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Huabai, Bu; Dengyu, Zhang; Xiuying, Shen; Hao, Tu – Higher Education Studies, 2012
Many elements of the basic education teachers' training performance are embedded in the training interaction and sharing, so the enhancement of the training performance needs a whole process management and control. Based on TTPM theory, this paper has put forward four measures that must be pay attention to during the management of the basic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, Teacher Improvement, Educational Theories
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Hu, Bi Ying; Zhou, Yisu; Li, Kejian – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2014
This study compared Chinese kindergarten teachers' values and perceptions of program quality with trained raters' assessments of quality in order to gain insights into effective professional development for improving teacher quality. A total of 284 Chinese kindergarten teachers self-assessed the quality of their classroom teaching and rated their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Values
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Hiebert, James; Morris, Anne K. – Journal of Teacher Education, 2012
For several historical and cultural reasons, the United States has long pursued a strategy of improving teaching by improving teachers. The rarely questioned logic underlying this choice says that by improving the right characteristics of teachers, they will teach more effectively. The authors expose the assumptions on which this logic is built,…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Logical Thinking, Professional Development, Teacher Improvement
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Zhang, Jinbao, Ed.; Yang, Junfeng, Ed.; Chang, Maiga, Ed.; Chang, Tingwen, Ed. – Lecture Notes in Educational Technology, 2016
Intended to promote the innovative use of technology in education and promote educational advances all over the world, this volume brings together 16 best-practice cases on technology-enhanced educational innovations. Experts from Turkey, Tunisia, Cyprus, Italy, Malaysia, China, India and Finland have contributed to these cases, highlighting the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Best Practices, Educational Innovation, Technology Uses in Education
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Ma, Tao; Chen, Wen – International Education Studies, 2009
International Trade Practice is a professional basic course for specialty of International Economy and Trade. As the core of International Trade Practice, it is extremely related to foreign affairs and needs much practical experience. This paper puts forward some suggestions on how to improve the performance of teaching in order to educate the…
Descriptors: Experimental Teaching, Foreign Countries, Simulation, International Trade
Brewer, Elizabeth – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2011
Study abroad's purpose, once conceived primarily as a means for acquiring knowledge in a content area as well as language acquisition, began in the 1980s to be considered a vehicle for helping American students become less "parochial" and better prepared to live and work in a globalized world. To achieve these goals, students must be…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Workshops, Faculty Development, Study Abroad
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Li, Kun – English Language Teaching, 2012
This paper states the current situation of foreign language teachers' affective variables in universities for ethnic minorities when teaching a foreign language. It emphasizes the urgent need of improvement of affective variables in such universities based on relevant research results and an interview performed in a university for ethnic…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Second Language Instruction, Affective Objectives, College Faculty
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Shimbo, Atsuko – Educational Studies in Japan: International Yearbook, 2009
The symposium entitled "Social Changes in East Asia and Educational reforms: China, Korea, and Singapore" suggested that these countries are carrying out rather drastic educational reforms in the context of rapid social changes. The knowledge gained from the symposium also has important suggestions for Japanese educational reform. In…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Teacher Effectiveness, Equal Education, Teacher Improvement
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Zhang, Wei – International Education Studies, 2009
There exist a good many issues in practical teaching in vocational-technical schools in China, such as underemphasis on the part of all parties involved in practical teaching, dated practical teaching content, irrational curriculum provision in practical teaching, shortage of "double-quality" teachers and space for improvement of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Vocational Schools, Teaching Methods
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Fang, Hong; Zhou, Hongmin – International Education Studies, 2010
The internationalization of higher education in Jiangxi Province is not only the internal requirement of the development of higher education but the actual demands of Jiangxi's economic development. However, quite a few problems are hindering it, such as laggard ideas about education internationalization, low level of staff internationalization,…
Descriptors: Reflection, Higher Education, Global Approach, International Educational Exchange
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Wen, Shuhong; Wang, Xiaohong – International Education Studies, 2008
This paper conducts research on the connotations and characteristics of evaluation indicator system for teaching quality of college teachers, constructs the contents of the evaluation indicator system for teaching quality of college teachers and applies the contents in the practice of teaching quality monitoring and evaluation so as to prove their…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
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Bai, Yimin – Educational Action Research, 2009
Since the introduction of the action research into China in the 1980s, especially since the start of the twenty-first century, Chinese education researchers have been trying to localize it in relation to the backdrop of the national curriculum reform in basic education. This article presents three cases in which educators aimed for a conscious…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Action Research, Educational Change
Kwan, Ming Kai Marko – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Before 1997, no formal curriculum on Chinese cultural education for primary schools was developed in Hong Kong although the education authority had started to introduce some items of Chinese cultural learning into the Chinese language syllabus when the Target Oriented Curriculum was implemented in 1996. However, such items were incorporated into…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Chinese, National Curriculum
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Lebans, Tanya; Radigan, Margie – Rural Educator, 2007
As part of a Canadian International Development Agency funded project working with rural teachers in central China, recent graduates Lebans and Radigan spent a month teaching in Chinese schools. The primary purpose of the project is to work with members of the Sichuan Provincial Teacher Training Centre and rural teachers from Wenchuan County…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Faculty Development
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Spalding, Elizabeth; Wang, Jian; Lin, Emily; Butcher, John – New Educator, 2009
Understanding the interplay among experience, beliefs, and contexts of teaching in preservice and inservice teachers' learning to teach is crucial to improving teacher quality for diverse populations. This study examined the impact of a summer camp English teaching experience in China on the ideas and practice of two White, middle-class female…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Faculty Development, Teacher Improvement, Preservice Teachers
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