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Inquiry Is Social Studies: An Action-Oriented Inquiry Loop for Third Grade
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Kathy Swan; Nick Stamoulacatos – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2025
Inquiry is the essence of social studies, and inquiry "looping" in social studies curricula means offering students opportunities to engage in inquiry in regular intervals and in a coherent fashion within and across grade levels. This can benefit the youngest students since they are filled with hope and want to make a difference in the…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Active Learning, Inquiry, Curriculum
Pedagogical Practices among Teachers of Different Demographics and Dispositions toward Change: Results of a Multi-Region Survey of U.S. Physical Educators
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Kern, Ben D.; Wilson, Wesley J.; Malinowski, Paul; Wallhead, Tristan – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2023
Purpose: To examine the current pedagogical practices among physical educators with different dispositions toward the change process and belonging to different demographic categories. We hypothesized that change-disposed, nonchange-disposed, and neutral change disposition teachers, along with teachers of different gender identities and student…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Change
Assessing Impacts of "Math in Focus," a "Singapore Math" Program
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Jaciw, Andrew P.; Hegseth, Whitney Michelle; Lin, Li; Toby, Megan; Newman, Denis; Ma, Boya; Zacamy, Jenna – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2016
This study investigates, through a cluster randomized trial, the impact of "Math in Focus," a core mathematics program modeled after instructional approaches used in Singapore, on third- through fifth-grade students' achievement in mathematics. The program is currently being used in more than 400 school districts in the United States.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Randomized Controlled Trials, Mathematics Instruction, Grade 3
Conversation and Control: Emergent Progressive Pedagogy in the Last of Nebraska's One-Teacher Schools
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Swidler, Stephen A. – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 2005
This article describes the teaching practices at Upper Rill School, a 1-teacher school in rural Nebraska. With its 8 students, grades 1 through 8, the teacher considers the school?s size and continuity of student enrollment flexible and generative. Subject matter and grade levels are regularly integrated though common curricula. Instruction is…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Enrollment, One Teacher Schools, Rural Schools
Instructional Factors in Effective Schools: A Review of the Research. Revised.
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Stedman, Lawrence C. – 1986
This review of the effective schools literature focuses on six teaching factors: the nature of instructional materials, lower versus higher order skills, classroom reinforcement practices, teacher selection, teacher training, and individual versus whole-group instruction. Different from earlier studies, the review concentrates on specific…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Curriculum, Elementary Secondary Education, Group Instruction
Indian Educational Material: October-December 1968. Volume 3, Number 2.
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Das Gupta, A. K., Ed.; And Others – 1968
This 185-item bibliography with English abstracts of books and articles of recent years on various aspects of Indian education includes a special section on women's education. Emphasis is placed on educational psychology, examination and evaluation (teacher and student), policy and planning, teaching methods, and special education. Less extensive…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Curriculum, Education, Educational Methods