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Nicora Placa – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2024
The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics's "Principles to Actions" (NCTM, 2014) cites posing purposeful questions and eliciting and using evidence of student thinking as effective mathematics teaching practices. Interviewing students creates opportunities for teachers to develop these practices. Through interviewing, they can try…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Questioning Techniques, Mathematical Logic
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Moffett, Pamela; Eaton, Patricia – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2018
It is widely acknowledged that the transition from informal, everyday knowledge to formal, school-taught knowledge is a critically important stage in children's mathematical development. Research highlights the importance of making connections between the different representations of mathematics and the value of children's own mathematical…
Descriptors: Mathematics, Numbers, Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Relationship
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Widyaningtyas, Harini; Winarni, Retno; Murwaningsih, Tri – International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 2018
This study is aimed at describing teachers' obstacles in applying Numbered Head Together learning model in social science learning. The type of research is qualitative descriptive. The subject of the research is the third-grade teacher of elementary school in Sukoharjo Sub-district. The findings of the research were analyzed using interactive…
Descriptors: Barriers, Elementary School Teachers, Grade 3, Elementary School Students
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Spence, Lucy K.; Kite, Yuriko – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2018
Focusing on writing instruction within an era of international curricular reform, this study analysed classroom observations, educator interviews, and documents related to Japanese elementary writing instruction. A deductive approach using discourses of writing framework and an inductive approach to Japanese cultural practices uncovered beliefs…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Elementary School Students, Creativity, Writing Skills
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Powell, Britnie; Drits-Esser, Dina; Malone, Molly; Stark, Louisa A. – Science and Children, 2018
While elementary teachers do not typically cover the structure and function of DNA, their students can easily understand that organisms have observable traits, that each individual has a unique combination of traits, and that the "recipe" for traits is passed from parent to offspring. The Genetic Science Learning Center has developed and…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Genetics, Class Activities
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Aziza, Mela – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2018
Questioning has an important role in teaching mathematics. There is current research about questioning, especially related to class discussion and students' responses. Some researchers suggest teachers pose any kind of questions in mathematics classroom regarding problem solving and mathematical creativity. This research focused on a teacher's…
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Responses
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Akay, Elif – Journal of Education and e-Learning Research, 2018
Social Studies courses aimed to promote the development of critical thinking skills in students. This study focused on the problems two students with hearing loss encountered while they are using three strategies: "identifying and using reference sources", "perception of chronology" and "critical reasoning"…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Hearing Impairments, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills
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O'Brien, Mia; Blue, Levon – Educational Action Research, 2018
Students flourish by having positive learning experiences at school. Here we describe an action research study undertaken in an Australian primary school that was intended to promote the development of students' positive learning identities and resources. We partnered with classroom teachers to devise pedagogical practices that explicitly targeted…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Identification (Psychology), Student Development
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Bradbury, Alice – British Educational Research Journal, 2018
This article examines the impact of a statutory assessment in England, the Phonics Screening Check (PSC), on classroom practices of grouping children by 'ability.' Bearing in mind the argument that assessment is the rudder that steers the otherwise slow-moving battleship of educational practice, it is argued that the PSC has altered how teachers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Phonics, Screening Tests, Elementary School Students
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Haberlin, Steven; O'Grady, Patty – Gifted Education International, 2018
In this pilot study, 24 gifted, elementary students in second to fifth grade enrolled in a large, diverse, urban public school were introduced to 10 mindfulness-based techniques that the students practiced in school. The students practiced the techniques for 10 weeks once per week for 30 minutes in the school's media center under the guidance of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Academically Gifted, Urban Schools, Public Schools
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Edwards, Gillian; Jones, Jane – Literacy, 2018
Boys' attitude to writing is widely perceived as an issue in English primary and secondary schools. Prior research has identified a link between negative attitudes to writing and lower achievement and raised the issue of the stereotyping of boys as underachievers in literacy. The study reported here suggests that if we are to understand the…
Descriptors: Males, Writing Instruction, Writing Achievement, Interviews
Jackson, Jacquelyn Faith – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This dissertation was designed to provide an increased understanding of what is involved in providing whole child education. The researcher of this dissertation evaluated teacher awareness, changes in instructional behaviors, and the impact on culture as a result of an elementary afterschool program. All teachers were instructed to focus on their…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, After School Programs, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers
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Fishman, Eric – Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 2021
What purposes might literary translation serve in the K-12 classroom? In this article, I use practitioner research to explore a heritage language poetry translation project I taught with third and fourth grade multi- and monolingual students in a suburban independent school. Students interviewed family members about their heritage languages,…
Descriptors: Translation, Elementary School Students, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Deery, Claire – Ethnography and Education, 2019
This paper uses ethnographic action research to explore how the objectives of the Australian Curriculum Intercultural Understanding can be achieved in a culturally diverse Year 5/6 (ages 10-12) primary school class in Melbourne. It examines whether a history unit on migration, that uses a structured historical inquiry approach, encourages…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Elementary School Students, Action Research, Cultural Awareness
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Adams, Elizabeth L.; Carrier, Sarah J.; Minogue, James; Porter, Stephen R.; McEachin, Andrew; Walkowiak, Temple A.; Zulli, Rebecca A. – International Journal of Science Education, 2017
The Instructional Practices Log in Science (IPL-S) is a daily teacher log developed for K-5 teachers to self-report their science instruction. The items on the IPL-S are grouped into scales measuring five dimensions of science instruction: "Low-level Sense-making," "High-level Sense-making," "Communication,"…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Science Instruction, Elementary School Students, Evaluators
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