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Direct linkLewis, Elizabeth; Baker, Dale; Watts, Nievita Bueno; Lang, Michael – Science Educator, 2014
In this article we describe current educational research underlying a comprehensive model for building a scientific classroom discourse community. We offer a professional development activity for a school-based professional learning community, providing specific science instructional strategies within this interactive teaching model. This design…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Communities of Practice, Teaching Methods, Faculty Development
Frey, Nancy; Fisher, Douglas – ASCD, 2011
One of the best ways to make sure the spirit of accountability is reflected in your teaching practice is to make sure everything you do in the classroom relates to a specific learning outcome. ASCD best-selling authors Doug Fisher and Nancy Frey explain exactly how to do that and take you through all the steps of making sure every lesson plan has…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Strategies, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques
MacDuff, Fife; AlHayki, Khadija; Linse, Caroline – English Teaching Forum, 2010
The challenges of teaching writing and encouraging students to write are many. However, one of the most difficult issues to deal with is students' reluctance to write in any language, even their home language. Because of this reluctance, being asked to write in English as a foreign or second language can feel like a double burden. Learners of…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Writing Skills, Language Skills, English (Second Language)
Samway, Katharine Davies – 1992
Examples of writers' workshops and ways to implement them for children's second-language learning are described in this handbook for teachers. Writers' workshops are important structured classroom events that provide children with opportunities to demonstrate their facility as writers. The theory behind writers' workshops is that children…
Descriptors: Child Language, Class Activities, Editing, Elementary Education
Schlumberger, Ann; Clymer, Diane – 1987
While the populations of students learning writing in English as a second language (ESL) are diverse and have widely varying needs, three general recommendations to nonspecialist teachers of ESL pupils are to: (1) organize courses according to thematic unity; (2) limit the number of formal, polished essays assigned; and (3) encourage students to…
Descriptors: Assignments, Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques, College Instruction
Papandreou, Andreas – 1991
Ideas and guidelines for the organization of effective homework assignments, based on the principle that homework should offer opportunities for learning outside the classroom, are offered. The examples given are for English second language instruction as practiced in public secondary schools in Cyprus, but the principles outlined could be applied…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Assignments, Classroom Techniques, Educational Policy
