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Hovda, Ric A., Ed.; And Others – 1996
Based on the experiences of teachers, principals, and parents involved in the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA), this book is a collection of accounts and reflections by teachers or administrators who have engaged in developing and implementing nongraded primary education programs. The articles in this book are: (1) "Reforming the…
Descriptors: Child Development, Classroom Environment, Curriculum Design, Developmentally Appropriate Practices
Barreto, Ramona Maile – 1996
This study examined California's new system of bilingual and cross cultural teacher preparation, its implementation, and teacher candidates' reception of it. The new system, referred to as (B)CLAD, consists of two credentials for preservice teachers and two certificates for inservice teachers: the Cross Cultural Language and Academic Development,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Case Studies, College Students, Constructivism (Learning)
Berlin, Donna F. – 1996
The Berlin-White Action Research Model (BWARM) described here was designed to prepare and support teachers in the development, implementation, and evaluation of innovation within their classroom. The year-long program consists of three interrelated phases over four academic quarters: (1) "Pedagogical Awareness," designed to provide knowledge and…
Descriptors: Action Research, College School Cooperation, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
Lee-Blickstead, Martha – 1996
A practicum at a licensed, non-profit family day care agency in Canada serving over 4,000 children and their families was designed to assist in clarifying the meaning of family support and family-centered child care. The practicum was developed to assist the agency in moving towards operationalizing its commitment to provide optimal family support…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Day Care Centers, Delivery Systems, Early Childhood Education
Ford, Michael P. – 1997
In light of concerns that previous staff development projects did not truly capture life in the classroom, and that there may be a gap between one's previous elementary and current university teaching experiences, a teacher educator used a semester sabbatical to shadow six first-grade teachers in order to inform thinking and practice in teaching…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Curriculum Development, Elementary School Teachers, Grade 1
Jones, Margaret; Siraj-Blatchford, John; Ashcroft, Kate – 1997
Focusing on small-scale insider research, this book covers contemporary issues, research methods, and existing practice and values for the researcher concerned with student learning in higher education. Stressed throughout the book is the use of research to identify the ways that barriers to learning may be increased or minimized, and the extent…
Descriptors: Action Research, Classroom Research, Disabilities, Disadvantaged
Teaching the Language Arts: Expanding Thinking through Student-Centered Instruction. Second Edition.
Block, Cathy Collins – 1997
The second edition of this book provides the theoretical and practical foundation for a language development program in which all students become actively involved in communicating their high-level thoughts with exceptional competence. Preservice teachers vicariously enter 13 language arts classrooms in which they learn how the language arts are…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Creative Activities, Elementary Education, Handwriting
Street, Steve; Bennett, Dennis – 1997
This paper describes how Clive School, a small rural K-9 school in Alberta (Canada), used a team teaching approach and the best practices of staff development to facilitate the inclusion of special needs students into general education classrooms. Since September 1989, the staff at Clive School have been involved in developing their school into a…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Educational Change, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education
Schulz, Renate – 1997
This volume is a longitudinal study that explores the responses of two experienced high school English teachers to curriculum changes and examines how a teacher's past attitudes and experiences influence current practice. There are six chapters. The first is a discussion of narrative inquiry as a research method. The next two chapters are…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Research, English Teachers, Higher Education
Leu, Donald J.; Kinzer, Charles K. – 1995
Developed as the basic text for preservice teachers in an elementary reading methods course, this book aims to develop insightful teachers empowered to make logical reflective decisions about reading instruction. The book is an integrative text, based on the assumption that effective teachers of reading must understand both what to do during…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Classroom Techniques, Computer Uses in Education, Decoding (Reading)
Arenz, Bernard W.; Appel, Michelle E. – 1994
This project is an exploration of the benefits of a field-based pre-student teaching semester in which elementary education students work with college professors and practicing elementary teachers in a more holistic way than is possible with traditional campus-based courses. A group of twenty-six college students met four days each week, seven…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Demonstration Programs, Education Courses, Elementary Education
Lederman, Norman G.; And Others – 1993
This longitudinal investigation assessed the development and changes in preservice science teachers' conceptions of subject matter and pedagogy as they proceeded through their secondary science methods course, practicum, microteaching, and student teaching. Twelve preservice science teachers were asked, on four occasions each several weeks apart,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, College Science, Higher Education, Knowledge Level
Kulm, Gerald – 1993
The theoretical and practice-based framework is presented for a study that explored the effect of teachers' use of alternative assessment on their mathematics teaching. A model for the impact of alternative assessment on teacher knowledge and classroom teaching processes is proposed, building on work by E. Fennema and M. L. Franke (1992) and P. L.…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Research, Educational Assessment
Wolf, Mary Alice – 1997
New approaches to the education of older adults can be identified through a review of the literature on the following topics: developmental perspectives (including generativity and integrity) and adult development, life span habits (as determined by longitudinal research), gender roles, reminiscence, cognitive, and need-based learning. One of the…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Aging (Individuals)
Kaufman, Lionel M., Jr. – 1998
This study analyzed the discourse of electronic mail (e-mail) exchanges between students of English as a second language (ESL) and other ESL learners from other cultures and at varying proficiency levels (keypals), focusing on what these exchanges may reveal about learners' progress through the "Zone of Proximal Development," a…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Computer Uses in Education, Discourse Analysis