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Asiye Demir – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Cosmopolitanism refers to becoming a world citizen who can live harmoniously with different cultures. Today, our classes in the United States have become diverse daily. While we teach students who can speak more than one language, our teachers are primarily monolingual and monocultural. Hence, teachers who can speak multiple languages are…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Language Teachers
DuPont, Michael David – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The purpose of this qualitative case study was to examine how two faculty integrate equity, diversity, inclusion, and social justice (EDISJ) within their work with doctoral education at an AAU institution within two different disciplines. Due to the understanding that doctoral students imitate and emulate behaviors and values of close advisers,…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Intellectual Disciplines, Case Studies, College Faculty
Maxwell, Valerie C. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this Executive Position Paper is to examine the ways in which teachers learn to implement a new mathematics curriculum. The four case study teachers described in this paper were in their first and second year of teaching the "Investigations" curriculum. In the course of learning to teach with "Investigations," the teachers were…
Descriptors: Curriculum Implementation, Mathematics Curriculum, Position Papers, Educational Change
Rebar, Bryan – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Field trips are well recognized by researchers as an educational approach with the potential to complement and enhance classroom science teaching by exposing students to unique activities, resources, and content in informal settings. The following investigation addresses teachers' field trip practices in three related manuscripts: (1) A study…
Descriptors: Evidence, Field Trips, Educational Practices, Educational Strategies
Dalton, Elizabeth Minchin – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Purpose: Consideration of assistive technology (AT) for special education students has been federally mandated since 1997. Since the 2002 No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), rigorous evidence-based educational practices are also mandated. While national technology standards for teachers in general education exist to guide educational technology (ET),…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, State Standards, Educational Practices, Educational Technology
Johnston, Elisabeth – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which a preschool program followed the recommendations outlined by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) in their joint position statement "Early Childhood Mathematics: Promoting Good…
Descriptors: Investigations, Mathematics Activities, Preschool Education, Young Children