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Shannon Gale McDonald – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this study was to explore the attitudes and experiences of clarinet lesson teachers toward their private students with special needs, and to outline pedagogical strategies that clarinet teachers can use with special learners. To determine the results, a survey was sent to private clarinet teachers from the United States (N = 80).…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music Teachers, Private Education, Musical Instruments
Alison H. Mehler – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this study is to explore the experiences and perceptions of teachers who use arts-integrated instruction and their directors of K-2 students before, during, and after the unique period of online instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic, which began in March of 2020. Arts integration is a method of teaching in which students are…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2, Teacher Attitudes
Tsoukalas, Jillian M. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The kindergarten program at the study site transitioned from half day to full day, yet the curriculum was not updated to accommodate the full day schedule, or to include best practices. In order to prepare learners for their future in education, activities were implemented to determine how problem based learning can promote acquisition of the 21st…
Descriptors: Social Change, Kindergarten, Constructivism (Learning), Socialization
Sonsaat, Sinem – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Despite their importance, teacher's manuals (TM) have never drawn much attention in language teaching research, and therefore they have not been researched from the perspective of pronunciation teaching. It may be that they have not been perceived as having a role more than being an answer key for student materials (Sheldon, 1987). However, TMs…
Descriptors: Teaching Guides, Pronunciation Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Gray, Cathie – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Clergy are significant providers of mental health services in the United States. The literature shows disparity between the need of clergy for mental health training and the type of brief training provided through seminar formats. It also indicates that the collaborative professional activities of clinicians and clergy may be enhanced when (1) the…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Consultation Programs, Models, Clergy
Feil, YingYing Crystal – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation presents two studies designed to examine the topic of fraction division in selected Chinese and US curricula. By comparing the structure and content of the Chinese and "Everyday Mathematics" textbooks and teacher's guides, Study 1 revealed many different features presented in the selected curricula. Major differences…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Prior Learning, Word Problems (Mathematics), Teaching Methods