Supporting the kindergarten–primary school transition in Hong Kong: reform in a teacher training programme

ABSTRACT

The conflicting education values in Hong Kong kindergartens and primary schools pose various challenges to kindergarten teachers in providing pupils with a smooth transition to primary school which requires collaboration from schools and families. This study explored these challenges as well as the benefits of a professional teacher training programme. In-service teachers (N?=?35) and tutors (N?=?2) engaged in the module ‘The Social and Emotional Aspects of Teaching and Learning’ participated in this study. The trainees’ weekly reflective journals throughout the 22-week module were subjected to documentation analysis. Group interviews with the in-service teachers and individual interviews with the tutors were conducted on completion of the module. Findings reveal a gap between teacher training and providing pastoral care for pupils through supporting the social and emotional aspects of their families in Hong Kong, and indicated that traditional beliefs associated with the teaching profession should be widened. Meanwhile, counselling knowledge and skills should be contextualised and integrated into teacher training programmes.     

The initial training of teachers to teach children with special educational needs: A national survey of English Post Graduate Certificate of Education programmes

With moves towards inclusive education, there are demands for developments in initial teacher education as regards special needs and inclusive education. This paper outlines initial training in England within an international context. It then reports findings of a recent national survey of Programme directors and subject tutors of Post Graduate Certificate in Education programmes (PGCE) for primary and secondary teachers about the initial training provision in this aspect teaching. The main findings are about varied practices across placement schools, the commitment to the training partnership, coordination problems across the partnership and organising teaching experience of pupils with SEN. The implications of the study are also discussed in national and international terms.     

远程开放教育英语专业学习者辍学现象调查(一)——来自电大系统14个省级电大样本观测点的实证研究

高辍学率是远程开放教育不可回避的一个问题。本研究对广播电视大学辍学率较高的英语专业展开实证研究,研究首先选择英语专业招生较集中的广播电视大学系统14个省级电大作为样本观测点,进而确定各观测点2010年春入学的2237名学生进入研究与学业观察范围,研究计划连续跟踪该届学生3个学期,记录每学期发生的辍学现象。到2010年秋季,研究得到了入学半年后首批辍学者名单共204人,研究者邀请到其中的118人填写了调查问卷,并对其中98名辍学者进行了面对面访谈或者电话、网络访谈。研究同时得到了195名辍学者在校学习成绩记录。研究还对辍学者身边的40名英语专业教师以及班主任进行了面对面访谈。基于以上数据,研究揭示了远程开放教育英语专业学生学习半年后发生的辍学现象及其影响因素,并提出了远程教育机构作为方向的思考。     

论高师院校教育实习指导教师的基本素质与能力

我国高师院校教育实习指导教师的现状不够理想,存在指导教师队伍整体素质不高、指导质量偏低等问题,教育实习指导教师队伍亟待建设、培养。根据高师院校教育实习指导教师的作用,实习指导教师必须具备良好的协调沟通能力、人际交往能力、组织管理能力和表达陈述能力。其次要与时俱进,不断学习教育学、心理学、学科教学论等基本教育教学理论,建立教育实习指导的理论框架;要关注现实,深入了解当前中小学课程教学与改革现状;要夯实基础,具有熟练驾驭中小学课堂教育教学的实践能力。此外,实习指导教师还应具备科学、合理、公平、公正地评价能力。     

小学教育专业教育实习存在的问题及对策

作为教师教育的重要组成部分,教育实习是教师教育实现人才培养目标不可缺少的教学实践环节,是学生将所学教育教学理论应用于实际教学情境,获得丰富的个人实践知识,加快对教学技能的掌握的重要途径。近年来,教育实习在国内外教师教育过程中得到了高度的重视,也有了较深层次的发展。但由于受各种因素的制约,实习环节及效果仍存在着一些问题。...     

高职学生工匠精神培育策略探究

工匠精神是对待工作一种精益求精、追求完美的精神理念,有着专心专注、追求卓越、一丝不苟、协作共赢的时代内涵,但当前高职教育无论在学生自身,还是学校层面、社会层面,都存在一些问题,文章探讨了从校园文化渗透、教育教学融合、教师素质提高、导师制模式培养、产教融合中提升等途径来解决。     

论目前我国中职硕士培养的十大矛盾

2000年以来,中职教师在职攻读硕士学位制度在我国获得了较快发展,有效提高了我国中等职业学校的师资质量,但在其培养的各个环节,包括学位、目标、招生、课程、教学、管理、学员、导师、毕业、模式等方面也都出现了一系列矛盾。对此,我国相关部门应立足现实、联系实际,逐步解决上述矛盾,完善中职教师在职攻读硕士学位制度。     

Development of a didactical training concept for peer tutors in gross anatomy

Even though peer tutors are often used in gross anatomy courses, research in the field is rather a subject of the last two decades. This is especially true about the didactical challenges these types of peer tutors experience during their tutorials and about how they are prepared for the task. The aim of the presented study was to learn about the training needs of the tutors, and to subsequently design, implement, and evaluate a didactical training concept. A qualitative design was chosen to examine how tutors can best be prepared for tutorials of gross anatomy. To do so, focus group interviews were conducted. The data were analyzed and grouped into various concepts, using semi‐structured interview questions as guidance. It was found that peer tutors are in need of training in the following aspects: Dealing with students who are experiencing difficulties during or as a result of dissection, dealing with group dynamics, that is, at the dissection table, keeping students motivated, time management, and staying confident as a tutor. In order to be regarded as useful and relevant in the eyes of tutors, a preparatory training course should include all these aspects in addition to general didactical training elements. Training needs of peer tutors of gross anatomy go beyond the content of standardized didactical curricula; therefore, tutors should be prepared with a curriculum that is specifically geared toward the many challenges associated with teaching gross anatomy to first year medical students which are already so well documented in the research literature. Anat Sci Educ 10: 495–502. © 2017 American Association of Anatomists.     

远程开放教育教师课酬分配体系架构

如何合理有效地分配教师课酬是高校薪酬制度改革的重要内容,从事远程开放教育的高校更需要构建合理的课酬分配体系。针对现行远程开放教育教师课酬分配中存在的弊端,本文试图探索更为理想的课酬计算方式,以体现按劳分配、优教优酬。     

亚洲医学院校PBL的实施和学生的体验

为了调查PBL在亚洲医学院校中的实施情况，作者收集和分析了相关的文献报道和会议报告。结果表明，大多数亚洲医学院校和学生对采用PBL是积极的，有些问题，在教师的帮助下，经短期适应以后也被克服了。为保证PBL的成功实施，关键因素是学校行政管理人员的有力支持、PBL的设计和师生的培训。     

浅析新时期高校辅导员队伍建设

辅导员是大学生思想政治教育的骨干力量,是大学生健康成长的指导者和引路人。加强辅导员队伍建设,建设一支专兼结合,面向专业化、职业化发展的辅导员队伍是加强和改进大学生思想政治教育的重要组织保证和长效机制。     

Marketising private tuition: Representations of tutors’ competence,entrepreneurial opportunities and service legitimation in home tutoring business manuals

Education researchers have explored the marketisation of schools resulting from neoliberal education policy, but little attention has been paid to supplementary education markets. Supplementary education services, such as private tuition, are delivered outside of school but designed to improve performance within it. A small body of research demonstrates that the private tuition market in the UK and the USA is burgeoning, and that students’ access to this service is differentiated by region, class and ethnicity. These emerging demand-side analyses are vital, but they cannot tell us about the educational entrepreneurship that shapes the supply of private tutoring services. This article addresses this lacuna through a discourse analysis of manuals, published as part of the developing tutoring support industry, that are designed to guide would-be entrepreneurs through the establishment of a private tuition business. This analysis excavates manuals’ treatment of: tutors’ motivation to work in the sector and their competence to do so; strategies to be employed in the marketisation of tuition services; and the need to build trust to ensure business legitimation in an unregulated industry. In conclusion, the article sets a new agenda for research into fast-developing supplementary education markets that explores: (i) the dynamics of this expanding educational workforce of private tutors; (ii) the ways marketisation addresses and augments parental anxiety about children's education; and (iii) the need for safeguarding and quality control in private tuition.     

美国研究生教育发展的特点与借鉴--兼论职技高师职业技术教育学硕士研究生的培养

阐述了美国研究生教育发展历程的特点,即：理性与实用理念并存;课程与科研双翼并重;大学与企业合作共赢。指出了美国研究生的培养经验对职技高师职业技术教育学硕士研究生培养的借鉴作用：注重培养目标的应用性;注重课程设置的基础性和综合性;注重导师配置的交叉性;注重学校与社会的协作性;注重培养特色的“双师”性：     

The readiness is all The degree level qualifications and preparedness of initial teacher trainees in English

This article is the first of two reporting research concerned with the profile of degree level qualifications of initial teacher trainees who start Postgraduate Certificate of Education (PGCE) Secondary English courses. In a context where there is no existing database of such information, the researchers sought to establish the patterns in this profile and collate a summary of Initial Teacher Education (ITE) tutors’ perceptions about the level of subject knowledge preparedness of students with different degree level qualifications. Following from this, the enquiry was also interested in the ways that PGCE institutions support students with different subject knowledge development needs. The article that follows below treats the issue of degree qualifications and the PGCE selection process in the context of recent changes to subject English. The evidence suggests patterned but divergent practices with an overall trend of preference for prior qualifications in English Literature despite significant alterations in the study of English since 1980. PGCE courses surveyed attract many more applicants than there were places and tutors exercise considerable discretion in admissions practices which are not always made transparent by published policies and rationales, including those made available to prospective applicants. The review of the literature showed little published discourse on this topic to date.     

研究生导师立德树人责任制的生态观建构

研究生导师是实现研究生培养立德树人的关键,用生态观审视研究生导师立德树人责任制,有助于构建以研究生导师—高校生态环境—研究生为主体要素的多层交互系统.生态观从系统内外部分析各生态因子联系和系统间的相互关系,解决微系统信息流不畅、系统间阻碍淤积、上下级系统动态监管能力差以及系统内社会宏观把握不足的生态性缺陷问题.用生态观...     

Radical Artists & Art Students versus Management & Bureaucracy during the 1970s

This paper is an account of the impact of Conceptual art and art theory upon art students, studio tutors and managers during the 1970s in certain British art schools. The impact on students resulted in a shift away from the making of physical artefacts to the production of writings and magazines. It also problematised ‘the visual’ and encouraged critiques of art and the art education system. Some tutors responsible for art theory courses were dismissed and some students became politicised and attacked those in charge of art schools and polytechnics. Managers disciplined the students and, in some instances, failed and expelled them. William Furlong and Bruce McLean were two London based artists who responded to the ever‐increasing bureaucracy of art colleges by mounting a parodic performance.     

The impact of various creative initiatives on wellbeing: a study of children in English primary schools

The following paper builds uon a survey of primary students’ wellbeing in an attempt to assess the impact of various creative initiatives on this aspect of their lives. Three case studies were conducted in schools with some of the highest aggregate wellbeing scores, all three schools having also been engaged in various extended Creative Partnership programmes. Teachers, Creative Practitioners and students were interviewed and observed during both normal lessons and Creative Partnership activities. It is posited that the implementation of creative activities under the framework adopted by Creative Partnership enhances both hedonic and eudaimonic aspects of wellbeing and accords with theories of motivation which stress the value of promoting student competencies and autonomy and creating classroom climates which promote connectedness.     

影响研究生创新能力培养的导师因素分析

培养研究生的创新能力是研究生教育的核心，也是评价研究生教育质量的根本标准。在影响研究生创新能力的诸多因素中，导师队伍是根本性因素。本文着重从导师遴选和评估的制度因素、导师的主观能动性因素以及导师的客观制约因素三个方面分析了导师队伍在研究生创新能力培养过程中的作用。     

The Development of the Year Curriculum Coordinator at Burntwood School

This article gives an account of a school in which Year Curriculum Teams were created, consisting of a planned combination of tutors across subject clusters. An enhanced role and perspective for the tutor is described. Subsequent changes were accommodated well by the new system, even though the position regarding tutor continuity was changed. As with other school accounts in this issue, a sense of the particular flavour of the school comes through, alongside the structural themes which may have wide application.
Charles Harper and Yvonne Barry are both members of the Senior Management Team at Burntwood School, which has recently been awarded Beacon status. Charles has taught in a number of schools including in Pennsylvania, USA. He was a Head of Art before moving into senior management. Yvonne has taught in two large comprehensive schools and was a Year Curriculum Coordinator before becoming a senior manager. Both have been involved in training staff and in giving presentations at the Institute of Education, CSCS, QME and various London schools. Charles and Yvonne are members of various working groups and advisory bodies including the Open University and the QCA.     

制作英语课件应用在开放教育英语专业辅导课导学的学习效果

本文重点探讨本文作者应用自己制作英语课件介入开放教育英语专业辅导课导学课中,使用制作英语课件是对传统教与学起到补充和优化的作用。教师应用自己制作英语课件在辅导课的导学中能给学生提供英语写作互动交流和学生的学习信息反馈,导学作用体现开放教育教学效果。