The influence of teacher education on mentor teachers’ role perception in professional development schools

Apprenticeship and professional development schools (PDSs) are two models for teacher education. The mentors that are the focus for this research completed their initial teacher training through one of these models and now mentor in PDSs. The paper reports on how the way in which they were trained as student teachers influenced their role perceptions. The findings suggest that mentor teachers who were trained via the PDSs model have a broader conceptual understanding of their role perception.     

Voice over distance: a case of podcasting for learning in online teacher education

This paper reports on a case study of an online pre-service teacher education course in a New Zealand university aimed at exploring the potential of student-generated podcasts as a form of interactive formative assessment at a distance. The study was part of a wider two-year funded project with the overall goal of documenting, developing, and disseminating effective and innovative e-learning practice. Findings from lecturer and tutor interviews, student focus group (FG) discussion, and course evaluations indicate that the podcasting task provided opportunities for the course lecturer, tutors, and students to learn and share ideas with one another. The experience empowered students to develop the skills and confidence to initiate more independent inquiry into technologies to support their pedagogical purposes. The study contributes to a better understanding of the skills, dispositions, and knowledge needed to prepare teacher candidates for teaching-learning contexts where information and communication technologies are increasingly pivotal.     

Academic workload: the silent barrier to the implementation of technology-enhanced learning strategies in higher education

The effect of technology-enhanced learning (TEL) strategies in higher education has arguably been transformative despite the not-insignificant barriers existing in this context. Throughout the discourse very little attention has been paid to those primarily responsible for this implementation—academic teaching staff. This paper aims to highlight the impact of academic workload allocations, an often silent barrier to the uptake of TEL strategies in higher education. We will discuss the effects of academic identity and culture, preferential time allocation to associative activities, academic technological capacity, university policies and workload and funding models on the uptake, and implementation on TEL in higher education. Our aim is to highlight the risks to staff, students and institutions should these concerns not be addressed and to propose a model for utilisation by all staff responsible for implementing flexible workload models supportive of further implementation of TEL strategies across the sector.     

Talking Together,Learning Together: The Story of English PGCE Student Teachers’ Adventures in Classics

This article reports on the first two phases of a project to promote the classics through English at Key Stage 3, a scion of the Cambridge Schools Classics Project. We discuss the primary importance of speaking and listening in the English classroom both for the individual and the collective, and reflect on the power and importance of using classic tales in English as a means of promoting good-quality oracy. We comment on the precarious position of both oracy and story in the 2014 national curriculum. We report on the impact of a project during which student teachers were introduced to classical oral storytelling and encouraged to use it in their teaching. Findings suggest that the student teachers recognised oracy and storytelling as fundamental to their developing pedagogy and that they saw the need to promote oracy.     

几种碱改性ACF电极材料对电容性吸附处理RO浓水氨氮及其动力学研究

实验选用Na OH、KOH及氨水为电容性吸附电极材料活性碳纤维ACF的改性剂,通过比较原材料与几种改性材料去除盐分和氨氮效果,研究其电容性吸附氨氮动力学过程,实验结果表明:改性ACF相比未改性活性碳纤维电容性吸附污染物质发生变化,其中氨氮改性后ACF在盐分和氨氮去除上都表现出优越性,ACF-NH3除盐平均去除率达到9.69%,高于ACF-unmodified5.29%,氨氮平均去除率达到41.80%,高于改性前的27.33%;Na OH和KOH改性ACF在氨氮去除上均低于改性前,但其平均除盐率分别为6.53%、6.64%高于改性前;准一级、二级和Elovich经典动力学模拟其氨氮吸附动力学表明准一级和二级动力学具有更高的R2但其qe值误差较大,相比Elovich则能反应出其吸附趋势;另外,通过高斯多项式模拟结果和趋势均较经典动力学符合其吸附过程,R2均大于0.9557,一定程度上可以借鉴使用。     

一种改进的 CCIWO 算法及在搜索纳什平衡点的应用

杂草算法（IWO ）是一种元启发式算法,模拟杂草定植和分布的过程,能够解决多维、线性和效率优化问题以及非线性优化问题。文章改进了IWO算法,并将其应用到电子市场优化中,通过查找市场存在的纳什平衡点,来对市场存在的最优方案进行查找。实验证明,该方法有效且精确度高。     

多元文化视野下的社会主义先进文化之建构

要建设社会主义先进文化,必须认真梳理我们时代多元文化之景观,清理出每一种文化样式的可接引之处和剔除它们的消极因素,然后,在社会主义核心价值的基础之上进行综合创新,创造出既符合时代潮流,又有中国气派,更能体现中华民族文化自觉、文化自信的先进文化。为此,先进文化的构建就必须在文化理念、文化创造、文化管理、身教机制、民族精神的塑造与建设一个和谐的经济、政治、社会的环境上有自己的积极进路。     

简析有效课堂教学

富有成效的英语堂教学是高校英语教育的关键。课堂教学中需要充分发挥教师与学生的主观能动性,使教师能够采用多种教学管理手段吸引学生的注意力,激发学生的学习积极性,从而使学生能够主动参与到课堂教学活动中,进而提高语言应用能力与自身素养。教师与学生的协作互动有利于课堂教学的开展。教师在课堂教学活动中应当及时辨识与合理把控学生的身心状态,使学生能够在教师的引导下积极有效开展课堂英语学习。     

Practical Student-centered Activities of Communicative Language Teach-ing-Unit 2 Text A:Animals (21st Century College English Book II)

English plays a very important role in our daily life and has been a world language for decades, as the global economy is developing so fast nowadays, the learners of English have already realized that...     

高级口译的专题化教学

当前国内高等院校本科英语专业的口译人才培养普遍存在课堂教学模式不科学、口译教师队伍较薄弱、口译教材选择缺乏针对性等共性问题,导致口译人才的培养与市场需求之间不相符合。因此,本文就国内独立学院英语专业的口译人才培养中出现的问题进行分析论述,并提出针对本校大四英语专业学生口译学习的良好策略,以期待学生综合竞争力的提高以及对市场需求的对口。