Rounders is an alternative striking and fielding game that physical education teachers can easily implement in their classes. Traditional American games like softball and baseball can be challenging to play because of equipment and space requirements. This fast-paced European game requires minimal players and equipment, making it a good option for…

The well-known theory-practice problem in teacher education is further exacerbated by a purely empirically based educational science. Therefore, an understanding of pedagogical action as practical knowledge is proposed here, which understands teaching as a form of art. However, this is not based on the problematic modern concept of art, but on the…

Numerous studies highlight the benefits of incorporating creativity in teaching, but practical experience shows that putting these theories and policies into practice often lacks the necessary resources. The current study focuses on three aspects of creativity in teaching: (a) Theoretical -- how do policy documents and educational researchers…

The authors imagine approaches to lesson planning and classroom teaching that embrace and encourage complexity, interconnectedness, and nonlinear learning--a fractal approach to lesson planning and learning.

This study investigates how educators incorporate existing podcasts into their instructional plans and leverage technology to support podcast-integrated teaching practices. The participants in this qualitative study consisted of 38 in-service educators enrolled in an educational technology course. The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) served as…

Learners who lack the perception of specific sounds or pronunciation can attain a measure of inability to participate in meaningful communication due to their difficulties in understanding and being understood. This article presents lesson plans that provide a framework for addressing the needs of learners as they move from perceiving sounds to…

This study explores how cross-curricular lesson planning influences pre-service teachers' understanding of sustainable development (SD) and their engagement with education for sustainable development (ESD). Based on pre-service teachers' experiences and insights, the study aims to contribute to a more holistic approach to integrating SD into ESD…

Background/purpose: Kindergarten teacher competence in Indonesia continues to face significant disparities and structural challenges. To address this issue, multidimensional approaches to professional development are urgently required. This study aims to examine the effects of Management Development (MD), Emotional-Spiritual Quotient (ESQ), and…

Planning is an essential task in the work of a teacher. Very little research has been carried out on the way that student teachers understand this preparatory phase, nor on the way that professional competence for planning is developed. Our research aims to understand what student teachers do about planning at the point when their professors…

This article reports on an exploratory study investigating the extent to which affordance-based lesson planning is feasible and useful in pre-service teacher education. After using both affordance-based and outcomes-based lesson plans, trainee teachers in North Macedonia participated in both a survey and interviews. Respondents found both types of…

In this practical guide, educators learn 25 ready-to-use, research-based teaching strategies aligned to the science of reading to scaffold learning from grade-level texts for a range of readers to accelerate literacy achievement. These strategies can be used in whole- or small-group instruction before, during, and after reading to increase each…

This study examines the effectiveness of Lesson Study (LS) in enhancing the writing accuracy of EFL learners. A group of 63 intermediate male EFL learners from Gofteman Language Institute in Ardebil, Iran, divided into two experimental groups and one control group, participated in the research. After taking a grammar pre-test on the target…

Although lesson planning is considered a crucial competence of science teachers, research in this area remains limited. Currently, there is a lack of both a comprehensive heuristic model describing the necessary knowledge and skills for effective lesson planning and an overview of the recently emerging research field consolidating current findings…

The use of questioning to elicit student thinking is one of the cornerstones of ambitious teaching; thus, supporting prospective teachers in this complex practice is a core objective of mathematics teacher education. In this paper, we examine the academic rigor of the sustained questioning sequences prospective teachers use during instruction to…

This study examined bilingual preservice teachers' self-efficacy in the context of lesson differentiation for multilingual learners in Spanish. Thirty-six bilingual preservice teachers across three California State University programs participated in a quantitative methods study of lesson plan analysis. Findings showed that preservice teachers…