Writing instruction for social justice: an investigation into the components of a teacher preparation course

Future teachers must notice, navigate, and address ideologies in order to counter inequities in the literacy classroom. This article presents the findings of two teacher educators who have taken up the call to critically reflect on their own underlying beliefs and discourses regarding writing instruction. Through an education design framework, they analysed important components of the course, arguing for a higher degree of visibility of the ideologies and social forces that impact writing instruction. They found that despite encouraging a fairly complex and all-encompassing view of learning to write to the future teachers in their course, the creativity discourse was present passively and the socio-political was downright absent, despite clear social justice aims in the course. They discuss how well-established discourses can serve as gateways to embed the socio-political into the course and address more granularly the question of exclusion through selected mentor texts.     

A proficiency model for pre-service physics teachers' pedagogical content knowledge (PCK)—What constitutes high-level PCK?

This study identifies proficiency levels in pre-service physics teachers' pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) and reveals how teacher education can promote transitions into higher proficiency. Teacher education plays a fundamental role in supporting pre-service teachers' PCK development. Proficiency levels are a powerful source when evaluating this PCK development because they characterize what learners are likely to be able to know on a specific level. Previous research has presented a model of proficiency levels in pre-service physics teachers' PCK; however, evidence for the model's validity is still lacking. According to the Refined Consensus Model of PCK, factors such as teachers' content knowledge (CK), their teaching experience, and their beliefs about teaching and learning science promote PCK development. Thus, understanding how and when pre-service physics teachers' CK, teaching experience, and beliefs contribute to their proficiency can bring insights into how teacher education can promote PCK development. To address this issue, N = 427 observations of pre-service physics teachers were analyzed. Utilizing the scale anchoring procedure, four different proficiency levels in pre-service physics teachers' PCK were identified. Analyzing these proficiency levels showed that lower levels can be characterized as remembering content-unspecific knowledge, whereas higher levels encompass content-specific strategies to structure and elaborate lessons. Additionally, logistic regression models revealed that pre-service physics teachers' CK is crucial for an increase in PCK proficiency. However, transitions into higher levels of PCK additionally require teaching experience and adequate beliefs about teaching and learning. Thus, our proficiency levels can be used to bring insights into how proficiency in PCK can be supported during teacher education. For example, teacher education should provide courses focusing on the science curriculum and the assessment of student learning to promote pre-service physics teachers' progression in PCK.     

The ecology of language teacher assessment literacy: Insights from emotional critical incidents

Despite the substantial growth of research on language assessment literacy (LAL), the emotional side of LAL has been under-researched. In response to this gap of knowledge, the present study explored Iranian English language teachers’ LAL through the lens of emotional critical incidents (CIs). Drawing on an ecological lens as embedded in a case-study design, data were collected from narrative frames, classroom observations and post-class discussions, and semi-structured interviews. Data analyses revealed three personal, institutional, and sociocultural ecologies that shaped the teachers’ LAL-related emotional CIs and the associated sense-making, practice, and perceptions about assessment. In particular, we found that the emotional side of LAL is defined by agency, emotion labor, the need for voice, and broader discourses of assessment in Iran. Based on the findings, we provide implications for running professional development courses that build on teachers’ LAL and account for emotions as a key component of such courses.     

基于组织战略的高校教师柔性绩效评价体系研究

教师绩效评价对高校发展目标实现、高校教育质量和教师专业发展具有重要的意义。本文从高校教师劳动特点和心理需求角度,分析了柔性管理与教师绩效评价的契合度,从组织战略与教师绩效评价关系的角度,分析了两者结合所必须遵循的原则。在此基础上,提出了基于组织战略的高校教师柔性绩效评价体系,并对评价体系所包含的基本要素、要素特点和相互之间的关系进行了深入的研究。     

论孔子师德观对当今师德建设的启示

孔子是中国历史上一位伟大的教育家、哲学家和思想家。他的师德观蕴含着丰富的教育伦理思想,加强对孔子师德观的学习和研究,对当今的师德建设具有十分重要的意义。     

地方院校教师心理资本现状与开发探索

＂心理资本＂管理理念的引入,客观上要求高校人事主管者应关注教师的心理资本水平的高低,因其直接影响教师的教学行为及心理健康。选取地方院校教师作为研究对象,采用相关的研究方法,为高校管理者更全面地掌握教师的心理资本水平状况提供现实参考,使其更好帮助教师建立合理希望并保持乐观积极的心态,不断地开发和提升教师的心理资本,保证教师的心理资本能够满足其高效开展教育教学工作的需要,进而促进地方院校教师整体素质的提升。     

高校新入职青年教师身心健康状况的调查研究

目的:了解高校青年教师的身心健康状况,为进一步研究高校教师的身体状况提供基础。方法:选取47名湖北省某普通高校人才引进的青年教师进行体质测试和心理问卷调查,利用统计方法分析该群体的身心状况。结论:新入职青年教师总体健康、情绪角色功能、心理健康较差,在学历、性别、婚姻状况方面整体不具有差异性,但结婚可以提高青年教师的社会功能;在超重或肥胖率上存在严重风险;在安静心率和血压方面存在风险;身体素质较同龄全国标准其他成年人群有差距,如柔韧性和平衡性不好、力量弱等体质问题。     

吉林省农村中小学体育师资现状与发展对策研究

通过问卷调查法、文献资料法、专家访谈法、实地调查法对吉林省农村中小学体育教师的师资现状进行了全面的调查,以期能够稳定吉林省农村中小学体育师资结构,从而更好的发展吉林省中学学校体育。     

高校青年教师应努力提升驾驭课堂的能力

针对一些高校青年教师缺乏助课环节及教学过程实践训练的现状,结合多年教学经验,探讨各种切实可行的方法,有利于高校青年教师驾驭课堂能力的提升,逐渐形成自己的教学特色,使他们尽快地成长为优秀的高校教师。