An ordinary moonlighting activity? Determinants of the provision of private tutoring by Czech schoolteachers

Teacher moonlighting (teachers working other jobs in addition to teaching) may have positive as well as negative implications. In the context of post-socialist countries, the provision of private tutoring is one of the common forms of teacher moonlighting. The aim of the paper is to analyse the prevalence and factors that are associated with a) having a paid job in addition to one’s regular teaching obligations; b) provision of private tutoring among teachers. Results are drawn from a representative sample of 494 Czech teachers of academic school subjects in lower secondary schools who responded to an online questionnaire survey. Male teachers working part-time, with shorter professional experience, higher household financial burden and lower satisfaction with teacher salaries were more likely to moonlight. The provision of private tutoring was only associated with shorter professional experience and the teaching of core subjects, suggesting that Czech teachers’ motivation to provide private tutoring is currently not primarily financial.     

Teachers’ self-efficacy and intercultural classroom practices in diverse classroom contexts: A cross-national comparison

This cross-national study provides new insights in teacher efficacy in today’s culturally diverse classrooms using survey data of 269 early childhood and primary school teachers in England, Italy, the Netherlands and Poland. Teacher efficacy can be viewed as a two dimensional concept in which both general beliefs are measured alongside (diversity-related) domain-specific beliefs. These beliefs are related to the cultural classroom context and the use of intercultural classroom practices. Our results indicate that policies and professional development targeted at the reciprocal relation between diversity-related efficacy and practices are important when preparing teachers for working in diverse classroom contexts.     

Individual and cultural factors in teachers’ attitudes towards inclusion: A meta-analysis

The success of inclusive education is dependent upon classroom teachers implementing adaptations for children with disabilities. Given that willingness to make such adaptations is influenced by teacher attitudes, the current study examined teachers’ attitudes towards inclusive education through a meta-analysis of 64 samples that were found via a systematic literature search. The results indicated that teachers hold a positive attitude towards inclusion of children with disabilities in mainstream schools and that these attitudes are moderated by an interplay of cultural and demographical factors. The findings offer a renewed basis for intervention research into improving educational opportunities for children around the world.     

Professional knowledge or motivation? Investigating the role of teachers’ expertise on the quality of technology-enhanced lesson plans

In an expertise study with 94 mathematics teachers varying in their relative teacher expertise (i.e., student teachers, trainee teachers, in-service teachers), we examined effects of teachers' professional knowledge and motivational beliefs on their ability to integrate technology within a lesson plan scenario. Therefore, we assessed teachers' professional knowledge (i.e., content knowledge, pedagogical content knowledge, technological knowledge), and their motivational beliefs (i.e., self-efficacy, utility-value). Furthermore, teachers were asked to develop a lesson plan for introducing the Pythagorean theorem to secondary students. Lesson plans by advanced teachers (i.e., trainee teachers, in-service teachers) comprised higher levels of instructional quality and technology exploitation than the ones of novice teachers (i.e., pre-service teachers). The effect of expertise was mediated by teachers' perceived utility-value of educational technology, but not by their professional knowledge. These findings suggest that teachers’ motivational beliefs play a crucial role for effectively applying technology in mathematics instruction.     

我国男子撑竿跳高运动现状及运动员专项能力模式训练的可行性研究

本文运用文献资料法、逻辑分析法 ,对我国男子撑竿跳高运动发展状况进行研究 ,并从体能训练的角度对运动员专项能力模式训练的可行性进行了论证。     

论学校经营中教育服务产品的性质

随着教育市场的逐步形成，学校经营已经成为可能，为此有必要对学校经营的产品进行重新诠释。提出学校经营的产品就是教育服务的理念，从教育服务的量与质上构建出教育服务产品的表现形态，并设计了教育服务产品的生产流程及其销售的运行模式，以期引起大家对教育的关注。     

基于学习共同体的《教育技术学导论》——课程设计初探

文章简要地分析了教育技术导论课程的特点及其在目前的教学中存在的问题,提出以学习共同体作为学习组织形式开展教学,既可以丰富课堂教学形式,也能通过师生及同伴之间的互动,促进学习者独立思考,逐步建构自己对教育技术的理解。     

在线辅导基本要素

该文是作者在英国进修期间对在线辅导所做的一些研究,它主要阐述了在线辅导的一些基本概念,分析了在线学习的学习支持以及教学策略,最后提出了具体的实施方法。希望以此向从事在线教学的教师提供一些有价值的参考。     

竞技体育的教育价值研究

竞技体育的价值体现着竞技体育的利社会性和利人性，其价值内涵包括两方面的内容：一是竞技体育在发展中应该凸显、确立人的地位和价值，促进人类的全面发展，以此采确定竞技体育的发展方向和目的，评价竞技体育的运行和发展；二是客观存在的制度、体制厦微观行为活动对人发展的影响，避免竞技体育的异化为其教育价值带采负面影响。     

论邓小平价值观--兼谈素质教育的价值分析

本文分析了邓小平理论和实践的价值特色以及邓小平的价值观体系的四个构成部分，并从中引发出对我国正在推行的素质教育价值的思考．对如何应用邓小平价值观指导中国的教育改革提出了自己的看法。