Developing Embedded Signature Assessments for Continuous Improvement in Teacher Education

The development and use of assessment systems to measure the performance and progress of teacher candidates and inform the continuous improvement of teacher education programs has been a longstanding priority in teacher education for the past 30 years. Teacher educators in the School of Education at a small public midwestern university revised and improved their assessment system by developing seven Embedded Signature Assessments (ESAs). ESAs are formative performance assessments that are implemented in professional education courses to measure a teacher candidate’s performance prior to student teaching and readiness for student teaching. This article describes the development and implementation of ESAs at one university, with attention to the benefits and challenges.     

If You Build It,They Will Come (or Not): Going the Distance in Teacher Candidate Recruitment

There are persistent concerns in the literature related to recruitment and retention of highly qualified teacher candidates who are capable of achieving contemporary goals and meeting the professional expectations associated with the delivery of quality physical education programs in schools. The purpose of this article is to provide physical education teacher education faculty with recommendations for best practice in the area of teacher candidate recruitment by reviewing literature in the following areas: (a) identification of the characteristics of successful teachers as a basis for recruitment efforts, (b) fundamental principles of effective marketing and recruitment, (c) generational characteristics of college-bound students and the practical implications, and (d) recruitment of underrepresented populations. The recruitment tactics identified include actionable recommendations for faculty, departments/programs, universities, and community partners in teacher education.     

Voices and Perspectives of Latina Paraeducators: The Journey Toward Teacher Certification

This study employed open-ended questions on a survey, a focus group interview and participant observations to document the perspectives of Latina paraeducators concerning the challenges and support systems they encountered in order to complete college and gain admission to a teacher certification program. Findings reveal that their challenges included a lack of knowledge about higher education, unresponsive institutional bureaucracies, and the need for financial aid. Family and a cohort group of peers were identified as important sources of support and motivation. As a result of the struggles they experienced these paraeducators expressed a strong commitment of helping others to pursue academic and professional goals. This work highlights the need to critique and transform fundamental inequities within institutional structures that obstruct equal educational opportunities and hinder the recruitment of bicultural teachers.These authors are affiliated with Department of Elementary and Bilingual Education, California State University Fullerton, CA.     

Voices of Teacher Candidates: Positive Changes in Multicultural Attitudes and Knowledge

Abstract

The author explored changes in teacher candidates' multicultural attitudes and knowledge as well as the factors that contributed positively to those changes. Teacher candidates were followed during their teacher preparation program. Data were collected from 2 questionnaires and 9 interviews. The author used repeated measures analysis and percentages to explore changes in multicultural attitudes and knowledge. She also used percentages to identify factors that the participants believed influenced those changes. Findings suggest that teacher candidates' multicultural attitudes and knowledge changed in a positive direction while the candidates attended a teacher preparation program. Changes seemed to be influenced by fieldwork experiences in culturally/ethnically diverse settings, courses in multicultural and bilingual education, and classmates.     

Re-thinking America's Teacher Education Programs

More than ever before, our nation needs teachers who are not only motivated to teach but who are also properly educated, trained, and prepared for the many challenges that are facing our nation's K-12 public schools. The education departments and schools at our colleges and universities cannot continue to do business as usual—they need to adjust their teacher preparation programs to effectively support the changing times, and to provide our future teachers with a realistic and rigorous education. There is little or no disagreement among educators, social scientists, or anyone else for that matter, that great schools are the product of great teachers. It makes sense, therefore, to create a world-class teacher education and training program.     

Towards Treating Chemistry Teacher Candidates as Human

This research inquiry investigates the factors influencing chemistry teacher candidates’ development during their extended practica in the second and final year of an After-Degree Bachelor of Education at a university in central Canada. A variety of data sources are used to identify the risk and protective factors impeding and contributing to the achievement of their chemistry pedagogical aspirations. Two theoretical frameworks, both having their origins in the pioneering work of Kurt Lewin, are used to conceptualize how a complex amalgam of personal attribute and environmental factors and the interplay among these factors influence teacher candidate developmental trajectories. The tenets of both Bronfenbrenner’s bioecological model and Learning Environment research provide insights into how the factors influencing teacher candidate development can be understood and systematically documented to provide a template for reflective consideration of the practicum experience for both teacher candidates and those involved in fostering the development of chemistry teacher candidates.

创新性成长模式:教师教育的实现样式

从师范教育到教师教育需要新型模式的支持。教师教育的创新性成长模式有着自己全新的内涵，它基于终身教育和教师专业化发展思想、以“成长”作为核心理念，学习在学习化课程资源构筑的生态化学习环境中，运用合作活动学习方式，通过对模块整合式课程的学习与开发来实现现代人和现代教师成长的目标。     

多元文化素养:教师专业发展的时代要求

多元文化素养是多元文化时代教师所必须具备的重要素质。培养教师的多元文化素养已成为多元文化教育理念下教师教育探讨的核心问题。未来教师必须具备一定的多元文化知识、态度及技能才能胜任其所面对的具有多元文化特征的教育教学工作。文章从知识目标、态度和情感目标、技能目标三个方面审视多元文化教育理念下教师应具备的多元文化素养,以帮助我们更深入地了解其内涵。     

新加坡、香港地区的比较教育与教师教育:基于时空转换的比较

本文评述杜祖贻教授1970年在首届世界比较教育大会论文集发表的论文.在加拿大渥太华举行的这次大会标志着目前拥有 42 个成员协会的世界比较教育学会联合会(WCCES)的诞生.第16届世界比较教育大会将于2016年8月在北京主办,由中国教育学会比较教育分会(CCES)承办.因此,这篇原载于香港比较教育学会(CESHK)2005年《比较教育简报》的论文得以重刊,可谓适逢其时.本文从时间和地域两个维度对新加坡与香港地区的比较教育及教师教育进行比较,力图解释对这两个地方不同时期教师教育进行比较研究带来的悖论.这些分析也许会激发包括中国大陆在内的世界其他国家和地区的有关讨论.     

教学创新与教师成长

教学创新不局限于教学理念、教学方法的改变,更重要的是为了人类生命发展而创造,是让每个生命具有创造的力量,也为社会发展提供创造永不枯竭的智慧源泉[1]。研究采用理论结合案例的形式呈现,以观摩优秀教师上课、不断反思自身教学实践、凝练教学个性以及注重学生反馈四个步骤来促进教师走向创新型及内涵式发展的道路。     

Teacher Candidates’ Perceived Learning in an International Exchange Program: An ICT Course Example

ABSTRACT

This article reports the perceived learning of a group of Chinese teacher candidates who audited an ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) literacy course while participating in an exchange programme between Southwest University in China and the University of Windsor in Canada. Data were collected through 1) reflective notes written by visiting students and 2) semi-structured interviews conducted with them towards the end of their visit. The majority of participants stated that the learning experience helped them to realise the important role theory plays in the learning of ICT and to seek ideas of how to creatively integrate ICT in their future classrooms. Participants with limited ICT knowledge and skills reported that by being exposed to various functions of frequently used programmes and many free software programmes, they felt more confident in using ICT in their own teaching. Furthermore, those with strong ICT backgrounds found that the course helped them to understand the relationship among ICT, society, and pedagogy. The teacher candidates’ perceived learning included aspects of culture and pedagogy in addition to ICT knowledge and skills. Coming to know in ways like this is critically important to international partnerships and foundational to reciprocal learning where each learns from the other.     

新时期教师理想人格要求

新时期教师理想人格要求在政治要求方面应树立马克思主义的世界观、人生观和价值观,坚持“三个有利于”标准,实践“三个代表”;在道德标准方面必须具备公民的一般道德,又必须具备教师的职业道德;在智能结构方面比一般社会个体要有更高的要求;在个性特征方面要情感饱满、情商优良、外向开放、勇敢坚强;在行为规范方面要平和朴实、公正民主、端庄严谨、宽容豁达。     

论批判型教师及其成长

公民社会的建设、学生的健康成长需要教师具备理性的批判精神和能力。具备批判精神和能力的教师就是一种区别于其他类型的“批判型教师”。批判型教师的批判具有社会批判和自我批判两个纬度,批判型教师的成长经历了自发状态、自觉形成以及自由实现三个阶段。     

反思:教师专业成长的必由之路

反思是教师自我发展的重要机制,它对于提高教师专业化水平具有重要的意义。教师只有立足于自己的教学行为和教学经验进行自我反思,通过反思实施自我监控、自我调适,不断优化和改善教学行为,才能提高教学水平。由此,我们认为反思是教师专业成长的必由之路。如果没有反思,那么一个学校的教育教学将永远建立在冲动、直觉或常规之上。因此,为满足当前教育改革与发展的需求,提高教师的业务素质,学校必须加强教师反思能力的培养。     

What Do We Really Know About the edTPA? Research,PACT, and Packaging a Local Teacher Performance Assessment for National Use

This article calls attention to the overreliance on research about the Performance Assessment for California Teachers (PACT)—often labeled edTPA's predecessor—as justification for the edTPA. The article argues that the distinctions between the assessments are too vast to rely on PACT data to support the edTPA, given the localized nature of PACT and the way in which it is scored.     

微信及公众平台嵌入教师培训的应用探索

从教师培训存在的现实问题出发,通过对微信及公众平台功能与优势的分析,从培训学习与管理两个方面探索了微信及其公众平台在教师培训中的应用,在培训学习中可以激发学习兴趣,提升互动质量,增强自主意识;在管理中贯穿培训全程,涉及到事先的沟通与交流、事中的提醒与反馈、事后的跟踪与辅导、培训的统计与分析,揭示微信及公众平台在培训中的应用前景。     

浅析教师的成长过程与发展策略

教师发展策略即教师成长的重要手段。在不同的成长阶段,教师应侧重不同的发展策略。文章根据教师在成长过程中主要目的的变化,将教师的成长过程分为职业定向、职业适应、职业调整和职业成熟四个阶段,并在此基础上依次提出富有针对性的教师发展策略。     

教师改变:另一种可能

教师改变包含着诸多维度,长期以来,学界对教师信念改变与教师行为改变的关系,两者的变化与学生学业变化之间的关系问题存有争论。本文认为对此问题的分析应有一个全新的思路,从相互作用的角度来理解教师改变的路径所以常给我们新的发现。     

Effects of a Food and Nutrition Course on the Self-Reported Knowledge and Behavior of Preschool Teacher Candidates

This study examined effects of food and nutrition knowledge on the self-reported behaviors of preschool teacher candidates who completed a 10-week course. Self-reported information was gathered at entry, after completion of the course, and follow up 4 months after completion of the course. A paired t-test compared responses at pre, post and follow up. Preschool teacher candidates improved significantly between entry and at the end of the course for 9 of the 18 practices. Statistically significant improvements were also recorded for 13 of the 18 practices between entry and follow up. Overall, the nutrition course increased the nutrition knowledge of preschool teacher candidates. Further analyses are needed to evaluate immediate and longer effects of nutrition course, with larger samples, using more powerful research designs.     

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