Early childhood practicum students' professional growth in the USA: areas of confidence and concern

This research examines specific areas of confidence and concern as expressed by 40 American undergraduate early childhood students on a practicum (supervised field-based internships); if their beliefs changed over the course of their practicum, and if prior teaching experience had an impact on their confidence levels. Areas of confidence and concern were determined through questionnaires, reflections and interviews at three points in time during the semester. Findings indicate that students were more confident when arranging the physical environment and least confident in managing children's behaviour. Significant changes in understanding and interaction with children, planning and implementing activities and overall confidence were observed over time periods. Experienced students initially showed and maintained higher confidence levels than inexperienced students who were much less confident at the start of the practicum, but improved significantly. Interestingly, by the end of the semester, this latter group was as confident as more experienced students. Here the factors that affected confidence, the factors that boosted student confidence at different time periods and differences in confidence among students based on prior experience are discussed.     

浅谈如何培养提高中职学生的自信心

中职学校学生是赢在起跑线上、输在转折点上的一个特殊教育群体,而中职学生只是一块未经雕琢的璞玉,只是没有好好地去培养、去教诲,因此缺点还很多。由于多种原因造成了他们对学习失去了信心,变得不自信。在日常教学管理中,让学生树立起乐观、向上的自信心,应当从学校、家庭、学生三个方面进行努力,形成一个“三位一体”的教育合力,才能取得实效。     

Studying new forms of participation and identity in mathematics classrooms with integrated communication and representational infrastructures

Wireless networks are fast becoming ubiquitous in all aspects of society and the world economy. We describe a method for studying the impacts of combining such technology with dynamic, representationally-rich mathematics software, particularly on participation, expression and projection of identity from a local to a public, shared workspace. We describe the types of mathematical activities that can utilize such unique combinations of technologies. We outline specific discourse analytic methods for measuring participation and methodologies for incorporating measures of identity and participation into impact studies.

The impact of tracking by attainment on pupil self-confidence over time: demonstrating the accumulative impact of self-fulfilling prophecy

Abstract

The impact of self-fulfilling prophecy in education, and of attainment grouping on pupil self-perception, remain topics of longstanding debate, with important consequences for social in/justice. Focusing on self-confidence, this article draws on survey responses from 9,059 12-13 year olds who were tracked by subject (‘setting’). They provided survey responses when placed in ‘ability’ sets at the start of their secondary schooling, and again late the following year; enabling analysis of impact over time. After controlling for prior attainment, the gap in general self-confidence between students in the top and bottom sets for mathematics is shown to widen over time, and high set students’ self-confidence in English had also grown significantly; although there was not further widening in the cases of self-confidence in mathematics or in general self-confidence between students in the top and bottom sets for English. Implications of these findings for interventions directed at addressing educational disadvantage are discussed.     

小议英语听力中的预测技巧

学生英语听力水平难以提高这一现状促使笔者提出了几点英语听力中的预测技巧,并提请学生们要善于总结并善于捕捉有着预测功用的标示语.     

Interaction of factors related to lactation duration

Perceived social support and interpersonal dependency were studied as potential factors associated with lactation duration based upon previous breastfeeding experience. Inexperienced breastfeeding mothers perceived more social support than experienced breastfeeding mothers did. Perceived social support was not significantly correlated with lactation duration. An ancillary finding was that women providing a combination of breast milk and human milk substitutes had significantly lower social self-confidence than did mothers providing breast milk exclusively.     

上好音乐课的“法宝”：让孩子自信

孩子对音乐有了自信，那么上音乐课也就更加有兴趣了。因此在音乐课上，笔者非常注重培养学生的自信心。     

大学生自信与A型人格的关系研究

为探讨大学生自信与A型人格的关系,采取了如下的方式进行研究:对376名大学生被试进行张伯源修订的A型人格测验量表。结果显示:自信是一个多维度多层次的心理系统,是个体对自己的积极肯定和确认程度,是对自身能力、价值等作出正向认知与评价的一种相对稳定的人格特征。自信的形成与发展既受个体自身内部因素的影响,也受个体外部环境因素的制约,是个体与环境交互作用的结果,是一个变化的动态过程,与其他人格特征及系统是密切联系、相互作用的。     

语篇衔接标记类别特征试析

语篇组织成分之间语义关系的建立需要衔接手段来实现。从语义关联方式来看,衔接手段可分为衔接类(指称衔接、结构衔接、词汇衔接)和连接类(显性连接和隐性连接)。从形式特征来看,指称衔接、结构衔接、以及显性连接更具标记性,由此形成的语义关联也较显明易辨。     

"天生我材必有用"--李白诗人气质分析

自信、天真、狂傲、仗义是李白性格的主要特征 ,而性格又表现为某种气质 ,李白的诗人气质主要体现于自信、天真、狂傲和仗义。李白的气质造就了他的诗仙地位 ,同时李白的气质也导致了他政治上的失败。作为诗人 ,李白登上了一个时代的高峰 ;参与政治 ,李白每每都付出了惨重的代价。