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Erin E. Marcotte – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Project-Based Learning (PBL) is a teaching method in which students learn by actively engaging in real-world, personally meaningful projects that allow conceptual transformation to occur within the educational process while fostering intellectual curiosity in a supportive learning environment. PBL supports students developing deep content…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Grade 4, National Competency Tests
Gorman, Vanessa; O'Keeffe, Lisa; Albrecht, Amie; McPhee, Jarrad – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2023
It is well accepted and understood amongst the mathematics education community that numeracy is the responsibility of all teachers, across all levels of schooling. However, the way numeracy is understood and actioned across the Early Childhood, Primary and Secondary contexts is different. This paper reports on a case study of secondary school…
Descriptors: Barriers, Numeracy, Mathematics Instruction, Case Studies
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Fitchett, Paul G.; Heafner, Tina L. – Journal of Teacher Education, 2022
Examining the connections among teacher characteristics, instructional decision-making, and student learning in social studies education are both complicated and contentious. In the current study, we shed light on middle grades social studies teaching and learning--a black hole of research in the subject area. Using data from the National…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Teaching Methods, Decision Making, National Competency Tests
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Hardy, Ian – Oxford Review of Education, 2016
This paper provides insights into non-Indigenous teachers' efforts to engage proactively and productively with students to enhance their learning in a predominantly Indigenous community in northern Queensland, Australia. Drawing upon notions of "funds of knowledge", forms of capital as part of community cultural wealth, Critical Race…
Descriptors: Criticism, Indigenous Populations, Social Capital, Cultural Capital
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Murphy, Daniel – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2016
This study is a literature review to investigate the effects of implementing technology into a high school mathematics classroom. Mathematics has a hierarchical structure in learning and it is essential that students get a firm understanding of mathematics early in education. Some students that miss beginning concepts may continue to struggle with…
Descriptors: Technology Integration, Technology Uses in Education, Literature Reviews, Mathematics
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Parker, Jane – International Journal of Art & Design Education, 2005
Creative intelligence is relevant to all aspects of the school curriculum, yet it is through art and design that pupils may come to experience the significance of creativity as a means of exploring innovative and original ideas which offer credence to the individual and affect approaches to learning. This article analyses creativity and the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Intelligence, Creativity, Curriculum Development
Harding, Ann; Page, Brian – Audio-Visual Language Journal, 1974
An alternative model for the 16+ examinations presently being tested by examining boards is suggested which would allow for differing levels of achievement for different student populations. (RM)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Course Content, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Guides
Harding, Ann; Honnor, Sylvia – Audio-Visual Language Journal, 1974
The advantages of a defined syllabus in second language teaching, especially in relation to public examinations, are discussed. The origin and development of the York defined syllabuses are described, and extracts are given from the introductory document and the French and Russian syllabuses. (RM)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Course Content, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Guides
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Gerber, Michael M. – Journal of Special Education, 1994
This paper urges special educators to be wary of borrowing fashionable rhetoric of postmodernism to justify constructivism in the reform of instruction and curriculum without disentangling accompanying constructs and values. There are higher stakes for special education, particularly in national curriculum and testing reform, that accompany…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Curriculum Development, Disabilities, Educational Change