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White, Waneen Aden; Rosado, Caleb – Journal of International Education Research, 2014
This paper focuses on an interdisciplinary project using an innovative teaching methodology developed to generate substantive interaction between international students and mainstream students on American campuses. The process was created after asking international students from a variety of countries the question, "What is the biggest…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Student Adjustment, Barriers, Teaching Methods
Wilcox, Kristen Campbell – Education and Urban Society, 2015
This yearlong ethnographic case study investigated higher and lower track adolescents' experiences with core content-area (social studies, science, and math) writing in one urban working-class district. Teacher, student, and administrator interviews; field notes; and students' written work comprised the data set. The findings from this…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Secondary Schools, Case Studies, Ethnography
Daniels, Erika – Middle School Journal (J3), 2011
This article shares thoughts about motivating young adolescents from the perspective of middle level students. The most compelling thread to emerge from the interviews with students was the fact that teachers matter. Teachers have a direct and significant impact on students' motivation to achieve. This article identifies three ways in which…
Descriptors: Homework, Student Motivation, Educational Environment, Learning Motivation
Walsh, Glenda; Sproule, Liz; McGuinness, Carol; Trew, Karen – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2011
Playful structure is a new pedagogic image representing a more balanced and integrated perspective on early years pedagogy, aiming to blend apparent dichotomies and contradictions and to sustain and evolve play-based practice beyond Year 1. Playful structure invites teachers and children to initiate and maintain a degree of playfulness in the…
Descriptors: Play, Foreign Countries, Learning Experience, Elementary School Curriculum
Pea, Celestine H. – Science Educator, 2012
In a larger study on teachers' beliefs about science teaching, one component looks at how school environmental context factors influence inquiry-based science instruction. Research shows that three broad categories of school environmental factors (human, sociocultural, design) impact inquiry-based teaching in some way. A mixed-method, sequential,…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Science Instruction, Science Education, Teaching Methods
May, Laura A. – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2011
Comprehension (or cognitive) strategy instruction has considerable literacy research supporting it as an instructional practice. Additionally, it has become more common in elementary classrooms, in part, because of the popularity of professional advisement books on the topic. This focus on teaching cognitive strategies also occupies center stage…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Culturally Relevant Education, Alignment (Education), Educational Strategies
Otrel-Cass, Kathrin; Khoo, Elaine; Cowie, Bronwen – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2012
In New Zealand and internationally claims are being made about the potential for information and communication technologies (ICTs) to transform teaching and learning. However, the theoretical underpinnings explaining the complex interplay between the content, pedagogy and technology a teacher needs to consider must be expanded. This article…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Elementary Schools, Foreign Countries, Video Technology
Schofield, Linda – Kairaranga, 2012
In this study, qualitative evidence is collected--through classroom observations and teacher and student interviews--to study the effect of metacognition and the interaction between students' observable cognitive behaviour and the instructional task. This qualitative data is analysed to identify what factors support and improve students'…
Descriptors: Evidence, Metacognition, Instructional Effectiveness, Teaching Methods
Exeter, Daniel J.; Ameratunga, Shanthi; Ratima, Matiu; Morton, Susan; Dickson, Martin; Hsu, Dennis; Jackson, Rod – Studies in Higher Education, 2010
The rapid growth in the student population observed in higher education over the past 10-15 years in some countries has coincided with an increased recognition of student engagement and its value in developing knowledge. Active learning approaches have the potential to promote student engagement with lectures, but this becomes more challenging as…
Descriptors: Interviews, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Learner Engagement
Boling, Erica C.; Holan, Erica; Horbatt, Brent; Hough, Mary; Jean-Louis, Jennifer; Khurana, Chesta; Krinsky, Hindi; Spiezio, Christina – Online Submission, 2011
This designed-based research study explored educators' experiences in an online course to better understand how course design and pedagogical delivery can best support student learning. Using the Cognitive Apprenticeship Model (Collins et al., 1987) as a theoretical lens, researchers investigated the following: 1) What methods of instruction, as…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Online Courses, Technology Integration, Apprenticeships
Tange, Hanne; Jensen, Iben – Journal of Research in International Education, 2012
The article focuses on the impact of internationalization on university lecturers' practice. Based on interviews with 36 employees from Danish universities, we discuss what internationalization means for the classroom relationship between university teachers and international students. The article is inspired by an intercultural communication…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Intercultural Communication, International Education, Teaching Methods
Harris, Lois – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2010
Across Australia, recent policy initiatives have focused on student engagement in school and in learning. Although teachers play a significant role in the implementation of these policy reforms, little research has looked at student engagement from teachers' perspectives or sought to identify and understand the strategies teachers report using to…
Descriptors: Interviews, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Learner Engagement
Beutel, Denise – Australian Educational Researcher, 2010
Globally, teaching has become more complex and more challenging over recent years, with new and increased demands being placed on teachers by students, their families, governments and wider society. Teachers work with more diverse communities in times characterised by volatility, uncertainty and moral ambiguity. Societal, political, economic and…
Descriptors: Mentors, Phenomenology, Teacher Student Relationship, Aptitude Treatment Interaction
McLaury, Ralph L. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This study investigates beliefs about teaching held by preservice science teachers and their influences on self-perceived microteaching outcomes within interactive secondary science teaching methods courses. Hermeneutic methodology was used in cooperation with seven preservice science teachers (N = 7) to infer participant beliefs about teaching…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Preservice Teachers, Methods Courses, Teacher Characteristics
Kelley-Peterson, Megan Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Research in the field of math education continues to press teachers guide instruction based on students' needs and contributions, focusing on student learning through facilitation of whole-group discussions. This dissertation presents the findings of a qualitative study of two elementary teachers managing such "ambitious" teaching practices across…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Activities, Mathematics Activities, Educational Practices
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