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Adriana Mockovcáková; Alexia Barrable – International Journal of Early Childhood Environmental Education, 2024
Nature connection has been found in previous research to be a predictor of pro-environmental attitudes and behaviours. For this reason, efforts to build children's nature connection through a variety of avenues, including environmental education, have been explored by practitioners and researchers alike. In this paper we undertook a purposive…
Descriptors: Natural Resources, Environmental Education, Ecology, Student Characteristics
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Tinajero, Roberto; Todd, Anjanette; Tinajero, Josefina Villamil; Peterson, Sarah E. – Middle School Journal, 2023
On August 3rd, 2019, a racially-charged mass shooting occurred at Walmart in El Paso, TX that killed 23 people and injured another 23. Following the Walmart shooting, students in this borderland region wrote essays related to their experiences. We used the themes we identified to inform implications for teaching writing and composition for middle…
Descriptors: Violence, Weapons, Homicide, Student Experience
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Davy Tsz Kit Ng; Jiahong Su; Jac Ka Lok Leung; Samuel Kai Wah Chu – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
Artificial intelligence (AI) literacy has emerged to equip students with digital skills for effective evaluation, communication, collaboration, and ethical use of AI in online, home, and workplace settings. Countries are increasingly developing AI curricula to support students' technological skills for future studies and careers. However, there is…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Software, Technology Uses in Education, Secondary School Students
Wilson, Donna; Conyers, Marcus – Teachers College Press, 2020
This is the second edition of the seminal text designed to empower educators with an innovative and inspiring conceptual framework for effective teaching. This bestseller is grounded in the synergy of five big ideas for connecting mind, brain, and education research to classroom practice: neuroplasticity, potential, malleable intelligence, the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Brain, Cognitive Processes, Neurology
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Paulson, Lisa; McMullen, Jaimie – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2023
Cooperating Teachers are an integral part of physical education teacher education candidates' field experience. With an increasingly diverse student population, it is important that teachers have the knowledge and skills to teach high quality, and socially-just physical education. In addition to the increased focus on equity, diversity and…
Descriptors: Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Student Diversity, Teacher Competencies
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Maura Sincoff – English Journal, 2016
This article examines relationships in the writing process and offers some strategies to address student needs on both the cognitive and affective domains.
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Writing Strategies, Student Needs, Cognitive Processes
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Malu, Kathleen F.; McNeal, Kelly – English Teaching Forum, 2017
In this article the authors describe how a specific technique--having learners create cartoons based on a reading passage--helped learners explore their understanding of reading passages and helped the teachers reflect on what the learners had comprehended.
Descriptors: Cartoons, Teaching Methods, Reading Comprehension, English (Second Language)
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Branoff, Theodore; Ernst, Jeremy V.; Clark, Aaron C.; Deluca, V. William; Kelly, Daniel P. – Technology and Engineering Teacher, 2018
Being able to accurately evaluate students' cognitive, affective, and psychomotor development at the beginning of a course is critical for teachers to create meaningful learning experiences for them. Initial student evaluation provides teachers with quick perceptive and practical knowledge of student characteristics as well as a diagnosis of what…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Student Characteristics, Evaluation Methods, Academic Ability
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Jolivette, Kristine; Parks Ennis, Robin; Swoszowski, Nicole Cain – Beyond Behavior, 2017
Educators who work with students with emotional and behavioral disorders may seek instructional strategies that are effective yet practical in the classroom. These strategies need a research base to support them and minimal time and/or effort to prepare or implement. One research-based option for educators across a variety of contexts is…
Descriptors: Feasibility Studies, Classroom Techniques, Behavior Disorders, Affective Behavior
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Finelli, Cynthia J.; Nguyen, Kevin; DeMonbrun, Matthew; Borrego, Maura; Prince, Michael; Husman, Jennifer; Henderson, Charles; Shekhar, Prateek; Waters, Cynthia K. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2018
In spite of considerable evidence of the effectiveness of active learning and other contemporary teaching methods, barriers to adoption of those methods, such as possible student resistance, continue to exist. This study addresses student resistance by analyzing data from 1,051 students who completed our Student Response to Instructional Practices…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Resistance (Psychology), Barriers, Student Attitudes
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Metzger, Kelsey J.; Smith, Brittany A.; Brown, Ethan; Soneral, Paula A. G. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2018
This study describes the development and implementation of an iterative diagnostic and intervention routine designed to elicit and quantitatively describe aspects of student metacognition, affect, and study habits in a first-year undergraduate biology course. The Student Metacognition, Affect, and Study Habits (SMASH) inventory is a…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, College Science, Undergraduate Study, Metacognition
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Korteweg, Lisa; Root, Emily – Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 2016
Escalating environmental controversies are placing Indigenous peoples and First Nation communities at the front lines of protests, opposing unjust government policies and corporate actions. Yet, many environmental educators are not actively engaged or affectively learning about Indigenous Land struggles against Canada's colonial oppressions.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Canada Natives, Environmental Education
Ritchotte, Jennifer; Lee, Chin-Wen; Graefe, Amy – Free Spirit Publishing, 2019
The underrepresentation of students from historically marginalized populations--including English language learners, twice-exceptional students, culturally and linguistically diverse students, and economically disadvantaged students--in our gifted programs and services continues to be a critical issue in education. The importance of a caring and…
Descriptors: Disproportionate Representation, English Language Learners, Gifted Disabled, Cultural Differences
Baroutsis, Aspa, Ed.; McGregor, Glenda, Ed.; Mills, Martin, Ed.; TeRiele, Kitty, Ed – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018
Alternative and flexible education settings may come in different forms, but they generally have in common a focus on young people who have been disengaged from conventional schooling. One challenge of these settings, therefore, is to change the way education is offered in order to better engage these students. Much of the onus for this changed…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, Nontraditional Education, Teacher Role, Teacher Attitudes
Hart, Lynn C., Ed.; Oesterle, Susan, Ed.; Auslander, Susan Swars, Ed.; Kajander, Ann, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2016
This book is an edited volume addressing specific issues of significance for individuals involved with the undergraduate mathematics content preparation of prospective elementary teachers (PSTs). Teaching mathematics content courses to this group of students presents unique challenges. While some PSTs enter their teacher preparation with weak…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Elementary School Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Competencies