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Afreen, Asma – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2023
Although a range of studies suggest that translation is a valuable pedagogical tool for language learning, the process of translation has not been adequately investigated. Further, the identity of the translator is invisible in much research on translation. To address these gaps in the field, the author draws on a self-study of her translation of…
Descriptors: Translation, Self Concept, Second Language Learning, Multilingualism
Gonzalez-Fuentes, Mario; Robertson, Kim R.; Davis, J. Charlene – Marketing Education Review, 2021
As educators we strive to facilitate knowledge and ways of learning that serve students throughout their lives, but we also recognize their sometimes short retention span. The innovation we present in this article consists of the use of digital storytelling as a conduit for students to construct a narrative of their experience in a marketing…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Decision Making, Marketing, Story Telling
Bennett, Kevin L. – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2018
The Monty Hall Dilemma (MHD), made famous by the television game show Let's Make a Deal, can be an effective teaching tool with wide ranging behavioral science applications. The format and history of the problem are presented as well as experimental data and variations on the original design. Strategic game playing choices are discussed from…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Decision Making, Probability, Educational Games
Blijlevens, Janneke – Journal of Marketing Education, 2023
Marketers and designers are likely to work together on innovation teams as they both have customer satisfaction as their end goals. Collaboration between these disciplines in innovation teams is often impaired due to the different thought-worlds that drive decision making: intuitive versus rational. To facilitate collaboration between design and…
Descriptors: Marketing, Teaching Methods, Design, Guidelines
Tosuncuoglu, Irfan – International Journal of Higher Education, 2018
Developing the ability to think critically is vital component of real, meaningful teaching and learning. Critical thinking helps us solve problems, make decisions and reach our goals. Thinking is not a passive but an active process. If students' critical thinking skills are activated, for example while writing, very successful results can be…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Teaching Methods, Problem Solving
Dooly, Melinda; Masats, Dolors; Mont, Maria – Journal of Technology and Science Education, 2021
To promote social consciousness and a sense of responsibility, educational proposals organised around the principles of technology-enhanced project-based language learning (Dooly & Sadler, 2016) should engage students in a process of reflecting upon and responding to crucial social issues. Thus, in this paper we will present a project carried…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Consciousness Raising, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Cengiz, Mehmet Sirin; Sarigoz, Okan; Donger, Ahmet – Online Submission, 2015
Brainstorming is a teaching method covering concepts such as critical thinking, decision taking, putting forward proposals for a solution to a problem, generating ideas and creative thinking. Through this method, students can hypothesize about the events, analyze events, make connections between topics, and reach accurate, reliable and definitive…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Brainstorming, Teaching Methods
Adanali, Rukiye – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2018
In this study, views of students about the applicability of the digital documentary production through fieldwork model and the effect of it on their problem-solving skills were examined. The study was conducted in Turkey, in 2016-2017 spring term with 15 geography teacher candidates who chosen by convenience sampling method. In this study, within…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Problem Solving, Effect Size, Creative Thinking
Burke, Lynsey A.; Williams, Joanne M.; Skinner, Don – Research in Education, 2007
The study reported in this article examines primary teachers' understandings of thinking skills within the curriculum. All respondents were from primary schools within a local authority in central Scotland, and in total thirty-six schools were represented. Practitioners' perceptions were explored by analysing their quantitative responses to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Thinking Skills, Teaching Methods, Elementary School Teachers

Weiss, Steve; Kinney, Mark; And Others – Social Studies, 1980
This article discusses techniques for integrating real problem solving and decision making into secondary social studies programs. Approaches to creative problem solving are presented, and various systematic decision making programs currently available for classroom use are identified. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Decision Making, Problem Solving, Secondary Education
Dalton, Michael; Dodd, Jennifer – 1986
The purpose of this study was to learn about teachers' thinking processes as they attempted to implement in their classrooms two recently acquired models of teaching. The first, the concept attainment strategy, focused on having students categorize people, places, or events into classes according to certain cues provided by positive or negative…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Creative Thinking, Decision Making, Teacher Behavior
Adams, Harvey B. – Gifted Education International, 1986
Among ways suggested for teaching problem solving strategies are to select problem situations appropriate to the learner and to encourage learning from errors. A problem solving process which can be used with young children includes the components of formulation; interpretation; generation; decision making; implementation; evaluation; and…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Development, Creative Thinking, Decision Making
Heiman, Marcia, Ed.; Slomianko, Joshua, Ed. – 1987
This book is a collection of essays on thinking skills instruction and includes the following chapters and their authors: "Encounter with Thinking" (H. Anderson); "Thinking Skills: Neither an Add-on nor a Quick Fix" (A. Costa); "Teaching for Thinking, of Thinking, and about Thinking" (J. McTighe); "Thinking and…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking, Curriculum Development, Decision Making

Allen, Rodney F. – History and Social Science Teacher, 1985
Classroom strategies for helping secondary social studies students develop the following types of creative thinking are suggested: (1) the ability to generate alternative courses of action or alternative solutions in a problem solving situation; (2) the ability to perceive and predict consequences; and (3) the ability to perceive analogies. (RM)
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Conflict Resolution, Creative Thinking, Creativity
Frangenheim, Eric – Paul Chapman Publishing, 2005
The major purpose of this book is to introduce teachers (and by that the author means all types of teachers-classroom teachers, administrators, teacher aids, parents and coaches) to various individual and group thinking strategies related to specific questions and activities. This guide is a personal interpretation and critique of those strategies…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Learning, Creative Thinking, Evaluative Thinking