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Iris Schreiber – Discover Education, 2025
What do teachers know regarding word problem-solving in middle school? How confident are they in their knowledge? What do they believe is essential for them to know to teach word problem-solving? These three questions led to the current study in which 57 teachers who teach word problem-solving in middle school were examined regarding three factors…
Descriptors: Middle School Mathematics, Middle School Teachers, Word Problems (Mathematics), Knowledge Base for Teaching
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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
Castro, Enma – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Despite the promise of equal education opportunities for all students in the nation, the achievement/opportunity gap between English language learners (ELLs) and their non-ELLs peers persists. Time, effort, and resources of all kids have been invested in educational reforms to improve these students' outcomes without success (Darling-Hammond,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Middle School Students
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Preciado-Babb, Armando Paulino; Metz, Martina; Marcotte, Chenoa – ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 2015
This paper explores the learning of both individuals and organizations within the context of a 3-year professional development program for mathematics and science teachers in a middle school. We propose to extend the notion of awareness from individuals to autonomous systems as a means to study the learning of teachers, mentors, the school, and…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Secondary School Mathematics, Middle Schools, Mathematics Teachers
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Turner, Steven L. – Preventing School Failure, 2011
Research from the learning sciences (how people learn) can help educators and parents work more effectively with disengaged students and reluctant learners. In this article, the author reviews the knowledge base of the learning sciences and examines what researchers and teachers have learned in the past 30 years regarding how and why people learn…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Student Centered Curriculum, Instructional Design, Learning Processes