论交往教学与学生创造力的培养

交往的过程就是理解的过程 ,创造的过程。教学交往是交往的一种特殊形态 ,也正是由于教学交往的这种特殊性 ,才预设着交往教学与创造力的培养这两者的内在关联性     

以学生为中心推进地方高校一流课程教学的若干思考

以学生为中心推进地方高校一流课程教学,在教育教学思想上,要着力解决相互关联的三个问题:首先是“为谁教”与“为谁学”的问题,协同育人,是课程教学的定位原则;育人渗透,是课程教学的难点之处;师范示范,是课程教学的主体特征。其次在“教什么”与“学什么”的问题上,注重内外兼修,解决学习的广度问题;注重学以致用,解决学习精度问题;注重因材施教,解决学习难度问题。最后需处理“怎么教”与“怎么学”的问题,以培育学生学习主动性、学习个性化、学习的创造性为目的,构建师生学习共同体,有效运用现代教育技术,切实改进教学评价方式。     

谈聋生形象思维能力的培养

本文提出并回答了“要不要培养聋生形象思维能力”这一颇具争议的 问题,论述了形象思维对于聋生学习抽象数学知识的重要性,并着重介绍了 培养聋生形象思维能力的几种具体做法:充分感知,丰富表象;利用表象,展 开想象;数形结合,培养形象思维能力。     

小学课堂教学中的问题设计与呈现

小学课堂教学中,教师总会呈现一些问题,它们一般以提问、作业、质疑、讨论的形式出现在课堂教学活动中。课堂呈现的这些问题一般都是教师事先设计好了的,它的出现有助于学习者学习的成功。     

线性代数课程教学改革的探索与实践

现在大学线性代数教学的现状是学时紧、学生学习投入不足,针对这种情况本文探讨了怎样进行线性代数课程教学改革和如何提高教学质量的问题。作者认为教师应采取如下措施：在教学中要选择学生容易理解的教材体系进行教学,重视线性代数中概念教学,并在教学中以问题为先导,根据新课中概念的疑点、重点和难点,设计一系列问题即“问题链”,以吸引学生的学习兴趣。还应让学生学会使用Matlab等数学软件,加强数学实验教学。     

Adjunct questions in prose: a question position-by-reading ability interaction

Immediate factual learning performance of profoundly deaf postsecondary students was compared as a result of pre-, post- or no adjunct questions interspersed throughout a passage of prose. Analyses revealed a position-by-reading ability interaction. While pre-questions yielded the highest learning performance for low ability readers, post-questions resulted in significantly greater learning performance for high ability readers. Findings are discussed in terms of question position, student's reading ability, and text difficulty.     

The challenges of leadership in a connected education environment

Abstract

Deans and directors of education in the United States are being asked to position their schools, colleges and departments of education (SCDE) for teaching and learning in the twenty-first century. A key question related to this effort is ‘How is the unit going to utilize current and emerging technologies as an integral part of their planning for instructional and managerial problems? ’ If deans and directors are to answer this question in an innovative way, at least two things must happen. First, they must understand their role as institutional technology leaders. Second, they must engage faculty, staff, and students in the careful exploration of three critical questions: 1. How does the SCDE create and maintain a technology infrastructure to support innovative instruction and program delivery? 2. How can the SCDE prepare faculty, staff, and students to teach and learn in a connected learning environment? And, 3. How best can the SCDE deliver programs in this new environment? This article describes why deans and directors must be leaders if technology is to be a part of the renewal process, discusses the issues related to each of the three questions, and provides a series of questions for deans and directors to stimulate discussion and planning efforts     

Theorising simulation in higher education: difficulty for learners as an emergent phenomenon†

Despite the widespread interest in using and researching simulation in higher education, little discussion has yet to address a key pedagogical concern: difficulty. A ‘sociomaterial’ view of learning, explained in this paper, goes beyond cognitive considerations to highlight dimensions of material, situational, representational and relational difficulty confronted by students in experiential learning activities such as simulation. In this paper we explore these dimensions of difficulty through three contrasting scenarios of simulation education. The scenarios are drawn from studies conducted in three international contexts: Australia, Sweden and the UK, which illustrate diverse approaches to simulation and associated differences in the forms of difficulty being produced. For educators using simulation, the key implications are the importance of noting and understanding (1) the effects on students of interaction among multiple forms of difficulty; (2) the emergent and unpredictable nature of difficulty; and (3) the need to teach students strategies for managing emergent difficulty.     

The use of wikis in a science inquiry-based project in a primary school

This study explored the use of wikis in a science inquiry-based project conducted with Primary 6 students (aged 11–12). It used an online wiki-based platform called PBworks and addressed the following research questions: (1) What are students’ attitudes toward learning with wikis? (2) What are students’ interactions in online group collaboration with wikis? (3) What have students learned with wikis in a science inquiry-based project in a primary school context? Analyses of the quantitative and qualitative data showed that with respect to the first research question, the students held positive attitudes toward the platform at the end of the study. With respect to the second research question, the students actively engaged in various forms of learning-related interactions using the platform that extended to more meaningful offline interactions. With respect to the third research question, the students developed Internet search skills, collaborative problem solving competencies, and critical inquiry abilities. It is concluded that a well-planned wiki-based learning experience, framed within an inquiry project-based approach facilitated by students’ online collaborative knowledge construction, is conducive to the learning and teaching of science inquiry-based projects in primary school.     

Teaching Behavior and Student Learning Outcomes in Dutch Mathematics Classrooms

Abstract

In this article I described the means of identifying teaching behaviors that have cognitive and affective learning effects on students who are taking a course in mathematics. This study was conducted on 50 mathematics teachers who were teaching in the eighth grade. I obtained the data on teaching behaviors through direct systematic observation. Multiple regression was used as the method of analysis. For the cognitive domain, the results showed that effective teaching behaviors are: (a) high-level questions put to a large group of students; (b) probing, followed by a correct student response; (c) teacher waiting after asking a question; (d) successful redirecting; and (e) all forms of positive acknowledgement. Effective teaching behaviors in the affective domain are: (a) all forms of teacher lecture/explanations; (b) probing, followed by correct student response; and (c) all forms of positive acknowledgement. More teaching behaviors have a positive effect on mathematical knowledge than have a positive effect on students’ attitude toward mathematics.     

中日同形词比较研究——以《汉语水平词汇与汉字等级大纲》甲级词为中心

文章首先分析了中日同形词的形成过程和形式异同,然后找出《汉语水平词汇与汉字等级大纲》1033个甲级词中658个汉日同形词,从形意、色彩、词性等方面对汉日同形词的差异进行了分析,进而指出以日语为母语的汉语学习者习得汉语词汇时,同形同义词习得无难度,同形近义词和同形异义词应作为习得的难点和重点。     

高校美术专业贫困大学生问题的调查与研究

对200名美术专业大学生的经济状况调查显示:贫困大学生主要来自农村,比例约占在校大学生的20%,特困生约占6%。贫困大学生面临的主要问题是经济困难和心理伤害。经济困难表现为生活费短缺、交不起学费、完不成规定的学习计划等;心理伤害表现为忧虑、自卑和封闭。这些问题严重影响了贫困大学生的健康成长。建议从完善对贫困大学生的资助制度、鼓励勤工俭学、加强心理健康教育和心理咨询等,给贫困大学生更多的关爱和帮助。     

如何做好课堂教学中问题的设计师

本文通过具体的教学案例,阐述了教师在教学过程中应该如何设计课堂提问、创造问题情境、以问题为中心组织教学活动,从而体现出课堂教学中问题的设计对教师驾驭课堂、调动学生积极性、优化课堂教学的重要性.     

The influence of question type,text availability,answer confidence and language background on student comprehension of an expository text

Reading is an essential activity for learning at university, but lecturers are not always experienced in setting appropriate questions to test understanding of texts. In other words, their assessments may not be ‘constructively aligned’ with the learning outcomes they hope their students to exhibit. In examination conditions, questions may be set with insufficient time for re-reading available texts, thus drawing more on students' powers of recall than on deeper learning and comprehension. Previous research has been undertaken on reading comprehension generally, but no research has yet explored the interaction of factors such as text availability (re-reading of texts), text layout, question type and respondents' language background. This study explores the correctness of 50 participants' responses to a set reading task based on an expository text, and participants' confidence in giving those answers, in relation to four factors: the effects of question type; text availability; text layout; and language background. The main findings are that non-native speakers of English have more difficulty and less confidence in answering implicit questions and that reviewing the text has a significant effect on response correctness for implicit questions. The form of text layout did not show a significant effect, however. Our results have implications for lecturers who set readings and questions for comprehension and others who use reading comprehension as part of their ‘hidden curriculum’. Further research in this area is required to determine more precisely the effects of language background.     

Questioning Styles and Students' Learning: Four case studies

A study of the relationships between students' questioning and learning styles is being conducted on data collected in two university semesters with a sample of 300 students. This report discusses the results of case studies looking in depth at four of the students. These were involved in further data collection through written and oral questions, interviews and classroom observation experiments. The main aim is to unravel the interrogative bases of the students' learning by looking at the quality and quantity of questions they ask. This means that among other characteristics, the nature and the deliberative or spontaneous use of questions by the four students were investigated. It was possible to distinguish question‐askers by tallying their questions. Their learning styles were characterised using Kolb's Learning Styles Inventory. The study also allowed for snapshots of how particular learners shape questions. Looking at the way in which these questioning styles fit with their orientations to learning, and how this drives learning, informs what teaching might best then ensue.     

Learning to listen and listening to learn: one student’s experience of small group collaborative learning

The dialogic nature of small group collaborative learning requires verbal contributions from students to progress individual and group learning. Speaking can become privileged over listening as a collaborative act, and an imbalance in these values can become embedded in the classroom culture to the degree that the core value of listening can be invisible to students new to the learning contexts. The focus of this paper is a single case study of the experience of an international Asian-background student (Korean), learning in a Western (Australian) problem-based learning (PBL) physiotherapy context. Video data and interviews highlight his difficulty with learning to listen and listening to learn, and his privileging of speaking over listening. We question whether failure to signal the importance of listening is the result of the current shift in emphasis to learning through speaking, leading to a subsequent loss of attention to the role of listening in collaborative learning. Further, we question the cultural inclusivity of the PBL educational paradigm and recommend specific tutor training on scaffolding students?? listening skills in this dialogic learning context.     

Media Education in the University: enhancing media literacy through first‐year undergraduate coursework

This article provides a case study of a first‐year university subject designed to assist the development of media literacy. The context is one of ongoing debate about the purpose and role of media courses. In what ways do new communications technologies alter our understanding of media literacy? How can media subjects be most relevant to students following increasingly different educational pathways? The subject in question responded to such questions by seeking to promote independent capacities for research and writing in the changing media communications field. It used flexible learning techniques to encourage students to apply and reflect on writing formats drawn from professional fields such as journalism and screen production. In doing so, it aimed to encourage interest in the broader social conditions affecting media practices and the diverse settings in which these forms can operate. Through the case study, the article draws out some of the problems encountered in resource‐based learning and suggests some strategies for dealing with them in media education.