Scaffolded support systems: examining a multi‐tiered support plan protocol for struggling teacher candidates     

Donna Sobel  Cindy Gutierrez 《Teaching Education》2013,24(4):409-426

Teacher candidates train in an educational world that has changed dramatically. The tensions and challenges that preservice teachers experience are a reality for teacher education programs and must be planned for. The authors from a teacher preparation program describe the steps they have taken to support more authentic and integrated work with teacher candidates who struggle in their performance during their licensure program. After implementing a program‐wide support plan protocol and professional action plan tool, we examined the issues that signaled the need for intervention, the types of supports provided, and the resulting program decision. We captured staff perspectives regarding the effectiveness of the support plan protocol and conclude with recommendations to support teacher candidates in acquiring the conceptual and technical knowledge, skills, and disposition needed to teach in today’s classrooms.  相似文献   

Experience and Interaction in Teaching Escalation     

Helana Scheepers  Urban Nuldén 《Interactive Learning Environments》2013,21(1):1-22

This paper explores the use and integration of experiential learning into the problem-based learning (PBL) approach enhanced by interactive multimedia in the teaching of project management. A specific emphasis is placed on failing situations and the way in which this should be taught to students. Experiential learning places the emphasis on active participation, interactive and applied learning in a real situation. PBL places the emphasis on a real-world problem that is presented as the starting-point for the learning experience. The combined effect these concepts have on the learning experience is outlined in a framework called PIE. The conclusions drawn in the paper are the following: the combination of PBL, interactive multimedia and experiential learning will support and enhance teaching about escalation situations.  相似文献   

Strategies for mentoring pedagogical knowledge     

Peter Hudson 《Teachers and Teaching》2013,19(4):363-381

Fundamental for mentoring a preservice teacher is the mentor’s articulation of pedagogical knowledge, which in this research draws upon specific practices, viz.: planning, timetabling lessons, preparation, teaching strategies, content knowledge, problem solving, questioning, classroom management, implementation, assessment and viewpoints for teaching. Mentoring is haphazard; consequently, mentors need a pedagogical knowledge framework and a repertoire of pedagogical knowledge strategies to guide a preservice teacher’s development. Yet, what are strategies for mentoring pedagogical knowledge practices? This qualitative research investigates mentoring strategies assigned to pedagogical knowledge from 27 experienced mentor teachers. Findings showed that there were multiple strategies that can be linked to specific pedagogical knowledge practices. For example, mentoring strategies associated with planning for teaching can include co-planning, verbally reflecting on planning with the mentee and showing examples of the mentor teacher’s planning (e.g. teacher’s plans, school plans, district and state plans). This article provides a bank of practical strategies for mentoring pedagogical knowledge practices to assist a preservice teacher’s development.  相似文献   

What do we know and where do we go? Formative assessment in developing student teachers’ professional learning of teaching science     

Pernilla Nilsson 《Teachers and Teaching》2013,19(2):188-201

In the context of teacher education, it could well be suggested that assessment activities that build on formative interactions between student teachers and teacher educators might offer new windows into better understanding teaching and learning. This paper presents findings from a study into a primary science teacher education initiative that seeks to build the foundations on which 24 primary science student teachers, through the use of formative assessment of their science teaching and learning, can begin developing their pedagogical content knowledge (PCK). In the project, formative assessment consists of activities used by teacher educators to stimulate interactions, self- and peer-assessment in order to provide insights into how student teachers develop their PCK during a semester. Content Representations (CoRes), were used as a tool to unpack the student teachers’ approach to teaching a science topic and the reasons for that approach. The results indicate that the use of CoRes, together with subsequent self-assessment and formative interactions with teacher educators and peers, do have the potential for PCK development for student teachers. The results further highlight the need for developing reliable and valid tools for capturing and assessing student teachers’ PCK in pre-service teacher education.  相似文献   

Professional learning during a schools–university partnership Master of Education course: teachers’ perspectives of their learning experiences     

Ruth Kershner  David Pedder  Christine Doddington 《Teachers and Teaching》2013,19(1):33-49

An extensive body of research has indicated the benefits of collaborative, contextualised and enquiry-based learning for teachers’ professional development and school improvement. Yet professional learning is also known to be constrained by a number of factors, including the organisational limitations of schools, conflicting cultural practices and wider political demands. Schools–university partnerships have been developed to overcome some of these difficulties by transcending particular school contexts and offering alternative theoretical and practical perspectives. The complex combination of motivations, backgrounds and working contexts in such partnership work calls for attention to the individual and collective learning experiences of those involved, including the ways in which school and university contexts are, or could be, effectively bridged. This paper focuses on understanding the learning experienced by a cohort of teachers and school leaders involved in a two-year schools–university partnership Master of Education (M.Ed.) course in England. A mixed group of 15 experienced primary and secondary teachers and school leaders reflected on their learning at five points of time during and shortly after completing their M.Ed. course. Qualitative analysis of the group’s interview responses and reflective writing led to the identification of six related aspects of personal and professional learning experience: being a learner; learning as part of professional practice; widening repertoire; changing as a learner; personal growth; and critically adaptive practice. The identification and visual representation of these aspects of experience emerging within the group offers useful insight into teachers’ perspectives on learning in school and university contexts and their experiences of progression over time. We conclude that more explicit and central attention to the professional and personal learning elements of schools–university partnerships can help to resolve some of the binary ‘theory–practice’ tensions that have been extensively discussed in relation to partnership programmes and teacher professional development. There is a need to acknowledge variation in teachers’ learning experiences within schools–university partnerships, bearing in mind the ongoing nature of this reflective process with each new group of school and university colleagues. Analysis of participants’ learning experiences in school and university contexts also draws attention to the wider structures, values and cultures that influence, and are influenced by, schools–university partnership work.  相似文献   

试论新课程改革中的教学案例及其研究价值   总被引：17，自引：0，他引：17  

商利民 《教师教育研究》2004,16(6):56-60

教学案例研究,是一种新兴起的研究策略,为解决教育理论与实践两者研究相脱节的关系搭起了一座桥梁;给教师解决教学与科研共进的两难问题提供了途径;同时,教学案例研究成为促使教师角色转变和专业发展的重要因素之一。教育教学案例研究关系到对教学案例的特点、写作及分析等方面的理解,进一步明晰它在新课程改革中的重要价值,能使教育理论研究者转变研究思维方式,与要实现角色转变的一线教师共同成长,使教育真正走上"教学与科研一体化"的道路。  相似文献   

Probing the amalgam: the relationship between science teachers’ content,pedagogical and pedagogical content knowledge     

Knut Neumann  Vanessa Kind  Ute Harms 《International Journal of Science Education》2019,41(7):847-861

ABSTRACT

This Special Issue aims to present evidence about the relationships between content knowledge (CK), pedagogical knowledge (PK) and pedagogical content knowledge (PCK); the development of these types of knowledge in novice and experienced secondary science teachers; and how CK, PK and/or PCK impact students’ learning. Since Shulman’s introduction of PCK as the feature that distinguishes the teacher from the content expert, researchers have attempted to understand, delineate, assess and/or develop the construct in pre- and in-service teachers. Accordingly, empirical findings are presented that permit further discussion. Outcomes permit post-hoc examination of a recent, collectively described, ‘consensus’ model of PCK, identifying strengths and potential issues. As we will illustrate, the relationship between CK, PK and PCK is central to this; that is, probing the hypothesis of pedagogical content knowledge as an ‘amalgam’ of content and pedagogical knowledge.  相似文献   

当代中国儿童精神成长的教育学思考     

卜玉华 《美中教育评论》2008,5(2):50-54

在当代,中国儿童精神生活状况出现了“乡根意识”的淡化、人际关系的狭隘化与冷漠化、情感主义自我认同的迷失,以及自立心态的不足等令人担忧的状况。城市化浪潮对儿童成长空间的挤压,多元、变动不居的社会生活方式产生的冲突性影响,家庭教养和学校教育中的双重偏失等都是主要影响因素。为此,从教育学角度而言,要注意引导儿童成为满足自身成长需要的自主建构者和受纳者,并在个性与共性的动态统一中促进儿童的精神成长。  相似文献   

教学机智的生成与教师职后教育的教学改进     

冯婉桢 《江苏教育研究》2008,(7):48-51

教学机智意味着教育者对学习者个体境遇的深切关注和敏感体验,代表着一种驱动教师全身心地投入教学、指向学习者的情感和力量。由教学机智的生成出发审视当前我国高师院校中教师职后教育中的教学状况,我们发现其中缺乏教学机智,并间接地导致了普通教育中教师教学机智的缺乏。作为优秀教学的表征。教师教育者自身的教学不仅应该充满教学机智,还应该帮助教师形成教学机智。  相似文献   

中国教育学“学科危机论”述评     

张静 《江苏教育研究》2008,(7):16-19

中国教育学正面临着学科危机是学术界的一致认识。本文梳理了教育学“学科危机论”的三类代表性观点,提出应该在以下几个方面理性认识教育学学科危机：加强教育学的反思,促使教育学走上良性发展之路;走出唯科学主义的认识迷途;多学科加入,确立教育学立场。  相似文献