Relating early childhood teachers’ working conditions and well-being to their turnover intentions

High turnover rates of early care and education teachers reduce the quality of education; unsatisfied teachers, suffering from stress or emotional exhaustion, are less equipped to promote children’s development and more likely to leave the classroom. We used data from a national survey of US early childhood educators (n?=?1129) to examine associations between teachers’ working conditions, well-being, and motivation with professional commitment and turnover intentions to move, leave, or remain. Multiple regression analyses revealed that more intrinsically motivated teachers were more likely to report intentions to move over leave, emotionally exhausted teachers were more likely to report intentions to leave, and lower teacher-reported working conditions predicted intentions to move or leave the field over staying. The results suggest that teachers’ well-being and perceived working conditions relate with their intentions to remain at their job or within the field and to their commitment to the profession.     

Teachers’ professional selves and motivation for continuous professional learning amid education reforms

Promoting in-service teachers’ continuous professional learning is indispensable to educational reforms that demand knowledge acquisition and practice innovation. Addressing this issue, this mixed-method study examined the relationship between teachers’ professional selves and continuous professional learning. Two hundred and nighty-one practicing teachers completed a questionnaire that assessed their current and future professional selves, learning motives, strategy use, self-efficacy, control beliefs, learning interests and intentions. Cluster analyses found that strongly-committed teachers who held strong professional selves had the most engaged patterns of learning followed by teachers who had moderate and weak levels of professional selves. Study two was a follow-up interview study with eight selected teachers who held contrasting professional selves. Strongly-committed teachers discussed their hoped-for selves while weakly-committed teachers expressed concerns about heavy workload and the selves that they feared. These two groups of interviewees differed in the strategies they employed to complete course assignments.     

现代物流业呼唤人才培养

现代物流业将成为我国新世纪经济发展的重要产业和新的经济增长点。目前 ,企业对物流技术的需求 ,对物流人才 ,特别是对物流第一线管理人才的需要越来越迫切。紧贴市场、紧贴经济发展的高职教育要不失时机 ,抓住机遇 ,转变观念 ,制定专业计划 ,加大对物流人才的培训培养     

Developing a virtual engineering management community

The paper reviews the lessons of planning and running an Engineering Management practitioner development programme in a partnership between BP and the University of Manchester. This distance-learning programme is for professional engineers in mid-career experienced in the engineering and support activities for delivering safe, compliant and reliable projects and operations worldwide. The programme concentrates on the why and how of leadership and judgement in managing the engineering of large and small projects and operational support. Two intensive residential weeks are combined with a virtual learning environment over one year. Assessed assignments between and after the residential weeks provide opportunities for individual reflective learning for each delegate through applying concepts and the lessons of case studies to their experience, current challenges and expected responsibilities. This successful partnership between a major global company and a university rich in research and teaching required a significant dedication of intellectual and leadership effort by all concerned. The rewards for both parties and most importantly for the engineers themselves are extensive.     

浅议加强高职院校档案管理

加强档案管理对提升高职学院整体办学管理水平，为教育教学和学院的建设发展服务具有十分重要的意义。高职院校的档案管理存在一些不容忽视的问题，应从加强领导、提高人员素质，稳定队伍、实行现代化以及健全制度等方面进一步加强高职院校档案管理。     

中小学教师职业道德失范行为透析及控制对策

经过调查研究，概括了中小学教师职业道德在热爱学生、尊重家长、依法执教、廉洁从教等方面失范行为的突出表现，讨论了中小学教师职业道德失范行为的主观原因和社会原因，提出了控制中小学教师职业道德失范的对策。     

论高职院校的职业资格证书制度建设

高等职业教育与普通高等教育的专业建设有着很大的区别,高职教育的专业不是普通高等教育意义上的“学科专业,”而主要是“技术专业;”因此,高职院校推行职业资格证书制度也就显得尤为重要。就高职院校的职业资格证书制度建设的意义、发展现状及发展方向,结合国外职业资格制度发展经验,我国高职院校的职业资格证书制度建设势在必行。     

The Effect Teaching Experience Has on Perceived Effectiveness of Interactive Television as a Distance Education Model for Elementary School Science Teacher’s Professional Development: Another Digital Divide?

The first year of a 5 year professional development project for elementary teachers in two mid-western states integrated a bridge of two distinctly different distance education networks (T-1 and fiber optics) to provide science professional development for elementary school teachers in rural communities. Interactive television (ITV), the title given to the distance component, consisted of a series of twenty-four, 2 h presentations by scientists and content specialists. It provided expansion to the science pedagogical content knowledge of the elementary teachers involved. Eighty-five teachers in 38 school districts from the two states completed individual surveys following the final ITV session. Analysis of variance of participants post-session survey scores yielded differences (p < 0.05) on the subscales measuring perceived effectiveness of using distance education for professional development purposes and years of teaching experience. Teachers with over 20 years of classroom experience perceived the use of distance education technologies for science professional development to be more effective than teachers with 16–20 years of classroom experience. These results might suggest another digital divide.     

Science and Mathematics Mentees and Mentors: Who Benefits the Most?

The purpose of our study was to determine the extent to which differences in a mentor model for science and mathematics teachers accounted for variances in mentoring effectiveness and persistence rates of teachers. School district designee, mentor, and teacher perceptions of mentoring support were collected through the use of interviews and surveys and analyzed using the grounded theory approach and open coding. Findings revealed that teachers and mentors recommended that future mentor models provide strong support and more face-to-face meetings. The most common change mentors made was that they incorporated new strategies into their teaching. Findings offer insight for structuring mentor models to increase effectiveness and persistence of teachers and build the capacity of mentors.     

农林院校园林专业“色彩”课程教学改革方法与模式探索

“色彩”课程是园林专业教学中一门重要的专业基础课程。本文对课程教学中的内容设置、教学方法、教材选用、学生生源的现状进行了分析;从调整完善教学大纲、创新教学模式、细化考核方式、完善临本资料库建设等几个方面对教学模式的改革提出具体的改进措施,从而探讨新的教学途径。