Developing Adaptive Teaching Competency through coaching

The research project Adaptive Teaching Competency seeks to conceptualise the processes of tuning teaching to individual students' learning needs and to empirically test, within the field of science teaching, to what extent Adaptive Teaching Competency can be fostered through teacher education. 32 primary and secondary teachers took part in an intervention to foster their Adaptive Teaching Competency based on content-focused coaching whilst 18 teachers formed the control group. Teachers receiving the coaching increased their Adaptive Teaching Competency with regard to planning and their students showed a higher learning outcome compared to the control group.     

核心能力培养是高职内涵建设的灵魂

高等职业技术教育培养的是面向生产、建设、服务第一线需要的高技能人才,而人才培养的最关键因素,是培养其核心能力。在教学条件、师资力量、课程结构、教学内容和教学进度安排上,应为学生顺利就业提供方便,为学生在学校期间就能掌握实际技能,获得职业培训证书和职业技能证书提供方便。     

City positioning theories and city core competencies

Gity positioning The Chinese city in a decision develops the topic of the destiny. Since the 90's of 20 centuries, the economic integral and globalization developed rapidly. The development make national boundary become not so important, the function of the city is increasingly outstanding. In other words, national competition ability is morally now on the city competition ability. At the same time, this development result that the industry is divided internationally and is divided in cities. Therefore, under the condition of globalization, if the city wants the superior development, it must take advantages and avoid shortage, to position the city accurately, establish the competition and development the strategy. The city positioning is clearly defined the city competition ability, more important it indicated the direction of the city development. Trough the analysis of the resource and environment of the city, decide an accurate position of the best function of the city, well configure the inner and outside resource, catch the opportunities,face the challenges, maximized the market share in order to maximized the wealth and city competition ability.     

培养有教养的公民——加拿大BC省新课改中核心素养的价值导向与课程转化

加拿大BC省的新一轮基础教育课程改革是在对时代发展背景研判--"儿童正在踏入什么样的世界"、对未来人才素养的谋划--"未来世界需要什么样的儿童"的基础上,将"培养有教养的公民"作为总的价值导向,将核心素养作为价值实现的根本载体与线索的全方位课程改革.为了实现核心素养的课程落实与转化,其确立了"知道-践行-理解"(KDU)的课程模式,重新设计了课堂评估、省级评估、国家与国际评估的三级课程评估模式.该文以六年级数学课程的实施为例,详细介绍了探究教学、个性化教学、合作教学与在地化教学等教学方式.     

Implementing and Assessing Library Reference Training Programs

Comprehensive assessments have shown that academic library users prefer a welcoming environment that provides the opportunity for self-sufficiency. Libraries need to meet these expectations and improve the quality of library reference by creating a comprehensive training program for librarians, staff, and students. This article will review standards for reference training in academic libraries with a focus on one-desk service points and consider best practices for planning, implementing, and assessing training programs for staff, students, and librarians.     

Knowledge and skills for the digital era academic library

Technology has altered the traditional academic library beyond recognition. These dramatic changes have impacted significantly on the knowledge and skills requirements for LIS professionals practising in this environment. While there have been studies in other parts of the world which have investigated the knowledge and skills requirements for the digital era academic library environment, to date no comprehensive study has ‘drilled’ down into this area in the South African context. This paper reports on a preliminary study which is part of a wider study aimed at developing a comprehensive skills statement which would provide an objective framework against which professional LIS practitioners in the modern academic library environment in South Africa may both measure their existing competencies and also identify the need for further skills acquisition. The research question guiding this preliminary investigation was: What key knowledge and skills are required for LIS professionals to effectively and efficiently practise in a digital era academic library in South Africa? The triangulated findings (using content analysis of job advertisements and semi-structured interviews) from this preliminary investigation are used to ascertain an initial picture of key knowledge and skills sets required for LIS professionals in this environment. These preliminary findings also proved useful in teasing out some of the parameters for the wider study targeting the development of a comprehensive skills statement for higher education libraries in South Africa. The study reported here has relevance for the academic library context in other parts of the world as well.     

在社会实践中提升高职学生职业核心能力的探索

职业核心能力已经成为企业选拔人才和考评员工的重要依据,是学生可持续发展的关键能力,是高职院校提高学生综合素质的重要途径。科学规划、充分利用社会实践活动提升高职学生的职业核心能力是高等职业教育的重要课题。     

The use of migration-related competencies in continuing education: individual strategies,social and institutional conditions

Focusing especially on biographical competencies that are gained through the experience of migration and socialisation in a certain country or cultural context, this article analyses how professionals define and deploy these ‘migration-related competencies’ when it comes to employment in the field of adult education in Austria. By means of selected example cases individual strategies are discussed vis-à-vis institutional frameworks of adult education and processes of exclusion towards migrants in general. Considering questions of representation and othering, the circumstances under which the utilisation of migration-related competencies is experienced as beneficial or problematic are examined. Furthermore, educational institutions of the majority society display different modes of recognising and acknowledging migration-related competencies. In a context, in which the official acknowledgement of these practices by institutions and transparent policies towards diversity orientation are lacking, the possession and demonstration of migration-related competencies has shown to be a highly ambivalent and individualised process.     

“家庭、家教和家风”思想对学校教育培养中职生核心素养的影响

在中职学生的核心素养培养过程中,应积极发挥家庭的作用,结合学生家庭教育及家风对学生进行核心素养培养,形成家校合力,达到增强中职学生核心素养培养效果的目的。该文在分析家庭教育、家教及家风对中职学生核心素养培养影响的基础上,对发挥家庭、家教与家风对中职学生核心素养培养的影响作用、促进学校教育效果提升的方式进行了说明,发挥了学校的帮助作用、家长的主导作用。构建良好的家庭教育氛围,对学生核心素养的形成产生了重要影响,应从开展座谈会提高家长意识、引导家长创建良好的家庭教育环境及家风等方式入手,为学校核心素养教育提供帮助。