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.     

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.     

论构建和谐社会的制度基础

“和谐社会”必须具有一种促使“社会和谐”运行的制度基础，这个制度基础一旦形成。就能够自发地搜寻、发现影响社会和谐的因素，并发挥调节、矫治的作用，使社会运行在良性的状态下进行。构建我国“和谐社会”的制度基础是：坚持社会主义的理想信念、建立和完善社会主义市场经济体制、始终将解放和发展生产力放在首要位置。     

关于立法反映先进生产力发展要求的基本构想

立法是为了更好地保障生产力的发展,所以在新时期我国立法的过程中,应从我国生产力发展的多层次出发,完善维护生产关系变革成果,加强促进科技进步,并采取宏观调控功能,规范市场经济中的市场主体行为。     

浅谈传媒固定资产管理中的产能查定--电视传媒科学管理的基础附件

电视传媒事业需要有效组织,科学管理.因而有必要供应现代管理中成功经验,对电视传媒节目生产过程进行生产能力查定.     

中国科技论文产出力和影响力发展的波动分析

本文以 1989— 1998年SCI收录中国科技论文量和引文量为评价依据 ,建立了科技论文产出力和影响力的发展波动分布模型 ,以发展波动强度系数为评价因子 ,给出 10年来中国科学发展趋势的评价分析     

我院中青年教师队伍的现状分析与发展对策

在对我院的中青年师资队伍现状分析的基础上，提出中青年教师队伍建设的建议：（1）提高中青年教师的思想政治素养和职业道德修养；（2）以学院整体发展目标为出发点，提高中青年教师的综合素质和专业水平；（3）建立和完善激励机制，为中青年教师的成长创造良好条件；（4）建立合理的分配机制，重视和加强中青年学科带头人的培养；（5）加强中青年教师科研能力的培养。