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April Troglauer; Anna Morrison – Music Educators Journal, 2024
How can orchestra teachers diversify curricula to engage young musicians in project-based learning experiences that build their musicianship and confidence? This action research study explores how the author fostered project-based learning experiences that incorporated student reflection and assessment within chamber music ensembles. By…
Descriptors: Classical Music, Music Education, Music Activities, Music Teachers
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Hourigan, Mairead; Leavy, Aisling M. – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2019
This article presents an analysis of contextual tasks to support the development of counting in Foundation Year classrooms. The tasks allowed the students to engage in authentic and realistic number experiences on which to build their understandings of early number.
Descriptors: Numbers, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Elementary School Students
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Karataev, Evgeny; Zadorozhny, Vladimir – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2017
Many techniques have been developed to enhance learning experience with computer technology. A particularly great influence of technology on learning came with the emergence of the web and adaptive educational hypermedia systems. While the web enables users to interact and collaborate with each other to create, organize, and share knowledge via…
Descriptors: Socialization, Social Networks, Electronic Publishing, Collaborative Writing
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Cozens, Paul; Turkich, Kent; Greive, Shane – Student Success, 2023
This practice report highlights changes made to a first-year unit in an Urban and Regional Planning degree, designed to enhance students' levels of cultural competency. We briefly discuss the history of cultural competency highlighting a lack of application in the field of urban planning. We report on a practical case study where six strategies…
Descriptors: Urban Planning, Undergraduate Students, Cultural Awareness, Educational Change
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Jay, Lightning – History Teacher, 2022
While standards and assessments demand that students be able to recall content information, planning guides direct teachers to prioritize the development of transferable skills and understandings, and scholars of education have spent the past century debating the purpose of history instruction without approaching consensus. The field is still…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Teaching Methods, Transfer of Training, Educational History
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Wu, Nancy; Kubo, Tomohiro; Hall, Ariana O.; Zurcher, Danielle M.; Phadke, Sameer; Wallace, Rachel L.; McNeil, Anne J. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2020
Although teaching laboratories offer students the opportunity to act and think like chemists, in many cases students simply follow written procedures to generate predetermined outcomes. In recent years, there has been a movement toward inquiry-, problem-, and discovery-based learning. In a similar vein, the first-semester introductory organic…
Descriptors: Organic Chemistry, College Science, Introductory Courses, Laboratory Experiments
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Matuszak, Katarzyna; Szczuka-Dorna, Liliana – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2023
This activity report describes a sample unit (Effective Data Presentation) from a communication course prepared as part of an Intellectual Output within the BADGE Project, which was carried out by 12 partner universities from 10 countries during 3 academic years (2019-2022). The article first describes the results of a survey which show that…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Languages for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Narita, Flávia Motoyama – Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education, 2018
This paper discusses the implementation of a university teaching module, based on Lucy Green's (2008) informal music learning model. The synergy between Green's model and Paulo Freire's critical pedagogy is addressed through explanation of the module and its practices. The module was offered six times, from 2011 to 2016, as an action research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Informal Education, Distance Education, Music Teachers
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Baker, Abigail H.; Kassimer, Jennifer L. – Middle Grades Review, 2021
In this essay, we discuss how a Connected Learning (CL) approach to education can offer students and teachers a democratic framework to follow when designing instruction, especially with the recent shift to online and hybrid instruction due to the global pandemic. We present literature on the opportunities and challenges of transitioning to online…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Democracy, Electronic Learning, Instructional Design
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Janice Bland – Online Submission, 2023
Student language teachers exploring literary texts for language education mostly focus on "what" is written, and the opportunities that could arise for stimulating classroom discussions. In teacher education, helping student teachers discover "how" a powerfully persuasive text is created is frequently overlooked. With this…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Language Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Second Language Learning
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Su, Hang – ELT Journal, 2020
This paper explores the applications of pattern grammar and local grammar in English language teaching, focusing specifically on the design of teaching materials. It shows that grammar patterns can be systematically analysed from a local grammar perspective, and further argues that the practice of local grammar analyses helps to raise language…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Grammar, Language Variation, English (Second Language)
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Pegrum, Mark; Bartle, Emma; Longnecker, Nancy – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2015
This paper examines the effect of a podcasting task on the examination performance of several hundred first-year chemistry undergraduate students. Educational researchers have established that a deep approach to learning that promotes active understanding of meaning can lead to better student outcomes, higher grades and superior retention of…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Multimedia Materials, Undergraduate Students, Science Education
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Murfield, Ryan – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2020
Purpose: This paper aims to identify challenges in a first attempt at teaching the Youth Lens in a secondary English classroom in South Korea. Design/methodology/approach: This paper includes the author's observations of a senior English class in an international school in South Korea. Findings: The author advocates that intersections of time,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Digan, Sarah – Geographical Education, 2019
Digital technologies such as Geographic Information Systems (GIS) can be innovative tools for learning when used in purposeful ways and embedded in sound pedagogical frameworks. The predominant skills stimulated through the use of GIS are querying, collecting, analysing and manipulating spatial data. In recent years, the financial, technological…
Descriptors: Geographic Information Systems, Computer Software, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
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Nash, Andy – Adult Literacy Education, 2019
We are witnessing a mounting campaign in this country to blame immigrants and refugees for our economic insecurity, rampant violent crime, and a diminished social safety net. Under this banner, our government is using immigration policy to turn away asylum seekers and refugees, separate children from parents, and threaten the Temporary Protected…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Immigration, Refugees, Public Policy
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