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Prospective K-8 Teachers' Noticing of Student Justifications and Generalizations in the Context of Analyzing Written Artifacts and Video-Records
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Magiera, Marta T.; Zambak, Vecihi S. – International Journal of STEM Education, 2021
Background: This paper contributes to current discussions about supporting prospective teachers (PSTs) in developing skills of noticing students' mathematical thinking. We draw attention to PSTs' initial noticing skills (prior to instruction focused on supporting noticing) as PSTs engage in analyzing written artifacts of student work and…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Attention, Generalization
Linking Gestures: Cross-Cultural Variation during Instructional Analogies
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Richland, Lindsey Engle – Cognition and Instruction, 2015
Deictic linking gestures, hand and arm motions that physically embody links being communicated between two or more objects in the shared communicative environment, are explored in a cross-cultural sample of mathematics instruction. Linking gestures are specifically examined here when they occur in the context of communicative analogies designed to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nonverbal Communication, Role, Mathematics Instruction
Using Video Modeling to Teach Children with PDD-NOS to Respond to Facial Expressions
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Axe, Judah B.; Evans, Christine J. – Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2012
Children with autism spectrum disorders often exhibit delays in responding to facial expressions, and few studies have examined teaching responding to subtle facial expressions to this population. We used video modeling to train 3 participants with PDD-NOS (age 5) to respond to eight facial expressions: approval, bored, calming, disapproval,…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Nonverbal Communication, Autism, Modeling (Psychology)
Recess, Playground Games, and the Aims of School: An Investigation into the Semiotic Affordances of Four Square
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Marple, Stacy Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2011
In recent times, recess has become threatened by the press for more academic instruction time and by fears of violent behavior. A dramatic indicator of this trend is seen in the increasing number of schools and school districts which have done away with or significantly reduced recess time (BBC news, 2007; Coughlan, 2007; Jarrett, 2002; Pressler,…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Recess Breaks, Play, Violence
Patterns of Interactions and Behaviors: Physical Education in Korean Elementary, Middle, and High Schools
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Yu, Jong-Hoon; Kim, Jwa K. – ICHPER-SD Journal of Research, 2010
The purpose of this study was to compare and analyze the differences between elementary, middle, and high school physical education classes in Korea based on teacher and student behavior and teacher-student interaction patterns. The subjects who participated in this study were fifteen certified full-time physical education teachers at selected…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Interaction, Foreign Countries, Statistical Analysis
Disciplinary Knowledge and Gesturing in Communicative Events: A Comparative Study between Lessons Using Interactive Whiteboards and Traditional Whiteboards in Mexican Schools
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Fernandez-Cardenas, Juan Manuel; Silveyra-De La Garza, Marcela Lucia – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2010
In this study the authors have looked at the use of interactive whiteboards (IWBs) in Mexico from a linguistic anthropological perspective. Twenty lessons were video recorded to compare the use of IWBs and traditional boards in different areas of the curriculum in primary schools. Data were analysed as a set of sequenced communicative events in…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Intellectual Disciplines, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis