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This article argues that education policy should support school-university partnerships that place preservice music teachers with their college professors in a laboratory school environment. With roots in Dewey's experimental school of 1896, the laboratory concept is a variation of the professional development schools now in vogue. The policies recommended here are not tied directly to this school-university partnership model, but they do support the collaborative concept. Policy recommendations include re-conceptualization of the student teaching experience; compensation of faculty members through financial incentives and professional development credits; and consideration for university faculty members engaged in such partnerships when determining workload and reviewing teaching, scholarship, and service for tenure or promotion decisions. The policy recommendations call for the creation of release time for school personnel to meet with university personnel to plan and assess the partnered collaboration, and for funding to support ongoing collaborative research by university and school personnel.     

Perceptions…

Strong school-university partnerships yield effective music teachers. However, music teacher preparation curriculum has undergone little reform over the years, resulting in a homogeneous P–12 curriculum. Encouraging preservice music teachers to consider cultural and pedagogical differences holds promise for changing music teacher preparation and preservice music teachers’ views regarding content and contextually relevant practice. In this article, an international collaborative course is presented as one model to help preservice teachers confront previously held attitudes regarding music education, develop flexible cultural competency, and become more open to curricular innovation. Recommendations for policy that would enact an international partnership agenda for music teacher preparation to meet these aims are provided.     

Spare-time Art Jobs

Music teaching and learning are socially situated activities. School-university partnerships have the potential to impact preservice teachers’ identities and level of socialization. Thus, a sociologically based belief system for establishing and maintaining school-university partnerships may provide cooperating teachers and university faculty members with purpose and direction for meeting the needs of stakeholders. This article explores the sociological and pedagogical implications of school-university partnerships and illustrates how these underpinnings function in two middle school band collaborations. Specifically, this article examines how partnerships can be viewed through three sociological perspectives, how sociological experiences might impact preservice teachers’ futures, and how policymaking endeavors could impact the strength and continuance of school-university partnerships. What we learn from existing collaborations and how stakeholders respond to this information has the potential to reshape music teaching and learning in our society.     

Lettering and Design

In this article, the author discusses current challenges to the idea of teamwork in fine arts teams, redefines the terms team and collaboration using a business management perspective, discusses the success of effective teams in the business world and the characteristics of those teams, and proposes the implementation of the business model of teams to create more effective and collaborative fine arts teams.     

A Parental-Involvement Homework Activity

This activity is the result of a school-university collaboration among four educators (two intermediate classroom teachers, a vice-principal/teacher, and a university-based teacher educator/researcher) who worked together to improve the quality of learning in the classroom. The educators combined their teaching expertise to plan and co-teach an integrated science and music unit in a grade 4 and a grade 4/5 class. In this six-part unit students rotate through sound exploratory centers and conduct investigations to learn how different factors such as the size, material, and contents of containers affect the behavior of sound. Students also design and make their own instruments.     

New method of monitoring remote wildlife via the Internet

A new system of monitoring remote wildlife via the Internet was developed. The system consists of a QuickTime streaming server with a digital PC camera and a recipient computer with monitoring software. Results of field experiments were fine. Wildlife (raccoon dogs and feral cats) inhabiting a forest remote from the observer were monitored and photographed automatically when detected. Data and frame rates were 35–300 kilobits per second and 3–14 frames per second, respectively, depending on the network traffic. This system is applicable wherever a broadband network is available and thus has great potential for ecological research.     

以技术集成促进生物催化技术转移

生物催化研究和产业化都在迅速发展,但两者之间的联系并不紧密,成功的技术转移很少。缺乏集成研发平台成为生物催化技术转移的瓶颈。在国内相关企业的技术力量不足以进行技术集成的现状下,建议中国科学院建设酶工程集成研发平台,依托此平台企业和科研院所建立广泛的技术合作和技术转移关系,建立生物催化产业的产学研价值链。     

Metabolic characteristics of an aerobe isolated from a methylotrophic methanogenic enrichment culture

An anaerobic methylotrophic methanogenic enrichment culture, with sustained metabolic characteristics, including that of methanation for over a decade, was the choice of the present study on interspecies interactions. Growth and methanation by the enrichment were suppressed in the presence of antibiotics, and no methanogen grown on methanol could be isolated using stringent techniques. The present study confirmed syntrophic metabolic interactions in this enrichment with the isolation of a strain ofPseudomonas sp. The organism had characteristic metabolic versatility in metabolizing a variety of substrates including alcohols, aliphatic acids, amino acids, and sugars. Anaerobic growth was favoured with nitrate in the growth medium. Cells grown anaerobically with methanol, revealed maximal nitrate reductase activity. Constitutive oxidative activity of the membrane system emerged from the high-specific oxygen uptake and nitrate reductase activities of the aerobically and anerobically grown cells respectively. Cells grown anaerobically on various alcohols effectively oxidized methanol in the presence of flavins, cofactor FAD and the methanogenic cofactor F₄₂₀, suggesting a constitutive alcohol oxidizing capacity. In cells grown anaerobically on methanol, the rate of methanol oxidation with F₄₂₀ was three times that of FAD. Efficient utilization of alcohols in the presence of F₄₂₀ is a novel feature of the present study. The results suggest that utilization of methanol by the mixed culture would involve metabolic interactions between thePseudomonas sp. and the methanogen(s). Methylotrophic, methanogenic partnership involving an aerobe is a novel feature hitherto unreported among anaerobic syntrophic associations and is of ecological significance.     

微生物学网络资源在多媒体教学中的应用

提供了一些重要的微生物学教学资源网站,并对网络微生物教学资源的查找与下载方法以及在多媒体教学应中注意的问题进行了探讨。     

信息技术与《遗传学》教学整合的研究与实践

随着以多媒体技术、网络技术为基础的信息技术的迅猛发展,运用现代信息技术促进教育改革与发展是必然趋势。遗传学是一门前沿的生命科学学科,内容庞杂、枯燥难懂。如何针对本门课程的特点,构建有效的教学模式,是广大教师面对的一项重要课题。因此,更新教学理念、探索以信息技术为载体的遗传学教学新模式意义深远。     

Catalogue

The author presents reviews that identify success factors in music and arts education partnerships between cultural institutions and K-12 schools. She incorporates the evaluation of one Massachusetts partnership, Arts Can Teach (ACT), to examine the connection between partnerships and K-12 arts-program policy decisions. ACT is a collaborative effort among Boston's Wang Center for the Performing Arts, the Lynn Public Schools, and LynnArts, which matched music specialists and teachers in other disciplines with practicing artists for oneyear partnerships. Success factors of the ACT partnership are considered in terms of their similarity to success factors from the literature on music education partnerships. The author discusses implications for increasing and sustaining music and arts education programming and local arts education policy development.     

分布式技术在生物信息资源建设中的应用

由于生命科学研究的复杂性,以及系统生物学的面向多个生物学水平进行研究的特点,对大规模、分布式应用资源进行整合是生命科学信息资源建设中面临的主要问题,分布式技术的应用使生物信息资源建设实现了高度的自动化,并行化。本文对分布式集成技术在生物学领域的应用和未来发展做了简要综述。并结合当今技术趋势给出了生物信息学项目进行分布式资源整合的解决方案。     

专创融合背景下“互联网+”创新创业大赛与微生物学课程赛教融合的实践

为提高本科生的培养质量,本文以“互联网+”大学生创新创业大赛为切入点,分析了微生物学专创融合课程建设的背景、必要性和可行性。微生物学课程组针对赛教融合开展的改革措施包括：(1) 构建强实践、跨学科的创新创业资源库,以思创融合践行价值引领;(2) 建立“以学生为中心”的混合式教学模式,引导学生主动学习;(3) 建立复合型师资队伍,为赛教融合改革提供智力支持;(4) 建立多元化的科学合理的评价模式,与行企业的人才评价标准接轨。本文还从“互联网+”大赛的项目培育、选题与指导参赛实践等角度阐述了赛教融合的具体实施。随后以问卷调查的方式分析了赛教融合成效,提示赛教融合模式提升了学生的创新能力和创业思维、分析和解决复杂问题的能力,以及社会责任感和担当等综合素质,整体上促进了本科教育的高质量发展。该模式实现了创新性、高阶性和挑战度的一流本科课程教学目标,达到了知识传授、能力培养与课程思政素质提升“三位一体”的育人效果,对地方本科院校应用型人才培养具有借鉴推广价值。     

Painting masterpieces on Walls

Arts organizations that partner with schools to design, implement, and evaluate arts education programs are rethinking traditional practices of evaluation to more directly engage school partners, artists, and administrators. External arts partners are also being held accountable for learning outcomes that result from their programs. In this article, the authors describe an urban arts organization that is moving toward an institutional culture that engages teachers, artists, students, parents, and administrators in a process of documentation and action research that enhances the ability to evaluate teaching and learning. This layered research approach within an arts organization enables participants to link teaching standards to student work and contributes to the larger dialogue about arts education programs in schools.