Suggestions for staff development in teaching critical thinking

Trends towards the devolution of responsibility for decision‐making to the school level are evident in education systems throughout the world. Underpinning policies of devolution are assumptions that school communities will work collaboratively to make decisions appropriate to the local context. However, collaborative processes do not occur automatically. In this paper, a case study of one school committee is presented to outline the processes used and to highlight the difficulties experienced in working collaboratively to develop a school behaviour management policy.     

The concerns of teachers of gifted youth: Using concerns to improve staff support

A Concerns‐Based Adoption Model (CBAM) is discussed as a technique for training teachers of programs for the gifted.     

论远程教育兼职教师队伍建设与管理

兼职教师是高校弥补师资力量不足的重要成分。针对远程教育学生人数的变化大,专业调整大等特性,使兼职教师日显重要。但目前远程教育兼职教师的现状不容乐观,数量和人员不稳定;层次不高;没有规范的兼职教师管理制度;没有做好专兼职教师的融合等问题严重影响着学校的整体教育质量的提高。因此要重视兼职教师对于学校整体教育质量的意义。从教师选聘、教学科研、制度完善等方面完善兼职教师的管理制度。     

多元性教学与创新

多元性教学是一种教学思想,是多元性哲学理念在教学中的反映。在当前情况下,多元性教学的关键是培养学生的创新素质,课堂教学是培养学生创新素质的主阵地。因此,课堂教学要特别关注多元性教学的实施。     

Aptitude, instruction, and individual development

Education is viewed as an aptitude development program. Common vs. individual goals with respect to aptitude and achievement are contrasted and some educational myths about aptitude are rejected. The concept of aptitude is revised to represent individual differences in personsituation interaction in learning and development. Research on cognitive and motivational aptitudes in relation to instruction is then briefly reviewed, and suggestions for a unified developmental differential approach to educational research are offered.     

论河北省高校师资队伍的可持续发展

河北省高校师资队伍的可持续发展既是河北省高校和谐发展的决定性因素,也是河北省各高校面临的一个紧迫而艰巨的任务,它直接关系到高校三大功能的实现。因此,深刻分析河北省高校师资队伍可持续发展中存在的问题,采取切实可行的措施,有利于增强河北省高校的综合办学实力。     

Promoting and/or evading change: the role of student-staff partnerships in staff teaching development

ABSTRACT

While a large body of research considers factors enabling or constraining academic development in colleges and universities, comparatively little scholarship has considered the roles students might play in supporting positive change in staff teaching practices. This article explores one potential avenue by which such change might play out, considering the extent to which participation in a student-staff partnership programme supported by a central teaching and learning institute might encourage shifts in staff teaching. Drawing on data gathered via focus groups and online reflective prompts, we find that participating in pedagogical partnership can support a range of developments in staff teaching practices, though these changes might not always be pronounced or uniformly positive. Implications for future research and practice are discussed.     

Promoting innovation in teaching and learning: Problems,processes and institutional mechanisms

This paper examines constraints on innovation in teaching and learning in higher education, and institutional mechanisms for trying to promote such innovation. Innovation is considered as a process of change rather than the dissemination of novel ideas. Factors such as teaching climate, resource allocation and consultancy support are considered. The dangers of a mismatch between “innovations” and problems are discussed, and the importance of giving adequate attention to problem diagnosis is stressed. A possible model incorporating these emphases is outlined in brief.     

新时期大学美声教学的发展与创新

随着我国同世界其他各国之间的经济交流与文化交流的不断加深,各种思想价值观念、理论体系不断涌入,对美声唱法以及流行唱法等音乐形式也产生巨大的影响。本文将针对新时期下的大学美声教学所遇到的问题作出分析,并找到有效的创新教学方法,为美声教学的发展提供有效参考意见。     

Theories of staff development: Progress and power

Abstract

This is the second of two papers which together consider a range of theoretical frames for the interpretation of educational and staff development. The first paper (Webb, 1996c) considered origins of the word ‘development’ and some of the problems caused by its association with ideas of growth and evolution. An alternative approach was presented from the tradition of hermeneutics and human understanding. However, the possibilities for human understanding in staff development and teacher‐student relationships are put at risk by power inequalities. In the present paper this point is developed in terms of a critical theory of society, education and staff development and the associated methods of action research. Claims that critical theory and action research offer a progressive path for staff development are discussed. The question of power is then revisited in terms of post‐modernism, and some consequences for educational and staff development when viewed from this standpoint are outlined.     

主体教育中的自主、发展与创新

主体教育的主体性不仅体现在教学手段的运用上,更要致力于学生主体精神和主体意识的培养上。学生在课堂上的对话不仅仅是展示,教师要着眼于学生的发展,予以适时恰当地指导。教学不仅仅是倾听,教师要创造性地设计情境和问题,保持学生学习语文的积极性,学会学习语文的方法,努力提高语文素质。     

The conceptual change approach to improving teaching and learning: An evaluation of a Hong Kong staff development programme

This paper reports a study ofthe effectiveness of an innovative approach tostaff development, the conceptual changeapproach, which attempts to change teachers'frameworks for conceptualising teaching andlearning. The evaluation investigated theprogramme at three levels: the impact on theconceptions of teaching of the participants,the resultant impact on teaching practices, andthe consequential effect on student learning.Encouraging results were obtained. Theprogramme brought about detectable conceptualchange or conceptual development in two-thirdsof the sample group. Subsequently, all the`changed' teachers received better ratings ontheir teaching practices from their students inthe following academic year while none of thosewho did not change their conceptions showedsimilar gains in student rating scores. Aresultant positive impact on their students'studying approaches was observed for half ofthe teachers who changed their conceptions.     

“开放——自制——开发”一体的单片机实践教学创新研究

本论文是根据高校单片机实践教学的现状和单片机实验与开放系统的流程与功能,以开放-自制-开发为核心实现资源整合和流程再造,把学生实践能力与实践教学流程相融合,试图获得一个流程完整、成本低廉、效果良好的单片机实践教学模式.     

民办高校师资队伍建设困境及可持续发展对策

我国民办高校师资队伍建设面临的困境已成为阻碍其进一步健康、有序发展的"瓶颈"。本文从民办高校师资队伍建设存在的问题与困难出发,提出民办高校师资队伍建设可持续发展的对策。     

构建三位一体的教学体系,提高学生的实践创新能力

在国家特色专业和省级实验教学示范中心的建设中,以精品(重点)课程建设为龙头,从教学计划、内容和方法的改革人手,与企业共同开辟"第二课堂"、"第三课堂",创建"大学生创新中心",对学生开展了分层次、分阶段、立体化的实践创新能力的培养,构建起理论教学、实践教学、科研创新三位一体的教学体系.该文主要介绍实践创新人才培养的目标定位、培养模式及实施方法等.