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Lieber, Joan; Butera, Gretchen; Hanson, Marci; Palmer, Susan; Horn, Eva; Czaja, Carol; Diamond, Karen; Goodman-Jansen, Gretchen; Daniels, Janese; Gupta, Sarika; Odom, Samuel – Early Education and Development, 2009
Research Findings: There is growing evidence that specific, teacher-led instruction and innovative instructional activities can lead to higher levels of achievement in literacy and in mathematics for young children at risk. There is limited research evidence, however, identifying professional development interventions that are effective in…
Descriptors: Preschool Curriculum, Professional Development, Teaching Methods, Curriculum Implementation
Edwards, Richard; Miller, Kate; Priestley, Mark – Curriculum Journal, 2009
Drawing upon research in the curriculum of hospitality, this article explores the contrasting ways in which the prescribed curriculum is translated into the enacted curriculum in school and college contexts. It identifies organisational culture and teacher and student backgrounds and dispositions as central to the emerging contrasts. It uses this…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Implementation, Organizational Culture
Cowan, Elaine M.; McMurtry, David C. – Curriculum Journal, 2009
Changes in society and government have increased concerns of low participation and involvement by people, especially the young, in the political process and decision-making. As a result, citizenship has become a focus of recent curriculum developments in many countries. In Scotland, "Values and Citizenship" has been made one of the…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Citizenship Education, Foreign Countries, Curriculum Implementation
Maposah-Kandemiri, Myra; Higgins, Peter; McLaughlin, Pat – Education 3-13, 2009
This paper presents a review of practice in the use of the outdoors, and its potential in the teaching of environmental education at Muenzaniso, a Zimbabwean primary school. The school uses permaculture and Integrated Land Use Design as tools for sustainable environmental management. Evidence suggests that pressing community and curriculum…
Descriptors: Community Development, Environmental Education, Land Use, Foreign Countries
Ford, Danielle J. – Research in Science Education, 2009
The papers in this collection provide compelling arguments that the use of Adapted Primary Literature (APL) in science education holds great promise for enriching inquiry science instruction at the secondary level. The integration of this genre of written text into science curricula illustrates the ways in which reasoning in reading and reasoning…
Descriptors: Primary Sources, Inquiry, Science Education, Curriculum Design
Remillard, Janine T., Ed.; Herbel-Eisenmann, Beth A., Ed.; Lloyd, Gwendolyn M., Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
This book compiles and synthesizes existing research on teachers' use of mathematics curriculum materials and the impact of curriculum materials on teaching and teachers, with a particular emphasis on--but not restricted to--those materials developed in the 1990s in response to the NCTM's Principles and Standards for School Mathematics. Despite…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Instructional Materials, Mathematics Curriculum, Educational Change
Sawyer, R. Keith, Ed. – Cambridge University Press, 2011
With an increasing emphasis on creativity and innovation in the twenty-first century, teachers need to be creative professionals just as students must learn to be creative. And yet, schools are institutions with many important structures and guidelines that teachers must follow. Effective creative teaching strikes a delicate balance between…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Creativity, Music, Creative Activities
Council of Chief State School Officers, 2011
The purpose of this document is to serve as a resource for states, districts, professional organizations, teacher education programs, teachers, and others as they develop policies and programs to prepare, license, support, evaluate, and reward today's teachers. A systemic approach and supportive infrastructure are essential to successful…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, State Standards, National Standards, Instructional Leadership
Venzen, Carine – ProQuest LLC, 2011
In order to "offer a first class educational experience and become the system of choice for all families the school system," challenged individual schools within the district to select and implement innovative educational theme based programs, coupled with the framework of Georgia Performance Standards (GPS), to increase the quality of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Mathematics Achievement, Program Effectiveness, Mathematics Tests
Aikens, Nikki; Akers, Lauren – Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., 2011
As part of the Universal Preschool Child Outcomes Study (UPCOS-4), the authors are conducting a qualitative examination of quality support coaching in the Los Angeles Universal Preschool (LAUP) including an analysis of how coaching is being interpreted and implemented in the variety of contexts found in LAUP. This qualitative study will inform the…
Descriptors: Research Reports, Literature Reviews, Coaching (Performance), Qualitative Research
Scott-Little, Catherine; La Paro, Karen M.; Thomason, Amy C.; Pianta, Robert C.; Hamre, Bridget; Downer, Jason; Burchinal, Margaret; Howes, Carollee – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2011
Research suggests that teachers' interactions with preschool-age children have a significant influence on what children learn and the skills they develop. Additional research is needed to systematically determine the types of professional development that can help teachers learn effective teaching practices. This study is part of a larger effort…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Literacy, Professional Development, Teaching Methods
Bos, Beth – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2011
Teacher preparation for the 21st century deserves a front-end approach to addressing the use of technology in the learning environment. To study the effect of instructing with technology, pedagogy, and content knowledge (TPACK), teachers were asked to apply pedagogical, mathematical, and cognitive fidelity to technology used in an instructional…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Fidelity, Inservice Teacher Education, Elementary School Teachers
Kulo, Violet A.; Bodzin, Alec M. – Journal of Geography, 2011
This article presents a design-based research study of the implementation of an energy unit developed for middle school students. The unit utilized Google Earth and a geographic information system (GIS) to support student understanding of the world's energy resources and foster their spatial thinking skills. Findings from the prototype study…
Descriptors: Geographic Information Systems, Energy, Instructional Materials, Spatial Ability
Kenney, Jane; Newcombe, Ellen – Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, 2011
Adopting a new teaching approach is often a daunting task especially if one is an early adopter in a limited-resource environment. This article describes the challenges encountered and the strategies used in pilot testing a blended instructional method in a large size class within the college of education at a medium-sized university. The main…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Educational Strategies, Action Research, Student Participation
Tang, Ying; Head, L. M.; Ramachandran, R. P.; Chatman, L. M. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2011
The rapid evolution of System-on-Chip (SoC) challenges academic curricula to keep pace with multidisciplinary/interdisciplinary system thinking. This paper presents a curricular prototype that cuts across artificial course boundaries and provides a meaningful exploration of diverse facets of SoC design. Specifically, experimental contents of a…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Design, Electronics, Systems Approach