Sharing teacher knowledge at scale: teacher inquiry,learning design and the representation of teachers’ practice

Sharing teachers’ professional knowledge remains challenging. Teachers’ development often remains ad hoc or local, and attempts to scale this up have proved problematic. To address this, research in areas such as ‘learning design’ has explored the use of formal representations of practice. This proposes that educational practice can be improved by documenting, sharing and building on what teachers already do. Whilst this has led to some successes, it has not resulted in the widespread transformation of practice. This paper reviews the literature about sharing teacher knowledge. The challenges of scaling up development are then considered in relation to two theories that help explain the challenges: Communities of Practice and Sociomateriality. This analysis is illustrated through case studies in Norway and the UK. These show that teachers already create and share artefacts that represent their pedagogic knowledge. However, they found formal representations, such as learning designs, difficult to work with. The paper concludes that scaling up teacher development using abstract formalisms is unlikely to succeed. Instead, teachers value stories and the materials they already create in their day-to-day practice. It is this intermediate level of representation, between direct experience and formal abstraction, that offers the most promise for sharing practice.     

Cutting apart together: a diffracted spatial history of an online scholarly relationship

Drawing on the notion of cutting together-apart introduced by Karen Barad and combining it with Lefebvre’s notion of a flaneur (f. flâneuse) who moves between temporal, spatial and political relationships, this article performs a collaboration mediated by social media, namely blogging and tweeting. It draws on the notion of history, space, and social relationships to describe how two women met online. This collaboration as inquiry is about working together despite our differences – finding places to meet rather than diverge, and to dialogue rather than debate. Through a duo-ethnography of how this relationship worked and did not work, notions about how the digital world can act as a mediator for academic work are explored.     

当代西方教师专业学习共同体的理论与实践

随着教师专业化发展和不断提高教育质量的迫切要求,当代西方专业学习共同体理论也应运而生。在历经了共同体理论、学习型组织理论、学习共同体理论之后,教师专业学习共同体理论也逐渐完善,并在促进教师专业发展的实践中产生了非常积极的作用。成功的专业学习共同体不仅具有共享和支持性的领导、共同的价值观和愿景、共同学习和应用、共享的个人实践、支持性条件等五个特征,而且还具有专注于学习、合作的文化、聚焦于成果等基本理念。     

我国本科层次教师教育专业人才培养方案研究

通过对30所院校的192份本科层次的教师教育专业或师范专业人才培养方案的分析发现,当前师范专业培养人才的类型、胜任工作类型和适于任职单位都呈现出多样化特点;不同培养方案对培养目标和培养规格应该包括哪些内容没有形成一致的意见;培养方案对教师培养的认识存在差异,尤其是对未来教师需要掌握哪些知识、能力、职业道德存在不同的理解,对未来教师是否需要掌握这些内容也有不同的认识;培养方案没有借鉴当前教师培养、教师知识的研究成果。本研究对培养方案的改进提出建议。     

教师培训与教师职业幸福感培养——以2010年“国培计划”河北省中小学骨干教师培训为例

教育是心灵的事业,教师职业应当是一种幸福的职业。影响教师获得幸福感的因素很多,其中最重要的是职业成就。教师如果能在和谐的氛围中尽情地展示自身的价值,并获得国家、社会、学校、家长、学生的重视与尊重,就容易产生职业幸福感。教师培训让中小学教师体验到前所未有的快乐与幸福,触动了他们深刻思考的神经,使其增强了对教育事业的责任感、自信心,为自身职业生涯的发展注入了生机与活力。     

“‘科学有曰’之再现经典实验:比萨斜塔实验”教案

本教案以“比萨斜塔实验”为素材,将“科学思维”与“探究实践”的科学方法及相应的科学思想作为重点,以“像科学家探究科学一样学习科学”为教学理念,在“5E教学法”的基础上强化了二次“探究—解释”,以探究式学习与情境教学为主要教学方法,以动手实验、交流讨论、角色扮演相结合的活动形式,引导学生进行“质疑→思辨→实证”的科学探究,实现“具象→抽象”的科学认知,初步了解和运用“思辨的科学”与“实证的科学”。     

现象学方法在比较教育研究中的应用

现象学有两层含义:一是作为哲学理论的现象学;二是作为研究方法的现象学。作为方法的现象学表达的是一种研究的"思维态度"或"思维方式"。现象学作为方法首先被应用于教育研究领域。20世纪70年代后,现象学方法被引入比较教育研究领域,打破了比较教育研究一直以来实证论独占鳌头的局面,为比较教育研究范式走向多元融合的开放道路做出了贡献。     

教育公平:当代美国教师教育课程思想的社会取向分析

在美国,社会取向教师教育课程思想逐渐成熟起来,它假设了教师是知识与社会的转换者,试图在教师教育课程中培养教师实现教育公平的社会道德和责任感、知识和技能,使得教师能够在美国多元化群体学生日益增长的环境中进行有效教学。     

美国“临床实践型教师教育”的教育实习模式探析

教师是一个类似于医学、护理或临床心理学的临床实践专业。为达成培养高效教师的终极目标,美国"临床实践型教师教育"聚焦实践性教育学环节,对教育实习的目标与内容、实习基地学校和指导教师的资格认证均作出了明确规定。为确保教育实习的成效,"临床实践型教师教育"强调相关主体应建立起支持性合作伙伴关系,并尝试搭建全国性的信息网络平台,从而形成具有整体性、连贯性的教育实习体系,以培养高效教师,满足教育需求。     

高中生化学探究学习能力及其培养

培养学生的探究学习能力是高中化学教学的重要课题.教师在教学过程中根据教学内容和学生实际优化实验,创设教学情境,进行开放性教学,鼓励合作探究并重构评价方式,从而不断提高学生的探究学习能力.