Wiki支持的区域教研模式研究

文章以建构主义学习观和技术观为指导,在"行动教育"模式的基础上提出了Wiki支持的课例研究模式,以及"学习效果"、"他人评价"和"自身表现"三个维度的反思进路。个案分析表明该模式可以促进教师教学理念和教学行为的转变,促进教师专业发展。在群体动力理论和社会互动理论的启示下,文章进一步提出了以Wiki支持的校际课例研究为核心的区域教研模式,并进行了初步的探索和尝试。最后,文章提出了建设"智慧课堂"实验室的设想。     

Wiki支持的教师概念转变研究——认知—互动分析的视角

当前"教师是如何学习的"这一根本问题没有得到足够的重视,从概念转变这一视角切入的研究也没有深入考察个体转变的社会—认知动力。该文选定Wiki支持的校际课例研究这一特定情境,采用情境化的视角,将个体认知与社会交互相联系,将其放置在活动系统中进行考察。案例研究发现,校际课例研究的成员形成了星形互动结构,其中处于中心的个体实现了一定程度的概念转变,而反差大、丰富性适中的概念性评论正是引发转变的重要条件。建议尝试更大规模的校际课例研究,引入课例研究主持人并注重互动平台的整合性和易用性。     

嘉信西山小学教育信息化十年

<正>佛山市顺德区嘉信西山小学以《基于学习策略的虚拟学习社区研究》、《教师专业发展的群体动力研究》和《智慧课堂实验室的开发与应用研究》等教育部和省级课题为抓手,整合"区域教师专业发展平台"和"智慧课堂实验室",将技术贯穿课前、课中和课后的协作备课、互动交流、     

基于Wiki的教师专业发展促进策略研究

文章阐释了Wiki及其平台的开发,介绍了Wiki平台的主要功能模块,在Wiki平台支持的教师专业发展的实践基础上、基于课前、课中、课后一体化考量,总结出协作备课、在线听评课、Blog行动反思以及同伴互助等教师发展的策略,对于群体视角的教师专业发展具有重要意义。     

形式儿特赛事精彩——"媒体看课:2008中国小学作文教学擂台赛"纪实

2008年12月23日上午,美丽的广东顺德嘉信西山小学迎来了语文界一大盛会--由中国语文报刊协会、<语文世界><小学教学><语文教学通讯·小学刊>主办,<语文世界>杂志社、嘉信西山小学承办的"媒体看课:2008中国小学作文教学擂台赛"在该校拉开帷幕.     

从创作的高度看——《逃家小兔》绘本解读谈

为了探究作文教学新模式,引导作文教学方向,推出优秀语文教师,中国语文报刊协会、《语文世界》杂志社、《语文教学通讯&#183;小学刊》《小学教学》联合于2008年12月下旬在广东顺德嘉信西山小学举办了“媒体看课：2008中国小学语文作文教学擂台赛”,详情见本刊下期。本期选载三位选手关于《逃家小兔》绘本作文的说课稿件,以飨读者。     

加强区域研修功能 聚焦教师专业发展

区域研修打破了校际壁垒,实现教师全员卷入式教学研究,以自下而上的方式聚焦问题,通过"课例研究—现场互动—反思跟进"的路径,直指教师专业发展。研修平台建构有效促进了教师群体间分享教学经验和智慧,让散落于教师个体的零星的体会或经验汇聚成群体共同享有的专业知识资源.     

小学数学教师专业发展的探索——以“一课比较”教研形式为例

课例研究是促进教师专业化发展的最好切入点,教研组作为教师专业发展主阵地,也是指导教师开展课例研究最主要的团队。文本以某小学数学教研组及12名教师作为研究对象,从2016学年起持续两年跟踪研究该教研组如何通过"一课比较"的教研形式突破频率低、参与意愿低、评价低的教研活动困境。研究数据表明"一课比较"教研形式以"三提升"的形式促进教师的专业发展。一是提升教师进行课例研究的积极性;二是帮助教师较好地掌握课例研究的方法,从科研成果和MPCK水平两方面较为有效提升教师的专业水平;三是促进教研组建设成尊重教师专业发展需求的专业组织。     

网络支持的教师校际协同教学研究

当前已有的教师培训方式都有其自身的优势与缺陷。如何取长补短,结合各种培训方式形成有效的教师培训机制是实现教师专业化发展的关键。根据混合学习、协同知识构建及群体动力理论,网络支持的教师校际协作教学策略包含三个发展阶段：网络支持的混合培训、应用型课题研究促进教师知识向教学能力迁移、协作教学与教学创新。实践研究表明：网络支持的教师校际协作教学策略能促进师生协作交流能力、教师信息化教学能力的提高以及教师课堂教学模式的转变。     

课例研究是教师教学的生长点

"课例研究"是近年来美国、日本在职教师的有效的实践模式,是提升教师教学专业水平的重要方式.文章基于"课例研究"的一般理解,结合具体研究的事例介绍了"课例研究"的实施,指出"课例研究"是我国中小学教师在教学实践中自主学习的重要方式和课堂教学质量提高的有效途径.     

大学英语教学课例探究

作为一种全新的课堂教研模式,课例研究扎根真实的课堂。在备课、上课、研课的层层推进中,课例研究小组的教师不断改进课堂教学并促进其专业发展。课例研究对促进大学英语教师专业发展具有重要意义。     

Teacher participation in school-based professional development in China: does it matter for teacher efficacy and teaching strategies?

ABSTRACT

Although Chinese teachers commonly participate in school-based professional development activities, there is a remarkable scarcity of large-scale quantitative research into the effectiveness of teacher professional development in China, which is characterised as an institutionalised practice. Based on a conceptual framework applying recent research knowledge, this study investigates the relationships between teacher participation in school-based professional development and its individual and school contextual antecedents and effects on teachers and teaching in the context of mainland China. A total of 1506 secondary school teachers responded to a questionnaire survey. The results show that teachers’ willingness to attend teaching research activities and supportive principal leadership facilitated teacher participation. Among the three dimensions of teacher participation, it was collective lesson planning and teacher collegiality, not the frequency of participation, that improved teacher efficacy and the adoption of desirable teaching strategies. These results enrich the knowledge about the characteristics and effectiveness of teacher professional development in China. The implications of the findings are discussed.     

Enriching a collaborative teacher inquiry discourse: exploring teachers’ experiences of a theory-framed discourse in a Singapore case of lesson study

This paper explores how a learning theory enriched a collaborative teacher inquiry discourse where lesson study was adopted as the educational action research model to promote teacher professional development. Four Grade 9–10 biology teachers in Singapore drew from variation theory to collaboratively plan and teach new genetics content as part of teacher research. As a researcher-facilitator, I have drawn from the teachers’ experiences of infusing variation theory into their teaching practice, of developing their own theories of teaching and learning, and of developing student-focused pedagogies to highlight the roles variation theory played. These included providing concrete examples of patterns of variations teachers could use, increasing the teachers’ attention and sensitivity to students, and developing the teachers’ theoretical lens in their approach to teaching. Reflecting on the teachers’ experiences, I made an appeal for teachers’ development of theoretical lenses in teacher inquiry, and bridging of theory and research to teaching practice.     

In search of the excellent literature teacher. An inductive approach to constructing professional teaching standards

This study makes a contribution to the development of empirically based, domain-specific teaching standards that are acknowledged by the professional community of teachers and which, therefore, have a good chance of being successfully implemented and used for professional development purposes. It was prompted by the resistance on the part of many teachers to the one-size-fits-all teaching standards imposed on them from above. We, therefore, looked for an alternative and canvassed teacher opinion about what makes an excellent literature teacher. Because our standards will be used to evaluate the profession, we also wished to know to what extent teachers satisfy (or would like to satisfy) their own ideal, and which factors influence their professional development. Contrary to earlier studies, we found that the professional community of literature teachers hold widely shared ideas about what constitutes excellence in their profession. We also found that almost 40% felt that their own level of professionalism fell far short of excellence, but that their professional growth was primarily hampered by external, contextual factors. If the government wishes to promote teacher ‘excellence’, the infrastructure for professional development will need to change so that teachers can acquire the knowledge and skills embodied in the teaching standards.     

Facilitating Self-Study of Professional Development: Researching the Dynamics of Teacher Learning

In this study a teacher educator worked with two elementary teachers to facilitate a self-study of their learning during a professional development programme. The programme extended for 6 months and was underpinned by four learning processes—reflection, sharing, action and feedback. The two teachers documented their learning experiences and were interviewed several times during and after the study. At the end of the 6-month period, the teachers sketched and shared models of their learning and then collaborated to produce a joint model. Sue learned that she needed to start with a small change in her teaching and that her learning involved multiple factors that interacted to create change. Loraine learned that focusing on the teaching of science reminded her of childhood experiences and that it was important for her to analyse why she taught the way she did. Self-study helped the teachers to develop insights about how they learned and enabled them to better understand and manage their own professional development.     

On the Evolution of a Lesson: Group Preparation for Teaching Contest as Teacher Professional Development Activity for Chinese Elementary Science Teachers

Group preparation for teaching contest, or lesson polishing, is a teacher professional development activity unique to China. Through participant observation and discourse analysis of a typical case, this study explores how a science lesson evolved through lesson-polishing process and how such process influenced individual learning and the development of local teaching community. Our work illustrates both the values and the issues of lesson polishing as a type of teacher professional development activity. On one hand, combining professional interactions and trial lessons, lesson-polishing activity opens up space for critical yet cooperative professional interactions and tryouts of different designs and teaching strategies, providing opportunities for individual learning and development of practical rationalities within local community. On the other hand, the functions of such activities are greatly limited by the tendency of refining every detail in lesson design, the existence of overriding dispositions and authorities with overriding power, as well as the focus on practical suggestions that can be directly implemented. Suggestions for improvement are made in the final discussion.     

跨界课例研究中的教师学习

目前我国中小学教师的学习大都停留在被专家灌输知识或同行低水平交流的状态,如何创设跨界学习情境,引发教师对自己思维和行为习惯的深度反思,形成新的对教育教学的理解和行动,是教师学习的一大难题。鉴于此,有必要从跨界学习的视角,探索教师在跨界课例研究中其学习是如何发生的。基于一个小组合作学习案例,分析了教师如何通过与外来学者合作,根据具体情境对理论进行再工具化,改进教案设计和教学实施,在提高学生学习素养的同时生成了自己新的实践性知识。研究发现,教师跨界学习的意义协商、视角再造、实践重构三个机制,对教师专业学习具有重要的指导意义。     

Prospective teachers’ teaching experience: teacher learning through the use of video

Background: Future teachers need to observe, interpret and analyse teaching during the initial teacher education period. The use of videoed teaching and learning in teacher education promotes reflection, and analysing videos of teaching is helpful in learning effective classroom practices that prospective teachers mostly do not have the chance to observe during fieldwork experiences. The analysis of videos of teaching can be seen as a way to enhance the development of prospective teachers’ professional vision, which, in turn, improves instruction. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine prospective teachers’ reflections on video examples depicting their own teaching experiences. It aimed to create a professional development environment to facilitate the prospective teachers’ reflection on their own videos and those of their peers to improve their professional vision. Sample: This study was conducted with over 200 (in 31 groups) third-year prospective mathematics teachers in a university in Western Turkey. The student teachers, receiving training to teach first- to fourth-grade elementary school pupils, were taking a teaching methods course. Design and methods: In the first week of the semester, the student teachers, working in groups, were assigned mathematics topics to teach the elementary school pupils. During the semester, each group prepared by trying out their activities in front of other student teachers in other groups. At the end of the semester, one student teacher from each group presented a short lesson related to their mathematical topic to the elementary school pupils. This lesson was videotaped, then later it was watched and discussed by the student teachers. Of the student teachers who undertook the teaching in the videos, 22 volunteers agreed to be interviewed. All groups of student teachers provided written reflections on their experience. Selected videos of the class discussions about the videos of teaching were also used for triangulation. The data were analysed to identify the issues the prospective teachers reflected upon. A content analysis technique was employed. Results: The data indicated that the prospective teachers were able to reflect on several issues related to effective teaching, connect their theoretical knowledge to their practice and consider issues related to pupil learning and difficulties. Conclusion: The findings suggested that the use of video, together with discussions between the student teachers, had the potential to create promising learning opportunities for prospective teachers.     

Underpinnings of teachers’ professional development-a new conceptualization of field experience

Many researchers have addressed the professional development of teachers and the importance of the field experience component in the process of teaching effectiveness (Kowalchuk, 1999). A phased development model or paradigm used to address teachers’ professional development and stages of effectiveness have been noted. Conceptual models of Field Experience have been developed in accordance to the paradigms addressed the professional development of teacher effectiveness, basing on no matter external forces or internal reflective capability that will change a teacher. Simply put, a focus is placed upon teachers to change and grow. Field experience is not equivalent to student placement or teaching supervision, but is a device for teacher change at various professional stages. This implies the need for a re-thinking of teacher education preparation.