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《Teaching and Teacher Education》1994,10(3):303-317
Nowadays, a considerable amount of time, money, and energy is invested in inservice education or training (INSET). Yet, our knowledge of design features and implementation conditions in schools that make INSET effective, is still limited. To examine the outcomes of inservice activities the impact ratings of a sample of teachers and principals who participated in individual-based and school-focused INSET were regressed on school characteristics, features of inservice programs, implementation characteristics, and types of inservice activity. Findings from this study suggest that some school characteristics, features of inservice programs, and implementation characteristics contribute to the impact of inservice training. Variables like external support, hours spent on INSET activities, degree of participation,. teacher educators' competence, implementation conditions, and the use of principal's steering functions are subject to alteration to increase inservice training effectiveness. 相似文献
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Christa van Kraayenoord 《International Journal of Disability, Development & Education》2003,50(4):363-365
Policies of inclusive education are emerging from many ministries and departments of education in countries around the world. McLesky and Waldron (2002) have argued that when teachers and administrators in schools begin to have discussions about inclusion the discussions often lead to two conclusions about how schools must change: (a) the change must address the needs of all students, not just those with disabilities, and (b) “school improvement” replaces references to inclusion. That is, teachers and administrators begin to rethink and restructure their programs in special and general education to improve the education of all students. In having to reform their practices general education teachers, in particular, must develop new understandings related to inclusion and reconceptualise how students with disabilities and learning difficulties might best be taught. As a consequence these teachers are recognising that they must change their practices in curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment. However, in order to make the changes and to develop new classroom practices general education teachers often reveal a need for inservice training. Thus there is a call from general education teachers for professional development in various areas. Several authors have described a range of initiatives in professional development in the context of school improvement. For example, there are alliances between teachers and researchers through teacher-researcher professional development groups (e.g., Vaughn, Hughes, Schumm, & Klinger, 1998) and collaborative communities (e.g., Englert & Zhao, 2001); professional development schools (PDS) where special educators are viewed as “catalysts” who further the knowledge of both inservice and preservice teachers (Voltz, 2001); “critical friend(s) groups” which are teacher support groups (Bambino, 2002); “Friday Forums” where teachers within a school use internal school expertise to inservice each other (Hudson, 2002); and professional learning communities or networks of various types, sometimes developed by professional organisations and itinerant specialists who are assigned to school districts to work on school reform with schools and teachers. 相似文献
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《师资教育杂志》2012,38(3):203-242
Recent national reports stress the importance of inservice education in helping schools face a period of great change. This small study examines the relationship between inservice education and educational change in a large and successful comprehensive secondary school Teachers outlined their involvement in inservice education and other professional activities and assessed the usefulness of each in the maintenance and development of the school's curriculum and pastoral care. They rated inservice education courses less useful than other professional contacts and sources of information School‐focused policies must provide facilities which give direct support to schools facing educational change in a form teachers recognize as relevant, taking account of these other professional activities. 相似文献
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新的《聋校义务教育课程设置实验方案》中把“沟通与交往”列为国家规定的必修课,但在对招收聋学生的50所特殊教育学校进行“沟通与交往”课程实施情况的调查中发现：58．3％的特殊学校还未开设该课程;已经开设了“沟通与交往”课程的特殊学校里,存在着课程开设的盲目性和随意性、教师缺乏专业培训等方面的问题。迫切需要教育管理部门尽快出台课程指导文件,规范课程内容和实施方式;特殊教育学校也需要认真执行课程计划,完善课程管理制度,加强教师培训,提高课程实施的有效性。 相似文献
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An evaluation was conducted of teachers’ attitudinal perceptions of their confidence for implementation, stages of innovation adoption, and satisfaction, as a result of participating in the International Society for Technology in Education's National Educational Technology Standards-Teachers (ISTE NETS*T) Certificate of Proficiency Capstone Program. The Self-Efficacy and Stages of Concern instruments provide insight into the attitudinal progression of program participants. Data were collected at pre, mid, post, and follow-up points. Results showed that the capstone program is effective; participants were clearly more confident that they could implement the technology-based/enhanced teaching/learning strategies in their schools; had far fewer concerns about their level of preparedness; were anxious to work with others in their schools; and believed their school/classroom climate was conducive to and supportive of technology integration. Additionally, participants’ principals and/or supervisors were asked to provide data on their perception of the influence the capstone courses had on their teachers. 相似文献
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A. Y. Fred Ramirez 《The Urban Review》2003,35(2):93-110
Parental involvement in schools has become more popular over the past decade due to Goals 2000 and research suggesting that student academic success increases when parents are included in the education of their children. Although researchers have examined the issue of parents and schools, limited research on parental involvement has been conducted within immigrant communities. Latino immigrant parents within a predominantly Latino community in California were interviewed. Although the community has strong Latino roots, these immigrant parents believed the schools do not listen or care to listen to their needs as parents. The parents in this study desired to be a part of their children's education, but forces within their children's school prevented them from doing so. The parents wished that teachers would be available to speak about grades, be able to find interpreters during open house and at other times throughout the school day, and communicate with the parents when their child is in need of assistance. Due to the apparent walls that had been established within the school's structure, the parents in this study felt abandoned and helpless while trying to gain information regarding their children's education. Parents in this study were so passionate about their stories that they pleaded with the researcher to let their story be heard in the researchers' teacher education courses so future teachers would know how immigrant parents felt. 相似文献
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Middle grades science teachers need professional support in practice as they implement new inquiry-based science. Professional
development schools can provide this bottom-up support through connecting preservice and inservice teacher education programs
in classroom practice. In this study, coteaching arrangements with secondary science education majors provided additional
teachers in the classroom to support a materials-rich curriculum and the needed associated pedagogies. Science education majors
provided needed assistance in troubleshooting difficulties with the new curriculum. They also provided needed content knowledge
to support inquiry, along with creating moments and space for teachers to reflect on inquiry practice. Ongoing assistance
by preservice teachers allowed inservice teachers to progress from logistical concerns in implementing kit curriculum to concerns
regarding student learning and the supporting professional development.
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Libby Jared 《Technology, Pedagogy and Education》2013,22(3):307-318
ABSTRACT The purpose of the research reported in this paper was to investigate strategies to aid teachers in delivering the mathematical component of the English National Curriculum with the help of electronic databases and spreadsheets. It is widely realised within mathematics that information technology remains a relatively neglected part of the curriculum in some schools. The provision of short courses in using spreadsheets and databases as part of a traditional inservice package is often considered to be unsuccessful as a means of enabling teachers to deliver the material back in the classroom. It could be argued that for progress to be made, an expert must spend time working in situ in the school with the teacher(s). Clearly an expert cannot provide such support for every department that requires assistance, so there is a need to develop generally applicable strategies as a springboard for their own means. This paper reports on a case study designed to start the process of developing such strategies. 相似文献
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Suzanne Mukherjee Jane Lightfoot Patricia Sloper 《Educational research; a review for teachers and all concerned with progress in education》2013,55(1):59-72
This paper reports on a study which investigated the support needs of pupils in mainstream school with a chronic illness or physical disability. The research was carried out in three local education authorities covering both rural and urban areas. In-depth, qualitative data were collected from 33 pupils in secondary school; 58 parents of primary and secondary school pupils; and 34 primary and secondary school teachers. Overall, the data from young people suggest variability in the support offered to pupils by teachers, even by teachers within the same school, and highlights the importance of teachers' awareness and understanding of special health needs. A number of areas where young people need support from teachers were identified, including: dealing with school absence; taking part in school activities; peer relationships; explaining the condition to other pupils; and having someone to talk to about health-related worries. Data from teachers and parents indicate that school staff need assistance with obtaining health-related information; ensuring health-related information is passed between and within schools; providing emotional support; the provision of medical care; and coordinating support for this group of pupils. The implications of the findings for teachers, schools and educational policy are discussed. 相似文献
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Ulla Lindgren 《Educational studies》2005,31(3):251-263
Even though teacher education has been successful in preparing students for their future profession, the classroom reality can differ greatly from the inservice training. Many novice teachers therefore find the transition from student teacher to inservice teacher overwhelming To support beginning teachers, mentoring programs—where more experienced teachers support novice teachers—have become commonplace in many schools worldwide. In Sweden, mentoring for beginning teachers has been a frequent feature of support since 2001. This study, conducted in Sweden, examines seven novice teachers and the impact the mentoring process had upon them during their first‐year teaching. Based on interviews, it was found that these experienced both professional and personal support from their mentors. The study also showed the significance of observant leaders within the mentorship program following up on the development of the mentor–mentee relationship. 相似文献
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We believe that professional mathematicians who teach undergraduate mathematics courses to prospective teachers play an important role in the education of secondary school mathematics teachers. Thus, we explored the views of research mathematicians on the mathematics that should be taught to prospective mathematics teachers, on how the courses they teach can serve teachers in their work with school students, and on the changes they would implement if their courses were designed specifically for prospective teachers. We constructed profiles of the four mathematicians based on their responses to a clinical interview. We employed the construct of mathematics teacher-educators’ triad in the reflective analysis of our findings and extended the construct based on the results of this study. In conclusion, we commented on potential ways to draw stronger connections between university mathematics and the mathematics taught in schools. 相似文献
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Andrew Skourdoumbis 《Asia Pacific Journal of Education》2016,36(4):505-517
This paper draws on facets of Foucault's theoretical resources to critique current education policy reform from within the Australian State of Victoria, namely the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development's (DEECD) discussion paper New directions for school leadership and the teaching profession. Implicit in the reform effort is decentralization, including penalties for “underperforming” classroom teachers and “ineffective” teacher education courses. Principals will hold a pre-eminent rank in the reforms proposed as they are charged with their oversight and implementation, including intervening in the education and preparation of pre-service teachers. 相似文献
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Frances P. Lawrenz 《科学教学研究杂志》1984,21(5):497-506
This investigation compares the effectiveness of two types of inservice training offered through the Arizona Portal School Program. Both methods were designed to provide teachers with positive attitudes toward activity-centered energy education. The methods differed in length and energy-related content with one course running for 5 sessions and the other for 15 sessions. The longer course placed more emphasis on content knowledge. Three types of attitudes were assessed: attitudes toward curricular change, opinions on energy concepts, and beliefs about science education. Although the longer course had a more positive effect on the participants' views of and willingness to participate in curricular change and the shorter course had a more positive effect on the participants' views of teaching activity-oriented science, both courses produced the same type of change in the participants' views of energy issues. 相似文献
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杨广军 《安徽教育学院学报》2006,24(5):125-128
基础教育改革中自然科学课程的设立呼唤高素质的科学教师,高师培养中学理科分科教师的一贯模式必须要打破,自然科学专业的设立或理、化、生分科院系互选课程是高师培养科学教师的两条可行路径。 相似文献
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Ville Nivalainen Mervi A. Asikainen Kari Sormunen Pekka E. Hirvonen 《Journal of Science Teacher Education》2010,21(4):393-409
Practical work in school science plays many essential roles that have been discussed in the literature. However, less attention
has been paid to how teachers learn the different roles of practical work and to the kind of challenges they face in their
learning during laboratory courses designed for teachers. In the present study we applied the principles of grounded theory
to frame a set of factors that seem to set major challenges concerning both successful work in the school physics laboratory
and also in the preparation of lessons that exploit practical work. The subject groups of the study were preservice and inservice
physics teachers who participated in a school laboratory course. Our results derived from a detailed analysis of tutoring
discussions between the instructor and the participants in the course, which revealed that the challenges in practical or
laboratory work consisted of the limitations of the laboratory facilities, an insufficient knowledge of physics, problems
in understanding instructional approaches, and the general organization of practical work. Based on these findings, we present
our recommendations on the preparation of preservice and inservice teachers for the more effective use of practical work in
school science and in school physics. 相似文献
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Louis Foley 《The Educational forum》2013,77(1):53-58
Producing high-quality teachers should be a shared goal and a shared endeavor -between those who prepare teachers in universities and those who support teachers’ learning in schools. Yet, teacher education has been portrayed more as a dichotomy than a continuum of lifelong learning, beginning with the preservice teacher and continuing throughout an inservice teacher's career. When schools and universities work together, especially in professional development school -contexts, this goal can be actualized. 相似文献
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李智英 《黑龙江教育学院学报》2014,(10):75-77
小学教育专业的设置是培养小学教师的决定性因素,也是提高教师队伍质量的基础。基于此,通过分析多元化设置选修课的必要性,以及当前小学教育专业选修课设置存在的问题,提出构建多元化小学教育专业选修课程的建议,以期为相关工作的开展提供参考。 相似文献
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Clara Perez-Adamson 《Cambridge Journal of Education》2016,46(1):19-35
Twenty students from different educational backgrounds within the UK were interviewed to investigate how well they considered their secondary school education had prepared them for the educational and social demands of an ‘elite’ university and life within its most traditional colleges. The study asked them how they perceived students from different educational backgrounds and how they thought they were perceived. Entering a traditional Cambridge college was found to be easiest for students from prestigious ‘public schools’ within the private educational sector. State school students were more likely to experience anxiety, and those who adapted successfully were likely to have strong independent learning skills and a robust sense of self-efficacy. The study suggests that students coming from state schools to Cambridge are making a more difficult academic and social transition than students from private schools, for which they are given no special support. 相似文献
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A. W. Scott 《Research in Science Education》1989,19(1):249-256
Conclusion It has been demonstrated that a range of factors contribute to the low status attributed by teachers to science education
in many elementary school settings. The solution to this crisis is being sought by several education systems in Australia
and the effective inservice/professional development models adopted invariably consider teachers as interested adult learners
as they partake in extended courses. Furthermore, the models include content on the ways children learn in science, and aid
in the development of teaching activities and units appropriate to the curriculum under which the participants operate. 相似文献