试论文学鉴赏在高职学生教学中的运用

本文论述了在高职学生中开设文学鉴赏课程的意义、目的、作用以及如何在教学过程中实施文学鉴赏课程的教学。     

高校政治理论课教学要在“活”字上做文章

高校政治理论课的内容要“讲活”，授课方法要“灵活”，课堂气氛要“搞活”，教育资料要“鲜活”，互动交流要“激活”。     

高职数学“自主探究”教学模式的实验研究

探讨“自主探究”教学模式对高职数学教学具有重要的作用。研究结果表明：（1）学生的自主探究能力与学生学习兴趣、学习态度之间有密切联系。（2）“自主探究”教学模式在培养学生自主探究能力方面是有效的，并且效果显著。（3）“自主探究”教学模式在提高学生的数学成绩方面是有影响的。     

和谐社会条件下的三元和谐英语教学

和谐是当今社会的主旋律之一。本文提出了三元和谐英语教学理念，分析了三元与英语教学之间的内在关系，对于英语教学的改革以及高校的和谐稳定具有一定的借鉴意义。     

在主题教研中与教师共同成长——吉林省大安市基地教研工作的思考

建立一种与新课程相适应的以校为本的教研制度、建立多元开放的教学研究机制,是学校发展和教师成长的现实要求,是深化课改的方向和重点。2008年初,大安市创建了＂基地主题教研＂的教研方式,共同地、有计划地研究解决教学中的热点和难点问题,实现了教研观念的转变和教研方式的变革。     

“资本主义的基本矛盾与经济危机”教学“三部曲”

教学＂三部曲＂即＂讲＂、＂看＂、＂议＂三个教学环节,＂讲＂即导学和精讲,＂看＂即观看视频资料,＂议＂即议论和讨论。三者具有内在的统一性,＂讲＂是＂看＂和＂议＂的基础,是教学过程的根本;＂看＂是＂讲＂的延伸、＂议＂的基础,是教学过程的重要部分;＂议＂是＂讲＂和＂看＂的升华,是教学过程的精髓。在运用＂三部曲＂教学法时,要处理好教学中的普遍性与特殊性的关系,要实现知识传授与思想教育的统一。     

山西省农村初中体育游戏教育应用现状及对策研究——以太原市为例

运用文献资料、问卷调查、数理统计等方法,从太原市农村初中体育教师在体育教学中应用体育游戏的情况、学生参加体育游戏的现状、影响体育教师在体育教学中应用体育游戏的因素等方面,对太原市农村初中体育教学中体育游戏应用现状进行调查与分析,并针对存在问题,提出合理建议。     

Turning Over Turnover

Abstract

Human service programs often have major problems ensuring that all direct-care staff positions are filled and keeping staff members after they are hired. Work schedules may have an effect on maintaining the longevity of staff. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of a revised direct-care staff-scheduling system in community homes serving adults with developmental disabilities. The revised direct-care staffing system, which used shift-style schedules, was compared on a variety of measures to existing staffing systems and to a staffing model using married couples and adaptations of the Teaching-Family Model (called Family-Teaching homes). The revised staff-scheduling system was evaluated before and after its implementation and then compared to the Family-Teaching homes using direct-care employee measures of: (1) turnover; (2) position vacancies; (3) number of different employees paid within a pay period; (4) average hourly wages; (5) number of hours worked; (6) average cost for employees per person served; and (7) employee satisfaction. The various staffing approaches were also compared on measures of parent/legal guardian satisfaction and overall program quality. The revised staff-scheduling system was superior when compared to the previous staff-scheduling system on measures of turnover (43% less), vacancies (57% fewer), number of direct-care employees involved in the care of the persons served (13% fewer), and hourly wages (8% more). All of this was achieved without affecting staff-to-client ratios. While these changes were positive, the Family-Teaching homes were associated with significantly better direct-care staff stability and lower costs.     

Scandalous Care: Interpreting Public Enquiry Reports of Scandals in Residential Care

ABSTRACT

This article reviews an earlier study written for the Wagner Committee (1988) on scandals in residential care. That review was based on a study of ten enquiry reports, only two of which were about homes for older people. The main events that were described are grouped as: institutionalised practices, indifference and neglect, physical cruelty, humiliation, too authoritarian a life-style, a dull and depressing life-style, an overcrowded and run down environment, disharmony amongst the staff team, and staff misappropriating goods or money. Now, more weight should be given to: residents' abuse of residents and of staff, an improper influence on the life-style of others, and sexual abuse. Explanations proposed are: structural, environmental, and individual and worker style. Abuse is considered in the context of the nature of direct care and the acts of intimate caring of others.     

Statisticians Can Matter

Statisticians fall far short of their potential as guides to enlightened decision making in business. Two important explanations are: (1) Decision makers are often more easily convinced by concrete examples, however fragmentary and misleading, than by competent statistical analysis. (2) The effective use of statistics in the process of decision making requires hard thinking by decision makers, thinking that cannot be delegated entirely to the statistical specialist. Modern developments in interactive statistical computing may help to reduce the force of these limitations on exploitation of statistics; used properly, computing can encourage, almost force, the student or business user of statistics to think statistically.