Learning from teaching: pre-service primary teachers’ perceived learning from engaging in formal Lesson Study

While there is abundant research reporting the impact of Lesson Study as a professional development framework for qualified teachers, its potential within initial teacher education remains relatively unexplored. We present a particular model of formal Lesson Study which has been experienced annually for a decade by Irish pre-service primary teachers. This study examines the perceived effects on learning of this Lesson Study model on a large sample of pre-service primary teachers (N?=?225) who worked in 45 different lesson study groups over a 10 year period (2008–2017). Data analysis reveals that participants’ perceptions of learning fell within two distinct themes namely ‘An awakening regarding teacher content knowledge’ and ‘Cornerstones of learner-centred practice’, each of which consisted of rich inter-connected sub-themes. As a result of engaging in Lesson Study, participants report an increased awareness of the importance of deep content knowledge in addition to adopting a learner-centred approach to their practice. Participants also believed that Lesson Study enhanced their professional knowledge and skills in the curricular area of focus (mathematics, in this case). While this study focuses on self-report data, these opinions are fundamental given research which proposes that interventions will fail if participants judge them to be ineffective.     

TELPS: A method for analysing mathematics pre-service teachers' Pedagogical Content Knowledge

A pre-service teacher's Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) and their personal constructs of teaching develop throughout their teacher education program. PCK integrates generic pedagogical knowledge, mathematical teaching methodology and knowledge of the discipline of mathematics and this paper reports on a survey that can be used to assess a pre-service teacher's PCK. TELPS (Teacher Education Lesson Plan Survey) was developed to determine the PCK of pre-service teachers during their teacher education program. TELPS is shown to analyse pre-service teachers' PCK with some indication that the pre-service teacher's development of PCK can be observed.     

Action research through lesson study for the reconstruction of teachers’ practical knowledge. A review of research at Málaga University (Spain)

ABSTRACT

This article aims to set out our discussions, reflections and research at Málaga University (Spain) in relation to Lesson Study (LS), as a cooperative action research process. The paper aims to summarise the main findings of ten years of research, addressing the concepts and dilemmas found both in forming teachers’ practical thinking and in the complex processes of reconstruction through LS. The results of our research provide evidence that it is a useful way to deal with the reconstruction of teachers’ practical knowledge in teacher training. Teachers’ practical knowledge should be more broadly seen as an active combination of theoretical knowledge, procedural knowledge and skills, attitudes, emotions, believes, and values: i.e. teachers’ practical thinking. Most of these personal and professional resources are unconscious, or rather sub-conscious. Changes in teachers’ practical thinking require more practical experience and reflexion: a dialectical process based around two key components: theorisation of practice and experimentation of reconstructed theory. The results of our research show that these dialectical process could be developed with LS as a particular way of developing AR, adding a complex, systematic, flexible and cooperative way of dealing with specific and contextual curricular innovation projects. We therefore conclude that LS could be a very useful path to follow in reconstructing teachers’ practical thinking from within, strengthening the professional teaching community.     

从优质课比赛看现阶段语文教学中必须理清的问题——对毕节市第四届小学语文优质课比赛的思考

中小学语文学科优质课比赛往往集中反映了中小学语文教学的现状,教师的教学理念和课程意识都在这里放大,优点和缺点都在这里展示,理清问题对语文课程性质、教师在学生学习活动中的作用、阅读教学的重点和现代信息技术运用的模糊和错误认识,有助于教师在教育教学实践中把握正确的教学方向,更好地实现语文课程的目标。     

试述运用现代信息技术制作电子教案的策略

随着新课程改革的推进和社会现代信息技术的加快发展,教案制作是教师课堂教学的重要组成部分。传统的教案方式已经跟不上现代教学的需要,把现代信息技术与新课程改革的理念相结合来制作电子教案是当前每位教师应具备的技能之一。     

“马克思主义基本原理概论”课与中学政治课衔接探析

当前,高校＂原理＂课在与中学思想政治课的教学衔接上普遍存在着教材内容重复,＂原理＂课教师对中学教材教学缺乏了解和教学中不注重衔接的问题。高校＂原理＂课教师要做好这种教学衔接,应研读中学教材和加强与中学教师的交流,明确高校＂原理＂课与中学思想政治课教学目标和基本要求的关联性和层次性,在教学中整合和优化教学内容,选择恰当的教学方式。     

适应新课程改革 改进中学图书馆工作

在新课程改革背景下，作为课程资源的中学图书馆不仅要改善馆藏结构，还要打破封闭与静止，更要从源头做起，扩大宣传，提高师生对图书馆的认知度。而延长开放时间，为师生利用图书馆提供时间上的保证，是提高图书馆利用率的一条重要途径。     

试析中学体育课结束部分的教学内容与方法

课的结束部分是课程结构的有机组成部分。针对当前中学体育课教学中存在的普遍问题,提出应重视体育课结束部分的教学,并对为何要重视课结束部分的教学及体育课结束部分的教学内容与方法做了分析。     

国际比较视野下的课例研究：背景、现状与启示

在反思“远离教学的变革运动”基础上,课例研究成为许多国家和地区推进教学变革的方法论。比较世界主要国家和地区的课例研究可以发现：就维持课例研究存续的动力机制而言,主要由体制性要求、项目推动和自愿开展三种。在操作模式上,虽然不同国家和地区的具体步骤不同,但都体现出群体性合作、过程性反思和持续性改进的共同特征。同时源于不同的研究传统,不同国家和地区的研究方法和研究范式各有侧重。在支持系统方面,不同国家存在结构性差异。吸收课例研究的国际经验,未来我国课例研究的发展可以朝如下方面努力：拓展课例研究的研究视角;改进课例研究的操作方法;迈向教学法科学的创造;把课例研究整合进职前教师教育体系。     

中国共产党“十年探索”的历史启示

1956-1966年是中国共产党独立地探索中国社会主义建设道路的十年.这十年,有许多值得我们借鉴的经验,也有许多值得我们铭记的教训.通过对“十年探索”实践的总结,我们可以找到一些建设中国特色社会主义的启示.