Tracking Pre-service Teachers’ Changing Conceptions of Good Science Teaching: The Role of Progressive Reflection with the Same Video

A CD-ROM consisting of videos of two lessons by different teachers demonstrating exemplary science teaching was used to elicit, develop and track the changing conceptions of good science teaching of student teachers enrolled for the one-year Postgraduate Diploma in Education (PGDE) at several stages during the programme. It was found that the videos acted as an effective probe to elicit student teachers’ conceptions and had significant impact on those conceptions at different stages of the programme through the provision of teacher models demonstrating exemplary teaching. The experience has extended novice teachers’ awareness of alternative teaching methods and approaches not experienced in their own schooling, broadened their awareness of different classroom situations, provided proof of existence of good practices and prompted them to reflect on their current conceptions of good science teaching. Most importantly, the strategy of asking student teachers to watch the same videos on three separate occasions at different times of the course was recognized by them as a crucial element in facilitating their reflection on their changing conceptions of good science teaching. PGDE is the standard form of pre-service teacher education in Hong Kong. It provides qualified teacher status within Hong Kong. Student teachers enrolled for the PGDE have completed a relevant undergraduate degree.     

多媒体技术在课堂教学中的合理运用

掌握和应用好多媒体教学的技术与方法，是发挥多媒体教学优势，提高课堂教学效果，解决多媒体教学常见问题的有效途径。     

课堂实践"三个一"与社会实践"二个一"--《毛泽东思想概论》实践教学的改革与创新

实践教学是进行教学改革的重要内容之一。《毛泽东思想概论》的实践教学的改革与创新是通过多种多样的形式,把课程实践与社会实践相结合,以提高学生实践能力,并达到师生共建、馆校共育、多方受益的目的。一份份感想体会、学习心得、实践报告,不仅说明学生接受了教育,而且培养了他们的运用能力和创新能力,提高了他们的综合素质。     

弗莱雷对话式教学：中国课堂教学改革的标杆与路径

弗莱雷被认为是20世纪後半期最重要的教育家之一。其代表作《被压迫者的教育学》建立了以培养批判意识为目的的解放教育理论。他大力提倡“对话式教学”，认为教育应具有对话性，“对话式教学”是培养人们批判意识的主要途径。他的对话教学观，不仅在理论上能使我们对中国当前的课堂教学改革有深刻的认识和觉醒，而且在实践上也是中国课堂教学改革的标杆和路径。     

Reflectors as online extraverts?

Increasingly, online learning is perceived as an effective method of instruction. Much recent educational research has focused on examining the purposes and situations for which online education is best suited. In this paper, students enrolled in two online courses are compared with their peers enrolled in equivalent classroom‐based courses to investigate aspects of the relationship between learning style and mode of delivery. Student satisfaction measures are taken from participants in both modes of delivery and compared with student learning style. Feedback from the ‘Reflector’ learning style demonstrates higher satisfaction levels with the online mode of delivery compared with their matched counterparts following equivalent classroom‐based courses. Therefore, whilst ‘Reflectors’ might be regarded as Introverts in the traditional classroom setting, the additional time for reflection offered by online delivery makes this group more likely to contribute to online discussion, report higher satisfaction levels and generally behave more like online Extraverts.     

继续教育语文学科应当遵循的教学原则

继续教育语文学科教学不仅要体现出高层次专业培训之特点 ,还要在教学过程中遵循与此特点有关的针对性原则 ,示导性原则、科学性原则、开拓性原则     

“活”的教育与“死”的教育

新的教育观念是培养活生生的人而不是工具。培养活生生的人的方法有激活人的生命力、活跃课堂气氛、解放学生思想、活学活用、丰富教学内容和形式等。     

工程学科导学群运行模式的调查与研究

深入了解导学群学习支持服务体系在计算机科学与技术和土木工程等工程学科专业的运行情况,以山西电大在线平台、山西电大自建平台作为两个切入点,对开放教育工程学科学生进行了问卷调查。为使教学服务更加科学化、人性化,质量监控体系更加完善、有效,为使导学群运行模式更加成熟做一些探讨。     

Evaluating efforts to enhance health and wellbeing in Scottish secondary schools

Curriculum for Excellence in Scotland outlines a policy vision of a more progressive, integrated and holistic form of education; a commitment which contains an obligation for health and well-being (HWB) to be a responsibility of all teachers. A critical policy analysis approach was utilized in order to review school-level progress in different stages of policy development, i.e. policy formulation, legitimation, implementation and evaluation. Evidence was collected through 15 semi-structured interviews with head teachers, teacher education academics and staff with national and local authority quality improvement remits. Questions focused on: aims and curriculum goals; school culture; learning and teaching; partnership relationships and evaluations of practice. Findings suggest a high degree of support for curriculum aims, however, there were often problems communicating policy expectations (policy formulation). Thus, despite impressive examples of innovative practice in relation to school ethos, wider achievement and pupils’ broader general education (policy legitimation), there were also examples of HWB being constrained by senior school examinations and the backwash effect this had on curriculum planning and engagement with interdisciplinary learning approaches (policy implementation/evaluation). These findings have implications in terms of policy to practice coherence as well as highlighting the need for further more specific research evaluations.     

高职《土力学与地基基础》教学改革与实践

针对高职教育特点及教学现状,就《土力学与地基基础》课程,在教学内容、教学方法、实践环节及考核方式等方面进行了一系列的改革探索,谈了一些具体做法和设想,具有一定的实用性和可操作性。