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Hauk, Dennis; Gröschner, Alexander; Weil, Maralena; Böheim, Ricardo; Schindler, Ann-Kathrin; Alles, Martina; Seidel, Tina – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2023
Promoting teachers to lead classroom discourse effectively is a relevant topic for teacher professional development worldwide. This study compares the impacts of two teacher professional development programmes that aim to support teachers in their classroom discourse practices. In one programme, an adaptive and practitioner-led approach was…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Classroom Communication, Teaching Methods, Beliefs
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Krucoff, Rebecca – Journal of Museum Education, 2019
Museum educators partner with classroom educators in a multitude of ways aimed at enriching student experience. This article examines a five-week museum education course at Pratt Institute for pre-service art teachers taught in the model of a professional development series that could be adapted for many museums and applied to meet the needs of…
Descriptors: Museums, Learning Processes, Teaching Methods, Teacher Collaboration
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Foster, Colin; Wake, Geoffe; Swan, Malcolm – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2014
Although the importance of mathematical problem solving is now widely recognised, relatively little attention has been given to the conceptualisation of mathematical processes such as representing, analysing, interpreting and communicating. The construct of Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching (Hill, Ball & Schilling, 2008) is generally…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Problem Solving, Communities of Practice, Knowledge Base for Teaching
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Robertson, Bill – Educational Leadership, 2007
Robertson discusses the "perceived dichotomy" that permeates science teaching: teachers can either stress inquiry learning with lots of hands-on experiences or stress content knowledge and swap hands-on inquiry for direct instruction. Although a curriculum of unstructured hands-on science activities leads to shallow content knowledge, it is…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Science Activities, Learning Processes, Curriculum Development