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Jazby, Dan – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2016
Most studies which investigate mathematics teacher noticing cast perception into a passive role. This study develops an ecological analysis of mathematics teachers' noticing in order to investigate how teachers actively look for information in classroom environments. This method of analysis is applied to data collected as an experienced primary…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Perception, Classroom Environment, Experienced Teachers
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Tasker, Tammy Q.; Herrenkohl, Leslie Rupert – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2016
This article examines a 7th grade teacher's pedagogical practices to support her students to provide peer feedback to one another using technology during scientific inquiry. This research is part of a larger study in which teachers in California and Washington and their classes engaged in inquiry projects using a Web-based system called Web of…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Peer Evaluation, Scientific Methodology, Inquiry
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Loughland, Tony; Kilpatrick, Laetitia – Education 3-13, 2015
This action learning study in a year three classroom explored the implementation of five formative assessment principles to assist students' understandings of the scientific topic of liquids and solids. These principles were employed to give students a greater opportunity to express their understanding of the concepts. The study found that the…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Elementary School Science, Experiential Learning, Grade 3
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Nyman, Rimma – International Journal for Mathematics Teaching and Learning, 2015
This article presents results from an empirical study of how student engagement is visible during introductory algebra. Previously, the notion of engagement in mathematics has been studied from students' and researchers' perspectives. This study is instead focused on teachers' perspectives on student engagement. Eight teachers in grade 6-7 have…
Descriptors: Educational Indicators, Educational Practices, Introductory Courses, Algebra
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Deaton, Cynthia C. Minchew; Deaton, Benjamin; Koballa, Thomas – Action in Teacher Education, 2014
This multiple case study examined the reflections of elementary teachers as they taught science to English language learners (ELLs). The six participants in this study developed explanations about their science teaching with ELLs as they engaged in reflective practice using video-based tools during a professional development experience. Open…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Reflection, Science Instruction, Educational Practices
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Delaney, Diane W. – Update: Applications of Research in Music Education, 2011
A qualitative study was completed to identify and study the content of selected elementary general music teachers' evaluations of their own instruction and the instruction of another elementary general music teacher. Participants represented a variety of educational backgrounds and teaching experience: Teacher A (9 years teaching Grades 4-6 at…
Descriptors: Music, Music Teachers, Teaching Experience, Teaching Methods
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Lavoie, Constance; Mark, Marie-Paul; Jenniss, Brigitte – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2014
This article presents a community-based pedagogical initiative for teaching vocabulary. The research took place in the Innu community of Unamen Shipu in northern Quebec. The study introduced a teaching method grounded in Indigenous knowledge theory that exemplified the multiliteracies pedagogy principles. This exploratory study used participatory…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Teaching Methods, Multiple Literacies, Indigenous Knowledge
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Esmonde, Indigo – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2014
This article investigates how affluent students made sense of social justice issues that were embedded in mathematics learning activities. I present 2 case studies of such activities at the intermediate and secondary levels in 2 different schools. The analysis draws on video records and classroom artifacts and applies the theoretical framework of…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Mathematics Education, Advantaged, Learning Activities
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Bayraktar, Aysegül – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2013
Problem Statement: Within Language Arts instruction the use of teacher-student writing conferences is accepted as an effective strategy for teaching writing. The writing conference allows for an individual one-on-one teacher-student conversation about the students' writing or writing process and provides the student an audience in terms of…
Descriptors: Interaction, Self Efficacy, Beliefs, Language Arts
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Chambers, Joan M.; Radbourne, Christy – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2014
Utilizing ecosocial theory and the notion of the environment as text, two teachers, the vice principal and a university researcher, engaged in a year-long, place-based, qualitative action research project in which they used the environment as the integrating context for teaching critical literacy, mathematics, and science. The project revealed…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Skill Development, Critical Literacy, Qualitative Research
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Kazempour, Mahsa; Amirshokoohi, Aidin – Journal of Education and Learning, 2013
In order for teachers to implement inquiry-based teaching practices, they must have experienced inquiry-based learning especially during science content and methods courses. Although the impacts of inquiry-based instruction on various cognitive and affective domains have been studied and documented little attention has been paid to "how"…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Active Learning, Inquiry
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Chen, Weiyun; Cone, Theresa P.; Cone, Stephen L. – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2011
Background: Interdisciplinary teaching through physical education has been discussed in the physical education literature over the past two decades. However, there is no qualitative study of what interdisciplinary teaching in physical education means to students. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to describe students' views of and educational…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Interviews, Teaching Methods, Learning Experience
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Chen, Wiyun; Hypnar, Andrew J.; Mason, Steve A.; Zalmout, Sandy – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2014
The purpose of this study was to examine the contribution of quality physical education (QPET) in a Comprehensive School Physical Activity Program (CSPAP) which is intended to promote physical activity (PA) behaviors in and outside of schools. Participants were nine elementary physical education teachers and their fourth- and fifth-grade students…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Physical Activity Level, Physical Education, Student Behavior
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Polly, Drew; Hannafin, Michael J. – Journal of Educational Research, 2011
Prior professional development studies have identified discrepancies between what teachers' report (espoused practices) and demonstrate (enacted practices) during classroom teaching. This has proven particularly evident in studies examining classroom implementation of standards-based practices such as learner-centered instruction. The authors…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Professional Development, Teaching Methods, Educational Practices
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Depaepe, Fien; De Corte, Erik; Verschaffel, Lieven – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2010
This contribution reports about a seven-month long video-based study in two regular Flemish sixth-grade mathematics classrooms. The focus is on teachers' approaches towards problem solving. In our analysis we distinguished between a paradigmatic-oriented (focus on the mathematical structure) and a narrative-oriented (focus on the contextual…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Word Problems (Mathematics), Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods
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