Assisting Performance in Teaching and Learning

Although Vygotskian principles involving the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) are hailed as tenets undergirding teaching and learning within a constructivist setting, these principals have not been implemented widely within school classrooms. Tharp and Gallimore, building on the notion that learning can be maximized when a teacher has a heightened awareness of a student's ZPD and stimulates new learning based upon this understanding, argue that true teaching is a matter of “assisting performance”. This study examines the efforts of one university instructor to assist the performance of her graduate students as they learned to teach, scaffold and support struggling readers. The findings suggest that the university instructor successfully assisted her students by providing supportive feedback, extending their learning and providing appropriate resources through ongoing Email correspondence and face‐to‐face meetings and tutoring sessions. Success was attributed to the instructor's extensive knowledge of supporting struggling readers, awareness of her students' ZPD's in relation to the context of their learning and her efforts to consistently provide appropriate and specific feedback through iterative dialogue.     

Scaffolded support systems: examining a multi‐tiered support plan protocol for struggling teacher candidates

Teacher candidates train in an educational world that has changed dramatically. The tensions and challenges that preservice teachers experience are a reality for teacher education programs and must be planned for. The authors from a teacher preparation program describe the steps they have taken to support more authentic and integrated work with teacher candidates who struggle in their performance during their licensure program. After implementing a program‐wide support plan protocol and professional action plan tool, we examined the issues that signaled the need for intervention, the types of supports provided, and the resulting program decision. We captured staff perspectives regarding the effectiveness of the support plan protocol and conclude with recommendations to support teacher candidates in acquiring the conceptual and technical knowledge, skills, and disposition needed to teach in today’s classrooms.     

县级社区学院的功能架构及其实现策略

县级社区学院应担当起三个层面上的八项功能：组织学习的基本功能（学历进修、培训学习）和指导引领的延伸功能（指导服务、科研实验）以及协助推动的代行功能（参谋策划、资源开发、项目管理、信息集散）,并以提升地位、授予权限、配强队伍、设置处室、制订规章、充足经费等策略,保障其有效实现。     

学习共同体中助学者视角下的远程教育调查研究

教师等助学者作为学习共同体的组成部分对学习者学习具有重要作用,也扮演着重要角色。对网络学习共同体中助学者的问卷调查发现,助学者对目前远程教育机构提供的学习资源、采用的学习方式和监控方式等情况总体评价良好,但学习者学习效果有待进一步改善。在了解学习者学习需求基础上,通过远程教育机构为学习者提供丰富的学习资源,并加强课程选择设计、政府建立各远程教育机构资源共建共享机制、企业加强对开放学习的激励等可以改进学习者学习效果,发挥远程教育在终身学习型社会建设中的作用。     

基层电大开展社区教育“三问”

经过多年发展积累,电大已具备了发展社区教育的优势条件,但在社区教育还没有全面铺开、政府还没有完全将电大作为发展社区教育重要依托的情况下,基层电大要想在社区教育中有所作为,必须要做到未雨绸缪,扎实做好相关工作。具体来说,基层电大应积极开展各种形式的调查活动,了解居民的社区教育需求;加强与政府部门的沟通,了解政府发展社区教育的政策与规划;要密切与省电大的联系,以得到来自电大系统开展社区教育的指引;注重自身教育资源的调整与建设,切实满足社区教育的需要。     

影响消费者参与在线交易评价因素的实证研究

消费者通过参与评价产品或服务来分享在线交易的体验,同时,消费者也通过网络交易评论了解产品或服务的信息。在线交易评价是消费者购买决策和商家做出营销决策的重要影响因素,实证研究表明,外向型的消费者、具有利他动机、网络社区的资讯性是影响顾客参与在线交易评价的主要因素。     

学习与合作:教师学习共同体的生成性意蕴

现代社会是学习型的社会,教师学习共同体的兴起正是应对这一趋势而产生的。本文意在通过探讨"教师学习共同体"内涵及基于合作的学习共同体的构建,使教师明了当下教育视域中学习共同体的最新理念,凭借共同体所产生的知识交流和智慧共享,促进教师高效学习,走上"互助学习"与"合作创新"相结合的专业成长之路。     

安庆市旅游业发展存在的优势、问题与对策

安庆旅游业发展存在资源优势、区位优势、社会和经济发展环境优势,但在开发过程中,存在资源开发深度不够、高端旅游产品匮乏和旅游形象定位矛盾突出问题。从强化安庆市旅游形象、开拓旅游市场、重视节点工程建设三个方面就可以发挥安庆市旅游业优势,解决旅游业发展中存在的问题,为安庆市旅游业的发展做出积极的贡献。     

论高职院校的公共学习社区功能

高职院校建设公共学习社区是正向处理高校四大职能后的位移,在U型理论指导下建设区域协同创新中心是高职院校的制度安排。制度设计过程中,要关注三大力量,适应发展的新环境;要着眼于培育四大特性,应对发展的新要求;要着力于建设三大共同体,协同社区幸福美好发展。     

论赵文化中的“和为贵”精神

“和为贵”思想是赵文化的精髓之一,体现着中国传统中的“和”文化精神。表现在爱国之情、多元文化和民族交流、君主治国之策等方面。赵文化中很多仁人志士为了国家利益而牺牲小我,保全大我,忠勇为国,突显了维护整体和全局利益的优秀品格,深刻展示了“和为贵”的思想;赵国境内各民族和谐共处,通过和亲和“胡服骑射”改革等表现了“和为贵”的思想;治国之道上采用“和为贵”的原则和方法,“以德治国”和“施以仁政”。