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Kim, Hae Kyoung; Han, Heejeong Sophia – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2015
The current study is an examination of early childhood preservice and in-service teachers' beliefs and self-stated practices about social competence instructional strategies, developmentally appropriate practices (DAP), and the relationship between the two. Teachers in this study generally believed that the social competence instructional…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Preservice Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs
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Stuhr, Paul T.; Sutherland, Sue; Ressler, Jim; Ortiz-Stuhr, Esther M. – Strategies: A Journal for Physical and Sport Educators, 2016
Adventure-based learning (ABL) consists of highly structured physical activity with periods of reflection (i.e., debrief) that help promote personal and social development. It can be used as a valid curriculum in physical education to promote intrapersonal and interpersonal relationships. This type of curriculum can also help physical educators…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Physical Education, Physical Education Teachers, Best Practices
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Howell, Penny B. – Middle Grades Research Journal, 2012
The purpose of this descriptive qualitative study was to examine case study as a pedagogical tool used to scaffold the conceptualization of developmentally responsive pedagogy for middle level preservice teachers in early field experiences. Child study projects (CSP) completed by middle level preservice candidates were analyzed to determine if…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Case Studies, Instructional Materials, Developmentally Appropriate Practices
Pongsanon, Khemmawadee – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Although teacher educators have successfully helped K-12 teachers' develop adequate views of NOS, their views have not been transferred to their students. It is evident that K-12 students' understanding of NOS still does not align with the recommendation of the reforms document, indicating that holding an adequate view of NOS is…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Elementary School Teachers, Reflective Teaching, Elementary School Science
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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
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Hooks, Laura; Duarte, Valerie – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2005
The purpose of the study was to examine the engagement of preservice teachers in the kind of authentic experiences that provided the modeling needed to make high-quality instruction in mathematics a reality for young children. Inasmuch as these preservice teachers had not yet received any formal methods classes in mathematics, the authors…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Effectiveness, Young Children