Teacher Classroom Management Skills and Pupil Behavior

An experimental group of 20 in service elementary teachers was trained using the Utah State University Classroom Management Protocol Modules, and compared before and after training with a control group of 9 teachers. Although the experimental teachers received more favorable post-training scores on all 13 classroom management behaviors covered in the modules, the differences were generally small and nonsignificant. The level of work involvement and deviant behavior of pupils of the experimental group teachers was also compared before and after the teachers had been trained. In recitation situations, pupil work involvement increased and deviant behavior decreased significantly. In seat work situations, pupil work involvement increased significantly, but no significant changes occurred in deviant behavior.     

促进师生共同发展的课堂教学质量评价

在反思传统课堂教学质量评价中存在问题的基础上,以新课程所倡导的评价理念为指导,分析了促进师生共同发展的课堂教学质量评价的内容和原则。从"教师的教"和"学生的学"两方面探讨了促进师生共同发展的课堂教学质量评价体系。     

Classroom Management and Socioemotional Functioning of Burmese Refugee Students in Malaysia

ABSTRACT

Access to Malaysian government schools is prohibited for refugee children, and hidden refugee schools only reach a minority of Burmese students in Malaysia. This study used a participatory culture-specific consultation (PCSC) approach to examine the perspectives of Burmese refugee teachers on Burmese refugee student socioemotional issues and classroom management using interviews, observations, a preliminary refugee teacher focus group (N = 10: 4 men, 6 women; M age = 26 years), and a primary focus group with refugee teachers who were Burmese refugees (N = 9: 6 men, 3 women; M age = 30 years). First, themes suggested that societal pressures have an effect on the classroom environment. Second, refugee student behavior and emotions ranged from externalizing to internalizing. Third, refugee teachers relied on traditional Burmese methods for managing serious misbehavior. Fourth, with mild misbehaviors, teachers employed more “modern,” student-centered methods. Results inform culture-specific consultation designed to meet refugee education needs.     

促进师生互制耦合,构建高职思政课和谐课堂

高校思想政治理论课是大学生进行思想政治教育的主渠道。充分调动教师和学生的积极性,才能实现课堂教学中师生的互制耦合,从而构建高职思想政治理论课和谐课堂,增强思想政治理论课教学的实效性。     

Management Strategies for Promoting Teacher Collective Learning

This paper aims to validate a theoretical model for developing teacher collective learning by using a quasi-experimental design, and explores the management strategies that would provide a school administrator practical steps to effectively promote collective learning in the school organization. Twenty aided secondary schools in Hong Kong were selected by cluster sampling, and 777 teachers took part in the questionnaire survey. A structural equation model was applied to identify the interrelationship of the 5 disciplines of Senge＇s （1990） learning organization model. Results showed that personal mastery and systems thinking are individual and collective level predictors respectively for teacher collective learning. Building a mental model and shared vision in a sequential order predict systems thinking. Management strategies in cultural, policy and leadership domains are recommended to school administrators who wish to promote teacher collective learning as a means of coping with the changes generated by the curriculum reform in Hong Kong.     

Introduction: Refugee Teacher Consultation in Malaysia

ABSTRACT

This is the introductory article to a journal theme issue on Refugee Teacher Collaboration in Malaysia. The origins of this issue are described, as well as the Editor’s hope that these articles will inspire additional consultation research using participatory approaches. A brief synopsis of the issue is provided.     

Teacher preparation in Malaysia: needed changes

The article attempts to present personal views of some changes that are needed to be made within teacher education in Malaysia. It uses one teacher education university as a point of reference to forward concerns. The university remains anonymous as it is not the intent of the article to critique the university but rather to highlight the more general challenges in preparing preservice teachers and to explore some approaches to improve teacher education within this university and its setting. The article starts by drawing together a set of concerns that face the field, arguing that three changes are needed to improve teacher preparation, namely (1) a curriculum that is grounded in the Malaysian context, (2) an improved practicum experience, and (3) to develop and situate practices in the schools. It concludes that the efforts to change within teacher education will not be easy, but needful; else the ultimate losers are the future teachers and their students.     

Promoting Inclusive Communities in Diverse Classrooms: Teacher Attunement and Social Dynamics Management

Classroom social integration with peers is vital to students’ school success, and all students can benefit from contact with peers who are different in various ways. Teachers are uniquely positioned to support the social adaptation of diverse learners but require an understanding of classroom dynamics. Moreover, teachers need strategies that help to leverage positive peer dynamics and that promote an engaged classroom climate for all students. Reflecting a person-in-context perspective, this review discusses the peer relations and social adjustment of students, particularly in classrooms with a diverse range of student characteristics and instructional needs, and proposes that teachers’ use of social dynamics management strategies can foster classroom communities that support the involvement and adjustment of all students.     

课题研究促进教师专业成长探微

中小学教师开展的课题研究,其主要目的与作用不完全在于发展与丰富当今的教育理论,而是应该充分利用课题研究这个载体与平台,解决教育教学中的现实问题,改善教学行为,提高教学效率,并以此促进教师自身的专业成长。这个过程主要体现在问题意识的培养,思维方式的改变,读书学习的持续,研究能力的提升。     

虚拟课堂与教师的能动性研究

虚拟课堂是在互联网条件下采用实时性、交互性的多功能网上授课平台.虚拟课堂的出现必然会导致传统教育体系的进一步革新.虚拟课堂具有自身的特点和优越性,与现实课堂相比,在教学场所、学生来源、授课时间、互动方式等方面,存在巨大差异.然而,以网络技术为代表的虚拟课堂代表着现代教育生产力的发展方向.教师在虚拟课堂中的作用、地位不是被削弱,而是应该得到加强.教师的能动性体现在与学生的平等互动之中,使阅读、表达、讨论、交流、质疑、争辩、赞同、支持、查考、创作,成为虚拟课堂改变教师和学生日常学习生活的基本方式.虚拟课堂与现实课程的整合,不仅改变着学生的学习状态,也使教师的能动性地位得到不同形式的体现和发展.     

Teacher Education Programmes and Their Contribution to Student Teacher Efficacy in Classroom Management and Pupil Engagement

This study focuses on how different educational programmes contribute to student teachers efficacy for classroom management and their abilities to provide learning opportunities and good classroom outcomes. Data were gathered from 491 student teachers attending different teacher education programmes in Norway and analysed via structural equation modelling. The results revealed the following: (1) problem behaviour in the classroom has a negative effect on student teacher efficacy, (2) students' perceptions of the integration of pedagogic knowledge and practice supports students' efficacy beliefs, (3) support from supervisors contributes positively to student teachers' efficacy beliefs, and (4) student teachers in university college programmes for primary school teaching report higher teacher efficacy than students in university programmes for secondary school teaching.     

Global Consultation Processes: Lessons Learned from Refugee Teacher Consultation Research in Malaysia

ABSTRACT

The process of global consultation has received little attention despite its potential for promoting international mutual understanding with marginalized communities. This article details theory, entry, implementation, and evaluation processes for global consultation research, including lessons learned from our refugee teacher intervention. The first half of the article addresses the entry process, culture-specific strengths, and challenges that can be faced in global consultation, including our experience with a lack of formal regulatory oversight of refugee education. The second half of the article details feedback collected from consultants, peer trainers, and peer trainees indicating which training content was most valuable; how some Burmese refugee teachers strive for a more student-centered, “free” classroom for their refugee students; and, finally, the toll that intense refugee teacher consultation took on the consultants.     

教师角色定位与课堂教学重构:教师互动行为研究的启示

教师互动行为是研究师生关系的有力抓手,相关研究结果对我们重构教师角色及课堂教学均有重要参考价值。通过分析我国课程教学情境中的教师互动行为,发现“教师领导型互动”和“学生自主型互动”两种行为是共存的,由此衍生出我国课堂教学中值得期待的四种教师角色:德高望重的领导者、手艺精湛的工匠、医术高明的医生和安排有序的调度员。这些认识为我们进一步实施课程改革和改善师生关系提供了启示。     

Qualitative Teacher Research and the Complexity of Classroom Contexts

This article discusses how the underlying assumptions and practices of teacher research position it as a distinct form of educational inquiry, and identifies qualitative methodology as a central influence on the work. A discussion of some of the common conceptualizations and processes of PK–12 teacher research, the complex yet continually changing educational knowledge it represents, validity and ethical issues, and its political nature, framed by accounts of teacher researchers who work with today's diverse student populations, illustrate how a qualitative stance reflects and informs this profoundly contextual form of pedagogical inquiry.     

学生课堂参与的影响因素及方法研究

学生的课堂参与度已成为新课标下评价优质课的重要尺度。因此,以学生为本,提供学生参与的平台,提升课堂参与度,从而提高课堂效率已是广大教师面临的核心任务。为此,在教育教学中,教师可从学习兴趣、教学方法、教学技巧等方面入手来提升学生课堂参与度。     

学校管理创新:以促进学科教学改革与教师发展为旨归

教学实践领域的变革,必然产生一些新的矛盾冲突和新的发展需求,这就要求学校从教学的领导与管理层面加以有效的引领和协调,进而触发教学组织、制度和文化的变革与更新。以新基础教育成型性研究阶段的过程、经验与成效为基本事实,集中探讨了如下问题:(1)教学管理组织功能与架构的更新,包括行政性教学管理组织的重组、教学专业组织自主化和非行政性组织的创生,以及学校教学管理组织架构的转换与生成;(2)教学管理制度及运作机制的创新,具体呈现了制度的性质及产生方式的改变、教学常规制度和教学研究制度的变迁,以及教学运行机制的动态生成;(3)基于校本教学研究的文化创生,指出制度化教研的规范与推逼是一种必要强制,合作—反思式教学研讨氛围的形成标志着教研文化开始走向自觉,教研活动的日常化和无痕化是教研文化值得追求的境界。教学领域中的组织变革、制度更新和文化生成,不仅每时每刻地改变着课堂,也通过挑战、激励和解放促进着教师成长,引导着作为变革亲历者的教师,从自发走向自觉、从自育走向自强。     

课程改革中的教师反思

课程改革能否成功与教师有着密切的关系,而教师的反思来自于自我意识觉醒,以自我实践中的问题、困惑和迷茫为基础和前提。从课程观、教材观、教学设计、教学态度及教学评价等方面,对教师的教育教学反思作一探讨。     

国外英语课堂教师话语研究综述

该文对国外英语课堂教师话语研究进行梳理并简要综述.先从语言教学与研究的角度谈本话题的研究目的、意义、重要性,然后对国外主要经典研究进行概述,以期对我国的相关研究提供启示.