Innovation in postgraduate teaching: mixed methods to enhance learning and learning about learning

Growing pressure to restructure and reform tertiary education is encouraging university academics to use innovative practices that assist students to develop ‘employable’ skills. The hybrid approach described in this paper stimulated students to be self‐directed adult learners who maximized their learning of content and skills by means of problem‐based learning and action research strategies. The lecturer also operated as a reflective practitioner and role model by using an action research approach. This paper demonstrates the value of student empowerment, communication and leadership in autonomous learning groups. It outlines methods by which academic teaching staff can build continuous improvement into a university unit’s curriculum design and processes. These can be powerful additions to lecturers’ teaching strategies and to students’ learning experiences.     

课堂教学视野下的反思性数学学习

数学课程标准对学生的反思性数学学习给予了很高的关注,但当前数学课堂教学中学生反思性学习的现实状况却不容乐观。这主要表现为：教师的课堂权威挤占了学生进行自我反思的空间;学生在数学学习中的自我反思能力水平普遍偏低。通过分析课堂教学视野下反思性数学学习的具体内涵,可以发现数学课堂教学中学生进行反思性学习的重要意义主要在于发展学生的数学思维能力、促成个体化的数学学习方式和促进学生自主性的发展。     

中学英语教师教学反思能力发展特征的实验研究

教师专业能力发展的实践一反思模式（practical-reflective model）是促进教师专业化的重要途径,反思能力是维持这一过程的核心因素。采用实验的方法,以教师发展共同体（TDC）为实验因子,研究了新疆15所中学的42位英语教师教学反思能力的发展规律和影响因素。研究发现：（1）基于网络环境的、互动的教师发展共同体（TDC）对被试教学反思能力的发展有显著的促进作用;（2）教师发展共同体中的知识模块和活动类型与被试教学反思能力的发展有一定的关系。不同知识模块和活动类型与被试教学反思能力的发展有不同程度的关系。     

Privileged learning

Students often attain memorable experiences from cadaver dissections through reflective writing. For many, facing a dissection for the first time elicits a wide range of emotions. These may include thoughts of their own mortality to the sheer admiration of knowing that someone cared enough to help others learn about the body, even in death. Poems or stories from medical students are often moving and heartfelt, and warrant being shared. Anat Sci Ed 2:47–48, 2009. © 2009 American Association of Anatomists.     

Widening the Circle: Faculty-Student Support Groups as Innovative Practice in Higher Education

Faculty-student support groups have the potential to promote strategies for co-mentorship in places of learning. They can also function to facilitate alternative forms of pedagogical practice in the context of lifelong learning. The purpose of this paper is to describe ideas and practices in the innovative development of faculty-student support groups in higher education. The authors provide a context for introducing the model of a co-mentoring support group, for considering institutional dynamics in forming co-mentoring support groups, for illustrating a case study analysis of a university-based support group, for providing a collegial response to the mentoring literature, for considering the need to formalize mentoring programs and outcomes, for exploring challenges to and benefits of the support group effort, and finally for envisioning co-mentoring support groups more generally. The authors argue that more attention needs to be given to studying alternative pedagogical practices that enable mutualistic relationships to endure. This article accordingly offers an original holistic guide for viewing mentoring as interconnected cycles and phases of lifelong learning.     

在教师教育中应用元认知理论进行反思性教学

Swanson研究认为学生元认知能力的高低与学习成绩直接相关。反思性教学正成为我国教师教育研究的一个热点问题。本文在教师教育实践中探讨元认知理论与反思性教学的关系 ,认为教师对教学的自觉的反思过程就是一种内隐的元认知过程。教师自身的反思可采用自我反问、记录工作日志、集体会诊、对比验证等方法     

试论反思型教师的内涵、特征及培养模式

反思型教师能自觉关注教育的目的、教育行为的社会和个人后果、教育伦理背景以及教育方法和课程原理等更宽泛的教育问题,自觉运用获取的相关信息,从多重角度分析、评估教学行为,并改变其教学行为与环境,追求教学最优化.反思型教师具有自主性、实践性、批判性和创造性等特征.随着教师专业化的推进,迫切要求教师从技术型向反思型转变,这是一种崭新的教师发展观;反思型教师是在教育教学实践中不断自我完善成长起来的,他们必须具备自觉反思的动力和反思的能力;激发教师的反思动力和培养教师的反思能力是培养反思型教师的较好的模式之一.     

教师专业发展学校与反思型教师的培育

教师专业发展学校是一种全新的教师教育模式,在教师教育中具有多方面的价值。教师专业发展学校深受当代反思型教师教育思潮的影响,关注教师的反思性实践以及反思型教师的培育。江苏省泰州中学建立教师专业发展学校并据此培育反思型教师的尝试主要包括：进一步明确教师专业发展的相关要求,落实教师专业发展的过程管理,提高教师教研活动的整体效能,丰富教师教学反思的过程与策略。     

儿童社会行为与其学校适应的关系

通过对北京市 4 6 9名中小学生的两年跟踪调查测试发现 ,儿童社会性 -合作性行为不仅与良好的学校适应有关而且对后来的学校适应也有很好的预测作用 ;攻击性 -破坏性行为更多与不良学校适应相联系 ;而害羞 -敏感性行为并不必然与不良的学校适应相关 ,研究也发现它有时与朋友提名有正相关。研究的结论与西方学者研究结论不尽相同     

Returning to the mirror: reflections on promoting constructivism in three educational contexts

Since the early 1980s educators have argued that reflection is an essential dimension of good pedagogical practice. This discussion of my attempt to support a constructivist approach to learning for three different groups of learners illustrates one effort to engage in such reflection. I analyze several assignments I have designed for differently positioned learners, all within the context of a liberal arts college in northeastern USA. Referring to the assignments I have developed in each context, I analyze the particular kinds of structures, challenges and supports I try to provide to learners, with the goal of surfacing the convictions I hold about learners' identities and capabilities. My intention is to identify underlying pedagogical principles that inform my practice across contexts, not only to make it clearer for myself and others what guides that practice but also, in an effort to acknowledge the evolving and interdependent nature of this work, to articulate the new challenges this analysis poses for me.