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Elissa Milto; Chelsea Andrews; Merredith Portsmore; Christopher Wright – Eye on Education, 2025
"Introducing Engineering to K-8 Students" will provide you with the tools you need to incorporate engineering design into your classroom. Rather than prescribing a specific curriculum to follow, this book will help you engage your students with hands-on, open-ended engineering design problems that can be easily integrated into your…
Descriptors: Engineering, Design, Middle School Teachers, Elementary School Teachers
Zwozdiak-Myers, Paula – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012
What do we mean by reflective practice? What does it involve? How can it help you develop as a teacher? "The Teacher's Reflective Practice Handbook" is an essential source of advice, guidance and ideas for both student and practising teachers. Helping you to translate pedagogical knowledge into practice, this "Handbook" guides you through studying…
Descriptors: Evidence, Classroom Research, Problem Based Learning, Classroom Environment
Fogarty, Robin – 1997
Some educators suggest that schools shift their teaching paradigm to one of environments in which students take command of their own education, wherein learning is more authentic and students can do what Piaget suggests learning results from--acting upon reality. This book outlines six curricular models based on Gardner's multiple intelligences…
Descriptors: Case Method (Teaching Technique), Classroom Environment, Cognitive Style, Curriculum Development
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Wilkerson, LuAnn – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1996
A model of classroom characteristics and interaction is used to examine the roles of group size, problem types, and student behaviors, central concerns in problem-based learning, in medical education. The model incorporates six classroom dimensions, including four process variables (classroom organization, learning task, teacher's instruction,…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques
Stepanek, Jennifer – 1999
This booklet offers teachers a variety of strategies and resources for providing different levels of content and activities that will challenge all students, including gifted learners. It begins by discussing evolving definitions of giftedness and theories of intelligence. Means of identifying gifted students and indicators of mathematical and…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Ability Identification, Academically Gifted, Classroom Environment
Barell, John – 1995
This text, designed for both preservice and inservice educators, promotes critical thinking and problem solving across the curriculum. Chapter 1 presents information from personal observations and national studies to support the conclusion that educators need to spend more time creating environments that foster thoughtfulness. Chapter 2 defines…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Curriculum Design, Educational Change, Educational Practices