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Alisha Kay Privette – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this mixed methods study was to examine the implementation of training and practices of formative assessment for new North Carolina Career and Technical Education (CTE) teachers. The study investigated new CTE teacher levels of knowledge, the strategies they use, and the challenges they face. This study aimed to improve the quality…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Beginning Teachers, Vocational Education, Teacher Attitudes
Cedric Dewayne Webber – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this mixed model study was to examine middle school teachers and counselors' perceptions and beliefs about the benefits of social and emotional learning in middle school. It also looked at how middle school teachers and counselors perceived their level of competence when it comes to social emotional learning practices. Efforts to…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Middle School Teachers, School Counselors, Teacher Attitudes
Elizabeth Salgado – ProQuest LLC, 2024
With the changes in Common Core State Standards, it was essential to explore how elementary pre-service teachers' sense of fractions is developing and their thoughts about how to teach fractions. A gap in practice exists because it is unknown how pre-service elementary teachers, after student-teaching, perceive their level of in-practice knowledge…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Fractions
Skae, Leticia E. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study examined the variations between providing secondary-school teachers with collaborative professional development (PD) and traditional PD. Although the U.S. local and federal governments spend billions of dollars on teacher PDs each year, there is still a debate on the effectiveness of those trainings. Research suggests that the most…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Faculty Development, Teacher Attitudes, Self Efficacy
Tiffany Fowler – ProQuest LLC, 2024
With the 2015 change in science standards to align more closely with the Next Generation Science Standards, as the district STEM coach, I saw a need for professional development that addressed the lack of understanding and skill needed to teach the Science and Engineering Practices, specifically the practice of Scientific Augmentation. This…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Elementary School Science, Elementary School Teachers, Faculty Development
Kathryn Elizabeth Hinshaw – ProQuest LLC, 2023
There is an interconnected issue of lack of student achievement in reading and professional training around reading for teachers. This study sought to understand if self-reflective professional development in the area of the science of reading improves teacher confidence in teaching reading. The participants of the Cycle 1 process consisted of K-2…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Primary Education, Reading Teachers, Knowledge Base for Teaching
Stacey Chanelle Zimmerman – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The ways teachers understand mathematics that is useful for teaching, known as mathematical knowledge for teaching (MKT), has been a center of attention for the research and policy communities. A teacher's MKT has been shown to be a significant factor in predicting student outcomes and positively related to the quality of mathematics instructional…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Teacher Characteristics, Knowledge Level
Cody Harrington – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This dissertation case study examines how teachers' levels of units coordination afford their ability to reason multiplicatively and fractionally, as well as use their mathematics knowledge for teaching to analyze student multiplicative and fractional reasoning, when a two-year intervention is put into place to evoke new mathematical reasoning.…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Multiplication, Fractions, Mathematical Logic
Andrehina Salinas – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study examined teachers' current knowledge on trauma and trauma-informed practices. More specifically, the purpose of this study was to identify whether teachers and staff within the school setting feel confident in being able to work with immigrant and refugee children and whether teachers would benefit from having training on trauma and…
Descriptors: Mexicans, Immigrants, Refugees, Trauma Informed Approach
Adams, Barbara L. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Adding to the current body of research on inference making skills and young learners, this study examined the knowledge base of classroom teachers, speech-language pathologists, and other literacy specialists. Specifically, educator knowledge was considered in relation to the extant literature on the inference making abilities of young children.…
Descriptors: Young Children, Inferences, Skills, Teachers
Ariana L. Leonard – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This dissertation examines the term legal literacy as it applies to the education field and looks at the legal literacy of educators across the country. The dissertation is organized into three separate papers. Paper 1 is a review of the research literature on the legal literacy of educators in the United States and how educators develop legal…
Descriptors: Knowledge Base for Teaching, Knowledge Level, Law Related Education, Teacher Attitudes
Gina Pogue Reeder – ProQuest LLC, 2021
In almost 60 years, the requirements of educators to be knowledgeable about the law have barely changed. The concept of legal literacy first appeared in educational research in 1963 by Nolte & Linn. Their original work recommended that state legislatures and boards of education mandate legal coursework as part of every teacher certification…
Descriptors: Knowledge Base for Teaching, Knowledge Level, Law Related Education, Teacher Attitudes
Williams, Brenielle – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Reading skills assessments have demonstrated that middle-grade Mississippi school children are on average two full grade levels or more below grade reading levels. This qualitative case study in one urban county Mississippi school district with decreasing literacy scores examined teachers' perceptions of evidence-based literacy instruction…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Reading Achievement, Teaching Methods
Özge Yol – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Writing competence holds an important place in the language development of multilingual writers, and it is regarded as the gatekeeper for ELLs' academic success and advancement to higher-level courses. It is essential that all teachers, not just the English as a Second Language (ESL) teachers, recognize themselves as teachers of linguistically and…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, English Language Learners, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Blevins, Kathryn – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this basic qualitative research study was to identify the extent to which kindergarten teachers understand and implement inquiry-based instruction in their science classrooms. This study was conducted in response to the indication that traditional didactic teaching methods were not enough to adequately prepare American students to…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers, Knowledge Level, Knowledge Base for Teaching
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