Faith schooling: implications for teacher educators. A perspective from Northern Ireland

The separate and parallel systems of schooling in Northern Ireland that largely reflect Protestant/Catholic divisions have been much criticised on the grounds that they have failed to promote social cohesion. These divisions are also evident in teacher education provision and attempts to offset the negative effects of this separation have made only a limited impact. By means of a brief survey of the relationship between two de facto religiously separated teacher education institutions, from the early twentieth century to the present day, this article considers the issues for teacher educators and argues that separateness at this level has been disadvantageous in relation to the challenges of preparing student teachers to work in a diverse, plural society.     

小学教师心理资本与主观幸福感的关系：职业压力的中介作用

抽取北京市8所小学495名小学教师为被试,采用问卷调查的方法收集数据,对小学教师心理资本现状进行描述,并使用结构方程模型探讨小学教师心理资本与主观幸福感之间的关系,以及职业压力在二者关系间的中介作用。结果表明,小学教师心理资本水平普遍较高,男性教师的效能维度得分显著高于女性教师,低教龄教师的韧性维度得分显著低于高教龄教师;小学教师的心理资本与主观幸福感间存在显著正相关关系,心理资本与职业压力、职业压力与主观幸福感之间存在显著负相关关系;职业压力在心理资本与主观幸福感之间起部分中介作用。     

初中生感知教师自主支持对学业倦怠的影响：基本心理需要、自主动机的中介作用

以自我决定理论为基础,使用修订的学习氛围量表、基本心理需要量表、学业调节问卷和学业倦怠问卷对613名初中生进行施测,探讨了初中生感知的教师自主支持、基本心理需要、自我决定动机和学业倦怠之间的关系。研究发现：（1）学生感知的教师自主支持与基本心理需要满足、自主动机呈显著正相关,基本心理需要满足、自主动机与学业倦怠水平呈显著负相关;（2）基本心理需要、自主动机可以单独作为中介变量在学生感知教师自主支持与学业倦怠之间起中介作用,基本心理需要-自主动机也可以形成中介链在学生感知教师自主支持与学业倦怠之间起中介作用。     

自我概念、自立人格与师范生教师职业成熟度的关系

采用师范生教师职业成熟度问卷、田纳西自我概念量表和青少年学生自立人格量表对986名师范生进行调查,考察自我概念、自立人格对师范生教师职业成熟度的影响。结果表明:(1)师范生的自我概念与其自立人格、教师职业成熟度及其职业态度和职业能力均存在显著的正相关;师范生的自立人格与其教师职业成熟度、职业态度和职业能力也存在显著正相关;(2)师范生的自我概念主要通过影响其自立人格间接地正向预测教师职业能力;自我概念不仅可以直接显著地正向预测教师职业成熟度和职业态度,还可以通过影响个体的自立人格进而间接地正向预测教师职业成熟度和教师职业态度。这一结果表明自立人格在自我概念影响教师职业能力的关系中起着完全中介作用,而在自我概念影响教师职业成熟度和教师职业态度的关系中起着部分中介作用。     

专家—熟手—新手型教师教学策略的比较研究

以578名中学教师作为研究对象,采用自编的中学教师教学策略量表对不同类型教师的教学策略进行比较。结果表明,不同类型的教师其教学策略水平存在着差异,新手型教师比熟手型教师更重视课前策略,但课中策略上显著低于熟手型教师,课后策略上二者没有差异;熟手型教师在教学策略三个维度上都显著低于专家型教师,专家型教师的教学策略表现出灵活性、创造性以及有效的反思能力。     

Changing Minds: Developmental Education for Conceptual Change

The study investigates the impact of a teacher education program on preservice teachers' intellectual development, specifically, their capacity to deal with pedagogical complexity, to recognize agency as internal, and to be critically reflective, together with development of more autonomy-supportive motivating styles. The study combines a repeated-measures design with qualitative analysis of interview data. The sample comprises 175 third-year preservice teachers at an Australian university. The program is inspired by a teaching model, Developmental Education for Conceptual Change (DECC), which combines conceptual change theory with the Developmental Instruction Model based on the Perry scheme of intellectual and ethical development. Findings suggest that, on average, students' participation in the DECC program has made a modest contribution to their intellectual growth and tendency to adopt more autonomy-supportive pedagogical approaches. The model might have wider application in educational settings.     

Math Talk and Student Strategy Trajectories: The Case of Two First Grade Classrooms

This study investigated different math-talk facilitations, and conceptualized the teachers' talk moves for productive student mathematics discussions. Our findings suggest that students' strategy development is supported by talk moves coordinating a wide range of student strategies, representations and discussions that are at a process-level and maintain student ownership of ideas, and transitional strategies that connect students' beginning ideas with target strategies.     

Reflections of the student teacher

This paper explores the concept of reflection and its changing role in the journey of the student teacher. It presents part of the findings of a year-long investigation into the reflective practice of student teachers during their training year. Specifically, it investigates the reflections of the student teachers’ lessons during the PGCE (Post/Professional Graduate Certificate of Education) year at a higher education institution (HEI) in England. The strengths and weaknesses of the student teachers’ lessons are analysed and how these reflections change as they reach Newly Qualified Teachers (NQT) status.