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Bannister, Nicole A. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This dissertation seeks to understand how teachers learn through interactions in newly formed workplace communities by examining how mathematics teachers engaged in equity-oriented reforms frame problems of practice. It examines how teachers' framings develop over time, and how teachers' shifting frames connect to their learning in a community of…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Student Problems, High School Students, Ethnography
Sapp, Earl – Tennessee Adult Educator, 1976
Teaching techniques which would assist adult education teachers in developing skills in interpersonal relationships among adult students are presented. These techniques focus on the improvement of judgment in the use of defense mechanisms, improvement in the use of personal control systems, and achievement of more effective levels of interpersonal…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Students, Educational Needs, Individual Needs
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Rushdoony, Haig A.; Sanders, Mary Ann – Social Studies Review, 1976
Describes student difficulties with understanding quantitative concepts as presented in selected third grade social studies textbooks. Test results of student accuracy in understanding of quantitative concepts are presented and discussed, and teaching methods for quantitative reinforcement are provided. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Concept Formation, Elementary Education, Number Concepts
Bruns, Jerome H. – American Educator: The Professional Journal of the American Federation of Teachers, 1992
Work inhibition occurs when students have no trouble learning but have difficulty in engaging in the work of school. As many as 20 percent of U.S. public school students may be work inhibited. Reasons for work inhibition and way to combat it are discussed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Child Development, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Whipple, Dennis L., Comp. – 1981
Intended for vocational education teachers, the booklet is designed to provide helpful information to assist teachers in better understanding special needs students in Pinellas County, Florida. Chapter 1 provides definitions, general information on methods of dealing with several categories of handicapping conditions, including mental retardation…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Disturbances
Texas Association of Junior and Community Coll. Instructional Administrators. – 1981
Reports and abstracts are presented for research conducted during 1981 on community college education in Texas. Four institutional research reports are provided first: an evaluation of the effectiveness of the developmental studies program at North Harris County College; a study of retention patterns at Amarillo College by Stanley Adelman and Kay…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Characteristics, Collective Bargaining