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Amanda Sciarpelletti – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The longstanding call to prioritize science education has gained momentum, particularly with the noticeable changes aligned with reform-era practices. This quantitative study explored the relationship between policy, time allocation, and teacher practices in elementary science education, guided by constructive learning theory as the theoretical…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Elementary School Students, Correlation, Teaching Methods
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Kym Simoncini; Katy Meeuwissen – Australian Educational Researcher, 2025
Despite the many benefits of play, within primary school, play is often reduced to lunch breaks, particularly as children move to higher grades. Loose parts play affords children opportunities to develop imagination and 21st-century skills (collaboration, communication, creativity and critical thinking). As part of a larger project, two Year 4…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Student Attitudes, Partnerships in Education
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Peltoperä, Kaisu; Vehkakoski, Tanja; Turja, Leena; Laakso, Marja-Leena – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2023
In flexibly scheduled early childhood education and care (ECEC), the timing of care depends on parents' non-standard working hours. Multiple individual schedules and care times in a child group may cause irregularity in a child's daily structures, and a child may miss a standard hour's activities that are led by teachers with a pedagogical…
Descriptors: Flexible Scheduling, Early Childhood Education, Teacher Attitudes, Caregiver Attitudes
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Alison Wellington; Melissa Clark; Alyson Burnett; Susanne James-Burdumy; Libby Makowsky; Stacey Brockman; Dallas Dotter; Mariesa Herrmann; Hanley Chiang – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2024
This appendix is a companion to the report "Evaluation of Departmentalized Instruction in Elementary Schools: Exploring Implementation Experiences." The appendix provides additional information about the study, which sought to explore schools' implementation of departmentalized instruction, teachers' experiences with the strategy, and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Departments, Educational Strategies, School Organization
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Alison Wellington; Melissa Clark; Alyson Burnett; Susanne James-Burdumy; Libby Makowsky; Stacey Brockman; Dallas Dotter; Mariesa Herrmann; Hanley Chiang – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2024
Assigning upper elementary grade teachers to teach their strongest subjects to multiple classes ("departmentalizing"), rather than teaching all subjects to a single class, ("self-contained instruction") could mean more specialized instructional expertise in the classroom or focus for teacher planning time and professional…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Departments, Educational Strategies, School Organization
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Rachael Blasiman; Sheren Elsayed-Farag; Kristine Harrington – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2024
Hyflex describes a course format that combines both online and in-person elements, allowing students the flexibility to attend class in person, participate remotely in real-time (synchronously), or complete all coursework at their own pace (asynchronously). This study was conducted to explore student and instructor experiences with Hyflex…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, In Person Learning, Electronic Learning, Student Attitudes
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Thapaliya, Mukti – New Zealand Journal of Teachers' Work, 2023
This descriptive qualitative study explores lecturers' perspectives on Emergency Remote Teaching (ERT) in New Zealand Tertiary Education Institutions (TEIs) during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. Through in-depth semi-structured interviews with the five purposively selected lecturers from four TEIs, this article investigates the challenges and…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, College Faculty, Pandemics, COVID-19
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Dalgin-Eyiip, Ozlem; Ulke-Kurkcuoglu, Burcu – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2021
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of using video-enhanced activity schedules on a laptop on the acquisition, maintenance, and generalization of schedule following, and pretend play skills in children with ASD. In addition, social validity data were collected from the teachers and the mothers of the participating children. Four…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Learning Activities, Play
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Kern, Ben D.; Graber, Kim C.; Woods, Amelia Mays; Templin, Tom – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2019
Physical education teachers have been criticized for not implementing progressive or innovative instruction resulting in enhanced student knowledge and skills for lifetime participation in physical activity. Purpose: To investigate how teachers with varying dispositions toward change perceive socializing agents and teaching context as barriers to…
Descriptors: Physical Education Teachers, Educational Change, Physical Activities, Teacher Attitudes
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Gregory MacKinnon; Tyler MacLean – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2023
The pandemic of 2020 frequently necessitated that offshore school teachers continue their instruction of Chinese children in the online format rather than face-to-face back in China; a so-called emergency remote teaching response. A required change in pedagogy accompanied a range of challenges in an effort to offer quality education to English as…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Barriers
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Cha, H. J.; Ahn, M. L. – Interactive Learning Environments, 2020
The aim of this study is to design and develop a user-centered, smart-tool prototype that could be used to assist teachers to practice differentiated instruction (DI) in their classrooms. This study also demonstrates how user-centered design process for the development of teacher's tools might be useful to identify system features and to…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Individualized Instruction, Student Centered Learning, Instructional Design
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Maksum, Hasan; Yuvenda, Dori; Purwanto, Wawan – Journal of Turkish Science Education, 2022
The purpose of this research was to ascertain whether there had been any improvement in students' metacognitive and critical thinking skills through the development of the 'Teaching Factory Based on Troubleshooting' (TEFA-T) model in automotive vocational learning. The research had both quantitative and qualitative components and applied the 4D…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Troubleshooting, Metacognition, Critical Thinking
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Mansbach, Jessica; Austin, Ann E. – Innovative Higher Education, 2018
Students' demand for online learning continues. At the same time, results of multiple studies from the early 2000s through the present day point to a set of common concerns that may explain faculty members' hesitation and resistance to online teaching. However, less is known about how faculty members experience online teaching, especially the…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Faculty Development, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods
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Bauml, Michelle; Patton, Mary Martin; Rhea, Deborah – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2020
Recess in the United States is decidedly limited in elementary schools, despite numerous research findings that support unstructured play as a vehicle for development across multiple domains. It is widely understood that recess breaks promote prosocial behaviors, physical activity, and attentiveness in class. However, few researchers in the United…
Descriptors: Recess Breaks, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Time Management
Houston Independent School District, 2020
In November 2019, the Legislative Budget Board published a management and performance review of the Houston Independent School District. Among its recommendations was one that concerned professional development for teachers of English learners (ELs). Specifically, the report recommended: "[S]urveying teachers of ELs to determine where they…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, English Language Learners, Teacher Competencies, Teacher Attitudes
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