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Villarreal, Lorena A. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Imagination has been described as a cognitive endeavor that serves as a catalyst for creative actions and aids in the development of comprehension skills. Studies show that incorporating imagination into classroom practice builds on children's lived experiences and encourages the creative reworking of elements that enable the generation of new…
Descriptors: Imagination, Comprehension, Visualization, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)
Vander Does, Susan Lubow – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Teachers' observations of student performance in reading are abundant and insightful but often remain internal and unarticulated. As a result, such observations are an underutilized and undervalued source of data. Given the gaps in knowledge about students' reading comprehension that exist in formal assessments, the frequent calls for teachers'…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Comprehension, Teacher Student Relationship, Observation
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Kaskaya, Alper; Unlu, Ihsan; Akar, M. Said; Ozturan Sagirli, Meryem – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2011
The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of school and teacher themed movies on pre-service teachers' attitudes towards their profession and their perceived self-efficacy. As qualitative and quantitative research approaches were employed during data collection procedure, mixed methodology was adopted in this study. In the study, one of…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Self Efficacy, Social Sciences, Interviews