‘Happy when they arrive,happy when they go home’ – focusing on promoting children’s mental health creates a sense of trust at preschools     

Katarina Haraldsson  Pernilla Isaksson  Monica Eriksson 《Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development》2017,37(4):386-399

A need for research on young children’s mental health has been identified. Moreover, there is a need to enhance teachers’ skills regarding health promotion work in preschool. The aim of the study is to examine the impact of a specific course on mental health promotion among Swedish preschool teachers. Data were gathered through interviews and documentation. A qualitative content analysis was used. Three categories: ‘attention’, ‘belonging’ and ‘personal growth’ – and six subcategories emerged from the analysis. The latent content of these categories is described in the theme: ‘Increased awareness, in thoughts and actions, of promoting mental health may create a sense of trust at preschools’. The results show that a specific course to promote mental health enhanced the teachers’ awareness of mental health which improved their work with children. This contributed to the development of a sense of trust at preschools, which is important to children’s mental health.  相似文献   

Negotiating the teaching of history in times of curriculum reform: the narrative accounts of four Australian primary teachers     

Paul Reitano  Satine Winter 《Curriculum Journal》2017,28(3):403-420

This research investigates the understandings of four teachers who teach history in primary and early childhood settings. Data were gathered from participants through semi-structured interviews. The participants were experienced teachers who were in the process of curriculum change – from teachers of studies of society and environment to teachers of history, under the auspices of the Australian Curriculum: History. The focus of the study was on their understandings of content knowledge and the pedagogies involved in classroom teaching, using a pedagogical framework, which sought to identify and categorise the nature of their knowledge base in the implementation phase of the Australian Curriculum: History. The study used narrative inquiry to show how temporality, sociality, and place play out in the lives of these teachers of history. The findings from this study indicate the challenges and opportunities for teachers’ professional knowledge landscapes in times of curriculum reform. Whilst there are a small number of participants in this study, their stories provide insight into how teachers responded to the challenges and opportunities of teaching history and how these teachers have shaped the implementation of the history curriculum.  相似文献   

The role of the English learner facilitator in developing teacher capacity for the instruction of English learners     

Felice Atesoglu Russell 《Teachers and Teaching》2017,23(3):312-331

As a field, we have a limited understanding and a dearth of empirical research concerning the role of high school instructional coaches focused on English learners (ELs). This paper examines one EL facilitator’s work as an instructional coach and resource for supporting mainstream content teachers as they learn to meet the needs of adolescent ELs in one high school. This analysis is grounded within an examination of the influence of school structure and organization on the EL facilitator’s work and her role as a resource. Drawing on sociocultural learning theory, as well as literature on teacher leadership and instructional coaching, case study data from a year-long qualitative research project are analyzed. Implications for research, policy, and practice are discussed.  相似文献   

Identifying pathways of teachers’ PCK development     

Dirk S. Wongsopawiro  Rosanne C. Zwart  Jan H. van Driel 《Teachers and Teaching》2017,23(2):191-210

This paper describes a method of analysing teacher growth in the context of science education. It focuses on the identification of pathways in the development of secondary school teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) by the use of the interconnected model of teachers’ professional growth (IMTPG).The teachers (n = 12) participated in a one-year action research project focused on their individual concerns related to teaching science. The use of the IMTPG revealed that teachers use different pathways of learning to develop different aspects of their PCK. For each PCK component, three distinct pathways could be identified, two of which clearly were associated with professional growth. When examining these two pathways in detail, it was found that (1) teachers learned about new instructional strategies and assessment methods mostly through literature reviews and discussions with peers and (2) teachers who analyzed and reflected on student learning as it happened in their classrooms developed understandings that helped them to select and apply instructional strategies to further promote student learning. Both the analytical method as well as the identification of the different developmental pathways help to better understand teacher development in the context of classroom practices.  相似文献   

The Impact of a Professional Development Program on Teachers' Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching,Instruction, and Student Achievement     

Robin Jacob  Heather Hill  Doug Corey 《Journal of research on educational effectiveness》2017,10(2):379-407

In this paper, we describe findings from a three-year evaluation of a well-developed mathematics professional development program that is commercially available on a wide scale. The professional development is designed to improve teachers' mathematical knowledge for teaching and to enable them to elicit more student thinking and reasoning during mathematics lessons. Specifically, it focused on helping teachers (a) learn more mathematics, (b) understand how children learn math, (c) use formative assessment to develop insight into what specific students know and do not know, and (d) develop effective classroom instructional strategies that enable student problem solving. Participants included 105 fourth- and fifth-grade teachers teaching in 19 low-income schools within a single district. Teachers were randomly assigned within schools either to a “business as usual” control group or to receive the professional development. The training consisted of a week-long summer institute and four to six in-service days during the school year. The training was run by full-time trained associates. We find some limited evidence of positive impacts on teachers' mathematical knowledge for teaching, but no effects on instructional practice or student outcomes.  相似文献   

高师基础物理教学改革初探   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

陆翠娟 《黔南民族师范学院学报》2005,25(6):57-59

从师范生在教学实践中存在的主要问题入手，结合当前的教改，对高师基础物理课程的教学改革提出建议。  相似文献   

自来水中Cl^-的微型比色测定     

毕秀成  杨胜春 《郧阳师范高等专科学校学报》2008,28(3):46-48

利用自制微型比色装置,通过目视比色法测定自来水中Cl^-的含量．实验表明这种测定的准确性和精密性均基本能满足要求,且测定快捷,成本低廉,预处理简单．为化学教学和应用提供了新的方法和参考依据．  相似文献   

大学物理实验教学改革几点探索   总被引：6，自引：0，他引：6  

李晓明 《临沂师范学院学报》2005,27(3):77-78

针对现在大学物理实验教学之中存在的一些弊端和不足之处,结合实际教学并参照其他高校的实验教学,提出了大学物理实验教学改革的具体措施.  相似文献   

Four Student Teachers' Pedagogical Reasoning on Functions     

Victoria Sánchez  Salvador Llinares 《Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education》2003,6(1):5-25

This study attempts to identify theinfluence of student teachers' subject matterknowledge for teaching on the process ofpedagogical reasoning. This influence isstudied through the way in which the concept offunction is presented to pupils in teachingthrough the textbook problems. Our findingsshow that the four student teachers in ourstudy differed in their subject-matterknowledge for teaching both in the differentaspects of concepts they emphasised and in theuse of a representation repertoire to structurelearning activities. All of this conditionedthe use of graphical and algebraic modes intheir planning of subject matter to bepresented to pupils. We explored also theinfluence of images of mathematics,teaching and learning on student teachers'organisation of the subject matter forteaching, but found this only slight. Finally,regarding the relationship between subjectmatter knowledge and pedagogical contentknowledge in student-teachers' ways of knowingthe subject matter, we offer some implicationsof these findings for mathematics teachereducation programmes.  相似文献   

锡伯族民间故事初探     

吕怡 《沈阳教育学院学报》2004,6(2):18-19

锡伯族民间故事是我国少数民族文学中一个重要的组成部分。从中可以看到古代锡伯人的社会生活、信仰习俗和文学想象力以及民族心理特质。锡伯族民间故事同其他兄弟民族民间故事，有着许多联系和相似。在语言运用上，因为使用锡伯语，所以保留着独特的风貌。  相似文献