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Murcia, Karen; Sheffield, Rachel – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2010
Teachers using interactive whiteboards (IWB) effectively can engage and motivate students with a range of digital resources to explore science's role in making sense of our world and to construct knowledge of key scientific concepts. The case study research described in this paper illustrates how interactive pedagogies in the IWB classroom were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Classroom Communication, Action Research, Scientific Concepts
Moore, Claire; Lo, Lusa – Journal of the International Association of Special Education, 2008
An action research study was conducted using the Rainbow Dots strategy to evaluate its effectiveness on reading comprehension skills in a third-grade class with students both with and without a specific learning disability. Results of the study indicated that students' overall performances in reading comprehension have increased. Students also…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Action Research, Learning Disabilities, Inferences
Souto-Manning, Mariana; Hermann-Wilmarth, Jill – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2008
Gay and lesbian issues are often silenced in teacher education programs. Such silencing has serious consequences for teachers who feel unprepared to discuss such issues in their classrooms. Challenging the silence regarding gay and lesbian issues that often permeates early childhood classrooms, we share a teacher's critical inquiry into teaching…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Consciousness Raising, Action Research, Young Children
Simmie, Geraldine Mooney – Irish Educational Studies, 2007
From October to December 2005, six biology associates were employed to progress the connection between curriculum implementation and the continuing professional development of teachers at regional level. The associates worked with one hundred biology teachers in Teacher Design Teams (TDTs) and together they produced eighteen innovative classroom…
Descriptors: Biology, Educational Change, Professional Development, Instructional Innovation
Slepkov, Howard – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2008
Increments in educational budgets have been devoted to professional development for teachers to help them accommodate their practices to the realities of their classrooms. Previous research has suggested that despite this significant investment, there has been little, if any, positive change. This begs the question of what else might be done to…
Descriptors: Action Research, Professional Development, Teacher Improvement, Web Sites
Pyon, Shirley M. – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2008
In this action-research study, a third-grade teacher explores the impact of student blogs on the quality of their mathematical discussions. The teacher introduced math blogs to facilitate a productive online discussion focused on multistep story problems. (Contains 2 figures.)
Descriptors: Action Research, Grade 3, Elementary School Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction
Cullen, Joy L.; Haworth, Penelope Anne; Simmons, Heather; Schimanski, Liz; McGarva, Pam; Kennedy, Eileen – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2009
This article discusses six teaching strategies identified by teacher-researchers as supporting their goal to improve learning and teaching for all children in the intercultural setting of a kindergarten in "Aotearoa" New Zealand. As a Centre of Innovation, the kindergarten received government funding for a 3-year action research project…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Action Research, Early Childhood Education, Bilingual Education
Kang, Nam-Hwa – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2007
This study reports teachers' learning through action research on students' conceptual understanding. The study examined (a) the teachers' views about science teaching and learning, (b) the teachers' learning about their teaching practices and (c) the conditions that supported the teachers' learning through action research. A total of 14 elementary…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Student Attitudes, Action Research, Professional Development
Farrell, Thomas S. C. – Center for Adult English Language Acquisition, 2008
There is a longstanding recognition in the field of language education that teachers must continually reshape their knowledge of teaching and learning. This knowledge is developed initially in teacher education programs, then becomes part of teachers' education throughout their careers through reflective practice. Reflective practice occurs when…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Action Research, Second Language Learning, Criticism
Whitehead, David – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2008
In an educational context, local, ecologically valid tests can reflect the use of literacy and thinking tools. These tests present a challenge to central, content-focused, high-stakes testing, and to transmission approaches to teaching. They require teachers to accept knowledge as a verb, and to design assessment protocols that reflect…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Psychometrics, Test Construction, Educational Assessment
Wilson, Jennifer L. – RMLE Online: Research in Middle Level Education, 2007
In this action research study, 24 preservice middle level educators participated in simulated interdisciplinary teams for a semester. The impact this authentic pedagogy had on preservice teachers' developing knowledge of middle school teaming is documented through student artifacts (e.g., journals, assignments), tape-recorded interviews, and field…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Action Research
Carboni, Lisa Wilson; Wynn, Susan R.; McGuire, Colleen M. – Action in Teacher Education, 2007
This inquiry investigates action research as a tool to facilitate reflective practice in undergraduate preservice teachers. Typically utilized in graduate programs, action research is a viable tool for increasing preservice teachers' systematic classroom-based inquiry. This process is examined through a theoretical framework of narrative inquiry,…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Action Research, Reflective Teaching, Inquiry
Blázquez, Bettiana Andrea – English Teaching Forum, 2007
This article explores the idea that teachers can improve their practice through reflection and action research. The author discusses the constructivist and socio-constructivist roots of action research. The case study explores the use of a project to improve learner autonomy and cooperation. Students made key decisions about the project content,…
Descriptors: Action Research, Reflection, Constructivism (Learning), Case Studies
Doveston, Mary – Pastoral Care in Education: An International Journal for Pastoral Care & Personal-Social Education, 2007
This article reports an action research project in which children, their teacher and the author, and an advisory teacher from a Local Authority collaborated as co-researchers in a project to improve working relationships in the classroom. Both appreciative enquiry and emancipatory research informed the project. This article focuses on one aspect…
Descriptors: Research Projects, Action Research, Listening, Listening Skills
Omelicheva, Mariya Y. – Journal of Political Science Education, 2007
Should political science educators use debate for teaching their undergraduate students? This article argues for incorporation of academic debate into curriculum of undergraduate courses. It demonstrates the process of arriving at a decision favorable of debate through exploration and analysis of competitive reasons, arguments, and evidence for…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Political Science, Action Research, Debate