Reclaiming ourselves through Testimonio pedagogy: reflections on a curriculum design lab in teacher education

This article details one teacher preparation course centering Latin American Testimonio narratives of struggle/survival amid structural oppression for use in secondary curriculum. As our class of predominantly Latina/o students and two Latina instructors engaged Testimonio pedagogy, we fashioned a hopeful alternative to our own experiences of intergenerational oppression. While research indicates that the experiences and histories of pre-service Teachers of Color lend pedagogical strength and critical consciousness to teacher education, three Latina pre-service students highlight the ways in which Testimonio became more than a pedagogical approach. Testimonio’s collectivity, resistance, hope, and assertions of voice and dignity moved through them not as educators first but as (great-grand)daughters of oppressed though still-resilient People(s). Testimonio emboldened these Latina pre-service educators to recognize and validate their own inherited multiliteracies, (re)claim their connectedness to land, and articulate their visions for more equitable schooling. This work advances research into the essentiality of engaging race and ethnicity in K-12 and teacher education curriculum and pedagogy.     

Understanding racial literacy through acts of (un)masking: Latinx teachers in a new Latinx diaspora community

As Latinx teachers are recruited to work in U.S. schools, a continued agenda to understand their experiences is warranted. This multiple case study considers the storytelling of six Latinx teachers in a new Latinx diaspora community. It documents both their racial literacy (the ability to resolve racially stressful issues) and their experiences with (un)masking (literal and figurative ways to cover or embrace racial markers). This study reveals the tensions that arise when Latinx teachers attempt to define their identity in social spaces where their languages, bodies, and names, among other markers, are racialized when read by others. Implications for teacher education include a call to include storytelling as a pedagogical tool to develop Latinx teachers’ racial literacy skills. By experiencing storytelling in their own schooling, Latinx teachers are more likely to model such racial literacy skills in their schooling communities; thereby, empowering a generation of students to enact more humanizing behaviors.     

Initial teacher training: understanding ‘race,’ diversity and inclusion

There is little research which has explored how students on Initial Teacher Training (ITT) courses understand and conceptualise discourses of ‘race’, diversity and inclusion. This article will focus on student understandings of racialised identities; it will explore the discourses by which students understand what it means to be White and what it means to be Black, within the context of ITT. The article will examine the different facets and themes of identity within the context of belonging and exclusion which exist within higher education in the cultural and social contexts of English universities. The findings indicate that students’ understandings of ‘race’, diversity and inclusion on ITT courses are complex and multifaceted. The article argues that greater training is needed in relation to the practical assistance that student teachers require in terms of increasing their understanding of diversity and dealing with racism in the classroom.     

Ideas on How to Help the Students Improve Their Oral English

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教与学的新手段：浅谈多媒体在化学教学中的应用

在科技迅猛发展的今天,多媒体以图、文、声并茂的特点,越来越多地被应用于教育教学中.它容量大,形象、生动、直观,能激发学生学习的兴趣和求知欲望,培养学生科学素养和创新精神.     

面向新世纪素质教育中学英语教师的培养

心理素质、自学能力、计算机辅助教材的应用、教学实习和课堂教学评鉴,这些方面在教师培养过程中应得到重视。     

《新编大学英语》合作教学法实验研究

我校2000级新生全部使用了《新编大学英语》。在教材使用过程中，我们发现了 以下两个问题：⑴教师缺乏一般的外语教学理论指导；⑵集中体现新教材特点的课堂分组活 动松散、无序。针对上述问题，我部对全体英语教师进行了外语教学理论与实践的培训，同 时对教学方法进行了深入研究和探索，采用了国外先进教学法——合作学习法，进行了相关 的教学实验研究，并取得了阶段性成果。     

Would rethinking learning disabilities benefit Kuwait?

Learning disabilities education in Kuwait grew from Kuwaiti’s wholesale importation of the Western, medical model of disability – a model basically incompatible with Kuwaiti culture. Conflicting factors include its problematic normal/abnormal binary, its assumption that the ‘deficit’ is located in the student and the segregation of students by label. As proponents of disability studies we investigate whether, and if so how, Arab educators at Kuwait’s only learning disabilities school talk about this incompatibility. Through focus group and individual, in‐depth conversational interviews we found that they acknowledged this tension, but that they dealt with it in more complex ways than we had anticipated: by compartmentalizing, accepting the imported model as the only alternative to overcrowded public education and subjugating their experiential awareness to that of the Western scientific model.     

论幸福教育视野下教师的主动成长

从教师幸福感和幸福教育的角度出发,分析了幸福教育与教师主动成长的关系:幸福是教育的本真要求,幸福即是教师成长的动力,也是教师成长的境界.教师幸福感缺失是教师不愿意主动成长的重要因素.教师自我成长的动力与源泉来自于其创造性的教学劳动中,教师应该把教育看作幸福的职业,教师要在教育过程中创造和享受幸福,在教育过程中主动成长.     

论高素质教师及教师职前教育改革

在对研究者、国际组织和若干国家的专业标准关于教师素质结构的阐述进行考查之后笔者认为,高素质教师的素质结构是一个综合的、全面的、动态的、均衡的复杂系统。作为造就高素质教师的重要阶段,教师职前教育要想有所作为,就必须采取战略性调整教师培养目标、重新设计教师教育课程体系、强化教育实践等变革措施。