Innovations in Early Childhood Teacher Education: Reflections on Practice

The purpose of this article is to reflect on the instruction in a teacher education science content course that applied the theories that underlie cognitive constructivism. The methods used aimed to develop positive dispositions toward teaching practices that encourage exploration, collaboration, and individual student responsibility. Nurturing a love of science and an excitement towards learning through discovery were also goals. The theories spanned intersubjectivity and scaffolding from Vygotsky, individual responsibility for learning, and assimilation and accommodation of ideas to allow for individual construction of knowledge from Piaget. Project work, suggested by Katz and Chard, was also included, as were application of the experiential social construction of knowledge theories of Dewey and multiple intelligences from Gardner. Modeling the application of the theories behind cognitive constructivism fostered students’understanding of their appropriate use in elementary classrooms.     

高等教育增值评价：缘起、争论及反思

高等教育增值评价具有复杂多样性，其发展历程和相关争论较能展现增值评价面临的挑战。发展经历了理念萌芽、实践探索与反思改造三个阶段，争论主要围绕评价方式的科学性与公平性、评价过程的准确性与有效性、评价结果的诊断性与应用性展开。高等教育增值评价注重能力变化和就读体验，强调“努力”和“进步”，是对传统评价模式构建的“理性神话”的突破，但也存在一些局限。在我国发展高等教育增值评价不仅要科学探索如何测算“增值”，更要理性思考如何使用“评价”，注重评价的价值追求。     

澳大利亚教师教育质量保障体系:21世纪初的挑战与变革

21世纪初,澳大利亚各级政府为教师教育的发展提供了法律保障、政策支持和专业标准的指导,建立了较为全面的教师教育质量保障体系.在追求高质量发展的同时,澳大利亚教师教育也面临不同层面的困境,尤其是教师教育的管理和教师评估的策略与方法.本文从体系保障、师资保障、过程保障和结果保障几个方面讨论了澳大利亚教师教育机构、教师教育者在提供教师教育过程中应坚持的基本原则和改革方向.     

教师教育的困境、挑战及机遇

教师的价值理念、目标取向和培养方式正在汇聚、融合中经历新的转型,该文通过透视教师教育研究的三种技术路向和现代化语境中教师教育的困境,剖析教师教育亟待应对的六大挑战,强调教师角色的自我转化.     

化学工程教育的挑战与创新

本文首先分析了目前国内外化工高等教育遇到的问题和挑战,提出应当从化学工程学科理念创新的角度来认识化工并引领学生了解、热爱和献身化工。进而回顾了化学工程学科范式和内容的演进,讨论了当前化工学科发展面临的机遇和重要前沿问题,着重分析了目前化工高等教育在课程设置、教学模式和师资队伍方面存在的问题并提出了解决建议,特别是如何通过课程创新来启发学生发现问题的能力和以多学科交叉的方式解决问题的能力。     

素质教育挑战体育教师

随着我国学校教育中素质教育的不断推进,以及国际基础教育课程争体育课程的改革和发展,我国传统的体育课程将受到巨大冲击并发生较大变化,提倡素质教育、发展素质教育是教育的必然趋势.     

教师培训:问题、基础与创新

教师培训是教师专业发展的重要途径.新一轮课程改革为教师培训提供了难得的机遇,教师培训应该客观地审视目前所存在的问题和困难,积极寻求新的知识基础,实现教师培训方式的创新,这是新课程的迫切需要,也是教师教育发展的重大课题.     

对美国选择性教师教育的反思和前瞻

选择性教师教育是美国非传统教师教育方式的统称。它自20世纪80年代产生以来，以鲜明的特点弥补了美国传统教师教育的不足，为美国缓解教师数量的短缺和满足教师队伍多样化的需求做出了一定贡献。但是，它也面临一系列问题，突出表现在：计划的开发和实施仍局限在教师急需领域，培养的质量也不容乐观，中小学对教师候选人的实践支持并不到位，留任安置也不尽合理，并且整个培养模式对美国正在倡导的教师专业化理念构成挑战。它今后的发展状况，从根本上说，取决于是否能够有效解决目前所面临的问题。     

The Teacher Education Development Program: New Challenges

The article reviews the general context of the situation that has arisen in Russian education after the new provisions of the Federal Law of 29 December 2012 “On Education in the Russian Federation” went into effect. The law has been enacted in response to the need to develop a new concept of teacher education. Currently, about 270 institutions of higher education, about 30 percent of Russian universities, are implementing programs in the field of teacher education, and the proportion is growing. The author presents the main results of monitoring the activities of teacher training institutions in Russia and notes the new content and organizational challenges facing the project of modernizing teacher education.     

Innovations and Challenges in Project-Based STEM Education: Lessons from ITEST

Journal of Science Education and Technology - For over a decade, the National Science Foundation’s Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) program has funded...     

Practices and Innovations in Australian Science Teacher Education Programs

This paper reports part of a larger study which was designed to investigate current practices in initial teacher education programs in Australia. The main data collection was by telephone interviews, which were carried out with science education specialists and program coordinators at all institutions which offer primary teacher education or secondary science teacher education. The interviews focused on practices in relation to program structures, science content studies, science methods studies and links to science-related school projects or to science business/industry. A large number of innovative practices were described. In addition, several case studies were carried out, which focused on particular innovations. The study identified several aspects of science teacher education which were of concern.     

应用远程教育促进教师教育变革:机遇与挑战

整合新方法与技术的远程教育已经成为当前世界各国解决教师紧缺问题、推进教师教育系统变革的重要手段.本文从我国教师教育面临的挑战与相关远程教育实践问题入手,结合远程教育的本质与特征分析,借鉴国际经验,对远程教育给教师教育带来的机遇与挑战进行定义与讨论.文章指出:远程教育能够为我国低成本、大规模地培养合格教师带来机会,促进教师教育在培养模式等方面的创新,并推进我国教师终身学习体系的构建;而远程教育的成功应用需要应对认识与观念等五方面的挑战.本研究以期能为相关研究与实践提供参考.     

Reflections on Teacher Education in Turkey

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the problems of teacher education in Turkey and also to elaborate on the issues in the teacher education debate that we think are problematic. Our main focus will be on western influence and its consequences in building a relevant teacher education programme in Turkey. The irrelevancy between teacher education programmes and the realities of Turkish schools and the demand for a relevant theoretical base for teacher education were linked to western influence on the knowledge base and research traditions. The arguments in this paper were based on available literature and the authors' personal experiences in teacher education institutions. A background to and historical information on teacher education in Turkey are also included.