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Radloff, Jeffrey; Capobianco, Brenda M. – Research in Science Education, 2021
The adoption of engineering design-based science teaching requires elementary teachers to modify their current science pedagogy, often resulting in tensions or hard choices they must make in their teaching practice. The purpose of this study is to identify, compare, and characterize the tensions faced by 45 grade 3 and grade 4 elementary teachers…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Engineering Education, Design
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Reichenberg, Jennifer Sharples – Reading Horizons, 2022
This case study of two fourth-grade teachers explored teachers' literacy instructional practices and perceptions of their professional agency during the hybrid synchronous teaching of the COVID-19 pandemic. In anticipation of the challenges of hybrid synchronous instruction, these teachers combined their classes to co-teach 39 students. Analysis…
Descriptors: Professional Autonomy, Expertise, Trust (Psychology), Teacher Administrator Relationship
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Zhang, Jianwei; Sun, Yanqing – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2011
This study looks into the reading practice in a Grade 4 knowledge building community that involved 22 students and a veteran teacher. The students investigated light over a three-month period supported by Knowledge Forum, a networked collaborative knowledge-building environment. The classroom designs encouraged the students to take on high-level…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Computer Mediated Communication, Content Analysis, Grade 4
Solorzano, Sara Georgina – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to explore one Indiana elementary teacher's perceptions of her Latino immigrant students as they become English-language proficient by providing an in-depth analysis of a 4th and 5th grade teacher at a local school. Findings are based on interviews with the focus teacher and with the personnel she works with such as…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Immigrants, Elementary School Students, Teacher Attitudes
Dube, France; Bessette, Lyne; Dorval, Catherine – Online Submission, 2011
This collaborative research was carried out among 197 elementary school students, in the context of a rural Canadian school of the Quebec province. Several students of the school presented learning difficulties, mostly in writing. The teachers and the learning specialist decided to differentiate the groups in special subgroups of needs that met…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Learning Problems, Learning Disabilities, Foreign Countries
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Iddings, Ana Christina DaSilva; Rose, Brian Christopher – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2012
This study draws on the application of sociocultural theory to second-language learning and teaching to examine the impact of a design-based research approach on teacher development and literacy instruction to English-language learners (ELLs). Design-based research methodology was employed to derive theoretical suppositions relating to the process…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Educational Practices, Professional Development, Second Language Instruction
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Mills, Martin; Goos, Merrilyn; Keddie, Amanda; Honan, Eileen; Pendergast, Donna; Gilbert, Rob; Nichols, Kim; Renshaw, Peter; Wright, Tony – Australian Educational Researcher, 2009
This paper identifies the ways in which the Productive Pedagogies framework has been refined as a research tool for evaluating classroom practice within a current study into issues of school reform in Queensland. Initially emerging from the landmark Queensland School Reform Longitudinal Study (1998-2001), the Productive Pedagogies has been taken…
Descriptors: Research Tools, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, School Restructuring
Barrett, Diane; Green, Kris – Science Educator, 2009
Despite the long history of the study of pedagogical content knowledge (PCK), two facts remain obvious. First, there are almost as many conceptions regarding the definition of PCK as there are researchers interested in it. Second, it is largely unclear which methods enable teacher educators to best prepare teacher candidates to use PCK. Recently,…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Reflective Teaching, Teacher Researchers, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Timperley, Helen S.; Parr, Judy M. – Journal of Advanced Academics, 2007
A national literacy professional development project reduced the achievement gap for students experiencing difficulties in reading or writing in 91 of New Zealand's schools. It was based on two premises: coherence within and between the multiple levels of the schooling and educational administration systems, and a focus on evidence-informed…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Administration, Identification, Feedback (Response)
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Bintz, William P.; Dillard, Jill – Reading Horizons, 2007
This article describes findings from a classroom-based action research project conducted by two in-school teachers, a literacy coach and a 4th grade teacher, implementing a new integrated literacy and social studies curriculum and the changes they made in curricular practices and beliefs over a three-year period of time. A university professor…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Teacher Researchers, Research Methodology, Educational Change