Student primary teachers and their experience of religious education in schools

This article is based on research into the way student primary teachers experience religious education when they train in schools. The research findings suggest that the experience and quality of training in many schools is not adequate and that this experience undermines student confidence in relation to religious education. The author argues that despite the increased reliance on school as an arena for the training of teachers, in the case of religious education many student teachers do not have the opportunities to observe or teach religious education even where the school or student is keen to do so.     

Exploring pre-service teachers’ justifications for one-to-one technology use in schools: implications for initial teacher education

ABSTRACT

Set against the backdrop of a succession of educational technology policies in Ireland, influenced by international discourses, this study aimed to explore how Irish pre-service teachers justify the use of mobile technologies in schools. In order to achieve this, 23 pre-service teachers were presented with a vignette that asked them to justify the use of a one-to-one tablet initiative in school. The research found that pre-service teachers tended to justify the initiative, as they saw the increasing technification of schools and society as an inevitable process. In addition, they presented pragmatic reasons for using the technology rather than highlighting their educational/pedagogic value. This study points to the need to challenge pre-service teachers’ innovation-centric and techno-centric attitudes towards technology use. It also highlights the need for teacher educators, as a whole, to take a more active role in addressing this issue in teacher education programmes.     

The challenge of balancing content and language: Perceptions of Dutch bilingual education history teachers

The role of subject teachers in content and language integrated learning (CLIL) has received little attention, since most research focuses on language learning results of students. This exploratory study aims to gain insight into the perceptions of Dutch bilingual education history teachers by comparing teaching CLIL with regular history teaching. We used questionnaires and interviews to collect data. Results show that bilingual education history teachers perceived their dual task as language and subject teachers to be challenging. Teaching in English also enriched their teaching skills and eventually had a positive influence on their level of job satisfaction.     

从教师教育专业化看教师教育学院院长素质

教师职业具有专业化的一切特征,教师专业化呼唤教师教育专业化.教师专业化已经成为一种强劲的思潮,极大地推动了许多发达国家教师教育新理念和新制度的建立.国际教师教育专业化潮流在催生我国教师教育学院的同时,也迫使其依据教师教育专业化要求实施改革与转型.在教师教育改革方面,担任主要角色的教师教育学院院长已经面临来自内外部的压力,为了应对这些变化,院长必须在教师教育的规划、实施和教育服务方面承担起主要的领导责任,以迎接教师教育专业化的挑战.     

以德育引领幼儿园与中小学教师师德建设

幼儿园和中小学时期的教育是面向未成年人的教育,这一阶段是人生中最重要的成长期,是未成年人世界观、人生观、价值观形成的关键时期。作为人类启蒙教育的幼儿园教师以及承担着把亿万青少年培养成国家建设合格人才的中小学教师,担当了第一棒的重要职责。独特的职业地位和任务,让幼儿园与中小学教师的师德建设显得尤为重要。从实践的角度看,具有高尚情操、渊博学识和人格魅力的教师,会对其学生产生一辈子的影响。育人为本,德育为先,师德的建设也须以德育为引领。     

Current status of educational technologies at Omani higher education institutions and their future prospective

The purpose of this research was to address the current and prospective views on educational technology (ET) in order to discover the difficulties and develop its utilization in Omani higher education. The main instruments used to carry out this research were two questionnaires: the faculty members’ questionnaire, and the technical/administrative staff questionnaire. One hundred and fifty-nine participants were involved in the study. They represented all educational technologists who have been with the public and private Omani higher education institutions. The findings show a tendency for future expansion with less expensive technologies and the need for training. Some impediments of ET use were also found. Important recommendations from this study include: the need to support Omani higher education institutions with technical and human resources to increase and activate the use/number of new instructional media and equipment.     

中国本土的华文教育——广州市华美英语实验学校华文教育初探

目前，华文教育愈来愈受到中国政府乃至全世界的重视。作为华文教育主课堂的中国，正吸引着来自世界各地的青少年前来学习汉语与中国文化。本文介绍了广州华美英语实验学校推行的华文教育课程模式和生活管理模式。     

Perceptions of learning-support teachers and resource teachers of each other's role in Irish primary schools

This article reports findings from an exploratory study of how learning support and resource teachers perceive each other's role. The study was conducted during the debate on the proposed changes to allocation and deployment of support teachers, following the publication of Circular 24/03 by the Department of Education and Science. It sought to test the hypothesis that learning-support and resource teachers perceive each other's roles differently in terms of their distinctiveness, type of children they support, working arrangements and training. The findings confirmed this and the implications of this for more whole-school collaborative models of support are discussed.     

基础教育课程改革与教师队伍建设

基础教育新课程具有时代性、基础性、开放性、综合性等特点。新课程对教师在教育观念、知识结构、教学能力等方面提出了新的要求，必须通过加强职业道德教育、继续教育培训及教师行动研究等措施，建设一支适应课程改革需要的教师队伍。     

浅谈农村小学语文教师的语文素养及其提升策略

文章以文献研究的方法梳理了语文素养的内涵,得出语文素养包含人文素养、语文知识、语文技能等内容。同时,文章分析了农村小学语文教师群体存在的问题：语文教师群体结构不良、语文素养内涵不足、缺乏竞争压力和自我发展意识,进而提出提升其语文素养的策略：将年轻高学历毕业生充实到农村教师队伍中、对现有教师进行适当的在职培训、建立合理的考核与退出机制,保障高素养教师从事农村语文教育。     

教师专业化：教师教育的基本走向

教师专业化是国际教师教育的基本走向。在我国，如何由“师范教育”转向“教师教育”，充分体现教师专业化这个必须面对的理论和实践问题，作尝试从观念层面、制度层面和实践层面，提出相关的策略。     

English language teachers becoming more efficacious through research engagement at their Turkish university

While it is generally recognized that teacher research can be a very beneficial form of continuing professional development (CPD), there is still relatively limited research available on the impact this activity has on teachers’ self-efficacy beliefs, which are of interest to educational psychologists because, while being open to constant change, these beliefs influence the way in which knowledge is transformed into action. There is also a relative lack of available research into how teachers develop as researchers; the processes whereby they gain practical knowledge and more positive self-efficacy beliefs in planning, conducting, analysing, presenting and writing up research require further exploration. This qualitative multi-case study addresses these issues, exploring the development of three in-service teachers of English on a foundation programme at a Turkish university. Findings reveal that engaging in CPD which directly benefited their learners helped all three teachers develop positive teachers’ self-efficacy beliefs and deeper practical knowledge in relation to the specific tasks that concerned them. Furthermore, from a starting point of having low self-efficacy beliefs in conducting practical research, which reflected their lack of prior knowledge in this area, they all became more efficacious as they gained research experience and developed practical knowledge of research. This study highlights the benefits, then, of helping teachers become more efficacious through CPD that engages them as knowledge-generators. Enthusiastic mentoring, autonomy support and the opportunity to present their research more widely all helped the teachers in this Turkish context to develop.     

学科教育视阈中的语言教师角色论析

角色的非戏剧性界定强调一定职业的行为职责和功能，教师角色也不例外。语言教师的角色具有宏观和微观层面的定位．是教育性和教学性角色的集合。语言教师的角色表现与语言课程教学观密切相关。作为学科教育工作者，语言教师应该成为语言学习者的助学者从而体现其教育主导作用。     

当代小学外语教育内容改革趋势探究

本文主要是通过针对我国当前外语教学教材内容的改革可能存在的问题提出几点注意事项,以便更好的增加学生外语学习的兴趣以及为我国未来培养综合性全面发展的外语人才打下基础。     

基础教育教师职业自我概念及其影响因素研究

本文采用自编“基础教育教师职业自我概念问卷”对368名基础教育教师进行调查。结果表明：（1）基础教育教师的职业自我概念总体水平比较高。（2）初中教师和小学教师自我概念水平基本相同。（3）性别、城乡、学历层次影响基础教育教师的职业自我概念。女教师职业自我概念高于男教师,城市教师职业自我概念高于乡镇教师,大学本科及以上学历教师的职业自我概念高于中学或中专学历的教师。（4）教龄不同和所任教班级不同的教师职业自我概念在总体水平上不呈现差异,但在具体的自我概念维度上呈现显著差异。     

From pre-service to in-service teachers: a longitudinal investigation of the professional development of English language teachers in secondary schools

This study reports on a longitudinal inquiry into professional identity construction among six novice cross-border English language teachers from mainland China, who completed their pre-service teacher education in Hong Kong (HK) and began their teaching practice in local HK schools. The findings indicate that the participants navigated obstacles in teaching by deploying their own multiple languages as a cultural and linguistic repertoire. The findings also show that the teachers experienced difficulty legitimising their professional identity in the teaching community, where contextual issues and power interplays mediated the process. Furthermore, it is found that the participants’ commitment to teaching was negatively influenced by their non-legitimate position in the teaching community and the discordance between their teaching beliefs and the norms and values of their workplace. This study suggests that complex inter-relationships between marginal status in and legitimate membership of the community, between historical and cultural background, present practice, and future expectations, between social discourse and personal location, are involved in the process of identity construction. Measures to legitimate these teachers’ position and to transform the linguistic and cultural repertories of these teachers into valuable resources of the local schools are suggested. Implications for future research are outlined.     

创建外语师资培养的合作机制研究

当前我国基础教育外语师资以及高校外语师资培养方面尚存在一些问题.基础教育外语教师的整体素质应当从高校的师资培养抓起.构建外语师资培养的合作机制是实现这一目标的有效途径,因为这不仅有助于新任教师的成长,而且对在职外语教师发展也将起到促进作用.