This study aims to explore the characteristics of novice teachers’inappropriate behaviors in classroom teaching and their intervention strategies.With the continuous improvement of education quality,novice teachers f...This study aims to explore the characteristics of novice teachers’inappropriate behaviors in classroom teaching and their intervention strategies.With the continuous improvement of education quality,novice teachers face increasing challenges in teaching practice.Their inappropriate behaviors not only affect the classroom atmosphere but may also negatively impact students’learning outcomes.Therefore,researching the characteristics of novice teachers’inappropriate behaviors and their intervention strategies holds significant scientific and social value.This study employs a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods to analyze the behavioral patterns of novice teachers in classroom teaching and proposes corresponding intervention strategies.The results indicate that novice teachers’inappropriate behaviors mainly manifest as poor classroom management,monotonous teaching methods,and insufficient interaction with students.Based on these findings,the study proposes a series of effective intervention strategies,including enhancing teacher training,optimizing teaching design,and promoting positive interactions between teachers and students.The conclusions of the study not only provide practical guidance for educational practice but also point out directions for future research,emphasizing the crucial role of teacher professional development in improving teaching quality.展开更多
As world events have morphed teachers’roles within English medium of instruction(EMI)contexts to incorporate more online teaching practices,teachers’integration of digital tools has faced technological and curricula...As world events have morphed teachers’roles within English medium of instruction(EMI)contexts to incorporate more online teaching practices,teachers’integration of digital tools has faced technological and curricular challenges.While previous research has examined the integration of digital tools in face-to-face and hybrid EMI settings(e.g.,Finardi,2015;O’Dowd,2018),more research is needed to understand the familiarization process teachers engage in as they implement fully-online teaching to support their content and language integrated learning(CLIL)teaching.As part of a larger project,this case study sets out to fill this gap by examining the practices and perspectives of 30 Kazakhstani university teachers who adopted CLIL approaches while needing to adapt to fully-online teaching contexts.Using the concept of technological pedagogical content knowledge(Mishra&Koehler,2006)in tandem with Ball et al.’s(2016)seven CLIL principles as a framework,this study thematically analyzed workshop artifacts,survey responses,semi-structured interview transcripts,and videos from online class lessons to find that teachers were mediators and curators of content,language,pedagogy,and digital tools.The findings offer pedagogical insights for the implementation of professional development(PD)to prepare teachers to meaningfully curate and mediate technology into their CLIL pedagogy to teach content within EMI contexts.展开更多
The extent to which schools in a country or region prioritize the professional development of mathematics teachers influences the quality of these teachers,thereby affecting students’mathematics learning and performa...The extent to which schools in a country or region prioritize the professional development of mathematics teachers influences the quality of these teachers,thereby affecting students’mathematics learning and performance.Over the years,the PISA test has evolved into the largest and most influential international educational assessment program.This study,based on PISA 2022 questionnaire data,examines the relationship between the professional growth of mathematics teachers and students’mathematics performance by analyzing samples from sixteen countries/economies.The research focuses on schools’support for mathematics teachers’professional growth,investigating the correlation with students’mathematics literacy test scores through metrics such as the average proportion of teachers who participated in professional development training courses in the past three months and the average proportion of schools offering different types of in-house professional growth training.Based on the findings,recommendations are proposed,including placing greater emphasis on the professional development and growth of mathematics teachers,as well as anchoring this growth in students’learning and development.This study provides multinational insights and scientific evidence for educational management related to mathematics teachers’professional development,offering theoretical support for improving the quality of secondary mathematics education,fostering students’mathematical literacy,and promoting educational equity.展开更多
The characteristics of ESP teaching require teachers to have certain professional knowledge structure.Professional knowledge acquisition is a life-long self-development,self-improvement process.Cooperative learning is...The characteristics of ESP teaching require teachers to have certain professional knowledge structure.Professional knowledge acquisition is a life-long self-development,self-improvement process.Cooperative learning is one of the effective ways of ESP teachers' professional development.The daily teaching activities of cooperation between the teachers have characteristics of plurality.To achieve cooperation of professional development,we need to create the environment of teachers' professional development,and establish corresponding evaluation mechanism.展开更多
Although much research has been conducted on the interactions between the career development of foreign language teachers and their contexts around the world,a literature review reveals that there exists scanty resear...Although much research has been conducted on the interactions between the career development of foreign language teachers and their contexts around the world,a literature review reveals that there exists scanty research on the relationship between university Russian language teachers’career development and their contexts in China since 1949.Based on relevant studies on the career development of foreign language teachers and the ecological theory,this paper involves research on the impact that different ecological systems(micro-,meso-,macro-and exo-ones)have played in the career development of Russian language teachers in China.Participants are 10 Chinese Russian teachers of different ages from different universities in different parts of China.Via literature review,narration methods and semi-structured(in-depth)interviews with the help of NVivo,this research finds that Russian language teachers’career development results from multi-faceted interactions of the following contexts:ideology,Russian language educational policies and personal factors as well as college contexts.This paper concludes with some suggestions for improving Russian language teachers’career development in China.展开更多
The models of Professional Learning Communities(PLCs)are based on principles of learning that emphasize the co-construction of knowledge by learners,who in this case are the teachers themselves.Teachers in a PLC meet ...The models of Professional Learning Communities(PLCs)are based on principles of learning that emphasize the co-construction of knowledge by learners,who in this case are the teachers themselves.Teachers in a PLC meet regularly to explore their practices and the learning outcomes of their students,analyze their teaching and their students’learning processes,draw conclusions,and make changes in order to improve their teaching and the learning of their students.It was found that participation in a PLC influences teaching practice,so teachers become more student-centered.Moreover,the teaching culture improves as the community increases the degree of cooperation among teachers,and focuses on the processes of learning rather than the accumulation of knowledge.This enables students to be innovative,creative,and critical.In addition,trust is developed among the participants,which enables them to discuss and analyze their students’cognitive and affective problems,misconceptions,and learning outcomes.展开更多
This thesis tries to explore the problems of the rural English teachers＇ professional development and aims to give some hints on teachers＇ professional development and future teacher training. This thesis makes a su...This thesis tries to explore the problems of the rural English teachers＇ professional development and aims to give some hints on teachers＇ professional development and future teacher training. This thesis makes a survey to 20 rural English teachers from 10 primary schools in the surrounding areas of Linyi City. The survey mainly focuses on the following four aspects： basic situation of the teachers, knowledge of English language and teaching skills, teachers＇ motivation, and self-analysis of their development. With an analysis of the results of the investigation, the author wants to evoke teachers＇ and researchers＇ awareness for improving English language teachers＇ professional development in rural primary schools展开更多
Teachers in public security colleges and universities are faced with professional dilemma in the process of carrying out education, which brings many problems to the development of public security education in our cou...Teachers in public security colleges and universities are faced with professional dilemma in the process of carrying out education, which brings many problems to the development of public security education in our country. Therefore, to reshape education concept from the teaching and research point of view, develop professional level of public security colleges and universities, and create a good team ofteachers are the most important cause of public security education.展开更多
Teachers＇ professional development in higher vocational colleges is a primary condition for students＇ development, as well as a significant guarantee for the development of higher vocational education. It has been d...Teachers＇ professional development in higher vocational colleges is a primary condition for students＇ development, as well as a significant guarantee for the development of higher vocational education. It has been discovered in studied that higher vocational teachers attach great importance to their teaching practice ability and professional practice ability, and desire to be promoted. Comparatively speaking, the growth approaches of higher vocational teachers ＇ teaching practice ability remain to be further studied.展开更多
With the development of higher education in China, the social responsibility undertaken by higher education is becoming more and more obvious and knowledge innovation in universities, scientific research, teaching and...With the development of higher education in China, the social responsibility undertaken by higher education is becoming more and more obvious and knowledge innovation in universities, scientific research, teaching and others have played an important role for social and economic development. And the agent and practitioner of all the nature and content of these are teachers in universities and colleges which are the main power of education, teaching and research. Highly qualified team of teachers have an important value for higher education. New mode of higher education has also undergone a significant change from denotative growth gradually to connotative development concerning over personnel training and teaching quality, which bring up more requirements for the quality and ability of university teachers. Thus we will put forward a comprehensive analysis of how to comply with cormotative development and come up with new strategy of teachers＇ pro fessional development.展开更多
This study aims to understand the in-service training needs,training transfer,and training effectiveness of teachers in local normal universities in China,while also proposing a continuous professional development pla...This study aims to understand the in-service training needs,training transfer,and training effectiveness of teachers in local normal universities in China,while also proposing a continuous professional development plan for teachers.Descriptive research methods were employed,with questionnaires serving as the primary data collection tool.The survey revealed that the educational background of teachers in local normal universities is characterized by an unreasonable distribution of academic qualifications,with a shortage of teachers holding postgraduate and higher degrees.Additionally,the training effectiveness for female teachers was found to be lower than that of male teachers.There is a lack of personalization in training needs,which tends to be more generalized.The transfer effect of training is moderate,and there is a need for further enhancement at the behavioral level of training effectiveness.A continuous professional development plan for teachers has been formulated to improve training effectiveness and promote professional development.展开更多
Teacher evaluation is the action guide of teachers,which is extremely important for the development of schools.The establishment of a scientific and effective evaluation for university teachers is the key step in adap...Teacher evaluation is the action guide of teachers,which is extremely important for the development of schools.The establishment of a scientific and effective evaluation for university teachers is the key step in adapting to the current"double first-class"backgromd in the construction of high-level teachers.Based on HabermasJ theory of communicative action,this study analyzes the shortcomings and the reasons behind the current evaluation activities of university teachers in China as well as explores the standardization of these evaluation activities to meet the needs of the connotative development of higher education.展开更多
Under the background of information age, science and technology are changing with each passing day, and the development of education has entered a new stage. Under this background, how to carry out education work in c...Under the background of information age, science and technology are changing with each passing day, and the development of education has entered a new stage. Under this background, how to carry out education work in compliance with the requirements of social development and how to give full play to teachers professional ability to promote the improvement of education level have also become the necessary considerations for Chinas education development. Based on the micro-training perspective, the article focuses on teachers professional development in the new era, actively explores the innovation path of teachers professional development management model, and innovates management model from the perspectives of concept renewal, knowledge expansion, ability enhancement, growth planning, etc. to clarify teachers professional growth path, which will escort the long-term development of Chinas education.展开更多
The paper gives an brief introduction of the ELTeach online course and the national teachers training program in Yunnan. It discusses the necessity and possibility to incorporate the course into the program. On the ba...The paper gives an brief introduction of the ELTeach online course and the national teachers training program in Yunnan. It discusses the necessity and possibility to incorporate the course into the program. On the basis of the trainees' reflection, it further analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of the course, particularly the EFT and PK domains, for the professional development of Junior High School English teachers.展开更多
The concept of New Liberal Arts,a multidisciplinary combined integrator with Chinese values at its core,has brought new challenges to the teaching methods and professional development of higher-level English teachers....The concept of New Liberal Arts,a multidisciplinary combined integrator with Chinese values at its core,has brought new challenges to the teaching methods and professional development of higher-level English teachers.Based on the evolving professional development process of higher vocational English teachers in the context of the New Liberal Arts,this article analyzes how English teachers can integrate multidisciplinary knowledge and adopt advanced educational technology in the teaching process.On this basis,it discusses the role of teachers’professional development in enhancing students’learning ability,such as through deepening disciplinary understanding,adopting innovative teaching strategies,and implementing personalized teaching.At the end of the article,based on a variety of pedagogical theories,we put forward suggestions,including continuous professional training,interdisciplinary cooperation,and the application of innovative teaching techniques,which are mainly aimed at helping higher vocational English teachers get rid of the dilemma of the new situation,adapt to the needs of the new liberal arts education as soon as possible,and then effectively improve students’abilities.展开更多
With the rapid development of information technology and the popularity of the Internet,digital education has become an important direction of modern education reform.Digital education provides a new way and tool for ...With the rapid development of information technology and the popularity of the Internet,digital education has become an important direction of modern education reform.Digital education provides a new way and tool for education and teaching,so that teachers and students can make better use of the application of information technology in the teaching process.Teachers’digital literacy has become the key to realize digital education.In the digital age,the level of teachers’digital literacy directly affects teachers’teaching effect and students’learning results.Therefore,improving teachers’digital literacy has become an urgent task of education reform.展开更多
With the implementation of English Curriculum Standard for Senior High School,core competence,a vital construct in deepening curriculum reforms,has been brought into the spotlight,which attaches importance to cultivat...With the implementation of English Curriculum Standard for Senior High School,core competence,a vital construct in deepening curriculum reforms,has been brought into the spotlight,which attaches importance to cultivating students’key competences so as to realize the value of people cultivation.In another angle,the continuous intensification of education reform poses more demands on the faculty.What competences required for EFL teachers worth taking into consideration seriously.The paper elaborates required competences for EFL teachers hoping to offer pragmatic suggestions for EFL teachers in the perspective of professional development.展开更多
文摘This study aims to explore the characteristics of novice teachers’inappropriate behaviors in classroom teaching and their intervention strategies.With the continuous improvement of education quality,novice teachers face increasing challenges in teaching practice.Their inappropriate behaviors not only affect the classroom atmosphere but may also negatively impact students’learning outcomes.Therefore,researching the characteristics of novice teachers’inappropriate behaviors and their intervention strategies holds significant scientific and social value.This study employs a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods to analyze the behavioral patterns of novice teachers in classroom teaching and proposes corresponding intervention strategies.The results indicate that novice teachers’inappropriate behaviors mainly manifest as poor classroom management,monotonous teaching methods,and insufficient interaction with students.Based on these findings,the study proposes a series of effective intervention strategies,including enhancing teacher training,optimizing teaching design,and promoting positive interactions between teachers and students.The conclusions of the study not only provide practical guidance for educational practice but also point out directions for future research,emphasizing the crucial role of teacher professional development in improving teaching quality.
基金funding from the U.S.-Kazakhstan University Partnerships program funded by the U.S.Mission to Kazakhstan and administered by American Councils[Award number SKZ100-19-CA-0149].
文摘As world events have morphed teachers’roles within English medium of instruction(EMI)contexts to incorporate more online teaching practices,teachers’integration of digital tools has faced technological and curricular challenges.While previous research has examined the integration of digital tools in face-to-face and hybrid EMI settings(e.g.,Finardi,2015;O’Dowd,2018),more research is needed to understand the familiarization process teachers engage in as they implement fully-online teaching to support their content and language integrated learning(CLIL)teaching.As part of a larger project,this case study sets out to fill this gap by examining the practices and perspectives of 30 Kazakhstani university teachers who adopted CLIL approaches while needing to adapt to fully-online teaching contexts.Using the concept of technological pedagogical content knowledge(Mishra&Koehler,2006)in tandem with Ball et al.’s(2016)seven CLIL principles as a framework,this study thematically analyzed workshop artifacts,survey responses,semi-structured interview transcripts,and videos from online class lessons to find that teachers were mediators and curators of content,language,pedagogy,and digital tools.The findings offer pedagogical insights for the implementation of professional development(PD)to prepare teachers to meaningfully curate and mediate technology into their CLIL pedagogy to teach content within EMI contexts.
文摘The extent to which schools in a country or region prioritize the professional development of mathematics teachers influences the quality of these teachers,thereby affecting students’mathematics learning and performance.Over the years,the PISA test has evolved into the largest and most influential international educational assessment program.This study,based on PISA 2022 questionnaire data,examines the relationship between the professional growth of mathematics teachers and students’mathematics performance by analyzing samples from sixteen countries/economies.The research focuses on schools’support for mathematics teachers’professional growth,investigating the correlation with students’mathematics literacy test scores through metrics such as the average proportion of teachers who participated in professional development training courses in the past three months and the average proportion of schools offering different types of in-house professional growth training.Based on the findings,recommendations are proposed,including placing greater emphasis on the professional development and growth of mathematics teachers,as well as anchoring this growth in students’learning and development.This study provides multinational insights and scientific evidence for educational management related to mathematics teachers’professional development,offering theoretical support for improving the quality of secondary mathematics education,fostering students’mathematical literacy,and promoting educational equity.
文摘The characteristics of ESP teaching require teachers to have certain professional knowledge structure.Professional knowledge acquisition is a life-long self-development,self-improvement process.Cooperative learning is one of the effective ways of ESP teachers' professional development.The daily teaching activities of cooperation between the teachers have characteristics of plurality.To achieve cooperation of professional development,we need to create the environment of teachers' professional development,and establish corresponding evaluation mechanism.
文摘Although much research has been conducted on the interactions between the career development of foreign language teachers and their contexts around the world,a literature review reveals that there exists scanty research on the relationship between university Russian language teachers’career development and their contexts in China since 1949.Based on relevant studies on the career development of foreign language teachers and the ecological theory,this paper involves research on the impact that different ecological systems(micro-,meso-,macro-and exo-ones)have played in the career development of Russian language teachers in China.Participants are 10 Chinese Russian teachers of different ages from different universities in different parts of China.Via literature review,narration methods and semi-structured(in-depth)interviews with the help of NVivo,this research finds that Russian language teachers’career development results from multi-faceted interactions of the following contexts:ideology,Russian language educational policies and personal factors as well as college contexts.This paper concludes with some suggestions for improving Russian language teachers’career development in China.
文摘The models of Professional Learning Communities(PLCs)are based on principles of learning that emphasize the co-construction of knowledge by learners,who in this case are the teachers themselves.Teachers in a PLC meet regularly to explore their practices and the learning outcomes of their students,analyze their teaching and their students’learning processes,draw conclusions,and make changes in order to improve their teaching and the learning of their students.It was found that participation in a PLC influences teaching practice,so teachers become more student-centered.Moreover,the teaching culture improves as the community increases the degree of cooperation among teachers,and focuses on the processes of learning rather than the accumulation of knowledge.This enables students to be innovative,creative,and critical.In addition,trust is developed among the participants,which enables them to discuss and analyze their students’cognitive and affective problems,misconceptions,and learning outcomes.
文摘This thesis tries to explore the problems of the rural English teachers＇ professional development and aims to give some hints on teachers＇ professional development and future teacher training. This thesis makes a survey to 20 rural English teachers from 10 primary schools in the surrounding areas of Linyi City. The survey mainly focuses on the following four aspects： basic situation of the teachers, knowledge of English language and teaching skills, teachers＇ motivation, and self-analysis of their development. With an analysis of the results of the investigation, the author wants to evoke teachers＇ and researchers＇ awareness for improving English language teachers＇ professional development in rural primary schools
文摘Teachers in public security colleges and universities are faced with professional dilemma in the process of carrying out education, which brings many problems to the development of public security education in our country. Therefore, to reshape education concept from the teaching and research point of view, develop professional level of public security colleges and universities, and create a good team ofteachers are the most important cause of public security education.
文摘Teachers＇ professional development in higher vocational colleges is a primary condition for students＇ development, as well as a significant guarantee for the development of higher vocational education. It has been discovered in studied that higher vocational teachers attach great importance to their teaching practice ability and professional practice ability, and desire to be promoted. Comparatively speaking, the growth approaches of higher vocational teachers ＇ teaching practice ability remain to be further studied.
文摘With the development of higher education in China, the social responsibility undertaken by higher education is becoming more and more obvious and knowledge innovation in universities, scientific research, teaching and others have played an important role for social and economic development. And the agent and practitioner of all the nature and content of these are teachers in universities and colleges which are the main power of education, teaching and research. Highly qualified team of teachers have an important value for higher education. New mode of higher education has also undergone a significant change from denotative growth gradually to connotative development concerning over personnel training and teaching quality, which bring up more requirements for the quality and ability of university teachers. Thus we will put forward a comprehensive analysis of how to comply with cormotative development and come up with new strategy of teachers＇ pro fessional development.
文摘This study aims to understand the in-service training needs,training transfer,and training effectiveness of teachers in local normal universities in China,while also proposing a continuous professional development plan for teachers.Descriptive research methods were employed,with questionnaires serving as the primary data collection tool.The survey revealed that the educational background of teachers in local normal universities is characterized by an unreasonable distribution of academic qualifications,with a shortage of teachers holding postgraduate and higher degrees.Additionally,the training effectiveness for female teachers was found to be lower than that of male teachers.There is a lack of personalization in training needs,which tends to be more generalized.The transfer effect of training is moderate,and there is a need for further enhancement at the behavioral level of training effectiveness.A continuous professional development plan for teachers has been formulated to improve training effectiveness and promote professional development.
文摘Teacher evaluation is the action guide of teachers,which is extremely important for the development of schools.The establishment of a scientific and effective evaluation for university teachers is the key step in adapting to the current"double first-class"backgromd in the construction of high-level teachers.Based on HabermasJ theory of communicative action,this study analyzes the shortcomings and the reasons behind the current evaluation activities of university teachers in China as well as explores the standardization of these evaluation activities to meet the needs of the connotative development of higher education.
文摘Under the background of information age, science and technology are changing with each passing day, and the development of education has entered a new stage. Under this background, how to carry out education work in compliance with the requirements of social development and how to give full play to teachers professional ability to promote the improvement of education level have also become the necessary considerations for Chinas education development. Based on the micro-training perspective, the article focuses on teachers professional development in the new era, actively explores the innovation path of teachers professional development management model, and innovates management model from the perspectives of concept renewal, knowledge expansion, ability enhancement, growth planning, etc. to clarify teachers professional growth path, which will escort the long-term development of Chinas education.
文摘The paper gives an brief introduction of the ELTeach online course and the national teachers training program in Yunnan. It discusses the necessity and possibility to incorporate the course into the program. On the basis of the trainees' reflection, it further analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of the course, particularly the EFT and PK domains, for the professional development of Junior High School English teachers.
文摘The concept of New Liberal Arts,a multidisciplinary combined integrator with Chinese values at its core,has brought new challenges to the teaching methods and professional development of higher-level English teachers.Based on the evolving professional development process of higher vocational English teachers in the context of the New Liberal Arts,this article analyzes how English teachers can integrate multidisciplinary knowledge and adopt advanced educational technology in the teaching process.On this basis,it discusses the role of teachers’professional development in enhancing students’learning ability,such as through deepening disciplinary understanding,adopting innovative teaching strategies,and implementing personalized teaching.At the end of the article,based on a variety of pedagogical theories,we put forward suggestions,including continuous professional training,interdisciplinary cooperation,and the application of innovative teaching techniques,which are mainly aimed at helping higher vocational English teachers get rid of the dilemma of the new situation,adapt to the needs of the new liberal arts education as soon as possible,and then effectively improve students’abilities.
文摘With the rapid development of information technology and the popularity of the Internet,digital education has become an important direction of modern education reform.Digital education provides a new way and tool for education and teaching,so that teachers and students can make better use of the application of information technology in the teaching process.Teachers’digital literacy has become the key to realize digital education.In the digital age,the level of teachers’digital literacy directly affects teachers’teaching effect and students’learning results.Therefore,improving teachers’digital literacy has become an urgent task of education reform.
文摘With the implementation of English Curriculum Standard for Senior High School,core competence,a vital construct in deepening curriculum reforms,has been brought into the spotlight,which attaches importance to cultivating students’key competences so as to realize the value of people cultivation.In another angle,the continuous intensification of education reform poses more demands on the faculty.What competences required for EFL teachers worth taking into consideration seriously.The paper elaborates required competences for EFL teachers hoping to offer pragmatic suggestions for EFL teachers in the perspective of professional development.
