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Jessica J. DePamphilis – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The required literature (frequently referred to as "the canon") taught in the secondary English Language Arts curriculum often focuses on the "classics," which do not always connect to modern students or reflect their identities. This study sought to investigate how the ELA canon could be adapted to better reflect students'…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Curriculum Development, English Instruction, Student Centered Curriculum
Sandra La Torre; Juliette C. Désiron – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2024
Over the past decades, researchers have investigated the effects of multimedia design principles to enhance learning. These evidence-based principles are known to enable students to learn from multimedia resources and support cognitive processing. However, it is unclear if and which of these multimedia design principles are implemented in…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Teaching Methods, Instructional Materials, Multimedia Materials
Karis Jones; Scott Storm – Myers Education Press, 2024
"What is a fandom, and why do fandoms matter for school?" Fandoms are passionate communities dedicated to appreciating and engaging with texts of interest (movies, TV shows, books, bands, brands, sports teams, etc.) via personally and communally meaningful literacy practices. It is increasingly obvious that scripted literacy curricula…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Literacy Education, Popular Culture, Classroom Environment
Rodriguez, Terri L.; Bohn-Gettler, Catherine M.; Israelson, Madeleine H. – English Education, 2020
This case study of an English methods course examines how preservice teachers demonstrate knowledge, skills, and dispositions for social justice teaching. Qualitative analyses of participants' performances on two signature course assessments, micro-teaching and unit planning, show how opportunities to demonstrate socially just teaching practices…
Descriptors: Methods Courses, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Social Justice
Strickland, T. Hunter – Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 2020
In order to better understand how young adult literature (YAL) is used in secondary English teacher education, this study examines course syllabi submitted by researchers recently published in "The ALAN Review." Using a framework built on Bakhtin's work, this article analyzes course objectives and goals for inherent social discourses to…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Young Adults, Preservice Teacher Education, Secondary Education
Yakar, Halide Gamze Ince – Journal of Education and Learning, 2018
The aim of the present research is to investigate the teachers' use of movies in their classes for the teaching of literature and their opinions on this technique. The research is designed as a case study. The target group of the research, selected on information-oriented sampling, consists of 44 Turkish Language and Literature teachers who…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Qualitative Research, Questionnaires
Brunow, Valerie – Language and Literacy Spectrum, 2016
This article is a resource for educators looking to offer personal instruction and literacy opportunities to secondary students. It provides a thoughtful and in-depth look at the workshop model in a high school setting. It offers methods and suggestions for setting up the workshop model to methods and strategies for diverse learners. The…
Descriptors: Secondary Education, Classroom Techniques, Literacy, Writing Workshops
Sithole, Alec; Chiyaka, Edward T.; McCarthy, Peter; Mupinga, Davison M.; Bucklein, Brian K.; Kibirige, Joachim – Higher Education Studies, 2017
Low student enrollment and high attrition rates in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education are major challenges in higher education. Many STEM entrants end-up switching their majors to non-STEM fields, perform poorly relative to their peers in other programs, and/or drop out of college without earning any academic…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Academic Persistence, Student Interests, Success
Artman-Meeker, Kathleen; Grant, Thomas O.; Yang, Xueyan – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2016
In our increasingly diverse schools, teachers have a responsibility and an opportunity to help students see themselves and others through the lens of literature. There are few resources available to help teachers make decisions about what literature to choose and how to use that literature in relation to disability in the classroom. This article…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Teaching Methods, Consciousness Raising, Children
Wojcik, Teresa G.; Heitzmann, Ray; Kilbride, Candice; Hartwell, Daniel – Social Studies, 2013
Social studies methods textbooks constitute a rich source of data for trends in teaching and learning. This study examined twenty secondary social studies methods texts for the instructional approaches they recommend. The researchers concluded that methods texts published over the past fifty years consistently call for pedagogical variety and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Social Studies, History, Textbook Evaluation
Ozturk, Ibrahim Hakki – Online Submission, 2011
In recent years, the curriculum programs have been changed dramatically in Turkey, as part of a comprehensive reform initiative. The history curriculum for secondary schools was subjected to this transformation as well. This study examines the curriculum reform in terms of teacher autonomy, a key-concept for the comprehension and improvement of…
Descriptors: Professional Autonomy, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Illes, Eva – ELT Journal, 2009
Intriguingly, at a time when the ELT market is inundated with state-of-the-art coursebooks teaching modern-day English, a 30-year-old series enjoys continuing popularity in some secondary schools in Hungary. Why would teachers, several of whom are school-based teacher-mentors in the vanguard of the profession, purposefully choose materials which…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Native Speakers, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
McCoy, Leah P., Ed. – Online Submission, 2015
This document presents the proceedings of the 20th Annual Research Forum held June 25, 2015, at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Included are the following 21 action research papers: (1) History Lives! The Use of Simulations in a High School Social Studies Classroom (Lydia Adkins); (2) Using Francophone Music in the High…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Action Research, Simulation, Social Studies

Barth, Rodney J. – English Journal, 1974
Presents a list of resources for teachers and librarians who wish to acquaint themselves with adolescent literature, adolescent reading interests, and approaches to teaching literature to adolescents. (TO)
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Annotated Bibliographies, Bibliographies, Library Material Selection
McLean, Gary N. – 1984
Designed to give the teacher ideas for enlivening and enriching the teaching of business subjects, this publication on teaching keyboarding/typewriting is part of the Rapid Reader series. It begins by differentiating between keyboarding and typewriting and establishing the criteria for making decisions regarding appropriate content and…
Descriptors: Business Education, Course Content, Courseware, Grading