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Kang, Hee-Won; Nickel, MaryAnn – Journal of Case Studies in Education, 2012
This report is on an innovative model of student teaching in elementary education that emphasizes collaboration among different levels of part-time student teachers, full-time student teachers, mentor teachers, principals and university supervisors. The CORE (Collaborations for Renewal of Education) model of student teaching has a strong focus on…
Descriptors: Student Teaching, Elementary Education, Student Teachers, Mentors
Yong, Poon Cheng; Jiar, Yeo Kee; Zanzali, Noor Azlan Ahmad – Online Submission, 2012
Over-reliance on prescriptive pedagogies, such as explicit instruction, could hamper students with learning difficulties from sense-making and thus limit their acquisition of conceptual understanding. To help them in constructing mathematical knowledge, manipulative and drawing could be used to solve problems in a meaningful context. Using a case…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Teaching Methods, Mathematics Education, Mathematics Instruction
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Truxaw, Mary P.; DeFranco, Thomas C. – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 2008
This article reports on models of teaching that developed as outgrowths of a study of middle-grades mathematics classes. Three specific cases are highlighted that represent deductive (associated with univocal), inductive (associated with dialogic), and mixed (a hybrid of deductive and inductive) models of teaching. Teaching practices associated…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Teaching Models, Middle Schools
Westberg, Karen L., Ed.; Archambault, Francis X., Jr., Ed. – 1995
This report discusses the outcomes of a project that investigated elementary schools and classrooms that had a reputation for effective implementation of curriculum differentiation practices to meet the individual needs of high ability students. Using a multisite case study method, researchers conducted observations in classrooms and interviewed…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques
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Hornstein, Stephen E. – Southern Social Studies Journal, 1990
Examines teaching methods in elementary social studies classrooms. Interviews fifth and sixth grade students regarding their perceptions of social studies. Finds instruction relies heavily on textbooks. Shows half of the students dislike social studies. Includes students' verbatim comments. Designs teaching approaches based on students' preference…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Grade 6
Jett-Simpson, Mary; And Others – 1992
This discussion of an urban professional development school (PDS) partnership between Milwaukee Public Schools (Wisconsin) and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee documents changes made and experienced by teachers, particularly changes related to moving from an ineffective basic skills approach to reading, in a school context focused on student…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, College School Cooperation, Collegiality, Educational Change