Learning to teach in the primary school.

Este manual proporciona una visión fundamental en una serie de cuestiones que afectan a las decisiones que se toman en el aula. Escrito por expertos en la enseñanza primaria, está dividido en nueve secciones que cubren: convertirse en un maestro, explorar la naturaleza del aprendizaje y la enseñanza, planificación y gestión del aprendizaje, enfoque del plan de estudios, evaluación, diversidad e inclusión, los acontecimientos recientes en la educación primaria, colaboración en la práctica, desarrollo profesional. Cada capítulo contiene una breve introducción a los conceptos claves, temas y habilidades, y ofrece actividades de aprendizaje en forma de tareas. Incluye bibliografía al final de los capítulos.

Learning to teach in the secondary school : a companion to school experience.

Este libro presenta una introducción exhaustiva y práctica de los conocimientos y habilidades necesarios para ser un profesor eficaz. Basándose en prácticas reflexivas y basadas en la experiencia, el libro contiene ejemplos de cómo aplicar la teoría a la práctica y cómo analizar la práctica para maximizar el aprendizaje del alumno. Proporciona un marco teórico y práctico para distintas situaciones y desafíos potenciales que se pueden presentar en la escuela. Incluye: planificación de lecciones y esquemas de trabajo, evaluaciones, diferenciación, progresión y agrupación de alumnos, uso de las nuevas tecnologías y gestión del comportamiento para el aprendizaje.

Delivering the promise : making e-learning strategy work.

El objetivo del libro es ayudar a los lectores a poner en práctica sus estrategias de tecnologías de la información y la comunicación en e-learning, ayudarles a hacerlas funcionar en el mundo real. Para ello analiza las experiencias que una serie organizaciones de aprendizaje de adultos y en comunidad han tenido con sus estrategias de enseñanza electrónica como parte de un proyecto del NIACE (National Institute of Adult Continuing Education).

Readings for learning to teach in the secondary school: a companion to M level study.

Este manual está compuesto de lecturas para aprender a enseñar en la escuela secundaria que reúnen artículos clave para el desarrollo y apoyo a los estudiantes. Los temas del libro son: convertirse en un profesor (preparación emocional para enseñar: un estudio de un caso sobre profesores en Inglaterra), comenzar a enseñar (aprendiendo a aprender como profesor), interacciones en el aula y conseguir alumnos (Hacia la mejora del aprendizaje en la escuela secundaria: puntos de vista de los estudiantes, las teorías de la motivación, las últimas investigaciones sobre el comportamiento problemático en clase), encontrando diferencias individuales (las clases sociales).

A comparison of the performance of aphasoid and non-aphasoid children in learning to discriminate among auditory stimuli

This paper discusses auditory perception differences in aphasic and non-aphasic children

Learning to talk to users in participatory design situations

In participatory design situations the competence of the facilitator will influence the opportunities for a user group to become engaged in the process of design. Based on the observation of the conversations from a series of design workshops, the performance of design facilitation expertise by an expert architect is compared with a less experienced architectural graduate. The skills that are the focus of this research are the conversational competences deployed by architects to engage users in the design of an architectural project. The difference between the conversational behaviour of a project architect and a less experienced graduate was observed to illustrate with examples the effect the performance of facilitation had on the opportunity for user engagement in design, and of learning the skill of facilitation that occurred in these situations.

Learning associations between places and visual cues without learning to navigate: neither fornix nor entorhinal cortex is required

Rats with fornix transection, or with cytotoxic retrohippocampal lesions that removed entorhinal cortex plus ventral subiculum, performed a task that permits incidental learning about either allocentric (Allo) or egocentric (Ego) spatial cues without the need to navigate by them. Rats learned eight visual discriminations among computer-displayed scenes in a Y-maze, using the constant-negative paradigm. Every discrimination problem included two familiar scenes (constants) and many less familiar scenes (variables). On each trial, the rats chose between a constant and a variable scene, with the choice of the variable rewarded. In six problems, the two constant scenes had correlated spatial properties, either Alto (each constant appeared always in the same maze arm) or Ego (each constant always appeared in a fixed direction from the start arm) or both (Allo + Ego). In two No-Cue (NC) problems, the two constants appeared in randomly determined arms and directions. Intact rats learn problems with an added Allo or Ego cue faster than NC problems; this facilitation provides indirect evidence that they learn the associations between scenes and spatial cues, even though that is not required for problem solution. Fornix and retrohippocampal-lesioned groups learned NC problems at a similar rate to sham-operated controls and showed as much facilitation of learning by added spatial cues as did the controls; therefore, both lesion groups must have encoded the spatial cues and have incidentally learned their associations with particular constant scenes. Similar facilitation was seen in subgroups that had short or long prior experience with the apparatus and task. Therefore, neither major hippocampal input-output system is crucial for learning about allocentric or egocentric cues in this paradigm, which does not require rats to control their choices or navigation directly by spatial cues.

Requirements analysis for an e-government system to support multi-organisational collaborative groups

We present a conceptual architecture for a Group Support System (GSS) to facilitate Multi-Organisational Collaborative Groups (MOCGs) initiated by local government and including external organisations of various types. Multi-Organisational Collaborative Groups (MOCGs) consist of individuals from several organisations which have agreed to work together to solve a problem. The expectation is that more can be achieved working in harmony than separately. Work is done interdependently, rather than independently in diverse directions. Local government, faced with solving complex social problems, deploy MOCGs to enable solutions across organisational, functional, professional and juridical boundaries, by involving statutory, voluntary, community, not-for-profit and private organisations. This is not a silver bullet as it introduces new pressures. Each member organisation has its own goals, operating context and particular approaches, which can be expressed as their norms and business processes. Organisations working together must find ways of eliminating differences or mitigating their impact in order to reduce the risks of collaborative inertia and conflict. A GSS is an electronic collaboration system that facilitates group working and can offer assistance to MOCGs. Since many existing GSSs have been primarily developed for single organisation collaborative groups, even though there are some common issues, there are some difficulties peculiar to MOCGs, and others that they experience to a greater extent: a diversity of primary organisational goals among members; different funding models and other pressures; more significant differences in other information systems both technologically and in their use than single organisations; greater variation in acceptable approaches to solve problems. In this paper, we analyse the requirements of MOCGs led by local government agencies, leading to a conceptual architecture for an e-government GSS that captures the relationships between 'goal', 'context', 'norm', and 'business process'. Our models capture the dynamics of the circumstances surrounding each individual representing an organisation in a MOCG along with the dynamics of the MOCG itself as a separate community.