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Zrudlo, Ilya – Journal of Moral Education, 2023
This article takes up three interrelated elements of Iris Murdoch's moral philosophy into an initial conceptual framework for moral education and explores a practical application of this framework to a lesson plan. The three elements are moral vocabulary, moral perception, and the quality of our states of consciousness. The framework constituted…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Moral Development, Educational Philosophy, Teaching Methods
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Shilcutt, Jackie Beth; Oliver, Kimberly L.; Aranda, Raquel – Journal of Dance Education, 2022
In an attempt to respond to the calls for dance educators to explore alternatives to harmful authoritarian teaching practices, we propose that one such route forward is an Activist Approach to teaching, which was originally developed in physical education contexts as a student-centered, inquiry-based approach that attends to issues of embodiment…
Descriptors: Dance Education, Teaching Methods, Student Centered Learning, Activism
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Wang, Min; Walkington, Candace; Dhingra, Koshi – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2021
A math walk is a planned walk during which students talk about mathematical concepts embedded in their everyday environments. The walk is based on relatively permanent objects or locations, such as trees, artworks, playground equipment, and building elements, and can be shared with the broader school community in a variety of different ways. In…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Concepts, Elementary School Students, Concept Formation
Sikkema, Scott; Lee, Jenny; Spilberg, Joseph; Dahn, Maggie; Yankova, Nickolina; Peppler, Kylie – Phi Delta Kappan, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has surfaced educational inequities that pose unprecedented challenges for teaching and learning. Scott Sikkema, Jenny Lee, and Joseph Spilberg of Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education (CAPE) and Maggie Dahn, Nickolina Yankova, and Kylie Peppler of the University of California, Irvine, explain how the arts, which are often…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing
Donovan, William; Wurman, Ze'ev – Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research, 2019
This paper looks at the popularity of after-school mathematics by focusing on the Kumon and Russian School of Mathematics models. In 1954, Toru Kumon, a high school math teacher in Japan, designed a series of math worksheets to help improve the test scores of his son Takeshi, a second grader. Toru's goal was to teach Takeshi how to learn…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, After School Programs, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Masters, Heidi; Shrake, Tyler – Science and Children, 2019
When it snows, children are permitted to play outside during recess, which causes them to experience a variety of problems with their mittens or gloves. To align instruction with a problem student's experience in every day life, the authors developed and administered a short survey to second graders in an after school program. The authors found…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Elementary School Science, Elementary School Students, Problem Solving
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Blackwell, Devan – Afterschool Matters, 2020
For young people who exhibit attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) traits, out-of-school (OST) programming can provide the atmosphere and learning experiences that, by design, sustain attention, engagement, and focus. "Possibility projects" enabled one afterschool practitioner to redefine ADHD in terms of attention-driven,…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, After School Programs, Learning Experience, Attention Control
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Jones, Karis; Storm, Scott; Castillo, Jennifer; Karbachinskiy, Sasha – Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 2021
We explore our experiences with roleplaying games across learning environments, chasing communal questions such as: how can teachers engage with the possibilities of roleplaying in classroom spaces, and how can we leverage such practices to open up spaces for youth to bodily experience texts, express identities, and imagine new worlds? This…
Descriptors: Role Playing, Educational Games, Teaching Methods, Self Concept
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Rodriguez, Alberto J. – Science and Children, 2021
The concepts of "culturally relevant pedagogy" and "culturally responsive teaching" have been interpreted and enacted in various ways for over two decades. Informed by this research, the author shares a critical approach to teaching and learning using "sociotransformative constructivism" (sTc). This framework merges…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Constructivism (Learning), Social Justice, Teaching Methods
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Skrlac Lo, Rachel – Theory Into Practice, 2019
This article proposes a reflective process to increase awareness of heteronormativity in student-teacher and student-student interactions. I used 3 theoretical lenses -- queer, feminist, and intersectional -- to identify and analyze how gender, sex, and sexuality norms influenced interactions in an after-school reading club. This research site was…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Peer Relationship, Interaction, Homosexuality
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Boyle, Julie – Physics Education, 2019
This paper is the second part of a three-paper series. It describes a project based approach to STEM enrichment and presents a detailed description of the practical set-ups, the investigations carried out by the students and their experimental findings. The accompanying first paper outlines an introductory gravitational waves based teaching module…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Science Instruction, Physics, Secondary School Science
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Edelen, Daniel; Bush, Sarah B.; Nickels, Megan – Science and Children, 2019
Teachers have the daunting task of preparing students for a future that they cannot predict. In an age of information where students have the world quite literally at their fingertips, and with the ever-growing momentum of integrated science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), it is not enough that students experience STEM subjects…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, STEM Education, Academic Achievement, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Severino, Lori; Meehan, Sinead; Fegely, Lauren – Afterschool Matters, 2022
Many out-of-school time (OST) sites are incorporating literacy time in their programming to capitalize on the benefits associated with literacy instruction. Afterschool is a perfect opportunity to foster a love of reading in children. Expanded learning in afterschool programs can make a difference in both short-term and long-term academic…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Literacy Education, Faculty Development, After School Programs
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Lobley, Jennifer; Ouellette, Kristy L. – Journal of Extension, 2017
Face-to-face training for Extension volunteers is no longer the only viable delivery mode. In times of rapid technological advances, we are faced with a plethora of options for offering volunteers the training and support they need. Zoom, an online videoconferencing platform, can easily be used to engage volunteers in professional development.…
Descriptors: Videoconferencing, Volunteers, Online Courses, Extension Education
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Masters, Heidi; Daggett, Kayden; Fonk, Amanda; Geiser, Anna; Hund, Jennifer; Kohlbeck, Kierra; Peterson, Amanda; Smith, Jackson; Zander, Zachary; Zaspel, Tyler – Science and Children, 2019
Severe flooding was prevalent within the authors' region at the beginning of the school year. Many homes and fields were affected by the amount of rain that fell within a short period of time over multiple days. Their students were concerned about the impact this natural phenomena was having on their local community. Natural phenomena can provide…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Engineering Education, Scientific Concepts, Units of Study
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