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Floress, Margaret T.; Beschta, Shelby L.; Meyer, Kari L.; Reinke, Wendy M. – Behavioral Disorders, 2017
Teacher praise is an effective classroom management tool. Training teachers to increase their use of praise can improve student disruptive and off-task behavior. The purpose of this article is to examine different characteristics of praise and the training methods used in the literature. Training methods with positive treatment acceptability and…
Descriptors: Positive Reinforcement, Teacher Student Relationship, Classroom Techniques, Training Methods
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Palesy, Debra – International Journal of Training Research, 2017
Classroom training sessions for new home care workers (HCWs) are often brief and ad hoc, varying in format and content. Yet the application of this training may be central to worker and client safety. A qualitative approach was adopted for this inquiry, comprising two separate but related practical studies. In the first, exploratory study,…
Descriptors: Workplace Literacy, Career Readiness, Qualitative Research, Intervention
Ledford, Jennifer R.; Zimmerman, Kathleen N.; Harbin, Emilee R.; Ward, Sarah E. – Grantee Submission, 2017
Coaching has been shown to improve the use of evidence-based instructional practices (EBIPs), but relatively few studies have been conducted to assess the effectiveness of coaching for adults belonging to minority groups and paraprofessionals in public elementary school settings. In this study, a multiple probe design across participants was used…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Instructional Improvement, Paraprofessional School Personnel, Elementary Schools
Floress, Margaret T.; Beschta, Shelby L.; Meyer, Kari L.; Reinke, Wendy M. – Grantee Submission, 2017
Teacher praise is an effective classroom management tool. Training teachers to increase their use of praise can improve student disruptive and off-task behavior. The purpose of this article is to examine different characteristics of praise and the training methods used in the literature. Training methods with positive treatment acceptability and…
Descriptors: Positive Reinforcement, Teacher Student Relationship, Classroom Techniques, Training Methods
McGhee, James D., Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Sexual violence is a significant problem on college and university campuses in the United States affecting large percentages of students during their studies and later in life. To confront this alarming issue, the United States Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights issued new guidance under Title IX of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to…
Descriptors: Rape, Disclosure, School Safety, Civil Rights
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Huang, Wenyeh; Ho, Jonathan C. – Interactive Learning Environments, 2018
Considering a company's limited time and resources, an effective training method that improves employees' ability to make ethical decision is needed. Based on social cognitive theory, this study proposes that employing games in an ethics training program can help improve moral reasoning through actively engaging learners. The experimental design…
Descriptors: College Students, Moral Values, Thinking Skills, Learning Strategies
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Fraser, William J. – South African Journal of Education, 2018
It has often been said that any student engagement that is poorly monitored during teaching practice (TP) will not necessarily contribute much to their professional development and teacher identity. This applies specifically to initial undergraduate teacher training. This concern became the main focus of the study on which this article is…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Undergraduate Students, Communities of Practice, Participative Decision Making
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Aldana, Ursula S.; Martinez, Danny C. – Theory Into Practice, 2018
Drawing on 3 years of observational, survey, and interview data, this article highlights the importance of communities of practice (Lave & Wenger, 1991) for school staff members supporting Spanish-speaking, newcomer students in large, comprehensive high schools that often lack the resources to directly support this population. We highlight how…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Spanish Speaking, Faculty Development, Interviews
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Harding, Lindsey; Lane, A. Kelly – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2018
The Five Minute Teach (5MT) serves as both a training tool for graduate teaching assistants (TAs) and a format for explicit discipline-based writing instruction. Here the authors describe the development and execution of the 5MT as part of a professional development course for TAs in the sciences. Specifically, the 5MT uses learning objectives and…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Writing Instruction, Teaching Assistants, Training Methods
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Kilinc, Sultan; Kelley, Michael F.; Millinger, Jenny; Adams, Korbi – Childhood Education, 2016
Every culture has developed some version of performance art. Children especially appreciate performance; their innate openness, forgiveness, and self-love make them delightful performers and audience members. Every time they engage with performance art, children are learning about storytelling, history, sociability, artistry, and physicality.…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Faculty Development, Preschool Teachers, Drama
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Sutarto; Usman, Husaini; Jaedun, Amat – International Education Studies, 2016
This article represents a study aiming at developing: (1) an IBTEM which is capable to promote partnership between training providers and their client institutions, easy to understand, effective, efficient; and (2) an IBTEM implementation guide which is comprehensive, coherent, easy to understand, effective, and efficient. The method used in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Supervisors, Training Methods, Program Evaluation
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Gabdulchakov, Valerian F.; Kusainov, Askarbek K.; Kalimullin, Aydar M. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
The urgency of the problem of designing a new strategy of teacher training due to the reform of education in universities: decrease of pedagogical disciplines, strengthening fundamental (subject) training, etc. The goal of the article lies in identification of the main components of the new strategy of teacher training. A leading approach to the…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Science Teachers, Training Methods, Educational Strategies
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Masalimova, Alfiya R.; Ivanov, Valery G. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
The relevance of the professional competence creation problem declared in the article that complies with current time requirements and specialists, first of all requires facilitation of interaction of the central education chain--the educational institution, with production (that is the personnel's consumer). Thus the problem of organic…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Competency Based Education, Productivity, Content Analysis
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Mason, Lee L.; Andrews, Alonzo; Rivera, Christopher J.; Davis, Don – Global Education Review, 2016
Over the past few years an increasing number of schools and community organizations have developed transformative learning spaces referred to as "MakerSpaces" for research and training purposes. MakerSpaces are organizations in which members sharing similar interests in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) gather to work on…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Student Needs, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Vance, Femi; Salvaterra, Emily; Michelsen, Jocelyn Atkins; Newhouse, Corey – Afterschool Matters, 2016
A skilled workforce is critical in high-quality out-of-school time (OST) programs. However, the workshops commonly used to train OST staff are not adequately preparing practitioners to deliver quality programs that can benefit youth. Professional learning communities (PLCs) are a practice-focused alternative that has a track record of improving…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Communities of Practice, After School Programs, Faculty Development
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