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Jennifer Fortet – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2025
Attending school does not necessarily lead to learning. In the classroom, quality of teaching is one of the most significant factors in determining pupil outcomes. Structured pedagogy programmes are designed to support teaching practice and have led to improved learning outcomes at scale across different contexts including in low-income countries.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Lesson Plans, Planning, Grade 5
Francis, Janice – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The current study examined teachers' perceptions with regard to the Guided Reading (GR) approach in elementary level education. Specifically, this study examined the following research questions: a) What are Alberta teachers' perceptions about the GR approach? b) What are Alberta teachers' perceptions about how they enact GR in the classroom? and…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Elementary School Teachers
Brenna Lloyd – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Technology's rapid development is changing how educators plan lessons and incorporate these digital resources into classrooms with the expectation of impacting student academic performance. The problem is that teachers need professional development related to blended learning implementation to improve student achievement in elementary (An, 2021;…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Blended Learning, Academic Achievement, Faculty Development
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Hector H. Rivera; Jui-Teng Li; Huan Meng – TESOL Journal, 2025
This study examined (a) the effects of professional development (PD) intervention on third- to fifth-grade teachers' knowledge and skills of teaching practice for multilingual learners (MLs), and (b) the relationship between teachers' enhanced knowledge and skills, MLs' self-efficacy in learning, and MLs' academic performance. The sample consisted…
Descriptors: Correlation, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Multilingualism, Faculty Development
Michelle Zottoli-lee – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Each teacher brings different strengths and beliefs to the classroom through instruction. When teachers implement the same curriculum, pacing guides, training, and support, their instruction still varies, as does student learning. The Action Research study sought to improve the connection between teacher self-efficacy and teacher perceptions in…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Elementary School Teachers, Self Efficacy, Teacher Attitudes
Stephen A. Biller – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This research investigated the impact of a professional development program on enhancing fifth-grade environmental science teacher efficacy through place-based education (PBE) practices--the Meaningful Watershed Educational Experiences (MWEE) Professional Development Training aimed to promote teacher engagement and increase pedagogical content…
Descriptors: Place Based Education, Environmental Education, Elementary School Science, Teacher Effectiveness
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Kimberly E. Beck; Jessica F. Shumway; Patrick Ocran; Jody Clarke-Midura; Mimi Recker – International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, 2025
Expansive Framing (EF) is a theory and an instructional technique to facilitate connections between content and contexts. We employed EF as an approach to create a series of integrated mathematics and computer science (CS) lessons, using digital technology as a tool to leverage shared mathematical and computational ideas. We used deductive…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Computer Science Education, Grade 5, Elementary School Teachers
Kwanza L. Atkinson – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Since 2016, third to fifth-grade students at a Title I elementary school have not met adequate yearly progress because 70% of students have not scored proficient on the end-of-grade mathematics assessment. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore the instructional approaches that elementary school teachers use to teach mathematics…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Students, At Risk Students
Cara Nicole Scales-Judkowitz – ProQuest LLC, 2022
An increasing number of U.S. teachers of English Language Learners (ELL) across the nation are not receiving adequate in-service training to provide instruction within students' zone of proximal development (ZPD). Vygotsky's ZPD is the difference between what a person can achieve when acting alone and what the same person can achieve when acting…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, English Language Learners, Faculty Development, Teaching Methods
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da Ponte, João Pedro; Quaresma, Marisa; Mata-Pereira, Joana – ZDM: Mathematics Education, 2022
In the research reported in this paper, using a modified version of the interconnected model of teacher professional growth (IMTPG) proposed by Clarke and Hollingsworth (Teaching Teacher Educ 18:947-967, 2002), we aimed to understand the learning dynamics in a lesson study of a group of five teachers of grades 5-6, during their work around…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Faculty Development, Grade 5, Grade 6
Kelly Julanne Dennis – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Students face daily academic challenges when trying to learn new content in school, and these challenges can make it increasingly difficult for students to continue to work when frustrated. Students who put forth extended effort into their learning are said to have a growth mindset. Teachers heavily influence students by the way they present…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Student Attitudes, Student Motivation, Positive Attitudes
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Hourigan, Mairéad; Leavy, Aisling – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2021
This paper reports on a project that sought to enhance problem-solving practices within a cluster of primary schools. In-service teachers' description of their approach to problem-solving suggested it was treated as an isolated practice that occurred after concepts had been taught; often focusing on teaching particular problem-solving strategies…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Problem Solving, Elementary School Mathematics, Teaching Methods
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Saka, Tolga; Inaltekin, Tufan – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2023
Exploring science teachers' classroom assessment behaviors is a way to understand the professional knowledge competencies underlying effective teaching practices. One of the most important components of in-class assessments is teacher questions. However, studies examining teacher questions that provide support to accurately determine student…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Science Teachers, Science Instruction
Gema Del Moral – ProQuest LLC, 2022
English Language Learners (ELLs) are at an academic disadvantage with the rest of general education because they are linguistically challenged, especially in reading. Educators are recommended to use best practices to provide a good quality education to ELLs through the use of instructional tools. One instructional tool that is recommended to use…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Instructional Materials, Academic Achievement, English Language Learners
Andrew C. Houser – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this quantitative causal-comparative study was to determine if there were statistically significant differences between 3rd-, 4th-, and 5th-grade reading teachers in the Northeast Unites States, defined as participants and nonparticipants in the LETRS® professional development, in terms of teachers' self-efficacy in student…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Reading Instruction, Self Efficacy, Grade 3
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