Professional development of kindergarten teachers in Croatia – a personal choice or an obligation

The quality of educational processes with children of preschool age and long-term educational outcomes are largely related to the work quality of teachers. Lifelong learning and professional development, as predictors of quality, need to be regarded as an ongoing task for kindergarten teachers. Findings of an empirical study of Croatian kindergarten teachers’ views (N = 388) on professional development point to a link between teachers’ intrinsic motivation and their professional development. Motivation explains 46.87% of the variance Personal commitment to professional development. A slight positive correlation was found between the level of formal education and the frequency of professional development (r = .216, p < .01). Although the level of education of kindergarten teachers is not a good independent predictor, it affects readiness to self-fund professional development (p < .01). As for the significance of conferences as a form of professional development, participants of the study identified them as an effective opportunity (M = 4.68, SD = .52), promoting both quality practices (M = 4.69, SD = .54) and exchange of experiences (M = 4.68, SD = .56). The length of participants’ professional work experience affects their assessment of the significance of practitioners’ networking as a way of improving the quality of everyday practices (F = 1.43, p < .05).     

“间歇式”教学方式研究与实践

现代信息技术的广泛应用，打破了传统的课堂教学方式，促进了教育的改革。本文介绍了基于web的“问歇式”教学组织方式，并对支持“间歇式”教学方法的网上辅助教学支持环境的结构进行了讨论，对教学过程及辅助环境组成部分进行了详细说明。     

试论保护与帮助在体操教学中的运用

现代竞技体操的发展，不断要求改进和创新保护与帮助的方法，科学合理地运用保护与帮助，能促进学生更快更好地掌握体操运动技术，本文从保护与帮助的运用、方法及需要注意的问题等几个方面论述了保护与帮助在体操教学中的作用。     

陶瓷工艺课程实践教学新思路

根据陶瓷工艺课程的特点，注重实践教学，合理调配理论与实践教学时数，变“课程实验”为独立的“实验课程”；实验项目以设计性、研究性和综合性实验为主，形成由“基础实验一综合实验一科研与应用实验”的实践教学新体系；既考虑对学生专业基本原理、基本知识和基本实验技能的培养，又能培养学生的创新意识与发现、提出、解决问题的综合能力。     

Responding to the challenge of providing stronger research base for teacher education: research discourses in the Norwegian national research school for teacher education

Background and purpose: The purpose of this article is to shed light on how the research projects of 140 PhD candidates in the National Research School for Teacher Education in Norway (NAFOL) respond to the challenges faced by Norwegian teacher education regarding the demand for higher competence and a stronger research base. The concept of NAFOL is of interest from an international perspective because of its focus on facilitating teacher educators to achieve a PhD. Since 2001, Norwegian educational policy has had a strong focus on strengthening teacher education and making it more research-based than before. From 2017, all new teachers in Norway are expected to take a master’s degree. In order to accomplish this, there is a need for many new supervisors with a PhD in teacher education institutions. NAFOL is a unique project: a consortium of 23 participating network institutions within teacher education. The research school includes 140 research fellows, all of whom wish to achieve a PhD suitable for work in teacher education. The research school is funded by the Norwegian Research Council, originally for a project period from 2010 to 2016. The research school has had a positive external midway evaluation, and the project period has been extended with four cohorts of students to the end of 2021. However, this study is the first one looking into the research projects of this young generation of teacher education researchers. The research question posed in this article is: how do the research projects of the NAFOL PhD candidates contribute to the research base in teacher education? Main argument: The main argument in this article is that the potential impact of this research school is dependent on the quality of the large number of PhD projects connected to teacher education and education in general developed within the research school. The quality is likely to be good because, among other reasons, these projects are scrutinised by the research school community. The challenges these research projects face, located as they are between solidarity regarding grants from the funds financing the PhD candidates, solidarity with the aims of education, and the wish to contribute to innovation, might prove to be able to be met. These research projects have the potential to create innovation in teacher education research through ‘border crossing’ between different educational discourses, as well as through creating new knowledge in meta-studies based on the results from several projects. Sources of evidence and method: In this article, project abstracts from 140 PhD candidates participating in NAFOL are analysed in terms of their theme and problem formulation. The analysis is inspired by discourse analytical thinking – namely that in a certain situation, several conditions for action exist. In this study, these conditions for action are made apparent in the choice of theme and problem formulation in the research projects. The content analysis is focused on ‘signal words’, because these words might signal positioning in different educational discourses. Results: In the study, three main discourses can be seen as influencing the choice of topic and the problem formulation in the projects: a goal-oriented educational discourse, a ‘Bildung’ (i.e. character formation, or personal growth – ‘danning’ in Norwegian) and democracy discourse, and a critical knowledge-producing discourse. These discourses are constituted when the PhD candidates start their research projects but the conditions for action are ever-changing and, hence, the findings in this study cannot, of course, be considered as ‘final’. The development of these discourses within the research community of NAFOL is one way of scrutinising the research projects in order to make a contribution to qualified teacher education research. Conclusion: ‘Border crossing’ between discourses in research projects concerned with what might be, and what can make a difference in a knowledge society could be a key way of enhancing the future for a young generation of researchers in teacher education. The research projects carried out by the PhD candidates in NAFOL have the potential to develop both new knowledge and new discourses of importance for Norwegian teacher education, as well as for a broader international context regarding professional development in teacher education and education in general. The view of the teacher education profession – and on what a teacher educator can be – could become more fully informed than before the candidates’ participation in the research school.     

基于Internet的高校教学档案信息管理系统的设计及实现

利用计算机网络技术实现对高校教学档案的科学管理,对于促进高校档案管理现代化、信息网络化,资源共享具有重要的实践意义。文章介绍了基于Internet的高校教学档案信息管理系统(简称EAMIS)的体系结构和功能,阐述了开发EAMIS的主要技术和工具,并示范了EAMIS的一个“报表查询”模块的实现。     

多媒体计算机网络对作文教学的影响

多媒体计算机网络技术的应用,导致作文教学的思想观念、教学方法和教学设计的深刻变革.教师利用多媒体计算机网络的资源共享、交互和多媒体功能,可以改进教学方法,突破传统作文教学的某些弊病.     

研究生课程实施研究型教学方法探讨——以“交通系统仿真技术及应用”为例

以"交通系统仿真技术及应用"为例对研究生课程实施研究型教学方法进行了探讨,在分析教学现状与存在问题的基础上,针对性地提出并实施了从教学内容、理论与实践互动以及专题研究等方面的教学改革措施,取得了较好的效果。     

中小学信息技术教学方法的研究热点、主题与趋势--基于749篇硕士论文的共词分析

为了直观地展示出我国中小学信息技术教学方法的研究现状,文章以749篇硕士论文为研究样本,采用词频分析、因子分析、聚类分析、战略坐标图分析等多种统计分析方法,论述了中小学信息技术教学方法的研究热点、主题与趋势。结果发现:在网络学习环境和建构主义思想的影响下,以"微课教学法""翻转课堂教学法"为代表的新型教学方法已经在我国中小学信息技术课程中得到了广泛应用。此外,多种教学方法之间相互弥补自身"短板"逐步走向融合,已经成为完善与创新教学方法的现实选择。     

论教材的生态式设计

知识在教材中应以“动姿化”的方式存在,为此,教材设计应依循生态式设计这一基本理念。生态式设计强调在教材中建立一种良好的知识生态关系,突出知识间的内在关联,特别是它们之间的互补共生关系。具体说,必须加强知识与生活之间、知识与学习者的个人经验之间以及相邻学科(或学习领域)之间的联系。