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Download full textLohfink, Gayla – School-University Partnerships, 2014
This school-university partnership research explored how multicultural literature read-alouds impacted the pedagogical understandings of elementary pre-service teachers. The study explores the intersection of multicultural education, Professional Development School standards, and the achievement gaps of culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD)…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Partnerships in Education, Multicultural Education, Reading Aloud to Others
Direct linkBritton, Willoughby B.; Brown, Anne-Catharine; Kaplan, Christopher T.; Goldman, Roberta E.; DeLuca, Marie; Rojiani, Rahil; Reis, Harry; Xi, Mandy; Chou, Jonathan C.; McKenna, Faye; Hitchcock, Peter; Rocha, Tomas A.; Himmelfarb, Josh; Margolis, David M.; Niles, Halsey F.; Eckert, Allison M.; Frank, Tana – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2013
Contemplative practices, which engage the subjective or "first-person" perspective, are being incorporated into systems of higher education that have traditionally relied on didactic or "third-person" approaches (Dederer 2007; Kroll 2010; Repetti 2010; Roth 2006; Shapiro, Brown, and Astin 2011; Smith 2006; Zajonc 2006). The…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Teaching Methods, Educational Change, Metacognition
Eutsler, Mark L. – Online Submission, 2013
Indiana's declining SAT scores prompted the publisher of a statewide magazine covering the literary, performing, and visual arts to take action and create a program to use the magazine as a supplemental resource for students. It was believed that such a supplemental resource could enhance critical thinking and writing skills and help raise SAT…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Writing Skills, Instructional Materials, Teaching Methods
Miller, Mimi; Veatch, Nancy – Reading Teacher, 2010
There are many effective strategies that can be used to support student learning from expository text, but how do teachers choose and use them? The authors provide readers with a process for selecting instructional strategies that embed literacy instruction into teaching with content area text. A a veteran sixth-grade teacher is followed as she…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Literacy Education, Literacy, Teaching Methods
Kitson, Lisbeth – English in Australia, 2011
The comprehension of multimodal texts is now a key concern with the release of the Australian National Curriculum for English (ACARA, 2010). However, the nature of multimodal texts, the diversity of readers in classrooms, and the complex technological environments through which multimodal texts are mediated, requires English teachers to reconsider…
Descriptors: Video Technology, National Curriculum, Reading Comprehension, Multiple Literacies
Sandholtz, Judith Haymore; Sandholtz, Sarah Haymore – New Educator, 2010
This paper stems from a classroom discussion in which one author, a sixth-grade student in that classroom, contended that boys only read books about boys and proposed that the teacher change the situation by assigning books with both male and female main characters. The boys who responded emphatically denied the girl's claim, and the teacher later…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Student Attitudes, Gender Issues, Gender Differences
Synar, Edwyna; Maiden, Jeffrey – Journal of Education Finance, 2012
The purpose of this study was to develop a model that may be used to estimate the financial costs of teacher turnover in urban school districts. It is estimated that 50% of the beginning teachers leave the profession within the first five years on the job (Murname, Singer, Wilett, Kemple, and Olsen 1991; Colbert and Wolff 1992; Ingersoll 2003;…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Teaching Methods, Teaching Experience, Beginning Teachers
Walton, Elizabeth – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2012
Reports on school bullying of students who are different suggest that teachers need to be intentional about implementing strategies that promote inclusive attitudes and behaviors in diverse classrooms. Literature offers much to education in general, and it provides the pedagogic space to address issues of inclusion and exclusion, particularly of…
Descriptors: Bullying, Disabilities, High School Students, Change Strategies
Baugh, Jeanne M. – Information Systems Education Journal, 2011
There are many different approaches to teaching Information Systems courses. Studies have shown that if the student is interested in the topic, they just may have a more productive classroom experience. This paper documents the practice of structuring assignments around topics that are of interest to each individual student. This method has been…
Descriptors: Relevance (Education), Teaching Methods, Information Systems, Assignments
Desravines, Jean; Aquino, Jaime; Fenton, Benjamin – New Leaders, 2016
This leadership framework, based on practices employed by some the nation's most successful principals, can be used to diagnose and address school needs. The framework is excerpted from "Breakthrough Principals" © 2016 by Jean Desravines, Jaime Aquino, Benjamin Fenton, and New Leaders, published by Jossey-Bass, a Wiley brand. The…
Descriptors: Principals, Leadership Responsibility, Transformational Leadership, Curriculum
Ziebarth-Bovill, Jane; Kritzer, Jeff; Bovill, Ronald – Education, 2012
There are eight components that Teacher Candidates the University of Nebraska at Kearney, College of Education, must demonstrate their understanding of and proficiency in, to complete their student teaching successfully. Are this components relative when the Teacher Candidate interviews for his/her first teaching position; and if so, to what…
Descriptors: Student Teaching, Educational Change, Educational History, Partnerships in Education
Crisp, Thomas; Knezek, Suzanne M. – English Journal, 2010
While LGBTQ people may no longer need be considered the "invisible minority," LGBTQ books are often taken to be positive or affirmative based on their mere inclusion of gay people as characters. The authors believe the catalog of LGBTQ texts must continue to increase in both quantity and quality and that teachers must explicitly engage students in…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Adolescent Literature, Homosexuality, Sexual Identity
Hallett, Tim – American Sociological Review, 2010
The study of institutional myths has been central to organizational sociology, cultural sociology, and the sociology of education for 30 years. This article examines how the myth concept has been used and develops neglected possibilities by asking: What happens when myths become incarnate, and how does this occur? In other words, what happens when…
Descriptors: Educational Sociology, Classroom Techniques, Ethnography, Accountability
Svensson, Jonas – British Journal of Religious Education, 2010
The present article focuses on the choices teachers make when teaching Islamic religious education (IRE) in the town of Kisumu, Kenya. The data were collected through interviews with IRE teachers and participant observations in schools that offered IRE during several fieldwork sessions in the period 2003-2006. The fieldwork revealed that the…
Descriptors: Islam, Religious Education, Foreign Countries, Selection
Ozturk, Ibrahim Hakki – Online Submission, 2011
In recent years, the curriculum programs have been changed dramatically in Turkey, as part of a comprehensive reform initiative. The history curriculum for secondary schools was subjected to this transformation as well. This study examines the curriculum reform in terms of teacher autonomy, a key-concept for the comprehension and improvement of…
Descriptors: Professional Autonomy, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
