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Ai-Chu Elisha Ding; Pengtong Qu; Krista Glazewski; Haesol Bae; Fatih Ergulec; Hamid Nadir; Thomas Brush – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2021
Problem-based learning (PBL) has been widely incorporated in STEM classrooms. Unfortunately, its effectiveness for foreign language teaching is less explored. This design case describes the design and implementation process of a Chinese PBL unit in a US elementary school along with the design considerations of teaching dilemma-centered…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Problem Based Learning, Instructional Effectiveness
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Freedman, Eric B. – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2020
Background: Despite its numerous benefits, dialogic discussion seldom occurs in secondary history classrooms. To examine ways to promote it, this study compared two ninth-grade classes' productive disciplinary engagement (PDE) in a whole-class discussion on the Gulf of Tonkin incident. Methods: The two class sections were comparable academically…
Descriptors: Discussion (Teaching Technique), History Instruction, Dialogs (Language), Questioning Techniques