Initial teacher preparation and teachers’ continuing professional development are two significant pillars of the teacher education enterprise. The former encompasses a wide range of teachereducation initiatives at th...Initial teacher preparation and teachers’ continuing professional development are two significant pillars of the teacher education enterprise. The former encompasses a wide range of teachereducation initiatives at the levels of diploma, bachelor’s degree, postgraduate diploma, and even master’s degree for teacher licensure purposes. These are widely documented in the literature.What is important is how teacher professional development contributes to bolstering the teachereducator force, which is relatively insufficiently documented due to the very fact that different educational systems have somewhat different expectations of such programs in relation to the ideologies and theories underpinning the teacher professional development program design and curriculum offering. Taking stock of a postgraduate diploma program in English language teaching(PGDELT) for teachers’ continuing professional development with a 31-year history housed at a premier teacher education institution in Singapore, which has successfully graduated over 1, 000 English language teachers for colleges and universities in China, I intend to highlight some of its key features, as a former student and then a lecturer on the program, in order to draw implications for sustainable growth of language teacher education programs, especially those whose main purposes are to prepare teachers of English as a second or foreign language(ESL/EFL) and provide continuing professional development opportunities for such inservice teachers.展开更多
Action research is a kind of research in language education, but it has its own characteristics. And its implementation will help a lot in both teachers＇ professional development and classroom teaching. This article ...Action research is a kind of research in language education, but it has its own characteristics. And its implementation will help a lot in both teachers＇ professional development and classroom teaching. This article has made a tentative study of the practical use of Action Research and some problems teachers confront in using it. This article is also concerned with some solutions to the problems teachers may face, e.g., being lack of knowledge about action research and expertise, being lack of time of action research, having too large class, being short of support including money, constraints from students and authority＇s response. The implentation of action research needs teachers, experts, and school athority＇s effort to improve language teching and language education.展开更多
In this paper, we conduct research on the flip the classroom teaching mode for the modem innovation entrepreneurship classes under the MOOCs background. Job creation and encourage the entrepreneurship to create more e...In this paper, we conduct research on the flip the classroom teaching mode for the modem innovation entrepreneurship classes under the MOOCs background. Job creation and encourage the entrepreneurship to create more employment opportunities will be a long-term policy, which puts forward higher requirements on entrepreneurship education in colleges and universities, we need for the current problem restricting the development of entrepreneurship education in colleges and the universities well as in-depth research. In view of the special practical entrepreneurship education, many universities invite entrepreneurial experience for the entrepreneurship lectures, entrepreneurial guidance. It should be worth promoting, but we also want to see, entrepreneurial faculty have their weakness. Under this background, we combine the MOOCs and flip the classroom teaching mode to form the novel education paradigm which holds special meaning.展开更多
Tourism English reading is the course with the largest amount of information that students know and understand professional knowledge background of tourism, development history of tourism industry and classification a...Tourism English reading is the course with the largest amount of information that students know and understand professional knowledge background of tourism, development history of tourism industry and classification and development status of tourism industry; which is also a course that students learn with relative difficulty. In tourism English reading teaching, introducing the cross-cultural communication knowledge and enhancing cross-cultural communication ability will help students to overcome the obstacles in reading, so as to make this course play its role.展开更多
Classroom observation is an essential area that needs to be further investigated due to the role it plays in teachers professional development. However, there is a great dispute about the viability of the current prac...Classroom observation is an essential area that needs to be further investigated due to the role it plays in teachers professional development. However, there is a great dispute about the viability of the current practices by those responsible to evaluate and support teachers. This study aims at investigating the effectiveness of a new supervisory method called ＂Unseen Observation＂ （henceforth UO）, a strategy where teachers sit for a pre/post-lesson discussions but with no observer in class. Teachers were interviewed to measure their perceptions of the new method. Various findings were reached as to the level of satisfaction by teachers and their abilities to reflect on their lessons without the presence of the observer in their lessons展开更多
Private University has been putting the development cultivate the integrated ability to make use of English is the final goal. goal on the applied talents. In terms ot college English teaching, to Meanwhile, the final...Private University has been putting the development cultivate the integrated ability to make use of English is the final goal. goal on the applied talents. In terms ot college English teaching, to Meanwhile, the final goal also put forward the higher requirement for teacher＇s professional quality of class teaching. The article discussed the two issues, i.e. teaching skills and professional knowledge of college English teachers in private university. The author expects that the study can offer some valuable advice for the professional development of college English teachers in private university.展开更多
Being professional teacher is a process of acting and self empowering of teachers collectively and continuously. A teacher is not merely transferring knowledges and subject matters to the students but also internalizi...Being professional teacher is a process of acting and self empowering of teachers collectively and continuously. A teacher is not merely transferring knowledges and subject matters to the students but also internalizing the values; professionalism, knowledge laedership, community empowerment, etc. Partnership, professional development, and learning community are possibly gained by the teachers through lesson study implementasion interconnectedly and mutually. This paper aims at elaborating on the experience of State Junior High School 1 Srandakan Bantul Yogyakarta in implementing lesson study as a break-through to enhance the teachers＇ professional development incorporating the three mechanisms of lesson study. This school has conducted lesson study for about three years. The study resulted that 80 percent of teachers achieve their competence in planning, doing, and reflecting the lesson through observing other teachers performance and being observed interchangeably.展开更多
One of the most controversial debate topics in current College English teaching is whether EGP （English for General Purposes） should be replaced by ESP （English for Specific Purposes）. The latest College English C...One of the most controversial debate topics in current College English teaching is whether EGP （English for General Purposes） should be replaced by ESP （English for Specific Purposes）. The latest College English Curriculum issued by MOE （Ministry of Education） does not reflect the trend of developing College English Teaching by focusing on ESP, but rather on improving general English course books. However, the first local College English Curriculum published in 2012 in Shanghai focuses on developing ESP and English for academic purpose as its teaching objectives. This paper analyzes different definitions of ESP in China＇s education setting, compares different views on handling the relationship between EGP and ESP in China＇s College English Reform, and explores how to apply an appropriate notion of EGP to College English teaching in China.展开更多
Auditing is a kind of practical economical subject, with a strong practical and operational. It is the backbone course of accounting major and plays a crucial role in the professional cultivation. But recently, in sta...Auditing is a kind of practical economical subject, with a strong practical and operational. It is the backbone course of accounting major and plays a crucial role in the professional cultivation. But recently, in stage of our country university education, audition＇ s teaching effectiveness is almost the lowest in all the core curriculum of accounting professional. Students generally reflect that Auditing is difficult to learn and abstract, while the teachers of auditing courses also reflect students have low interest in auditing learning, meanwhile there is less relevant case, fewer choices and other materials. This paper analyzes the problems and limitations of the auditing teaching, proposes measures about the teaching reform of university auditing, and finally makes our own suggestions about the reform measures of our university auditing teaching research.展开更多
By analyzing the courses of graphic design major, the author points out that it is necessary to put Chinese traditional culture into courses of graphic design, which can open up students＇ design ideas, optimize their...By analyzing the courses of graphic design major, the author points out that it is necessary to put Chinese traditional culture into courses of graphic design, which can open up students＇ design ideas, optimize their design styles and awareness, as well as improve their moral cultivation. The paper elaborates the influences and realistic significance of Chinese traditional culture on graphic design from perspectives of national cultural development, design communication and teaching application. It emphasizes the specific impacts and penetration of the traditional culture in the teaching of graphic design, including teaching content, teaching concepts, and basic teaching practices, etc. With multi- level elaboration, multi-angle exposition and multi-instance citation, it shows the methods to involve Chinese traditional culture in graphic design展开更多
Basic courses are responsible for the cultivation of integrative qualities, which is a guarantee of the long-term sustainable development for the students.However, they are now challenged by the specialized courses in...Basic courses are responsible for the cultivation of integrative qualities, which is a guarantee of the long-term sustainable development for the students.However, they are now challenged by the specialized courses in Chinese colleges.This essay first analyzes the current situation of the provision of basic courses in higher vocational colleges of China, then expounds the requirements of qualities cultivation of enterprises, and at last centers on the basic courses system construction in higher vocational colleges on orientation of qualities cultivation.展开更多
This paper looks at the key issues and challenges facing TEFL teachers in China with respect to prospective teacher preparation and professional development. Drawing upon earlier research on conceptual frameworks, it ...This paper looks at the key issues and challenges facing TEFL teachers in China with respect to prospective teacher preparation and professional development. Drawing upon earlier research on conceptual frameworks, it examines the knowledge base of pre-service teachers through research into the curriculums in TEFL education across diploma, undergraduate and postgraduate levels. A comparative study of the curriculum structures in the education of TEFL teachers reveals a number of key areas of concern: the main hindrance to the development of a stronger knowledge base of pre-service teachers lies in the serious shortage of pedagogical content knowledge, fundamental pedagogical knowledge that are currently available, as well as with the overall inadequacy of practicum hours. It strongly argues for the breadth versus depth in course design and calls for the imperative to reconceptualize the knowledge base of pre-service teachers.展开更多
文摘Initial teacher preparation and teachers’ continuing professional development are two significant pillars of the teacher education enterprise. The former encompasses a wide range of teachereducation initiatives at the levels of diploma, bachelor’s degree, postgraduate diploma, and even master’s degree for teacher licensure purposes. These are widely documented in the literature.What is important is how teacher professional development contributes to bolstering the teachereducator force, which is relatively insufficiently documented due to the very fact that different educational systems have somewhat different expectations of such programs in relation to the ideologies and theories underpinning the teacher professional development program design and curriculum offering. Taking stock of a postgraduate diploma program in English language teaching(PGDELT) for teachers’ continuing professional development with a 31-year history housed at a premier teacher education institution in Singapore, which has successfully graduated over 1, 000 English language teachers for colleges and universities in China, I intend to highlight some of its key features, as a former student and then a lecturer on the program, in order to draw implications for sustainable growth of language teacher education programs, especially those whose main purposes are to prepare teachers of English as a second or foreign language(ESL/EFL) and provide continuing professional development opportunities for such inservice teachers.
文摘Action research is a kind of research in language education, but it has its own characteristics. And its implementation will help a lot in both teachers＇ professional development and classroom teaching. This article has made a tentative study of the practical use of Action Research and some problems teachers confront in using it. This article is also concerned with some solutions to the problems teachers may face, e.g., being lack of knowledge about action research and expertise, being lack of time of action research, having too large class, being short of support including money, constraints from students and authority＇s response. The implentation of action research needs teachers, experts, and school athority＇s effort to improve language teching and language education.
文摘In this paper, we conduct research on the flip the classroom teaching mode for the modem innovation entrepreneurship classes under the MOOCs background. Job creation and encourage the entrepreneurship to create more employment opportunities will be a long-term policy, which puts forward higher requirements on entrepreneurship education in colleges and universities, we need for the current problem restricting the development of entrepreneurship education in colleges and the universities well as in-depth research. In view of the special practical entrepreneurship education, many universities invite entrepreneurial experience for the entrepreneurship lectures, entrepreneurial guidance. It should be worth promoting, but we also want to see, entrepreneurial faculty have their weakness. Under this background, we combine the MOOCs and flip the classroom teaching mode to form the novel education paradigm which holds special meaning.
文摘Tourism English reading is the course with the largest amount of information that students know and understand professional knowledge background of tourism, development history of tourism industry and classification and development status of tourism industry; which is also a course that students learn with relative difficulty. In tourism English reading teaching, introducing the cross-cultural communication knowledge and enhancing cross-cultural communication ability will help students to overcome the obstacles in reading, so as to make this course play its role.
文摘Classroom observation is an essential area that needs to be further investigated due to the role it plays in teachers professional development. However, there is a great dispute about the viability of the current practices by those responsible to evaluate and support teachers. This study aims at investigating the effectiveness of a new supervisory method called ＂Unseen Observation＂ （henceforth UO）, a strategy where teachers sit for a pre/post-lesson discussions but with no observer in class. Teachers were interviewed to measure their perceptions of the new method. Various findings were reached as to the level of satisfaction by teachers and their abilities to reflect on their lessons without the presence of the observer in their lessons
文摘Private University has been putting the development cultivate the integrated ability to make use of English is the final goal. goal on the applied talents. In terms ot college English teaching, to Meanwhile, the final goal also put forward the higher requirement for teacher＇s professional quality of class teaching. The article discussed the two issues, i.e. teaching skills and professional knowledge of college English teachers in private university. The author expects that the study can offer some valuable advice for the professional development of college English teachers in private university.
文摘Being professional teacher is a process of acting and self empowering of teachers collectively and continuously. A teacher is not merely transferring knowledges and subject matters to the students but also internalizing the values; professionalism, knowledge laedership, community empowerment, etc. Partnership, professional development, and learning community are possibly gained by the teachers through lesson study implementasion interconnectedly and mutually. This paper aims at elaborating on the experience of State Junior High School 1 Srandakan Bantul Yogyakarta in implementing lesson study as a break-through to enhance the teachers＇ professional development incorporating the three mechanisms of lesson study. This school has conducted lesson study for about three years. The study resulted that 80 percent of teachers achieve their competence in planning, doing, and reflecting the lesson through observing other teachers performance and being observed interchangeably.
文摘One of the most controversial debate topics in current College English teaching is whether EGP （English for General Purposes） should be replaced by ESP （English for Specific Purposes）. The latest College English Curriculum issued by MOE （Ministry of Education） does not reflect the trend of developing College English Teaching by focusing on ESP, but rather on improving general English course books. However, the first local College English Curriculum published in 2012 in Shanghai focuses on developing ESP and English for academic purpose as its teaching objectives. This paper analyzes different definitions of ESP in China＇s education setting, compares different views on handling the relationship between EGP and ESP in China＇s College English Reform, and explores how to apply an appropriate notion of EGP to College English teaching in China.
文摘Auditing is a kind of practical economical subject, with a strong practical and operational. It is the backbone course of accounting major and plays a crucial role in the professional cultivation. But recently, in stage of our country university education, audition＇ s teaching effectiveness is almost the lowest in all the core curriculum of accounting professional. Students generally reflect that Auditing is difficult to learn and abstract, while the teachers of auditing courses also reflect students have low interest in auditing learning, meanwhile there is less relevant case, fewer choices and other materials. This paper analyzes the problems and limitations of the auditing teaching, proposes measures about the teaching reform of university auditing, and finally makes our own suggestions about the reform measures of our university auditing teaching research.
文摘By analyzing the courses of graphic design major, the author points out that it is necessary to put Chinese traditional culture into courses of graphic design, which can open up students＇ design ideas, optimize their design styles and awareness, as well as improve their moral cultivation. The paper elaborates the influences and realistic significance of Chinese traditional culture on graphic design from perspectives of national cultural development, design communication and teaching application. It emphasizes the specific impacts and penetration of the traditional culture in the teaching of graphic design, including teaching content, teaching concepts, and basic teaching practices, etc. With multi- level elaboration, multi-angle exposition and multi-instance citation, it shows the methods to involve Chinese traditional culture in graphic design
文摘Basic courses are responsible for the cultivation of integrative qualities, which is a guarantee of the long-term sustainable development for the students.However, they are now challenged by the specialized courses in Chinese colleges.This essay first analyzes the current situation of the provision of basic courses in higher vocational colleges of China, then expounds the requirements of qualities cultivation of enterprises, and at last centers on the basic courses system construction in higher vocational colleges on orientation of qualities cultivation.
文摘This paper looks at the key issues and challenges facing TEFL teachers in China with respect to prospective teacher preparation and professional development. Drawing upon earlier research on conceptual frameworks, it examines the knowledge base of pre-service teachers through research into the curriculums in TEFL education across diploma, undergraduate and postgraduate levels. A comparative study of the curriculum structures in the education of TEFL teachers reveals a number of key areas of concern: the main hindrance to the development of a stronger knowledge base of pre-service teachers lies in the serious shortage of pedagogical content knowledge, fundamental pedagogical knowledge that are currently available, as well as with the overall inadequacy of practicum hours. It strongly argues for the breadth versus depth in course design and calls for the imperative to reconceptualize the knowledge base of pre-service teachers.
