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Shushok, Frank, Jr. – About Campus, 2017
In this wide-ranging interview, Krista Tippett, a Peabody Award-winning broadcaster and the New York Times bestselling author of "Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living" (Penguin Press, 2016) shares her perspective on wisdom, the reemergence of hope, and the need to talk about values.
Descriptors: Expectation, Values, Friendship, Student Development
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Nimehchisalem, Vahid – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2016
Brian Tomlinson is a Visiting Professor at The University of Liverpool and a Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Professor at Anaheim University. He has worked as a teacher, teacher trainer, curriculum developer, university academic and soccer coach in Indonesia, Japan, Nigeria, Oman, Singapore, Vanuatu, UK and Zambia and has…
Descriptors: Humanization, Individualized Instruction, Educational Practices, Educational Change
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Vygotsky, Lev S. – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2017
How learning relates to development in children of school age is the most central and fundamental question. Without an answer to this, problems of pedagogical psychology and analysis of the pedagogical process can neither be properly resolved nor even stated. Nevertheless, this question remains the most obscure and unexplained of all the basic…
Descriptors: Child Development, Role of Education, Student Development, Educational Psychology
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Kelly E. Tumy; Vonthisha DeFriend, Contributor; Jordan James, Contributor; Amber Funderburgh, Contributor; Alexandra Babino, Contributor – English in Texas, 2024
This article explores how TCTELA's 2024 Teachers of the Year forged the future through their literacy teaching at the elementary, middle school, high school, and college levels. Each essay captures how they understand their work as literacy educators and intentionally educate their students toward a brighter future amid trying local contexts. The…
Descriptors: Recognition (Achievement), Elementary School Teachers, Middle School Teachers, High School Teachers
Wolk, Steven – Phi Delta Kappan, 2017
Ten years ago, in "Kappan," the author published a detailed account of the old-fashioned and unengaging instruction used at his son Max's Chicago elementary school. Now he updates readers with a reflection on Max's high school years, describing a curriculum and teaching practices that desperately need an overhaul. Thanks to its…
Descriptors: High Schools, Secondary School Curriculum, Relevance (Education), Curriculum Evaluation
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Lewis, Tamica; Mobley, Mary; Huttenlock, Daniel – Educational Horizons, 2013
It's the season for the job hunt, whether one is looking for their first job or taking the next step along their career path. This article presents first-person accounts to see how teachers balance the rewards and challenges of working in different types of schools. Tamica Lewis, a third-grade teacher, states that faculty at her school is…
Descriptors: Teaching Experience, Educational Practices, Interprofessional Relationship, Collegiality
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Ketcham, Amaris – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2015
The emphasis on STEM education should not be interpreted as an omen of the death of humanities; art, literature, history, and philosophy can inform and enlighten STEM studies if the walls of academic silos are broken down and taught in combination. Where the physical universe collides with the fanciful and flawed human experience of life, there is…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, STEM Education, Humanities, Humanistic Education
Dary, Teri; Pickeral, Terry; Shumer, Rob; Williams, Anderson – National Dropout Prevention Center/Network, 2016
This position paper on student engagement is organized in response to major questions on how student engagement aligns with dropout prevention. Through a set of questions and responses, the "Weaving Student Engagement Into the Core Practices of Schools" position paper on student engagement : (1) defines the term "student…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Alignment (Education), Dropout Prevention, Educational Practices
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Santini, Joseph – Odyssey: New Directions in Deaf Education, 2014
This article describes a teachers reflections on the matter of student expectations. Santini begins with a common understanding of the "Pygmalion effect" from research projects conducted in earlier years that intimated "people's expectations could influence other people in the world around them." In the world of deaf…
Descriptors: Expectation, Reflection, Teacher Expectations of Students, Deafness
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Kellow, Geoffrey C. – College Quarterly, 2009
This article presents the author's response to D.G. Mulcahy's "Energizing Liberal Education" which compellingly contends that the long-term viability of liberal education depends upon both methodological and curricular diversification aimed at the "many sided development" of the student. Professor Mulcahy thoughtfully espouses both the cultivation…
Descriptors: General Education, Educational Change, Reader Response, Student Development
Toll, Mary F. – Gifted Child Today (GCT), 1991
A rationale is offered for the implementation of full-time programing for gifted students, arguing that scheduling less time does not maximize their potential. Florida programs for the gifted are noted, and suggestions are offered for school district officials who wish to implement similar full-time gifted programs. (JDD)
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted, Homogeneous Grouping
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Tomlinson, Carol Ann – Roeper Review, 1994
American schools often fail to provide opportunities for students at the highest levels of ability to test their ceilings of performance in a given talent area. Gifted education provides an essential voice addressing the importance of recognizing and developing "apex talent" and genuine "excellence" in American education.…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted
Grant, Gerald – American Educator, 1994
Argues the need for schools to provide learning environments, educational practices, and encouragement to enhance academic achievement in each student within the system. New teacher roles are examined, and some examples are provided of successful efforts in schools that effectively concentrate on the individual student's academic success. (GLR)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Methods, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education
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Winchester, Ian – Journal of Educational Thought/Revue de la Pensee Educative lc v34 n1 p1-9 Apr 2000, 2000
Describes and asserts that some of the foundational principles of education of the last century are likely to be transformed or abandoned, including: complete separation of the family from the educational process; pupil as a normal, passive, and standardized learner; nearly complete isolation of the school from other public communities; free and…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Practices, Family Role, Public Education
Lewis, Richard – SKOLE: The Journal of Alternative Education, 1997
Questions why imagination is not brought into mainstream education as a cornerstone of learning and why education frequently makes students incapable of relating to what is alive and meaningful within themselves. Without imagination, it is impossible to experience the infinite qualities of our senses, nor to shape our thoughts and images of these…
Descriptors: Creativity, Educational Environment, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education
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