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Starnes, Bobby Ann – Active Learner: A Foxfire Journal for Teachers, 1998
Uses an analogy with a mother's cooking skills to illustrate how teachers spend years building their own "intuitive" style of teaching; how they need to constantly watch, think, and reflect, all the while dealing with multiple demands, juggling everyone's needs, seeking balance. (TD)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Experiential Learning, Group Dynamics, Lifelong Learning
Peer reviewedJenkins, John M. – International Journal of Educational Reform, 1999
Two types of personalized instruction, interaction and thoughtfulness, transcend the behavioral paradigm to include experiences building on individual student differences. Teachers can facilitate learners' progress from cognitive skill development to mastery and real-life problem solving by stressing experiential and inquiry learning, independent…
Descriptors: Behaviorism, Diversity (Student), Elementary Secondary Education, Experiential Learning
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 reviewedJohnson, Ellen; Borleske, Barbara; Gleason, Susan; Bailey, Bambi; Scantlebury, Kathryn – Science Teacher, 1998
Describes a tool that quantifies the number and kinds of interactions between students and teachers. Structured observation of classroom events indicates whether a teacher is interacting equitably with each student in the classroom. Science teachers were receptive to the relatively quantitative nature of the process. Both inservice and student…
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Classroom Environment, Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Research
Peer reviewedOtsu, Kazuko – International Journal of Social Education, 1999
Provides an overview of policies concerning civics education in Japan during the 50 years following World War II. Summarizes the problems in civics education, focusing on textbooks, teaching styles, and the marginalization of civics in the curriculum. Considers the future of Japanese civics education. (CMK)
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Civics, Educational History, Educational Policy
Peer reviewedCatt, Robert; Eke, Jacqueline – Innovations in Education and Training International, 1995
Describes research at the Brunel University (England) School of Education that includes the investigation of pedagogy and student learning using empirical analysis of classroom talk; uses the context of a four-year teacher education degree course for analysis. Discusses pedagogical principles of constructivism and comments on student responses to…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Research, Constructivism (Learning), Discourse Analysis
Peer reviewedGrant, S. G. – Theory and Research in Social Education, 1997
Examines the professional development opportunities that accompanied the New York State social studies draft framework to explore: (1) the range of opportunities teachers had to learn about the framework; (2) the content and instruction of these opportunities; and (3) teachers' responses to the framework and professional development opportunities.…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Processes
Peer reviewedKranning, Antoinette; Ehman, Lee – Social Education, 1999
Describes a collaborative project called "Mystery from History" involving a rural Indiana elementary class and a computer education college class at Indiana University. Explains that the university students sent a mystery via e-mail to the elementary students in which they continued to send clues and questions until the mystery was…
Descriptors: Electronic Mail, Experiential Learning, Grade 5, Higher Education
Direct linkMartin, Nancy K.; Yin, Zenong – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 1999
A survey of 145 rural and urban high school teachers in the Southwest examined differences in classroom management beliefs and practices. Rural teachers were significantly more interventionist in the area of instructional management, while urban teachers were significantly more interventionist in the area of people management. (Contains 27…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Discipline, High Schools, Rural Schools
Peer reviewedCruickshank, Donald R. – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 2000
Over time, variations in describing what constitutes good teaching have included ideal, analytic, effective, dutiful, competent, expert, reflective, satisfying, diversity-responsive, and respected. If good teaching could be observed and measured, the results would not indicate a one-size-fits-all model, but rather demonstrate that good teaching is…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Outcomes of Education
Peer reviewedMcEachern, Cam – History Computer Review, 1998
Presents a hypermedia scrapbook assignment in which students identified seven key objects, feelings, or concepts that they felt were important to them in order to enhance their historical reflection. Conveys that the assignment focused on nonlinear ways of thinking and helped students develop a sensitivity towards evidence. (CMK)
Descriptors: Computer Attitudes, Computer Software, Divergent Thinking, Higher Education
Peer reviewedRobin, Bernard R.; Harris, Judith B. – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 1998
A survey of 167 instructors at teacher preparation institutions revealed correlations between technology use and teaching style. Technology users who preferred learner-centered teaching had higher levels of formal schooling, were mostly females, preferred learning by concrete experience, and were more social constructionist in their world views.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Computer Uses in Education, Demography, Educational Technology
Peer reviewedCarlsson-Paige, Nancy – Reclaiming Children and Youth, 2001
Describes how children construct meaning from experience, a natural process often undermined in U.S. society. Even so, many teachers find ways to support growth in all areas of development, including the emotional, social, and spiritual dimensions. Teaching in a way that nurtures both head and heart can open up possibilities for more meaningful…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Cultural Background, Elementary Education, Emotional Experience
LaPointe, Deborah K.; Gunawardena, Charlotte N. – Distance Education, 2004
Our pervasive adoption of CMC in higher education has far outpaced our understanding of the nature of CMC and, accordingly, how this medium should best be used to promote higher-order learning (Garrison, Anderson, & Archer, "American Journal of Distance Education," 15 (1), 7-23, 2001). Therefore, this study examined the relationship between peer…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Teaching Styles, Structural Equation Models
Wright, Robert E. – College Student Journal, 2006
Student evaluations of instruction have long been used to evaluate the teaching performance of instructors. However, despite the widespread use of data from student evaluations for the purpose of determining faculty teaching effectiveness, a review of the literature in the area indicates that issues concerning the validity and usefulness of such…
Descriptors: Validity, College Students, College Faculty, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance
