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Renton, Martin – Corwin, 2020
"Questioning" is a process that sparks discussion and encourages deeper thinking. Effective questioning builds on students' natural curiosity, moving them out of their comfort zone and into the learning zone in a purposeful, accessible way. It also models the process of good thinking and fosters a culture of high expectations. Like any…
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Instructional Effectiveness, Learning Processes, Group Discussion
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Ballenger, Cynthia – Reading Teacher, 2019
The achievement gap has been the focus of a good deal of research, attention, and hopeful new practices, yet it has hardly decreased. Using insights from sociolinguistic and sociocultural studies of classrooms in concert with practices developed by teacher researchers in the tradition of the Brookline Teacher Researcher Seminar, the author…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gap, Sociolinguistics, Learner Engagement
Kelly, Susan – ProQuest LLC, 2020
A longstanding aim of education efforts to position students as knowledge constructors so they are engaged in the building and shaping their learning environment. Current education reforms situate student sense making around authentic science inquiries where students are engaged in the practices of science. In the science classroom, this means…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Epistemology, Science Instruction, Classroom Communication
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Carlone, Heidi B.; Mercier, Alison K.; Metzger, Salem R. – Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research, 2021
Primary school practices are often bound by traditions that perpetuate compliance and skills-based, decontextualized, rote memorization activities. These histories of practice, prevalent in schools serving mostly Black and Brown children, make it inordinately difficult for students to author themselves as knowledge builders (i.e., with epistemic…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Engineering Education, Epistemology, Design
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Gur, Tahir – Educational Research and Reviews, 2014
Identity refers to all the characteristics that "specify who we are and also how we see other people" and is formed with the accumulation of our own experiences and those from social life with regard to certain roles like professional, political or parental roles. Some of the characteristics of identity that determine and describe…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Discourse Analysis, Language Teachers, Career Development
Michell, Lynn – CORE, 1979
A cognitive-based system of analysis of spoken discourse was designed to provide details about the way pupils think and talk about issues arising from prose material. Written and spoken responses were analyzed to examine the effects of intellectual ability, differences in the stimulus passage, and prior small group discussion. (Note: Page…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adolescents, Cognitive Processes, Critical Thinking
Kornfeld, Maurine – 1974
The Los Angeles Section, National Council of Jewish Women, has developed an innovative pilot program in day care geared to the changing life style of child rearing by single parents. Home-SAFE provides children a warm, secure environment in supervised, subsidized, licensed day care homes, and includes enrichment activities by trained volunteers;…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Child Rearing, Day Care, Emotional Development