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Pieter Verstraete – Routledge Research in Education, 2025
This highly novel book provides an exploration of the role of silence in the school setting and interrogates the value of silence and quiet in contemporary educational practices, looking at pedagogies and classroom practice to guide this increasingly popular subdiscipline of the history of education. Arguably the first contribution written in…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Educational History, Classroom Environment, Educational Practices
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Fevzi Dursun; Ahmet Aykan – SAGE Open, 2025
The aim of this study is to examine teachers' perspectives on enhancing the efficiency of the teaching process and to identify the challenges they face while offering potential solutions. The research was conducted using a qualitative narrative inquiry design to explore teachers' experiences and perspectives deeply. The study group consists of 57…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Educational Strategies, Teaching Methods, Instruction
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Krummheuer, Götz – Theory Into Practice, 2023
This article shares a paper presented as the keynote for the Terry L. Wood Memorial Conference that was held virtually on May 20, 2022. This paper starts with a reference to the project, The Coordination of a Psychological and Sociological Perspective, that was funded by the Spencer Foundation. The results of the research in this project are…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Mathematics Instruction, Persuasive Discourse, Learning Processes
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Samah Mohammed Althalbi; Baraa Adel Rajab – Journal of Education and Learning, 2024
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the sudden shift from face-to-face to virtual learning classrooms impacted students' performance in the classroom, including English as a Foreign Language instruction in Saudi Arabia. Since students' learning depends upon their participation in physical classroom activities and discussions, the present study focuses…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Nye, Susan; Williams, Jacqueline – Strategies: A Journal for Physical and Sport Educators, 2022
Teachers play a critical role in student learning, however effective teaching and learning cannot take place without established rules, procedures, and routines for the classroom. If your goal as a teacher is to help students understand classroom expectations and how to apply these expectations within different situations then just presenting the…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Teaching Methods, Standards, Expectation
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Sølvik, Randi M.; Glenna, Anne E. H. – Journal of Educational Change, 2022
Teachers worldwide are challenged to adjust their teaching to meet students' needs for deeper learning. The lack of mutual understanding among researchers, policymakers and teachers tends to blur the discussion on how to enhance deeper learning through teaching, which further challenges teachers in making changes in their classroom practices. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Experienced Teachers, Teaching Methods, Elementary School Students
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Brayan Díaz; Collin Lynch; Cesar Delgado; Kevin Han – International Journal of STEM Education, 2025
Background: This paper describes research into two pedagogical approaches to foster transdisciplinarity in a graduate engineering course that involves education and computer science. Leveraging the Communities of Practice framework, we examine how students majoring in computer science can integrate new knowledge from education and computer science…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Engineering Education, Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Ian G. Anson – Journal of Political Science Education, 2025
In the modern American politics classroom, ideological and partisan conflict have the capacity to interfere with a healthy classroom environment. This problem is increasingly apparent when students engage questions at the heart of U.S. Constitutional design. By asking students to inhabit fictional roles with preferences and attitudes that may…
Descriptors: Constitutional Law, Design, Classroom Environment, Politics
Woodall, S. Joseph – Liberal Education, 2021
In this article, the author shares his fear that students will become accustomed to an educational experience that lacks joy and fun as a result of the changes made to education due to the COVID-19 pandemic. He and his teaching colleagues have noticed that when students are learning virtually, they act much more as receivers of knowledge than…
Descriptors: Humor, Teaching Methods, Classroom Environment, College Students
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Robertson, Natalie; Yim, Bonnie; Paatsch, Louise – Early Child Development and Care, 2020
Dramatic play is a typical activity that provides many benefits for preschool children's learning and development. This paper presents the findings of a mixed-method study that examined the level of preschool children's involvement in dramatic play and the connection between this involvement and the quality of the classroom environment. The study…
Descriptors: Dramatic Play, Educational Quality, Teaching Methods, Student Participation
Amanda C. Bradford – English Teaching Forum, 2022
The author describes a challenge that is familiar to many language teachers: trying to get students to speak up independently, share thoughts, and participate authentically in the target language. The article includes general and specific tips for creating a comfortable, communicative classroom environment.
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Speech Communication, Classroom Environment, Second Language Learning
Bond, Laura F.; Elias, Maurice J.; Nayman, Samuel J. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2021
In these challenging times, it is essential to activate student voice and prepare them for civic engagement and social action. Social-emotional learning strategies integrated into the social studies curriculum help to accomplish just that. Laura Bond, Maurice Elias, and Samuel Nayman describe the STAT program, which enables students to build both…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Social Emotional Learning, Citizenship Education, Social Action
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Venkatesh, Anil; Bagley, Spencer – PRIMUS, 2022
To address a deteriorating classroom climate at the midpoint of a two-semester course sequence, we employed a novel intervention: reading a research manuscript together with students as an invitation to legitimate peripheral participation in scholarly reflection on teaching and learning. This intervention resolved many student complaints about the…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Intervention, Student Participation, Publications
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Parra, S. Lozano; Wansink, B. G. J.; Bakker, C.; van Liere, L. M. – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2023
Friction in the classroom may create useful tension for teachers when they attempt to discuss sensitive topics as part of democratic learning. Due to the openness and indeterminacy of these topics, students can experience what it is like to be (political) subjects in a diverse society and become aware of other people's subjectness in a charged…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Student Participation, Risk
Glazer, Jeremy – Phi Delta Kappan, 2018
Structured academic discussions can focus too much on academic language to the detriment of actual discussion, disempowering students with the very tools intended to enhance student voice. The author suggests a new goal for such classroom talk: encouraging students to generate ideas and questions that engage their peers by focusing on the…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Classroom Environment, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Student Participation
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