NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 6 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
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
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Clarke, Lane Whitney; Bartholomew, Audrey – Online Learning, 2014
The purpose of this study was to investigate instructor participation in asynchronous discussions through an in-depth content analysis of instructors' postings and comments through the Community of Inquiry (COI) framework (Garrison et. al, 2001). We developed an analytical tool based on this framework in order to better understand what instructors…
Descriptors: Asynchronous Communication, Teacher Participation, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Content Analysis
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Alozie, Nonye M.; Moje, Elizabeth Birr; Krajcik, Joseph S. – Science Education, 2010
One goal of project-based science is to promote the development of scientific discourse communities in classrooms. Holding rich high school scientific discussions is challenging, especially when the demands of content and norms of high school science pose challenges to their enactment. There is little research on how high school teachers enact…
Descriptors: Discourse Communities, High Schools, Secondary School Teachers, Science Curriculum
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Park, Soonhye; Oliver, J. Steve; Johnson, Tara Star; Graham, Peg; Oppong, Nicholas K. – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2007
This study investigated the nature of interaction among teachers that occurred around the National Board certification (NBC) process and how that collegial interaction influenced teachers' professional development. Qualitative interviews were conducted with 14 teachers who were either considering NBC, in the process, or had been awarded NBC.…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Interaction, Discourse Communities, Teacher Certification
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Street, Brian – Language and Education, 2005
I draw attention to the distinction between reductionist views of "language" and the rich and complex ways in which we might approach language as social practice and suggest the latter view is evident in the set of papers collected here. Socially oriented linguists, including those in New Literacy Studies (NLS), look beyond reductionism, to…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Interaction, Classroom Techniques, Discourse Communities
Smith, Sharon Williamson – 2000
Many adult literacy programs invite their clients to become authors by articulating their life experiences, ideas, and opinions in writing that is published. Theoretical perspectives from feminist poststructuralism were used to determine what happened when clients were positioned as authors in light of their identities other than authors. The…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Authors, Creative Writing