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Colburn, Alan – Educational Leadership, 2004
Inquiry-based instruction teaching helps students to think independently and scientifically, which in turn enables problem solving ability in them. Different approaches to encourage inquiry-based instructions like verification approach, and discovery approach are discussed by matching the background knowledge and reasoning skills among the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Problem Solving, Inquiry, Thinking Skills
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Brooks, Jacqueline Grennon – Educational Leadership, 1990
Educators must understand two opposing traditions in education, the mimetic and the transformative. Whereas traditional lesson structuring stresses concept introduction, constructivism emphasizes exploration. To constructivists, teachers strike the delicate balance between teaching for fact and skill acquisition and teaching for independent and…
Descriptors: Conventional Instruction, Creative Teaching, Discovery Learning, Elementary Secondary Education
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Raphael, Jacqueline; Greenberg, Richard – Educational Leadership, 1995
Teachers participating in the Image Processing for Teaching Process, begun at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory in 1989, find this technology ideal for encouraging student discovery, promoting constructivist science or math experiences, and adapting in classrooms. Because image processing is not a computerized text, it…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Discovery Learning, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education
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Kagan, Dona – Educational Leadership, 1993
Education professor's intimate look at teaching through two high school teachers' eyes revealed gap between theory and practice. Instead of using student-centered pedagogical strategies they learned at University of Alabama, teachers ran traditional teacher-centered classrooms. Both taught to standardized tests and used mandated curricula. Felt…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cooperative Learning, Discovery Learning, High Schools
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Duck, Lloyd – Educational Leadership, 2000
To enhance effectiveness, teachers should analyze memories of successful learning experiences and teachers, share enthusiasm about their subject with students, blend plans for professional and personal growth, choose appropriate teaching and classroom-management styles, develop portfolios charting progress, participate in support groups, and build…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Classroom Techniques, Discovery Learning, Elementary Secondary Education
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Hawkins, Joanna – Educational Leadership, 2006
When the author and her teaching colleague assessed their 7th and 8th grade students' research papers, they realized that although the papers demonstrated proper structure, the students had not gained meaningful understanding of their topics. Although the teachers had carefully prepared students to write, they had not ensured that students had…
Descriptors: Research Papers (Students), Discovery Learning, Comprehension, Learning Strategies
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Burns, Marilyn – Educational Leadership, 2005
The author, an experienced teacher and teacher educator, describes how she has learned to incorporate assessment purposefully into every mathematics lesson she teaches. Such an approach, she writes, tells her whether the lesson was accessible to all students while challenging the more capable, what the students learned and still need to know, how…
Descriptors: Tests, Summative Evaluation, Classroom Techniques, Educational Strategies