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Jeanne Marshall – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this case study is to investigate the effects of an integrated curriculum with embedded sustainability themes on teaching and learning experiences at the primary school level. The researcher examined why and how the district chose to create the integrated curriculum and how the big ideas of sustainability were embedded. Through the…
Descriptors: Integrated Curriculum, Sustainability, Elementary Schools, Teaching Experience
Elizabeth Dubberly – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation seeks to illuminate additive significance of the entanglements within a Dual Language Immersion Spanish Science classroom where arts-based pedagogies are employed. Using a theoretical framework that combines Jane Bennett's Vibrant Materialism (2010) and notion of Enchantment (2002) and Gloria Anzaldua's concept of Nepantla…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Immersion Programs, Spanish, Science Education
Melissa Dargan Fitzsimons – ProQuest LLC, 2024
High-stakes statewide testing, low levels of knowledge surrounding the benefits of arts integration, and fiscal challenges have led to schools cutting arts programs in servitude toward higher test scores. This phenomenon has affected the existence and level of arts integration present in non-arts courses. The purpose of this dissertation was to…
Descriptors: High School Teachers, High School Students, Administrators, Art Education
Chad Altman – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Lowel Mason highlights the importance of integrating music learning into the curriculum alongside other fundamental skills such as reading, promoting his belief in the transformative power of music education and its impact on child development. Mason stated, "Children must be taught music as they are taught to read" (Pemberton, 1992).…
Descriptors: Music Education, Parent Participation, Parent Child Relationship, Musical Instruments
Jonathan A. Roux – ProQuest LLC, 2022
As the content knowledge of the world grows, so do the demands placed upon our educational system. These demands come from a variety of sources--local, state, national, and corporate agencies. Critical to meeting these demands are the knowledge, skills, and practices teachers need to educate today's youth. Researchers in the area of teachers'…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Planning, Elementary School Teachers, Alignment (Education)
Edith A. Conroy – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The incorporation of Arts Integration in today's classroom has been utilized in an effort to promote higher levels of student engagement and learning. This teaching strategy exposes students to a new way of learning which researchers have said can lead to increased student attendance, engagement, and achievement (Darts, 2006; Gajda & Dorfram,…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Art Education, Artists, Teacher Participation
Tyler Cameron Shelden – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Elementary curricular units that combine science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) into an integrated academic approach challenge and engage students through authenticity of problems and multidisciplinary complexity in potential solutions. A subset of integrated STEM education that emphasizes personalized creation and open-source…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Elementary School Students, Integrated Curriculum, Shared Resources and Services
Salcedo Orozco, Oscar H. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
STEM education is an interdisciplinary approach to learning where rigorous academic concepts are coupled with real-world lessons and activities as students apply science, technology, engineering, and mathematics in contexts that make connections between school, community, work, and the global enterprise enabling STEM literacy (Tsupros, Kohler and…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, STEM Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Educational Philosophy
Parker, Jessica L. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The integration of oral health into health professions education and practice, or oral health integration, is one of the most pressing issues facing the United States health care system. Health professions faculty must be ready to engage in curriculum change to incorporate oral health clinical competencies in the education and training of future…
Descriptors: Dental Health, Health Services, Health Personnel, Educational Change
Rider-Bertrand, Joey H. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
At the start of the 21st century, STEM education was a new priority in many schools as the focus shifted from separate disciplines to integrative STEM education. Unfortunately, there was limited research to offer guidance to practitioners (Brown, 2012; Honey, Pearson & Schweingruber, 2014). This qualitative, multiple case study explored the…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, High Schools, Curriculum Development, STEM Education
Miller, Kurtis D. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Higher education in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) faces a number of challenges. There are many calls for STEM education to make significant changes moving forward, including calls for competency-based learning and greater integration of the humanities. These efforts require systemic change. Systemic change has significant…
Descriptors: Ambiguity (Context), Educational Change, Competency Based Education, Communication Research
Vehuni, Alina – ProQuest LLC, 2015
This qualitative study explored preservice elementary teacher preparation to teach engineering as part of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) integration as required by the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). The purpose of the study was to understand how preservice teachers' undergraduate major and teacher preparation…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, STEM Education, Engineering Education
Chu, Szu Yang – ProQuest LLC, 2016
As teacher collaboration becomes an increasingly common goal in school organization, teachers' experiences and perspectives in a Structured Collaboration Environment remain under-examined. This qualitative case study explored how teachers participated in collaborative work, the outcomes of collaboration, and supports and obstacles to productive…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Communities of Practice, Teacher Collaboration, Qualitative Research
Hughes, Christina W. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines are attracting increased attention in education. The iSTEM 2017 conference was a professional development program designed to acquaint pre-service teachers with interdisciplinary, research-based STEM instructional strategies that can transform traditional classroom instruction…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Faculty Development, Conferences (Gatherings), Preservice Teachers
Atkinson-Hamilton, Pamela – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines are attracting increased attention in education. The iSTEM 2017 conference was a professional development program designed to acquaint pre-service teachers with interdisciplinary, research-based STEM instructional strategies that can transform traditional classroom instruction…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Faculty Development, Conferences (Gatherings), Preservice Teachers
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