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Salavert, Roser – International Journal of Educational Leadership and Management, 2015
Coaching, an apprentice-based approach to support professional and personal development towards achieving set goals, is a well-established practice in the fields of sports training and management and one of the fastest growing professional development methods in the education field. How the coaching partnership fosters leadership and improves…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Apprenticeships, Literature Reviews, Definitions
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Algozzine, Bob; And Others – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1994
This introduction to three papers on effective instruction of students with disabilities provides a conceptual model for effective instruction linking components of effective instruction to principles and strategies that provide a framework for intervention and lists specific tactics for teachers to use in delivering instruction. (JDD)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Disabilities, Educational Practices, Educational Principles
Osborn, Jean – 1986
In its report "Becoming a Nation of Readers," the Commission on Reading defines reading as the process of constructing meaning from written texts, a view of reading that makes the use of strategies seem probable. If a book is a source of partial information, and readers are supposed to use knowledge they already possess to determine the…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education, Reading Comprehension, Reading Improvement
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Vocke, David E.; Hahn, Amos – Social Education, 1989
Cites numerous research studies stating that the textbook remains the dominant tool in social studies, causing a low regard for the subject by many students. Looks at reading research to provide instructional procedures that social studies teachers can employ to enhance students' understanding of the written materials they encounter. (KO)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Content Area Reading, Instructional Innovation, Literature Reviews
Clark, Christopher M. – 1983
This exploration of the essential knowledge offered by research on teacher planning is divided into four parts. The first part deals with the kinds of knowledge derived from research on teaching. It is noted that teacher effectiveness researchers have been primarily concerned with producing knowledge about the observable behavior of effective…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Class Activities, Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques
Saletore, Sudha; George, Judith D. – 1981
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships among teachers' goal orientations, structure (amount of directiveness provided by the teacher), and observable classroom behaviors to determine: (1) if teachers with different goal orientations differ in verbal and nonverbal affective responses; and (2) if teachers with different goal…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education
Tursman, Cindy – 1981
Trends and issues in research into effective teaching are examined in this report. The status of the teaching profession is discussed in the first chapter, and developments in teacher evaluation, unionization, and effective schools research are traced. In the second chapter, research findings on the effects of teaching styles and of teacher…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Educational Quality, Educational Research, Educational Strategies
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Swanson, H. Lee – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1999
Review of 180 intervention studies identified instructional components that best predicted effect sizes for students with learning disabilities. These included sequencing, drill-repetition-practice feedback, segmentation of information, technology (structure-presentation medium), controlling task difficulty (e.g., scaffolding), modeling…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Effect Size, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Effectiveness
Walberg, Herbert J.; Waxman, Hersholt C. – 1983
This paper draws heavily on quantitative synthesis of empirical research on teaching, and for comparison, related influences on learning, such as the student's motivation, home environment, and exposure to television. The first section explains the techniques of explicit search and selection of evidence and the statistical evaluation and summary…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques, Educational Psychology
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Wolff, Mary Anne – Educational Leadership, 1986
Recommends the frame of reference method in helping students learn to recognize bias in the questions an author asks, the evidence gathered, and the conclusions drawn. Describes a high school writing-anthropology unit on the Kung San society. Discusses the potentials, problems, and school-linked constraints in using frame of reference models. (IW)
Descriptors: Anthropology, Bias, Classroom Techniques, Critical Reading
Zeichner, Kenneth M. – 1993
This report addresses various dimensions of a major policy issue in teacher education--the need to help all teachers acquire the attitudes, knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary to work effectively with a diverse student population. The differences are related to social class, ethnicity, culture, and language. The problem of educating…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitude Change, Classroom Techniques, Cultural Differences