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Gülen, Salih – Science Education International, 2020
The aim of this study was to determine the knowledge of fifth-grade students about the sun, earth, and moon and to examine the fact that this information can be reflected with different measurement tools. A mixed method was used in the research. Quantitative data were collected using a 3-point Likert-type questionnaire and a true-false test; and…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Knowledge Level, Testing, Objective Tests
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Chen, Rong-Ji – Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education, 2017
Previous research has adopted various approaches to examining teachers' and students' relationships to mathematics. The current study extended this line of research and investigated six prospective elementary school teachers' experiences in mathematics and how they saw themselves as learners of mathematics. One-on-one interviews with the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Interviews, Reflection
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Jope, Gilmour – Research in Education, 2018
Upon beginning their school-based teaching practica, teacher candidates enter a realm of practice that is at once uncertain, vulnerable, and particular, and where good educational practice centers on teacher's ability to see and to judge and to act ethically with others in concrete situations and ways. An important question for teacher education…
Descriptors: Ethics, Teacher Education, Educational Philosophy, Teaching Methods
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Wilson, Rachel E.; Bradbury, Leslie U.; McGlasson, Martha A. – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2015
The purpose of this article is to explore how preservice elementary teachers (PSETs) interpreted their service-learning experiences within a pre-methods environmentally focused course and how their interpretations shaped their science teaching identities. Along a continuum of service-learning experiences were events that emphasized science…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Preservice Teachers, Elementary Education, Science Instruction
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Boon, Stuart Ian – Education 3-13, 2016
This article reports on how an action research strategy was used to increase children's uptake of feedback during peer assessment in primary school writing. Several different strategies were used in the study that had been successful in increasing students' uptake of peer feedback in contexts such as higher education. In order to evaluate how…
Descriptors: Action Research, Peer Evaluation, Feedback (Response), Elementary School Students
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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
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Grant, Kirsten C. – Childhood Education, 2017
The relationship between mindfulness, attention, and well-being is well established. In the field of education, mindfulness programs often focus on teaching children ways of coping with attentional and emotional difficulties. Mindfulness practices are also valued for teachers, and being a mindful teacher impacts the classroom environment. The…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Perception, Attention Control, Teacher Characteristics
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Parsons, Seth A.; Vaughn, Margaret – Journal of Classroom Interaction, 2016
Currently, much debate exists nationally regarding how to define and measure teacher effectiveness. Educators and researchers agree that adaptability is an important aspect of teacher effectiveness. Teachers must adapt their instruction to navigate the complexity of classroom instruction. However, little research has specifically examined teacher…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Media Adaptation, Reflection, Teacher Effectiveness
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Wohlfahrt, Melanie U. – Africa Education Review, 2018
The objective of the research on which this article reports was to evaluate the training conditions of primary school teachers in rural Cameroon, so as to identify alternative paths towards their qualification through informal learning in the workplace and outside. Following Denzin's (2009) between-methods triangulation approach, quantitative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Rural Schools, Teaching Conditions
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Pomar, Maria Isabel; Pinya, Carme – Curriculum Journal, 2017
The paper we present is a biographical qualitative study on the school experience and its repercussions on the lives of young people. The paper has two aims: (1) to understand the repercussions of school experiences on the construction of personal identity, and (2) to incorporate the voices of alumni into a reflection on the present and future…
Descriptors: Student Empowerment, Qualitative Research, Educational Experience, Young Adults
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Korth, Byran B.; Wimmer, Jennifer J.; Wilcox, Brad; Morrison, Timothy G.; Harward, Stan; Peterson, Nancy; Simmerman, Sue; Pierce, Linda – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2017
Given the interrelated role of writing and the development of early literacy skills, recommendations have been made to increase instructional writing experiences in K-2 classrooms. In an effort to increase the amount of writing in the primary grades that leads to later literacy success, it is important that teachers engage in instructional…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Case Studies, Elementary School Teachers, Teaching Experience
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Wells, Muriel; Lyons, Damien; Auld, Glenn – English in Australia, 2016
This paper explores the effects participation as writers has on the identities teachers take on when they are both writers who teach and teachers who write. This paper focuses on three interview participants and explores their encounters as writers as they engaged in the "risky" business of being writers, within and beyond school. A…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Risk, Self Concept, Writing Instruction
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Davis, Susan – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2018
This case study reports on an arts-based project called "Tree-Mappa," one that sought to engage primary-school children in learning about their local environment through significant trees. Pedagogical approaches featured the use of arts-based strategies as the means for activating cognitive and affective responses and learning. The frame…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Case Studies, Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students
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Kusmawan, Udan – Journal of Interactive Online Learning, 2017
In this paper, the author proposes that microteaching may be practiced through online media. The core concept of traditional microteaching is that it is a manipulative technique used to facilitate self-reflective and critical thinking processes while teaching. Preliminary research was conducted with elementary teachers who were participating in…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Microteaching, Faculty Development, Foreign Countries
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Pescarmona, Isabella – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2017
This study explores how experimenting with Complex Instruction can broaden teachers' perspectives and develop understanding of the classroom as a complex social and cultural system. It critically presents and interweaves data collected during ethnographic research, which was carried out with a group of in-service teachers, plus four workshops…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Ethnography, Workshops, Preservice Teachers
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