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Hanne Brandt; Timo Ehmke; Poldi Kuhl; Detlev Leutner – Language Awareness, 2024
In order to reduce language-related disparities in educational attainment, teaching standards in many (Western) countries nowadays request teachers of all subjects and grades to focus on their students' academic language development: Especially second language learners and socioeconomically disadvantaged students need continuous and systematic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education
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Hauk, Dennis; Gröschner, Alexander; Weil, Maralena; Böheim, Ricardo; Schindler, Ann-Kathrin; Alles, Martina; Seidel, Tina – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2023
Promoting teachers to lead classroom discourse effectively is a relevant topic for teacher professional development worldwide. This study compares the impacts of two teacher professional development programmes that aim to support teachers in their classroom discourse practices. In one programme, an adaptive and practitioner-led approach was…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Classroom Communication, Teaching Methods, Beliefs
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Scholten, Nina; Doll, Jörg; Masanek, Nicole – Journal of Geography, 2022
In initial teacher education (ITE), preservice teachers acquire declarative knowledge in different knowledge domains: general pedagogy, content, and pedagogical content. To investigate how they use this knowledge in a school-related situation, n = 56 preservice teachers were asked to evaluate a peer's fictitious lesson plan. Their comments were…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Teaching Methods, Forestry, Preservice Teachers
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Verena Petermann; Andreas Vorholzer; Claudia von Aufschnaiter – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2025
Science teachers' beliefs about teaching and learning are a vital component of teachers' professional competence and are often assumed to impact classroom practice. To date, these beliefs have been predominantly investigated regarding teaching and learning in general or for a particular science subject (e.g., physics). It remains to be determined…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Teachers, Science Education, Teacher Attitudes
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Vollmer, Helmut Johannes – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2021
This contribution will outline the development of a specific approach of theoretical educational thinking in Germany, associated with the notions of "Didaktik"/didactics and "Fachdidaktik"/subject-matter didactics as well as its comparative, generalized form called "General Subject Didactics" (GSD). The first one…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Educational Theories, Intellectual Disciplines, Teaching Methods
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Gasteiger, Hedwig; Brunner, Esther; Chen, Ching-Shu – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2021
Results of international comparison studies show substantially better mathematics performance of the investigated Asian than European students from the early years on. A Taiwanese-German Research Program (TaiGer) engages in exploring differences and similarities in the educational system, in teachers' knowledge and beliefs and in teaching or…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Differences, Mathematics Instruction, Early Childhood Education
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Plöger, Wilfried; Krepf, Matthias; Scholl, Daniel; Seifert, Andreas – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2019
This study aimed to examine whether principles of effective teaching constitute essential criteria for a systematic and successful analysis of lessons. After watching a video of a complete lesson, the participants (each of nine experienced and pre-service teachers) were asked to analyse this lesson in terms of effectiveness for pupils' learning in…
Descriptors: Experienced Teachers, Teacher Effectiveness, Lesson Plans, Educational Principles
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Friesen, Marita Eva; Kuntze, Sebastian – Research in Mathematics Education, 2020
Using multiple representations and changing between them is at the heart of the mathematics classroom; unconnected changes can, however, be obstructive for students' learning. In order to support students' learning with multiple representations, teachers have to link observed situation aspects with relevant professional knowledge, a competence we…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Fractions
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Krohmer, Maxim; Budke, Alexandra – Journal of Curriculum and Teaching, 2020
The gap between educational knowledge that is taught in universities and actions by teachers can be sizeable. A sustainable change in teachers' efforts requires particular sensitivity and awareness of this gap between subject-specific educational thinking and acting and between theory and practice. This study explored the extent to which a…
Descriptors: Intervention, Teaching Methods, High School Teachers, Theory Practice Relationship
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Putjata, Galina – Language Awareness, 2018
Normative-theoretical discourse in pedagogy calls for transformation in educational approaches towards multilingualism. The key question in multilingual education remains: Can language ideologies be transformed? The present paper investigates how the field of language awareness can contribute to this process and what practical changes and…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Metalinguistics, Foreign Countries, Intervention
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Zendler, Andreas; Klaudt, Dieter; Seitz, Cornelia – International Journal of Technology in Education and Science, 2017
This study contributes on instructional methods from a validation technical point of view. The focus is on the assessment of instructional methods in relation to knowledge processes in the act of learning. By using questionnaires, computer science teachers, mathematics teachers, and English teachers assessed 20 instructional methods in terms of…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Teaching Methods, English Instruction, Science Instruction
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Zendler, Andreas; Klaudt, Dieter; Seitz, Cornelia – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2018
This study contributes on instructional methods from a validation technical point of view. The focus is on the evaluation of instructional methods in relation to knowledge processes in the act of learning. In questionnaires, computer science teachers, mathematics teachers, and English teachers evaluated 20 instructional methods in terms of…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Teaching Methods, English Instruction, Science Instruction
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Hoth, Jessica; Kaiser, Gabriele; Busse, Andreas; Döhrmann, Martina; König, Johannes; Blömeke, Sigrid – ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 2017
This paper addresses an important task teachers face in class: the identification and support of creative and high-achieving students. In particular, we examine whether primary teachers (1) have acquired professional knowledge during teacher education that is necessary to foster creativity and to teach high-achieving students, and whether they (2)…
Descriptors: Teacher Competencies, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Achievement, High Achievement
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Fögele, Janis; Mehren, Rainer – Review of International Geographical Education Online, 2015
A central desideratum for the professionalization of qualified teachers is an improved practice of further teacher education. The present work constitutes a course of in-service training, which is built upon both a review of empirical findings concerning the efficacy of in-service training courses for teachers and theoretical assumptions about the…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Inservice Teacher Education, Evidence Based Practice, Professionalism
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König, Johannes; Lammerding, Sandra; Nold, Günter; Rohde, Andreas; Strauß, Sarah; Tachtsoglou, Sarantis – Journal of Teacher Education, 2016
Despite an increasing research interest in subject-specific teacher knowledge, the scientific understanding regarding teachers' professional knowledge for teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL) is very limited. This study therefore applies standardized tests to directly assess content knowledge (CK), pedagogical content knowledge (PCK), and…
Descriptors: Knowledge Base for Teaching, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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