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Yinger, Robert J. – Curriculum Inquiry, 1987
Describes learning to teach as a task involving learning to think and act in ways appropriate to the profession's demands. Describes the language of practice, using common sense and practical analyses of knowledge and action. Illustrates these concepts with a study of student teachers and applies architecture's pattern language to teaching.…
Descriptors: Architecture, Beginning Teachers, Definitions, Elementary Secondary Education

England, Ande; Spence, John – 1999
This book examines the issues involved in creating reflective learning environments and raises questions that will help guide individuals' development as facilitators of learning. Section 1 looks at reflection as the core of learning. Section 2 describes the three stages in the reflective process: creating, observation, and analysis of the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Processes, Professional Development
Fenwick, Tara J. – Scholar-Practitioner Quarterly, 2004
Practice-based or experiential learning has come to be dominated by mentalist models of reflection on experience. The argument here is that these models split mind from body and subject from environment in ways that yield problematic practices. An alternate conception of practice-based learning is offered here, based on the notion of…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Learning Theories, Reflective Teaching, Portfolio Assessment
Romberg, Thomas A.; Pitman, Allan – 1985
Descriptions of major activities for each of the seven Urban Mathematics Collaborative Projects sponsored by the Ford Foundation are contained in this report. These include: (1) Cleveland Collaborative for Mathematics Education; (2) Los Angeles Collaborative: Professional Links with Urban Schools; (3) Philadelphia Urban Mathematics Collaborative;…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Inservice Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Learning Processes

Smith, Kathleen S. – Innovative Higher Education, 1993
This case study of an international teaching assistant's experience with college teaching focuses on the process of becoming an effective instructor in the undergraduate classroom. A developmental model that emphasizes clarifying the student's individual linguistic, cultural, social, and professional goals is suggested, and implications for…
Descriptors: Acculturation, College Instruction, Foreign Students, Goal Orientation
Ayers, William – 1993
This book presents a framework for discussing the action of teachers in public elementary schools as the 21st century approaches. An educator with almost 30 years of teaching experience speaks from the perspective of teacher and parent. He tells tales about his family and his life as a teacher; he shares his social and moral philosophy and what he…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Curriculum Design, Educational Practices, Elementary Education
Costa, Arthur L., Ed.; Liebmann, Rosemarie M., Ed. – 1997
This book addresses the revision of the curriculum to meet the needs of the 21st century. After a foreword by Peter M. Senge and prefaces by the editors, the following chapters are included: (1) Process as Content in Education of Exceptional Children (Reuven Feuerstein, Rafi Feuerstein, and Yaron Schur); (2) Generative Topics for Process…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Cultural Pluralism, Curriculum Development, Educational Change

Efland, Arthur D. – Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, 1993
Asserts that art teachers must understand current learning theory and implement new cognitive concepts to provide the best art education for K-12 students. Reviews major ideas in cognitive learning theory, focusing on the idea that thinking is domain, or content, specific. (CFR)
Descriptors: Art Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Epistemology, Fine Arts
Teeters, Jim – 2001
This document is designed to help adult educators implement the Teach with Style model of teaching adults. The introduction discusses how adults learn and the best way to teach them. Chapter 1 explains the tenets of the Teach with Style model, which is based on four distinct instructor styles. Chapters 2-5 detail the strategies and activities…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning, Adult Students