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Whitaker, Adam – English in Texas, 2023
Schools are becoming increasingly diverse, and teachers must recognize the social, cultural, and personal experiences that students bring to the classroom and must leverage this knowledge to develop curriculum and instructional strategies to meet the needs of a growing, diverse student population. The author uses Winn and Johnson's (2011)…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Writing Instruction, Poetry, Writing (Composition)
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Kristen L. Cole – Communication Teacher, 2025
This semester-long original teaching activity is a scaffolded writing assignment with accompanying rubrics that utilize an adapted academic publishing model (i.e. accept, revise and resubmit with minor revisions, or revise and resubmit with major revisions) to facilitate a growth mindset. This revise-and-resubmit approach to teaching and assessing…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Beliefs, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Writing Assignments
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Kristen Starkowski – Composition Forum, 2024
Student writers labeled "underprepared" by colleges often have trouble imagining themselves as scholars. Challenges these students routinely encounter include difficulty forming original insights and translating ideas to the page. Although the usage of the term "underprepared" varies across institutional contexts, the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, College Freshmen, Freshman Composition, Developmental Studies Programs
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Menon, Pratibha – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2023
This paper introduces a teaching process to develop students' problem-solving and programming efficacy in an introductory computer programming course. The proposed teaching practice provides step-by-step guidelines on using worked-out examples of code to demonstrate the applications of programming concepts. These coding demonstrations explicitly…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Programming, Computer Science Education, Feedback (Response)
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Gernatt, Joshua; Coberly-Holt, Patricia – Adult Higher Education Alliance, 2019
Graduate students face writing anxiety and low self-efficacy regarding writing research papers. Holladay (1981) addressed the negative characteristics of anxiety in graduate students by writing: "They are frightened by a demand for writing competency, they fear evaluation of their writing because they think they will be rated negatively, they…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Anxiety, Self Efficacy, Research Reports
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Bialka, Christa S.; Hansen, Nicole; Wong, Sarah Jin – Teacher Education and Special Education, 2019
Teacher preparation programs play a seminal role in the development of prospective teachers, as they provide future educators with information regarding the rights of students with disabilities and the pedagogical means to support them in the classroom. Yet, few programs focus on how to discuss disability with students (Abernathy & Taylor,…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Competencies, Disabilities
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Weir, Rachel J. – PRIMUS, 2020
Like many math educators, I have spent much of my career bound to traditional methods of instruction and assessment. In recent years, motivated by a growing understanding that such approaches may not result in equitable or inclusive classroom environments, my teaching philosophy has shifted radically. In this article, I describe how I transformed…
Descriptors: Calculus, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Student Centered Learning
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Miller, Jennifer M.; Nugent, Terry L. – College Teaching, 2020
This paper discusses a collaboration between a criminal justice professor and the coordinator of composition at a small, four-year University in a rural location. The goal was to restructure the writing assignments in criminal justice courses in such a way as to enhance student participation in writing assignments and to improve the quality of…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Law Enforcement, Writing Skills, Student Attitudes
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Reinhardt, Michelle; Fail, Charles; Millam, Loretta A. – Journal of Learning in Higher Education, 2018
Increasingly, today's adult online college student is a Millennial possessing high self-esteem but low self-efficacy as cognitive characteristics. This work examines research into these cognitive differences, Bandura's self-efficacy theory, and the role of instructor feedback aimed at improving self-efficacy and self-directedness among these adult…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Self Efficacy, Independent Study, Academic Persistence
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Shepherd, Robin-Marie; Laidlaw, Tannis M. – College Quarterly, 2017
This paper describes an undergraduate course in addictions within the health science sector linking theory with practice at a university in New Zealand. The essence of this addiction course includes both a strong theoretical basis and public health focus. The theoretical and practical content is described with examples of the students' pedagogical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Drug Addiction, Health Sciences
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Plakhotnik, Maria S.; Rocco, Tonette S. – Adult Learning, 2016
To help graduate students with academic writing, a college of education at a large university implemented a new service, Writing Support Circles. Based on the results of the first series of this service, we changed its design. The purpose of this article is to share how changes in the design affected these adult learners' writing self-efficacy and…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Adult Learning, Academic Discourse, Graduate Students
Mart, Cagri Tugrul – Online Submission, 2011
Motivation, one of the leading problems in education, is an ongoing issue for teachers. Motivation is important because it highly contributes to achievement. Teachers have to be certain that their students are being motivated in order to develop a positive outcome. This article suggests some strategies to sustain students' classroom motivation.
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Classroom Techniques, Classroom Environment, Teacher Role
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Barak, Moshe – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2010
This paper proposes a compensative model for self-regulated learning in technology education (SRLT) comprised of cognitive, metacognitive and motivational domains. Discussion of the cognitive domain centers on problem-solving and creativity, with a focus on the need to engage students in open-ended assignments in informal contexts and to teach…
Descriptors: Assignments, Creativity, Self Efficacy, Prior Learning
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Strahan, David – Middle School Journal (J1), 2008
In a series of investigations, the author and his colleagues have examined ways that students who once did poorly in school made progress and how their teachers nurtured their accomplishments. They have chronicled ways that successful teachers learned to understand why students are reluctant to do their work, how to help them think through their…
Descriptors: Assignments, Student Motivation, Teaching Methods, Case Studies
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Yadin, Aharon; Or-Bach, Rachel – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2010
In this paper we describe an instructional tactic of individually assigned homework that promotes and strengthens individual learning processes. We claim that current emphasis on the benefits of collaborative learning belittles the importance of individual learning processes and reduces the opportunities to require and assess individual learning…
Descriptors: Homework, Research Tools, Dropout Rate, Learning Processes
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