Developing a Holistic Assessment Stance in Student Teachers

Over the last 10 years far-reaching changes have been introduced to the education system of England and Wales. In particular, the curriculum in state schools has been prescribed through the introduction of a National Curriculum. Associated with the National Curriculum is an assessment system involving teachers undertaking the on-going assessment of pupils, as well as externally set national tests, the results of which are published. These changes have had a profound effect on the training needs of in-service teachers and on the content and structure of training courses for pre-service teachers. The assessment system linked to the National Curriculum is extremely complex. There are huge demands on the time available for pre-service teacher training. This means that teacher educators struggle to find valid ways to train students to develop good assessment practices that will enhance students' teaching and the learning achieved by their pupils. This paper reports on the attempts of one group of course tutors to develop a means of achieving this goal.     

高职院校青年教师中的微格教学

简要介绍了微格教学的概念、特点、步骤等理论知识,并结合实际指出了在高职院校中对青年教师开展微格教学的必要性与重要性。     

Non‐Career Teachers in the Design Studio: Economics,Pedagogy and Teacher Development

As the economic pressure to teach more students with fewer (and less costly) instructors has increased in higher education, the utilisation of non‐career teachers has become more prevalent. Design education has not escaped this phenomenon; non‐career teachers, such as graduate and undergraduate students or design practitioners, have become commonplace in design education, including the design studio. The studio, however, is a unique teaching and learning environment in higher education. It poses distinct socio‐academic challenges for both students and teachers. The utilisation of non‐career teachers in studios raises a number of ethical and pedagogical questions. Teacher development is one serious concern. Here, the authors articulate the major challenges confronted by non‐career studio teachers, especially student teaching assistants, and strategies for their development.     

Developing Biology Lessons Aimed at Teaching for Understanding: A Domain-specific Heuristic for Student Teachers

Teaching for understanding requires teachers to organize thought-demanding activities which continually challenge students to apply and extend their prior knowledge. Research shows that student teachers often are unable to develop lessons in teaching for understanding. We explored how a domain-specific heuristic can assist student biology teachers in developing problem-posing lessons according to teaching for understanding. Worksheets of lesson plans were analyzed according to criteria for problem-posing lessons. Furthermore, student teachers’ perceptions of the design heuristic’s usefulness were categorized in a cyclical process. In general, the heuristic appeared helpful to most student teachers for designing problem-posing lessons satisfactory according to the criteria. Furthermore, teachers indicated that using the heuristic deepened their subject matter knowledge and their awareness of pupils’ prior knowledge.     

Developing a Student Year Planner

How to create something which is more meaningful to students than a simple homework diary is the issue that underlies this paper. The introduction of a student planner into year 9 of a high school is followed. The writer used reflexive practitioner research and ethnographic techniques to raise issues concerning the role of the tutor, teacher/pupil and teacher/parent relationships. He suggests that a gap appears to exist in pupil's ability to plan for the mid-term. The difficulties of classroom innovation and change in relation to teacher's craft knowledge is touched upon.     

Email Reducing Stress for Student Teachers

This paper reports on one aspect of a study which investigated the use of email between student teachers and university lecturers during the final practicum experience in a four year Bachelor of Education pre-service primary teaching course. The paper explores how the nature of electronic communication, together with the students' perceptions of university supervision and their place in the school setting, affected the level of stress experienced by the student teachers in their placements. Student teacher stress has been reported in the literature as one factor which impedes student teacher learning during the practicum (Zeichner, 1980). We argue that ICT has the potential to maximise student teachers' learning outcomes in the practicum by giving them more control over the learning process, reducing their stress, and enabling them to manage their practicum experience more effectively.     

家政教育:打造永续而健康的未来

复杂的社会和生态挑战日益威胁着地球的未来,人类,尤其是年轻一代,应当革新生活方式。这对地球的未来至关重要。全球所有公民都迫切需要新的思维与行为模式。当我们直面人类世(The Anthropocene)的种种现实——在这样一个纪元,人类正以一种深刻、抑或不可逆的方式改变地球——为了使全体公民都能适应地球现实,有必要从根本上转变学习方式。世界各地的人都需要学习实用的生活技能,掌握具体领域的适用胜任力(appropriate competencies),并提升批判能力和反思能力。     

Higher Education as a Range of Educational Activities for Student Teachers

Summary Taking German experience as her point of departure, the author pleads for a practice‐based reform of secondary teacher education in universities by counter‐balancing the traditional overaccentuation of theory and abstract cognitive learning. A broader concept of practice and the suggestion of a ’partial isomorphism’ of universities and schools lead to the definition of higher education courses as practice and as fields of educational activities. In training seminars, student teachers have particular opportunities of profession‐oriented experiences and insights. If they learn, from the very beginning of their studies, to interpret the seminar sessions as learning situations and to organise them deliberately in cooperation with the seminar leaders, they can build the first elements of professional competence. The article reports how this conception of teacher education as field of, and preparation for, practice has been realised in an introductory seminar for freshmen at the Ruhruniversitat Bochum.     

艺术类专业“学生设计工作室”教学模式探讨

＂学生设计工作室＂是以学生为主体,以学生自主管理、团队合作为特色,以社会实践为目的,以专业技能为依托的辅助教学方式。具有合理性、实效性和灵活性等特性,是理念创新和教学实践的全新探索。可以获得产、学、研等多方面收益,形成第二课堂与第一课堂的良性互动。     

The Need for Selective Recruitment in Home Economics

Abstract

An experimental peer-advising program was used to test the hypothesis that the "peer group effect" is a major influence on the characteristic shift which occurs in the early college environmental perceptions of incoming college freshmen. Two matched groups of 51 peer- and 51 faculty-advised freshmen were administered Stern's College Characteristics Index on a five-month pre- and posttest basis, and results supporting the hypothesis were found on two of the 11 CCI factors. Possible reasons for these results, along with methodological problems in this type of research, are discussed.     

模因论视角下职前英语教师微格教学实践研究

微格教学是职前英语教师教育的重要组成部分,是一个创造性模仿优秀英语教师教学的过程,这与模因论中模因的模仿特征构成契合。在开展英语微格教学中,充分利用语言教学模因复合体,包括“教态模因”、“课堂用语模因”、“板书模因”、“教学设计模因”以及“课堂组织模因”等,遵循模因复制的过程即同化、记忆、表达与传输等四个阶段,能有效提高职前英语教师的教学基本功、语言教学技能以及课堂组织与管理能力。     

教育：师生幸福的家园

教育活动包含了师生的一切主客体关系,当中既有学生的主体,也有教师的主体;既有学生的客体,也有教师的客体。在主客体关系上,教育是一种直接与人的全面性打交道的过程。教育丰富的主客体内涵使它能够在教育活动中表现出最丰富的情感内容,因而也最有理由表现为一种幸福的人际关系。