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Diana Owen – Grantee Submission, 2024
Project-based learning (PBL) is an instructional approach that provides civics, social studies, and American government students with the opportunity to actively and cooperatively engage with real-world issues and situations. Students typically identify a problem in their community or school, research the problem and policy-based solutions,…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Active Learning, Social Studies, Citizen Participation
Goos, Merrilyn; Ní Ríordáin, Máire; Faulkner, Fiona; Lane, Ciara – Irish Educational Studies, 2023
Out-of-field teaching refers to the practice of assigning teachers to teach subjects that do not match their training or education. This paper reports on a study evaluating the impact of a national professional development programme for out-of-field teachers of post-primary school mathematics in Ireland -- the Professional Diploma in Mathematics…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Career Change, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Teachers
Ardito, Gerald; Czerkawski, Betül; Scollins, Lauren – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2020
Problem-solving and critical thinking are considered important skills to be developed by students, and are supported by the development of Computational Thinking (CT) skills. This study investigated the collaborative development of CT skills in sixth grade students via a six week LEGO robotics program. This robotics program focused on the…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Thinking Skills, Middle School Students, Robotics
Zhong, Baichang; Li, Tingting – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2020
In Robotics Education (RE), the hands-on experience with troubleshooting problems is seen as a good catalyst to enhance the participants' problem-solving skills. Based on the pedagogical technique of collaborative learning and pair programming, pair learning is an emerging and potential method in RE, which means that students collaborate in pairs…
Descriptors: Robotics, Troubleshooting, Problem Solving, Teaching Methods
Selby, Samantha T.; Cruz, Austin R.; Ardoin, Nicole M.; Durham, William H. – Environmental Education Research, 2020
This mixed-methods study examines an informal place- and community-based environmental education program implemented for rural, underserved high school students in Costa Rica's bio-culturally diverse Osa Peninsula. Using a community-as-pedagogy framework built on Paulo Freire's concept of a problem-posing education, we investigate how…
Descriptors: Place Based Education, Environmental Education, Rural Areas, High School Students
Parker, David; Lindekilde, Lasse – Education Sciences, 2020
Governments across the West have invested significant resources in preventing radicalization, and strategies to prevent and counter violent extremism (P/CVE) are increasingly prominent within wider counter-terrorism policies. However, we know little about their effects, especially about projects that utilize former extremists to counter extremist…
Descriptors: Prevention, Violence, Antisocial Behavior, Intervention
Wilkins, Julia; Bost, Loujeania Williams – Phi Delta Kappan, 2015
Students with emotional and behavioral disorders have the highest dropout rates of any student group--about 40%. The outcomes for students who drop out of school are dire but are particularly bleak for students with poor academic, interpersonal, and decision-making skills. Helping students earn a high school diploma and gain the skills needed to…
Descriptors: Emotional Problems, Behavior Problems, Dropout Prevention, Special Needs Students
Robertson, Phyllis; Graves, Elizabeth; Bobilya, Andrew J.; Murdock, Todd; Brotherton, Dale; Hunter, Sara – Journal of Outdoor Recreation, Education, and Leadership, 2020
This exploratory study examined the benefits of participating in a three-week, multi-state bicycling trip for eight adolescents who participated in a first-generation, college-bound program. The primary purpose of this study was to explore participants' perceptions of their own resilience, independence, responsibility, and problem-solving and to…
Descriptors: Educational Benefits, First Generation College Students, Resilience (Psychology), Student Attitudes
Cox, Jo – Education in Science, 2014
Redmoor Academy is a Key Stage 3 (age 11-14) school in Leicestershire, UK, with a student cohort just over 500 pupils. The Academy has a long history of encouraging pupils to consider how STEM subjects relate to each other and to their future careers, and has made great inroads into ensuring that all teachers of STEM subjects are delivering the…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Science Activities, Student Projects, Problem Based Learning
Hashim, Hartini; Ali, Mohd Norawi; Shamsudin, Mohd Ali – Journal of Science and Mathematics Education in Southeast Asia, 2018
Purpose: This exploratory study aimed to examine the development of entrepreneurial mind-set among lower secondary school students while undergoing Green STEM project, which integrates the Thinking Based Learning in the 6E Instructional Model as a teaching strategy. Methodology: This study employed fully qualitative approach with one intact class…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Secondary School Students, STEM Education, Program Descriptions
Data Literacy on the Road: Setting up a Large-Scale Data Literacy Initiative in the Databuzz Project
Seymoens, Tom; Van Audenhove, Leo; Van den Broeck, Wendy; Mariën, Ilse – Journal of Media Literacy Education, 2020
This paper presents "the DataBuzz Project." "DataBuzz" is a high-tech, mobile educational lab, which is housed in a 13-meter electric bus. Its specific goal is to increase the data literacy of different segments of society in the Brussels region through inclusive and participatory games and workshops. In this paper, we will…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Literacy, Program Descriptions, Laboratories
McMahon, Debbie – Childhood Education, 2020
For many educators, the inspiration to teach comes from a desire to make a positive difference in students' lives. As they seek to guide students toward their big goals through trying times, teachers need resources that strengthen social and emotional skills. Facing this very challenge, Allison Silverman, a teacher at Port Chester Middle School in…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Program Descriptions, Social Change, Competition
Mirra, Nicole; Garcia, Antero – Harvard Educational Review, 2020
In this essay, Nicole Mirra and Antero Garcia explore how young people from six demographically distinct communities across the United States understand the social and political issues affecting their lives, engage in storytelling and dialogue across differences, and collaboratively imagine humanizing and hopeful civic futures. Drawing from…
Descriptors: Social Problems, Political Issues, Story Telling, Dialogs (Language)
Hernandez-Melis, Claudia; Fenning, Pamela; Lawrence, Elizabeth – Preventing School Failure, 2016
The purpose of the current study was to assess the effects of an alternative to suspension intervention on students' subsequent major referrals. The intervention included activities designed to teach social coping strategies as well as mediation to resolve interpersonal conflicts. The intervention was implemented in a therapeutic high school, and…
Descriptors: Suspension, Intervention, High School Students, Behavior Problems
Glatz, Terese; Lippold, Melissa; Jensen, Todd M.; Fosco, Gregory M.; Feinberg, Mark E. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2020
In line with family systems theory, we examined patterns of hostile interactions within families and their associations with externalizing problems among early-adolescent children. Using hostility scores based on observational data of six dyadic interactions during a triadic interaction (n = 462; i.e., child-to-mother, mother-to-child,…
Descriptors: Conflict, Behavior Problems, Parent Child Relationship, Mothers