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Merrilyn Goos – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2024
This paper presents an analysis of how resources were designed to support implementation of the new Queensland senior secondary mathematics syllabuses. The analysis draws on the concept of educative curriculum materials that build teachers' subject matter knowledge and pedagogical content knowledge. Such resources are intended to help teachers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Mathematics, Secondary School Teachers, Professional Development
Flanagan, Jean C.; Herrmann-Abell, Cari F.; Roseman, Jo Ellen – Online Submission, 2013
AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) is collaborating with BSCS (Biological Sciences Curriculum Study) in the development of a curriculum unit for eighth grade students that connects fundamental chemistry and biology concepts to better prepare them for high school biology. Recognizing that teachers play an influential role in…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Curriculum Development, Science Instruction, Plants (Botany)
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Choppin, Jeffrey – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2013
This study of six teachers focuses on the ways they organized the classroom discourse, attended to student thinking, and adapted complex tasks from a Standard-based middle school curriculum. The study explores Cohen's (2011) premise that the knowledge teachers develop is related to their attentiveness to student teaching. This study explores the…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Teaching Methods, Learning Strategies
Schulz, Christine – Australian Association for Research in Education (NJ1), 2012
Across the globe many nations have found engaging young people in the post compulsory years of school to ensure their transition into economic citizens is challenging. Governments are focusing on developing initiatives and programs to connect young people in education and training as preparation for the workplace. In Australia the use of Applied…
Descriptors: Teaching Experience, Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries, Capacity Building
Salter, Peta – Australian Teacher Education Association, 2009
Becoming "Asia literate" is a pivotal part of the federal government's "Education Revolution". The federal government asserts that "equipping young Australians with the knowledge and skills to communicate and work with our regional neighbours...such skills must be a core element of an Australian school curriculum"…
Descriptors: Cultural Education, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Public Policy
Goodnough, Karen – 2002
This study focuses on the nature of professional development. The approach to professional development that emerged in this inquiry was premised on a belief held by the author, a university researcher, and two K-1 teachers that professional development opportunities for teachers need to be ongoing, allow time for teachers to engage in learning,…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Primary Education
Grant, Theresa J.; Kline, Kate; Weinhold, Marcia – 2002
This study was undertaken to better understand what happens when teachers implement a reform curriculum designed specifically to communicate mathematics content and pedagogy to teachers. More specifically, the study focuses on what aspects of the curriculum materials teachers consider as they decide what they will enact in the classroom.…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Elementary Education, Knowledge Base for Teaching
Qi, Jie – 1997
This paper examines the differences between Marxian/Gramscian educators and Foucauldian educators regarding school curriculum, teacher education, knowledge production, and other factors. Marxian/Gramscian educators view the school as continuing to reproduce unfair and unjust institutions and to assert that ideology shapes schooling. Foucauldian…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Knowledge Base for Teaching
Grier, Jeanne M. – 2003
The purpose of this study is to create a model that depicts the beliefs and other factors that influence secondary biology teachers when they incorporate newly acquired subject matter knowledge into the planning and instruction of an existing curriculum. Genetics content from Biology Update 1 and Secondary Biology Laboratory Curricula (SBLC) was…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Biology, Curriculum Development, Genetics
Martin, Kaye M. – 1995
This study took an in-depth look at the collaborative work of teachers engaged in curriculum restructuring, and explored how individual teachers' perceptions inform and are informed by such collaboration. The objective of the study was to explore how teachers' individual knowledge, experiences, and curriculum orientations affected their…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Change Strategies, Cooperation, Cooperative Planning
Burton, Judith – Journal of Australian Research in Early Childhood Education, 1997
Recent studies of teachers and teaching pay greater attention to relationships among teaching contexts, teachers' practical knowledge, and enacted curricula. As a contribution to this body of work, this study grappled with the problem of understanding the knowledge teachers use to create curricula within workplace demands. Survey, participant…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Context Effect, Curriculum Development, Early Childhood Education
Brown, Margaret – 2002
I describe a major research program on primary mathematics in the UK, the Leverhulme Numeracy Research Program, and give a sample of some of the preliminary results. The program combines large-scale longitudinal survey and case studies, quantitative and qualitative data, and observation and intervention studies in order to try to ascertain how and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Arithmetic, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
Kiley, Therese J.; Jensen, Rita A. – 1998
This report discusses the outcomes of a study that drew upon the reflections and self-assessment of seven preservice teachers who served as assistants in a university-based summer program for gifted students. Of the preservice teachers, four were elementary education majors, two were early childhood majors, and one was a special education major.…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted, Higher Education
Schuyler, Gwyer – 1998
This study discusses how a curriculum, based on the multiple influences of college educators, administrators, state officials, private industry and 4-year institutions, determines the kinds of knowledge available to students. Examined is the relationship between knowledge and power as inextricably linked factors in forming curriculum. The study…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Community Colleges, Course Content, Curriculum Development
van 't Hooft, Mark – 2000
This study investigated whether or not students apply educational theory to practical situations when they are involved in a learning process that starts from their own educational experiences and "Gestalts," the holistic unity of knowledge, feelings, values, and meanings linked to concrete situations encountered before, and colored by…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Classroom Research, Curriculum Development, Data Analysis
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