Use of the Key Performance Index Evaluation Model for a Comparative Analysis of the Professional Teaching Quality of Economic Management

The key performance index (KPI) evaluation provides a guarantee for discipline construction, talent training, and research development and planning in colleges. Based on KPI evaluation model, this paper compares the professional teaching quality of economic management of different types of colleges, different teaching models, and different disciplines, through KPI appraisal. The results show that: teaching quality can be evaluated by several important indices, namely, teaching attitude, teaching content, teaching method, and teaching effect; the most important indices are teaching attitude and teaching content, followed by teaching effect and teaching method. The index scores of professional education mode were much higher than those of general education mode. Teaching effect is the highest rated index among students of accounting, and teaching attitude is the highest rated index among students of business administration. The research results lay the theoretical basis for colleges to improve KPI appraisal system and appraisal supervision system.

Professional Learning Communities: Reflections on Cases in Bahrain, Oman and the United Arab Emirates

This chapter explores the different definitions and, characteristics of international and regional research on a professional learning community (PLC) approach. The chapter discusses models of professional development that are used in international educational systems then it reflects on possible ways for adopting these models in the educational context in Bahrain, Oman and The United Arab Emirates. A focus on the educational context in the countries is included with recommendations for the implications thereof on policy and practice. This chapter has two parts: the first is a literature review that synthesizes key ideas, research, and results in the field of PLCs. The chapter thereby is connecting to ideas from a socio-material practice perspective in the field of workplace learning. This results in a focus on professional responsibility, accountability and experience. The second part includes two detailed cases that illustrate how PLCs are translated into learning and teaching practice in two private schools in Bahrain and Oman, and a third case reflecting on PLC initiatives in The United Arab Emirates. The chapter recommends promoting a PLC approach in educational systems in the Gulf Council Countries (GCC) and globally by focusing on the following practical implementations: expanding its use in pre- and in-service teacher training programs, adapting PLCs’ best international practices to the localized educational context, preparing school principals to lead PLCs in their schools, providing human and financial support to these communities, and working on changing school cultures to become more collaborative by using initiatives such as coaching. A shortage of studies about PLCs, specifically in the GCC region, may lead to a limited spread of improved professional teaching practices applied in GCC schools and the wider network of schools associated with GCC schools. This chapter highlights the importance of a PLC approach and provides examples of how this approach is being used. We suggest that other practitioners, school leaders and researchers may benefit by embracing a PLC approach for increased professional teaching practice, subsequent learner success and improved organizational education outcomes.

An Analysis of Critical Literacy in Featured Manuscripts Appearing in Two Major Literacy Journals (2011-2020)

Literacy journals provide an important resource for teachers’ professional development. Although school districts offer in-service education for their faculty and teachers often attend conferences and workshops sponsored by professional teaching organizations, journal reading remains an important source of information for teachers’ ongoing learning. In this study we examined what elementary teachers would learn about teaching critical literacy from reading major journals in literacy education. Critical literacy served as our focus because of the increasing importance of readers knowing how to recognize political, social and cultural perspectives embedded in the texts that they read. Content analysis served as our research method in which all volumes of The Reading Teacher and Language Arts published between 2011 and 2020 were examined. Results yielded 20 manuscripts meeting our criteria, and these clustered into two categories: (1) manuscripts describing effective critical literacy projects in elementary classrooms; (2) manuscripts discussing the use of children’s literature for teaching critical literacy. Given recent national events relating to racial and ethnic injustice throughout the country, we recommend that literacy journals place greater emphasis in publishing manuscripts that help teachers include a critical literacy lens into the lessons they teach children.

Curriculum System Reform for Management Majors Based on the Paradigm of “Sydney Accord”

The curriculum system is the guiding ideology of educational activities as well as the concretization and support of training objectives. It stipulates the planning scheme for the implementation of training objectives. The curriculum system is mainly composed of specific curriculum view, curriculum goal, curriculum content, curriculum structure, and curriculum activity mode, in which professional talent training goal, talent training specification, and systematic curriculum play important roles. This article relies on the first batch of research projects on teaching under the “13th Five-Year Plan” for higher education by Zhejiang Provincial Department of Education in 2018. It sorts out and summarizes the practical experience of teaching reform involved in the project, so as to further explore scientific and effective ways of professional teaching reform.

Research on Implementation Modes of Ideological and Political Courses in Pediatric Nursing

with the continuous advancement of socialist modernization, China needs more and more talents, in particular the talents who are not only high in professional techniques, but also high in ideological and moral level and thinking ability, thus producing ideological and political courses. Along with the constant development of education cause, the professional education starts to concern on ideological and political work and integrate ideological and political courses into professional teaching. To this end, the paper explores the specific implementation path of ideological and political course mode from the perspective of pediatric nursing, describes ideological and political courses in detail and points out the requirements on the construction of ideological and political courses of pediatric nursing so as to provide reference for education of pediatric nursing and improvement of students’ comprehensive quality.

INNOVATIVE CULTURE DEVELOPMENT OF TEACHERS AND PUPILS AS A PEDAGOGICAL IDEA REALIZATION OF THE AUTHOR SCHOOL ON LINGUISTICS AND SPIRITUALITY

The article presents theoretical and methodological, organizational and pedagogical prin-ciples of innovative culture of teachers and pupils as a realization of the pedagogical idea of the author's school of linguistics and spirituality of Zarifa Aliieva Irpin specialized secondary school I-III Grades №12 with foreign languages (school of linguistics) of Kyiv region; The author's school model is seen as a prototype of qualitative changes in education, which depends on a team of professionals who expand the space of educa-tional opportunities for pupils development. The leading idea of the Author's School of Linguistics and Spirit-uality is the formation of a competitive, socially mobile, innovative, tolerant and spiritual personality. Gradu-ally realizing this goal, the teaching staff made every effort to create a positive image of the educational in-stitution, which determines: the presence of a relevant concept of the school of linguistics; implementation of long-term educational strategy; development of innovative culture of teachers and pupils; favorable moral and psychological climate in the team; availability of proper modern material and technical base; caring highly professional teaching staff; functioning of the school pupils organization «Country Roxolania». The introduction of the pedagogical idea of the author's school of linguistics and spirituality in the context of the development of innovative culture of teachers and pupils is based on current regulations. Personal and pro-fessional characteristics of a teacher with a high level of innovation culture (stable interest in technological innovation, motivation for creative activity, self-improvement and self-realization in professional activities, overcoming difficulties in innovation; values of professional self-expression in innovation, psychological atti-tude to innovation; innovative technologies, understanding the goals of innovation in education, knowledge of modern innovations in the practice of working with pupils)

Teaching System of Embedded Mechanical Manufacturing Specialty Based on Deep Learning

With the increasing development of electronic computers and the popularization of computer technology, management systems have been widely used in the society. With the continuous improvement of the teaching system, the methods of education and teaching are also quietly changing, especially in the field of higher vocational education. Due to the characteristics of vocational education, it makes “training project progress control” and “teaching resource integration” the teaching requirements of “distribution,” “strictly restricting daily work habits,” “improving professional quality,” and “teachers’ effective control of the quality of students’ personal projects” that have become increasingly urgent needs in vocational colleges. There is a certain gap between the standards and quality of talent training in our country’s applied undergraduate colleges, and the society’s requirements for high-skilled talents and practical teaching in applied undergraduate colleges are a necessary condition for cultivating high-skilled talent. This subject research takes the mechanical manufacturing professional practice teaching system as the research object, conducts in-depth investigation and research in applied undergraduate colleges, explores the status quo of the mechanical manufacturing professional practice teaching system of applied undergraduate colleges, and analyzes the reasons for the problems. In this study, six classes of mechanical manufacturing majors in six applied undergraduate colleges were selected as the experimental group and the control group for comparison. The experimental group adopts an embedded mechanical manufacturing professional teaching system based on deep learning. In daily teaching, the control group used traditional teaching methods to learn. The questionnaire understands the role of the embedded machinery manufacturing professional teaching system in teaching from four aspects: practical teaching curriculum, practical teaching content, practical teaching equipment, and practical teaching teachers. Experiments have proved that more than half of the people think that the teaching effect of the current mechanical manufacturing professional practice teaching courses is average; only 17.18% think that the classroom is good, and 24.36% think that the classroom is poor. This shows that the construction of similar engineering professional practice is in line with the major itself, and the teaching system has theoretical guiding significance, which is conducive to the seamless connection of mechanical manufacturing majors and industrial positions in applied undergraduate colleges; it is conducive to continuously improving the core competitiveness of mechanical manufacturing majors in industrial and applied undergraduate colleges.

Managing English Language Classroom for Meaningful Teaching and Learning: A Case Study for Hochland High School in Windhoek

Total management of overcrowded classrooms have across-the-board effects for English as a Second Language teaching and learning environments as in any subject. Greater attainment and achievements in schools depend on the choices made with regard to teacher-learner ratios that consider of classroom management. Recruitment of learners and teachers should ensure that classrooms are enabled to meet the demands of professional teaching challenges, amongst other, inidvidualised teaching and learning. The aim of the research was to explore the challenges and related matters in managing English as a Second Language overcrowded classrooms. A qualitative approach, steered by a case study design, purposively guided the study. It was deemed fit in order to understand the phenomena with deeper understanding of beliefs and situated lived experiences. Semi-structured interviews and nonparticipant observations were used as methods to generate data for analysis. The research exposed that copious problems were experienced by teachers and leaners who were subjected to overcrowded classrooms. Amongst many, noise and unruly behaviour, poor time management and teaching approaches result in such classes. Guiding principles regarding sound teacher-learner ratios should be put in place by policymakers and schools in order to support both teachers and learners for the success of teaching and learning.