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Louise Ammentorp; Helen M. Coreveleyn – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2024
"Let Nature Be Your Teacher: Integrating Nature-Based Learning in the Elementary Classroom" advocates for a transformative shift in elementary education through incorporating nature-based learning into the curriculum. In an era dominated by indoor education and heightened screen time, Louise Ammentorp and Helen M. Corveleyn respond to…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Physical Environment, Outdoor Education, Experiential Learning
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2018
Classroom physical activity is implemented at the classroom level and depends on the support that teachers receive from school administrators, as well as their own buy-in and comfort level. Each classroom is unique, and one prescribed plan for classroom physical activity will not work in all classrooms. Therefore, "Integrate Classroom…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Class Activities, Integrated Activities, Change Strategies
Cervantes, D. J.; Gutierrez, Akira S. – Transforming Education, 2019
In order to further understand what educators can do - and are doing - to build strong relationships, Transforming Education (TransformEd) has produced a series of briefs or "stories from the field" that are intended to share student and educator perspectives about developing and sustaining strong relationships within the classroom and…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Perspective Taking, Skill Development, Evidence Based Practice
Protheroe, Nancy – Principal, 2009
Frequent five-minute visits focused on specific "look-fors" can give principals valuable information about what's working--or not working--in their schools. A program of brief but frequent classroom walkthroughs has become an increasingly popular strategy in recent years for informally supervising teachers and observing classroom activities. But…
Descriptors: Principals, Classroom Observation Techniques, Class Activities, Educational Environment
Dwyer, David C.; And Others – 1983
This fourth volume of a six-volume study of a school district code-named "Milford" provides an ethnographic account of Kensington School today. Tracing the school's development through the 1979-80 school year, the study's central metaphor is of a ship on a perilous journey. Chapter 1 describes the school's opening day and "Crosscurrents in…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Case Studies, Class Activities, Classroom Environment
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Clandinin, D. Jean – Curriculum Inquiry, 1985
Outlines a study of two teachers' image of "the classroom as home" illustrating how personal and professional experiences are expressed in their classroom practices. Offers a theoretical concept of "image" as knowledge incorporating theoretical, practical, objective, and subjective experience. (MD)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Design, Classroom Environment, Educational Research
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Weisner, Thomas S.; And Others – Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 1988
Presents the results of observation and interview studies of sibling caretaking and peer assistance in Native Hawaiian contexts, and compares these activities in natal and school activity settings. Classrooms should be accommodated to selected features of natal culture activity settings. (Author/BJV)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Environment, Classroom Research, Cultural Context
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Kierstead, Janet – Educational Leadership, 1986
Describes how teachers manage multitask classroom activities by defining teacher and student work cycles, sorting students into attention categories by assessing their work daily, and providing assistance to students according to need. Includes figures illustrating student's and teacher's work cycles and the three levels of classroom decision…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques
Berliner, BethAnn – 2001
This sourcebook assembles the results of research on educating homeless students and offers classroom strategies for people working with homeless students, providing training tools to strengthen programs and practices in schools and shelters. Chapter 1, "Increasing Awareness about Students Experiencing Homelessness," defines homelessness,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Attendance, Class Activities, Consciousness Raising
Brooks, B. David; Paull, Robert C. – 1984
This program is designed to teach students the concept of personal responsibility and its relationship to successful behavior. It is based on the assumption that a systematic presentation of the concepts and skills of personal responsibility will improve individual conduct and have a positive effect on school climate. The program is organized into…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Class Activities, Educational Change, Educational Environment
Barth, Patte; Mitchell, Ruth – 1992
Based on principles of the Council for Basic Education, this book outlines a curriculum and pedagogy for an elementary school which would prepare children for national fourth grade examinations. The book is divided into six sections. The first section examines the background of elementary school students in the 1990s and presents ways for schools…
Descriptors: Art Education, Class Activities, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Evaluation
Bianco-Mathis, Virginia, Ed.; Chalofsky, Neal, Ed. – 1996
This book presents 11 author-contributed chapters concerning the role of adjunct college faculty, ways that such faculty members can obtain resources to maximize their effectiveness, and relationships of adjuncts with other faculty and the administration. Chapters have the following titles and authors: (1) "Program Policies and Administration"…
Descriptors: Adjunct Faculty, Administrator Role, Class Activities, Cognitive Style
Bickart, Toni S.; Jablon, Judy R.; Dodge, Diane Trister – 1999
Addressed primarily to elementary school teachers working with children in grades one through three and grounded in developmentally appropriate practice, this book provides a practical framework for making teaching effective and learning meaningful for children in these early grades. Chapters in Part 1 of the book each present one of six teaching…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Computer Uses in Education
Pasko, Edward Anthony – 1992
This handbook provides guidelines and forms for evaluating second language teachers' performance and second language programs. The first section, which addresses the supervision and evaluation of language teachers, outlines basic principles (supervisory goals, evaluator attitudes, supervisory visits, and follow-up conferences), gives instructions…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Classroom Observation Techniques
Bathurst, Effie G.; Franseth, Jane – Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1951
This bulletin describes practices in one- and two-teacher schools that are helping rural boys and girls get a good education. It contains suggestions for improving the programs of schools that do not meet the needs of boys and girls in the country today. In the school year 1947-48, there were approximately 75,000 one-teacher schools and 18,000…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, One Teacher Schools, Public Schools