小学数学实验手段教学价值的探讨

数学可以做“实验”，数学学习也不离不开实验，用实验的方式进行教学是对传统教学方式的有益的补充，重视数学实验，正确且恰当地应用数学实验，使学生进行探究性的学习，是实施素质教育的一个有力途径。     

在小学语文阅读教学中生成习作智慧

新课改这对小学语文教师提出了新的要求,语文教学需要与时俱进、实现自身的变革。阅读、写作作为语文学科的重要学习模块,教师必须注重阅读和写作教学两者的结合,在阅读训练中加强知识的输出训练,从而帮助学生们生成写作智慧。本文结合笔者教学过程中的具体案例,对如何在小学语文阅读教学中生成习作智慧这一问题阐述几点自己的看法,以供其他教师借鉴。     

History through drama an enactive approach to learning

The prevailing accountability climate assumes that we can identify the quality of teachers by discovering what their pupils have learned from them. However teachers are only good if they are responsible for worthwhile learning. The current pressures to improve test performance are linked with some learning of questionable value. In any case we are necessarily limited in our ability to attribute responsibility for learning to particular teachers and to identify in any detail what learning has taken place. We need a radical change of direction. We should judge teaching quality on the basis of audited self-review.     

小学英语语法教学的理念与实践分

随着经济全球化的发展,国际贸易日益频繁,英语作为世界上使用范围最广的语言,在国际贸易中的作用越来越明显,近年来,在世界范围内兴起了一股学习英语的潮流,中国也不例外。英语作为一门语法课教程,在我国的小学课堂就开始有这门课程。小学是孩子初步接触英语的时候,小学英语的语法教学如何才能上好呢?本文通过对小学英语课程语法教学的现状进行分析,对小学英语语法教学的理念和实践提出了一些看法和意见。     

The construction of national identity through primary school history: the Irish case

Much recent sociological work on education makes reference to gender, sexual, ethnic, local and political ‘project’ identities, yet there remains a need to bring the nation, and the state, back in; to also question the way in which ‘national’ identities are constructed in a context of globalisation and localisation. Through an analysis of Irish primary history curriculum statements from 1971 and 1999, I identify some key features of the state’s response to identity construction in a globalised context. They include a focus on pupils becoming skilled in reflexively producing identity, and a focus on a ‘boundless’ globalised identity. These changes are not unproblematic.

You will know all too well that Ireland is a country at war with its past—or, at least, with conflicting versions of its several pasts. But we are each of us in a struggle with those … on a much more deeply personal level than we sometimes know. (The character ‘Sr. Mary Rose Kennedy’ in Joseph O’Connor’s novel Inishowen) (O’Connor, 2000 O’Connor, J. 2000. Inishowen, London: Secker & Warburg.  [Google Scholar], p. 42)     

Enhancing fluent and flexible thinking through the creative drama process

The purpose of this study is to examine whether flexible and fluent thinking skills, two important elements in divergent thinking, can be enhanced through creative drama process. The research was conducted on 30 subjects, 15 in an experimental group and 15 in a control group. Each group consisted of 9 females and 6 males. All subjects were postgraduate students, and the average age was 25. Flexibility and fluency were assessed through “circle drawing” and “alternate uses of objects” sub-tests. Both groups were given an initial pre-test. Then the experimental group attended a 10-week creative drama course, 3 h a week. A week after drama process was completed, a post-test was applied to both groups. Determining the pre-test and post-test score differences of the two groups, the one-way MANOVA analysis with a 2 × 2 design was applied. The results show that creative drama process can help enhance the two important aspects of divergent thinking, fluency and flexibility, in adult groups.     

小学英语语法教学若干问题研究

英语语法教学的目的是使学生掌握基本语法知识,更好地进行听、说、读、写等语言实践活动。在小学阶段,语法学习虽不是语言学习的最终目标,但却至关重要,因此,小学英语语法教学的若干注意问题值得我们探讨研究。     

Cold comfort in the primary school

This paper contributes to the debate about conceptualising policy research by considering Howell's (1990) call that researchers reveal the ‘principle of choice’ which guides the selection of topics, strategies and resources in research. Specifically, it addresses the question of what information must be made available to other researchers so that there can be productive continuing conversations’ (Ball 1994:174) about policy research and its conceptualisation. An examination of the policy sociology literature indicates that the specification of the ‘principle of choice’ requires discussion of the intellectual resources deployed in the research and a consideration of the processes of intellectual work which render these resources meaningful. This specification is then applied in relation to my current research, the ‘Social Organisation of Education Practice’ (soep) project to investigate the changing relationship between education and training in Australia. The products and processes of intellectual work that have constituted the principle of choice in my own research are outlined and justified. The way this principle of choice has shaped the conceptualisation of the soep project is discussed and attention drawn to the practical limits of explicit conceptualisation and justification in research. The paper concludes by affirming the importance of making the principle of choice explicit but queries how this can be done in shorthand.     

小学数学教学培养学生初步实践能力的探索与实践

根据教育改革发展的方向,数学学科教育革新的需要和新数学教学理念的引领,我们开展了在小学数学教学中培养学生初步实践能力的探索与实践,探索了小学数学教学培养学生初步实践能力的途径和策略。不同的数学观,就会有不同的数学教学观,教师在教学中就会采取不同的数学教学方法。传统的数学观使得数学教学远离儿童的生活实际,忽视了“应用”这一数学的要义。随着数学观的发展,应当树立以下四大理念来指导我们的数学教学行为。(一)数学是人们认识世界的有力工具,可以作为一门技术帮助我们认识世界。在教学中应密切联系学生日常生活的现实,把所…     

美国小学劝说文习作教学——以《探险家》主题习作教学为例

美国小学《探险家》劝说文习作教学,不仅为我们根据文体科学设计习作教学目标、实施分层习作教学提供了很好的例证,而且为我们带来诸多启示:以文体划分习作教学内容,并根据文体写作特点确定习作教学目标,能较好解决"习作教学什么"、‘习作教学到什么程度"的问题;要提高习作教学的效率,必须尊重儿童学得语言的规律,遵循感知、理解、内化、外化习作方法与策略的过程;关注习作策略的获得,能帮助儿童成为一个有意识的、真正的写作者、表达者。     

Observing justice in the primary school classroom

Justice-related situations are a part of students? everyday life. In order to test the antecedents, correlates, and consequences of (in)justice in school, valid measures of justice are needed. To our knowledge, this is the first study to develop an observer low inference rating instrument that can be applied to measure justice in the primary classroom. In two pre-studies, justice-relevant situations in the classroom were extracted and observable indicators for these situations were developed. In the main study, this instrument was used to observe 208 primary school students with regard to their experiences of justice or injustice. In addition to this, other measures of justice were developed to examine the convergence between observer low inference ratings of classroom justice and high inference rating instruments for teachers, students, and external observers.Factor analyses and correlations between the different indices of the observer low inference rating and the high inference rating items suggested that incidents of justice and injustice in the classroom do not tend to co-occur frequently. Teachers do not appear to have a general tendency to treat a child more or less justly across a large number of situations.The findings suggest that a comprehensive assessment of classroom justice requires a multi-method approach where the justice ratings of students, teachers and external observers are all taken into consideration.