提高、教师培训观的转变以及培训与受训双方学习共同体的创设等多个层面创新.     

Teacher Empowerment: A Key to Restructuring

Despite a wealth of research pointing to the benefits of empowerment, teachers still remain encapsulated in their classrooms (Rice 1987). They have been unable to take their place as first-class citizens within the education profession. It is encouraging to note the various programs and plans that are being tried across the country. It is also encouraging to read so much in the literature about teacher empowerment, school-centered decision making, and the restructuring of schools. Empowerment, it is to be hoped, will not be looked on as merely “another fad.”

It is crucial that programs supporting teacher empowerment expand and that the “reform states” reduce the restrictions placed on teacher autonomy. If legislators continue to insist on making the crucial educational decisions, then they ought to accept the fact that schools are unlikely to improve.     

课堂教学质量的个案研究

运用个案研究的方法,对北京市义务教育阶段学生学业水平较好的学校的课堂教学进行研究,采用课堂观察、课后访谈、文献研究等方法,分析八年级英语、生物、思想品德、体育和五年级英语、科学、思想品德、体育等学科的课堂教学质量及其影响因素,并提出改进教学和提高课堂教学质量的建议。     

英语口语交际策略课堂教学的实证研究

本文报告了有关英语口语交际策略课堂教学的一次实验。本次实验为期一个学期，旨在探明口语交际策略的可教性、学生对口语交际策略教学的认同程度及学生使用交际策略的倾向性。本研究所取得的实验数据表明：1．交际策略是可教的，并且是有效提高学生的策略意识和促进口语流利性的一种重要手段。2．学生认同交际策略课堂教学，对不同交际策略的倾向程度不同，较多认可和喜欢迂回策略和拖延策略。3．学生策略意识的提高并未表示他们的实际策略使用频率和能力会有同等程度的增长。     

Teaching Practices for Enactment of Socio-scientific Issues Instruction: an Instrumental Case Study of an Experienced Biology Teacher

Research in Science Education - The identification of high-leverage teaching practices that can be improved through targeted practice should contribute to the enhancement of teachers’...     

幼儿园教师数学学科教学知识现状研究——以一位熟手型教师为例

采用课堂观察法和访谈法研究一位熟手型幼儿园教师的数学学科教学知识现状,结果发现：（1）数学内容知识方面,教师重视幼儿数学内容知识学习的衔接性和全面性。（2）数学教学策略知识方面,教师在教学中鼓励幼儿自由操作和探索,常采用直观材料演示的教学策略。（3）幼儿的知识方面,教师更为关注幼儿已有数学知识的经验准备,对本班幼儿有较全面的了解。（4）数学教学情境知识方面,常以创设游戏情境的方式开展教学活动,能为幼儿的数学知识学习创设问题情境。     

课堂教学中运用情绪推理的案例研究

课堂教学与情绪推理的关系相辅相成,课堂教学是情绪推理的基础,情绪推理的结论影响着课堂教学的开展。情绪推理是人类个体基于自身情绪体验而出现的一种推理形式。研究结果表明,教师在课堂教学中得出情绪推理的结论影响着学生的辨别能力,对学生的学习造成重要的影响。相关建议:教师和学生应科学而理性地看待情绪推理,教师应在学生面前树立规范而良好的榜样,学生应学会自我接纳和自我调控。     

Teaching and Learning in a University Classroom: A Norwegian Case Study on Students' Perspectives

This article focuses on student activity and how students experience learning. A teaching programme was both led and researched by the one teacher. The article describes a master's level teaching programme and presents the data collection strategies used by the teacher‐researcher and presents learning viewed from the students' perspective. The teaching and researching processes are carried out in the framework of socio‐cultural theory. In Vygotsky's and Bakhtin's theories, as part of the socio‐cultural tradition, language and dialogue are viewed as decisive factors in learning and understanding, and hence in the researched teaching programme.     

课堂教学情境设计一例

以有理数减法课堂教育为例,通过对情境设计中问题呈现的技巧和原则的探讨,以呈现知识发生的过程,激发学生的内趋力,启发学生的数学思维。     

大学课堂教学中师生情感互动的研究

由于受主客观因素的影响，大学课堂教学情境中难以形成师生情感互动，因而影响了教学质量和学生个性的健康发展。随着高校教学改革的不断深入和现代教育技术手段的广泛应用，课堂教学中师生情感互动的作用愈显重要。本从教学论和心理学的角度，对大学课堂教学中师生情感互动的内涵和特点及其构建的理论依据进行探讨，论述了有效的师生情感互动的功能与作用。     

课堂教学中案例教学与举例教学之辨析

举例教学与案例教学在一定程度上有相通之处.但案例教学作为一种全新的教学模式,在理念上发生了根本性的变化,与举例教学在教学目标、案例挑选、教学方式、效果测评、对教师和学生的要求等方面存在很大区别.在课堂教学中,案例教学与举例教学都有其存在价值,但案例教学具有极强的生机和活力,更有必要得到大力提倡.     

Becoming an Insider: Teaching Science in Urban Settings

The discourse of urban science education is often framed by discussions of achievement gaps and limited resources. Although these realities are part of the urban education landscape, they focus on deficits—what urban youth and their teachers and schools lack. We argue that it is more productive to frame urban science education as a function of place. Place, in the urban classroom, accounts not only for the physical spaces of the community but also for the historical and sociocultural dimensions that play out as people interact with and in place. We argue that becoming an insider within the multidimensions of place is critical to science teaching environments that value and sanction their students' unofficial and often non-dominant ways of knowing.     

Use of the Outdoor Classroom and Nature-Study to Support Science and Literacy Learning: A Narrative Case Study of a Third-Grade Classroom

A case study of an exemplary third grade teacher??s use of the outdoor classroom for meeting both state science and language arts standards is described. Data from the researcher??s field journal, teacher lesson plans, and teacher interviews document how this teacher used nature-study to bridge outdoor classroom experiences with the state science and language arts curriculum. This teacher??s early life experiences supported her strong interest in science and nature in the outdoors and experiencing it with her children. Children interacted with the outdoor classroom throughout the day as a context for science and literacy learning. All but one child successfully met Annual Yearly Progress (AYP) goals in reading at the end of the school year.