Noise Levels in Hong Kong Primary Schools: Implications for classroom listening

Many researchers have stressed that the acoustic environment is crucial to the speech perception, academic performance, attention, and participation of students in classrooms. Classrooms in highly urbanised locations are especially vulnerable to noise, a major influence on the acoustic environment. The purpose of this investigation was to determine noise levels in one such urban environment, Hong Kong. The ambient noise level, and its relationship to the speech intensity levels of both teachers and students was surveyed in 47 primary school classrooms. Moreover, the presence of acoustical treatments for noise reduction and the use of classroom amplification systems were documented for each classroom. The survey found that the mean occupied noise level was 60.74 dB (A); the mean unamplified and amplified speech‐to‐noise ratios of teachers were 13.53 dB and 18.45 dB, respectively; while the mean unamplified speech‐to‐noise ratio for students was 4.13 dB. Most of the classrooms exhibited insufficient acoustical treatments to provide significant noise reduction. The listening environment in many Hong Kong primary schools was not favourable for optimal classroom learning. Recommendations for improving the acoustical environment in classrooms in highly urbanised locations such as Hong Kong are discussed.     

新升格本科院校旅游管理专业教学实习改革研究

旅游管理专业要提高学生的实践能力,就必须加强学生的教学实习。本文在分析新升格本科院校旅游管理专业教学实习现状的基础上,对其教学实习的目标、要求、原则等问题进行了科学的定位,认为新升格本科院校旅游管理专业应该从加强学生思想和心理素质教育、调整教学计划、优化课程体系、更新教学内容及加强师资队伍建设等方面来实施教学实习改革。     

Choosing schools,choosing selves: exploring the influence of parental identity and biography on the school choice process in Delhi,India

Drawing on qualitative interview data from a group of lower income parents in Delhi, India, this paper focuses on the dynamic relationship between parental choice of a particular school and parents’ own identity construction. The data indicate that choice of school is for some parents a symbolic expression of identity, influenced by family dynamics and parents’ educational biographies. The paper outlines the concept of ‘forging solidarities’ and proposes it as an alternative way of understanding school enrolment decisions that recognises the social significance of such choices for the wider family unit. More generally, as school choice mechanisms in various forms become an increasingly important part of the educational landscape in many countries, the findings draw attention to the sociocultural nature of choice in real-world market settings and the contribution of schooling choices to processes of social and educational segregation.     

"学会生存"和"学会关心":教师专业发展的两种互补状态

从“学会生存”到“学会关心”是终身教育理念的进一步深化，也是社会发展在教育领域的反映。还是教师专业化发展的内在要求。“学会生存”更多的是从教师自我教育、自我提高的角度出发：而“学会关心”则从更深层次对教师教育发展提出的要求。但是，事实上，“学会生存”和“学会关心”已是推动教师教育发展的两种互补状态。     

以德治国与学校德育

“以德治国”重要思想的提出有其特定的背景和深刻的内涵 ,意义重大而深远 ;“以德治国”方略的实施 ,关键是提高广大社会成员的思想道德素质 ,尤其是青少年学生的思想道德素质。加强和改进学校德育 ,以道德教育作为新的切入点和着力点 ,为推进“以德治国”方略的顺利的实施 ,发挥独特的作用。     

The relative impact of school‐wide positive behavior support on teachers’ perceptions of student behavior across schools,teachers, and students

School‐wide positive behavior support (SWPBS) is a systemic approach for implementing a proactive schoolwide discipline and for improving students’ academic and behavioral outcomes by targeting the school’s organizational and social culture. With a multilevel approach, the present study evaluates the relative effectiveness of SWPBS on teachers’ perceptions of the student behavior (N = 3,295) across schools, teachers, and children using a multilevel approach. We assessed teacher perception of student problem behavior five times during a 3‐year implementation of SWPBS in 23 Dutch schools. Multilevel analyses not only revealed a small increase in perceived prosocial behavior and a small decrease in problems with peers, but also different effects across children, teachers, and schools. Effects were stronger for girls and for students with higher severity of perceived problems at baseline. At teachers’ level, higher mean baseline severity of perceived problems was associated with the reduced impact of SWPBS on perceived emotional problems and problems with peers. At the school level, effects were stronger for regular schools as compared with special needs schools.     

中小学教材选用机制之我见

在中小学教材管理机制中,教材选用与教材审查同等重要。回顾我国中小学教材选用制度的历史,比较国外教材选用的机制,立足我国实际,提出建立专门的教材选用机构,确立基于评价的教材选用制度,规范教材选用程序和步骤,保障获取有关选用教材信息的途径丰富而畅通,建立中小学教材选用监督机制,以促进教材选用机制沿着健康的轨道发展。     

基于跨专业融合理念名师工作室教育资源共建共享研究

基于专业方向的名师工作室学习共同体是教师专业化发展途径之一。信息技术能为各专业方向的名师工作室提供及时共建、共享资源平台,突破工作室专业领域的局限,提供跨专业融合的跨界学习,更大效能地发挥名师工作室这种优质资源的辐射、引领作用,促进教师快速成长。     

影响高中生物教师教学水平的几个主要因素

影响高中生物教师教学水平的因素有很多,但就我省高中生物教学的实际情况而言,主要是教师的教学观念、教师的专业知识水平、教师的科学研究能力三个方面。如何在这三个方面不断丰富和完善自我的问题应该成为广大高中生物教师共同关注的课题。     

论中国近代民办普通中小学的办学特色及启示

办学特色和高质量的教学是民办学校的生命力之所在.办出一批具有高质量、高层次和鲜明特色的民办学校是我国当前深化教育改革的必然趋势.中国近代民办学校在长期的办学实践中,形成了鲜明的办学特色:办学宗旨--救国利民;教育教学--质量为重;学校管理--高效精干.这些办学特色,对提高我们对民办学校的认识、正确估价其社会价值、促进当前我国民办中小学的健康发展具有重要的借鉴价值.