The digital history and pedagogy project: Creating an interpretative/pedagogical historical website

The Digital History and Pedagogy Project (DHPP) is an interpretive/pedagogical collection of Web-based historical resources designed for use in inquiry-based learning in high school and university classrooms. It has been created by faculty and graduate students at a large urban college of education. This paper provides a rationale for the project rooted in current literature; presents a theoretical framework for this and other similar projects; and describes five current digital historical resources (DHRs) within the context of our framework.     

School Innovation in Science: A Model for Supporting School and Teacher Development

‘School Innovation in Science’ represents a model, developed through working with more than 200 Victorian schools, to improve science teaching and learning. SIS works at the level of the science team and the teacher, providing resources to challenge and support the change process. Its emphasis is on strategic planning supported by a framework for describing effective teaching, materials for auditing practice and planning initiatives, and a networked support structure. Experience and results from the project, concerning the nature and extent of change, will be used to provide insight into the multidimensional nature of the change process and to suggest a number of principles concerning support for change. Arising out of this, the major elements of a School Innovation Model are identified, that supports a transformative agenda for schools more generally.     

国际科学教育视野下的高中综合科学课程改革——透视香港高中《综合科学》课程

综合科学课程改革是现代学校课程改革的重要组成部分。20世纪80年代以来，世界许多国家和地区在科学教育课程领域中都进行了越来越深入的改革实践。我国香港地区进入新世纪以来在全球国际科学教育发展的大趋势下，为了更好地培养和提升学生的科学素养，在高中阶段的《综合科学》课程中采用了跨学科主题的形式设计，选择了具有时代性和跨时代性的题材选材；在课程的内容设计、学习目标、学生学习成果与学业评价的基本维度等方面都较传统综合科学课程有着一定的突破，并有着很好的启示与借鉴意义。     

高中语文课堂教学小组合作学习探析

本文对“高中语文新课程课堂教学小组合作学习的三种基本模式及合作学习的技巧指导”进行分析探讨。     

Learning What It Takes to Teach Science: High School Students as Science Teachers for Middle School Students

This study examines the influence of St. John's University Summer Science Experience and Teacher Mentoring Program on African American and Hispanic high school students' interest in science and science teaching as career goals. In the first phase of the program, high school students from six school districts in Suffolk County, Long Island (a suburb of metropolitan New York City) engaged in investigative science experiences that emphasized environmental science, chemistry, and technology and learned about effective science pedagogy. The second phase of the program functioned as a teaching practicum for the high school students, where they planned for instruction and taught middle school students investigations similar to those that they had engaged in during the summer program. Various surveys were developed to assess high school students' attitudes about science and science teaching, knowledge of effective teaching approaches, knowledge of ways to motivate younger students, and the overall impact of the program on the high students' interest in science and/or science teaching as career goals. Program evaluations reveal that over 75% of the students expressed an interest in considering science or science teaching as career possibilities. Implications for minority teacher recruitment are discussed.     

科学史融入小学课程的研究

科学史是培养小学生科学素养的主要学习资源。小学阶段科学素养的培养不仅仅限于“科学”课程。科学史融入小学课程要避免非科学的简化史,注重体验,让历史动起来,重视技术史的学习。教师要做好科学素养、教学能力和心理学测评方法等方面的准备。     

让生活融入高中政治课堂

新课程改革提出了“教育要回归于生活”的教学原则,给传统的教学方式带来了很大的冲击。在新的教育理念的指导下,高中政治教师要积极转变教学思想观念,尊重学生在成长上的客观需求;强调在政治课堂上融入生活化的因素,从而提高学生对政治文化与知识的认识;促进学生良好政治素养的形成与发展,从根本上改变高中政治教学中存在着的问题,促使学生成长为满足发展需求的高素质人才。     

初中科学实施反思性教学的策略

反思是个体成熟的标志,教师的反思性教学有助于提升教学的有效性。在教学过程中,由于教师对反思性教学的认识存在片面性,实施的自主意识不足,操作缺乏有效策略,出现了为反思而反思的现象。教师惟有真正深刻理解反思性教学的真实内涵和重要意义,才能积极开展反思性教学,主动探索提高反思性教学能力的策略。     

Transformation through Language Use: Children’s Spontaneous Metaphors in Elementary School Science

This article examines the role elementary school children’s spontaneous metaphors play in learning science. The data consists of tape recordings of about 25 h from five different schools. The material is analysed using a practical epistemology analysis and by using Dewey’s ideas on the continuity and transformation of experience. The results show the rich and varied meanings that children put into their spontaneous metaphors. Their metaphors deal with facts as well as norms and aesthetics in relation to the science content taught and they influence learning both through what is made salient, as well as through their relations to the children’s possibilities of proceeding with their undertakings. Often one and the same metaphor encompassed all these cognitive, aesthetic and normative aspects at the same time. It is discussed how this rich meaning can be cultured in a productive way, and how the children’s spontaneous metaphors, with all their relations, can be used to enhance conceptual learning and also learning about the nature of metaphor use in science. Through their connection with various experiences of the children, it is also shown how children’s spontaneous metaphors have the potential to enliven and humanise the subject.     

小组合作学习模式在高中地理课堂教学中的运用

新课程改革倡导自主学习、合作学习和探究学习,这也是高中地理新课程改革的核心理念。对此,本学期我校创建了卓雅课堂,主要在高效课堂“五环节”教学中充分发挥小组合作的作用,并且在地理教学中进行了大胆的尝试。     

高中校长学校管理工作探析

校长是学校的管理者,也是学校的组成者,对教师和学生起着关怀、教育、引领等作用。可以说,校长在学校的影响是巨大的,就像是人们前进的标杆一样。高中校长开展管理工作探析,可以围绕教师和学生,对学校管理工作进行剖析,立足教师思想、教学、学生行为表现和饮食问题等实施管理教育,提升教师的思想境界,促进教师的教学沟通,约束学生的日常行为,重视学生的饮食安全,给学生提供一个宽松、愉悦的学习环境。     

The Peano Axioms: An IBL Unit Constructing the Natural Numbers

Abstract

A problem sequence is presented developing the basic properties of the set of natural numbers (including associativity and commutativity of addition and multiplication, among others) from the Peano axioms, with the last portion using von Neumann’s construction to provide a model satisfying these axioms. This sequence is appropriate for mathematically inclined students in their first or second years, and has regularly required about a week of class time. The sequence could be included as one unit within any of several appropriate courses, and could be an ideal “trial size” first attempt at guiding inquiry-based learning in the tradition of R.L. Moore.     

学校推行ISO900O认证的理论意义

ISO9000族标准是由国际标准化组织质量管理和质量保证技术委员会制定的质量管理体系标准，其在企业界的成功运用．已经引起世界各国教育界的广泛关注。学校引入ISO9000标准的管理模式，有其非常可观的理论意义．但也受一些不定因素的影响。     

中学英语教学中以学习小组为核心的合作教学方法探讨

以学习小组为核心的合作式课堂教学方法,改变了传统课堂教学"重结果轻过程"的不足,由学生来主导构筑知识、发现知识、转移知识和扩展知识的过程,全面提高了课堂教学效果。     

Probeware and Handhelds in Elementary and Middle School Science

This paper reports a test on the feasibility and educational value of probeware and associated instructional materials in middle school science education. We addressed feasibility through consideration of costs, teacher professional development, and instructional design. In order to test our approach, we developed 2 middle school science curriculum units, 6 low-cost probes that interface between handheld Palm computers, and CCLabBook software for the Palms that presents the curriculum, interfaces with the probes for data collection and visualization, and supports guided exploration. The materials were tested by 30 teachers in the first year, and in a follow-up study by 8 of those teachers the second year. We found that teachers were able to conduct the investigations successfully in their classrooms, and that student learning was enhanced through the use of the probes and handhelds. Specifically, students experienced the physical correlation between phenomenon and modeling, which helped them to develop understanding and to confront misconceptions.     

Different Gender Students' Participation in the High- and Low-achieving Middle School Questioning-orientated Biology Classrooms in Taiwan

This case study investigated gender-based differences in classroom participation through examining teacher-student interactions between a female biology teacher and two groups of middle school students, namely high achievers and low achievers. The female teacher used a questioning-orientated instructional strategy as her major teaching style which creates greater opportunities for student participation in biology learning. Classroom sessions were videotaped for one school year, then analysed for gender differences in question-and-answer patterns. The results showed that more teacher-initiated questions, teacher-directed interactions, and teacher feedback were given to males than females in both groups, but a large difference was found between the two groups of students. Girls in the low-achieving biology class (LABC) were more likely to participate at a rate comparable with their male classmates; girls answered more procedure questions and an equal percentage of process questions, called out approximately the same percentage of answers to undirected teacher-initiated questions, and received more instances of praise and follow-up questions. Contrary to what was observed in the high-achieving biology class (HABC), LABC girls initiated more questions than LABC boys.     

《科学》中考复习应对策略

随着中考复习的深入,深度和广度也逐渐增大,学生偶然一次考试失败是很正常的,但如果一味地着急、焦虑,反而事倍功半。中考前学生应摆正心态,重视基础知识与基本技能的训练,反思解题过程中的错误,以提高科学复习效率。     

民国时期的公共科学馆与中学理科实验教学

科学馆在民国时期学校理科教学特别是中学理科实验教学中扮演了重要角色。民国时期公共科学馆从建议设立到零星出现再到行政推广的过程,凸显了它在中学理科实验教学中的作用及其与学校科学教育发展的关系。     

初中理科教学中的情感培养

初中理科教学中,落实情感目标存在着重认知、轻情感;功利主义;学习缺乏吸引力等现象。其原因有教师方面的,也有考试评价方面的。要使情感目标落到实处,课堂教学过程是关键,同时评价方式与内容力求多元化,以及提高教师的自身素质。     

高校科技创新能力研究综述

随着知识经济时代的到来,科技创新能力已经成为高校发展和取得竞争优势的关键,如何提高高校的科技创新能力,关系到我国科技创新能力的提高。从高校科技创新能力的涵义及构成、高校科技创新能力的研究意义、高校科技创新能力的测度与评价、高校科技创新能力的培育四个方面对国内高校科技创新能力的研究进行综述。