Affordances of teacher professional learning in secondary schools

It is commonly understood that teachers in secondary school should develop throughout their career in order to stay as an essential factor in student learning. Schools can offer opportunities to link teachers’ professional learning to their school practice with a positive impact on teachers’ motivation to learn and the effectiveness of their learning. In this field study, teachers, school leaders, policy-makers, educational consultants and educational scholars were asked for their perceptions of conditions for teacher learning in school and of interventions in school to enhance teacher professional learning. These conditions and interventions were understood as affordances in schools that enable and support teacher professional learning. The main affordance in school these stakeholders mentioned was an open, but critical way in which teachers share their practices, collaborate and reflect upon their teaching practice. Collaborative practices seem to stimulate many interventions of teacher professional learning in school. Two implications of this finding are discussed. First, we suggest that the maximum teaching time should be reduced, team teaching should be more implemented or classes should be scheduled in such a way that teachers can meet. Second, distributed leadership approaches match with our findings about the role of school leaders in teacher professional learning.     

Discovering social inequality: Dutch educational research in the post-war era

Between the 1940s and 1960s across Western Europe a spirit of reform along comprehensive lines manifested itself in secondary education, aiming at a reduction of the existing social inequality of educational chances. These reforms are said to be rooted in new policies and in new approaches in educational studies. This article explores the relationship between educational reform and educational science in a country, the Netherlands, which did not “go comprehensive”. Though, by the late 1950s, social inequality of educational chances, the waste of working-class talent, and the impossibility of a fair selection at the age of 12 had been discovered by Dutch educationists, equal chances were not mentioned as a target in the new Secondary Education Act (1963). Its focus was directed at the development of individual talent, regardless of class, and selection continued to be applied at a very early age. This policy was even approved of by the social democrats, who elsewhere acted as protagonists of comprehensive schooling. They held on to the deeply rooted idea of two different, class-bound kinds of pupils with different educational needs, the “intellectuals” and the “manuals”, a message that had been spread for a long time by educational researchers themselves.     

论近百年中小学教科书中的黄帝形象

近百年中小学教科书中,黄帝的形象在不断变化.不同时期、不同种类教科书对黄帝形象的描述有明显的差异,甚至相互矛盾.但是,众多形象背后隐含着一些共通的叙事模式——政治统一、民族团结和文化溯源,这些叙事模式最终都指向国家认同.因此,教科书中的黄帝,不仅是传说时代的一个英雄人物,更是国家、民族和文化的一个符号或象征.黄帝形象的不断解构和重构,折射出近百年来一代代教科书编写者不断重塑共同历史记忆的探索历程.     

注重迁移 关注生成——浅谈迁移教学法与初中科学课堂教学

结合中学科学教学实践,尝试使用迁移教学法将中学科学教学中的理论与实际相结合,科学知识与生活、生产相结合,以此促进发展学生的动手、动脑能力,培养学生的探究意识和创新精神,促进学生个}生特长的发展,提高学生的科学素养,达到促进学生全面发展的目标。     

城市供热管网系统的设计开发

以已有的AutoCAD软件为平台，对室外供热管网系统进行设计．其主要的工作是针对供热管网室外架设设计的功能模块的开发和进行AutoCAD绘图软件的二次开发．     

中等职业学校学生流失状况浅析

目前,我国职业学校流失问题严重,文章从学生自身、学校建设等方面分析了学生流失的原因,以及用马斯洛的需求层次理论提出如何降低流失率的几点建议。     

Teachers’ Learning Journeys: The Quality Learning Circle as a Model of Professional Development

Worldwide, teachers struggle to keep pace with demands for learning. Educational reforms mandated at a national level require teachers to reconsider their teaching, curriculum and assessment philosophies and practices. This reliance on national policy initiatives increases teachers’ dependence on others knowing what their learning needs might be. Such dependence creates problems for sustained learning because teachers are not encouraged to help themselves. This article introduces an alternative approach to professional development, known as the Quality Learning Circle (QLC), to show how it can empower teachers to become agents of change able to meet both local needs alongside national agendas.     

普通高校高水平篮球运动员就业 观念及行为的调查与分析

通过文献资料、问卷调查等方法,对164名普通高校高水平篮球运动员的就业观念及行为进行调查与分析。结果显示,他们的就业态度乐观积极,但缺乏对职业生涯的规划;就业标准偏向工作稳定和收入水平。     

中职学生挫折教育的反思

挫折教育是素质教育的重要组成部分,对中职学生自身成长及职业生涯都将产生重要影响。由于认识上的偏差,目前部分中职学生挫折教育现状不容乐观。笔者通过问卷调查．发现中职学生在诸如学习、行为规范、人际交往等方面或多或少存在一定障碍。笔者认为应该在中职校开展有针对性的挫折教育,以利于学生更好地成长。     

让兴趣引领中职学生学习数学

近年来,由于生源的原因,中职数学课堂教学效果不容乐观。兴趣是最好的老师,为了激发中职学生学习数学的兴趣,提高中职数学课堂教学效果,本文主要结合自身教学实践,就如何激发中职学生学习数学的兴趣谈谈自己的体会。