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Seto, Bethany; Meel, David E. – PRIMUS, 2006
This paper examines various issues surrounding the use of writing in the teaching and learning of mathematics using the voice and experiences of a licensed High School teacher instructing introductory college mathematics as a graduate teaching assistant. In general, we detail the journey taken by this teacher to explore the push for writing by…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, College Mathematics, Biographies, Teaching Assistants
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Mayorga, Mary G.; Oliver, Marvarene – Perspectives in Peer Programs, 2006
Conflict resolution programs are one part of peer programs offered in schools to enhance the development of life skills of students. This article addresses the need for and role of conflict resolution education in the schools. It then describes several approaches to conflict resolution education. A review of outcome research concerning conflict…
Descriptors: Conflict Resolution, Program Effectiveness, Program Development, Program Implementation
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Brewer, Susan; Klein, James D. – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2006
In this study, we investigated the effect of type of positive interdependence (roles, rewards, roles-plus-rewards, or no structure) and affiliation motives (high vs. low) in an asynchronous, collaborative learning environment. College reentry students worked together in small, fully online discussion groups that lasted for seven days. Results…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Discussion Groups, Cooperative Learning, Correlation
Fabian, Hilary; Dunlop, Aline-Wendy – Bernard van Leer Foundation (NJ1), 2007
The transition to primary school is one of the greatest challenges of early childhood. Handled well, it can set children into virtuous cycle of learning. But how can transitions be made more effective? Based on a background paper for UNESCO's Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2007, this paper assesses the literature and draws lessons…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Systems Approach, Young Children, Transitional Programs
Tobin, Kenneth – Journal of Science and Mathematics Education in Southeast Asia, 2007
A tenet that appears to be accepted throughout the world is that effective teachers establish and maintain control over their students. This is an assertion that I challenge and deconstruct. In fact, for many teachers their well-intentioned efforts to establish and maintain control over students lead to their demise as teachers and for many more…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Teacher Effectiveness, Cooperation, Teaching Methods
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Guth, Sarah – Innovate: Journal of Online Education, 2007
In this article Sarah Guth describes an online course for writing research articles in English she developed for engineering students at the University of Padua in Italy. Designed to overcome time-space constraints as well as to provide both linguistic and discipline-specific feedback, the course integrated peer editing as a key component of…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Speech Communication, Writing (Composition), Writing Research
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Lukinbeal, Chris; Allen, Casey D. – Journal of Geography, 2007
This article explores the implementation of critical pedagogic practices into a graduate level landscape seminar Web site. Critical pedagogy seeks to reconfigure student-teacher relationships and disrupt embedded power regimes within academia and society. Critical pedagogic practices create a dialogue amongst learners, where everyone has a stake…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Critical Theory, Seminars, Geography
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Ng, Huey Zher; Hussain, Raja Maznah Raja – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2009
Purpose: The application of a new technology (YouTube) can help lecturers in solving some of the issues related to workload and shifts support to students by giving them more responsibilities in their assessment. The purpose of this paper is to re-characterize the role of the students in the assessment process. Design/methodology/approach:…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Teaching Methods, Social Networks, Student Role
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Prins, Esther – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 2006
This case study examines the roles that a professor, graduate student, consultant, and community education specialist at a public university in California have played in a partnership with an elementary school and a community-based organization in a nearby rural town. The case reveals that individuals' roles and approaches to public engagement…
Descriptors: School Community Relationship, Rural Areas, Partnerships in Education, Case Studies
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Rossi, John Allen – Social Studies, 2006
Even though social studies teachers may value discussion of controversial issues, such practice is rare in most social studies classrooms. Nystrand, Gamoran, and Carbonaro (1998) reported that 90 percent of the instruction they observed in more than one hundred middle and high school classes involved no discussion at all. What teachers cite as…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Teacher Student Relationship, Democracy, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
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Osberg, Jerusha; Pope, Denise; Galloway, Mollie – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2006
Our examination of three schools demonstrates how students can be involved in school reform by giving input about problems, helping design the reform, and sharing implementation responsibilities with adult leaders. Their involvement affects both the reform--as students leave their fingerprints on it--and the students themselves, who show signs of…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Educational Change, Student Participation, Participative Decision Making
Barell, John – Corwin Press, 2006
In a world with increasingly global economies and competition, students need to learn how to think critically and analytically, and to apply the imagination to solve complex problems. Problem-based learning (PBL) does just that, helping students identify problems, pose questions, research answers, report results, and create a stake in learning.…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Teaching Models, Teacher Effectiveness, Problem Based Learning
Lice, Anita; Striedinger, Angelika; Scholz, Christine; Mac Sithigh, Daithi; Fenech, Justin; Miklavic, Klemen; Geven, Koen; Stambolieva, Marija; Haslinger, Susi – National Unions of Students in Europe, 2006
This handbook is an introduction to Lisbon Agenda and it is presented as a basis for ESIB's (The National Unions of Students in Europe) concerted work on the European Union's all-embracing strategy that is changing the parameters of the education systems. The reason for the existence of this handbook is the necessity to coordinate the work on all…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Stakeholders, Foreign Countries, Conferences (Gatherings)
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Boz, Yezdan; Uzuntiryaki, Esen – International Journal of Science Education, 2006
In order to study the beliefs of Turkish prospective chemistry teachers about teaching chemistry, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 12 prospective teachers. Analysis of the interviews revealed that most of the prospective teachers held intermediate (transition between constructivist and traditional) beliefs about chemistry teaching.…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Constructivism (Learning), Chemistry, Student Teacher Attitudes
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Rothbaum, Fred; Nagaoka, Rika; Ponte, Iris C. – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2006
Western investigators assume that caregiver sensitivity takes similar forms and has similar outcomes in all cultures. However, cultural research suggests that sensitivity in the West has more to do with responsiveness to children's explicit expression of need, and that sensitivity in non-Western communities has more to do with anticipation of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Cues, Preschool Children
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