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de Oliveira Souza, Leandro; Lopes, Celi Espasandin; Pfannkuch, Maxine – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2015
The recent introduction of statistics into the Brazilian curriculum has presented a multi-problematic situation for teacher professional development. Drawing on research in the areas of teacher development and statistical inquiry, we propose a Teacher Professional Development Cycle (TPDC) model. This paper focuses on two teachers who planned a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Statistics, Mathematics Instruction, Case Studies

Cousin, Patricia Tefft; Dembrow, Melissa Pauly; Molldrem-Shamel, Jennifer – Reading Teacher, 1997
Introduces, in four steps, the "How-Tos" of the process of inquiry. Illustrates the inquiry cycle with examples from the inquiries of two teachers, and notes that the inquiry process provides a structure for the process of thinking about teaching. (SR)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Inquiry, Instructional Improvement, Instructional Innovation
Orlich, Donald C. – 1980
A series of classroom practices and techniques are provided to help classroom teachers overcome their anxiety in teaching science. Chapter 1 (Fearing the Unknown) focuses on reasons for teaching science in elementary grades, science processes, characteristics of inquiry, questioning and inquiry, and using small groups. Chapter 2 (Managing…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Elementary Education, Elementary School Science
Kuntz, Susan; Hessler, Arthur – 1998
For years, the case study approach to learning has helped connect formal learning with real life situations. Cases offer a means of combining the content to be taught and processes by which it will be taught, and it provides students with a situation for learning that makes sense to them and connects them to what they know in a meaningful way. The…
Descriptors: Case Method (Teaching Technique), Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Inquiry
Education Commission of the States, Denver, CO. – 1987
This working paper is a compilation of articles prepared for the Policy and the Higher Literacies Project. The two-year project examines key leverage points in state and local education policy levels and how they may promote or constrict the acquisition of higher levels of literacy for a much broader range of American students. Research strongly…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Curriculum Development, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education