Curriculum Development and Teachers for Cultivating OECD Student Agency in Japan:From an Examination of Educational Thought,Educational System,History,and Contemporary Science and Mathematics Education Practices

The purpose of this paper is to examine the development of a curriculum in Japan to foster the agency(OECD Student Agency)necessary for children living in the future,as outlined in the OECD Education2030 Project,and the role of teachers who implement this curriculum.Therefore,I aim to achieve this goal by taking an overview of educational thought,educational systems and history,and examining several initiatives in the OECD Project and the situation of a Japanese high school that practices science and mathematics education.As a result of analyzing previous research and the narratives obtained from interviews with Teacher A(pseudonym)of a certain F High School(pseudonym),it was found that school education should not simply teach subjects,but should aim to enable student to help student exercise agency in the future.It was suggested that it is not necessary to add content to the curriculum,but rather to prepare to provide students with competencies that will enable them to use the content in various contexts,situations,and circumstances,suggesting that in order to discover such important competencies,teachers and other related parties are required to implement curricula that allow students to slowly and carefully explore the competencies surrounding the content,and to conceive and build curricula that include both hidden and intended curriculum that allows student to reflect on the curriculum they have achieved.

Construction of the Curriculum System of Software Engineering Based on the Agile Development Method

Under the background of“new engineering”construction,software engineering teaching pays more attention to cultivating students’engineering practice and innovation ability.In view of the inconsistency between development and demand design,team division of labor,difficult measurement of individual contribution,single assessment method,and other problems in traditional practice teaching,this paper proposes that under the guidance of agile development methods,software engineering courses should adopt Scrum framework to organize course project practice,use agile collaboration platform to implement individual work,follow up experiment progress,and ensure effective project advancement.The statistical data of curriculum“diversity”assessment show that there is an obvious improvement effect on students’software engineering ability and quality.

“curriculum development”译名及其词源的考证

在curriculum development一词应用于课程领域后,译者们对其译法莫衷一是,归纳起来有课程编制、课程开发和课程研制等几种译义。从development一词的词源考查curriculum development本原含义,对正确认识curriculum development很有启示。由development的词源可知curriculum development不能译作课程编制,而只能译作课程研制或课程开发,二者是同义语,都是指以课程标准、课程计划、课程内容等为对象"进行劳动以达到利用的目的"的过程,它们包括解读课程标准和课程计划、选择课程内容,组织课程内容、设计课程实施程序、选择课程实施方式方法、对课程内容具体化等一系列环节。至于课程开发和课程研制的区别,就在于课程开发更注重实践层次,是技术性行为,而课程研制则更倾向于理论层次,是研究性行为。

Curriculum Innovation in Language Teacher Education:Reflections on the PGDELT Program’s Contributions to EFL Teachers’Continuing Professional Development

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.

Curriculum Development and Instructional Design for “Industrial Robot Simulation Technology Training”based on Robot Studio

Taking the application of virtual simulation technology of industrial robot in teaching as the researchobject, a detailed research is conducted on the importance of course, principles of curriculum development,curriculum objectives, teaching content, teaching methods, teaching process and assessment methods in severalaspects. And the actual teaching for a semester according to this research, through the virtual simulationteaching, improved teaching efficiency, improved the industrial robot application level and ability of thestudents, reduced the equipment failure rate, and laid a solid foundation for the subsequent course.

Curriculum Discourse and Foreign Language Teachers'Professional Development

The significance and status of the teachers'professional development make the education system and the society pay more and more attentions.The article elaborates the internal contact of curriculum discourse and teachers'professional development from a few respects such as the rationality of curriculum discourse,the long-term nature of the teachers'professional development and many factors affecting the teachers'professional development.The article also analyzes the external and internal factors influencing Tibet foreign language teachers'professional development,and puts forward the corresponding countermeasures in the light of these problems.

Master Thesis Topics and Correlations With Curriculum Development

This paper analyzes a total of 294 master thesis topics for students at Graduate School of Translation and Interpretation （GSTI）, Beijing Foreign Studies University （BFSU） between years 2006-2010 and 160 topics at Graduate Institute of Interpretation and Translation （GIIT）, Shanghai International Studies University （SH1SU） between years 2007-2013, with the purpose of establishing correlations between thesis topics and curriculum development, comparing and contrasting the topics between BFSU and SHISU. The study is both quantitative and qualitative. Over the years students of BFSU and SHISU have shown a progress of possessing more and more appropriate methodological expertise in selecting research topics. More and more students have examined relatively new translation theories. We also see a change from picking overdone topics to more and more original topics. Our progress in no small part thanks to our administrative measures. As for GSTI of BFSU, however there is a demand for elective courses to cover areas such as interdisciplinary approaches to translation and multimedia, which are untouched in the current courses that focus on professional translation and interpretation. We might also want to sharpen students＇ language skill in providing purposefully language-rich texts for practices and allowing for more diversified options, such as introducing texts in world literature, ethnic English literature, drama, poetry, and non classics. The GSTI＇s long term cooperation with well-known organizations, both domestic and international, especially with United Nations at Geneva and New York, and European Union, offers students many on site training and field experiences. We might also want to introduce functional research methods, thus students can learn how to transform their field experiences into academic work.

Research on the Development Trend of Contemporary Vocal Music Education System from the Curriculum Optimization Perspective

In this paper, we conduct research on the development trend of contemporary vocal music education system from the curriculum optimization perspective. In the teaching, because the students interested in learning solfeggio, decided that they have the goal of learning. Learning objectives are the prerequisites for students to generate learning motivation, but also guide the direction of student learning, which reflects the orientation of interest. In concrete teaching process, student association, because has the strong interest to the teacher positive teaching, thus establishes reaches the high-level diligently desire and goal, this will give student’s solfeggio study to bring enormous encouragement and promoter action. But teacher’s strong interest and deep love to the solfeggio teaching has decided the teacher work earnest direction diligently. Under this basis, we propose the development trend of contemporary vocal music education system with in-depth analysis.

A research on the school-based curriculums development in collage public art education construction

Based on an analysis of the existing problems of collage public art education in China, the paper discussed the connotation ofXi＇ an physical education University constructing a ＂one foundation and two supplements ＂ public art education curriculums system with its own characteristics and personality, and generalized the principles and concrete measures we should pay attention to during development of school-based curriculum of public art education.

The Composition and Promotion Strategy of Teachers'Curriculum Development Ability in Secondary Vocational Schools

The curriculum development ability of secondary vocational school teachers is a necessary professional ability for teachers.It has important practical significance and practical value for promoting secondary vocational education curriculum and teaching reform.On the basis of analyzing the connotation and composition of curriculum development ability of teachers in secondary vocational schools,this article proposes three strategies to improve the curriculum development ability of teachers in secondary vocational schools.

Research, Development and Practice of Primary School Problem-based Curriculum Based on Tianfu Culture

This article aims to combine the connotation of Tianfu culture with primary school problem-based learning based on Sichuan Tianfu culture,producing problem-based curriculum as the output.We explore problem-based curriculum development and practical methods based on primary education.It shows the distinctive and charming regional culture,representing the mutual respect and inclusiveness of Tianfu cultural bonds.It is also the innovative expression of the characteristic schoolbased curriculum of the elementary school.

The Roles of the Learner, Teacher and Institution in Curriculum Development in a Chinese EFL Learning Context

There has been an increasing awareness in China＇s English language teaching profession that curriculum development should take account of the participants within the curriculum development process： the planners, the administrators, the institutions, the teachers, and the learners. This paper attempts to identify the underlying principles of the New English Curriculum in China （2001）, based on which the roles of the learner, teacher, and institution that underpin the development of the new English curriculum in a secondary school in South-west China are critieaUy examined.

The Curriculum System Development of Sightseeing Agriculture Major Based on Work Flow

From the position setting of sightseeing agriculture businesses and ability analysis,this paper analyzes the career action field based on training objectives of sightseeing agriculture major and determines the typical tasks and career action field. According to the major teaching design of career action field,this paper introduces the systematic curriculum system of sightseeing agriculture major based on work flow.

Action Research——the Way to Enhancing Teacher Professional Development

This paper introduces the notion of action research in its international academic context. Action research is potentially beneficial to both pre-service teachers and in-service teachers in their professional development and it should play an important role in the curriculum renewal of English teaching methodology in China.

The Development of Literary Appreciation Instrument in Building Students＇ Character

Reading literary works does not only function at entertaining, but also gives moral values to influence students＇ behavior and to strengthen the establishment of character and personality, l,iterature is an important subject in learning and becomes a compulsory subject in several faculties. The problem posed in this inquiry is how to develop literary appreciation instrument to establish students＇ character. Employing development research, this investigation implemented at the Teachers＇ Training and Education Faculty of Sriwijaya University with 89 students as the respondents is airaed at producing a literary appreciation instrument arranged by collaborating reader response strategy, the theou1 of psycho-literature, Pavlov conditioning theory, and character building theory The findings of this study are： A valid and effective instrument to build students＇ character by reading and responding literary works in Personality Development course, the developed literary appreciation instrument is significantly effective to increase students＇ literary appreciation which achiew^s very good category by the emerge of two up to three very good indicators through a test and the result from questionnaire indicates that 95.3% of the students can identify the values in the appreciation instrument when they replied the questions concerning with the story read, and the students＇ perception toward the importance of appreciating literary works to establish their character is positively perceived （97%）. If it is viewed from the strength of the instrument, it is recommended that literary appreciation be important to teach and to disseminate the appreciation instrumem either at the level of language faculty or non-language students and all the levels of education

A Review on the Development of Chinese Graphic Design Education

The development of economy and industrialization further accelerates the pace of development of graphic design education.The educational system actively adopted two ways of“going out”and“inviting in”to communicate with the western world in graphic design(Zhang,2009).Chinese design began to re-examine its balance between globalization and localization after rapid absorption and international experience digestion.As for the negative influence,it led to the risk of developing short-sightedness in design education.Faced with unprecedented challenges,the graphic design industry was continually expanding its functions.The development of Chinese design cannot entirely rely on its own.There was no doubt that graphic design was indeed facing significant obstacles.The suggestions from the American Institute of Graphic Arts(AIGA)are set very high to achieve;the objectives will be excellent if academia can follow.A study aims to understand the overall curriculum and course design and how best to modify the general curriculum and course design to allow for industry practices changes and keep a close eye on the Chinese market's changing needs for design should be carried out.

Discussion on the Teaching Development of Thai Courses in Universities

In recent years,with the expansion and extension of China’s free trade platform,construction has gradually developed toward Southeast Asia and South Asia,thus resulting in the phenomena whereby Thai language courses have become more common and more universities have begun to cultivate Thai language majors.In this process,improving the effectiveness of Thai courses has become the key;therefore,schools and Thai language teachers should pay attention to this.In order to achieve the language teaching goal put forward by the Ministry of Education,it is necessary to accelerate the development of Thai courses in universities and explore a new development path for them,so that the teaching quality of Thai courses can be guaranteed.Based on this,this paper mainly discusses the development history of the curriculum of Thai language courses in universities.

Towards Breaking through Bottlenecks of Developing Higher Education Curriculum from the Perspective of Constructing Quality Evaluation System

With the effective measure of curriculum maturity,curriculum development of higher education makes a breakthrough in the bottleneck period,ultimately providing an external driving force for the effective study on substance of quality evaluation system in the development of higher education curriculum.The research shows that the development of higher education curriculum should make a comprehensive analysis of quality evaluation by following the principle of sustainability,which encourages the quality-oriented innovation of higher education curriculum,thus forming a substantive breakthrough in curriculum development.