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Direct linkYoung, Terrell A.; Ricks, Paul H.; MacKay, Kathryn Lake – Reading Teacher, 2023
Many elementary teachers shy away from using expository literature for interactive read-alouds in their classrooms, preferring and privileging narrative texts over this type of nonfiction. This article first shares the complementary benefits of moving beyond fiction and narrative nonfiction in educators' read-aloud practices. Affordances include…
Descriptors: Oral Reading, Reading Aloud to Others, Elementary School Teachers, Program Effectiveness
Download full textLewis, Catherine; Friedkin, Shelley; Emerson, Katherine; Henn, Laura; Goldsmith, Lynn – Grantee Submission, 2019
This chapter proposes a theoretical model of the impact of lesson study. Outcomes addressed include teacher outcomes (e.g., knowledge and beliefs), professional learning norms and routines, instructional routines and tools, and student learning outcomes. Four theoretical perspectives are used to examine lesson study impact: knowledge integration…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Faculty Development, Program Effectiveness, Self Determination
Strickroth, Sven – Education Sciences, 2019
Lesson planning is both an important and demanding task--especially as part of teacher training. This paper presents the requirements for a lesson planning system and evaluates existing systems regarding these requirements. One major drawback of existing software tools is that most are limited to a text- or form-based representation of the lesson…
Descriptors: Lesson Plans, Planning, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs
Leung, Jenny – Online Submission, 2020
This report explores novice teachers' experience in the Novice Teacher Mentoring Program component of the Teacher Induction Program in the 2019-2020 academic year. Results indicated that most novice teachers had a positive experience with their mentoring experience and received the support they needed regarding entering the teaching profession.
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Beginning Teacher Induction, Mentors, Teacher Attitudes
What Works Clearinghouse, 2020
This What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) report, part of the WWC's Teacher Excellence topic area, explores the effects of the "eMINTS Comprehensive Program," referred to as "eMINTS" in this report, on student achievement. The strong influence of teachers on student outcomes, as well as the variation in teacher effectiveness, has led…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Faculty Development, Teacher Improvement, Coaching (Performance)
What Works Clearinghouse, 2020
This What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) report, part of the WWC's Teacher Excellence topic area, explores the effects of the "eMINTS Comprehensive Program," referred to as "eMINTS" in this report, on student achievement. The "eMINTS Comprehensive Program" aims to help teachers improve their practice and the outcomes of…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Faculty Development, Teacher Improvement, Coaching (Performance)
Guskey, Thomas R. – Educational Leadership, 2014
Why does professional learning for educators have such a mixed history? Why is it so hard to find solid research evidence of professional development programs that actually improve student learning outcomes? Part of the answer, writes Thomas R. Guskey, is that professional learning experiences for educators are rarely well planned. Consequently,…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Program Effectiveness, Planning, Program Development
Ferrarini, Tawni Hunt; Day, Stephen – Social Education, 2014
Everyone under the age of 20 who has grown up in North America has lived in the common market created by NAFTA--the North American Free Trade Agreement. In a zone linking the United States, Canada, and Mexico, most goods and investments flow freely across borders to users, consumers, and investors. In 1994, NAFTA created the largest relatively…
Descriptors: Debate, International Trade, Regional Cooperation, Macroeconomics
Yendol-Hoppey, Diane; Hoppey, David – School-University Partnerships, 2013
An important feature of professional development school (PDS) work is encouraging collaborative reflective dialogue that guides a partnership toward actualizing the possibilities for and mission of a PDS. This article provides a case "illustration" of a fictitious, exemplary PDS and a "protocol" that in combination can be used…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Professional Development Schools, Sustainability, Accountability
Scheithauer, Herbert; Hess, Markus; Schultze-Krumbholz, Anja; Bull, Heike Dele – New Directions for Youth Development, 2012
The fairplayer.manual is a school-based program to prevent bullying. The program consists of fifteen to seventeen consecutive ninety-minute lessons using cognitive-behavioral methods, methods targeting group norms and group dynamics, and discussions on moral dilemmas. Following a two-day training session, teachers, together with skilled…
Descriptors: Intervention, Bullying, Prevention, Moral Issues
Zwiep, Susan Gomez; Straits, William J.; Stone, Kristin R.; Beltran, Dolores D.; Furtado, Leena – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2011
This paper explores one district's attempt to implement a blended science and English Language Development (ELD) elementary program, designed to provide English language learners opportunities to develop proficiency in English through participation in inquiry-based science. This process resulted in blended program that utilized a combined…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Science Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Cormier, Abigail; McBride, Dawn Lorraine – Online Submission, 2012
This project provides a comprehensive overview of the research literature on problem gambling in adults and includes a detailed mindfulness-based psychoeducational group manual for problem gambling, complete with an extensive group counselling consent form, assessment and screening protocols, 10 user-friendly lesson plans, templates for a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Counseling Techniques, Team Training, Cognitive Restructuring
Martin, Wendy; Strother, Scott; Beglau, Monica; Bates, Lauren; Reitzes, Timothy; Culp, Katherine McMillan – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2010
This article presents findings from an evaluation of an instructional-technology professional development (PD) program that uses many practices advocated by PD experts. In this multiphase evaluation, evaluators examined the program, determined whether variations in program implementation had an impact on teacher outcomes, and then looked at…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Program Implementation, Program Effectiveness, Educational Technology
Hori, Tetsuo – Educational Studies in Japan: International Yearbook, 2011
This study examines academic trends in learning and assessment theories based on the OPPA (One Page Portfolio Assessment), which was developed in 2002. The study also clarifies the theoretical framework, teaching practices, application, and effectiveness of the OPPA. The OPPA was developed to solve three teaching and learning challenges: (1) how…
Descriptors: Portfolio Assessment, Academic Achievement, Student Evaluation, Learning Processes
Dotger, Sharon – Teaching in Higher Education, 2011
Graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) teach many undergraduates in introductory science courses in the USA. Previous literature suggests that GTAs would prefer more context-dependent opportunities to learn to teach more effectively. This study explores the impact of participation in a lesson study cycle with GTAs responsible for an undergraduate…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, College Science, Lesson Plans, Earth Science
