中小学教师办公室文化建设实践的个性思考

中小学教师办公室文化是学校校园文化的重要组成部分,潜移默化地影响着教师的行为,进而影响整个学校的教育质量。为营造更好的教师办公室文化,充分发挥教师办公室文化功能,本文进行必要的思考和探索。     

我国中小学体育教师继续教育的理念与现状分析

通过文献资料和理论分析等方法,对继续教育的概念,继续教育的理论基础进行分析,探讨了中小学体育教师继续教育的现状、目标与内容、时间与方式、考核与评估,并对发展中小学继续教育培训提出了6点建议,为促进中小学体育教师继续教育的良好实施提供了理论依据。     

高职院校专业趋同问题及其对策——以湖北省为例

地区间经济结构趋同,市场驱动的盲目性以及学校依托现有条件开设专业的普遍行为,是高职院校专业结构趋同的主要原因。实现区域专业结构优化和职校校内专业结构优化是解决这一问题的有效途径。据此,各高职院校要研究专业发展的宏观规律;依托地方特色,发展优势专业;找准学校市场定位,科学规划专业结构;发展优势专业,加强院校之间的合作;围绕专业重点,建设专业群。     

职业院校经济专业高等数学教学改革模式探析

职业院校经济专业高等数学教学具有其自身的特点，教学改革要从教材的编写、教学手段的更新和考核方法的调整等方面进行．     

现代文秘专业实施差异教育的探索与实践

根据高职院校的特点和鸡西大学“1．一．0”人才培养方案，阐述了文秘专业实施差异教育的原因、方法及取得的成果，对培养高等应用性文秘人才进行了有益的探讨。     

Stealth marketisation: how international school policy is quietly challenging education systems in Asia

Across Asia, the international school scene has experienced marketisation and corporatisation. A consequence is that many wealthier families – outside of expatriate communities – view international schools as a desirable choice, and they seek ways to enrol their children in international schools. States have responded to this situation through policies that manage the boundaries between public or national school systems and international schools. States have made compromises in their international school policies – compromises that allow markets to creep into the broader education systems. This mode of market creation is subtle: Neither families nor state agents advocate for ‘choice’ as a value, nor are there public discourses around international schools in the region celebrating ‘choice’ in education. The compromises made in international school policy relate to whole education systems and have implications for inequality, citizenship, and national identity.     

试论"体育与健康"教育专业的构建

针对我国新的九年义务教育《体育与健康教学大纲》实施，中、小学迫切需要大量的专业“体育与健康”教育相结合师资，而我国很少有培养这类师资的相应专业，为此，提出构建“体育与健康”教育专业，要加强专业师资队伍建设，处理好体育与健康教育两类课程“复”与“合”的关系，重视体育与健康教育课程的设计和设置，建立以增强体育，增进健康实效为中心的成绩考试制度等设想。     

Mining social media divides: an analysis of K-12 U.S. School uses of Twitter

This study utilizes public data mining to explore participation divides of all available K-12 institutional Twitter accounts in the U.S. (n?=?8275 accounts, n?=?9,216,853 tweets). Results indicated that U.S. schools used Twitter to broadcast information on a variety of topics in a unidirectional manner and that hashtags included a variety of intended purposes, including affinity spaces, education topics, emotive language, and events. Those schools in wealthier, more populated areas were more likely to use Twitter, with wealthy, suburban schools being the most likely to use it and poor, rural schools being the least likely. Furthermore, factors such as charter school status and urbanity influenced the content of school tweets on key issues, with schools in more populated areas tweeting more about coding and college than schools in less populated areas and charter schools tweeting more about college and the politicized educational issue of common core than non-charters. These results reveal participation differences between schools based upon demographics and provides a basis for conducting future large-scale work on publicly available artifacts, such as school tweets, that may be meaningfully used as education research data.     

Identifying and investigating the “best” schools: a network-based analysis

This paper aims to provide a fresh perspective on the predominantly negative discourse on schooling quality in low-income countries by focusing on the research questions: ‘How can one identify great schools and what makes them special?’ Using a network-based perspective, I measure peer evaluations of quality in two districts in Nepal. Specifically, I ask principals to mention three schools they view as the ‘best’ schools in their district and then map the interconnections between schools as a result of this response. I additionally analyse the differentiating characteristics of these schools and qualitatively investigate the most frequently cited ‘best’ school in each district. Public school principals collectively chose a few schools as being among the ‘best’; these chosen schools had relatively higher enrolment and better student performance. The in-depth qualitative analysis highlights less quantifiable measures, such as motivated leaders who were able to help schools succeed despite difficult circumstances.     

Teachers’ experience with inclusive education in Singapore

Teachers’ positive attitude is most critically and consistently associated with successful inclusion. However, little is known about teachers’ first-hand encounters with inclusive education in Singapore. We present findings from a qualitative study on inclusion based on focus group interviews with 202 teachers from 41 resourced primary schools. The data were transcribed and coded using Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis and NVIVO software. Two broad clusters identified were teachers’ positive and negative experiences in implementing inclusion. More reference was made to negative than positive experiences. The most dominant negative experience was stress from challenging behaviours and instructional difficulties of catering adequately for diverse needs in the same classroom. The most salient positive experience was satisfaction with pupils’ progress and new learning for teachers. Classroom practices that facilitated inclusion and the value of training in shaping teachers’ attitudes towards inclusion were highlighted.