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Marion Heron; Hilary Wason – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2025
In this paper we explore the impact of a series of workshops on higher education teachers' understanding and awareness of a dialogic teaching approach to support critical thinking development in an online environment. Critical thinking is a key aim of higher education learning and a dialogic teaching approach can optimise opportunities for…
Descriptors: Dialogs (Language), Teaching Methods, Faculty Development, Teacher Workshops
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Kylie Murphy; Steve Murphy; Nathaniel Swain – Australian Educational Researcher, 2025
Critical and creative thinking (CCT) was introduced as a General Capability in the Australian Curriculum in 2010, heralded as a call for more explicit teaching of CCT. This study was an online survey of 259 Australian teachers, exploring how they have adopted CCT as curriculum, including how confident they feel about this area of their teaching…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Creative Thinking, Teaching Methods, Teacher Attitudes
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Kilbane, James F.; Clayton, Christine D. – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2023
In this study of 211 teacher work samples derived from a professional development programme, teachers' conceptualisations of student inquiry were revealed by examining the nature of perceived outcomes and the role of critical thinking that animated teachers' student inquiries collected over nine years. Using a schema adapted from the literature,…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Teacher Attitudes, Inquiry, Critical Thinking
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Suratmi, Suratmi; Sopandi, Wahyu – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2022
Knowledge, skills, and attitudes of teachers in developing critical thinking skills are very much needed to train students' basic thinking skills. This descriptive quantitative study described the knowledge, skills, and attitudes of teachers in developing critical thinking skills in elementary school students. The data collection employed a…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Skills, Critical Thinking
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Jakkaphatto, Phrajakkaphat; Dhammapissamai, Phrakru – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2022
The aim of this study was to develop an educational innovation called "An Online Program to Empower Teachers' Learning to Develop Students' Critical Thinking Skills." The study recognized the importance of social changes (i.e., becoming a knowledge-based society and a digital society) in the 21st century by examining knowledge from good…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Development, College Faculty, Faculty Development
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Hatsanmuang, Nuengruethai; Sanrattana, Wirot – World Journal of Education, 2023
This research aims at empowering teachers' learning to develop innovative skills for students at high schools under the Office of the Basic Education Commission. It is one of the research projects in the research series regarding 21st century skills which are the outcomes of the advancement of digital technology as well as society becoming…
Descriptors: Skill Development, 21st Century Skills, Faculty Development, Online Courses
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Angelini, M. Laura – SpringerBriefs in Education, 2021
This book is written for teacher educators who are looking for strategies to teach a foreign or second language in a more meaningful way whilst applying active methodologies to develop critical thinking skills. The book is designed to guide the readers through a series of simulations that provide challenging learning opportunities, similar to the…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Teaching Methods, Simulation
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Chandan Maheshkar – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: The study aimed to explore the core competencies that make educators competent in delivering and achieving the purpose of business/management education effectively. Design/methodology/approach: An exploratory-cum-descriptive approach has been used. Educators at different academic levels in university-led B-schools were the participants of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Teacher Competencies, Business Administration Education
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Louise Kay; Alison Buxton – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2024
The global growth of makerspaces, focusing on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) disciplines, supports participatory child-centred learning and fosters essential skills in areas such as creativity, critical thinking, and collaboration. We argue that establishing a makerspace pedagogy in schools fosters children's engagement in…
Descriptors: Shared Resources and Services, Student Centered Curriculum, Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness
Taiwana Walker – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of the study was to explore the use of visuals as it applied to English Language Arts instruction for teachers in suburban and urban middle and high schools in a metropolitan area in the state of Georgia. This study was implemented to address the reading needs of students in response to the changing context of literacy in an age of…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Critical Thinking
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Diana Owen – Grantee Submission, 2024
Project-based learning (PBL) is an instructional approach that provides civics, social studies, and American government students with the opportunity to actively and cooperatively engage with real-world issues and situations. Students typically identify a problem in their community or school, research the problem and policy-based solutions,…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Active Learning, Social Studies, Citizen Participation
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Sanders, Andrea L.; Snyder, Stephen J.; Mathews, Sierra-Kailin – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2019
Instructors' ability to foster students' disposition to engage in critical thinking (CT) is instrumental for CT growth. University students' (N = 1,352) semester-long gains across specific dispositions were compared when taught by professors who had received zero, one, two, or three semesters of training in CT pedagogy. All groups experienced…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Motivation, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills
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Alzahrani, Mona Abdullah; Nor, Faizah M. – Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 2022
Teachers who teach English as a foreign language (EFL) should constantly develop their skills and knowledge by taking part in professional development programs (PDPs) which keep them aware of the most recent teaching trends. This mixed method study seeks to explore how PDPs influence EFL teachers' teaching practices in activating 21st century…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Faculty Development
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Julia Shields Chrestay; Kyra Atterbury, Contributor; Janet Chance, Contributor; Stecy Mbemba, Contributor; Helena Miller, Contributor; Joe Alberti, Contributor; Sara Caselle, Contributor; Suzanne Cilli, Contributor; Katherine Collier, Contributor; Erica Darken, Contributor; Emily Goedde, Contributor; Rochelle Krauss, Contributor; Bernadine Magee, Contributor; Noga Newberg, Contributor; An Nguyen, Contributor; Candice Smith, Contributor – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2024
Need in Deed's work with Philadelphia public school teachers and their students centers empathy, informed investigation, and civic action. Bolstered by these values and with the support of the My Voice framework and dedicated Need in Deed staff, educators are equipped to co-create authentic classroom communities with their students. In Need in…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Citizen Participation, Public School Teachers, Empathy
Jung Han – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Educational reform challenges teachers to integrate science and engineering practices in teaching the contents (Next Generation Science Standards [NGSS] Lead States, 2013; National Research Council [NRC], 2012; Lotter, Carnes, Marshall, Hoppmann, Kiernan, Barth, & Smith, 2020). However, research that reports teachers' experiences in…
Descriptors: High School Teachers, High School Students, Engineering Education, STEM Education
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