Radicalizing the college classroom

Peter Shaw is editor ofAcademic Questions and, most recently, Will and Ariel Durant Professor of Humanities at Saint Peter's College.     

Satisfaction and dissatisfaction in the college classroom

Fifty-eight undergraduates were interviewed to elicit classroom incidents which left them feeling satisfied and incidents which left them feeling dissatisfied.The critical requirements of these incidents were classified into five categories: teacher affect, teacher task, student process, student outcome, and student evaluation. In most incidents, the dominant figure was the teacher and the dominant issues were related to affect.Satisfactory incidents occurred in classes where features, such as teacher role and classroom climate, were consistently related. Such consistency was not found in classes where unsatisfactory incidents occurred.It is recommended that course evaluation questionnaires give more explicit attention to issues of affect and of consistency.Revision of a paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Montreal, April, 1983. We thank Robert Kozma for his comments on an earlier draft.     

大学课堂教学中讨论式教学的组织

讨论式教学法对于培养学生形成批判性思维,增进协作意识,提高学生的口头表达能力和自主学习能力具有重要作用。本文着重探讨了讨论教学组织过程中讨论题目选择、讨论方式选择、讨论技巧和总结评价中应注重的问题。     

非言语交际在高校英语课堂教学中的运用

本文从非言语交际在高校英语课堂教学中的应用入手,阐明在高校英语教学中只有意识到非言语交际的重要性,并且培养学生的应用能力,外语教学质量才能提高,只有既注意语言教学又不忽视非言语的外语教学,才是完整的、成功的教学。     

Deep teaching in a college STEM classroom

Cultural Studies of Science Education - The retention of underrepresented students remains a significant challenge in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) disciplines. A broad range...     

Bringing Total Quality Improvement into the college classroom

This paper describes a recent effort to infuse the Total Quality Improvement (TQI) approach, popularized by Deming and others, into an upper-division, junior-senior economics course at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The process of infusing TQI into instruction has received relatively little attention. Most efforts to bring TQI into higher education focus on improving administrative operations and establishing courses and programs for students to learn how to apply TQI in their future jobs. The challenge is in using TQI to help students realize their potential for learning in traditional courses.The TQI instruction approach developed for use in the course had three major elements. Customer Focus is represented by the proficiencies emphasized in the course and expected of graduating economics majors. Student Involvement is represented by team-centered research projects whose purpose is to enhance the proficiency of creating new knowledge. Continuous Improvement is represented by ongoing student evaluations of the course and instructor, carried out by a student team.After discussing the motivation for adopting this approach and the independent development of the concept of proficiencies in the economics major, the paper moves on to discuss the planning, implementation, and execution of the course. Particular attention is given to discussing the operation of the teams and the development of a multi-faceted ongoing evaluation process to assess the effectiveness of the TQI Instructional Approach.The evaluation results indicate strong student satisfaction with the TQI orientation of the course, while at the same time pointing out ways of improving what was done.The author is grateful to Jacob O. Stampen and Mark Finster for helping him learn about TQI, and to Ian Hau whose seminar stimulated this effort to infuse TQI into the classroom. Helpful comments on a draft of this paper came from Jacob O. Stampen, Maury J. Cotter, Charles A. Liedtke, Paul Weiss, and Michael L. Williamson. Special thanks for generating much of the underlying data go to the Evaluation Team of Kevin Brumm, Kimberly Klatt, and John Kittilstad, and to the Proficiency Team of Evan Anderson, Deana Lynn Grobe, and Tom Yale. Ilona Loser and Kris Feggestad assisted in assembling the results of the surveys. Suzanne Vinmans handled the typing, Vicki Szypulski made the visuals, and Elaine Moran provided helpful editorial suggestions. Laura A. Guy, Data and Program Library Service, facilitated access to the Current Population Survey tape used by several teams, and Kurt Neuwirth, Social Science Microcomputer Laboratory, created a user-friendly approach to the Current Population Survey data.     

Note-taking in the college classroom as evidence of generative learning

College student notes were analysed with respect to the amount of words copied directly, omitted and added to the teacher’s overheads or PowerPoint slides in order to understand the effect of teacher scaffolds on student generative learning during initial encoding. Scores on quizzes taken at the end of classes from which notes were collected were analysed with respect to the content of student notes and teacher scaffolds. Statistically significant results were found when comparing how much students copied, added and omitted, whether teachers used PowerPoint presentations or overheads, and with respect to the amount of information teachers presented visually. Significant effects also were found on performance quiz items with respect to the amount of information that teachers provided.     

刍议翻转课堂在大学英语教学中的应用

英语教学是大学教育中的基础性课程,也是教学改革的重点。近几年源于美国的翻转课堂模式逐渐被人所熟知,这种建立在现代化信息技术上的教学模式引起了人们的关注和重视。在当前的大学英语教学中,传统的教学模式已然无法满足当前教学任务的需要。在这样的情况下,我们需要对翻转课堂进行深入的了解,并将其应用到大学英语教学中,提到大学英语教学的质量。     

策略外语教学研究

概述了以策略为基础的外语教学的理念及其发展,从语言学习过程中常用的语言学习策略和语言运用策略、策略的确认和分类、策略的训练和运用等方面出发,对这一领域已取得的研究成果进行了客观的评析,并就如何将语言学习策略及语言运用策略融入大学英语日常教学活动中进行了探索,指出了培养学生语言学习策略的重要性.     

课堂教学中大学生英语的自主学习

自主学习有被误解为“独立学习”或“没有教师的自学”。实践证明,在培养学生自主能力的过程中,教师起着非常重要的作用。教师应当在常规的大学英语课堂教学中,结合各种各样的教学技巧和活动来培养非英语专业学生的自主学习能力。     

Student feedback in the college classroom: A technology solution

Technology in the university classrooms has made great strides in the area of presentation of materials. Ceiling-mounted projectors and media carts with projection capabilities have made the multimedia classroom presentation a routine event for much of the worl of higher education. Now there is technology that permits the instructor to solicit student responses during class via wireless keypads. This allows all students to respond simultaneously and the instructor to know the results immediately. This article reports the results of a pilot study on student reaction to a specific system (LearnStar). Students were uniformly positive in their appraisal of this technology as a teaching tool. The proposal for a classroom with LearnStar capability was funded by the Auburn University College of Liberal Arts. The College has a technology fund to encourage development of new and innovative technologies.     

关于大学英语教学中文化融入的思考

本探讨了语言与化的关系，并指出大学英语果中应在教会学生掌握语言知识的同时，要适当地教目的语的化。作提出了目的语化的教学内容和教学方法以及学习化的重要性。     

提升高职院校多媒体教室管理水平的思考

随着高职院校多媒体教学系统的应用和普及,多媒体教室管理的水平亟待完善和提高。从多媒体教室管理人员的职责入手,论述多媒体管理人员应当具备的个人素质。总结了多年来从事多媒体教室管理工作的一些经验,提出了提升多媒体教室管理的几点建议。     

浅析使用多媒体课件的大学英语课堂教学

近年来,信息技术的迅猛发展促使多媒体课件在大学英语课堂教学中得到了推广及运用。根据大学英语的教学特点,本文分析了多媒体课件在大学英语课堂教学过程中的主要优势,同时也指出大学英语多媒体教学过程中存在的突出问题,认为多媒体课件在课堂上只有被恰当合理地运用,才能起到促进大学英语教学的目的。     

交互式教学法如何在大学英语课堂实施

交互式教学法因其灵活性和互动性的教学特点在大学英语课堂普遍实施,而基于此教学法的教学如何在教与学之间找到契合点是大学英语教师一直思索的问题.本文对新旧教学法进行对比后论证了实施交互式教学法的可行性,井详细阐述了交互式教学法在大学英语课堂的实施过程.     

大学英语课堂分组的有效策略

本文首先介绍了课堂分组的优势及存在的问题。然后基于对学生和老师的访谈,笔者对大学英语课堂分组的有效策略做了探讨。这些策略是:明确教学目标,选择合适的教学组织形式;积极与学生互动,充分发挥课堂活动中的角色。     

大学英语课堂教学中构建合作学习模式的研究

合作学习倡导学生相互合作,这种教学理论和策略体系被国内外广泛使用。实践高校英语教学改革的一个有效途径是在大学英语课堂中构建和做学习模式。文章主要介绍了合作学习的内涵、组成要素和理论基础,并对合作学习的必要性和在英语课堂教学中的实际应用进行了分析,提出了合作学习的教学模式和有效的合作学习实践活动,并指出教师在合作学习过程中需要注意的问题。