How can children with mild literacy difficulties be supported at the transition to secondary school? A small‐scale quasi‐experimental study

There is evidence that pupils with weak literacy skills struggle on transition to secondary school. Many experience a drop in attainment in the summer break between the two. A British government‐funded programme of rigorously designed research on boosting literacy at transition had (by 2015) found only four of 15 interventions evaluated had positive effects. This small‐scale quasi‐experimental study investigated the effectiveness of support for pupils with mild literacy difficulties on transition to secondary school. Thirty‐two pupils in three schools were involved; half received the programme. Pairs were matched on reading, spelling, age and gender. Intervention was designed around the individual needs of each pupil, focusing variously on language skills, writing, reading and spelling. The group receiving the programme made modest gains in spelling, reading efficiency and single word reading. The comparison group lost ground, relatively, in all three areas. The results suggest a promising line for more rigorous investigation.     

“Racism just isn't an issue anymore”: Preservice teachers' resistances to the intersections of sexuality and race

Through year-long focus group interviews with members of a secondary English Education cohort this paper considers both 1) participants' understandings of sexuality and race and 2) how participants' understandings of sexuality and race shaped their interactions with one another. Themes established through data analysis suggested that 1) participants maintained positioned racism as an historical issue that contrasted with the contemporaneity of LGBTQ issues; 2) participants resisted intersecting race and sexuality; 3) participants silenced Andy, the only queer student of color, when she argued for the intersectionality of race and sexuality.     

EUROPEAN DISSERTATION SUMMARIES

To alleviate teachers’ reluctance toward practical work, there has been much discussion on teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge, teaching materials, and failsafe strategies for practical work. Despite these efforts, practical work is still regarded as a challenging task for many elementary science teachers. To understand the complexity of teachers’ conflicts in practical work, this study examines teachers’ ideas about teaching and learning that influence teachers’ decision‐making and action on teaching practical work. More important than knowing technical–rational aspects of practical work is to understand the internal contradictions that teachers have to resolve within themselves regarding their capabilities and beliefs about science teaching and practical work. Using stories and experiences of 38 third‐year university students in a science method course in Korea, we seek to understand the conflicts and negotiations that they experience as they make decisions regarding practical work throughout their course. Reflective writings and group discussions on their lived experiences and concerns were used to probe participants’ ideas on teaching using practical work. From written and verbal data, themes were saturated in terms of the aspects which could (dis)encourage their practice. Results suggest that there are multifactorial challenges in pre‐service teachers’ understandings and concerns in practical work. Besides time, materials, and curriculum, pedagogical assumptions and values also compositely challenge the minds of teachers. As the pre‐service elementary teachers negotiated within themselves the importance of science in classroom and social levels, the question is raised about their identities as pre‐service elementary teachers to appreciate the balance between science teaching and practical work.     

A teacher’s journey: a first-person account of how a gay,Cambodian refugee navigated myriad barriers to become educated in the United States

Educational institutions, like most social service organizations, need to recognize intersectionality and complexity and move away from monolithic conceptions of homelessness – if they recognize homelessness at all. This first person account of a gay, Cambodian refugee illustrates the enormous complexity schools face in forming institutional responses for the needs of homeless, highly mobile, and economically displaced children and youth. This article demonstrates an effort to avoid reductionist definitions of homelessness and to include experiential representations of humans living at the margins (under the 5th Avenues of the world, in central parks, in downtown shelters, outside of the ethical and systemic “home” of current ideologies and social orders, under the politics of HIV in Africa, as refugees and as those “othered” by dominant social narratives). The research takes place in the context of the At Home At School program at Washington State University.     

Facing the ”Literacy” Issue:

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过程教育在浙教版九上第三章《圆》中的体现浅析

知识是什么,是思考的结果、经验的结果。仅仅教结果的教育是不能教智慧的,智慧往往表现在过程中。有关过程的东西只有通过过程来教,过程的教育能够培养我们的孩子正确的思考方法,最终培养孩子数学的直观。因此我们要强调过程的教育,在过程中判断他的思维是不是对的。     

提升英语专业教师的文学素养的必要性与策略

英语专业教师作为学科建设的重要力量,肩负着语言教学和文化传播的双重使命,其自身的文学素养直接关系到教学改革的成败和人才培养的质量。而教师的文学素养作为教师知识结构的重要组成部分和人文素质的核心内容,其构建和提升是一个长期的动态的过程,需要教师个人、学校和社会的共同努力来实现。     

外语教师实践性知识研究综述

随着教师实践性知识的相关研究的不断深入,外语教师实践性知识也开始引起研究者的关注。本文简要梳理了国内外关于外语教师实践性知识的相关研究,为今后的研究提供参考。     

关于高职院校教师下企业锻炼的几点思考

高职院校教师下企业锻炼有利于教师业务素质的提升和校企合作的开展。针对高职院校教师下企业锻炼实施过程中存在的问题,剖析了问题产生的原因并提出了解决问题的对策：学校、教师、企业三方共同努力,健全制度、积极配合,构建长效机制,推动高职院校教师下企业锻炼活动的深入开展。     

关于“教代会民主评议领导干部”问题的思考

教代会民主主评议领导干部,是新时期教职工行使民主权利,参与学校管理的重要举措,是认真贯彻党的全心全意依靠工人阶级根本方针,加强基层民主政治建设的重要体现。针对这项工作在全国高校中尚未全面铺开,试行中尚有不少疑虑和模糊认识的实际,从理论上阐述了民主评议工作的重要性、可行性和必要性,并就如何积极推进这项工作必须落实的几个环节提出自己的看法。