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Download full textAlison G. Boardman; Joseph L. Polman; Karla Scornavacco; Ashley Seidel Potvin; Antero Garcia; Bridget Dalton; Kristina Stamatis; Aaron Guggenheim; Jessica L. Alzen – AERA Open, 2024
Project-based learning (PBL) grounds instruction in authentic learning experiences where students engage in real-world explorations that culminate in a final product or performance. We report on a mixed methods study with 43 ninth-grade English language arts (ELA) teachers (22 PBL and 21 comparison) and 1,671 students exploring the feasibility of…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Language Arts, English Teachers
Direct linkBoardman, Alison G.; Garcia, Antero; Dalton, Bridget; Polman, Joseph L. – Teachers College Press, 2021
Learn how to develop and sustain multimodal, project-based learning (PBL) instruction in secondary English Language Arts classrooms. National standards encourage authentic forms of reading, writing, and communication that can support college and career readiness, and this book highlights PBL as a powerful way to harness students' interests and…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Active Learning, Student Projects, Secondary Education
Gisela Ernst-Slavit; Margo Gottlieb – Corwin, 2025
For years, the teaching of content-based academic language to multilingual learners has focused on formulas, vocabulary lists, and sentence patterns--often sidelining students' linguistic and cultural strengths. Gisela Ernst-Slavit and Margo Gottlieb address these challenges by embracing academic "languaging," an active, collaborative…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Usage
Taranto, Gregory; Dalbon, Melissa; Gaetano, Julie – Middle School Journal (J3), 2011
The middle grades are an exciting time for adolescents to explore, learn, and collaborate with one another (National Middle School Association, 2010). By incorporating an academic social network as part of the classroom experience, collaboration and active learning take on new forms, and a transformation from passive learning to active learning…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Middle Schools, Early Adolescents, Middle School Students
Turkan, Sultan; Bicknell, Jerome; Croft, Andrew – ETS Research Report Series, 2012
This paper is a review of literature presenting instructional strategies--based on normative as well as empirical arguments--which have proven to be effective in envisioning what "all" teachers need to know and be able to do to teach English language arts (ELA) to English language learners (ELLs). The studies selected for review address…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Literacy Education, Language Arts, Teaching Methods
Peer reviewedKerr, Anita; Makuluni, Anita H.; Nieves, Monica – Primary Voices K-6, 2000
Forms part of a themed issue describing "Parent-Kid-Teacher Investigators," a program in which parents, children, and teachers gather regularly to use language and literacy for action research projects. Offers a classroom portrait of these weekly meetings, looking at the process of research and the impact that "learning how to learn" had on all…
Descriptors: Action Research, Active Learning, Cooperative Learning, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedRoyce, Christine Anne – Science Teacher, 2001
Introduces a Storm Trackers unit that uses actual hurricane data to track hurricane movements. Uses an inquiry-based teaching approach in a cooperative learning environment. (YDS)
Descriptors: Active Learning, Activity Units, Cooperative Learning, Geography
Peer reviewedTonning, Britney; Tonning, Renee C.; Osinsky, Elena; Parks, Robyn – Primary Voices K-6, 2000
Forms part of a themed issue describing "Parent-Kid-Teacher Investigators," a program in which parents, children, and teachers gather regularly to use language and literacy for action research projects. Looks at the way involvement in the program nourished relationships among diverse individuals. Describes social relationships built at the…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Cooperative Learning, Elementary Education, Family School Relationship
Peer reviewedWhitmore, Kathryn F.; Norton-Meier, Lori A. – Primary Voices K-6, 2000
Forms part of a themed issue describing "Parent-Kid-Teacher Investigators," a program in which parents, children, and teachers gather regularly to use language and literacy for action research projects. Discusses ways in which schools and families are alike in building a supportive environment for learning. Illustrates conditions contributing to…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Cooperative Learning, Elementary Education, Family School Relationship
Peer reviewedHicks, Bonnie; Montequin, Leah; Hicks, Jason – Primary Voices K-6, 2000
Forms part of a themed issue describing "Parent-Kid-Teacher Investigators," a program in which parents, children, and teachers gather regularly to use language and literacy for action research projects. Offers a portrait of the weekly meetings. Summarizes what three particular groups learned about their topics: the underground railroad;…
Descriptors: Action Research, Active Learning, Cooperative Learning, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedWhitmore, Kathryn F.; Norton-Meier, Lori A. – Primary Voices K-6, 2000
Forms part of a themed issue describing "Parent-Kid-Teacher Investigators," a program in which parents, children, and teachers gather regularly to use language and literacy for action research projects. Explains the philosophy, assumptions, and intentions behind the program, and research that supports it. Offers action examples of how each belief…
Descriptors: Action Research, Active Learning, Cooperative Learning, Educational Philosophy
McAllister, Elizabeth A. – 1995
Designed to tap the rich collection of instructional techniques in the ERIC database, this compilation of lesson plans focuses on helping elementary-school students to work together as they learn to read, write, and communicate. The 48 lesson plans in the book cover writing to communicate, reading for information, responding to literature,…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Class Activities, Cognitive Processes, Communication Skills
Moke, Susan; Shermis, Michael – 1996
Providing strategies for parents to use to show their children how to take an active role in their own learning, this book discusses developing successful study skills, how speaking and listening can enhance your children's reading and writing skills, and techniques to help children expand their vocabularies. It focuses on helping children how to…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Citizen Participation, Communication Skills, Cooperative Learning
