Electronic Portfolios in Teacher Education: A Case Study of Early Childhood Teacher Candidates

The use of electronic portfolios is increasingly becoming popular in teacher education programs. The electronic portfolio allows learners to express their work and take ownership over their own ability to plan and assess and reflect upon their learning during a specific period of time. While many teacher education programs have adopted electronic portfolios in order to meet accreditation requirements, others use electronic portfolios to develop and improve on students’ technology skills—train students on how to better use technology in instruction and student assessment. Irrespective of the reasons for adoption, there is the need to assess students’ perceptions of electronic portfolios, and especially to explore the benefits and challenges students face in using electronic portfolios in their course work. Using a qualitative research design, the current study explored teacher candidates’ attitudes toward electronic portfolios and the differences that electronic portfolios bring to their profession. Such a study is necessary to help administrators identify students’ needs to ensure that they are gaining the maximum benefits from the use of electronic portfolios in their programs of study.     

Teacher performance assessment in teacher education: an example in Malaysia

As part of a cross-cultural collaboration, a teacher performance assessment (TPA) was implemented during 2009 in three Malaysian institutes of teacher education. This paper reports on the TPA for graduating primary teachers in Malaysia. The investigation focused on the pre-service teachers’ perceptions about whether the TPA provided them with an opportunity to document successfully their professional learning and professional practice. Successful completion of the Malaysian TPA was closely aligned to successful relationships, support and collaboration between Malaysian lecturers and pre-service teachers, and between pre-service teachers and their classroom teachers. Overall, the TPA did provide pre-service teachers with an opportunity to focus on the connection between theory and professional learning during field-work, and to become reflective evidence-based practitioners. Recommendations for improving the assessment of pre-service teachers are discussed.     

Orienting Toward Teacher Education for Online Environments for All Students

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The online environment is an expansive educational context distinct from the traditional one. We problematize the current online teacher education landscape and make recommendations for practices that prepare and support teachers as online teachers, rather than teachers who periodically use Internet resources and digital devices for instruction. Recommendations focus on personalization, collaboration, administrative support, program (re)designs, new models of technological integration, attention to standards for teaching and learning, and ongoing professional learning opportunities.     

Voices of Teacher Candidates: Positive Changes in Multicultural Attitudes and Knowledge

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The author explored changes in teacher candidates' multicultural attitudes and knowledge as well as the factors that contributed positively to those changes. Teacher candidates were followed during their teacher preparation program. Data were collected from 2 questionnaires and 9 interviews. The author used repeated measures analysis and percentages to explore changes in multicultural attitudes and knowledge. She also used percentages to identify factors that the participants believed influenced those changes. Findings suggest that teacher candidates' multicultural attitudes and knowledge changed in a positive direction while the candidates attended a teacher preparation program. Changes seemed to be influenced by fieldwork experiences in culturally/ethnically diverse settings, courses in multicultural and bilingual education, and classmates.     

美国绩效标准本位教师教育课程理念与实践探析

美国绩效标准本位教师教育课程理念与实践的变革体现为四个维度:教师观,强调教师是从事复杂工作的专业者;知识观,认为教学知识是复杂的情景化知识;教学观,倡导教学要基于情境,以学生为中心展开;评价观,主张教学评价要注重个体发展和整体质量。美国教师教育相关院校和机构依据上述理念,基于自身特点选择并调适相应的教师教育标准,对教师的职责、教学理论及评价方式等进行多方面改革探索,实践中改革者在各维度所做的改变和尝试可为我国教师教育课程标准的优化和教师教育课程的构建与实施提供启示。     

Preservice Teachers' Beliefs About Family Involvement: Implications for Teacher Education

Teacher educators have long recognized the importance of adequately preparing preservice teachers for their work with families. Preservice teachers express many concerns that they believe may impact the development of comfortable and collaborative relationships with members of children's families. In a previous study, the authors found that preservice teachers expressed concerns about the quality of the teacher–family relationship, meeting children's basic needs in school, and the role of parents in education. These concerns, along with some recommendations for incorporating family involvement across the teacher education curriculum, are the focus of this article.     

试论《教师教育标准》的构成与结构要素

教师专业化是当前我国教师教育改革的核心问题。为确保教师职业的专业化进程和质量,国家有关部门正在制定《教师教育标准》。然而,《教师教育标准》应是一个什么样的标准体系?应由那些标准组成?其结构要素如何?这些问题的确值得我们研究。据此,本文对标准的内涵,《教师教育标准》的构成与结构要素进行了系统的思考和探讨,以便为我国的《教师教育标准》制定规范化与科学化起到抛砖引玉的作用。     

Action Learning: A Model for In-Service Teacher Education

Technology has changed the way the world functions on a day-to-day basis, but what about education? Education has been directly affected by the increase of technology in the United States. This change has not been well accepted by some members of the educational community, thus leaving the realm of education behind in the technology era. This article seeks to focus on the benefits of technology in the classroom as well as some of the issues that surround teachers and technology. The article also delves into the future of technology and education and provides some helpful tips for technology use in the classroom.     

Examining Features of Teacher Education in Norway

Drawing upon recent research in the United States, this paper proposes that there are three key features undergirding powerful teacher education programs. The research suggests that in order to be powerful and effective, teacher education programs need to have a vision, be coherent, and provide opportunities to learn that are grounded in teaching practice. The author uses these features as a lens to examine programs in Norway – a country in which teacher education has been relatively under-examined. The analysis reveals several challenges for the Norwegian teacher education programs examined, such as a lack of shared vision among faculty responsible for teaching subject content and those teaching pedagogy, as well as few opportunities for student teachers to learn in the context of practice. Implications for strengthening programs are discussed.     

美国教师教育认证标准的发展历程及对我国的启示

本文以美国全国教师教育认证委员会(NCATE)为案例,在目标本位、课程本位、知识基础本位和绩效本位的概念框架下,对NCATE不同历史时期的认证标准的特征进行研究,将其理论基础分别归纳为目标评价理论、CIPP评价理论、效用评价理论和绩效评价理论,将NCATE不同历史时期所持有的教师教育观分别综合为技术理性主义的、科学主义的、专业化的、以及多元化的.最后讨论其对我国教师教育改革的启示和意义.     

教师教育标准及其价值取向研究

教师教育标准是教师专业发展逻辑的必然结果。教师专业发展的不同价值取向,产生不同的教师教育标准。学术取向、实践取向、批判或社会取向以及综合取向的教师教育标准,既彰显教师教育专业发展的多样性,也显示出格外重视教学实践的共同发展趋势。     

Re-thinking America's Teacher Education Programs

More than ever before, our nation needs teachers who are not only motivated to teach but who are also properly educated, trained, and prepared for the many challenges that are facing our nation's K-12 public schools. The education departments and schools at our colleges and universities cannot continue to do business as usual—they need to adjust their teacher preparation programs to effectively support the changing times, and to provide our future teachers with a realistic and rigorous education. There is little or no disagreement among educators, social scientists, or anyone else for that matter, that great schools are the product of great teachers. It makes sense, therefore, to create a world-class teacher education and training program.     

美国教师教育STaR评估量表

本介绍了美国教育技术CEO论坛开发的教师教育机构STaR评估量表，及其背景和意义，这对国内制订相关政策有参考价值。     

教师教育制度新变化与高师教育改革

新公布的《教师教育课程标准》(试行)、即将实行的教师专业标准以及教师资格考试和定期注册制度等教师教育制度的新变化,给高师院校的教育质量提出了更高的要求。高师院校应紧密结合新《标准》,及时适应教师教育制度方面的新变化,突出师范特色,把好教师教育的"入口关""、培养关"和"出口关"。     

美国教师教育评估及对我国的借鉴和启示

20世纪80年代以来，教师教育的质量问题逐渐受到美国教育界的关注。美国的教师教育评估主要从两个方面进行：即教师教育机构认证和对教师教育毕业生的追踪评价。通过对美国教师教育评估的相关问题进行梳理，以期引起我国对教师教育质量的重视并对其提供借鉴．以引导教育界关注教师教育改革的效果并进行教师教育质量评估。     

美国教师教育项目中教师品性评价的实施

为了培养优秀的教师候选人,美国教师教育项目开展了教师品性评价。该评价贯穿于教师候选人的整个学习和实习期间,旨在使教师候选人的品性在不断的反馈中得到充分发展。美国各高校教师教育项目对教师候选人的成功至关重要的品性评价内容进行界定。评价所使用的方法包括行为检核表、评价量表、访谈和品性反思文章。品性评价的实施涉及教师品性评价介绍课程、签订教师品性评价协议、四次主要评价、不定时的评价和评价结果的应用。教师品性的改进采用发挥教授和导师的模范作用、教师品性研讨会、品性改进课程和PDR-PREP方法等途径。     

美国中等职业教育教师专业标准及其启示

界定了美国中等生涯与技术教育（CTE）教师专业标准的内涵,介绍了美国初级、优秀中等CTE教师专业标准的结构、内容特征和开发及运用实践方式,提出了其对我国中职教师标准建设的启示：形成多层次的中职教师专业标准体系;科学制定中职教师专业标准框架;切实保障专业发展的科学评价质量。     

Technology Training for Teacher Education in Jamaica

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The major challenges facing education systems in the information age include issues of how to prepare for and capitalize on the technological revolution and how to integrate computer technology into the curriculum. Jamaica, like most developing countries, is taking on these challenges with perhaps as much focus and increased importance as any developed country such as the United States. This paper explores the approach taken, particularly with teacher educators in Jamaican colleges, to begin the process by an assessment of the computer-related professional development needs of the college faculty. The paper makes recommendations for developing a technology training program based on the needs assessment. Underlying these issues is the necessity for a national policy to coordinate the country's efforts to integrate information technology into teacher education. Additional recommendations intended to provide guidance for the formulation of such an integrated policy development and implementation framework are offered.     

英国教师教育课程标准的改革

英国从20世纪80年代开始对教师教育课程标准进行了20多年的改革,从最初的教师教育课程认证到20世纪90年代的全国性教师教育课程标准制定,最后到21世纪初的合格教师资格标准,英国形成了由合格教师专业标准、入职教师专业标准、资深教师专业标准、优秀教师专业标准和高级技能教师专业标准五个部分组成的教师教育课程标准框架。     

我国本科层次教师教育课程设置研究

本文采用内容分析法,通过方便抽样选取30所院校的本科层次的教师教育专业人才培养方案共192份,通过分析培养方案中的课程设置,了解我国教师教育课程设置的现状以及存在的问题。本文提出以下改进建议:适当减少学科专业课程,增加教育研究方法类课程,增加与基础教育和教学实践直接相关的课程,增加"自然科学"、"人文社会科学"选修公共课程,适当延长实习时间,将课程学习与实习交织起来,尝试将实习与毕业设计整合在一起,关注课程之间的整合性与关联性,确定培养教师的教学方法,课程设置中要体现出积极的教学观、学习观和教师观。