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LaPierre, Amy Jean – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Although literacy coaching is used as a professional development mechanism in many schools to facilitate teachers' learning, few studies have looked carefully at the discourse used by literacy coaches who have successfully increased the professional capacity of teachers with whom they work. This qualitative multiple case study is grounded in the…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Literacy, Teaching Methods, Qualitative Research
McEady, Betty Jean – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this research was to investigate the transformative learning experiences of formerly incarcerated participants in The Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP), a three-level experiential training program in nonviolent conflict resolution. It explores participants' interpretation of changes in their mindsets about violence and…
Descriptors: Violence, Transformative Learning, Teaching Methods, Learning Experience
Salmacia, Kaycee Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Outcome-driven data literacy is a relatively new discipline in the field of K-12 education. With the exception of a few researchers, a handful of teacher training organizations, and practices observed in some public schools, there is little guidance for how teacher training organizations interested in developing outcome-driven, data-literate…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Case Studies, Data, Literacy
Anumudu, Chinedu – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Embodied learning, while beginning to gain attention in Adult education literature, is still the least discussed method of learning (Lawrence, 2012). There is still no clear cut understanding or concretizing of how the mind body and emotion contribute, and interact with in the adult learning process. The study aims to identify how the mind, body…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Physicians, Professional Continuing Education, Drama
Lyons, Yuna H. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This study examined how three different pre-reading (or relevance) instructions led to different learning outcomes for middle school students reading science texts on the topic of sweetness. The first was a generic instruction to read for understanding. The second prompted students to form a holistic explanation of the topic of sweetness, and the…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Qualitative Research, Outcomes of Education, Science Instruction
Ball, Rachel Previs – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this study was to investigate the assessment literacy of Virginia principals and describe how principals with varying levels of assessment literacy integrate assessment leadership practices that support assessment for learning. This study investigated the differences in assessment literacy between elementary and secondary principals…
Descriptors: Principals, Teaching Methods, Faculty Development, Leadership
Williams, Olga Bernice – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The value of both Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and efforts to embrace the idea that teachers should be held accountable for students' test scores have been debated among practitioners, policy makers, and the public for many years, but increasingly since 2010. The Common Core State Standards was implemented in 2009 to provide a basis for new…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Elementary School Teachers, Qualitative Research, Elementary Schools
Carreiro, Diane M. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Educator evaluation is described in the literature as those systems in place used to supervise educator excellence as well as to maximize and foster teacher capacity. There have been many changes within the last five years in the Massachusetts educator evaluation model, now called the Massachusetts Model System for Educator Evaluation. Once…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Effectiveness, School Districts, Qualitative Research
Nugent, Amanda – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Well-educated and informed elementary educators provide the highest of quality instruction to elementary students. Elementary educators are expected to provide instruction from all academic subjects throughout the school day. As standardized testing continues to be a priority in U.S. classrooms, educators must be prepared to continue to deliver…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Case Studies, Elementary School Teachers, Interdisciplinary Approach
Perez, Carlos Raul, Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The number of iPads in classrooms throughout the country is growing at a staggering rate. Educators and school districts are implementing iPad initiatives to enhance instruction. The purpose of this study was to examine high school teachers' experiences and perceptions after using the Apple iPad as an instructional tool in the classroom. An…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, High Schools
Walker, Ginger Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This post-qualitative inquiry project investigated subjectivity (sense of self) among graduates of creative writing Master of Fine Arts (MFA) programs. The project asked how subjectivity is involved in the creative writing process and how that process fuels further writing after a creative piece (such as the MFA thesis) is completed. A…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Graduate Students, Writing Instruction, Educational Philosophy
Tracy, Jacob Dennis – ProQuest LLC, 2017
It has been argued that teachers do not always teach in the ways their teacher education programs promoted. One cause of this problem has to do with teachers' conceptions about mathematics and ability being incompatible with the visions of mathematics that teacher educators promote. For example, teacher educators may emphasize the need for…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Student Attitudes
Holmberg, Carrie – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This study involved empirical investigation of a moves-based conceptualization of teacher practices of planning, enacting, and reflecting on formative assessment (FA) in mathematics classrooms in a high-needs school district in California. A qualitative case study of six middle school mathematics teachers' practices of "posing"…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Middle School Teachers, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods
Coleman, Thomas – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This is a study of secondary mathematics teachers' use of a digitally enhanced educational technology called Interactive Diagrams (IDs). This study is concerned with the ways in which mathematics teachers use IDs as they plan and enact classroom activities involving this technology, as well as the factors that affect their ID use. Qualitative…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Secondary School Mathematics, Teaching Methods, Visual Aids
Stinson, Debbie L. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This study was undertaken to discover how fourth-and fifth-grade teachers implemented the systematic Focused English Language Development (FELD) program with English Language Learners (ELL) students. ELL students are not reaching proficiency at a higher rate because of the gap in teachers' understanding of effective teaching practices and…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, School Districts, Grade 4, Grade 5