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Surtees, Victoria; Yamamoto, Masaru – BC TEAL Journal, 2021
While universities are increasingly implementing programs to support international students' language development, fewer orientation programs have sought to provide explicit guidance on expected academic practices in Canadian institutions. Many such academic norms--including the expectation to complete weekly readings, the use of first names with…
Descriptors: Orientation Materials, Multimedia Materials, Interactive Video, Electronic Learning
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Pourdavood, Ronald G. – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2016
This qualitative and descriptive study examines the evolution of secondary preservice teachers' views on teaching and learning mathematics and science in historical and cultural contexts. Data were collected throughout participants' enrollment in a semester-long course entitled, Perspectives on Science and Mathematics, which is taken in…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Science Instruction, Cultural Context, Historical Interpretation
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Oliver, John A.; Gordon, Stephen P.; Oliver, Michele – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
Although we now have a growing number of general suggestions for improving instruction in principal preparation programs as well as studies on particular instructional models, there is a dearth of studies that compare the broad range of traditional and innovative instructional strategies available to professors of educational leadership. Moreover,…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrator Attitudes, Educational Strategies, Beginning Principals
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Swanson, Lauren Honeycutt; Bianchini, Julie A.; Lee, Jin Sook – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2014
This study documents how an urban high school science teacher engaged her English Language Learners (ELLs) in the discourse-intensive science and engineering practices of (1) arguing from evidence and (2) obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information. The teacher taught an introductory integrated science course to classes with a large…
Descriptors: High Schools, Urban Schools, Science Education, Science Teachers
Goode, Matthew Lawson – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Thousands of U.S. faculty travel abroad each year to teach host-country students (George, 1995). This study explores the "teach-abroad classroom", defined as "the teaching and learning processes and interactions between faculty and students" in this learning environment (George, 1987, 1995; Slethaug, 2007). Faculty and student…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, College Faculty, College Students, Qualitative Research
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Daraviras, Tracy – NADE Digest, 2012
When evaluating the effectiveness of their program, members of the Brooklyn College SEEK Department, a higher education opportunity program, decided to make their pedagogy more student-centered. They created a method of reading instruction, which they named critical inquiry. Its goals are to build community through teaching students to annotate,…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, College Preparation, Inquiry, Program Effectiveness