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.     

运动与铁代谢

长期、剧烈的运动训练可以导致铁代谢的紊乱,从而引发机体缺铁的发生,也是导致运动性贫血发生的重要原因。运动导致缺铁引起铁代谢失调可能与运动导致铁吸收下降、摄入不足、铁丢失增加、不良的饮食习惯、溶血以及机体应激有关。反映机体铁代谢状况的指标有了一定的研究,血清铁、血清铁蛋白浓度、转铁蛋白浓度以及其它指标的变化在一定程度上可以反映机体铁代谢状况,并在运动实践中用于监测运动员铁状况以及铁制剂服用效果的观察。在运动实践中铁制剂的补充对防治铁缺乏具有一定的效果,但针对性不强,缺乏指标与应用效果的更好的结合。     

浅谈气步枪比赛中的节奏

通过对上海市天山中学部分运动员参加上海市第十二届运动会气枪比赛前后经过的回顾和分析,认为气步枪比赛中存在的一个节奏现象是影响运动员技术水平和心理状态的重要因素,也就是最终影响成绩的重要因素.     

扁藻细胞电镜观察的制样技术

以海洋单细胞微藻亚心型扁藻为材料 ,对海水水样中活体单细胞微藻的亚显微结构观察样品的制备技术进行了探索。选用 2 .5 %的戊二醛固定液和 1 %的锇酸固定液对样品进行双固定的技术 ;先酒精后丙酮按浓度梯度顺次进行脱水 ;再用Epon81 2环氧树脂作为包埋剂进行包埋 ;最后经过醋酸铀 -枸橼酸铅双染色后将切片用透射电镜进行亚显微结构的形态观察。采用本方法进行水样中活体样品的电镜制片 ,拍得清晰度较高的电镜照片 ,并通过照片对水样中运动细胞透射电镜样品制备技术进行了分析。     

速滑课超前准备教学程序在篮球课中的应用

为了在有限的时间内提高速滑课教学质量,使学生更快、更好地学会速度滑冰,提高学生身体素质,培养学生终身体育意识,在篮球课中运用超前观念,将速滑课超前准备教学程序改革实验研究结果的内容与方法应用在篮球课教学中进行教学,收到良好的教学效果。     

体育教学中师生交往的研究

本文从体育教师本身、体育教学模式和体育考核模式中分析了当前体育教学中师生交往中所存在的问题 ;从体育教师观念转变、体育教学模式的改变和改革体育考核方法几个方面提出相应的对策。     

Reconceptualising educational assessment in South Africa — testing times for teachers

This paper explores some of the problems arising when Continuous Assessment (CA) is grafted onto established pedagogic practices. It focuses on three issues: teachers' restricted understandings of assessment, teachers' emphasis on criteria that demonstrate concern with social control, and some of the problems connected with peer assessment. Two vignettes derived from fieldwork associated with a project to improve the quality of primary education are used to raise the issues. We argue that the development of desired practices is hampered above all by tacit values in tension with those underpinning the new curriculum. These values, together with the complexity of curriculum design, create serious problems of manageability and interpretation, which can only be addressed through detailed interactive in-service training, aimed at reconceptualising teachers' notions of assessment.     

乒乓球运动员发球前心理定向的研究

乒乓球比赛首先是由发球开始的 ,发球是唯一不受来球制约的 ,其主动性显而易见。运动员发球前的心理定向 ,直接决定着发球质量的优劣 ,影响着技、战术水平的发挥 ,从而影响运动员比赛的成绩