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Panchompoo Wisittanawat; Richard Lehrer – Cognition and Instruction, 2024
This report characterizes forms of dialogic support that a sixth-grade teacher generated during whole-class and small-group conversations to help students develop a practice of statistical modeling. During four weeks of instruction, students constructed and revised models to account for variability and uncertainty across a variety of random…
Descriptors: Statistics Education, Mathematical Models, Grade 6, Evaluation Methods
Jennie M. Baumann – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Knowledge development, application, and refinement are essential parts of students' reading. One way to observe how students use their knowledge as they read is through talk. Studies routinely indicate that though reading is a social endeavor, teachers spend most of the allotted instructional time talking or using discourse patterns that do not…
Descriptors: Discussion, Text Structure, Intersectionality, Knowledge Level
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France Machaba; Chipo Mangwiro – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2024
Participating in classroom mathematics conversations, particularly engaging with the opinions of others, can improve learners' mathematical comprehension. Teachers can use a variety of invitation and follow-up moves to encourage student engagement. The study aimed to explore teacher follow-up on learners' initial responses to teacher questions and…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Student Centered Learning
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Erin Hogan; Yuting Sun – Reading Research Quarterly, 2025
Using an explanatory sequential mixed methods approach, this secondary analysis investigated the relations among classroom dialogic interaction, fifth-grade students' reading achievement, and teachers' dialogic stances. First, quantitative analyses of time-sampled lesson observations and state reading test scores suggested that the more class time…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Grade 5, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
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DeMink-Carthew, Jessica; Gonell, Eliaquin – Middle School Journal, 2022
Early adolescence is a dynamic stage for the development of critical consciousness, yet there are few resources focused on social justice education (SJE) in the middle grades. This article shares the findings from a study that investigated the experiences of three social justice educators as they engaged in SJE with young adolescents (YAs). We…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Grade 6, Student Centered Learning, Teaching Methods
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Lynch, Kristie – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2021
This article aims to showcase instructional strategies in a middle and high school health education classroom. The strategies highlighted include word(s) and pictures(s) of the day postings, journaling, a scavenger hunt, writing a one-minute paper, conducting a three-part interview, and playing a myth versus truth game.
Descriptors: Health Education, Teaching Methods, Middle School Teachers, High School Teachers
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Gonca Eren; Dilek Yaliz Solmaz; Dilruba Kurum Yapicioglu – Journal of Theoretical Educational Science, 2024
Although the written physical education curriculum is the same throughout the country, the implementation phase in schools differs from each other. Hence the purpose of this study is to examine the implementation process of the 5th-grade physical education and sports curriculum (2018) in different school contexts. Case study pattern was used. The…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Grade 5, Curriculum, Physical Education Teachers
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Eugene Kwasi Gyekye – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
This qualitative study explores middle school students' perceptions of effective online learning pedagogies. I draw on eight semi-structured interviews with two students, 12 interviews with teacher participants, ongoing, open-ended ethnographic interviews with students and teachers, student artifacts, and field notes from over 300 h of synchronous…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Teaching Methods, Electronic Learning, Middle School Students
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Katrina Prendergast; Mihye Won; David Treagust – Teaching Science, 2023
In this paper, we discuss what creativity may look like in the science classroom and what we learnt from teaching with student-generated diagrams to promote creativity in Year 7 Science lessons. As a result of this study, most students were able to communicate a deeper understanding of complex phenomena and were able to apply this knowledge both…
Descriptors: Student Centered Learning, Instructional Design, Teaching Methods, Science Instruction
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Pritchayada Sonrum; Wittaya Worapun – Journal of Education and Learning, 2023
This study explores the potential of Problem-Based Learning (PBL) in primary school education and investigates its impact on geography skills, learning achievement, and satisfaction. The purpose of the study is to assess the effectiveness of PBL as a student-centered approach in enhancing learning outcomes. The participants consisted of 43 grade 5…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Student Attitudes, Student Centered Learning, Problem Based Learning
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Miriam Sanders; Milan Mathew; Ross Petty; Sofia Arredondo; Karen E. Rambo-Hernandez – Journal of Educational Research, 2024
To provide meaningful, high-quality learning experiences for students with diverse academic backgrounds, a critical consideration for mathematics educators is student engagement. The approach of team-based learning has allowed for an increase in student-centered class time and demonstrated positive results in tertiary education across multiple…
Descriptors: Middle School Mathematics, Middle School Students, Middle School Teachers, Grade 8
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Brackins, Harold Wade – Middle School Journal, 2022
Numerous studies have contributed to the theoretical, empirical, and practical understanding of teacher empathy, but few have captured the voices of middle school students to understand their lived experiences; no studies have explored the topic in Christian academies. Grounded in Rogers' theory of self and subsequent theories about…
Descriptors: Christianity, Empathy, Middle School Students, Religious Schools
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Juliane Fleissner-Martin; Jürgen Paul; Franz X. Bogner – Research in Science Education, 2025
This study analyses the coherent integration of creativity into science education modules for eighth-grade students to enhance competence development. The learning modules' content covered a basic ecological unit about forests, applied as digital or analog lesson. By utilizing the creativity subscales 'Act' and 'Flow' its analysis resulted in a…
Descriptors: Creativity, Science Education, Middle School Students, Cognitive Development
Bates, Jane K. – National Art Education Association, 2020
"Uniting Body, Mind, and Spirit Through Art Education: A Guide for Holistic Teaching in Middle and High School" empowers art learners to have experiences that engage the spirit along with the body and the mind in deeper ways of seeing, being, and relating in the world. This timely resource, written to support both the veteran educator…
Descriptors: Art Education, Holistic Approach, Middle Schools, High Schools
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Lidia Widia Sari; Atmini Dhoruri – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2024
Students need critical thinking skills to develop their ideas in mathematics learning situations at school, and they can apply mathematical concepts in solving contextual problems. Junior high school students have unique characteristics and are highly curious about new knowledge. Therefore, it is crucial to apply the learning models that support…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Problem Based Learning, Mathematics Instruction, Student Centered Learning
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