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Creager, Mark A.; Snider, Rachel B.; Parrish, Christopher W. – Mathematics Teacher Educator, 2021
Cognitively demanding tasks provide important opportunities for students to develop an understanding of mathematics; however, they are challenging to launch and implement. The authors designed a secondary methods unit on launching tasks. Participants in the study were enrolled in five different methods courses. Using a noticing framework, findings…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education
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Hilliard, Amanda – English Teaching Forum, 2017
Pragmatic competence, or the ability to use language appropriately in a variety of contexts, is a critical skill for communication in a second language (L2). Thus, teaching that focuses on developing students' abilities to communicate effectively in an L2 must also include a focus on developing students' pragmatic competence. This article…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Thom, Jennifer S. – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2011
This article presents a descriptive account of an after-school study. The participants--Allan (male, ten years), Veronique (female, nine years), and William (male, ten years)--all spoke English as their first language and were considered by their classroom teachers to be meeting the provincially set expectations for the fifth-grade curriculum…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Grade 5, Elementary School Teachers, Algebra
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Cannella-Malone, Helen I.; Fleming, Courtney; Chung, Yi-Cheih; Wheeler, Geoffrey M.; Basbagill, Abby R.; Singh, Angella H. – Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 2011
We conducted a systematic replication of Cannella-Malone et al. by comparing the effects of video prompting to video modeling for teaching seven students with severe disabilities to do laundry and wash dishes. The video prompting and video modeling procedures were counterbalanced across tasks and participants and compared in an alternating…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Prompting, Daily Living Skills, Severe Mental Retardation
Shehadeh, Ali, Ed.; Coombe, Christine, Ed. – Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc. (TESOL), 2010
Why are many teachers around the world moving toward task-based learning (TBL)? This shift is based on the strong belief that TBL facilitates second language acquisition and makes second language learning and teaching more principled and effective. Based on insights gained from using tasks as research tools, this volume shows how teachers can use…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Feedback (Response), Research Tools, Group Discussion
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Wolfe, Pamela S.; Condo, Bethany; Hardaway, Emily – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2009
Applied behavior analysis (ABA) has emerged as one of the most effective empirically based strategies for instructing individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Four ABA-based strategies that have been found effective are video modeling, visual strategies, social script fading, and task analysis. Individuals with ASD often struggle with…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Autism, Task Analysis, Sexuality