‘RE teachers do get drunk you know’: becoming a religious education teacher in the twenty-first century

In terms of the attention that they have attracted from researchers, and in comparison with teachers of other subjects, religious education specialists would seem to be a neglected and marginalized group. This paper looks at some of the reasons why this might be and also describes a study that is using a life history approach to explore what it is like to be a religious education teacher at the turn of the millennium.     

中小学科学探究学习平台的设计

从科学探究的基本理念出发,通过对国内外相关研究项目的调研,以及对科学探究支持软件的案例分析,总结它们的优缺点,构建了一个集科学探究学习活动管理与探究数据处理于一体的科学探究平台模型,并指出了该模型的应用前景。     

Profiling the Beliefs of the Forgotten Teachers: An Analysis of Intern Teachers’ Frameworks for Urban Science Teaching

The need to equip science teachers with knowledge, skills, and habits of mind to face the challenges of teaching science through inquiry informed this study, which analyzed the secondary science intern teachers’ beliefs about inquiry before, during, and following a series of 2 consecutive science methods courses in an attempt to document the effect of such experiences on their ability and willingness to infuse science inquiry in their science curricula. Nine science credentialing interns participated in the study. Data was gathered from their written reflections and various assignments throughout the methods courses. Results suggested that their beliefs changed significantly after the science methods courses. The implications of the study to secondary science teacher educators and researchers were highlighted.     

探究式教学法在不同层次食品类专业教学中的应用--以食品微生物实验课程为例

探究式教学法以探索、研究的方式开展课堂教学,是一种真正“以学生为主体”的教学模式.探究式教学法应用于本科教育和职业教育中,因学情不同,其具体实施策略也必然不同.以食品微生物实验课程的实施为例,对探究式教学法分别在河南大学、河南大学民生学院和商丘职业技术学院的食品类专业课程教学改革中的实施经验加以总结,以期能够为后续的教育教学研究提供一定的理论支持.     

探究式教学的模型建构探讨

本文在探析科学探究过程及其构成要素,综合探究式教学实践的基础上,从模型建构的角度出发阐述了探究式教学的实质.     

Supporting young children's explanations through inquiry science in preschool

This study examines the ways in which preschool teachers support the development of children's explanatory language through science inquiry. Two classrooms in a preschool center using a science inquiry curriculum were videotaped during a 5-week unit on color mixing. Videotapes were analyzed for how teachers facilitated children's explanatory language. An assessment of explanatory language was administered to 47 children in the center before and after the color mixing unit. Analysis of discourse revealed that teachers engaged children as conversational partners and as scientific investigators responsible for their own learning. Explanations were dynamically co-constructed by adults and children within the context of participation in scientific inquiry. By the end of the unit, children produced more on-topic responses, more standard color-mixing terms, and more causal connectives in their responses to the assessment of explanatory language.     

初中物理教学中学生探究能力的培养探索

探究能力是科学素养的重要组成部分。尤其是在以创新为主导的社会背景下,学校教育更要重视发展学生的探究能力,使学生在探究当中获得科学知识,掌握必要的学习方法,提高创造性思维。因此,在初中物理教学过程中,教师要改变传统的灌输式教学手段,加强对学生个性的培养,挖掘出学生的科学探究潜能,使学生在物理知识的构建中形成良好的物理探究能力。     

谈初中数学教学模式的探究性能力培养

数学是一门对于基础要求比较严格的学科。建立数学基础并不是一蹴而就的事情,不仅需要优秀的数学教师进行教学,还要求学生自身具备一定的学习数学的能力。如果将学习数学的过程比作爬山,那么初中数学则正处于半山腰的爬坡阶段。因此,数学教师必须在夯实学生数学基础的同时提高学生的数学能力。     

高中物理教学如何培养学生的探究能力

高中物理教学要注重实验教学和课堂教学相结合,提高学生的探究能力。科学合理的实验教学有利于学生在丰富的物理知识海洋中感知物理知识的魅力,也能够对学生的动手能力和科学的思维能力产生积极的影响,能够激励学生独立思考问题、积极主动地探究问题,在探究问题的过程中,逐渐形成独立思考的能力、自主探究的能力。     

Ask Questions to Encourage Questions Asked

Abstract

We delineate some types of structured practice (modeling, requests, feedback, and space-making) that help students learn to pose appropriate questions and to initiate exploration of those questions. Developing skills requires practice, so we suggest ways to embed structured practice into existing class sessions. Including structured practice is nuanced, instructor-specific, and depends on context. Therefore, we give examples of implementation in an inquiry-based learning (IBL)-influenced calculus class, in a partially IBL mathematics for liberal arts class, and in a completely IBL class for gifted high school students.