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Direct linkShelton, Catharyn; Archambault, Leanna; Harris, Lauren McArthur – Journal of Digital Learning in Teacher Education, 2023
Online educational marketplaces such as TeachersPayTeachers.com (TPT) have become popular among teachers, but the quality of materials offered is inconsistent. This descriptive study explored quality indicators for site materials. Examining a sample of TPT's 100 best-selling 11th-grade U.S. history activities, we compared overall quality scores…
Descriptors: United States History, History Instruction, Learning Activities, Teacher Developed Materials
Harris, Lauren McArthur; Archambault, Leanna; Shelton, Catharyn C. – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2023
Online educational marketplaces have seen remarkable growth, but have had little empirical investigation of the quality of materials, particularly in social studies. This exploratory study examined characteristics and quality of secondary U.S. history resources on TeachersPayTeachers.com. Findings show that activities were esthetically…
Descriptors: Teacher Developed Materials, Instructional Material Evaluation, United States History, History Instruction
Archambault, Leanna; Shelton, Catharyn; Harris, Lauren McArthur – Phi Delta Kappan, 2021
Today, millions of teachers search online to locate ideas and activities for classroom use. While some may visit established curricular sites with vetted classroom materials, many others turn to online educational marketplaces such as TeachersPayTeachers. However, issues of quality on these sites remain in question -- particularly when it comes to…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Educational Resources, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Materials
Harris, Lauren McArthur; Reid, Stephanie F.; Benkert, Volker; Bruner, Jason – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2019
This exploratory case study examined how two teachers used a comparative approach to teach genocide histories in a Holocaust Literature elective course. Through interviews and observations, we studied how the teachers guided students in comparing genocides as well as how they used survivor testimonies in their instruction. We found that teachers…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Death, Jews
Girard, Brian; Harris, Lauren McArthur – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2012
The authors present a case study of a world history teacher's mediation of her students' world historical thinking and writing through unit-level cognitive tools. They analyze both scaffolding and disciplinary tools that the teacher constructed for her students in order to improve their world historical thinking, and the degree to which the…
Descriptors: World History, History Instruction, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Case Studies
