VOICES IN EDUCATION: ACCOUNTABILITY IN TEACHER EDUCATION AND THE NATIONAL COUNCIL ON TEACHER QUALITY

Abstract

This article explains several reasons why multicultural preservice teacher education is important and suggests some ways it can be better accomplished. The authors make a strong case for teacher education programs to be more deliberate about preparing European Americans to teach ethnically diverse students of color. They argue that this explicit professional preparation is needed because of the increasing racial, cultural, and linguistic divide between teachers (predominately European American) and K–12 students (increasingly from ethnic groups of color). Two other factors underscore the need for more multicultural teacher education: the fear of diversity and the resistance to dealing with race and racism frequently expressed by students enrolled in teacher education programs. To overcome these problems and better prepare preservice teachers to work effectively with ethnically diverse students the authors suggest a two‐part program of professional development.     

QUALITY IN TEACHER EDUCATION: RELFECTIONS ON A DECADE

This article reflects on the changing definitions of quality as they have been applied to teacher education in the 1980s and looks forward to the decade ahead.     

LINK SCHOOLS: AN EVALUATION OF AN INNOVATORY SCHEME IN TEACHER EDUCATION

Teacher education is facing major new challenges. In this context the concept of partnership between LEAs, schools and the training institutions has assumed key importance. This paper outlines an in‐novatory scheme of professional partnership with a BEd primary degree programme. The Westminster Primary Link Schools Scheme is developmental, responsive to the changing nature of education, built upon existing good practice in initial and in‐service education and self‐evaluatory. The evaluation of the first year of the scheme is described. Guiding principles, relevant to the development of partnership schemes, are discussed and issues relevant to evaluations of this type are explored     

CAN THERE BE QUALITY IN TEACHER EDUCATION WITHOUT SPIRITUALITY?

In this paper the need for ensuring the inclusion of the spiritual dimension in Teacher Education courses is considered. This dimension is included in both the 1944 and 1988 Education Acts, but no definitions or guidelines are given. The research of Hardy and Hay is drawn upon to underline the significance of the spiritual aspect of human nature, and the writings of Berger and Hull to demonstrate its repression in modem life. Despite the problems involved in finding an acceptable definition of spirituality, a case is argued for its inclusion in Teacher Education courses. Some questions are proposed for influential parties such as Course Leaders and validators to use when evaluating courses.     

INVESTIGATING IDEOLOGICAL CLARITY IN TEACHER EDUCATION

Set in a graduate-level multicultural literacy course, this qualitative study draws on Bakhtin's theories of ideological becoming and a hybrid of critical discourse analysis (CDA) methods (Gee, 1996 Gee, J. P. 1996. Social linguistics and literacies. Ideology in discourses, , 2nd ed. London: Falmer..  [Google Scholar]; Fairclough, 1995 Fairclough, N. 1995. Critical discourse analysis: The critical study of language. London: Longman..  [Google Scholar]; 2003 Fairclough, N. 2003. Analyzing discourse: Textual analysis for social research. London: Routledge. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar]) to explore the complexities of learning to teach culturally and linguistically diverse students. We investigated how eight beginning teachers' ideologies were constructed and reconstructed by closely examining the struggles and tensions teachers expressed in one multicultural literacy course. This research adds to the literature about how beginning teachers might better address cultural and linguistic diversity in literacy instruction. The study also describes the types of activities that can facilitate the development of teachers who are interested and committed to working with culturally and linguistically diverse students.     

对21世纪高校体育教师素质的再思考

面临21世纪知识经济的时代,体育作为人力资本的重要内容之一,对一个国家的兴盛与综合国力的提高,起着越来越重要的作用。本文就高校体育教师素质的现状以及高校体育教师的人文素质、专业素质、知识结构、科学素养、科研和创新能力的培养等方面进行分析。     

培养培训相互衔接相互促进的英语教师教育探索

培养培训相分离的弊端阻碍了我国教师教育的发展。遵照国务院的要求,通过教育科研、教育实习等活动。建立起高师与中小学英语教学的紧密联系,使其相互促进。这既能充分发挥师范院校在教师教育中的主体作用。解决中小学英语教师的继续教育问题。又能促进高师院校英语教育专业自身的改革与发展,并在此基础上完善国务院提出的“培养培训相衔接的开放的教师教育体系”。     

ENTERPRISE AWARENESS IN TEACHER EDUCATION (EATE)

This paper sets out the rationale underpinning the setting up, delivery and evaluation of a major initiative in initial teacher education. The purpose of Enterprise Awareness in Teacher Education (EATE) is to incorporate enterprise, economic and industrial issues into all initial courses for trainee teachers. This is facilitated through an extensive programme of staff development. The article then goes on to record the processes and thinking behind one level of the evaluation of the initiative which has been incorporated into individual developments in institutions from the outset     

论素质教育的质量评价

素质教育质量评价，是根据国家教育方针、素质教育目标、标准和宗旨，采用现代教育评价理论、方法与技术，确定素质教育工作质量与产品质量达成预定目标及标准的程度，作出科学的价值判断，并为素质教育决策系统提供反馈信息的控制过程。本文对素质教育质量评价的基本原则、主要内容以及建立素质教育质量评价制度三个问题进行了较为系统的论述。     

LEARNING ECONOMICS IN HIGHER EDUCATION: AN INVESTIGATION CONCERNING THE QUALITY AND IMPACT OF EXPERTISE

This article reflects the results of an investigation involving economics and law students and focusing on the quality and impact of their expertise (or prior knowledge) in relation to the course, Economics and Money. Attention was paid in this project to the construction of different tests intended to grasp the complex nature of prior knowledge at the content level. In relation to the quality of expertise, the results of this project could reveal that economics and law students possess a composite of different expertise components. In relation to the impact of prior knowledge on the acquisition of subject‐oriented knowledge, regression analysis shows that expertise accounts for 16 to 17 percent of the variance in posttest scores. Although this percentage is limited, further analysis could reveal that optimal requisite knowledge and mathematics are important in this perspective. These results are important since they might be helpful in order to guide future initiatives to support students in the initial stages of their studies to cope with the demands of specific domains to be studied. In this study, study time was also used as an independent variable to hypothesize about differences in expertise in the impact on the acquisition of new subject matter. No significant findings could be derived to support hypotheses in this context.     

STRUCTURE OF PRIMARY MATHEMATICS TEACHER EDUCATION PROGRAMS IN SPAIN

Spain was 1 of the 17 countries that participated in the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement’s Teacher Education and Development Study in Mathematics (TEDS-M 2008). In this paper, we explore and describe the structure of Spanish primary mathematics teacher education programs. We analyzed the documents collected from the 48 sampled Spanish institutions that participated in TEDS-M. Our approach to the syllabus analysis focused on the established content dimension of curriculum in educators’ syllabi. These contents are structured into 4 knowledge domains—school mathematics, advanced mathematics, general pedagogy, and mathematics pedagogy—and categorized into subjects and topics. The results show that Spanish teacher education programs are diverse across institutions, but follow a basic structure that emphasizes the teaching of general pedagogy subjects.     

TEACHER EDUCATION: SUCKING OUT THE JUICE

This article sets out a proposal for raisins quality in teacher education and so for quality in our schools. The current system of teacher education is heavily regulated by CATE — the Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education — which has been established by the DES to ensure quality. Paradoxically, these regulations may actually limit quality rather than enhancing it because they are principally concerned with quantity and balance rather than with process. So the paper argues that a better way must be found in which the processes involved in becoming a teacher, and the structures which shape the system, may assist each other. The components needed for raising quality are already within the system, but need nonetheless a radical re‐adjustment if quality is to be raised. The proposals made here concern the potential within CATE to become a national professional council for the teaching service as well as for teacher education; for making it a requirement on teachers to read for the Masters degree as part of their professional qualification; and for the consequent integration of pre‐service and in‐service teacher education.     

《当代教师教育》征稿启事

<正>《当代教师教育》是中华人民共和国教育部主管,陕西师范大学主办的教师教育理论刊物,以马列主义、毛泽东思想、邓小平理论、“三个代表”重要思想、科学发展观和“习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想”为指导,坚持四项基本原则,坚持社会主义办刊方向,努力为教师教育与基础教育的改革与发展服务,为中小学教师的专业     

《当代教师教育》征稿启事

<正>《当代教师教育》是中华人民共和国教育部主管,陕西师范大学主办的教师教育理论刊物,以马列主义、毛泽东思想、邓小平理论、"三个代表"重要思想、科学发展观和"习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想"为指导,坚持四项基本原则,坚持社会主义办刊方向,努力为教师教育与基础教育的改革与发展服务,为中小学教师的专业发展提供理论指导与实践指南。原中央政治局常委、国务院副总理李岚清题写刊名;原教育部副部长陈小娅致题为"加强教师教育研究,促进优秀教师和教育家成长"的创刊词;中国教育学会荣誉会长顾明远先生担任学术顾问,并且题写了"实现教师专业化由教育家来办教育"的题词。     

《当代教师教育》来稿须知

<正>一、为进一步提高学术水平和编辑质量,本刊对来稿特提出如下要求:1.论文要求观点明确、新颖,论述充分,论证严密,材料翔实,语言精炼。2.来稿以8000¹2000字为宜。文末注明与作者联系的方式(电话和电子信箱)。3.本刊执行《中国高等学校社会科学学报编排规范》(修订版),作者应对稿件作规范处理,来稿应包括题名、作者署名及通讯地址、作者简介、中文摘要、关键词、中图分类号、正文、注释、参考文献以及英文篇名、英文摘要和英文关键词。基金资助产出的论文亦应对有关项目     

《当代教师教育》来稿须知

<正>一、为进一步提高学术水平和编辑质量,本刊对来稿特提出如下要求:1.论文要求观点明确、新颖,论述充分,论证严密,材料翔实,语言精炼。2.来稿以8000~12000字为宜。文末注明与作者联系的方式(电话和电子信箱)。3.本刊执行《中国高等学校社会科学学报编排规范》(修订版),作者应对稿件作规范处理,来稿应包括题名、作者署名及通讯地址、作者简介、中文摘要、关键词、中图分类号、正文、注释、参考文献以及英文篇名、英文摘要和英文关键词。基金资助产出的论文亦应对有关项目名称及批号加以注明。