Gardening provides children with hands-on, minds-on, and inquiry science learning. This article describes the benefits of gardening, preparations for gardening with preschoolers using children's books, creation of a garden, and planting a garden. It presents ways in which teachers can look deeper for the practices and experiences that meet the…

How can teachers bring out the author (or graphic novelist, filmmaker, songwriter . . . ) in every student? "Mentoring Youth Writers" outlines six strategies to engage and inspire secondary students and guide them into writing as an authentic and meaningful practice: (1) exploring multimodal forms of writing; (2) inviting choice; (3)…

Recent reforms in undergraduate education have encouraged the use of high-impact and student-centered approaches to teaching and learning over teacherdirected approaches. The use of Undergraduate Research Experiences (UREs) has gained in popularity and research has indicated many positive learning outcomes associated with their use. However, prior…

This study was conducted to develop and evaluate the effectiveness of the Fermi problem approach in enhancing measurement estimation skills in mathematics. Employing an action research design, 24 seventh-grade students (13 girls and 11 boys) from a southern Turkish middle school were selected using criterion sampling. Quantitative data were…

Many people around the globe are aiming to learn the Arabic language, even though it is difficult to learn. Therefore, many online institutions are offering the service of teaching Arabic as a second language to non-native speakers, but these institutions always encounter different issues in enhancing their performance. Thus, this study aimed to…

This article reports a longitudinal case study examining how teachers were empowered to develop their professional capacity to cater for learner diversity through implementing differentiated instruction. Data were collected from multiple sources including lesson co-planning meetings, teacher interviews and lesson observations in a primary school…

Inquiry-based instruction in undergraduate mathematics is commonly characterized by students producing mathematical content (e.g., definitions, theorems, or proofs) rather than consuming it. In this paper, we argue that a production-centered view of inquiry is unnecessarily restrictive and limits the full range of disciplinary activity available…

Critical events are incidents encountered by teachers in their practice that can potentially provoke questions about the instructional decisions made, gaining an entry to changing and improving teaching practices. Current research often conceptualises critical events as those that occur during instruction, but critical events can also occur before…

Research has shown that teaching mathematics through problem posing, or problem-posing based learning (P-PBL), is a student-centered instructional approach that can improve students' cognitive and affective aspects of learning. However, since textbooks continue to include very few opportunities for problem posing, researchers have been working to…

Dyslexia is a developmental word reading and spelling disorder affecting from 6% to 17% of school-age children. Phonological processing deficits--marked by difficulties in representing or accessing the abstract units of spoken language--are widely recognized as a primary cause of reading difficulties in children with dyslexia. These impairments…

Only limited experimental designs for the synthesis of heterocyclic compounds are provided in current widely used Organic Chemistry Experiment textbooks, which cannot meet the practical needs of teaching. Under the concept of green chemistry, this study provides an innovative protocol for the synthesis of a thiazoline heterocycle from…

Narrative-based roleplaying is a mode of active learning that can be integrated into a wide array of educational settings. This paper offers guidelines to create narrative-based role-playing activities to improve learner engagement and educational outcomes. Stories offer unique learning opportunities as they encourage learner participation through…

Research shows that teachers are one of the most influential factors in student learning in online classrooms during the COVID-19 pandemic and discusses teachers' efforts to get the most out of their online classrooms with their students. However, how the teachers experience online teaching is understudied. To address this concern, this case study…

Despite the blurred boundaries among languages and classroom evidence contrary to the implementation of monolingual pedagogies, the dominance of monolingual policies for teaching foreign languages continues to persist. To provide foreign language learners with an appropriate bilingual pedagogy and target one of the most challenging second language…

The Better Start Literacy Approach (BSLA) is a strengths-based approach to supporting children's literacy learning in their first year of school. Previous research has shown the approach is effective at accelerating foundational literacy knowledge in children with lower levels of oral language. This study examined the impact of the BSLA for…