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Xavier Fazio; Stephen Kemmis; Jessica Zugic – Science Education, 2025
Science teachers struggle to implement and sustain new curricular ideas from professional development (PD) experiences. These PD opportunities are crucial for enacting real-world changes to teaching practice and address pressing global challenges, such as the teaching and learning of socioscientific topics nested in school communities.…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Science, Secondary School Teachers
Tare, Medha; Shell, Alison R.; Jackson, Jessica – Digital Promise, 2022
Classrooms nationwide welcome a diverse group of learners. A goal, and an achievable one, is to recognize this unique diversity on a whole child spectrum and to strive to customize learning to meet individual needs. Critical to this process is for teachers to have at hand research that connects factors of learning in a holistic way. It is equally…
Descriptors: Holistic Approach, Theory Practice Relationship, Student Needs, Student Centered Learning
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Pietros, Jennifer; Sweetman, Sara – PDS Partners: Bridging Research to Practice, 2020
Research practice partnerships (RPP) intend to blur the lines of traditional teacher and researcher roles. Teachers who participate in RPPs gain experiences in research activities such as identifying problems of practice, designing research methods and data collection tools, collecting and analyzing data. They learn to be critical consumers of…
Descriptors: Professional Development Schools, Partnerships in Education, Theory Practice Relationship, Educational Research
Silva, Joseph Greg – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The purpose of this study was to investigate the Restorative Justice Practices (RJ/RP) strategies being implemented at one urban elementary school that were shown to be highly effective in reducing suspensions and discipline infractions, and isolate key factors critical to the implementation of this approach. In this qualitative embedded case…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Elementary Schools, Justice, Conflict Resolution
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Gutierrez, Amanda; Nailer, Sarah – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2021
Professional experience is viewed by governments, schools, universities and pre-service teachers as a crucial, and for some, the most important element of initial teacher education. Pre-service teachers (PSTs) consistently cite time in schools as the most valuable part of their teacher education programme. High-quality professional experience…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Practicums, Program Length, Program Effectiveness
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Lopes-Murphy, Solange A.; Murphy, Christopher G. – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 2020
Fundamental to the hypothesis-driven approach to assessing the special-education (SPED) needs of English learners (ELs) is the awareness that behaviors often exhibited by ELs may mirror indicators of learning disabilities (e.g., difficulty comprehending text, difficulty following directions, lack of appropriate classroom behavior, lack of…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Language Impairments, English Language Learners, Second Language Learning
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Belford, Nish; Tudball, Libby; Kewalramani, Sarika – Cogent Education, 2020
Research-informed immersive professional learning in schools is another avenue for pre-service teachers (PSTs) to develop their understanding and reflection about theories, methods, and practices of teaching and learning. From a collaborative research project that aimed at developing the intercultural capabilities of Prep level students in a…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Professional Development
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Banta, Sarah; Cool, Mary; Hansen, Mary; Heckler, Jessica; Masker, Trish; Plavchan, Krista; Sobol, Michele; Blessing, Lew; Starzynski, Mary; Carr, Melissa – School-University Partnerships, 2013
From an informal discussion to being awarded the National Association for Professional Development School's Award for Exemplary Professional Development School Achievement, this article presents the story of the Timbercrest Elementary/University of Central Florida Professional Development School Partnership's journey. As the authors shared their…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Professional Development Schools, Partnerships in Education, College School Cooperation
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Wilkinson, Jane; Kemmis, Stephen – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2015
Inspired by Theodore Schatzki's "societist" approach--in which he advocates a notion of "site ontologies"--in this article, we outline our theory of practice architectures (a theory about what practices are composed of) and ecologies of practices (how practices relate to one another). Drawing on case studies of four Australian…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Leadership, Educational Practices, Case Studies
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Gregory, Anne; Ward-Seidel, Allison Rae; Carter, Kayla V. – Journal of Educational and Psychological Consultation, 2021
Across the United States, schools are implementing Restorative Practices (RP) to improve school climate and address disparities in discipline. The scope of such RP initiatives can remain ambiguous to school leaders. Given the need for greater clarity about RP initiatives, the current study sought to identify the varying components of RP…
Descriptors: Discipline, Social Emotional Learning, Conflict Resolution, Theory Practice Relationship
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Mensah, Felicia Moore – Theory Into Practice, 2013
This article discusses how issues of diversity and equity are addressed in the preparation of science teachers who are charged with teaching diverse students in schools. Highlighting examples from my own teaching and research and other studies in education, I frame this article in terms of a broad application of theory in science teacher…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Student Diversity, Science Instruction, Science Teachers
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Kittleson, Julie M.; Dresden, Janna; Wenner, Julianne A. – School-University Partnerships, 2013
In this article we detail ongoing work designed to understand and improve our practice and that of the future teachers with whom we work. This work centers on helping elementary teacher candidates learn to implementinstruction that supports student learning. We have developed and implemented a model--the "Supported, Collaborative Teaching…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Preservice Teachers, Faculty Development, Professional Development Schools
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Olander, Mona Holmqvist; Olteanu, Constanta – Journal of Education and Learning, 2013
The aim of this study is to study learning the positional ten base notation by the increase of students' test scores during the learning study process. Five teachers, one researcher and 53 students participated. Three research lessons in three different groups of students were conducted. The improvement in the third lesson (C) correlates with the…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Teaching Methods, Action Research, Scores
Willett, Kara E. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
A new vision of literacy education that involves moral, political, and cultural decisions about the literate practices needed to enhance both peoples' agency over their life trajectories and communities' intellectual, cultural and semiotic resources is essential for reframing literacy to encompass the multiple modalities and literacies of the 21st…
Descriptors: Multiple Literacies, Theory Practice Relationship, Literacy Education, Curriculum Design
Silver, Edward A., Ed.; Kenney, Patricia Ann, Ed. – National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 2015
This book's 28 chapters are adapted and updated from articles published in NCTM's "Journal for Research in Mathematics Education" between 2000 and 2010. The authors have rewritten and revised their work to make it clear, understandable, and--most of all--useful for mathematics teachers today. To help teachers even more, these articles…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Mathematics Education, Educational Research, Common Core State Standards
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