Becoming a lecturer in further education in England: the construction of professional identity and the role of communities of practice

Further education colleges in England offer a wide range of post‐school education and training provision. Recently they have undergone major transformations that have resulted in considerable changes to the work of those teaching in them. In this paper we examine how cultures of learning and teaching in colleges are affected and how the nature of professional identity has changed. The paper considers the formation of professional identity amongst a group of trainee lecturers completing a one‐year full‐time teacher‐training course at a university in the English Midlands. Lave and Wenger's work on apprenticeship to communities of practice is used to examine the effect of trainees' teaching placement on the development of professional identity. Rather than identifying effective processes of increasing participation in existing communities of practice, a strong sense of marginalisation and alienation amongst trainees was observed. The paper argues that this is detrimental both to trainees and experienced lecturers if they are to actively engage in building new forms of professionalism for the future.     

浅谈中小学生安全教育内容及对象选择

自1996年教育部联合多个部委确定每年3月份最后一周的星期一为全国中小学生安全教育日起,中小学生安全教育工作受到学校及社会各界的重视。但是目前全国并没有一个统一的安全教育教材或者教育大纲,各个学校多是各自为战。究竟中小学安全教育应该包括哪些内容,选择受教育的对象又有谁,成为了一个不可回避的话题。只有解决以上两个问题,才能够更好地提高我国中小学生安全教育的整体水平,同时提升中小学生在面临危机时的自救能力。     

国家网络精品课程统计分析与共享展望

作者在线访问了2007至2010年入选的209门国家网络精品课程,从课程属性、课程专业分布、课程运行现状、课程技术特征等四个维度,利用内容分析法对其进行了统计分析,根据网络课程运行现状和技术发展趋势,对网络精品课程的共享提出合理建议。     

重视教师素质选拔的入学考试PGCE——以英国华威大学为例

英国除了十分注重职前教师教学实践技能的培养与训练,严格而富有弹性的教师选拔入学考试也独具一格,其中重视教师自身的人格素质、对教师职业的热爱以及对教学的创新非常值得我们借鉴。本文以英国华威大学PGC E入学考试为例,介绍英国选拔教师的条件、入学考试的程序、内容以及所隐含的理念,希望对我国师范院校教师选拔提供一些参考。     

Examining Peer Collaboration in Online Inquiry

Abstract

This study examines peer collaboration among four pairs of seventh graders who read online to determine what caused the downfall of the Mayan civilization. More and less productive collaborative interactions are presented through snippets of dialogue in which pairs negotiated complex texts. Few examples of how teachers can skillfully facilitate collaborative interactions currently exist, despite the call for these skills in the Common Core State Standards. Teaching ideas that support collaborative online reading are featured.

[Supplementary materials are available for this article. Go to the publisher's online edition of The Educational Forum for the following free supplemental materials: set of printable graphic organizers to support collaborative online reading and cross-curricular web resources to support critical evaluation of online content].     

理论力学教学改革与实践

在教学中根据学生和理论力学课程的特点,采取过程启发式教学,改变学生原有的被动学习模式,对于培养学生的学习能力、创新能力、实践能力和利用力学知识解决实际工程的能力有积极的意义。     

浅议教师的教学反思

教学反思,要贯穿教学活动的全过程。要反思教学的成功之处,反思教学的"败笔",反思教学的瞬间灵感,反思学生见解;通过反思日记、详细描述、实际讨论、行动研究,实现自我重新构建。     

整合教学内容 增强《概论》课实效性

《毛泽东思想和中国特色社会主义理论体系概论》(以下简称《概论》课)承担着提高大学生政治理论素养、坚定社会主义信念的重要任务。但在《概论》课教学中,存在着综合性强、现实性强、重复严重、课时不足等种种问题,因此,将教材体系转化为教学体系,根据教学要求不断拓展教学内容,与时俱进,对《概论》课教学内容进行整合,对增强《概论课》教学实效性具有重要现实意义。     

高师世界地理内容分析及教学建议

本文通过阐述世界地理教学内容体系及内容,归纳了教学内容的特点。在此基础上,从知识结构、教学工具、教学方式方法、素质教育几方面提出了高师世界地理教学的建议。     

基于高技院校的英语课堂教学研究

近年来,随着社会的发展和经济的全球化,英语教育在我国得到了广泛普及。从幼儿英语启蒙到大学专业英语教育,都受到了社会的广泛关注。其中,对于针对现代化企业,培养国家需要的技术性操作人员的高级技术院校来说,英语教育也有着不容忽视的重要意义。本文阐述了高级技术院校英语教育的主要内容及现状,并提出了提高高技院校英语课堂教育质量的战略措施。