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Winterbottom, Christian; Mazzocco, Philip J. – Early Child Development and Care, 2015
Over the past decade early childhood education (ECE) teachers have faced increasing pressures to implement standardised tests in order to secure external validation and funding. In response, many teacher education programmes now focus heavily on positivistic training approaches, as opposed to more developmentally appropriate pedagogies…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Early Childhood Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers
Carhart, Elizabeth Hoag – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Federal policy makers and school leaders increasingly recognize middle school math as a turning point in students' academic success. An i3 scale-up grant allowed grant partners to conduct a large-scale implementation of PowerTeaching (PT), a research-based reform to increase student math achievement. In a mixed-methods study during the pilot phase…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, School Readiness, Educational Change, Mathematics Achievement