Professional Learning and the Unfinalizable: English Educators Writing and Telling Stories Together

Standards-based education reforms and intensified accountability regimes are now a feature of most countries’ agendas to improve the quality of their teaching workforces. One of the direct consequences of these reforms is a requirement that teachers demonstrate their ongoing participation in forms of professional development or professional learning throughout their careers. Along with this, there has been a narrowing of what is acknowledged by standards-based accountability regimes as discipline-based professional knowledge and ‘valuable’ professional development. This essay is a dialogic, reflexive account of a professional learning and writing project for English teachers and teacher educators in Australia, begun in 2013, called the stella2.0 project. The project builds on the groundbreaking work of the STELLA project in Australia from the turn of the century, and some other models of teacher writing projects across the world. Drawing on Cavarero, we critically scrutinize writing and storytelling in the dialogic professional community of the stella2.0 project, and in the process ‘speak back’ to standards-based reform policies that undermine English educators’ agency and professionalism.     

Theorizing the Self: Digital Storytelling,Applying Theory,and Multimodal Learning

This article discusses the use of digital storytelling, a pedagogical tool, to enhance student learning and meaning-making. During the process of creating and sharing their digital stories, students engaged in self-reflexivity and demonstrated the ability to apply theories of student development to their personal experiences. Findings have implications for educators concerned with assisting students in making meaning of abstract theories and in connecting theory to practice.     

专业认同对幼儿园教师专业发展影响的个案研究

幼儿园教师专业认同是教师对自己身为一名幼儿园教师所具有的意义的整体看法。从教师成长的历程来看,教师专业认同是多元的、复杂的、动态发展的。本研究旨在探讨幼儿园教师专业认同对教师专业发展的影响,运用叙事研究法,选取一位幼儿园教师作为研究个案,透过教师专业认同的个案故事,从自我形象、专业准备、工作动机、教学实践、未来展望等方面分析影响幼儿园教师专业发展的因素。     

免费师范生的职业认同类型及其学习动机特点研究

对来自两所部属师范大学的1172名免费师范生的职业认同和学习动机进行了测量,通过聚类分析将免费师范生的教师职业认同分为四种类型,研究考察了四种类型学生的分布特点及其在学习动机上的表现。结果表明:(1)免费师范生的教师职业认同可划分为四种类型:热爱型、兴趣型、功利型、回避型;(2)四种类型的免费师范生在性别、年级和生源地上呈现出不同的分布特点;(3)四种类型的免费师范生在学习动机水平上差异显著。本研究对此提出了相应的建议。     

I thought to myself: what a long way I’ve come … : teacher writing for professional learning

As governments the world over continue to advocate the importance of teacher professional learning, researchers and practitioners continue to explore ways to enact that learning in meaningful ways. The value of narrative for teacher education has been widely discussed and several studies show that learning is significant when teacher–writers engage in written dialogue. This article is a critical, narrative-based account of the professional learning of Orly, an Israeli teacher. Written reflection and narrative play a crucial mediating role in her learning. This practitioner inquiry explores narrative writing as a means of learning, empowerment and professional renewal for Israeli educators. The author presents multiple ways in which language from a professional learning context can connect with classroom practice and discusses the dialogical nature of this kind of learning.     

Collaborative Practitioner Research: A Case of Lesson Study in a Small Jewish School

ABSTRACT

Lesson study is a form of professional development where a group of teachers identifies a problem of practice on which they would like to make progress in their teaching. Over an extended period of time, the teachers study the topic and plan a lesson together. One member then teaches the lesson while the others observe; the group reflects afterwards on student learning. The cycle repeats, building teachers’ professional knowledge and their shared views of pedagogy over time. In this article, we argue that lesson study is a collaborative form of practitioner research and we show how this is so by sharing an example of a lesson study cycle conducted in a synagogue school.     

自我导向性学习与教师专业发展

教师专业发展具有个体性、主动性、内在性等特征，而自我导向性学习则能很好地适应教师专业发展的这些特点。文章在介绍自我导向性学习的含义与特点的基础上，对自我导向性学习与教师专业发展的关系以及如何促进教师的自我导向性学习进行了阐述。     

First off the blocks: professional experience and learning for first-year preservice Physical and Health Education teachers

Recent research focusing on professional experience has shifted towards understanding preservice teachers' learning. The aim of this study was to gain insight into the learning of preservice Physical and Health Education teachers throughout three progressively designed professional experiences. Ten volunteering first-year preservice teachers, who were enrolled in a four year degree, were recruited. A qualitative practitioner inquiry approach was employed, with participants interviewed twice to provide insights into their learning and theorising of practice. Key themes emerged around the relationship between the unit content (theory) and professional experience (practice); notions of professionalism; engagement with the syllabus and lesson planning; communication; and understanding of students. Findings indicate the potential of microteaching placements as stepping-stones to larger, more intense professional experience placements. However, future research is needed to provide stronger evidence for these placements.     

国外教师职业认同与专业发展研究述评

教师职业认同是教师专业化发展需要奠定的心理基础.职业认同是多方面、动态、变化发展着的过程.其中,自我和反思是职业认同中基本的要素,通过自我反思,教师把个体经验与社会期望结合起来,形成他们作为教师的自我形象.     

教师专业学习共同体:理念、原则与策略

教师专业学习共同体强调共识与分享,但并不刻意追求同质化。在共同体的实践中,应当克服简单的加法逻辑,以免造成学校组织机构大量增生、功能冲突、效能低下;应当在教师学习、学校深度变革和学生学业成就提升等多重目的之间实现有效聚合,而非离散设计。构建教师专业学习共同体,要求教师建立清晰的专业自觉,重构自我与共同体之间的关系;教师自我和外部支持性环境应致力于保护教师的独立思考,拒绝教学实践的技术化和平庸化;鼓励不同的参与者通过跨界学习促进精彩观念的诞生。     

Learning for You and Learning for Me: Mentoring As Professional Development for Mentor Teachers

Professional development (PD) opportunities for teachers most commonly take place outside the classroom and are typically designed to address specific components of teachers’ instruction or curriculum. However, there are other activities that take place within the classroom that may have a profound impact on the PD of a teacher. We sought to gain a deeper understanding of the influence that placing a teacher in a mentor role can have on their PD and practice. Thus, we researched the influence of mentor teachers’ work with university-level STEM education majors by engaging in teaching a limited series of STEM inquiry-based lessons in the mentors’ classrooms. Surveys of the mentor teachers indicated that there were many positive benefits for mentors, including gaining new ideas, increased reflection on their practice, increased engagement of students, and in some cases shifts in practice.     

Supporting Teachers' Professional Learning by Navigating Openings in the Curriculum

Researchers agree that achieving thefundamental changes called for by currentreforms in mathematics education requires newlearning on the part of teachers. Currently,across the United States there exists atremendous variety of teacher-enhancementprojects representing a range of perspectivesand approaches to supporting teachers'learning. This paper presents a comparativeanalysis of three teacher educators using acurriculum designed for use with elementaryteachers in an inquiry-group setting. The aimof the study was to examine the process anddemands of supporting teachers' learning andteachers' efforts to reform their practices. Analyses revealed that the central demand ofsupporting teachers' learning through inquiryinvolved navigating through what we have calledopenings in the curriculum. Theseopenings took the form of unanticipatedquestions, challenges, observations, or actionsby participating teachers that requiredfacilitators to make on-the-spot judgmentsabout how to guide the discourse. Examinationsof the facilitators' processes of navigatingthese openings revealed a set of threeactivities they employed in determining how torespond. Analysis of the activities offacilitators in response to openings furtherilluminates the work involved in supportingteachers' learning and has implications for theskills needed by teacher educators engaged inthis work.     

女弹词职业实践与晚清以来江南的消费文化

晚清以来,在女弹词职业实践中,两性关系得以重塑,具有江南地方特色的消费文化得以彰显.女弹词作为江南消费文化的象征符号,导致时人娱乐消费方式从"访"到"棒"的改变.消费过程中,时人对女弹词进行品评,主要围绕"色与艺"展开.晚清文人对妓女弹词的品评,多关注妓女的身份特征,一定程度上丰富了妓女文化.民国报人则通过报刊这种大众媒介,修正、重构、生产以及论斥女弹词的形象,以满足不同读者的娱乐需要.女弹词与听客的亲密互动,把普通的生产消费关系重新定义为性别关系,招致政府、传统行会组织的取缔与规范.     

专业学习共同体与教师合作文化

作为高校教师专业学习共同体三种主要形式的教研组、学科组及课题组,是集教学、科研及日常管理于一体的教师基层组织,是教师专业发展的现实载体,具有自愿性、同一性及发展性的特征,呈现出完善知识建构、实现知识共享、提升教师效能感、改善心智模式、建立共同愿景及生成学习动态环境等诸多价值功能.教师共同体合作文化是教师在教育教学活动中形成与发展起来的职业群体的思维方式、价值取向与行为方式的综合反映.建立完善开放的校本研究制度、建构人文化的发展性评价体系、实施师徒教师教育模式、营造开放的学校环境氛围及确立"共识"的核心价值,对于构建和培育教师专业学习共同体合作文化,促进教师专业发展具有十分重要的意义.     

Storytelling as dialogue: how teachers construct professional knowledge

This study shows how a group of English language lecturers use storytelling as a form of professional dialogue. The aim of the study is to highlight the dialogic role of storytelling in supporting the construction of lecturers' professional knowledge and not to identify lecturers' professional knowledge. In a professional development project, 12 lecturers created digital stories about their experiences of professional development. These stories were shared with colleagues who then responded with their own digital stories. A narrative framework was used to analyse stories for the types of connections lecturers made between stories. Five dialogic processes were identified: connecting, echoing, developing, questioning and constructing. Excerpts of stories are used to demonstrate how lecturers construct professional knowledge through storytelling. The study concludes by outlining the potential and limitations of storytelling as an approach to professional development and proposes further research into the dialogic capacity of storytelling in a professional development context.     

非正式学习与教师专业发展

非正式学习是教师专业发展的重要途径。为了促进教师进行非正式学习应当采用以下策略：创设教师进行非正式学习的氛围、搭建促进非正式学习的基础设施、帮助教师提高学习能力和整合非正式学习与正式学习。     

Leading professional learning in an Australian secondary school through school‐university partnerships

As the limitations of one‐off and disconnected professional learning programs for teachers are recognised, there is widespread interest in building learning communities and professional learning teams within schools. When considering how to build local learning communities, school and university partnerships are seen as offering rich possibilities for transformative professional action. Set in the context of the international agenda of “Education For All” (UNESCO, 2005 UNESCO. (2005). Education for all: Global monitoring project. Retrieved January 8, 2007, from http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev.php‐URL_ID=36004&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html (http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev.php-URL_ID=36004&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html)  [Google Scholar]) a model of sustained on‐going professional learning, developed in one large secondary school in Australia, is analysed. The social practices that generate action and participation for partnership members are then scrutinised for the legitimacy of school‐university partnerships and the contribution to enhancing teacher learning.     

教师专业认同与教师专业成长

教师的专业认同是教师个人在教育教学专业实践过程中逐步形成的对自己身为教师的理解与看法,具有自觉性、建构性和动态性的特征。教师的专业认同对于教师专业成长有着重要的意义,是促进其自身发展的内源性动力,也是深化课程改革,推进教师教育的关键所在。激发教师的专业认同意识、培养教师的专业认同情感、践行教师的专业认同行为是形成与发展教师专业认同的主要策略。     

教师专业身份认同探析

教师专业身份认同作为教师专业成长的核心,是实现教师专业发展的内部保证。但在目前课程改革的背景下,教师的专业身份认同尚存在一些问题,需要学校、教师个人采取多种途径,共同努力,促使教师实现自身的专业身份认同。     

宋代说话艺术的形式和表演技艺

宋代民间说话艺术已具有市民性质，说话业分成了稳定的门类（家数），说话表演艺术已有专业化趋向，艺人的表演技巧初步成熟。说话门类中小说一家是宋代说话艺术的精华，标志着人民大众的文学开始形成主流。