Exploring the Radical Middle between Theory and Practice: A collaborative self-study of beginning teacher educators

This article is a collaborative self-study of our development as beginning teacher educators over the course of an academic year. A focus of our self-study was our shared interest in the role of theory and of practice in teacher education programs. Theodore taught a philosophy of education course and Shawn taught a practicum supervision course. Both authors share autobiographical excerpts of their teaching contexts and the problems of practice that they encountered. Our analysis suggests that the dichotomy between theory and practice is unhelpful and unproductive for both teacher candidates and teacher educators. Theory and practice are densely interwoven aspects of teaching that can be tacitly separated by coursework in teacher education. We advocate a pedagogy of teacher education that explores the radical middle between theory and practice.     

我国教师专业发展学校:推广的必要性及对策

教师专业发展学校是融职前教师教育、在职教师培训、大学教师发展为一体的教师教育模式,推行广泛并取得了巨大成效。我国教师教育发展模式相对滞后的现状迫切需要我们认真学习国外先进经验,加快发展我国的教师专业发展学校建设。     

Preparing the Next Generation of Science Teacher Educators: A Model for Developing PCK for Teaching Science Teachers

Science education doctoral programs often fail to address a critical piece—the explicit attention to the preparation of future science teacher educators. In this article, we argue that, in addition to developing skills and a knowledge base for research, doctoral students must be given the opportunity to observe, practice, and reflect on the pedagogical knowledge necessary to instruct science teachers. In particular, we contend that the construct of pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) can be adapted to the context of knowledge for teaching science teachers. We use the PCK construct to propose a model for the development of knowledge for teaching science teachers, grounded in our experiences as doctoral students and faculty mentors. We end by recommending a vision for doctoral preparation and a new standard to be included in the ASTE Professional Knowledge Standards for Science Teacher Educators.     

Capturing the Complexity of Practice: A self-study in the context of engineering education

This article is based on a project in which a teacher educator, acting as a critical friend, worked with six engineering teachers in a Masters program in Machine Engineering in order to stimulate their reflection on their own teaching and learning as a way of developing their scholarship of teaching. The article draws particular attention to ways of expressing the learning from self-study in order to illuminate the complexities of teaching and to begin to encourage the articulation of the scholarship of teaching as a consequence of a collaborative experience. The results highlight how making teaching visible through the use of self-study offers new ways to capture the complexity of practice, which in this article is considered to be an important aspect of developing the scholarship of teaching.     

美国一流研究型大学教师教育模式及启示——以斯坦福大学教师教育为例

斯坦福大学教师教育专业化模式包括培养领导型教师的愿景、分类培养教师的目标定位、融合型课程结构、"递进式责任制"实习模式、以教师专业标准和学术研究为依托的质量保障等.我国高水平综合大学可以在借鉴美国一流研究型大学教师教育模式的基础上,充分发挥生源优势,提升教师教育课程的融合性,深入挖掘教育实习在教师专业成长中的价值,以培养具有专业权威的领导型教师.同时,要加强教师教育研究,促进教师教育学科与教师培养的协同发展.     

我国教师教育体系当前形成路径与变革动因

当前,我国形式上形成了开放的教师教育体系。但这种开放体系形式上的意义大于实质性的内容。从实质看,它与发达国家比较成熟的开放的教师教育体系有相当的差距。从教师教育格局形成路径和原因分析中发现,我国现行体系产生于高等教育管理体制的变革,源于对一流大学的诉求而进行的高校布局结构的调整。这与西方为提高教师地位,追求高质量教师而建立的开放的教师教育体系有根本的不同。两相比较,出发点不同,结果自然大异其趣。我国开放的教师教育模式在完成体系构建之后,遵照教师教育自身发展规律提高教师教育水平的任务,显得更为迫切。     

经验合作教学:校本教师培训的新思路

文章基于我国新课程改革和教师发展的教育背景,提出了经验合作教学的校本教师培训构想,对经验合作教学的概念、理论来源、对教师发展的促进作用及其在实践中的可行性进行了论述。     

Negotiating epistemological challenges in thinking and practice: A case study of a literacy and inquiry tool as a mediator of professional conversation

This study examines how a Humanities team engaged in professional conversation to refine and implement a literacy and inquiry tool in an Asian Studies curriculum. Drawing on socio-cultural perspectives of teacher learning and theories of tools as mediators of action, this case study investigates the ways this community of practice discussed their understandings of contexts, curriculum, and classroom practice to implement the literacy and inquiry tool. Such practices hold promise for the design of professional learning experiences where teachers engage in conversations about key tools they can use in their practice and assume more control of their own professional learning.     

A survey of Greek general and special education teachers’ perceptions regarding the role of the special needs coordinator: Implications for educational policy on inclusion and teacher education

The present study explored the perceptions of Greek general and special primary teachers regarding the role and the professional characteristics of special needs coordinators (SENCOs). According to the responses of the 466 participants, each school should have a fulltime SENCO, who should have both teaching experience in general schools and specialization in teaching students with SEN, and also be able to deal with all types of SEN. SENCOs’ responsibilities include evaluating and directly teaching students, counselling teachers and parents, contributing to in-service training of staff, and undertaking initiatives for program enrichment and knowledge dissemination.     

Measuring the impact of the flipped anatomy classroom: The importance of categorizing an assessment by Bloom's taxonomy

The flipped classroom (FC) model has emerged as an innovative solution to improve student‐centered learning. However, studies measuring student performance of material in the FC relative to the lecture classroom (LC) have shown mixed results. An aim of this study was to determine if the disparity in results of prior research is due to level of cognition (low or high) needed to perform well on the outcome, or course assessment. This study tested the hypothesis that (1) students in a FC would perform better than students in a LC on an assessment requiring higher cognition and (2) there would be no difference in performance for an assessment requiring lower cognition. To test this hypothesis the performance of 28 multiple choice anatomy items that were part of a final examination were compared between two classes of first year medical students at the University of Utah School of Medicine. Items were categorized as requiring knowledge (low cognition), application, or analysis (high cognition). Thirty hours of anatomy content was delivered in LC format to 101 students in 2013 and in FC format to 104 students in 2014. Mann Whitney tests indicated FC students performed better than LC students on analysis items, U = 4243.00, P = 0.030, r = 0.19, but there were no differences in performance between FC and LC students for knowledge, U = 5002.00, P = 0.720 or application, U = 4990.00, P = 0.700, items. The FC may benefit retention when students are expected to analyze material. Anat Sci Educ 10: 170–175. © 2016 American Association of Anatomists.     

高职艺术设计类专业利用非物质文化遗产开展教学改革的探索——以柳州城市职业学院为例

在国家大力发展文化产业和推进职业院校民族文化传承与创新的时代背景下,高职艺术设计类专业要突破原有的教学模式,提升学生的创新实践能力,形成自身的办学特色,就应该结合本地区的产业特点和文化背景,利用本地区非物质文化遗产资源,改造原有的课程和艺术设计手段,建立稳定的校企合作创意工作室,通过开展民族化设计项目,提升社会服务能力,从而建立自己的教学模式和办学特色。     

课堂教学与企业人力资源素质发展关系研究——以云南省弥勒县为例

西部大开发为西部农村地区带来了人力资源的机遇,意味着将有更多的农村人口进入城市工作。通过考察云南省农村地区企业和观摩学校课堂教学,并对企业相关人员、学校教师、学生及家长进行访谈,结果发现,集权化的国家课程和应试主导的课堂教学并不能使农村学生具备企业人力资源所需要的理论联系实际、视野开阔、积极主动并富有责任感等素质,通过教育消除城乡不公平现象依然任重而道远。