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Cormas, Peter C. – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2017
Preservice teachers in six sections (n = 87) of a sequenced, methodological and process-integrated elementary mathematics/science methods course were able to reconcile an issue centered on a similar area of epistemology. Preservice teachers participated in a science inquiry lesson on biological classification and a mathematics problem-solving…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes, Epistemology, Integrated Curriculum
Leonard, Gerard; Allen, Kathleen – NAMTA Journal, 2013
Gerard Leonard and Kathleen Allen describe a variety of nature experiences as a part of the Montessori elementary tradition, beginning with a warning about the way contemporary life constrains children's experience of nature. Through a lyrical rendering of the nature-based expressions of children, Leonard and Allen look at a variety of approaches…
Descriptors: Montessori Method, Montessori Schools, Elementary Education, Natural Resources
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Kalder, Robin S.; Lesik, Sally A. – Issues in the Undergraduate Mathematics Preparation of School Teachers, 2011
This study describes a series of latent class analyses used to classify pre-service teachers based on their responses to questions on a survey regarding their attitudes and beliefs about mathematics. Results identified the pre-service teachers with the most positive attitudes and beliefs towards mathematics. Belief measures regarding confidence,…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Classification, Feedback (Response), Surveys
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Kizilaslan, Aydin; Sozbilir, Mustafa; Yasar, M. Diyaddin – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2012
Inquiry-based learning [IBL] enhances students' critical thinking abilities and help students to act as a scientist through using scientific method while learning. Specifically, inquiry as a teaching approach has been defined in many ways, the most important one is referred to nature of constructing knowledge while the individuals possess a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Content Analysis, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills
Cheatham, Tresa – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The study focused on the problem of poor academic performance in elementary schools by examining the relationship between principals' leadership behaviors and student achievement outcomes and the extent to which these behaviors differ according to the poverty and performance characteristics of the school. A review of the effective schools…
Descriptors: Poverty, Academic Achievement, Rating Scales, Program Effectiveness
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Dutro, Elizabeth; Collins, Kathleen – Research in the Teaching of English, 2011
In this article, we share findings from our process of "reading the past, writing the future" of elementary research in NCTE's journals. Our analysis focused on major domains of the field, including literature, writing, reading, language, and multimodal literacies, and spanned "Elementary English Review", which first appeared in 1924, was renamed…
Descriptors: Literacy, Research, Elementary Education, Literature Reviews
Weakley, Kevin Douglas – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study examined the effectiveness of two geography courses at improving student spatial thinking skills. Spatial thinking is an important cognitive skill in the sciences and everyday life. A taxonomy of spatial thinking was constructed by Gersmehl (2008) in geography education which included core modes assessed in this study: comparison,…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Geography Instruction, Elementary Education, Geography
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Sunal, Cynthia Szymanski; Kelley, Lynn A.; Sunal, Dennis W. – Journal of Social Studies Research, 2009
How elementary pre-service teacher candidates with considerable experience in clinical field placements identified, photographed, discussed, and categorized samples of what they construed as democratic citizenship education occurring within elementary classrooms was explored in this study. Candidates discussed an initial set of captioned photos…
Descriptors: Methods Courses, Photography, Teacher Education Curriculum, Citizenship
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Kaldi, Stavroula – Educational Studies, 2009
This study focuses upon identifying and classifying prospective teachers' perceptions of self-competence in teaching after a four-year university course on primary education and the relationship between their personal well-being, views, emotions and stress about teaching and their teaching competencies during their undergraduate school teaching…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Teaching Skills, Teaching Methods, Student Teacher Attitudes
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Akrofi, Amma K.; Swafford, Jeanne; Janisch, Carole; Liu, Xiaoming; Durrington, Vance – Childhood Education, 2008
In this article, the authors begin with what they believe is an implicit endorsement of an integration orientation toward acculturation. Literature may be used to help students understand the implicit nature of culture. Inspired by such scholars as Clayton (1996, 2003) and based on a content analysis of 134 books, the authors identify and describe…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Acculturation, Content Analysis, Immigrants
Mealy, Virginia; And Others – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 1987
Three articles describe methods for teaching library skills. The first presents a song used to teach students the Dewey Decimal system; the second describes a reading program incorporating Halloween and foreign countries; and the third includes short poems designed to teach students to care for library books properly. (CLB)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Classification, Dewey Decimal Classification, Elementary Education
Reis, Sally M. – Learning, 1990
To begin formal thinking skills instruction teachers need a plan which consists of a taxonomy of skills, a timetable, and effective teaching techniques. This article presents a condensed version of an existing in-place taxonomy and a scope and sequence timetable which can serve as a guideline for teachers. (IAH)
Descriptors: Classification, Elementary Education, Teaching Methods, Thinking Skills
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Whitehead, David – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2008
Criteria for the design and selection of literacy and thinking tools that allow educators to justify what they do are described within a wider framework of learning theory and research into best practice. Based on a meta-analysis of best practice, results from a three year project designed to evaluate the effectiveness of a secondary school…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Literacy Education
Carnine, Douglas – Phi Delta Kappan, 1990
The doctrine of localized brain functions has strongly influenced many educators. Gerald Edelman's recent research challenges this doctrine by advancing categorization and recategorization as the brain's overriding activities. Instruction that focuses overmuch on similarities is misguided and confusing. Instead, classroom instruction should employ…
Descriptors: Classification, Elementary Education, Individual Differences, Learning Processes
McCabe, Don – 1982
The author explains the five-pronged approach to reading and spelling through classifying words into "simple,""fancy,""insane,""tricky," and "scrunched up" categories, and reports average gains of two grade levels in one semester by junior high school students with severe behavioral problems who learned the approach. Examples of the five word…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Classification, Elementary Education, Phonetics
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