Parental preferences in the choice for a specialty school

Choosing a specialty school involves huge challenges for families. This research aims to understand the behavioral process that leads families to choose among various specialty school programs. Discrete choice models, based on revealed preferences data from middle school applications in a large school district in Florida, are estimated using both, the top and all-ranked alternatives. This study returns insights into geographic settings, theme specialties and socioeconomic characteristics of applicants, schools and their relationships. Distance from home, the school’s academic quality, the school’s theme specialty, and the high percentage of applicant’s own race are found to be the strongest factors related to the decision to apply.     

论电视节目主持人的"主持人意识"

电视节目的主持人是信息的传播者,同时也是电视受众与节目之间的媒介,主持人除了应具有一般意义上的传播者意识,除了应具备相应的新闻意识外,还应有“自我定位意识”、“专门家意识”以及“终身学习意识”,而这些意识与作为一个普通新闻工作者应具备的普遍意识,有着相得益彰的作用。对“节目主持人意识”的理解认识,关系到对节目主持人知识结构的理解与认识。     

Curriculum and pedagogy in Key Stage 2: a survey of policy and practice in small rural primary schools

ABSTRACT

Small primary schools have often been criticized for their staff's inevitably limited cur‐ ricular expertise and consequent difficulty in providing a full National Curriculum for their pupils. Yet in terms of standards of attainment and quality of teaching such schools are rated rather more favourably than larger ones in OFSTED inspections. Based on an investigation of policy and practice in thirteen small primary schools this article attempts to examine the reality of small schools’ planning and implementation of National Curriculum requirements at Key Stage 2 and suggests possible reasons for their ‘better’ performance, at least as judged by OFSTED inspectors.     

英国住院儿童游戏服务体系研究：经验与启示

游戏是住院儿童的一项基本福利,在促进患儿身心发展与疾病转归过程中具有重要价值。作为世界上首个建立儿童福利制度的国家,英国住院儿童游戏服务体系自上世纪中叶建立以来,其组织构架、运作机制以及管理模式等日臻成熟,发展至今已形成了对象覆盖面广、服务内容全面、从业人员专业性强、医院游戏指导师培训与资质认定制度规范等特征。据此,我国可以在深入研究和借鉴的基础上,进一步转变护理理念、充分依托社会组织资源力量、加强跨学科研究,从而全面推动我国住院儿童游戏服务体系的建立与儿童福利事业的蓬勃发展。     

高校体育教育专业篮球专修课教学难度内容优化研究

基于教学内容体系研究能优化了教学内容,科学合理地安排教学内容和教学顺序,对实现教学内容从预设向生成转变,实现知识、能力和素质的协调发展有着重要的意义和价值。文章运用文献资料法、数理统计分析法、平衡计分法、归纳演绎等研究方法对体育教育专业篮球专修课各项教学内容的重要程度、教学难度进行了探讨,研究表明：教学与训练、教学理论与方法、技战术理论知识、临场指挥为重要内容,临场指挥、裁判实习、战术教学、训练规则与裁判法、科学研究方法、教练员素养在教学中难度最大,为优化选择教学内容,科学合理地安排篮球专修课教学内容和教学顺序提供理论依据。     

Following the Footsteps of Specialist Physical Education Teachers in Singapore’s Primary Schools

This study explored the footsteps of specialist physical education teachers in Singapore’s primary schools. In particular, this paper uncovered the physical education teacher training in Singapore during post-colonial days, ground situations leading to the rise of the specialist physical education teachers and government policies influencing the increase of them in primary schools. Document analysis was employed to trace the development of teachers teaching physical education in Singapore’s primary schools since the 1950s. The focus was on how this development influences the position of specialist physical education teachers in primary schools. The key role of the primary school physical education teacher has changed from a teacher whose focus was on physical fitness to a teacher who looks to develop pupils holistically through pupil-centric sports and outdoor activities. A generalist teacher that did not specialize in physical education is no longer suitable to teach physical education. Government policies and initiatives such as the robust recruitment of physical education teachers and the continuation of the Diploma in Physical Education programme have had a direct impact on the increasing number of primary school specialist physical education teachers. However, this increase is still insufficient. A concerted effort must be made by the school management to prioritize the quality of physical education lessons and sports programmes.     

从特色学校看英国“国家课程”改革的政策走向

英国教育体制由于沿袭地方分权制的传统,教师历来对学校课程有着极大的控制权。但是,1988年国家课程改革,特别是国家统一课程体系建立后,教师对课程的控制权日渐式微。随着国家课程改革实践的深入,国家课程刻板且缺乏灵活性的特征也显现出来。2000年和2008年制定的新国家课程标准针对国家课程的这一弊端进行了改革。在这两次国家课程标准的改革中,特色学校计划被引入,并逐渐确立了以特色促统一的国家课程改革走向。     

医学领域嵌入式知识服务研究

在强调嵌入式知识服务在医学领域当中优化作用的同时,罗列嵌入式知识服务在该领域的具体工作内容,以合作型、伙伴型、辅助型来分类嵌入式知识服务的嵌入程度,用催化剂、助推剂、缓冲剂来定义嵌入式知识服务的不同作用。从患者、知识服务和卫生经济学成本的角度强调该服务的适宜性和重要性,同时具体阐述该服务的"人本化"特征。     

对“体能”的探析

本文对现代运动训练中突出“体能”的原因作了分析,并对“体能”作了定义。阐述了体能的特点和训练要求     

Redefining ‘community’ through collaboration and co-teaching: a case study of an ESOL specialist,a literacy specialist,and a fifth-grade teacher

This article explores the development of a professional learning community through a case study of three teachers – an ESOL specialist, a literacy specialist, and a fifth-grade teacher – who engaged in co-teaching and collaboration. The emerging community of practice offered these teachers a space to learn and problem-solve by utilizing their specialized disciplinary knowledge of students and expanding the application of reading strategies during language arts. Concurrently, opportunities for revising curriculum and instruction remained unrealized, as teachers struggled to negotiate roles and responsibilities within the top-down administratively initiated collaboration that required redefining their professional community. Implications and recommendations are discussed.