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Sipper-Denlinger, Kristen – Christian Higher Education, 2022
Previous studies have demonstrated that using guided, targeted, reflections in service-learning (SL) courses can increase student engagement and learning. However, little research has been conducted on how these reflective models can be adapted for faith-based institutions to help students to better integrate faith into their learning experience,…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Service Learning, Beliefs, Spiritual Development
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Farah, Yara N.; Jimenez, Lauren M. – Gifted Child Today, 2019
Students are active in shaping the implementation of any curricular intervention. At Paradise Valley Unified School District (PVUSD), more than 1,500 students in Grades 1 to 6 were recipients of the William & Mary English Language Arts (ELA) curriculum units. In this article, we share students' perceptions related to the following three…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Cooperation, Partnerships in Education, Teaching Models
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Russo-Zimet, Gila – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2017
Studies have examined the assumption that teachers have previous perceptions, beliefs and knowledge about learning (Cochran-Smith & Villegas, 2015). This study presented the In-Action Mental Model of twenty leading artist-teachers while teaching Visual Arts in three Israeli art institutions of higher Education. Data was collected in two…
Descriptors: Visual Arts, Artists, Teaching Models, Teaching Methods
Maxwell, Lesli A. – Education Week, 2013
Seventh and 8th grade English-learners in selected urban schools will soon dive into some of the most celebrated speeches in U.S. history. They'll dissect, for example, Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream," and Robert F. Kennedy's "On the Death of Martin Luther King." Though their…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Language Proficiency, Language Arts, Academic Standards
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Thomas, Angela Falter – Journal of Curriculum and Teaching, 2015
This article discusses alternatives to the lecture-style teaching that remains a fundamental practice for many middle school classrooms. Information was accumulated by pre-service middle school language arts teachers, who interviewed their mentor for their student teaching experience, focusing on how each teacher attempts to foster lifelong…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Language Arts, Mentors, Interviews
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Tichnor-Wagner, Ariel; Parkhouse, Hillary; Glazier, Jocelyn; Cain, Jessie Montana – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2016
Educators today must be able to respond to the needs of an increasingly diverse student body and to teach all students the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed for civic participation in a globalized, pluralist society. While state departments of education and national teacher organizations have begun to adopt global awareness in their teaching…
Descriptors: Global Education, Social Justice, Teaching Methods, Qualitative Research
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Jiang, Xuan; Perkins, Kyle – Interdisciplinary Journal of Teaching and Learning, 2013
Bruner's constructs of learning, specifically the structure of learning, spiral curriculum, and discovery learning, in conjunction with the Cognitive Load Theory, are used to evaluate the Picture Word Inductive Model (PWIM), an inquiry-oriented inductive language arts strategy designed to teach K-6 children phonics and spelling. The PWIM reflects…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Theories
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Goodman, Yetta M. – English Journal, 2011
The author's career in professional education is intertwined with the history of language arts education in the United States and the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). The author joined NCTE in the 1960s, though she was already teaching for about 10 years with a well-developed constructivist perspective on teaching and learning.…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Literacy Education, Constructivism (Learning), Teaching Methods
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Smyth, Theoni Soublis; Hansen, Angela – English Journal, 2010
Collaboration and the appreciation for multiple perspectives have become increasingly important. The current political and economic condition in the United States and globally has exemplified the urgency for people of many different backgrounds and ideologies to work together to find solutions to world problems such as climate change and economic…
Descriptors: Group Activities, Language Arts, Literary Genres, Interpretive Skills
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DeCosta, Meredith; Clifton, Jennifer; Roen, Duane – English Journal, 2010
English language arts classrooms are especially rich sites for both explicit and implicit collaborations among those who inhabit those spaces. In these venues, Bakhtinian "heteroglot voices" (Bakhtin 278) saturate the oral and written discourse that students produce as they engage in discussions and as they write in a wide variety of genres,…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Relationship, Interaction, English Instruction, Language Arts
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Scheuerman, Richard; Gritter, Kristine; Schuster, Carrie Jim; Fisher, Gordon – English Journal, 2010
Place-based literacy learning is hardly an innovation in education and need not revolve around Native American legends. The objective of place-based literacy learning is to use local literacy artifacts to facilitate critical thinking about cultural, political-economic, and environmental connections to promote community sustainability by relating…
Descriptors: Language Arts, American Indians, Educational Innovation, Literacy
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Fayne, Harriet R. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2009
In this article, the author describes how she used integrated course design to design a course that would help special education teachers satisfy the "Highly Qualified Teacher" (HQT) requirement established by No Child Left Behind (NCLB) in the area of English/language arts. The approach she chose was based on principles advanced by Fink…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Special Education Teachers, Teaching Methods, Communities of Practice
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Solomon, John; Murata, Nathan M. – Strategies: A Journal for Physical and Sport Educators, 2008
Physical education is a prime content area for interdisciplinary learning. The movement components of physical education can be used as a medium through which children are provided with opportunities to practice and strengthen language skills. Cone, Werner, Cone, and Woods (1998, p. 4) agree: "interdisciplinary learning is an educational process…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Activities, Teaching Models, Language Arts
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Boyd, Fenice B.; Ikpeze, Chinwe H. – Journal of Literacy Research, 2007
The authors draw on Cognitive Flexibility Theory (Spiro, Coulson, Feltovich, & Anderson, 2004) as a lens to examine one seventh-grade English language arts teacher's pedagogical approach to using multiple text types to develop students' conceptual understandings about the 1957 integration of Little Rock's Central High School. Multiple text types…
Descriptors: Hypermedia, English Teachers, Language Arts, Grade 7
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Hemphill, John – Language Arts, 1981
Describes three approaches to language arts instruction--student centered/integrated, content centered/segmented, and a combination of these two--and examines the strong and weak points of each. (HTH)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Language Arts, Learning Theories, Student Centered Curriculum
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