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.     

Syllable-based reading improvement: Effects on word reading and reading comprehension in Grade 2

This study examined the effects of a syllable-based reading intervention for German second graders who demonstrated difficulties in the recognition of written words. The intervention focused on fostering word reading via syllable segmentation. The materials consisted of the 500 most frequent syllables typically read by 6- to 8-year-old children. The aims were to practice phonological recoding, consolidate orthographic representations of syllables, and routinize the access to these representations. Compared to children randomly assigned to a wait-list group, poor readers in the treatment condition showed significant improvements in standardized measures of phonological recoding, direct word recognition, and text-based reading comprehension after the 24-session intervention. Poor readers in the treatment condition also showed greater improvements in development of word recognition compared to children with efficient word recognition skills. The results provide evidence that a syllable-based reading intervention is a promising approach to increase struggling readers’ word recognition skills, which in turn will improve their reading comprehension.     

小学体育兴趣化游戏教学的多维性探索

随着新一轮教改工作在我国全国范围内的深入开展,体育已经成为各地小学素质教育工作中的重点内容。就目前来看,为进一步提高小学体育教学效率,兴趣化游戏教学已经逐步被引入实际教学工作中,该教学模式可以冲破传统教条主义教学思维的拘束,进一步提高学生对学习的兴趣,使被动学习转变为主动学习,从而更好地实现当今时代小学体育教学工作目标。     

白板在小学体育室内教学中的应用

伴随信息技术的快速发展,运用白板开展教学活动的现象日益普及。在很多学科教学中,教师都开始应用白板,以取代传统的运用黑板开展教学的方式。通过运用该种方式,课堂教学时生生互动和师生互动的比例明显增多,课堂教学更加生动高效。在小学低段体育教学中,受诸多因素的影响,室内教学占有一定的比重,教师通过运用白板,有助于丰富课堂教学内容,提升教学趣味性和实效性。     

学校体育的文化视野--课程设计的人学理念

学校体育课程的价值在于建构体育文化, 从文化视野下重新审视体育课程理念,可以使我们正确认识体育课程特征、目标,使体育课程更符合学生身心和谐发展的需要,体现以人为本,凸现时代精神,深化学校体育课程改革.     

武陵贫困山区中小学体育教师队伍现状分析与对策

采用调查法、访问法，探索武陵山区各级中小学体育教师配备、待遇，流失和未来发展的策略。     

2002-2003年度中国男子篮球甲级联赛"三人制"裁判员临场情况的调查分析

通过设计调查表对2002-2003年度中国男子篮球甲级联赛中三人制裁判员的临场情 况进行了统计分析。结果表明,裁判员在合理分配体能、判罚尺度与角度、三人协同配合、心理调 节等方面还存在着不尽合理的地方。建议,裁判员应加强三人制裁判法和规则的钻研学习,加强 体能锻炼,加强临场心理素质的培养,不断积累比赛临场经验,以促进和维护CBA的健康发展。     

《西厢记》与《红楼梦》爱情主题的异同

作为我国古代以爱情为主题的文学作品,《西厢记》与《红楼梦》都歌颂了男女间纯真专一的爱情,批判了门第观念。但由于作品产生的背景及时代不同,所表现的程度又不尽相同,《红楼梦》较之《西厢记》,其爱情主题更深刻,更有意义。