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Shannon L. Thissen – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Computers infiltrate almost every aspect of our lives, including our homes and cars. For work, education, or personal fulfillment, computing has increased dramatically. The need for an educated workforce is expanding as technology devices become smaller, faster, and more powerful. We can teach students how to use math, logic, and computational…
Descriptors: Mental Computation, Elementary School Teachers, Knowledge Level, Comprehension
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Sandholm, Ditte; Simonsen, Julia; Ström, Kristina; Fagerlund, Åse – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2023
Positive education is the teaching of both traditional school skills and skills for enhancing well-being. This study examines teachers' (N = 72) experiences with training in positive education.Qualitative content analysis was used to provide an in-depth understanding of the experiences, and quantitative measures investigated teachers' well-being.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
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Acar, Sema; Peker, Bilge – Acta Didactica Napocensia, 2021
This study is a qualitative case study research, determining the purposes of teachers to use the eTwinning platform and to examine the effects of the platform on teachers. The study group consisted of 15 volunteer teachers who carried out eTwinning projects rewarded with quality labels. In the study, the data were obtained through a…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Teacher Collaboration, Institutional Cooperation, Communities of Practice
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Akin, Sibel; Ok, Ahmet – International Online Journal of Primary Education, 2021
This study aims to investigate the effectiveness of the pre-service elementary teacher education program in Turkey. The study aims to explore how well, as perceived by graduates who have begun working as beginning elementary teachers, the program develops the essential qualities for elementary teachers in the 21st century. Employing criterion and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teacher Education, Elementary School Teachers, Beginning Teachers
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Terenko, Olena – Comparative Professional Pedagogy, 2019
Types of non-formal adult education in the USA and Canada are singled out. Non-formal adult education in the United States and Canada is subdivided into basic adult education, education for professional development, education for personal development, specialized adult education, education for the development of civil society (constituents of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nonformal Education, Adult Education, Professional Development
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Grau, Maike Korinna; Turula, Anna – Language Learning & Technology, 2019
This paper aims to contribute to the growing literature on how prospective foreign language teachers can learn to be successful telecollaborators. We investigate Polish and German TEFL students' perceptions of how they develop the competences, attitudes, and beliefs described by O'Dowd (2015) through experiential learning in a virtual exchange.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Computer Mediated Communication
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Kamalova, Lera A.; Koletvinova, Natal'ya D. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
This article is aimed to study the problems of reading and improve reading culture of students-bachelors of elementary education in modern high institutions and development of the most effective methods and techniques for improving of reading culture of students in the study of Humanities disciplines. The leading method to the study of this…
Descriptors: Reading, Reading Achievement, Reading Improvement, Bachelors Degrees
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Cain, Maureen Elizabeth; Gunter, Helen – Management in Education, 2012
This article reports on doctoral research into the leadership practice of members of senior leadership teams in primary schools in England. We present the research findings as a visual construct representing school leadership as an integrated, holistic and dynamic process, named the PIVOT framework of leadership. This original structure connects…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Leadership, Professional Development, Individual Development
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Lavery, Shane; Cain, Glenda; Hampton, Patrick – International Journal of Whole Schooling, 2014
This article examines a service-learning immersion undertaken by pre-service primary teachers in a remote indigenous community and school in Western Australia. The article initially presents the purpose and significance for the immersion in the light of the Australian National Professional Standards for Teachers. The article subsequently outlines…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Immersion Programs, Preservice Teacher Education, Educational Improvement
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Adoniou, Misty – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2013
Everybody wants quality teachers in schools. How are such teachers developed? In this article a model is presented that describes four contexts crucial to the preparation of teachers: the personal, the university, the practicum and the employment contexts. The ways in which these different contexts can and should work together in the education and…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Alignment (Education), Teacher Education Programs, Teacher Effectiveness
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Yildirim, Rana – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2013
This article reports on the use of portfolios to develop ELT major student-teachers' autonomy. The research was carried out for 14 weeks with twenty-one 3rd grade student-teachers in the English Language Teaching Department of Cukurova University, Adana, Turkey. To evaluate the impact of portfolios on fostering the participants' autonomy, data…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Personal Autonomy, Foreign Countries, Individual Development
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Malm, Birgitte – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2008
In this article the concept of authenticity is explored within an educational context, using examples from the lives and work of teachers to illustrate the many qualities, dimensions and complexities involved in striving to be true to oneself. In educational settings authenticity has been aligned with personal commitment, meaningful contexts,…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Professional Development, Values, Intention
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Kaasila, Raimo – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2007
The intention of this article is to consider the use of narrative and rhetorical inquiry as research methods. I construct a mathematical biography of one elementary teacher trainee, Sirpa, who had performed well in her advanced mathematics course in upper secondary school. I describe her development as a mathematics teacher during teacher…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Research Methodology, Rhetoric, Inquiry
Battey, Dan; Franke, Megan L. – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2008
Despite the prevalence of professional development in schools and the variability in its implementation, little research has been conducted on how professional development makes its way into the classroom. Even when teachers participate in high-quality professional development, there remains a large and often undocumented variability in how…
Descriptors: Teacher Improvement, Comparative Analysis, Mathematics Teachers, Professional Development
Kitchens, Anita N.; Wenta, Robert G. – Journal of Invitational Theory and Practice, 2007
Two faculty members in the department of mathematical sciences at a four-year university, with teacher-education experience, presented a workshop for in-service elementary and middle-school teachers. The intention was to address affective aspects of teaching including: teacher efficacy, learning styles, cognitive dissonance, relaxation, and…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Education Programs, Workshops
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