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Lee, Dong-min – Journal of Geography, 2018
This study illuminates primary teachers' awareness of geography education. Data were collected through interviews with twenty-one teachers and analyzed using Straussian-grounded theory. A total of 210 concepts were categorized into twenty-two categories. The participants were categorized into three types. Many participating teachers (type 1 and 2)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geography, Geography Instruction, Elementary School Teachers
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Wetzel, Melissa Mosley; Hoffman, James V.; Roach, Audra K.; Russell, Katie – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2018
This longitudinal study explores how one university's practice-based teacher preparation program prepared literacy teachers to develop practical knowledge for teaching and how that knowledge was tested and adapted in the first years of teaching. To understand change, we identified and analyzed points of tension, challenge, or dissonance in the…
Descriptors: Knowledge Base for Teaching, Reflection, Teacher Education Programs, Longitudinal Studies
Robinson, Euphemia – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Empirical evidence from the National Education Inspectorate suggested that teachers at the primary school in this study in an island country in the Caribbean have inadequate science content knowledge. Students' average performance on the science Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) has been below 40% for the last 5 years. The purpose of this bounded…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Effectiveness, Knowledge Base for Teaching
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Gidlund, Ulrika; Boström, Lena – International Education Studies, 2017
Including students with emotional and behavioral difficulties (EBD) in general education is one of teachers' greatest challenges and make the dilemma of inclusion displays its most difficult side. This article contributes to the understanding of how teachers in Swedish mainstream schools understand the concept of inclusive didactics for students…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Emotional Disturbances, Behavior Disorders, Focus Groups
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Wasserman, Nicholas H. – Mathematics Teacher Education and Development, 2017
Empirical work that connects content knowledge to teaching practice has become increasingly important in discussions around a professional knowledge base for teaching. This paper aims to continue that work, reporting a single exploratory case study of one elementary mathematics teacher. The purpose of the study was to investigate how introducing…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Algebra, Case Studies, Elementary School Mathematics
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Schulz, Henry W.; FitzPatrick, Beverly – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2016
Critical and higher order thinking is essential to education, but it is not clear what teachers understand this to mean and what role this has in their instruction. We interviewed 38 teachers in Kindergarten to Grade 9 classrooms from 14 schools in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, to obtain their understandings of critical and higher order…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Elementary School Teachers, Middle School Teachers
Erickson, Heidi Christine – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Researchers have shown that movement increases brain function, improves mental health, supports cognitive development for students, and reduces sedentary time, all which can influence overall health. Research concerning learning with intentional movement is limited. In the United States, Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are being mandated, and…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Learning Strategies, Phenomenology
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Langdon, Frances J. – Teacher Development, 2017
While studies have shown that mentoring is central to new teacher development, few investigations have examined what mentors learn about themselves as mentors. The purpose of the study was to illuminate mentor learning. The article reports on two case studies that investigated the development of mentoring expertise over a two-year period. During…
Descriptors: Mentors, Faculty Development, Action Research, Case Studies
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Dana, Nancy Fichtman; Pape, Stephen J.; Griffin, Cynthia C.; Prosser, Sherri Kay – Professional Development in Education, 2017
Engagement in practitioner inquiry by classroom teachers is a promising mechanism for teacher professional learning. While much has been learned about the positive role inquiry can play in traditional professional development efforts, we know less about the impact of inquiry in a rapidly advancing technological age that includes the proliferation…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Inquiry, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Teachers
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Witterholt, Martha; Goedhart, Martin; Suhre, Cor – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2016
Due to changes in Dutch mathematics education, teachers are expected to use new teaching methods such as enquiry-based teaching. In this study, we investigate how teachers design, implement and evaluate new methods for statistics teaching for 7th-graders during a professional development trajectory based on peer collaboration. We monitored…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Statistics
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Kilic, Hulya; Tunc Pekkan, Zelha – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2017
In this paper, we discuss pre-service mathematics teachers' professional gains from a university-school collaboration where they were given opportunity to observe two teacher educators' instructional practices in a 6th grade classroom, interact with students in one-to-one fashion and reflect on the teacher educators' and their own practices. Three…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Skills
Jurnigan, Lacey J. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this study is to explore Florida public school highly effective elementary coaches' perceptions on how to best evaluate the effectiveness of the position of reading coach. The study attempts to answer the research questions: (1) What are Florida elementary public school exemplary reading coaches' perspectives on the performance…
Descriptors: Public School Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Reading Teachers, Coaching (Performance)
Claiborne, Shandra – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The professional preparation of teachers is essential because of their critical role in developing students' learning. Preparing quality teachers is a complex process, as they matriculate through the programs that prepare them for the classroom. The problem addressed by this study is teachers' lack of effective strategies and skills in…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Program Effectiveness, Qualitative Research, Case Studies
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Garcia Silva, Angélica F.; Campos, Tania Maria M.; Pietropaolo, Ruy Cesar – REDIMAT - Journal of Research in Mathematics Education, 2014
This paper aims to present the results of an investigation regarding the professional development of teachers who worked in the early years of basic education. The qualitative research involved teachers who participated in the "Observatório da Educação" project (MEC/CAPES). Because of the data amount, we choose to present the data…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Mathematics Teachers, Qualitative Research, Observation
Kerr, Rachel A. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The purpose of this action research study was to design, implement, analyze, and evaluate a series of interventions to increase the elementary teachers' utilization of the RtI process. Another purpose of the study was to determine the teachers' background knowledge and perceptions about the Responsiveness to Intervention (RtI) process at the…
Descriptors: Response to Intervention, Elementary School Teachers, Action Research, Knowledge Base for Teaching
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