从简单迁移到系统重构——信息技术支持的教师培训管理研究与实践

信息技术是助推教师培训变革的核心要素。当前信息技术支持的教师培训管理主要是基于软件的功能再造以及工具组合这种"简单迁移"的信息化方式开展的。受制于现有工具的设计局限,教师培训管理中各个环节的数据很难实现关联互动,无法满足当前培训发展对管理工作所提出的需求,信息化支持的教师培训管理亟需进行"系统重构"。信息技术支持的教师培训管理框架包括过程管理、资源管理、评估管理、团队沟通管理四个方面,体现了教师培训管理的深层内涵——即从被动适应到主动追求。采用"护航型"管理模式、丰富资源的分类框架、强化信息数据的挖掘、展开多维度分析等,这是信息技术支持教师培训管理深层次的作为空间,也体现了其应用价值。随着信息技术的快速发展,大数据、学习分析技术在培训管理中的应用前景值得期待。     

怎样理解信息技术及其教师素养形成

信息技术表现为两种形态:物化形态和智能形态。人们日常所说的信息技术,其理解有三种,一是指计算机技术;二是指计算机技术与网络技术的组合;三是指视听技术、计算机技术、整合技术。第三种理解显然是合理的。信息技术的教育功能是优化教育,其优化标准是最大效果和最短时间。信息技术在学校中的应用是优化学、教、管,而非代替学、教、管。互联网进入教育教学,不会取代其他媒体,不会取代教师,也不会让学校消失。未来的教育会有机地融合虚拟的网络学校和现实的传统学校。在信息时代,教师如何提升信息技术素养,最重要的是要做好两件事:一是进行信息技术与课程整合,创新精品课程。这里所说的整合,不是简单地将信息技术运用到课程教学中,而一定是伴随着教育思想、教学方式的变革。在整合的过程中,不能一味强调能力培养,忽视知识传授;不能一味强调在线学习,轻视离线学习;不能一味强调探究学习,否定接受学习;不能一味强调学生主体,放弃教师主导。二是进行培训。世界各发达国家都非常重视对教师教育技术能力培训,投入大量经费。高校对教师教育技术培训应采取积极的态度和措施,除一般的信息技术基本操作,还应重视新理论、新技术、新模式的学习。     

美国中小学教师领导标准及其启示*

2011年5月5日美国教师领导研究协会颁布《教师领导示范标准》,主张教师领导是教育革新的关键,教师领导有助于强化教师专业、增进学校组织变革能力、提高学生教育成就。该标准阐述了教师领导的重要性,为教师领导提出了新的角色期待。《教师领导示范标准》涉及到七个领域,规定了教师领导应具有的知识、能力以及应履行的职能。该标准由美国教育考试服务中心所属的专业组织研发,各州自行选择作为标准开发的行动指南,为教师专业发展提供了新的范式。     

在线教师专业发展新理路：英国“学习设计支持环境项目”的探索与启示*

在线合作与反思成为教师专业发展的重要途径,具有显著的生态性效应、经济性和可持续性优势。英国伦敦大学教育学院承担的学习设计支持环境项目是对在线教师专业发展的一次成功探索,取得了良好的社会效益。作者概括了该项目的研究背景,整理了其探索内容和路径,分析了其理念以及对我国在线教师专业发展研究和实践的意义和启示。     

从法律关系看教师教育立法的重点和难点

本文认为,实现从面向师范教育立法到面向教师教育立法的转变具有重要意义。在教师教育立法时,需要梳理诸多法律关系,并协调好这些关系背后的利益冲突,以实现社会正义,因此,从法律关系分析教师教育立法的重点和难点具有现实的针对性。作者认为,教师教育立法的重点和难点在于如何规范教师教育法律关系中各自主体的权力和责任、权利与义务,尤其需要解决政府内部权力的配置和制约问题。     

也谈如何进行素质教育

文章就如何培养学生的高尚品德,增强其竞争意识和激发其上进心等三个方面探讨了在教学过程中进行素质教育的方式方法,教育学生树立正确的世界观、人生观.要把学生培养成为高素质人才,具有驰骋于21世纪的本领.     

Reconsidering the use of video clubs for student-teachers' learning during field placement: Lessons drawn from a longitudinal multiple case study

Although video clubs have been used to support (student) teachers' learning through reflection upon practice, less attention has been paid to their potential use for supporting changes in participants' practice over a period of time. Prior work has also largely treated (student) teachers as an undifferentiated whole that benefits in similar ways from video clubs. In this study, we problematize this assumption by drawing on three cases of student teachers to exemplify three different learning paths while participating in a video club during field placement. Reflecting on these findings, we discuss implications for differentiating the video-club approach to address different student teachers.     

Students’ and teachers’ monitoring and regulation of students’ text comprehension: Effects of comprehension cue availability

For regulation of text learning to be effective, students need to accurately monitor their text comprehension. Similarly, to provide adaptive instruction, teachers need to accurately monitor and regulate students’ text comprehension. Performing generative activities prior to monitoring has been suggested to provide students with diagnostic cues, improving monitoring accuracy; an open question is whether this would also help teachers. We investigated whether two generative activities, diagram completion and diagram drawing, improved secondary education students’ (n = 248) monitoring and regulation accuracy of text comprehension (Experiment 1) and whether viewing students’ diagrams improved teachers’ (N = 18) monitoring and regulation of students’ text comprehension (Experiment 2). Students’ monitoring and teachers’ regulation accuracy was higher in the diagramming conditions than in the no-diagramming condition. Students and teachers used diagnostic cues when judging students’ text comprehension: Improving students’ monitoring and teachers’ regulation of students’ text comprehension relies on improving accessibility of diagnostic cues.     

Pre-service teachers' implicit and explicit beliefs about English language learners: An implicit association test study

Pre-service teachers' attitudes and beliefs about English Learners (ELs) are especially critical as they enter their professions among an increasingly diverse student population. This study uses an Implicit Association Test to explore implicit and explicit beliefs and attitudes of pre-service teachers about ELs. Pre-service teachers from a Southeastern U.S. university hold generally positive implicit beliefs about ELs and express positive expectations for working with ELs and school support. Implicit association test measures have potential as tools for preparing pre-service teachers and evaluating the impact of interventions that seek to improve teachers’ readiness to serve this population.     

Potential for transformation? Two teacher training programs examined through a critical pedagogy framework

This paper argues that teacher training programs, with the objective of transforming gender norms in schools, should employ a critical pedagogy framework in order to achieve the transformational learning goals necessary to change the deep-seated beliefs and patterns of behavior that characterize these gender norms. Using document analysis, this study evaluates the teacher in-service training component of two school-based intervention programs, aimed at promoting gender equality in school communities. This paper finds that the trainings miss opportunities to employ elements of critical pedagogy and therefore, are not likely to create a transformative change around gender norms in schooling.