任务教学法在商务英语写作教学中的设计

以《商务英语写作》课程教学实践为例,以建构主义和交际教学法为理论依据,结合互动-交流的教学模式,探讨了任务驱动教学法的实践过程和教学效果。研究发现,任务教学法和互动交流模式可以提高学生的学习认知和教学效果,虽然接受过程还需时日。基于任务驱动教学法,设计的商务英语写作教学过程,可对师生角色、学生参与教学过程、学生学习主动性和自主性,学生解决实际书面交际能力等方面,产生积极的影响。     

国内高职院校校本培训研究综述

随着高职教育内涵发展的要求逐渐提高,高职教师队伍建设越来越受到高度重视。校本培训是推进教师专业水平不断提高,促进高职院校内涵发展的有效举措。本文通过检索国内高职院校校本培训研究的相关期刊文献,进行了文献统计和主题内容分析,从高职院校校本培训的涵义与特点、作用与问题、目标与内容、培训模式与形式、组织管理与效果评价、基本程序与培训体系等方面进行了综述。     

A Memoir of Co‐Mentoring: The “We” that is “Me”

The author’s academic journey in learning to mentor and be co‐mentored involved three rites of passage. In this reflective essay (invited paper), the author acknowledges his most influential co‐mentors—former dissertation supervisees and long since colleagues—who helped form the “we” that is him. The first phase coincided with a constraining time in research and supervision. The author co‐published only a few journal articles and mainly with one mentee. During his second stage in Toronto, Canada, he experienced an exponential increase in co‐publication. This was a natural extension of mutually beneficial working relationships and successful doctoral defenses. Like a trusted friend, a mentor can guide his or her charges as they set out to discover and realize the potential within. The responsive form of learning in partnership enacted a version of collective action among equals. The author became a collaborative arts‐based‐educational researcher‐mentor: a hyphenated collection of selves. Since having returned to Australia, he co‐mentors early career academics seeking to publish and use writing as and for their professional development.     

Evaluation of a University‐Based Mentoring Program: Mentors’ Perspectives on a Service‐Learning Experience

Researchers in the educational field have investigated how a caring adult can best provide mentoring support to youth placed at risk and what functions a mentoring program should serve to promote healthy mentoring relationships. However, the perspective of mentors rarely has been sought to elicit their evaluation of a mentoring program or recommendations for programmatic change. The purpose of this article was to investigate the views of university students serving as mentors in high‐need high schools or community centers. We asked 49 students, primarily undergraduates across a range of liberal arts disciplines, who were participating in a university‐based service‐learning mentoring program for youth attending high‐poverty high schools: (a) what activities they engaged in with mentees, (b) how they benefited from the mentoring program, and (c) how they perceived the program and what recommendations they had for change. Findings revealed specific suggestions that mentoring program coordinators can adopt to address mentors’ concerns and promote sustained, durable mentoring relationships for youth.     

情境教学法在高职英语课堂中的一例

课堂教学是学校教育中最重要和最基本的活动形式,形式多样的有效教学设计在英语教学中也扮演着越来越重要的角色.为进一步激发学生兴趣,提升其运用语言能力,本文尝试将“时光旅行”情境教学法运用到具体的课堂一例,分析情境教学在高职英语教学中的可行性.     

基于问题式学习的《学前卫生学》课程教学模式研究——把握好PBL模式应用的五个基本环节

基于对PBL教学模式的特点、三年制学生学习的特点以及《学前卫生学》课程要求的综合考虑,认为《学前卫生学》课程教学可以选用PBL的教学模式;基于问题式学习的《学前卫生学》课程教学模式主要包括五个基本环节,即导入问题、分组分工研究、小组讨论、小组成果汇报和集体反思与评价;同时在应用中还应注意处理好选取合适的教学内容、提升教师教育素质、增加教师与学生共处时间、增加教师间的合作、解决好后续的工作等几个问题。     

Facilitating early career leadership through pre‐service training

Current research indicates that new teachers want to be involved in school‐level decision‐making. Upon entering the profession, many novice teachers are surprised and disillusioned to find they have considerably less involvement and influence than expected. Based on strategies that have been developed, revised, and refined over a number of years in two teacher preparation programs in the eastern US, the current discussion proposes that teacher preparation programs incorporate training in school‐based management as a means to better prepare new teachers for the political realities of the profession. Intended for teacher educators, this paper describes how the research component common to most teacher education programs can be used as a venue to train teacher candidates in school‐based management.     

I felt so guilty: emotions and subjectivity in school‐based teacher education

Research in the field of emotions in relation to teaching is relatively new, but expanding. However, studies addressing the emotional dimension of preservice teacher education, particularly with respect to the role of school‐based teacher educators are currently under‐represented in the literature. This paper reports findings from a study focussed on the emotional dimension of the practicum for school‐based teacher educators as they support preservice teacher colleagues. It adopts a qualitative method informed by feminist post‐structural theory in an attempt to give meaning to teachers’ narratives of their personal responses to supporting a less than successful preservice teacher. The study investigates teachers’ shifting sense of agency throughout the experience as they work within apparently intersecting discursive frames. The case study reveals the depth of emotions experienced by teachers and examines the impact of the emotions on teacher identity. It appears that the tertiary sector has failed to recognise the emotional costs of such experiences and the associated needs of school‐based teacher educators. Finally, the paper asks in what ways can staff in universities work collaboratively with teachers to address the concerns being raised by a study such as this, as there appears to be a genuine need to assist teachers copes with the emotional outcomes of working with problematic preservice teachers.     

数字化校本课程开发策略

信息技术的发展,为校本课程开发提供了新契机。结合信息技术与课程整合理念与方法,提出整体推进数字化校本课程开发策略:建立教师参与机制,形成校本课程开发动力;运用信息技术构建校本课程网络教学平台、整合校本课程学习内容、创新校本课程教学模式、优化校本课程学习资源。     

Assisting Performance in Teaching and Learning

Although Vygotskian principles involving the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) are hailed as tenets undergirding teaching and learning within a constructivist setting, these principals have not been implemented widely within school classrooms. Tharp and Gallimore, building on the notion that learning can be maximized when a teacher has a heightened awareness of a student's ZPD and stimulates new learning based upon this understanding, argue that true teaching is a matter of “assisting performance”. This study examines the efforts of one university instructor to assist the performance of her graduate students as they learned to teach, scaffold and support struggling readers. The findings suggest that the university instructor successfully assisted her students by providing supportive feedback, extending their learning and providing appropriate resources through ongoing Email correspondence and face‐to‐face meetings and tutoring sessions. Success was attributed to the instructor's extensive knowledge of supporting struggling readers, awareness of her students' ZPD's in relation to the context of their learning and her efforts to consistently provide appropriate and specific feedback through iterative dialogue.