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McVarish, Judith; Ely, Margot; Signer, Barbara – Journal of Urban Learning, Teaching, and Research, 2006
This study rests on written statements made by New York City teachers and administrators. The study documents what a sample of urban teachers of mathematics and school principals in elementary, middle, and high schools state are: impediments of, as well as supports to, their productive teaching of mathematics, and their suggestions of what is…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Urban Teaching, Urban Schools, Teacher Effectiveness
Ko, Bomna; Wallhead, Tristan; Ward, Phillip – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2006
A well-designed professional development (PD) program serves to deepen and extend teachers' subject matter knowledge and extend and refine their teaching practices. However, professional development programs often fail to achieve sustained change in teacher practices and improvement in student learning. In this study the authors attempt to find…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Prior Learning, Workshops, Teaching Methods
Oreck, Barry – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2006
In recent years the arts have been introduced into many pre-service and in-service professional development programs for general education teachers. At the same time, pressure for immediate test-score improvement and standardization of curriculum has limited the creativity and autonomy of teachers. This study, the qualitative part of a…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Creativity, Urban Teaching, Art Education
Goode, Joanna – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2007
Despite the digital saturation of today's youth across demographic groups, students of color and females remain severely underrepresented in computer science. Reporting on a sequential mixed methods study, this article explores the ways that high school computer science teachers can act as change agents to broaden the participation in computing…
Descriptors: Minority Groups, High School Students, Secondary School Teachers, Student Participation
Voltz, Deborah L. – Journal of Urban Learning, Teaching, and Research, 2006
In our current climate of standards-based reform, efforts abound to have all students reach the same goals. At the same time, other educational reforms, such as inclusion, are creating increasingly diverse populations of students in general education classrooms. Consequently, teachers often view inclusion and standards-based reform as incompatible…
Descriptors: Urban Teaching, Educational Change, Individualized Instruction, Standards
McCaughtry, Nate; Barnard, Sara; Martin, Jeffrey; Shen, Bo; Kulinna, Pamela Hodges – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2006
The purpose of this study was to analyze how the challenges of urban schools influence physical education teachers' emotional understanding and connections with their students and the implications on their teaching. Sixty-one elementary physical educators from an urban school district in the midwestern U.S. were interviewed multiple times (N =…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Physical Education, Urban Teaching, Physical Education Teachers
Ince, M. Levent; Goodway, Jacqueline D.; Ward, Phillip; Lee, Myung-Ah – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2006
Teachers' attitudes toward the use of technology vary greatly. Studies show that many teachers have negative attitudes toward the use of technology and that gender differences exist, with females using technology less than their male counterparts. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a technology-focused professional development…
Descriptors: Negative Attitudes, Intervention, Competence, Faculty Development
Alkins, Kimberley; Banks-Santilli, Linda; Elliott, Paula; Guttenberg, Nicole; Kamii, Mieko – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2006
Seven higher education institutions in Massachusetts collaborated to develop and implement Project QUEST (Quality Urban Education and Support for Teachers), a support program for beginning urban teachers. Motivated by both the need to retain beginning teachers beyond the first few years of teaching and the desire to increase urban school…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Urban Teaching, Socialization, Educational Cooperation
Ware, Linda – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2006
This paper describes early efforts underway at City College, New York, to introduce a disability studies content into an otherwise traditional special education programme. The paper draws on previously funded research projects that merged humanities-based disability studies in education, prior teaching experiences and excerpts from the writing of…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Humanities, Teacher Education Curriculum, Teacher Education Programs
Skerrett, Allison – Studying Teacher Education, 2006
In this paper I examine how and to what extent various elements of my biography--race, ethnicity, gender, age, social class background, and prior personal and professional experiences--influenced my relationships with students in a graduate course examining the impact of race, gender, and social class on education. My lived experiences as an…
Descriptors: Biographies, Immigrants, Ethnicity, Females
Cohen, Monroe – Childhood Education, 2006
In this article, the author presents five valuable lessons on how an overseas educational consultant relates to concerns about preparing teachers to work in inner-city ghetto schools. The first lesson is learning to communicate and commune with another culture. Second, is seeing educational problems in a broadened social context. Third, is…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Urban Teaching, Urban Schools, Social Environment
Kulinna, Pamela Hodges; McCaughtry, Nate; Cothran, Donetta; Martin, Jeffrey – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2006
Background: It is critical to understand the contextual factors in schools that influence teaching behaviours and student learning outcomes. This study uses a contextual framework with four domain areas (personal, instructional, institutional, and societal) to take an in-depth look at urban/inner-city teachers' context and the enacted curriculum.…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Teacher Characteristics, Cultural Relevance, Teaching Skills
Brand, Susan Trostle – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2006
Educators have continually sought to achieve a balance between a phonics-based, code-emphasis program and a more holistic, meaning-based approach to emergent literacy instruction. This article describes an integrated phonics and literature-based approach to developing children's emergent literacy skills. These skills included alphabet knowledge,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Phonemes, Language Usage, Play
Washburn, Judith; Powers, Aleeta; Morales, Rosario – Journal of Urban Learning, Teaching, and Research, 2006
In response to the challenges of new state-mandated requirements for teacher credentialing, a team of university faculty and school district representatives worked in a collaborative project to support beginning teachers. The outcome of the collaborative is an innovative program that provides support and formative assessment of teachers during…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Urban Teaching, Formative Evaluation, Masters Programs
Friedman, Audrey A.; Wallace, Elizabeth Kowaleski – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2006
Broad (1999) observed that "troubled borders crisscross the geography of teacher preparation in English" (p. 373), calling for collaboration where preparation is a university responsibility (Gregorian, 2001). This research documents a three-year complex case study that addressed the question: What happens when English, education, and high school…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Secondary School Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Urban Teaching