Now That You Are a Professional in the Classroom,What Do You Need to Know?

This article provides pre- and new in-service teachers, cooperating teachers, mentors, and student teacher supervisors with some suggestions to make beginning teaching easier and more productive. It also helps teachers feel less overwhelmed by the demands of a new career.     

从工程需要中提炼报道选题之实践

以<中国机械工程>杂志1998年第12期刊载的<面向产品全生命周期的设计>专辑为例,介绍一套科技期刊选题策划的工程化方案.从中可以看出:科技期刊选题策划不是始于期刊编辑部收到稿件之后,也不是结束于期刊编辑出版之时,而是包括期刊编辑经常性的调研活动在内一系列编辑活动的有机集成;选题策划所涉及的编辑活动是一种以期刊宗旨和发展战略为前提的期刊生产活动、经营活动和管理程序;选题策划成功的基础是对科学技术及工程实践已有成果的总结及其发展的需要;选题策划成功的条件是编辑者能够自觉地运用马克思主义的科学技术哲学观对工程实践中的现象进行分析判断,从繁杂纷纭的现象中找到隐藏在它后面的问题;选题策划成功的要诀在于编辑者深入工程实际,深入科学研究.必须强调的是,科技期刊选题策划不仅是一种期刊活动,更重要的它还是一种以科学家为中心的提炼工程成果、抽象科学理论的高级科学活动.     

中小学校长培训“案例教学”模式探析

长期以来,我国中小学校长培训在内容上理论与实践脱节,在形式上以讲授灌输为主,这些问题制约着培训工作的发展。“案例教学”通过有目的、有计划、有针对性地引导学员学习和运用理论知识对具体案例进行观察分析,在互动借鉴中分析问题、寻找规律,实现理论知识与典型事物的有机结合,使学员置身于用理论解决实际问题的体验升华的过程之中,从而提高其观察能力、思维能力和抗挫能力,有利于提高中小学校长培训的实效性。     

Interprofessional work in early childhood education and care services to support children with additional needs: two approaches

Abstract

In Australia, over 900,000 children attend some type of early childhood education and care service. Many of these children have learning difficulties and early childhood teachers play a significant role in identifying children’s needs and working with other professionals to instigate and/or implement appropriate interventions. When educators and allied health professionals work collaboratively in interprofessional ways, they are in a better position to support children and their families. Drawing on findings from a sustained body of research, this short paper shares our reflections on some of the benefits and challenges of two different approaches to working in interprofessionally in Australian early childhood education settings, and provides some suggestions for supporting this work.     

Developing secondary students’ epistemic agency in a knowledge-building community

A key educational objective for the twenty-first century is developing students’ epistemic agency. Epistemic agency is the active process of choosing when, what, where one learns and how one knows, as well as the capacity to create knowledge in a community. The knowledge-building communities model developed by Scardamalia and Bereiter was used in a New Zealand Year 13 distance art history class to support the development of students’ epistemic agency in 2013. In this study, students were given more control in the learning process, and were able to exercise epistemic agency through identifying their knowledge gaps, sharing information and ideas, developing ideas and creating communal knowledge. A number of factors that increased students’ development of epistemic agency are also discussed in this article.     

Group tagging: Using video tagging to facilitate reflection on small group activities

Collaborative learning in class-based teaching presents a challenge for a tutor to ensure every group and individual student has the best learning experience. We present Group Tagging, a web application that supports reflection on collaborative, group-based classroom activities. Group Tagging provides students with an opportunity to record important moments within the class-based group work and enables reflection on and promotion of professional skills such as communication, collaboration and critical thinking. After class, students use the tagged clips to create short videos showcasing their group work activities, which can later be reviewed by the teacher. We report on a deployment of Group Tagging in an undergraduate Computing Science class with 48 students over a semester. Through our analysis of interviews and log data, we show that Group Tagging helped the students remain attentive and on-task during group work, and encouraged them to participate more during group activities.     

The Assurance of Standards at Masters level: An empirical investigation

This article presents the findings of a study of 94 Postgraduate Taught Masters programmes (PGTMs) offered in twelve Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in the UK. It is based on interviews with administrators and with degree programme directors. Documentation was also analysed. The study was commissioned by the HEQC/QAA as a result of the recommendations of the Harris and Dearing Reports. The study reveals wide variation in regulatory frameworks relating to Masters programmes and in the design of programmes, but consensus on the defining characteristics of work at this level and the nature of benefits that students obtain. While institutional procedures for initial approval and validation appear to be rigorous and effective, the ongoing assurance and monitoring of standards is heavily dependent on the external examiner system and informal academic networks with virtually no systematic staff development or benchmarking in place. Several issues are identified in relation to the proposed national typology of courses/levels.     

Effects of a phase change cooling garment during exercise in the heat

The purpose of our study was to examine the physiological, perceptual, and performance effects of wearing a phase change cooling garment (CG) during an interval exercise routine in the heat. Sixteen male participants (age 23?±?3 years, ht 1.76?±?0.11?m; wt 78.5?±?11.2?kg; body fat 15.2?±?5.8%) completed two trials (one with phase change inserts, CG, and one control without inserts) consisting of two submaximal exercise portions separated by 5-minute seated rest, and a final maximal effort performance bout. Each submaximal bout involved 30?seconds or 1?minute of muscular endurance and agility exercises and 5?minutes of treadmill jogging and step-ups. The performance bout included 30?seconds or 1?minute of muscular endurance and agility exercises, with participants completing as many repetitions as possible, followed by a 15-minute recovery (active and passive). Rectal temperature (T_re) and heart rate were not different between trials, however change in T_re from baseline was improved during 10 and 15 minutes of recovery with the CG (P?<?.05). Mean skin temperature was lower using the CG vs control throughout the trial (P?<?.05). Thermal sensation was lower when using the CG compared to control (P?<?.001). There were no differences in any outcomes of the performance exercises (P?>?.05). These findings indicate that the continuous use of a CG during an interval style workout in the heat provides improvements in thermal sensation, however, only minimal thermophysiological benefits, and no performance augmentation.     

从SARS论文的组稿看编辑的信息意识

通过对SARS的组稿实践,认为编辑要具有信息搜集意识和信息传播意识.为此,编辑需要有对信息的敏锐洞察力和强烈的社会责任感,同时要转变编辑本位为受众本位.