This study explores the enthusiasm of pre-service teachers (PsTs) of English as a foreign language (EFL) in an online collaborative lesson planning (OCLP) in a virtual classroom setting. It employed a narrative inquiry that elicited data by using a narrative journal with the theme of enthusiasm and personal stories delivered in an interview. It…

This research addresses lexical deficits among EFL learners by investigating the pedagogical potential of vocal training with authentic pop songs for multi-word unit acquisition. Drawing on cognitive neuroscience, the study builds on evidence that music enhances brain plasticity and that musical and linguistic syntax share neural processing…

Mathematically gifted students need differentiated tasks in mixed-ability classrooms, and studies evaluating the use of these tasks in classrooms are of crucial importance. Thus, the present study examines how the use of differentiated tasks nurtures mathematically gifted students from the perspectives of mathematics teachers and their gifted…

Background: Achievement goals and self-efficacy are key components of teacher motivation and crucial for teaching quality and student outcomes, yet the processes explaining why they lead to specific teaching behaviours remain unclear. This study focuses on student-oriented goals as a potential process element and construct in its own right. Aims:…

In this study, we explore teacher perspectives on the utility of a formative assessment tool, Teacher RePlay, to support their implementation of learning through play (LTP) activities in classrooms for students age 3 to 12 years in Bangladesh, Colombia, and Uganda. Research suggests that formative assessment tools may be useful to bridge support…

This article offers an approach to supporting elementary students' reading of two children's books about the construction of the White House through read-aloud prompts aligned with the C3 Framework. The authors present two approaches promoted by prominent educational institutions and offer a brief review of their research on children's literature…

This paper starts by addressing a complexity theory and then distinguishing complex systems from complicated systems. After that, the paper addresses a concept study by connecting it with complex systems because a class is considered as a complex system having many students with different constraints, experiences, and perspectives including…

Definitions are fundamental to any mathematics classroom. We consider how definitions are presented in textbooks and instructors' lecture notes, and whether students are positioned to gain a full understanding of new terms. Four textbooks, covering precalculus, calculus, and analysis, as well as three professors' Calculus I lecture notes are…

Beginning teachers are challenged to make concrete the identities they envision for themselves in their practice. We examine how a particular context, the noticing interview, supported a novice teacher's identity work through disciplined awareness to cultivate the inner witness. In a noticing interview, teachers view and discuss video segments…

The use of data to explain natural phenomena has been a core feature of science education, and science educators continue to call for an increased emphasis on teaching data practices. This mixed methods design-based research study adds to the growing body of research on data practices in science by explaining the learning trends of science…

With the onset of COVID-19, colleges and universities moved to emergency remote teaching, and instructors immediately adjusted their curricula. Many instructors adapted or developed new online lessons that they subsequently published as Open Educational Resources (OERs). While much has been examined related to how entire course designs evolved…

Artificial intelligence (AI) text generators, such as ChatGPT and Copilot, have been used for various purposes such as creating written content, writing or debugging computer code, answering questions, providing information, and improving written communication. This robust functionality of AI text generators along with the high rate of use…

Professional teacher collaboration, a fundamental characteristic of lesson study, has been pointed out as a principle of teacher personal and professional growth. This article aims to describe and analyze the development of professional collaboration in a lesson study, highlighting the main stages of this process. The investigation involved six…

The study reported on here was conducted to explore four Grade 7 mathematics teachers' understanding of the relationship between the objectives indicated in the CAPS for teaching different topics/concepts and instructional time stipulated for doing so. Seven lessons were studied in 4 primary schools in the Vhembe district of the Limpopo province,…

Howard, Overstreet, and Ticknor build on the framework they established in their first book "It's Not 'One More Thing'." They extend their practical how-to strategies for enacting culturally responsive and affirming literacy instruction in K-12 classrooms specific to literacy assessment, engaging texts used for literacy instruction, and…