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.     

让学生生惑、解惑的数学教学设计

数学教学不仅要重结论,更要重过程。"惑"作为教学的出发点,不直接展示结论,而是通过恰当地设置问题情境,提出带有启发性和挑战性的问题——让学生生惑,为学生提供动手、动脑的机会,引导学生运用观察、分析、综合、归纳、抽象概括、类比、猜想等方法去研究、去探索、去解惑,充分地让学生学会"数学地思考"。     

多媒体教室群控管理系统的设计与实现

针对当前多媒体教室在使用和管理中存在的问题，阐述了利用群控技术使用和管理多媒体教室的设计理念和设计方案。     

图式理论与英语阅读教学中提问策略的运用

提问是英语阅读教学中的常用方法。怎样通过提问有效地提高英语阅读教学质量和学生的理解水平，是外语教学工作者一直在研究和探讨的课题。图式理论认为．恰当地运用提问策略．帮助学生激活已有图式，构建新图式，使学生大脑中的原有知识充分发挥作用，从而有效地与阅读文本中的文字信息联系起来．是英语阅读教学课成功的关键。     

CD-ROM talking books: what do they promise?

This study describes one teacher's use of multimedia, specifically CD-ROM talking books, in the classroom. The goal of the investigation was to reveal and analyse how a primary (Grade 3) teacher integrated CD-ROM books into her curriculum. Issues emerging from the study included how features of the software interact with features of classrooms, how patterns of instruction are affected by the infusion of technology, and how students interact with the software, and each other, while reading the CD- ROM books     

对现行高校生师比要求一致性的质疑

用合理的生师比来评价高校办学水平是否合格,既能保证一定的教学质量,又能提高教育资源的利用率及高校的办学效益。但用过于统一的生师比来要求所有的高校是不科学、不合理的,将会带来许多消极的影响。改变目前用过于统一的生师比评价所有高校的现状,用符合各校实际的生师比来评价各高校,对于高校的充分发展和我国高教事业的顺利进行都有积极作用。     

英语课堂教学提问中存在的问题及对策

提问是课堂教学中经常使用的方法,是调动学生积极主动获得知识的重要方法.但目前英语课堂提问中存在着提问无针对性、单项交流、评价不当等问题,本文针对这些问题提出了精心设计典型问题,把握提问时机,积极反馈等技巧.     

英语课堂教师提问方式对学生交际能力的影响

课堂提问是英语课堂教学中师生之间交流的主要途径之一，提问方式对课堂互动起着重要作用。利用建构主义和交际论的理论框架，探讨如何通过课堂提问，达到在课堂互动中提高学生交际能力的目的。     

幼儿园集体教学中教师提问的现状及其改进

本研究对观察记录的26个集体教学活动中来自教师的1453个提问进行分析,发现当前集体教学中,教师的提问多限于低水平的认知类问题,其主要目的是传授知识和技能;教师的提问通常不能面向全体幼儿,有20%左右的幼儿从来未被教师提问,教师更倾向对能力较强、性格活泼的幼儿提问;在提出问题后,教师虽有等候意识,但实际给予幼儿思考的时间都十分短暂,通常在1秒左右;幼儿的回答方式以个别作答、集体齐答、自由回答为主,而少有讨论后汇报的方式;当幼儿回答正确时,教师会表层化地追问,而当幼儿回答不正确、不完整或未回答时,教师多采用重述、简单否定、自己代答等方式;教师提问的有效性普遍不高,要么不能引导幼儿思维,要么不能抓住关键问题,要么与幼儿经验不符。为改变这种低效或无效的提问现状,教师需要根据教学内容、幼儿已有经验水平、幼儿发展的兴趣与需要精心设计提问,全面考虑问题的类型与难度、给予幼儿思考的时间、允许幼儿回答的方式以及教师自己的应答方式,使提问真正发挥促进幼儿思维与发展的作用,提高整个教学活动设计与实施的水平。     

Empowerment and relationships: A classroom model to enhance student motivation

This project focused on the goal of establishing a classroom model of motivation in which the source of student motivation is based on internal mechanisms or structures, along with the establishment of greater self-regulatory opportunities for students, and which results in greater student empowerment and motivation. One-hundred current elementary and secondary teachers and 100 university preservice teacher education students completed a 40-item Likert-type questionnaire that focused on four classroom dimensions of affirmation, rejection, student empowerment and teacher control. The results of this project suggested that, although veteran and preservice teachers agreed on the need for teacher control in the classroom, there was less agreement about their perceptions of the need to create a classroom environment of positive affirmation and student empowerment. Implications for future research and the need for creating an affirming, empowering, motivational classroom environment are discussed in light of the limitations for teachers and schools to encourage these constructs associated with recent federal legislative policies.