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Sampson, Victor; Enderle, Patrick; Gleim, Leeanne; Grooms, Jonathon; Hester, Melanie; Southerland, Sherry; Wilson, Kristin – NSTA Press, 2014
Are you interested in using argument-driven inquiry for high school lab instruction but just are not sure how to do it? You are not alone. This book will provide you with both the information and instructional materials you need to start using this method right away. "Argument-Driven Inquiry in Biology" is a one-stop source of expertise,…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Instruction, Scientific Research, Persuasive Discourse
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Crooks, Valorie A.; Castleden, Heather; Tromp-van Meerveld, Ilja – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2010
The authors reflect critically on their experiences of teaching research methods/methodology/techniques (MMT) courses in human geography for the first time. Through a highly reflexive process involving journaling, they engage with the broader scholarship of teaching and learning approach. Three themes characterize commonalities in their…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Human Geography, Prior Learning, Teaching Methods
Dolgon, Corey, Ed.; Mitchell, Tania D., Ed.; Eatman, Timothy K., Ed. – Cambridge University Press, 2017
With contributions from leading experts across disciplinary fields, this book explores best practices from the field's most notable researchers, as well as important historically based and politically focused challenges to a field whose impact has reached an important crossroads. The comprehensive and powerfully critical analysis considers the…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Best Practices, Teaching Methods, Educational Practices
Gillespie, Tim – Stenhouse Publishers, 2010
One of the greatest challenges for English language arts teachers today is the call to engage students in more complex texts. Tim Gillespie, who has taught in public schools for almost four decades, has found the lenses of literary criticism a powerful tool for helping students tackle challenging literary texts. Tim breaks down the dense language…
Descriptors: Literary Criticism, English Instruction, Class Activities, Teaching Methods
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Atkinson, Becky – Journal of Educational Research, 2010
Using a reader-response approach, the author examines practitioners' interpretations of three narrative inquiry texts to highlight how their responses suggest ways to enhance and more particularly nuance narrative inquiry representations of teaching practice. She asserts that the transactive character of the reader-response relationship across…
Descriptors: Personal Narratives, Teaching Methods, Inquiry, Criticism
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Hunter-Lombardi, Brooke – SchoolArts: The Art Education Magazine for Teachers, 2009
In the August/September 2008 issue of "SchoolArts," the author talked about strategies for helping students develop content and good working habits to support making portfolio-quality pieces. In this article, she offers some tips which focus on the importance of critique, presentation, and selection of images to end up with a polished,…
Descriptors: Portfolios (Background Materials), Studio Art, Art Criticism, Material Development
Pahl, Kate; Rowsell, Jennifer – Teachers College Press, 2010
To re-engage students with literacy, teachers need an entry point that recognizes and honors students' out-of-school identities. This book looks at how artifacts (everyday objects) access the daily, sensory world in which students live. Exploring how artifacts can generate literacy learning, the book shows teachers how to use a family photo,…
Descriptors: Cultural Centers, Museums, Literacy, School Community Relationship
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Curdt-Christiansen, Xiao Lan – International Journal of Educational Research, 2010
This paper explores a group of Singaporean English language teachers' knowledge and beliefs about critical literacy as well as their perspectives on how best to teach literacy and critical literacy in Singapore schools. A face-to-face survey was conducted among 58 English language teachers by using open-ended questions. The survey covered various…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Beliefs, Criticism, Foreign Countries
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Reuber, Alexandra – Journal of College Teaching & Learning, 2010
Teaching literary theory is fascinating for those who love the application of theory to a literary text, difficult for those who are of the opinion that theory destroys the actual beauty and value of the fictional source, and unfortunately often boring for those who are taught. This article, however, provides a popular approach to the introduction…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Literary Criticism, Theory Practice Relationship, Reader Text Relationship
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Tyma, Adam W. – Communication Teacher, 2008
When working with students to prepare oral presentations, the question--"What makes an effective visual aid?"--often arises. Most teachers realize the value of visual aids, but what makes them effective is sometimes unclear. There seems to be a disconnect between what the teacher, the textbook, and the student actually perceive to be a "good"…
Descriptors: Public Speaking, Visual Aids, Experiential Learning, Class Activities
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Waldron, Janice – Philosophy of Music Education Review, 2008
What professional musicians say and do affects the attitudes and actions of music educators in the classroom. One example comes from influential conductor/composer, Gunther Schuller, who, in his controversial 1997 book, "The Compleat Conductor", defines, espouses, and recommends his own "philosophy of conducting." An examination of his ideas and,…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music, Educational Philosophy, Musicians
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Golden, John – English Journal, 2009
The author does not really like "Hamlet." He loves the play, the language, and the characters, but always finds it difficult to teach. Part of this is because he prefers to assign students scenes to perform as they read a Shakespeare text, but Hamlet does not divide nicely into manageable scenes, and he usually does not have enough teenage Ken…
Descriptors: Drama, Play, English Literature, English Instruction
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Hogg, Max – School Science Review, 2010
In a context where the science underlying global issues such as climate change often loses out to political opinions and distortions, science teachers have a unique and very important role. Science teachers can use global-learning approaches to encourage learners to develop skills in scientific enquiry and critical analysis of scientific issues.…
Descriptors: Criticism, Science Teachers, Climate, Teaching Methods
Costley, Kevin C. – Online Submission, 2009
In 1970, journalist and scholar Charles Silberman published "Crisis in the Classroom; the Remaking of American Education." His intended audiences was teachers and students, school board members and taxpayers, public officials and civic leaders, newspaper and magazine editors and readers, television directors and viewers, parents and children.…
Descriptors: Humanistic Education, Criticism, Educational Change, Males
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Elliott, David J. – Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education, 2008
In this article, the author engages in a lively interactive discussion with Paul Woodford's text, "Democracy and Music Education." He questions Woodford's criticism of Praxial Music Education (PME)--particularly his dismissal of PME as a "performance alone" notion. PME, this author asserts, is fundamentally multidimensional, contextually reflexive…
Descriptors: Music Education, Teaching Styles, Music, Democracy
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