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Learner Centered Classroom in Science Instruction: Providing Feedback with Technology Integration
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Yilmaz, Ozkan – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2017
"Learner centered" term points out environments that attention to the learners brings to the educational setting. This term includes teaching practices: effort to uncover what learners think in a specific problem on hand, talking about their misconceptions and, giving them situations to readjust their ideas. In Learner centered…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Feedback (Response), Technology Integration, Classroom Techniques
Mathematics Discourse Communities: Language Ideologies and Urban Mathematics Teaching With Latinas/os
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Willey, Craig; Gatza, Andrew; Flessner, Courtney – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2017
This case explores how a monolingual teacher, embedded in a large urban school context, saw and understood her role in supporting emergent bilingual learners' development of mathematics discourse. Particular attention is paid to the classroom arrangements and curricular and instructional choices this teacher made to facilitate this development.…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Teacher Role, Bilingual Students, Mathematics Instruction
The Use of Games to Foster Fluency among ESL Learners
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Vazirabad, Aylar Fallah – International Education Studies, 2013
This study focused on five particular Communication Strategies (CSs) namely: Paraphrase, approximation, hesitation, reduction, borrowed words and invented, or anglicised. The aim was to investigate the link between the use of approvable and positive CS-types and the impact of ESL students' beliefs about CSs in a game-activity. It aims to promote…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Educational Games, Language Fluency, Second Language Instruction
Culturally Responsive Teaching. Second Edition. Multicultural Education Series
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Gay, Geneva – Teachers College Press, 2010
The achievement of students of color continues to be disproportionately low at all levels of education. More than ever, Geneva Gay's foundational book on culturally responsive teaching is essential reading in addressing the needs of today's diverse student population. Combining insights from multicultural education theory and research with…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, American Indians, Teaching Methods, Culturally Relevant Education
Connecting Online Learners with Diverse Local Practices: The Design of Effective Common Reference Points for Conversation
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Friend Wise, Alyssa; Padmanabhan, Poornima; Duffy, Thomas M. – Distance Education, 2009
This mixed-methods study probed the effectiveness of three kinds of objects (video, theory, metaphor) as common reference points for conversations between online learners (student teachers). Individuals' degree of detail-focus was examined as a potentially interacting covariate and the outcome measure was learners' level of tacit knowledge related…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Student Teachers, Computer Mediated Communication, Figurative Language
Proceedings of the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM) (9th, Raleigh, North Carolina, June 29-July 2, 2016)
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Barnes, Tiffany, Ed.; Chi, Min, Ed.; Feng, Mingyu, Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2016
The 9th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2016) is held under the auspices of the International Educational Data Mining Society at the Sheraton Raleigh Hotel, in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, in the USA. The conference, held June 29-July 2, 2016, follows the eight previous editions (Madrid 2015, London 2014, Memphis…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Evidence Based Practice, Inquiry, Science Instruction