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Pylman, Stacey – Phi Delta Kappan, 2019
A great deal of teacher planning involves an invisible process of envisioning how plans might unfold in the classroom. Novice teachers can benefit from seeing how experienced teachers work through this process, but, too often, co-planning sessions between mentors and novices focus on selecting activities to fill out a lesson, rather than delving…
Descriptors: Lesson Plans, Beginning Teachers, Experienced Teachers, Mentors
Hannaford, Barbara; Fouraker, Mary; Dickerson, Vivian – Phi Delta Kappan, 2000
A Georgia high school got on the block-scheduling bandwagon after discovering that their students were having difficulties meeting new state graduation requirements and wanted more electives. After receiving extensive retraining and working on a block-scheduling plan for graduate credit, teachers successfully made the transition. (MLH)
Descriptors: Block Scheduling, Classroom Techniques, Graduation Requirements, High Schools
Post, Becky – Phi Delta Kappan, 2005
Russia's educational system has been successful in producing graduates who excel in mathematics, the sciences, and foreign languages, but these are not the only areas that we might look to as models. Russian and American cultures and educational practices differ in significant ways, and not all of the practices described here would be workable in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Education, Teaching Methods, Discipline
Boaler, Jo – Phi Delta Kappan, 2006
The poor performance of students in America's urban high schools, both in absolute terms and in comparison with their more economically secure counterparts in suburban schools, is a critical issue for the country, and the opportunity for all students to learn mathematics has been heralded as the new "civil right." In a recent study of…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Teaching Methods, Urban Schools, Suburban Schools
Queen, J. Allen – Phi Delta Kappan, 2000
Successful block scheduling depends on provision of initial and ongoing instructional training. Teaching strategies should vary and include cooperative learning, the case method, the socratic seminar, synectics, concept attainment, the inquiry method, and simulations. Recommendations for maximizing block scheduling are outlined. (Contains 52…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Advanced Placement, Alternative Assessment, Block Scheduling