This study examines the factors affecting the development of specialized proficiencies among English language teachers via a Lesson Study methodology. This action research involved four secondary school English teachers in Turkey. While many studies have focused on general teaching practices, there is a notable gap in research specifically…

An essential resource for trainee teachers and graduate students, this textbook presents strategies and practical advice for preparing and planning lessons in a clear, step-by-step way and demonstrates how to inspire confidence and competence in language learners. Chapters cover many important aspects of initial teacher training including skills…

This paper presents an experience in which Lesson Studies (LS) are viewed as a lever for improving university teaching in Spain. The expansion of the LS model in the West is an indication of its value for improving teaching and provides us with different interpretations and variations of it. We will describe a process of Participatory Lesson Study…

Teacher preparation programs are essential to ensure pre-service teachers are equipped with the skills and knowledge necessary to teach in the PK-12 learning environment, but are rooted in a traditional paradigm of a compacted curriculum with little room for more content. The addition of Computational Thinking (CT) becomes one more thing to add to…

We investigate how an inquiry-oriented, dynamic, open-source calculus textbook shaped one college instructor's planning. We rely on Dietiker et al.'s [(2018). Research commentary: Curricular noticing: A framework to describe teachers' interactions with curriculum materials. "Journal for Research in Mathematics Education," 49(5), 521-532.…

By highlighting the curriculum modifications that lead to maintaining, or enhancing, the mathematical quality of an algebra lesson introducing the substitution method for solving systems of equations from an algebra textbook, we present an analysis of how a teacher and her students impact how the mathematical ideas unfold across the lesson and how…

This study aimed to investigate preservice science teachers' views of distance STEM education and the related lesson-planning process. The study was designed as a qualitative case study. Study participants comprised 22 senior preservice science teachers from a public university in the Western Black Sea area of Turkey during the 2019-2020 academic…

In this study, support for teaching data literacy in social studies is provided through the design of a pedagogical support system informed by participatory design sessions with both pre-service and in-service social studies teachers. It provides instruction on teaching and learning data literacy in social studies, examples of standards-based…

Being outdoors encourages content creativity, inclusion of new ideas and perspectives, student voice and agency, authentic contextualization, and connection to nature. In this article, the authors share why integrating mathematics and nature is beneficial for both students and teachers, provide an example of a middle-grades lesson taught outside,…

Implementing culturally responsive teaching is helpful when singing songs in different languages in the general music classroom. Two main hurdles exist when planning music lessons that include songs in different languages--maintaining musical authenticity and overcoming language barriers. One must then find a way to balance an aim for authenticity…

This research aimed to collect the experiences and opinions of pre-service mathematics teachers on the use of maps in mathematics teaching. The case study design, a qualitative research design, was used in the research. Eight volunteer pre-service teachers attending the primary school mathematics teaching program of a state university in the…

The ITEEA's Council for Technology and Engineering Teacher Education (CTETE) Curriculum Committee solicited, collected, and analyzed several examples of international lesson plans to find out how various countries understand and/or apply the "Standards for Technological and Engineering Literacy: The Role of Technology and Engineering in STEM…

This study explores the experiences of two teachers participating in professional development workshops focused on supporting implementation of SocioScientific Issues (SSI) and aspects of social justice into STEM classrooms. SSI are ill-defined problems, with a basis in science, but necessarily include moral and ethical decisions that cannot be…

Fostering students' bidirectional conception of the equal sign (viewing the equal sign as indicating an equivalence of two sides rather than a 'show result' symbol) is challenging, and students' misconception of the equal sign is persistent. Some studies mention that in China, the pedagogical approach to introducing the equal sign supports…

Incorporating visual representations, rather than strictly relying on symbolic representations, is a research-based strategy for supporting fraction learning. However, students must also make transitions between visual and symbolic fraction representations to apply the conceptual understanding they gained from visual representations to symbolic…