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Effective Teaching Practices for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Students: A Review of the Literature
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Lloyd, Natalie J.; Lewthwaite, Brian Ellis; Osborne, Barry; Boon, Helen J. – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2015
This paper presents a review of the literature pertaining to the teacher actions that influence Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander student learning outcomes. This review investigates two foci: the identification of teacher actions influencing learning outcomes for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander students and the methodological…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Best Practices, Instructional Effectiveness, Pacific Islanders
A Self-Study in Teacher Education: Learning to Teach in Higher Education after Teaching the Arts to Young Children
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Garvis, Susanne – Online Submission, 2012
The arts are a key developmental area in early childhood education. Subsequently, it is important that generalist teachers know how to teach suitable arts knowledge and skills. As a teacher educator, the responsibility of this falls within the author's teaching. It is her job to teach future teachers suitable arts knowledge and skills. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Teacher Educators, Methods Courses
Using Video Tutorials as a Carrot-and-Stick Approach to Learning
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Wells, J.; Barry, R. M.; Spence, A. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2012
Traditional teaching styles practiced at universities do not generally suit all students' learning styles. For a variety of reasons, students do not always engage in learning in the courses in which they are enrolled. New methods to create and deliver educational material are available, but these do not always improve learning outcomes.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Video Technology, Multimedia Instruction, Student Surveys
Teachers' Responses to an Investigative Mathematics Syllabus: Their Goals and Practices.
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Norton, Stephen; McRobbie, Campbell J.; Cooper, Tom J. – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2002
Explores teachers' practices and relates them to their goals. Indicates that syllabus documents have influenced teachers' choices of teaching strategies and that most teachers had calculation-based goals for less able students and conceptual goals for more able students. Identifies teaching strategies and discusses the relationships between…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Course Descriptions, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Exemplary Practice in Science Classrooms.
Tobin, Kenneth – 1987
The Exemplary Practice in Science and Mathematics Education (EPSME) project involved outstanding teachers of science or mathematics from Western Australia. The project's goal was to identify effective practices of exemplary teachers for the purpose of developing programs for improving practices in science classrooms. Thirteen science teachers and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Elementary School Science, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
The Reproduction of Historical Relations in the Crosscultural Classroom at University
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Harrison, Neil – Australian Journal of Education, 2004
This paper is based on research conducted with indigenous students at a university in the Northern Territory. It examines crosscultural theories of education which explain the problems of teaching and learning in indigenous contexts in terms of the cultural mismatch between the home and school environment. These theories position the teacher as…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Foreign Countries, Educational Theories, Social Theories