NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Publication Type
Reports - Descriptive7
Journal Articles6
Reports - Research1
Audience
Teachers1
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Showing all 7 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Bree Jimenez; Jenny Root; Jordan Shurr; Emily C. Bouck – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2024
Teaching requires attention to individual student needs by providing both adequate challenge and sufficient support to help students successfully gain academic skills (Shurr et al., 2019). The learning stages framework divides typical learning into four distinct stages: acquisition, fluency, maintenance, and generalization (Collins, 2012; Haring…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Student Evaluation, Goal Orientation, Mathematics Instruction
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Zuckerman, Galina A. – Journal of Cognitive Education and Psychology, 2018
Mastering the ability for learning to learn is the most ambitious goal of modern educators. A distinction is made between two relatively independent components of this expertise: (a) the reflective component of the learning to learn ability that allows a person comprehend what knowledge and skills he or she lacks to act in the new situation; (b)…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Reflection, Learning Processes, Mathematics Instruction
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Popp, Jacquelynn S.; Hoard, Jodi – Reading Teacher, 2018
Sourcing involves interrogating historical documents, asking questions about their attributes to determine their relation to the historical event or time period under study. In this article, a university researcher and a sixth-grade teacher describe a set of heuristics that the teacher developed for supporting her students' sourcing of historical…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Primary Sources, Teaching Methods, Heuristics
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Hurst, Chris; Hurrell, Derek – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2016
Multiplicative thinking is accepted as a "big idea" of mathematics that underpins important mathematical concepts such as fraction understanding, proportional reasoning, and algebraic thinking. It is characterised by understandings such as the multiplicative relationship between places in the number system, basic and extended number…
Descriptors: Multiplication, Mathematics Instruction, Algebra, Mathematical Logic
Briggs, Derek C.; Diaz-Bilello, Elena; Peck, Fred; Alzen, Jessica; Chattergoon, Rajendra; Johnson, Raymond – National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment, 2015
This report describes the use of a Learning Progression Framework (LPF) to support the Student Learning Objectives (SLO) process. The report highlights a few common threats we currently see in the SLO process implemented at various states and districts, and offers the LPF as a possible solution for addressing these threats. This report was…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Educational Objectives, Academic Achievement, Elementary School Students
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Lightbody, Mary – Science Teacher, 2008
Invasive species, commonly known as "invasives," are nonnative plants, animals, and microbes that completely take over and change an established ecosystem. The consequences of invasives' spread are significant. In fact, many of the species that appear on the Endangered Species list are threatened by invasives. Therefore, the topic of invasive…
Descriptors: Investigations, Ecology, Learning Processes, Science Instruction
Pierpont, Katherine – Teaching Pre K-8, 2005
This article features the Center for Inquiry, a school where the teachers are making their dreams come true. As a school designed wholly by teachers, the Center for Inquiry (CFI) in Indianapolis, Indiana, is teaching kids how to take ownership of learning. Originally designed to be a school within a school for exchange and preservice teachers, the…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Learning Processes, Student Attitudes, Student Centered Curriculum