Agency and Structure: Principals’ Ability to Bring about Sustainable Improvement in Underperforming Schools in South Africa     

George N. Shava 《Africa Education Review》2019,16(2):50-68

This article reports on a study of which the purpose was to understand the role of principals in changing underperforming schools towards sustainable improvement in one circuit area of North-West, South Africa. School principals play a crucial role in guiding schools towards sustainable improvement by shaping a vision of academic success for all learners. Managing teaching is one of the core modules in South Africa’s new national qualification for school principals, and that being the case, principals should play a central role in effecting the educational transformation of all learners. The quality of principals’ leadership is the key factor driving the transformational turnaround and improvement required in schools. They perform a highly complex and dynamic role in enhancing and sustaining school improvement. It was the goal of this qualitative study to explore cultural, structural, and agential challenges faced by principals in their effort to provide for change and improvement in their schools. Six schools were purposefully selected to participate in the study and semi-structured interviews were used to gather data from the principals. The study established that paying attention to cultural, structural and agential factors in schools increases their ability to sustain learner improvement.  相似文献   

任务驱动法在会计电算化教学中应用的效果分析     

王世海 《张家口职业技术学院学报》2011,24(1):62-64

会计电算化教学,多年来一直采用演示教学模式讲授教学内容。为使学生更好地适应不同行业、不同岗位对会计电算化知识和技能的需求,在教学中,采用任务驱动教学模式,对教学内容进行较大的改革,并针对任务驱动教学模式的一些不足,提出今后的设想,即在教学设计上,可以组成财务团队进行模拟训练,既明确每一位学生应负的职责,也可以培养其团队合作精神,以使学生能够独立自主地处理问题,真正适应社会的需求。  相似文献   

抓住题目本源不靠记忆解题——由两个作业题所引起的思考     

张丽霞 《南昌教育学院学报》2011,26(4):109-111

当前数学教学中存在着这样的问题：重术轻道,即只重视对知识点的记忆和解题技巧的训练,而忽略了对学科基本原理和数学思想方法的理解掌握.从学生解答正确率极低的两个小题入手,教学教学若只注重题型归类和解题模式的汇集,形成各种套路,然后大量模仿,机械记忆是行不通的.必须要强化数学思维的概括领会、掌握数学知识的本质.  相似文献   

Child and family traumatic stress intervention (CFTSI) reduces parental posttraumatic stress symptoms: A multi-site meta-analysis (MSMA)     

《Child abuse & neglect》2019

BackgroundFollowing traumatization, caregiver support is a crucial factor contributing to children's successful management of posttraumatic reactions and their recovery. Caregivers who have been traumatically impacted themselves, however, may be compromised in this posttraumatic caregiving role. Although there are a number of evidence-based child trauma treatments that are effective in reducing children's trauma symptoms, the impact of child treatment on participating caregiver's posttraumatic symptoms (PTS) has received less attention.ObjectiveExplore PTS reduction caregivers experience through participation in their child's evidence-based trauma-focused mental health treatment.Participants and setting640 Child-Caregiver dyads referred for the Child and Family Traumatic Stress Intervention (CFTSI) following formal disclosure of abuse in a Child Advocacy Center (CAC).MethodsData were collected from 10 community treatment sites trained in CFTSI. A multi-site meta-analytic approach was used to evaluate pooled and site-specific therapeutic effect sizes for caregivers and children.ResultsCFTSI was associated with significant changes (Hedge's g = 1.17, Child-rated; g = 0.66, caregiver-rated) in children's PTS and with clinically meaningful improvements in PTS for 62% of participating caregivers who had started CFTSI with clinical levels of PTS as measured by the Post Traumatic Checklist–Civilian Version (PCL-C). The overall mean PCL-C change (9.31, SD = 12.9) in paired, pre-post PCL-C scores is close to a clinically meaningful change of 10 or higher. There was a robust moderate pooled effect size (g = 0.70, N = 640, p < 0.0001).ConclusionThe value of a reduction in caregiver PTS as a secondary outcome of children's trauma-focused treatment is discussed.  相似文献   

基于情景教学法的初中英语课堂教学设计     

常敬  胡贝贝 《中国教育技术装备》2011,(33):70-71

现行中学英语教学以应试为指导,已无法满足现行基础教育改革的要求。引进情景教学法,在此基础上给出一个初中英语课堂教学设计案例,旨在为应用情景教学法进行教学提供指导。  相似文献   

差别定价的产业用地供应策略对产业结构升级的影响——基于中国277个城市的实证分析   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

唐宇娣  朱道林  程建  李瑶瑶  宋洋 《资源科学》2020,42(3):548-557

“以地谋发展”模式下,地方政府主导土地配置,采取“低工业、高商住”的产业用地出让策略,实现了产业结构升级和经济增长的目标。然而,中国经济转型期,曾经推动产业结构升级的供地策略可能不再适应新时期发展要求。本文从理论出发,剖析地方政府供地逻辑,分析差别定价的产业用地供应策略在不同经济发展水平下对产业结构升级的影响差异,提出相应假说,基于门槛回归模型,并利用2011—2016年中国277个城市产业用地供应数据进行实证检验。结果表明,产业用地价格差异对产业结构升级的影响会随经济发展水平不同呈非线性关系,随着经济发展水平的提高,差别定价的产业用地供应策略对产业结构升级的影响效应将由正转负;产业用地供应向商住用地倾斜而产生的产业用地结构错配会显著抑制产业结构升级;提高土地出让市场化程度,降低土地财政依赖则有利于提升产业结构。据此本文建议,地方政府在制定产业用地供应策略时,要充分考虑所处的社会经济环境,而在参与土地市场活动时,要明确自身干预经济的局限性,更多地培育有效市场,注重提高土地市场化程度,避免过度依赖土地财政。  相似文献   

Conceptualizing curriculum management in an effective secondary school: a Western Australian case study     

Clive Dimmock  Helen Wildy 《Curriculum Journal》2013,24(3):297-323

ABSTRACT

This paper investigates the linkages between management processes and the curriculum using an academically effective secondary school as a case study. The aims of the study are twofold. First, in view of the acknowledged importance governments and others place on the quality of school leadership and management on the one hand and curriculum, teaching and learning reforms on the other, there is a need for empirical data as to how school leaders and managers work to secure improvements in curriculum, teaching and learning. This study purports to provide such data. The second aim acknowledges the need to develop conceptual frameworks and data collection instruments as aids to better understanding of complex relationships within school organizations.two deputy principals do play an indirect and important part in promoting academic performance by reinforcing school values in a wide variety of ways. Third, curriculum management is the responsibility of senior teachers and there is tight linkage between both senior teachers and teachers and high quality teaching and learning. Finally, the loose linkage between departments, and also between departments and senior management, provides little opportunity for a school‐wide approach to curriculum matters. It is evident that a whole‐school curriculum management perspective is absent in this school.  相似文献   

Tilting at Windmills     

《资料收集管理》2013,38(1-2):31-35

No abstract available for this article.  相似文献   

What is a dysfunctional school?     

《Africa Education Review》2013,10(2):381-390

Abstract

Whether or not a school is dysfunctional depends largely on how dysfunctionality in schools is defined and measured. Dysfunctionality, as any construct, is subject to definition and interpretation, and it is thus always marked by perspectivism. But regardless of the definition games occasionally played by academics, some form of reality takes place beyond the constructivist horizon. Moreover, perspectivism and definition games may justify and even create adverse consequences within a school's lived reality. A definition focussing on Grade 12 pass rates, for example, tends to implicate teachers, while a definition focussing on infrastructure tends to exculpate teachers and incriminate government and administration. Accordingly, this article will not end but begin with the adage that a dysfunctional school is what one defines a dysfunctional school to be, and it will explore the conditions and consequences of conceptual variations.  相似文献   

电大办学中非教学信息的整合和应用     

林朋 《天津电大学报》2006,10(2):12-13,31

电大办学中的非教学信息包括投诉信息、招生咨询信息以及周边信息。这三种信息是教学质量保证体系的组成部分，对工作纠错和宏观决策都有重要参考作用。为了使非教学信息的促进办学作用得以释放，需要信息中心对非教学信息进行搜集、整理和分析研究。分析研究的成果一是提出分析报告，为工作纠错和高层决策提供依据，二是提供准确规范的办学数据，为日常工作提供参考。  相似文献