Enhancing part-time in-service teacher training programmes to facilitate rural teacher development in China

Despite the frequent criticisms directed toward them, in-service teacher training (INSET) programmes remain one of the most commonly used approaches for enhancing teachers’ professional development. This article reports on a study that examined the effects of a part-time masters of education INSET programme based in Central China. The main source of data was reflective papers written by 38 teacher participants; classroom observations and informal interviews also helped reveal the teachers’ perspectives on the programme. Whilst the programme was very popular, and had a variety of positive impacts on the teachers’ professional development, the programme paradigm involved several drawbacks. The results suggest that part-time INSET programmes for rural teachers should be supplemented by various other forms of teacher development activities to meet the dual goals of developing such programmes and providing professional development for teachers.     

A programme-wide training framework to facilitate scientific communication skills development amongst biological sciences Masters students

In this article we describe the effectiveness of a programme-wide communication skills training framework incorporated within a one-year biological sciences taught Masters course designed to enhance the competency of students in communicating scientific research principally to a scientific audience. In one class we analysed the numerical marks achieved by students (N 61) for specific communication assignments completed at the start and at the end of the course. This was complemented by questionnaires administered to students at the beginning and at the end of the course to self-assess their competency and to elicit their views on the usefulness of the training received. We considered three questions: did students’ communication skills improve during the course; did the outcomes depend on the place of previous education (UK or non-UK); and how useful did students consider the learning and teaching activities to be? We show that the training improved students’ self-reported competency in most of the communication skills considered. Coursework marks for writing literature reviews improved during the course (p < 0.001). Those marks were marginally associated (that is, approaching statistical significance after Bonferroni correction) with the place of previous education (relatively high in UK students; p = 0.005). Coursework marks for writing research proposals did not change during the course (p = 0.361) but did depend on place of previous education (relatively high for UK students (p = 0.001). Although this small study’s intriguing results merit further investigation, our initial data supports the use of a programme-wide framework of the type presented here to facilitate communications skills development amongst biological science graduate students.     

关于心理素质训练课评价标准的探讨

心理素质训练课日益成为学校开展心理素质教育的主渠道,但对心理素质训练课评价标准的研究却几乎是一片空白。以形成性评价和终结性评价相结合的方式,并以形成性评价为主,构成心理素质训练课评价标准,是我们研究的主旨。     

浅谈如何加强学生地理能力的培养

本文从地理教学中培养和发展学生对地理图表、事物的观察能力;对地理事物或现象的记忆能力;对地理事物的分析综合等思维能力;独立获取地理知识的自学能力;对地理事物发生、发展及空间分布的想象能力;应用地理知识的实践操作能力等几方面谈地理教学对学生能力的培养.     

利用档案夹提高学生的参与程度

关于如何提高学生在教学中的参与度，引导学生主动参与，乐于探究、勤于动手，逐步培养学生收集和处理科学信息、分析和解决问题以及交流与合作等多方面的能力，是生物新课程标准所倡导的。怎样使不同层次的学生在以上各方面的潜能得到最大发挥呢？如何在新课程教学中提高学生的参与程度呢？     

Overcoming the barriers of distance: using mobile technology to facilitate moderation and best practice in initial teacher training

This case study describes the development process of a model using readily-available technology to facilitate collaboration, moderation and the dissemination of best practice in initial teacher training in the UK. Students, mentors, tutors and external examiners from a number of educational institutions in a UK, higher education-led Lifelong Learning Sector partnership (LLS) participated. The study explored the extent to which using group video-conferencing software and tablet computing had the potential to model best practice in giving feedback to students, in the setting of targets and in the joint observations of mentors and tutors based in separate institutions. A further area of investigation was the impact of the technology on the observation and moderation of teaching practice by external examiners. The study found that participants could identify a wide range of advantages of using the technology and also some disadvantages. The impact of the study was measured qualitatively via the students’ professional development record (PDR). The challenges involved in undertaking a multi-site study requiring Wi-Fi connectivity and involving participants from several institutions are described. The introduction of key information sets (KISs) related to employability creates an urgent need for HEIs to develop measures which enhance the employment prospects of all students.     

论幼儿环保意识培养的有效途径

培养幼儿环保意识需要幼儿园、家长、社区形成教育合力,并从这三方面寻找有效途径。     

教师计算机培训初论

分清层次 ,抓住重点 ,有的放矢 ,避免重复 ,学以致用     

论师本培训

本文在反思一统化师训范式弊端的基础上,提出了师本培训的新理念,阐述了它的基本内涵、特征、实施途径和方法,并分析了新课程背景下师本培训的借鉴意义。     

实施英语素质教育

在英语教学中,全面调动学生的学习主动性是实施英语素质教育的关键,学生的学习主动性需要教师有步骤、有计划地引导和培养。合作教学不仅能全面提高学生的学业成绩,还培养了学生合作意识和技能。     

校本培训初探

“校本培训”包括三方面的含义： 一是“为了学校”的培训。“校本培训”以解决学校所面临的实际问题，促进学校的发展为直接指向．既要解决学校教育教学实践中存在的种种问题，也要进一步提升学校的办学水平和教育质量。它关注的主要不是教师的学历提高和学校的宏观决策，而是学校、教师具体实践问题的解决．     

浅谈高校如何进行外贸人才培养

外贸人才的缺乏以及大量外贸专业毕业生就业难成为一对显著的矛盾,要解决这个矛盾的症结就在于,要让大学生所学的专业、知识结构和企业实际应用进行完美匹配。本文对于高校如何进行外贸人才培养进行了探讨。     

论校本培训和培训机构的关系

校本培训是最经济、最时效、最实效的培训形式,在促进教师专业成长、提高学校教育教学质量、开发校本资源过程中具有重要作用;培训机构的有计划、高层次的教育和培训,是教师专业全面发展的重要推手。同时,在实践运行中,培训机构和校本培训又处于一种作用力和反作用力的状态,两者在相互作用和相互影响中获得了共同进步和共同提高。     

Using clickers to facilitate development of problem-solving skills

Classroom response systems, or clickers, have become pedagogical staples of the undergraduate science curriculum at many universities. In this study, the effectiveness of clickers in promoting problem-solving skills in a genetics class was investigated. Students were presented with problems requiring application of concepts covered in lecture and were polled for the correct answer. A histogram of class responses was displayed, and students were encouraged to discuss the problem, which enabled them to better understand the correct answer. Students were then presented with a similar problem and were again polled. My results indicate that those students who were initially unable to solve the problem were then able to figure out how to solve similar types of problems through a combination of trial and error and class discussion. This was reflected in student performance on exams, where there was a statistically significant positive correlation between grades and the percentage of clicker questions answered. Interestingly, there was no clear correlation between exam grades and the percentage of clicker questions answered correctly. These results suggest that students who attempt to solve problems in class are better equipped to solve problems on exams.     

定向越野训练理论研究综述

定向越野在我国是一项新兴的体育运动项目,是一项智力与体力并重的运动。通过文献研究法和逻辑分析法,从体能、技能、心理和战术三个方面对国内外定向越野训练的研究成果进行分析、归纳、总结,并根据实践提出一些看法,以期对我国定向越野训练水平的提高有所帮助。