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Dai, Yun – Research in Science Education, 2023
While technology advancement and scientific innovation have created new topics and fields of inquiry in STEM education, external content experts such as university scientists/researchers have been increasingly involved to enhance K-12 teachers' disciplinary understandings and professional development (PD). However, few studies have scrutinized…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Scientists, Science Instruction, Educational Practices
Rebecca A. Foy – ProQuest LLC, 2023
How instructors teach argumentation and research skills influences students' epistemic development and performance on critical thinking tasks. Therefore, it was necessary to explore the existing beliefs, values, and knowledge of university instructors to inform future research, faculty support, and curriculum development on how to support these…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, General Education, Concept Formation
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Cruz, Laura; Cunningham, Kathryn; Smentkowski, Brian; Steiner, Hillary – To Improve the Academy, 2019
This article presents a scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) scaffold, a conceptual model designed for educational developers (and others) who support the values, practices, and production of the SoTL, both on their campuses and beyond. The SoTL scaffold explicates distinct support levels, ranging from spark to lead, each of which call for…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Educational Development, Concept Formation
Lasserre-Cortez, S.; Cox, P.; Goertzen, H.; Jetty, L.; Molina, C.; Vandeborne, L. – Region 7 Comprehensive Center, 2021
Coaching is a complex endeavor that blends a myriad of concepts and skills. Practical experience, content knowledge, and coaching knowledge are instrumental to becoming an effective math coach. In order to design a professional development system to best support and build the capacity of coaches, we must identify what specific content and coaching…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Mathematics Education, Faculty Development, Mathematics Instruction
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Woods, Dawn M.; Wilhelm, Anne Garrison – Mathematics Teacher Educator, 2020
This study investigates how the exploration phase of the teacher learning cycle provides 11 novice mathematics teachers with the opportunity to learn about the high-leverage practice of launching a complex task. Findings suggest that the exploration phase of the teacher learning cycle provides novice teachers with opportunities to reflect on how…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Beginning Teachers, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Grimes, Matthew W. – Journal of Leadership Education, 2015
As the field of leadership education continues to prioritize learning in leadership, it is important to ask the question: What do we know about the learning process itself? Conceptual change, a learning framework used in educational psychology, can help to explain learning in leadership. Research on conceptual change in the social sciences is…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Educational Psychology, Concept Formation, Leadership Training
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Barradell, Sarah; Kennedy-Jones, Mary – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2015
Threshold concepts, student learning and curriculum are constructs within a learning and teaching discourse foregrounded by Meyer and Land. In this paper, we introduce a conceptual model that integrates these three constructs and identifies desired outcomes at the intersects: namely the processes of (1) ways of thinking and practising, (2)…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Theory Practice Relationship, Models, Holistic Approach
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Rowe, Sharon – Educational Perspectives, 2013
In this paper I look at a set of teaching techniques and practices that I experienced as a student of traditional hula over the past twenty years. I explain the practices of ho'ike (testing by showing what one knows), 'aiha'a (getting grounded), pa'a ka waha/ ho'olohe (hold the mouth/ listen), and learning without palapala (paper) as I have…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Practices, Learning Processes, Teaching Experience
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Vossoughi, Shirin; Hooper, Paula K.; Escudé, Meg – Harvard Educational Review, 2016
In this essay, Shirin Vossoughi, Paula Hooper, and Meg Escudé advance a critique of branded, culturally normative definitions of making and caution against their uncritical adoption into the educational sphere. The authors argue that the ways making and equity are conceptualized can either restrict or expand the possibility that the growing maker…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Equal Education, Educational Practices, Working Class
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Irwin, Rita L. – Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and Research in Art Education, 2013
This article explores moments of becoming a/r/tography. A/r/tography is a research methodology, a creative practice, and a performative pedagogy that lives in the rhizomatic practices of the in-between. Resisting the tendency for endless critique of past experience and bodies of knowledge, a/r/tography is concerned with the creative invention of…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Concept Formation, Concept Mapping, Art Education
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Chai, Ching Sing; Deng, Feng; Tsai, Pei-Shan; Koh, Joyce Hwee; Tsai, Chin-Chung – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2015
This study attempts to design a survey to assess students' perceptions of twenty-first-century learning practices in their classrooms and the resulting knowledge creation self-efficacy among the students. In addition, it also explores the relationships among the various dimensions of twenty-first-century learning practices. Four hundred and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Primary Education, Elementary School Students, Student Attitudes
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Zangori, Laura; Forbes, Cory T. – Science Education, 2014
Elementary science standards emphasize that students should develop conceptual understanding of the characteristics and life cycles of plants (National Research Council, 2012), yet few studies have focused on early learners' reasoning about seed structure and function. The purpose of this study is twofold: to (a) examine third-grade…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Plants (Botany)
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Wilke, Ryan A.; Losh, Susan Carol – Action in Teacher Education, 2012
The authors examine conceptual change in preservice teachers through a synthesis and application of mental models theory. They analyzed longitudinal data in the form of lesson plans, interviews, and written rationales from eight, social science preservice teachers. Findings that illustrate how preservice teachers' mental models changed during…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Models, Visualization, Schemata (Cognition)
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Akiba, Daisuke; Alkins, Kimberley – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2010
Learning is a concept that is routinely used in various educational settings, and the enhancement of learning is the primary goal of many, if not all, educators and administrators. People involved in education, however, may not necessarily have extensively explored this commonly cited notion, and some may not have subsequently realized the…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Learning Theories, Theory Practice Relationship, Learning Processes
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Hunt, Celia; West, Linden – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2009
This paper stems from a dialogue on the subjects of learning and learners: one forged out of experiences in research and teaching, and the application of psychodynamic insights, developmental psychology and recent work in the neurosciences, to thinking about adult learning and subjectivity. We argue that some notion of the self needs to be…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Learning Processes, Developmental Psychology, Individual Development
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