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Download full textNoel, Jana R. – 1993
This paper recognizes current interest in "the practical," particularly in research on teaching, and it explores similarities or distinctions between underlying conceptions of the practical across several programs, research projects, and scholarly reflections on teaching. Following an introduction, the paper reviews three research…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Educational Philosophy, Educational Principles, Educational Research
Dugan, JoAnn R.; Foote, Martha M.; Sampson, Mary Beth; Linek, Wayne M.; Fleener, Charlene E. – 1997
This qualitative investigation examined the strategy knowledge of preservice teachers in a field-based program. Subjects were 24 preservice teachers in a field-based program. Recursive analyses of their field teaching lessons and post lesson interviews revealed a continuum of strategy awareness ranging from limited to metacognitive levels. First…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Knowledge Base for Teaching
Ogunsola-Bandele, Mercy F. – 1999
This study examined the differences and similarities experienced by secondary school science teachers when teaching science within and outside their area of specialization in single sex and co-educational schools. Interviews were conducted and audio taped for six experienced science teachers on their qualification, classes/subjects taught and…
Descriptors: Coeducation, Educational Environment, Foreign Countries, Knowledge Base for Teaching
Grant, Michael M.; Ross, Steven M.; Wang, Weiping; Potter, Allison; Wilson, Yola – Center for Research in Education Policy and Education Innovations, 2004
This report discusses the findings from an evaluation study of the Learning Without Limits program in the fifth grade at Riverdale Elementary in the Shelby County Schools district, Memphis, Tennessee. The overall purpose of the evaluation was twofold: (a) to provide formative evaluation data to Riverdale School to use as a basis for improvement…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Teacher Attitudes, Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness
Tellez, Kip; Waxman, Hersh – Mid Atlantic Lab for Student Success, 2004
Recent political imperatives have pushed the issue of teacher quality to the top of the reform agenda in U.S. education (Cochran-Smith & Fries, 2001; Darling-Hammond & Youngs, 2002). While the recent focus on teacher quality may give us the illusion that it is a new topic, questions about the preparation, recruitment, and retention of good…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Teacher Improvement, English (Second Language), Teacher Effectiveness
Peer reviewedBriscoe, Carol; Peters, Joseph – Science Education, 1997
Explores how collaboration among teachers from several schools and with university researchers facilitates attempts to change practices. Analysis indicates that collaboration facilitates change because it provides opportunities for teachers to learn new content and pedagogical knowledge, encourages them to be risk-takers in implementing new ideas,…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College School Cooperation, Educational Cooperation, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedAnders, Deborah – Elementary School Journal, 1995
Activities embedded within events in two math classes were examined to determine patterns that suggested the teacher's knowledge in one content area, mathematics. An external representation of the teacher's classroom "script" was constructed to illuminate the essential elements of the script and what connections existed within the script…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Elementary School Teachers, Grade 2, Grade 3
Peer reviewedFraivillig, Judith L.; Murphy, Lauren A.; Fuson, Karen C. – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 1999
Presents and describes a pedagogical framework that supports children's development of conceptual understanding of mathematics. Advancing Children's Thinking (ACT) is synthesized from an in-depth analysis of observed and reported data from one skillful first-grade teacher's use of the "Everyday Mathematics" curriculum. Indicates that…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Elementary Education, Grade 1, Instructional Effectiveness
Peer reviewedSimmons, Patricia E.; Emory, Allen; Carter, Tim; Coker, Teresa; Finnegan, Brian; Crockett, Denise; Richardson, Lon; Yager, Robert; Craven, John; Tillotson, John; Brunkhorst, Herbert; Twiest, Mark; Hossain, Kazi; Gallagher, James; Duggan-Haas, Don; Parker, Joyce; Cajas, Fernando; Alshannag, Qasim; McGlamery, Sheryl; Krockover, Jerry; Adams, Paul; Spector, Barbara; LaPorta, Tom; James, Bob; Rearden, Kristin; Labuda, Kay – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1999
Describes the research of a national collaborative consortium formed to investigate how the perceptions, beliefs and classroom performances of beginning secondary science teachers relate to their philosophies of teaching and their content pedagogical skills. Finds that teachers possessed a wide range of philosophies, and that observers' reports of…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Science Teachers, Secondary Education
Peer reviewedMeichtry, Yvonne J. – Science and Education, 1999
Describes teaching considerations related to the nature of science and scientific knowledge in an elementary-science methods course. Discusses instructional strategies used to develop preservice elementary teachers' understandings of the nature of science and scientific knowledge. Presents the results of these strategies on teacher learning and…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Higher Education, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Methods Courses
Van Rooy, Wilhelmina – Australian Science Teachers' Journal, 2000
Describes the development and implementation of a senior high school biology lesson concerned with organ transplantation. Discusses the teacher's rationale and techniques for using controversial issues in science teaching. (Contains 18 references.) (Author/WRM)
Descriptors: Bioethics, Biology, Foreign Countries, High Schools
Peer reviewedMunby, Hugh; Cunningham, Malcolm; Lock, Cinde – Science Education, 2000
Presents a detailed case study of a ninth grade science teacher to explain how school science constrains the development of her professional knowledge. Concludes that the version of experiment and inquiry seemingly prescribed by the institutional science of school is antithetical to the sort of explanatory inquiry the teacher uses when planning…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, High Schools, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Reflective Teaching
Wilkinson, John W. – Australian Science Teachers' Journal, 1999
Discusses the meaning of a "contextual approach" to teaching physics. Advances a model of contextual physics teaching that can also be applied to other science disciplines. (Contains 54 references.) (Author/WRM)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Learning Theories
Direct linkBooth, Shirley; Anderberg, Elsie – Higher Education Research and Development, 2005
In this paper, we look backwards to educational development principles and practices as implemented in the 1990s at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, and forward to ideal principles and practices for the design of courses for teachers in higher education. The bridge between the two lies partly in an evaluation study, which we will…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Development, Teacher Education, Higher Education
Yun-peng, Ma; Chi-chung, Lam; Ngai-ying, Wong – Compare: A Journal of Comparative Education, 2006
Mainland China has a highly centralised curriculum development system. A study of two schools in northeast China, one in a rural area and the other in an urban area, indicates that the primary mathematics curriculum has been widely adopted by teachers at the classroom level. Feeling the intense pressure generated by the national mathematics…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Teachers, Mathematics Curriculum, Case Studies
