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Alistair Gilbert McInerny – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Understanding human behavior and reasoning is essential for developing successful instruction. Discipline-based education researchers have examined how students learn, informing the development of successful instructional strategies. Researchers have also identified barriers to the successful implementation of such strategies. This work utilizes…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Logical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Physics
Chalermchai Pondongnok; Phrakhrusutheejariyawattana – World Journal of Education, 2024
This research is a Research and Development (R&D) study aimed at developing educational innovation entitled "Online Self-Training Program to Empower Teachers' Learning into Action to Enhance Active Learning in the Classroom", and implemented in schools. The online self-training program consists of 2 projects (1) a Development project…
Descriptors: Teacher Empowerment, Faculty Development, Teacher Education, Active Learning
Shipp, Jeremiah E. – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2022
Online instruction is a trend that has been around for a while within academia. However, the pandemic exposed the notable difference between teaching an online course and doing so effectively. During the 2021-- 2022 academic year, faculty from various colleges and departments across the Winston-Salem State University community participated in the…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Web Based Instruction, College Faculty, Instructional Innovation
Jada Kohlmeier – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2023
Authentic pedagogy is a complex enterprise for students and teachers. Planning and developing the instructional procedures and scaffolds for student success is daunting. In addition, the teacher implementing the lesson makes dozens of quick decisions as they attend to student thinking and decide how to respond. These spontaneous decisions can have…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Social Studies, Active Learning, Thinking Skills
Katrina Laguarda; Linda Shear; Satabdi Basu; Ela Joshi; Patrik Lundh; Hui Yang – SRI Education, a Division of SRI International, 2023
Launched in 2016 and led by The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust (The Trust), CoolThink@JC is scaling the study of computational thinking to primary 4-6 students across the territory. By early 2023, the CoolThink network had enrolled 204 schools in six cohorts, achieving a critical mass of schools that will have adopted the 14-hour curriculum…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Problem Solving, Thinking Skills
Douglas Gagnon; Ela Joshi; Nicole Arshan; Eliese Rulifson; Elise Levin-Güracar; Tejaswini Tiruke – Grantee Submission, 2023
The Mathematics, 3D Printing, and Computational Thinking Through Work-Based Learning (MPACT) program relies on teacher professional development, specialized curriculum and materials, and STEM industry mentors to provide grades 4-7 students with project-based experiences implemented across three learning modules. This technical report presents…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Computer Peripherals, Printing, Computation
Douglas Gagnon; Ela Joshi; Nicole Arshan; Eliese Rulifson; Elise Levin-Güracar; Tejaswini Tiruke – SRI Education, a Division of SRI International, 2023
The Mathematics, 3D Printing, and Computational Thinking Through Work-Based Learning (MPACT) program combines teacher professional development, specialized curriculum and materials and STEM industry mentors to provide grade 4-7 students with project-based experiences implemented across three learning modules. This technical report presents…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Computer Peripherals, Printing, Computation
Johnson, Brian T.; Tawfik, Andrew A. – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2022
This study sought to understand challenges that teachers (N = 15) in poverty settings encountered during information literacy instruction (ILI) and inquiry-based learning. First order barriers focused on insufficient support for instruction (training to align ILI in poverty settings; integrate diverse information resources/technology tools),…
Descriptors: Barriers, Poverty, Information Literacy, Inquiry
Yigit, Turan; Karatekin, Kadir – Review of International Geographical Education, 2021
Spatial thinking skills are competencies individuals will need in their lives in order to know and understand the world and to perceive the space correctly. In order for individuals to have these competencies, effective training in the development of spatial thinking skills should occur. Spatial thinking skills can be acquired through…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Thinking Skills, Student Centered Learning, Active Learning
Ngaewkoodrua, Nophakun; Yuenyong, Chokchai – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2018
This study aimed to explore the science teachers' existing ideas about Inquiry-based learning as a way of enhancing students' inventive thinking skills. Methodology regarded interpretive paradigm. The first author participated in the STEM in-service teacher professional development project called the Inquiry-based learning workshops of the…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Foreign Countries, Active Learning, Inquiry
Ela Joshi; Douglas Gagnon; Erin Smith – SRI Education, a Division of SRI International, 2024
In 2019, California State University (CSU), Chico was awarded a five-year Teaching Quality Partnership (TQP) grant to implement the Computational Literacy Across Secondary Settings (CLASS) program. The goal of this program was to recruit, prepare, and retain highly qualified individuals into the teaching profession, with a focus on high-need rural…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Faculty Development, Partnerships in Education, Thinking Skills
Finch, Lila; Moreno, Celeste; Shapiro, R. Benjamin – Cognition and Instruction, 2021
Creating learning environments that integrate arts, sciences, and computing in education can improve learning in these disciplines. In particular, transdisciplinary integrations of these disciplines can lead to expansive alterations or dissolutions of epistemological, ideological, and methodological boundaries. We wish to support teachers in the…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Learning Processes, Thinking Skills, Epistemology
Holt, Angela Nicole – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This mixed method convergent study explored the impact of design and delivery of professional development practices in a large, urban school district in Missouri. Certificated classroom teachers at 23 pre-determined elementary school sites (541 participants) were electronically surveyed. Additionally, three department leaders were interviewed and…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Elementary School Teachers, Blended Learning, Urban Schools
Li, Qing; Richman, Laila; Haines, Sarah; McNary, Scot – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2019
This study explores the influence of a professional development (PD) model aiming to build teacher capacities for K-12 schools. It examines the impact of this PD on teachers' learning of content and pedagogical knowledge related to computational thinking (CT). It also investigates the lessons learned during the implementation process. This…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Teacher Competencies, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Yildirm, Sefa; Akman, Özkan; Alagoz, Bülent – International Education Studies, 2017
An experience theory is required if the education is to be wisely carried out (John Dewey). Education is a discipline that saves lives if it is qualified, but loss of which could not be made up throughout generations if it is not qualified. The roots of society are based on the education, and educated masses and civilizations could either move…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Teaching Methods, Active Learning, Educational Philosophy
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