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《International Journal of Educational Development》2002,22(2):169-180
Evidence abounds in the literature of a direct link between pre-primary education and academic performance in the primary school. The salutary effect of the ‘Head start’ programme inaugurated in the United States of America in the early 1960s on the academic performances of its beneficiaries in the lower primary is such a piece of evidence. Premised on this commonality between pre-primary education and academic achievement in the primary school, the study aimed at finding out whether there were significant differences in the performances of Botswana grade one pupils with pre-school education experience and their counterparts without such an experience on selected tasks in English language, mathematics and science. Using purposive sampling technique for school selection, a total of 120 grade one pupils were randomly selected for the study from four selected primary schools in Botswana. In addition, 20 grade one teachers from the study schools participated in the study. For data collection purpose, each pupil-subject was individually interviewed for about 20 min on the study tasks; and the opinions of the twenty teachers on the subject of the study was sampled by the use of a questionnaire. The results of the study indicated that pupils with pre-school education experience significantly out-performed their counterparts without such experience in all the three school subject areas surveyed by the study. This trend of the impact of pre-school education on academic achievement at the early primary school level was corroborated by the opinions of the primary school teachers. The paper concluded by observing that pre-school education equips children with pre-requisite skills which make learning in grade one easier and faster for children so exposed. 相似文献
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Understanding the knowledge bases of mathematics teachers is an important task in working towards the construction of adequate models for: (i) teacher education and development, and (ii) teacher operations in the classroom. To date, little systematic attention has been focused on this task. The primary aim of this study is to obtain a view from the field of mathematics teacher knowledge with respect to content knowledge in mathematics, content‐specific pedagogical knowledge in mathematics and curriculum knowledge relevant to teaching tasks. This study has used data obtained from a survey of primary teachers and secondary mathematics teachers. Analysis of the results has indicated that less than half of the teachers in the study believed that they were sufficiently prepared in mathematics content, and that almost two‐thirds of the teachers in the sample believed that their level of knowledge in contemporary teaching methodologies in mathematics is not sufficient for their role as school teachers. Key differences emerge between the primary and secondary sectors and also within the secondary sector. Implications for preservice and in‐service mathematics teacher education are drawn. 相似文献
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方卫飞 《金华职业技术学院学报》2011,11(6):4-6
教师教育质量关系到基础教育的发展,而基础教育的变革也必然影响高校教师教育的人才培养规格。从求同价值取向,合力创建利益联盟,共建课程工作室和教师发展工作坊,合作开发课程,联合开展教学研究,到携手营造职前职后一体化的教师教育场等,搭建小学教师培养的新平台。 相似文献
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Irit Peled 《Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education》2007,10(4-6):369-379
This article discusses the design of tasks for teacher education. It focuses on tasks that are used in a university course
for pre-service secondary school mathematics teachers. Special attention is given to tasks that use analogical thinking in
their construction or implementation. These tasks are categorized by type of teacher education goal and analyzed with respect
to the use of analogical thinking. Short examples are presented for three of the goal categories, while an elaborated example
is given for the fourth one. The detailed example describes the goals and design of a task sequence following an emergent
pedagogical need. Using the ad hoc constructed task-sequence the teacher educator avoids “telling” while demonstrating an
alternative instructional approach, and seizing the opportunity to bring up additional pedagogical issues. 相似文献
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《Education 3-13》2012,40(1):118-130
ABSTRACTIn Lao People’s Democratic Republic, two streams exist in pre-primary education, the standard three-year and a one-year preparatory class called ‘Grade Zero system’. This research aims to investigate the introduction of the Grade 0 system, one-year pre-primary class, and its impact on ethnic minority children in rural villages of Lao PDR. The research methodology included qualitative research comprising interviews with villagers, school authorities, and an officer of the local education office and observations carried out at schools in rural villages. The results show Grade 0 has been introduced in accordance with the circumstances of attached primary schools; more specifically, small villages with incomplete schools offer Grade 0 because they can’t possess three years pre-primary education. Moreover, Grade 0 plays an important role in the acquisition of Lao language when entering primary school. For instance, the repetition rate greatly improved due to the adequate preparation period. Grade 0 is an effective system in bridging the gap in primary schools, especially for minority children whose linguistic and cultural background is different from majority. As pre-primary education has finally been considered important, more international study projects will be essential, such as contemplating the construction of schools, teacher trainings, and bilingual education. 相似文献
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Nerida F. Ellerton 《Educational Studies in Mathematics》2013,83(1):87-101
Although official curriculum documents make cursory mention of the need for problem posing in school mathematics, problem posing rarely becomes part of the implemented or assessed curriculum. This paper provides examples of how problem posing can be made an integral part of mathematics teacher education programs. It is argued that such programs are a good place to start the process of redesigning mathematics curricula so that school mathematics will pay more than lip service to problem posing. Data are presented and analyzed showing that teacher education students can recognize the need for problem posing both in their own programs and in school mathematics curricula. Examples of problems posed by teacher education students are presented and discussed. An active learning framework for interpreting the role of problem posing in mathematics classrooms is presented. 相似文献
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The current global focus on expanding access to early childhood education (ECE) is accompanied by calls to professionalize the ECE teaching force. In Tanzania, efforts to improve the quality of teaching and learning at the pre-primary level led to the development of a new pre-primary diploma training program. In this article, I examine this effort from the perspective of 12 prospective teachers. By tracing their narratives of becoming a pre-primary teacher, I demonstrate how diploma students navigated competing discourses and incorporated institutional discourses into their own narratives as a way of exercising agency in a context of constrained opportunity. 相似文献
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Research indicates that many errors in secondary school mathematics can be attributed to lack of understanding of decimal place value. Recently it has been suggested that this arises from an underlying weakness in integer place value concepts and perception of multidigit numbers in unitary terms rather than base ten, multi‐unit structures. Development of place value and multidigit number concepts was examined in individual interviews with 262 primary school pupils, aged between 7 and 12 years, using subjects’ concrete representations of written numerals and associated verbal explanations. Almost all the children had some understanding of integer place value; most older children had multi‐unit concepts of three‐ or four‐digit numbers; but two‐digit numbers, especially values of 20 or less, were frequently perceived in terms of units by all age groups. This was particularly common for the value ten where 55% of subjects displayed unitary concepts. Implications for understanding and teaching decimal place value are discussed. 相似文献
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近年来,把学前一年教育纳入义务教育的呼声日益强烈。政府经费投入是学前一年教育纳人义务教育的重要条件保障。对东、中、西部地区108个班级的生均质量成本（不含基建成本）进行调查,并在此基础上测算了在不同质量标准下把学前一年教育纳入义务教育所需的教育财政性经费投入规模;根据学前教育财政经费的增长速度,预测在不同质量水平上实施学前一年义务教育的可行时间,并探索了适宜的经费保障机制。研究发现,如果全国财政性教育经费中学前教育占比维持在三年行动计划结束时的水平,至少要到2018年才能实现以“中等质量”将学前一年纳入义务教育;如果学前教育经费按照三年行动计划期间的速度增长,2017年能够实现以“良好质量”把学前一年纳入义务教育。 相似文献
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美育在小学数学教育中有着较为重要的地位,但目前理论与实践结合的研究成果较为薄弱,对小学数学教学实践中的美育现状也少有研究。在此,本文提出了美育在小学数学中如何进行渗透的几点建议,为一线的教育工作者提供一些参考! 相似文献
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In this article, we propose that guiding teachers to examine the regulative/discursive norms of school mathematics with tools
derived from social semiotics can serve two related goals: (1) to deconstruct the “math is math period!” disposition in prospective
teachers by promoting their critical understanding of the symbolic domination work they often unknowingly perform and (2)
to reconstruct a more socio-political disposition by equipping them with tools for decoding the dominant discursive practices
of school mathematics. After reviewing research on the social semiotics of mathematics education, we discuss two sample teacher
education tasks designed with the above goals in mind. 相似文献
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Post-primary science teachers in Victoria were asked to express views about primary science curriculum design and implementation.
They were also asked about the value of continuity between primary and post-primary science education. The post-primary teachers
generally had favourable attitudes to primary science education and considered that cooperation would be useful-though it
is not common at the moment. However, the data revealed a considerable range of opinion. Post-primary science teachers' views
about primary science curriculum are similar to those of primary teachers themselves, but many post-primary teachers would
place more emphasis on formal or textbook knowledge. Post-primary teachers see a number of systemic problems in implementing
primary science education but their positive perceptions suggest the value of encouraging more structured links. The notion
of continuity across the two sectors was well supported.
Specializations: science education policy and practice, teacher education, school effectiveness.
Specializations: science education, teacher education in science. 相似文献
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This study examined the relationship between pre-primary educational policy and actual practice in Tanzania. Policy relevant to pre-primary education was analyzed and 15 pre-primary lessons from two urban and two rural schools were videotaped. Although the national educational policy specifies the same standards for pre-primary education regardless of location, there were considerable differences across schools. Compared to urban classes, rural ones had considerably less space, larger group sizes, less favorable teacher/pupil ratios, fewer instructional resources and less qualified teachers. Teacher professional qualifications appeared to influence the quality of classroom interaction more than the physical setting and resources. 相似文献
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Piera Biccard 《Africa Education Review》2018,15(2):49-64
This article contributes to the discussion on mathematics teacher reflection. Reflection was included in a study of the didactisation practices of primary school mathematics teachers as one of nine didactisation practices. The study involved five volunteer primary school mathematics teachers. A qualitative design-research approach was designed which employed model-eliciting tasks to create new experiences for teachers. This article reports on the nature and development of mathematics teacher reflection. Teacher reflection was gauged at various times during the programme through written responses to open-ended reflective questionnaires. Teachers were involved in three types of sessions for a period of one year: 1) modelling sessions whereby they collaboratively solved a mathematical modelling task; 2) observing primary school students/learners solve the same problems; and 3) sessions discussing traditional and problem-centred teaching and learning. It was found that modelling tasks provided reflective platforms and a window to teacher resources, orientations and goals. It is recommended that further research into mathematics teacher reflection be conducted where teachers specifically implement modelling in their own classrooms. 相似文献
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Based on principles of constructivism, an analysis is made of how practice in mathematical education might be reformed towards a professional practice. In addition to the widespread recommendations that mathematical teaching be based on interactive communication and that mathematical learning be active, we argue that conventional school mathematics be replaced by a constructivist school mathematics. A constructivist school mathematics is based on children's use of their schemes of action and operation in learning situations, and whatever accommodation the children make in these schemes as they use them. Through examples of our learning of the numerical schemes of five year old children we illustrate what we mean by a constructivist school mathematics. In our examples, we characterize the schemes of action and operation that we attribute to children as our interpretations of the children's activities. For this reason, we define a constructivist school mathematics to be the results of the observer's experiential abstractions in the context of interacting with children mathematically. A professional teacher is cast as one with the intellectual autonomy and power to produce a constructivist school mathematics, including the involved situations of learning and interactive mathematical communication. 相似文献
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Zoyah Kinkead-Clark 《International Journal of Early Years Education》2015,23(1):67-82
The aim of this small-scale, qualitative study is to understand the perspective of varying stakeholders responsible for student transitions from pre-primary to primary school in the Jamaican context. The questions that guided the research are: What factors affect student transitions to primary school? What skills do children need in order to successfully transition? and Who/what is responsible for preparing students to transition from pre-primary to primary school? To answer these questions a representative from the Early Childhood Commission, 13 parents and 16 Grade 1 teachers from 12 schools across the island of Jamaica were interviewed. Findings reveal that student transitions from pre-primary to primary school need systematic attention particularly in light of how this impacts on student success, not only in primary school, but in their secondary years as well. The data also reveal that a major issue affecting student transitions is the quality of pre-primary education and parenting practices in the early years. Also highlighted are the differing perspectives of teachers and parents on the skills needed for success in primary school. Parenting programmes and professional development for both parents and teachers, respectively, are critical if strides are to be made. 相似文献
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Fulvia Furinghetti 《Educational Studies in Mathematics》2007,66(2):131-143
In this paper I consider the problem of designing strategies for teacher education programs that may promote an aware style
of teaching. Among the various elements to be considered I focus on the need to address prospective teachers’ belief that
they must reproduce the style of mathematics teaching seen in their school days. Towards this aim, I argue that the prospective
teachers need a context allowing them to look at the topics they will teach in a different manner. This context may be provided
by the history of mathematics. In this paper I shall discuss how history affected the construction of teaching sequences on
algebra during the activities of the ‘laboratory of mathematics education’ carried out in a 2 year education program for prospective
teachers. The conditions of the experiment, notably the fact that our prospective teachers had not had specific preparation
in the history of mathematics, allow us to outline opportunities and caveats of the use of history in teacher education. 相似文献
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Jill Adler 《Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education》2000,3(3):205-224
In this report, I examine resources and their use in school mathematics. I do so from the perspective of mathematics teacher
education and with a view to the practice of school mathematics. I argue that the effectiveness of resources for mathematical
learning lies in their use, that is, in the classroom teaching and learning context. The argument pivots on the concepts of
school mathematics as a hybrid practice and on the transparency of resources in use. These concepts are elaborated by examples
of resource use within an in-service teacher education research project in South Africa. I propose that mathematics teacher
education needs to focus more attention on resources, on what they are and how they work as an extension of the teacher in
school mathematics practice. In so doing, the report provides a language with which mathematics teacher educators and mathematics
teachers can investigate teachers' use of resources to support mathematical learning in particular and diverse contexts.
This revised version was published online in September 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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Kay Owens 《Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education》2014,42(2):186-207
Identity as a mathematics teacher is enhanced when a teacher explores the cultural setting of their mathematics. The reports of projects that link culture and mathematics were analysed to explore the impact of sociocultural situations together with affective and cognitive aspects of self-regulation on identity. The reports were written by pre-service and in-service, mainly secondary, teachers at the University of Goroka, Papua New Guinea. While all 239 reports were read and considered in terms of the thesis of this article, 60 (25%) were analysed in detail developing the argument. The results indicate the strengths of such projects to take account of cultural knowledge when colonised education systems are further modified through reforms that emphasise culture. The significance for teacher education is the role that an activity which links culture and school mathematics plays in building values and identities. 相似文献
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This study is grounded in the theoretical position that solving problems in different ways creates mathematical connections
when learning and teaching mathematics. It acknowledges the central role teachers play in providing students with learning
opportunities, and it is based on the empirical finding that mathematics teachers are reluctant to solve problems in different
ways in the classroom. In this paper we address the contradiction between theory-based recommendations and school mathematics
practice. Based on analysis of individual interviews and two group meetings with 12 Israeli secondary school mathematics teachers,
we demonstrate that in the context of multiple-solution connecting tasks this discrepancy is caused by the situated nature
of the teachers’ knowledge. We also reveal the complex relationship between different types of teacher knowledge and argue
the significance of developing a common language between members of the mathematics education community, including teacher
educators and researchers.
The names of the teachers have been changed to protect their privacy. 相似文献