Maintaining teachers’ face in the context of change: results from a study of Vietnamese college lecturers’ perceptions of face

Gaining and saving face are very important in Vietnam as a mechanism of social control, including the professional behaviour of teachers. Interviews with 15 lecturers (aged 24–37) at a teacher training college in a Central Coast province of Vietnam illustrated the relationship between their concepts of face and their beliefs about good teaching. Most were still strongly influenced by traditional Confucian beliefs about the role and position of teachers, the nature of teachers’ knowledge and the relationship between teachers and students. On the other hand, some teachers also were aware of, and to a limited extent open to, more modern ideas that seemed to be related to broad social changes and reforms in approaches to teaching and learning in recent decades in Vietnam. The findings suggest that some teacher educators are uncertain about the value of traditional professional wisdom in the context of critical changes in society and in education. The research also suggests that the concepts of face and saving face are important for teachers’ sense of agency, and that Vietnamese educational authorities could increase the effectiveness of innovations in teacher education by paying attention to the influence of concepts of face on the teachers’ beliefs and behaviours.     

Novice teachers’ learning and knowledge building during the induction programme

This paper explores the Estonian novice teachers’ learning and knowledge building (LKB) practices in the extended professional community during the induction programme using well-known knowledge conversion model. The assumption in this study is that a teachers’ participation in the extended professional community facilitates their professional development. The survey was conducted with 101 novices after their induction programme. The patterns of novices’ LKB practices in the professional learning community during the induction programme were explored. The analysis showed to what extent extended professional community may be formed during the induction year. LKB practice patterns among the novices were identified. We discovered that many novices felt that there was insufficient support from other teachers and from university experts. It appears that it is challenging to develop a coherent induction programme as the extended professional community of educators, where different partners collaborate and share professional knowledge is challenging.     

美国教师专业化的原因分析

20世纪80年代美国提出了教师专业化口号,其原因是多方面的,如经济的衰落引发的教育和人才反思、科学教学的兴起等,但主要还是起因于教师职前教育不到位、聘用要求不严以及职后培训质量不高所造成的教师专业水平低等。     

TAFE学院中的教师

澳大利亚TAFE学院严格规范了教师的职责、作用、培训及其聘用的资格与程序,对我国高等职业教育有一定的借鉴意义。     

初中英语教师培训需求调查与分析

教师培训关系到教师专业化发展和教学改革的成败,作者做了一项大型调查,考察广西玉林市939名初中英语教师培训需求情况,旨在了解初中英语教师对以往培训的满意度怎样?参与培训的目的是什么?需要怎样的培训模式?希望获得怎样的培训内容?等问题,并试图寻找具有针对性、实效性和有利于全面提高初中英语教师专业化水平的培训模式。     

“以师为本”的农村教师培训模式建构——以陕西为例

农村教师培训,必须解决培训谁、培训什么、如何培训三个问题,变自上而下为由下而上教师培训模式,充分体现以师为本的培训精神。     

立足校本促进教师专业化发展

社会的发展,呼唤优质的基础教育,要求建立专业化的教师队伍。实现教师的专业化,既需要教师本人的自我发展,也需要学校提供教师专业发展的平台,立足校本,促进教师的专业化发展。本文结合实际对促进教师专业化发展进行了系统论述,以此更好的推动中小学教师的专业化发展。     

聋校优秀教师的胜任力特征

为了解聋校优秀教师的胜任力特征,本研究采用行为事件访谈技术,对14名聋校教师进行访谈。通过对叙述的关键事件的分析编码以及对不同绩效教师胜任特征的比较,提取出聋校优秀教师鉴别性胜任特征。研究发现优秀组和普通组教师在11项胜任特征的平均分上存在显著差异,聋校教师鉴别性胜任特征包括以生为本导向、人际沟通能力、专业知识与技能、工作主动积极性、自我激励、责任心、自信心、组织管理能力、自我控制力、成就导向、挑战与创新等。根据研究结果提出的聋校教师鉴别性胜任特征,在聋校教师评优、晋级、奖励等过程中有一定应用价值。     

物理大师费恩曼的教师情结

评述了费恩曼对教师职业的态度,兼及其教学风格,教学理念,教学方法,教学及科研成果等等。     

论大学教师学术创新力的基础:学术合作能力

合作教学与研究已经成为当代大学学术创新的重要途径和方式,学术合作能力是大学教师创新力发展必不可少的基础能力之一。大学教师学术合作能力包括六个基本要素:学术组织能力、学术沟通能力、学术协调能力、学术分享能力、学术表达能力和学术评价能力。大学应重视教师学术合作能力的发展,积极创造各种条件和机会提升大学教师的学术合作能力。