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Sapeg, Raquel – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore the lived experiences of underrepresented tenured Latina faculty in one four-year university in the southeast area of the United States to identify barriers towards achieving tenure. Eight tenured Latina faculty with experience of 7 to 20 or more years in a tenured position provided their…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, College Faculty, Tenure, Qualitative Research
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Pollard, Vikki; Hains-Wesson, Rachael; Young, Karen – Teaching in Higher Education, 2018
If Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines in higher education are to retain students, there needs to be a shift towards teaching in more enriching and interesting ways. Creative teaching needs to become more prominent in STEM. This article presents a study that defines creative teaching in the STEM context and…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Creative Teaching, Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness
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Haley, Keri; Allsopp, David; Hoppey, David – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2018
Advocating for your child with a disability can be a daunting task for any parent. When the parent is also a school district employee, determining whether advocacy could impact one's position as an employee becomes inherently problematic. Using a heuristic case study approach, this inquiry's intent is to understand the experiences, barriers, and…
Descriptors: Parents, Learning Disabilities, Parents as Teachers, School Districts
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Gündogmus, Hatice Degirmenci – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2018
The purpose of the current research is to identify the difficulties that primary school teachers experience in the primary reading and writing instruction, and to find out their solution offers for eliminating these difficulties. The study group of the research is composed of 51 primary school teachers selected by criterion sampling as a type of…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Reading Instruction, Teaching Experience, Qualitative Research
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Witmer, Sara; Schmitt, Heather; Clinton, Marianne; Mathes, Nicole – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2018
Accommodations are often necessary to help students with reading difficulties access instructional materials that facilitate learning across content areas. However, the extent to which students with disabilities use accommodations during instruction is unclear. We surveyed and interviewed special educators and students with reading-related…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Special Education Teachers, Elementary School Students
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Kumar, Swapna; Johnson, Melissa – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2017
The purpose of our research was to explore faculty members' experiences with online mentoring during the dissertation stage of an online doctoral program. During semi-structured interviews, four mentors reflected on their online mentoring of students, specifically the strategies that worked well, challenges faced while mentoring online, and other…
Descriptors: Mentors, Online Courses, Doctoral Dissertations, College Faculty
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Michals, Irena; Kessler, Suzanne – Journal of Correctional Education, 2015
Those who teach in prisons as employees of educational institutions or other nonprofit organizations are uniquely positioned to contribute to the public conversation about mass incarceration. Entering the prison as neither Department of Corrections employees nor family members or friends of the incarcerated, they interact with prisoners in a…
Descriptors: Correctional Education, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Teacher Attitudes
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Jääskelä, Päivikki; Häkkinen, Päivi; Rasku-Puttonen, Helena – Teaching in Higher Education, 2017
Higher education calls for reform, but deeper knowledge about the prerequisites for teaching development and pedagogical change is missing. In this study, 51 university teachers' experiences of supportive or constraining factors in teaching development were investigated in the context of Finland's multidisciplinary network. The findings reveal…
Descriptors: Teaching Experience, Barriers, Performance Factors, Faculty Development
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Akdemir, Ahmet Selçuk – Journal of Education and Practice, 2017
This study aims at investigating the effect of eTwinning, an innovative way of cooperative learning, on language teaching. A qualitative research design is preferred in order to explore the experiences of language teachers who have completed successful eTwinning projects. To this end, 7 ELT professionals (4 female, 3 male) from different cities of…
Descriptors: Success, Cooperative Learning, Qualitative Research, Teacher Attitudes
Blue, Gwendolyn Charlene – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Visually impaired students, despite access to technology resources, experience difficulties in succeeding in higher education due to ineffective technology resource implementation and a lack of adequate assistive technology instruction. The purpose of this qualitative interview-based study was to determine barriers to assistive technology…
Descriptors: Visual Impairments, Rural Schools, School Districts, Barriers
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Hall, Elisha; Chai, Weiwen; Albrecht, Julie A. – American Journal of Health Education, 2016
Background: Nutrition education delivered by classroom teachers has become a popular intervention designed to combat childhood obesity. However, few qualitative studies have explored nutrition education with teachers Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore how elementary teachers describe their experience with nutrition education.…
Descriptors: Nutrition Instruction, Phenomenology, Qualitative Research, Teaching Experience
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Dona, Kulari Lokuge; Gregory, Janet; Pechenkina, Ekaterina – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2017
This paper presents findings of an institutional case study investigating how students and lecturers experienced a new opt-out, fully integrated lecture-recording system which enabled audio and presentation screen capture. The study's focus is on how "traditional" students (generally characterised as young, enrolled full-time and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Lecture Method, Institutional Characteristics, Case Studies
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Retna, Kala S. – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2016
Schools are continuously looking for new ways of enhancing student learning to equip students with skills that would enable them to cope with twenty-first century demands. One promising approach focuses on design thinking. This study examines teacher's perceptions, experiences and challenges faced in adopting design thinking. There is a lack of…
Descriptors: Teaching Experience, Design, Thinking Skills, Teacher Attitudes
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Thompson, Ron; Russell, Lisa – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2017
This paper explores the experiences and perceptions of a little-known category of in-service trainee teachers in the Further Education (FE) and Skills sector in England: those who meet the practical teaching requirements of their course mainly through unpaid teaching as "volunteers." The paper reports findings from mixed-methods research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inservice Teacher Education, Volunteers, Volunteer Training
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Dunn, Karen; Darlington, Ellie – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2016
The planned removal of "tiering" from the Geography examinations, which mark the end of compulsory schooling at age 16 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, means that students of all abilities will be expected to sit the same examination with the same content. However, the learning and preparation process will not necessarily be the…
Descriptors: Individualized Instruction, Classroom Techniques, Secondary School Teachers, Geography Instruction
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