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Berg, Jill Harrison – ASCD, 2022
In "Uprooting Instructional Inequity," noted leadership coach Jill Harrison Berg offers a comprehensive guide to help school and teacher leaders amplify the power of collaborative inquiry as a means for identifying, interrogating, and addressing instructional inequity. At the center of the book is Berg's i3PD Planning Map, an invaluable…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Equal Education, Active Learning, Inquiry
Choi, Young Whan – Teachers College Press, 2022
In a thriving education system, students experience learning that prepares them as the vital keepers of a just and democratic society. Teachers as professionals and experts, not cogs in a machine, are essential to this goal. "Sparks Into Fire" offers design principles for facilitating effective professional learning in which teachers are…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Cooperative Learning, Faculty Development, Foreign Countries
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Lemelin, Cosette; Gross, Cole D.; Bertholet, Renette; Gares, Sheryl; Hall, Mark; Henein, Hani; Kozlova, Valentina; Spila, Michelle; Villatoro, Valentin; Haave, Neil – Bioscene: Journal of College Biology Teaching, 2021
Shorter lectures punctuated with activities to engage students in the learning process can increase student understanding, critical thinking, and overall learning. However, some students have negative responses to active teaching strategies. Here we explore the topic of student resistance to active learning, including reasons for this opposition…
Descriptors: Resistance to Change, Active Learning, Resilience (Psychology), College Faculty
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Luongo, Nicole – Teacher Educators' Journal, 2023
This article connects the Teacher Educator Technology Competencies (TETCs) to specific technology tools, applications and resources that can be employed in PK-12 and higher education classrooms. The author introduces the TETCs and suggests technology tools for active use by teacher educators and teacher candidates. The article presents various…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Technological Literacy, Competence, Faculty Development
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James, Bridget R.; Leinbach, Adrianne A.; MacDonald, Alyssa M. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2022
Online education has increased rapidly since its inception and will likely continue this upward trend post-pandemic. Strategies of successful online instructors include incorporating active learning, effectively communicating with students, and using universal design and backwards design principles in course development. Additionally, online…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Instructional Effectiveness, Active Learning, Access to Education
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Pendrill, Ann-Marie – Physics Education, 2021
Take a selection of balls and marbles along to a nearby playground slide and let students investigate factors that may influence how balls accelerate down an inclined plane. Students can make hypotheses in small groups, plan investigations to test multiple possible explanations and draw conclusions about the importance of different variables. The…
Descriptors: Physics, Motion, Science Activities, Active Learning
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Krizan, Patricia – Social Education, 2019
Social studies teachers often have a love-hate relationship with inquiry. The possibilities of a dynamic and engaging approach to learning labor against time constraints imposed by a content-heavy curriculum. In that scenario, how can professional development (PD) on inquiry inform educators and encourage skeptical teachers to implement this…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Faculty Development, Inquiry, Instructional Design
McDowell, Michael – Council for Exceptional Children, 2019
This book offers a roadmap for growing students' confidence and competence in learning. We strive to empower our students to lead their own inquiry, discover knowledge, and construct approaches to solving real-life challenges. Often, though, we make the mistake of designing learning experiences that burden students with the unrealistic expectation…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Learning Strategies, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Expertise
Madigan, Maura – ALA Editions, 2022
This inspiring tool demonstrates how project-based learning (PBL) projects can be used in a variety of settings and provides coaching for educators who aspire to create their own projects. Madigan's book delivers flexible, interdisciplinary, learner-driven projects that support the "National School Library Standards." Readers will find…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Active Learning, Teaching Methods, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Shook, Carole – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2022
Over the past year, training to better understand diversity in the classroom has risen to the forefront of the minds of administrators and faculty. The purpose of this teaching tip is to provide a benefit to academics by using short, student-reported issues about racial concerns within case story vignettes that focus on microaggressions. These…
Descriptors: Diversity, Teaching Methods, Vignettes, Active Learning
Blok, Sherry; Lockwood, Robyn Brinks; Frendo, Evan – TESOL Press, 2020
The 6 Principles and their recommended practices are targets of teaching excellence that provide teachers with the knowledge to improve instruction and assessment. Instructional techniques are illustrated with a multitude of classroom examples and vignettes. The 6 Principles are brought to life in Chapter 5 by portrayals of their application in…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Principles, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Charlotte Danielson; Jim S. Furman; Lee Kappes – ASCD, 2024
Since 1996, hundreds of teacher preparation programs and thousands of schools, school districts, and government agencies have turned to the Framework for Teaching for a better understanding of excellent instruction. The Framework's four domains, 22 components, and 78 key elements provide an expansive, holistic definition of what teachers across…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, School Districts, Faculty Development, Kindergarten
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Keengwe, Jared, Ed. – IGI Global, 2019
Online and blended courses are becoming increasingly prevalent in higher education settings, and the pressures to incorporate these environments highlights the increased demand to serve a generation that prefers learning through experience or through interacting with learning tools. Challenges arise in assisting instructors in facilitating and…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Blended Learning, Faculty Development, Higher Education
Fancher, Chris; Norfar, Telannia – Prufrock Press, 2019
"Project-Based Learning in the Math Classroom" explains how to keep inquiry at the heart of mathematics teaching and helps teachers build students' abilities to be true mathematicians. This book outlines basic teaching strategies, such as questioning and exploration of concepts. It also provides advanced strategies for teachers who are…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Active Learning, Mathematics Instruction, Inquiry
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Alimisis, Dimitris – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2019
This paper presents the training curriculum for teachers developed in the context of the ERASMUS+ project, ROBOESL (2015-2017). The paper focuses on the robotics-based learning methodologies inspired by constructivism and project-based learning principles and implemented within the framework of the ROBOESL training and learning activities. The…
Descriptors: Robotics, Teaching Methods, Learning Activities, Faculty Development
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