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Andrew Kwok; Joseph Waddington; Jenna Davis; Sara Halabi; Debbee Huston; Rita Hemsley – American Journal of Education, 2025
Purpose: Asset-based pedagogy (ABP) values what students bring to the classroom and is responsive to their individual needs. Yet teachers, particularly beginners, fail to integrate these types of strategies throughout K-12 classrooms. It is imperative to explore to what extent beginning teachers understand ABP as well as the variation within who…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Beginning Teachers, Student Needs, Individual Needs
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Elaine Khoo; Linda Mitchell; Maria Sammons – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
Creative and innovative reflective methods are important to prompt and sustain alternative and novel ways for teachers to consider their professional identity and practice. Digital storytelling is one such method that enables the sharing of valued events including narratives of lived experience. This paper reports on a case study investigating…
Descriptors: Migrant Children, Refugees, Children, Electronic Publishing
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Luria, Sarah R.; Kaufman, James C. – Psychology in the Schools, 2017
This paper reviews the relationship between creativity and equitable thinking and the individual differences in personality, demographic, and experiential factors that influence both concepts as they affect each other. Given the nationwide push to increase equity in public schools, interventions beyond teaching about equity are becoming…
Descriptors: Correlation, Creativity, Individual Differences, Personality Traits
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Fender, C. Melissa; Stickney, Lisa T. – Management Teaching Review, 2017
Group and team class decision-making activities often focus on demonstrating that "two heads are better than one." Typically, students solve a problem or complete an assessment individually, then in a group. Generally, the group does better and that is what the students learn. However, if that is all such an activity conveys, then a…
Descriptors: Group Activities, Group Dynamics, Cooperative Learning, Participative Decision Making
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Cox, Charles T., Jr. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2015
A modified model of cooperative learning known as the GIG model (for group-individual-group) designed and implemented in a large enrollment freshman chemistry course. The goal of the model is to establish a cooperative environment while emphasizing greater individual accountability using both group and individual assignments. The assignments were…
Descriptors: Accountability, Chemistry, Class Activities, Teamwork
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Lynch, Kathleen; Star, Jon R. – Mathematical Thinking and Learning: An International Journal, 2014
Despite extensive scholarship about the importance of teaching mathematics with multiple strategies in the elementary grades, there has been relatively little discussion of this practice in the middle and high school levels or in the context of introductory algebra. This article begins our exploration of this practice by addressing the following…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Mathematics Instruction, Educational Strategies, Teaching Methods
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Cruz, Luz M.; Petersen, Susan C. – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance (JOPERD), 2011
Diversity is defined as differences in groups of people and individuals based on ethnicity, race, language, socioeconomic status, gender, sexual orientation, exceptionalities, and religion. Each of these aspects of diversity is a "culture" in and of itself. The goal of physical education teachers is to become "culturally responsive teachers" and…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Activities, Physical Education Teachers, Student Diversity
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Fee, Anthony; Budde-Sung, Amanda E. K. – Journal of Management Education, 2014
This article presents the findings of an exploratory study into the perceptions of a culturally and linguistically diverse cohort of management students (n = 236) about the use of video as a teaching and learning tool. The results show that while students are generally favorable toward audiovisual materials, the choice of content, how the medium…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Multimedia Instruction, Multimedia Materials, Teaching Methods
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Shippen, Margaret E.; Flores, Margaret M.; Crites, Steven A.; Patterson, DaShaunda; Ramsey, Michelle L.; Houchins, David E.; Jolivette, Kristine – International Journal of Special Education, 2011
The purpose of this study was to investigate the differential classroom structure and efficacy reported by general and special educators at the elementary and secondary level. General and special educators (n = 774, return rate of 37%) from a large school district in the southeast US participated in the study. The participants completed a modified…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Teacher Effectiveness, Disabilities, Multivariate Analysis
Adams, Caralee – Instructor, 2007
When you think ADHD, do you think boy? You're not alone. Boys are three times more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD, even though they're no more likely to have it. Too many young girls are not getting the help they need. That's why teachers are so important. When it comes to learning disabilities, teachers are right there on the front line.…
Descriptors: Cues, Females, Learning Disabilities, Males
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Pierce, Rebecca L.; Adams, Cheryll M. – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2005
This article describes a step-by-step procedure to differentiate instruction through tiered lessons. (Contains 3 figures.)
Descriptors: Mathematics, Educational Strategies, Teaching Methods, Mathematics Teachers
Lademann, Norbert – Fremdsprachenunterricht, 1975
Sketches some English class-hours that were observed and offers analysis and criticism. It is pointed out that teaching-plan goals are, in practice, interpreted quite differently by different teachers, and that this fact is reflected in the preparation and performance of the units of instruction. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)
Descriptors: Comprehension, Educational Objectives, Educational Planning, Educational Strategies
Journal for Vocational Special Needs Education, 2006
This article presents the results on the effects of professional development in context by examining how much average change over time there is in different dimensions of teaching practice. In particular, three years of data on teaching practice are used to describe trends and differences across teachers and schools in the three broad aspects of…
Descriptors: National Standards, Teaching Methods, Educational Trends, Trend Analysis
Dunn, Rita – 1995
Research supports the belief that most students can learn, but each child concentrates, processes, absorbs, and remembers new and difficult information in a different way. Teaching failing students in ways that complement their learning styles increases their standardized test scores in several academic areas. Instructional practices useful with…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Cognitive Style, Educational Strategies, Elementary Education
Alomyan, Hesham – International Education Journal, 2004
In the past ten years the Web has attracted many educators for purposes of teaching and learning. The main advantage of the Web lies in its non-linear interaction. That is, students can have more control over their learning paths. However, this freedom of control may cause problems for some students, such as disorientation, cognitive overload and…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Internet, Teacher Educators, Teaching Methods
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