Teachers’ reports of learning and application to pedagogy based on engagement in collaborative peer video analysis

Given international use of video-based reflective discussions in teacher education, and the limited knowledge about whether teachers apply learning from these discussions, we explored teachers’ learning of new ideas about pedagogy and their self-reported application of this learning. Nine inservice and 48 preservice teachers participated in video-based reflective discussions and documented their learning, sources of knowledge that contributed to their learning, and application of this learning to their teaching in their practica courses. A total of 227 response sheets with this information were collected. Multilevel logit regression was used to examine how sources of learning and content learned were related to teachers’ application of learning to their teaching practices. We found that teachers reported applying 40% of their learning; particularly, what they learned about methods and materials for instruction, and that they learned from both video and discussion almost equally.     

以就业与创业为导向的高职经济法课程创新实践

针对高职经济法课程教学的不足、高职学生的特点等,以世界五百强企业——浙江物产集团为依托,以物产企业大学为支撑,以课程综合实践为平台,从2个方面的教学内容加强、3个方面的教学方法和手段强化、4个方面的考核体系探索,对高职经济法课程的教学进行改革,以满足用人单位对学生法律运用能力的要求,满足创业学生对相关法律知识的诉求。     

Providing Students with Written Feedback on Their Assessment: A Collaborative Self-Study Exploring the Nexus of Research and Practice

This article is an account of a collaborative self-study of the process of providing written feedback on assessment to our teacher education students. Our five-year study grew out of concerns that written feedback might not always meet the learning needs of our students. The study was informed by on-going analysis of our reading of the relevant literature, our experience conducting a qualitative research study of students' perceptions of written feedback on assessment, and our professional conversations along the way. We became increasingly aware that our personal beliefs about learning and teaching underpin our respective approaches to providing written feedback on assessment. The process of critical reflection enabled us to achieve a congruence of professional practice that resolved our concerns about the nature of written feedback and enhanced our respective pedagogical practices.     

论音乐课堂中的教学机智

课堂教学是一个不断生成新情境的过程,面对教学中的各种新问题、新情境,不但需要教师有充足的教学准备,还需要有临场处理的能力,即教学机智。良好的教学机智,将有助于化解课堂中的各种问题,从而提高音乐课堂教学效率。     

什么是教师?——一个始源上的疏证

教师并不是一个自明的词语。在教师专业化和职业化发展的状况下,"什么是教师?"这一问题更具现实的迫切性。"什么是教师?"触动我们对于教师生存状况的思考,表达了一种对于教师既知又无知的精神现实。"什么是教师?"需要一个更加谨慎、完整的探寻,要求我们回到教师之中,去追问始源上的教师之涵义。作为"pedagogue"与"profession",教师是一个对正义和真知进行无条件担保的承诺与行为,并在这一行为中引导孩子追求完善人生,实现自我超越。     

Achieving both intellectual quality and relevance in classroom learning experiences: some conceptual challenges

The idea that the educational needs of secondary school students are best met by providing them with learning experiences that are both intellectually challenging and connected to the world beyond the classroom underpins several recent pedagogical initiatives in Australia. However, such learning experiences are rarely found in practice. Many reasons for this have already been identified, but we suggest there may be another dimension to this problem. From our experience of trialling a similar pedagogical approach with Years 8 and 10 students, the participating teachers seemed to be struggling with a conceptual dilemma that interfered with creating learning experiences that are both intellectually challenging and relevant. We suggest this dilemma was generated by a dualistic framework of thinking and practice, endemic in education systems, which constructs academic rigour and relevance as incompatible with each other. We conclude that there is a need for more extensive teacher professional development in pedagogies which attempt to integrate intellectual rigour and relevance.     

The positioning of students in newly qualified secondary teachers’ images of their ‘best teaching’

Asking newly qualified teachers (NQTs) to provide images of their ‘best teaching’, and encouraging subsequent reflection on these images, has the potential to enhance their understanding of themselves as teachers as they explore their often unconsciously held assumptions about students and classrooms. This paper reports aspects of a study of 100 New Zealand secondary NQTs as they constructed and explained images of themselves when ‘teaching at their best’ at three points over the first 18 months of full-time teaching. The article shows how these images of ‘best teaching’ may represent the NQTs’ pedagogical creed, and explores the nature of relationships and ways of working with students described within this developing pedagogy. It concludes by indicating implications from this study for teacher education pedagogies and programmes.     

高职思政课改革探究

高职思政课不仅是一门学科,更是一种教育形式,高职院校应充分发挥思政课在学生思想政治教育中的主导教育作用。应从“课程整合”、“教学方法”、“教学评价”等方面改革思政课教学。与此同时,还需围绕思政课教育教学,改革管理体制,形成大思政。     

理解教学

教学是师生之间因"伟大事物"而产生的相遇,是教师与学生在学习共同体中的实践交往,教师在其中获得自我身份的认同。教学的实践交往属性呼唤教师对学生的敏感,从而发展教学的机智。教学实践的紧迫性需要反思的距离,以从理论上提升教学实践智慧,并承担起教学的责任。     

‘I can't read it; I don't know’: young children's participation in the pedagogical documentation of English early childhood education and care settings

This article discusses the findings about pedagogical documentation which were drawn from a study which the author co-directed in a range of English early childhood education and care settings and which focused on children's views of the early years curriculum. The article poses questions provoked by the study and uses the work of Rinaldi and Carr to interrogate the English context for documenting early learning. The article analyses documentation in theoretical terms such as deciding, decentralising, disciplining, didactic and dialogue and also considers accounts by practitioners and researchers of practical strategies. The argument is illustrated with a selection of the data from the original study by Garrick et al. and contends that the purpose of pedagogical documentation should be to enable adult and child communicative cooperation, rather than to provide statements about children's progress which feed into the ‘discourses of quality in early childhood’.