大学生也应"帮困扶贫"

大学生也应帮困扶贫,有两层含义:一是大学生尤其是贫困大学生由于在经济上、心理上存在许多问题,故他们本身需要社会来帮助;二是大学生自己也应该对贫困、贫穷的家庭,尤其是农村家庭实施“帮困扶贫”,这是建设社会主义新农村的要求。     

Pedagogical practices of NetNZ teachers for supporting online distance learners

A supportive online learning environment entails teachers using effective pedagogical practices to meet the needs of their students and developing a positive teacher–student relationship to foster learner motivation and engagement. This paper reports a study investigating how 32 secondary teachers in New Zealand taught their online distance classes and how they related to their students. These classes were administered by NetNZ, an online distance education community. An online survey conducted in 2016 found that NetNZ teachers used inquiry-based practices including flipped learning and knowledge-building pedagogies to support agency, autonomy, collaboration, and community development. They also used synchronous and asynchronous communication technologies to overcome barriers of relationship building in online settings. NetNZ was unique in delivering distance education in the New Zealand context in that it used a community approach to encourage a more active participation of its member schools and teachers in delivering distance courses to secondary students.     

基于远程学习者个体需求的教学策略探究

远程教学是建立在信息技术和学习者学习需求基础上的教学,在具体的教学过程中采用什么样的教学策略,不仅要看技术条件和学科特点,更重要的是要看学习者的实际需求。本文在分析了远程学习者特征和学习需求的基础上,着力探讨了网络环境下基于学习者个体需求的教学策略。在宏观上提出了三种比较可行的教学策略,即资源性教学策略、非系统性教学策略和服务性教学策略。     

英语请求语用发展研究──以探询型请求子策略之选择为例

通过语篇补全测试,调查中国英语学习者对探询型请求子策略的选择。结果发现：学习者在请求主体策略选择上呈现与英语母语者相同的序列;学习者在请求子策略选择上存在过多或不当使用某些情态词,某些话句类型使用单一的情况;角色指向性的选择上,以听话者为指向的比率较高。这些特点表明文化间既具有相通性也存在文化相异,需要在教学中积极开展明示语用教学,重视学生语言能力的培养。     

Teaching imaginary children: University students’ narratives about their Latino practicum children

This study investigates the dialogic processes involved in how teachers talk about their students and what consequences their ways of talking (i.e., “narratives”) may have for their guidance. We take a sociocultural perspective on learning as transformation of students’ subjectivity. Teaching, as a process of guiding and facilitating learning, cannot be effective if the teacher does not actively seek how the student perceives and understands reality. We borrow and adapt from Bakhtin (1999) four narrative ways of talking about others: objectivizing, subjectivizing, problematizing and finalizing. The presence of these narratives in web discussion postings of our pre-service teachers about the Latino children they worked with in a community center are analyzed. We then compare their ways of talking about children with print- and web-based discussions about children made by in-service teachers, model teachers and our pre-service teachers in a school-based practicum. Using mixed quantitative and qualitative methodologies, we found an overwhelming predominance of objectivizing and finalizing in our pre-service teachers’ narratives about the children with whom they work that seems to define a certain pedagogical regime that we call here “teaching imaginary children/students.” This “way of talking” about children seems to be characterized by unchecked speculations guiding instruction that are not tested by finding out from the children themselves how they understand the instruction and the world. These speculations, in turn, can lead to a dogmatic approach towards children.     

少儿英语教学与语言习得

语言学习和语言习得在学习效果上存在一定的差异.在少儿英语教学中发展儿童语言运用能力的关键在于教师应结合儿童认知能力的发展,从语言信息输入定位、输入输出定位、教学顺序定位、情感因素过滤方面来创设语言习得环境.     

The Effect Teaching Experience Has on Perceived Effectiveness of Interactive Television as a Distance Education Model for Elementary School Science Teacher’s Professional Development: Another Digital Divide?

The first year of a 5 year professional development project for elementary teachers in two mid-western states integrated a bridge of two distinctly different distance education networks (T-1 and fiber optics) to provide science professional development for elementary school teachers in rural communities. Interactive television (ITV), the title given to the distance component, consisted of a series of twenty-four, 2 h presentations by scientists and content specialists. It provided expansion to the science pedagogical content knowledge of the elementary teachers involved. Eighty-five teachers in 38 school districts from the two states completed individual surveys following the final ITV session. Analysis of variance of participants post-session survey scores yielded differences (p < 0.05) on the subscales measuring perceived effectiveness of using distance education for professional development purposes and years of teaching experience. Teachers with over 20 years of classroom experience perceived the use of distance education technologies for science professional development to be more effective than teachers with 16–20 years of classroom experience. These results might suggest another digital divide.     

推进大学科学教育与人文教育融合的几点思考

科学与人文教育的融合是现代大学的教育理念。促进大学教育科学与人文教育的融合,一方面要充分认识科学与人文教育的内涵;另一方面,要积极探索科学教育与人文教育融合的有效途径。首要的问题是培养和提高大学教师的人文与科学素养;在学校重构课程体系,促进“文理兼容;”在教学设计和实施过程中落实科学与人文教育的融合;强化班级和校园文化建设;营造科学与人文教育融合的学术氛围和校园环境。     

Preservice Teachers' Perspectives on Their Preparation for Social Justice Teaching

This study investigates preservice teachers' perspectives on their preparation to use social justice teaching in rural schools, how they implemented the concept in their classrooms, and the challenges they faced. The findings suggest that even though coursework may have prepared the participants to integrate social justice principles and practices into teaching, participants faced significant institutional factors that constrained their efforts to integrate culturally relevant practices in their teaching.     

远程学习者英语学习动机、策略调查分析

本文调查了远程学习者的英语学习现状、英语学习动机及策略。调查发现他们的学习目的明确．以“工具型”为主。在英语学习过程中,他们最大的英语学习困难是词汇和语法;元认知策略使用较多。但具体的语言学习策略使用较少;远程学习者对自己的学习缺乏监控。因此,本文提出充分利用网络资源,加强面授课教学,培养远程学习者良好的英语学习策略。