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Chatoupis, Constantine – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2018
In the divergent discovery style of teaching the teacher designs problems that engage students in finding multiple solutions. The purpose of this article is to show how physical educators can use the divergent discovery style in the gymnasium. A brief description of this style and its connection to the SHAPE America National Standards for K-12…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Education Teachers, Teaching Styles, National Standards
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Schnur, Erin; Rubio, Fernando – Language Learning & Technology, 2021
Using the 2.4-million-word written Spanish subsection of the Corpus of Utah Dual Language Immersion, collected from a large-scale standardized writing assessment of K-12 Spanish second language (L2) students, this study focuses on lexical complexity as operationalized by three measures: lexical diversity, lexical density, and lexical…
Descriptors: Spanish, Immersion Programs, Computational Linguistics, Bilingual Education Programs
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Penuel, William R.; Turner, Michael L.; Jacobs, Jennifer K.; Horne, Katie; Sumner, Tamara – Science Education, 2019
The vision for science proficiency presented in "A Framework for K-12 Science Education" calls for significant shifts in both teaching and assessment. In this paper, we describe an effort to develop and validate a set of "proximal transfer tasks" for high school biology classrooms where teachers were implementing a…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Science Instruction, Guidelines, Elementary Secondary Education
Heneman, Herbert G., III; Milanowski, Anthony; Finster, Matthew – Teacher Incentive Fund, US Department of Education, 2016
The past several years have seen a growing interest in, and adoption of, Teacher Leader (TL) programs throughout the country and among TIF 4 grantees. Often, these programs have been embedded within large- scale career ladder compensation systems. Several recent writings describe this recent growth surge, design issues in the creation of a total…
Descriptors: Teacher Leadership, Guidelines, Administrative Principles, Instructional Improvement
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Wall, Dianne; Taylor, Cathy – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2014
In this article we first summarise the main points raised by Morrow (1979) in the publication that formed the core of the Communicative Language Testing discussions at the original Language Testing Forum (1980). We take into consideration issues raised by the 1980 Forum participants when appropriate. We apply Morrow's ideas and issues emerging…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Language Tests, Test Validity, Course Descriptions
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Caldwell, Charmaine D.; Geltner, Jill A.; Cunningham, Teddi J. – Georgia School Counselors Association Journal, 2012
Site supervisors rarely receive training at the master's level in the supervisory skills required for the supervision of intern students. General guidelines for site supervisors are presented in this article. The article suggests steps for a site supervisor to take prior to accepting an intern, procedures to follow during the internship, and…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Supervisors, Supervisory Training, Internship Programs
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Dhonau, Stephanie, Ed. – Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, 2013
This year's volume of the Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (CSCTFL) Report centering on the conference theme of MultiTasks, MultiSkills, and MultiConnections focused on the importance or world language use within the classroom and beyond with articles extending the conversation on target language use in instruction,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Role, Elementary Secondary Education