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Teachers as Curriculum Designers: Understanding STEM Pedagogical Design Capacity
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Ellingson, Charlene L. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Background/Context: Science is in the midst of reform, shifting away from teaching science and mathematics in isolation from one another, toward a model that prioritizes integration of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) learning environments. Since teachers are the most important factor in determining the success and…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, STEM Education, Educational Environment, Educational Change
Building Content and Communities: Developing a Shared Sense of Early Childhood Mathematics Pedagogy
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Linder, Sandra M. – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2012
This article presents results from a case study analyzing the process of change for early childhood educators as they engage in a semester-long professional development (PD) experience focused on developing a teacher research agenda related to mathematics instruction. During this PD experience, 11 participants (5 second-grade and 6 third-grade…
Descriptors: Teacher Researchers, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Action Research
Teachers' Readiness to Embrace Change in the Early Years of Schooling: A Northern Ireland Perspective
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Walsh, Glenda; Gardner, John – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2006
Early years classroom practice in Northern Ireland is perceived to be dominated by a traditional teacher-directed model to the detriment of a more constructivist, play-based and child-initiated learning environment favoured in many nations' early education provision (see for example Walsh, 2000). In 2002, the Northern Ireland Council for…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Curriculum Development