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Buad Khales – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
The present study aims to explore whether the electronic portfolio can influence pre-service teachers' education and to examine how professional learning communities develop through electronic portfolios. To achieve this, twenty-four student-teachers taking a course in early childhood education at Al-Quds University participated in a study to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes, Portfolios (Background Materials)
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García-Carrión, Rocío; Díez-Palomar, Javier – European Educational Research Journal, 2015
Schools as learning communities have been recommended by the European Commission as an effective model to support school quality and development. Aiming at studying how these schools are achieving such positive results, this article focuses on the analysis of a particular classroom intervention called "interactive groups". A five-year…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Academic Achievement, Social Integration, Educational Quality
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Park, Ho-Ryong; Kim, Deoksoon – CALICO Journal, 2016
This study investigated four elementary-level English language learners' (ELLs') use of strategies for reading computer-based texts at home and in school. The ELLs in this study were in the fourth and fifth grades in a public elementary school. We identify the ELLs' strategies for reading computer-based texts in home and school environments. We…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Public Schools, Grade 4, Grade 5
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Sutherland, Julia – Research Papers in Education, 2015
This paper reports on a year-long research study: four teachers of English, their Year 8 (13-14 year old) classes (110 students) in urban, secondary schools and a university teacher educator investigated the contexts for students to develop dialogic, exploratory talk in small groups. Assuming a Vygotskyan perspective, the study adapted a pedagogic…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Teaching Methods, Feedback (Response), Audio Equipment
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Jwaifell, Mustafa; Gasaymeh, Al-Mothana – Contemporary Educational Technology, 2013
This study aimed to explain the use of interactive whiteboards (IWBs) by English female teachers in Modern Systems School in Jordan. Viewed from the lens of Rogers' Diffusion of Innovation Theory, the study examined and reported teachers' use of IWB and its features that have impact on their decisions to adopt it in Modern Systems School . The…
Descriptors: Case Studies, English (Second Language), Workshops, Second Language Learning
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Sewell, Alison – Classroom Discourse, 2011
The recent publication of "The New Zealand Curriculum" calls for students to become connected, creative, confident life-long learners. To realise this vision, fundamental change is required in the way teachers and students think about and participate in classroom-based teaching and learning. This paper discusses one aspect of an action…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Elementary School Students, Teaching Methods, National Curriculum