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Martha Heineman Pieper – Childhood Education, 2024
Preschools and kindergartens will become the happiest environment for children when they adopt innovative thinking about the value of active playful learning, have only developmentally appropriate expectations, manage behavior solely with kindness, and, in general, foster healthy social-emotional development and create a joyful, positive…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Teaching Methods, Educational Environment, Teacher Student Relationship
Todd Mitchell – English Journal, 2025
A teacher and author shares vital ways to help students counter climate despair with hope, agency, imagination, and activism.
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Psychological Patterns, Expectation, Climate
White Christian Nationalism and Anti-Racist Praxis: Considerations for a Pedagogy of Courage and Joy
Edith Gnanadass; Lisa R. Merriweather – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2025
Using the lens of endarkened feminist epistemology, two women of color think through the question of how we use adult education to create brave spaces and develop practices for teaching, research, and service in an unsafe, fear-laden, and punitive context shaped by White Christian nationalism (WCN). Because of the cultural-historical context of…
Descriptors: Whites, Nationalism, Feminism, Minority Groups
Kathryn Early; Amiee Sanders; W. Gary Martin – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2025
Vectors have important applications both within and outside mathematics, but the concept of vectors is often taught to students in a less-than-engaging way, leading to students feeling inadequate and frustrated. This article describes the use of a mathematical microworld, "Driving with Vectors," to explore vectors using equitable…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Geometric Concepts, Algebra
Hurst, Julie – Childhood Education, 2021
Positive Education is the name given to Positive Psychology when it is applied in schools. It is an evidence-based discipline with decades of research underpinning its practices. All over the world, more and more schools are realizing its benefits for both pupils and staff. It increases well-being, fosters greater resilience, "and"…
Descriptors: Well Being, Positive Attitudes, Resilience (Psychology), Academic Achievement
Natalie Parker-Holliman; Tenisha Marcel-Herbert – Phi Delta Kappan, 2024
Early intervention and identity-building can promote the idea among students that everyone is a math person. Natalie Parker-Holliman and Tenisha Marcel-Herbert share practical tools and strategies that schools and teachers can use to build students' confidence and strengthen their mathematical foundation. They highlight the significance of culture…
Descriptors: Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Mathematics Teachers
Xiaoni Zhang – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2025
This teaching tip explores the integration of AI tools into database education. The author describes how instructors can use AI tools to prepare teaching materials and how students can use AI to facilitate database development. The teaching tips provided encompass both course-level objectives and assignment-specific strategies. The inclusion of AI…
Descriptors: Databases, Technology Integration, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills
Sternberg, Robert J.; Chowkase, Aakash – Education Sciences, 2021
Positive creativity is creativity that makes the world a better place--that makes a positive, meaningful, and potentially enduring difference to the world. Positive creativity can be a bit of a slippery concept in that, what is positive to one person or one group may be neutral or even negative to another group. Much of teaching young people for…
Descriptors: Creativity, Positive Attitudes, Teaching Methods, Improvement
Golos, Debbie; Moses, Annie; Gale, Elaine; Berke, Michele – LEARNing Landscapes, 2021
Societal views of Deaf people typically stem from a medical or deficit perspective, which then informs educational practices. In contrast, educational settings that embrace a cultural perspective provide visual language and strategies that can benefit all students. This article will address three common myths about American Sign Language (ASL) and…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Deafness, American Sign Language, Teaching Methods
Selamat, Aslam Izah; Ngalim, Siti Manisah – Accounting Education, 2022
This paper highlights the need for a gamification approach in supporting the teaching and learning process of fundamental financial accounting at Universiti Putra Malaysia. It briefly reviews the already available gamification approaches from the literature, and addresses important issues in efficiently delivering the gamification exercise as part…
Descriptors: Accounting, Teaching Methods, Educational Games, Business Administration
Laura E. Hernández; Linda Darling-Hammond; Natalie Nielson, Contributor – Learning Policy Institute, 2024
The science of learning and development demonstrates that when young people maintain positive school-based relationships, their learning and well-being is supported and enhanced. This brief elevates the practices and approaches that secondary school educators and staff can use to put relationships and caring at the center of their practice. It…
Descriptors: Secondary Education, Positive Attitudes, Teacher Student Relationship, Well Being
MacDonald, Amy; Murphy, Steve – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2021
This paper contributes to the Research Symposium, "Strengths approaches in early childhood mathematics education" by providing an illustration of how an early childhood centre adopts a strengths approach to mathematics education for birth to three-year-old children. A case illustration is drawn from a current Australian Research…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Teaching Methods
Higinbotham, Sarah; Hardy, Jack; Nachman, Brett Ranon – Liberal Education, 2021
Three academics reflect on how to stay positive during the COVID-19 pandemic. Sarah Higginbotham finds that some of her most heartening experiences during this time have been while enacting unrehearsed Zoom Shakespeare plays with colleagues and students. She usually experiences telepresence events as rather flattened interactions, while insulated…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Coping, Positive Attitudes
Muir, Christine; Gümüs, Özge – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2020
Directed motivational currents (DMCs) encapsulate a unique motivational phenomenon. DMCs are highly positive, potent motivational experiences which can carry individuals or groups forwards to achieving valued goals at both a remarkable rate, and with a perceived feeling of seemingly 'effortless effort'. Although research into DMCs began under a…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Theories
Bourn, Douglas – International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning, 2021
Global events such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the climate emergency campaigns and the Black Lives Matter movements have recently posed challenges for educationalists about their role, particularly in relation to promoting positive visions of the future. Development education and global learning has a major contribution to make within these agendas,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Futures (of Society), Teacher Role, Barriers