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Kathy Swan; Ryan M. Crowley; Gerry Swan – Teacher Educator, 2025
In response to national and state trends promoting inquiry-based social studies over the last decade, social studies teacher educators at the University of Kentucky revamped their pre-service program to create alignment around the key inquiry concepts of questions, tasks, and sources. Part of the program revision involved the creation of a new…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Social Studies, Active Learning
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Chase Young; Benjamin Mitchell-Yellin; George Kevin Randall – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2025
The purpose of this study was to develop a valid, reliable, and brief measure of active learning in college classrooms that is cheap and easy to complete and yields results that faculty can easily use to inform their development as instructors. Initial construct and face validity was achieved by modifying existing instruments and creating a draft…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Students, Active Learning, Classroom Observation Techniques
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Rebecca Shetty; Trisha Teig; Nicole Cozzi – New Directions for Student Leadership, 2024
Observation is the throughline and synthesizing catalyst of the leadership learning framework (LLF). Observation serves as both a stimulus and clarifier through which all other LLF elements come together. This article explores the literature on both intentional and unintentional observational learning and how learners are socialized. Leadership…
Descriptors: Observation, Leadership, Intentional Learning, Observational Learning
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Rachel N. Arbor; Kevin Matteson – Environmental Education Research, 2025
Amidst increasing concerns about children's mental health, this paper explores the integration of interdisciplinary nature journaling within a middle school English Language Arts classroom as a method to enhance student well-being and environmental literacy. 61 5th-7th students in Garrison, NY engaged in a 75-minute nature journaling activity. We…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Mental Health, Student Journals, Naturalistic Observation
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Tsangaridou, Niki; Pieroua, Mikaela; Charalambous, Charalambos Y. – European Physical Education Review, 2023
In recent years, attention has been placed on dimensions of instructional quality. One critical element of this quality in preschool physical education (PE) is teachers' ability to present content in a way that facilitates learning. This study aimed to describe the development of the content in PE in preschool. Participants in the study were 11…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Curriculum Development, Physical Education, Preschool Teachers
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Hong, Seong Bock; Broderick, Jane Tingle; McAuliffe, Cynthia M. – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2021
As early childhood educators of young children, we recognize that children draw what they know from cultural transmissions, moving through many developmental transitions with drawing. As children's skills developed, a PreK/Kindergarten teacher in a university laboratory school classroom with 27 children was interested in studying ways children can…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers, Young Children, Freehand Drawing
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TazeKaraçali, Hülya – Review of International Geographical Education, 2021
The aim of this study is to comparatively examine the status of observation skills in the questions contained in the 2007 and 2020 fifth grade social studies textbooks published after the 2005 and 2018 curriculums. The reason for choosing the fifth class as a class level is that observation skills were included at this class level in both 2005 and…
Descriptors: Observation, Skill Development, Thinking Skills, Social Studies
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Duckworth, Eleanor – LEARNing Landscapes, 2021
In this commentary, summarized from a recent interview, the author reminisces about a career dedicated to critical exploration in the classroom. She discusses the formation of the Moon Group, a group of teachers who met over a period of 25 years to study the behaviour of the moon. Duckworth later describes an exercise in which her students…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Science Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Astronomy
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Gamze Nur Inönü; Sema Çelebi; Meryem Gülhan; Selda Aras – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2025
This study aimed at understanding and investigating the lived experiences of early childhood teachers' observation practices as a professional tool. Interpretative phenomenological approach was utilized to investigate participants' experiences deeply from their lived experiences. The current study's participants consisted of five early childhood…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Observation, Teaching Methods
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Burhanuddin; Arrafii, Mohammad Arsyad – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2023
Learner agency, or the ability to take control of one's own learning and the learning of others, is a substantial goal of the curricular reform across the world. This can be seen in the implementation of the 2013 curriculum (K13) in Indonesia. However, there has been little evidence regarding the ways that Indonesian teachers have engaged with…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Curriculum Development, Personal Autonomy, Teaching Methods
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Monika Stelzl; Lynnee M. R. Pevie – Experiential Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, 2024
In this collaborative professor-student contribution, an experiential nature-based university psychology course is described and discussed. Existing scholarship on experiential environmental education informed the course, with the overall aim of educating the "whole student". Experiential environmental education has been identified as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Undergraduate Students, Environmental Education
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Anggoro, Florencia K.; Dubosarsky, Mia; Kabourek, Sarah – Education Sciences, 2021
In the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), problem-solving skills are part of science and engineering practices for K-12 students in the United States. Evaluating these skills for the youngest learners is difficult due to the lack of established measures. This paper reports on our process of developing an observation instrument to measure…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Observation
Magaly Lavadenz; Elvira G. Armas – Multilingual Matters, 2024
This book presents a validated observation instrument to support and further develop the pedagogic expertise of teachers of English Learners in US schools. Based on sociocultural and second language teaching and learning theories, the Observation Protocol for Academic Literacies (OPAL) has a variety of uses across teacher preparation programs,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Robertson, Amy D.; Gray, Kara E.; Lovegren, Clarissa E.; Killough, Kathryn L.; Wenzinger, Scott T. – Cognition and Instruction, 2021
Responsive instruction--or instruction that foregrounds and takes up the disciplinary substance of student thinking--is both a hallmark of recent STEM education reforms and challenging to enact. This kind of instruction may be especially challenging in instructional contexts that mandate or rely on curriculum with set, structured learning…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Teaching Methods, Thinking Skills, STEM Education
Messier-Jones, Lauriann Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Roles of Hybrid Teacher Leadership (HTL), positions which involve classroom teaching for part of the day and academic coaching, curriculum planning, department chair, or professional development responsibilities for the remainder of the day, are becoming more prevalent due to budgetary concerns and teacher shortages. This autoethnography analyzes…
Descriptors: Teacher Role, Teacher Attitudes, Professional Identity, Teacher Leadership