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Jeanette Wahlstrom – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Teachers must meet a variety of students' mathematics learning needs but are often not trained to do so. Little is known about how teachers perceive their efficacy to meet diverse math learning needs. The purpose of this qualitative collective case study was to explore teacher attitudes and perceptions of professional development (PD) and…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Christianity, Socialization
Steven Ray Flanagan – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this qualitative action research study was to explore improving first semester training practices for graduate teaching assistants (TAs) in the Spanish program at Arizona State University's (ASU) Tempe Campus. Adding to research on TA training in higher education, a communities of practice (CoP) framework was combined with concrete…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Teaching Assistants, Graduate Students, Spanish
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Tenam-Zemach, Michelle; Hecht, Steven A.; Roca, Barbara – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2018
There is a dearth of empirical research on the efficacy of integrated teacher professional development (PD) models, ones that synthesize both online learning and face-to-face teacher PD experiences and interactions. The purpose of this explanatory mixed-methods study was to determine how teachers perceived an integrated PD experience that…
Descriptors: Models, Faculty Development, Electronic Learning, Teaching Methods
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Gallagher, Matthew; Bauer, Carrie – Current Issues in Comparative Education, 2020
Higher education (HE) for refugees and displaced persons has often been considered a luxury. However, the humanitarian and educational sectors have recently committed to offering HE to this population. This is a welcome development, as research demonstrates that HE is intrinsically connected to development at the individual, community, and…
Descriptors: Refugees, Teaching Methods, Technological Literacy, Individual Development
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Camacho, Danielle J.; Legare, Jill M. – Journal of Instructional Research, 2018
The purpose of this article is to contribute to the growing body of research that focuses on best practices for environmental sustainability education in K-12 classrooms. A review of related literature included emerging trends, commitment by business leaders to engage in CSR activities in the community, and opportunities for education at the K-12…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Business Administration Education, Best Practices, Environmental Education
Coles, Romand; Scarnati, Blase – Kettering Foundation, 2015
As scholarship has become increasingly narrow and disconnected from public life, Kettering research has documented an intense sense of malaise in higher education, what Harry Boyte has called a loss of civic agency. Surprisingly, however, faculty at a few campuses have begun to self-organize to integrate civic work into their teaching and…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Democracy, Democratic Values, Higher Education
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Zimmerer, Mary; Skidmore, Susan Troncoso; Chuppa-Cornell, Kim; Sindel-Arrington, Tricia – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2019
Skill and drill remediation in developmental reading courses do not prepare students for reading tasks in future college-level courses. When a skill and drill model is replaced with a model that utilizes contextualization, students engage in relevant activities with authentic texts to prepare students for college-level activities. The reading…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Student Projects, Active Learning, Teaching Methods
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Ramirez, Pablo; Ross, Lydia – Theory Into Practice, 2019
We draw from an ethnographic research perspective to examine the potential benefits and pitfalls of dual-language secondary classrooms. The data collected come from multiple sources including classroom observations and teacher interviews from dual-language secondary classrooms. A secondary dual-language education conceptual framework is presented.…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Bilingual Education Programs, Teaching Methods, Ethnography
Harris, Richard – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Understanding the way humans communicate linguistically helps to define what proficiency in a particular language is. The general problem is scholars' assumption that the implementation of technology in the language learning environment acts a substitute for the human dynamic in achieving language proficiency. The purpose of this quantitative…
Descriptors: Spanish, Community Colleges, Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning
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Androff, David; Fike, Chris; Rorke, John – Journal of Social Work Education, 2017
Green issues such as protecting environmental rights and promoting sustainability are growing in importance to social work practice but are largely ignored in social work curricula. This article uses comparative case studies of three student-led community practice projects to demonstrate how environmental rights can be incorporated into social…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Social Work, Counselor Training, Environment
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Lee, Martha – Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, 2014
This article describes a learning program of the Tohono O'odham or "desert people" of the Southwestern United States and Mexico. Their culture and knowledge on both sides of the border is for them a special way of life known as "himdag," where science is built into everyday life of gathering, hunting, farming, artistry, and…
Descriptors: Tribes, Indigenous Populations, American Indian Culture, Indigenous Knowledge
Eversman, Kimberly A. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The passing of anti-immigrant legislation in the state of Arizona over the last decade has exacerbated an already oppressive system perpetuated by globalization and its byproducts, neoliberalism and neoconservativism. The social justice activist educators who live and work with the children and families most affected by these laws and policies…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Activism, Teacher Role, Teacher Attitudes
Cross, Deborah Iyron – ProQuest LLC, 2015
Arizona Online Instruction (AOI) provided an instructional alternative to nearly fifty thousand K-12 students in Arizona during the 2012-2013 school year. Growth in online education underscores the importance of evolving the role of the K-12 virtual teacher as the human agent (Turvey, 2008) demonstrating social learning theory (Bandura, 1977) by…
Descriptors: Teacher Collaboration, Communities of Practice, Teaching Experience, Faculty Development
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Mostofo, Jameel; Zambo, Ron – Educational Action Research, 2015
There is a continuing emphasis in the United States on improving students' mathematical abilities, and one approach is to better prepare teachers. To investigate the potential usefulness of Lesson Study to better prepare teachers, one author set out to conduct action research on his classroom practice. Specifically, he sought to determine whether…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Action Research, Methods Courses
Skipper, Tracy L., Ed. – National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, 2017
The responsibility for college success has historically rested with the student, but since the 1980s, educators have taken increasing ownership of this, designing structures that increase the likelihood of learning, success, and retention. These efforts have included a variety of initiatives--first year seminars, learning communities,…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Academic Achievement, First Year Seminars, Undergraduate Students
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