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Shanahan, Timothy – American Educator, 2020
A recent survey aimed at identifying the most popular current programs used to teach reading found that one common feature of all the top sellers was that they organize their teaching around leveled books. Other recent surveys show that teaching reading with leveled books is on the increase and that teachers believe it is endorsed or supported by…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Reading Instruction, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Reading Material Selection
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David, Ann D.; Consalvo, Annamary; Grote-Garcia, Stephanie; Burke, Amy; Jansky, Katrina; Semingson, Peggy – English in Texas, 2020
This article discusses the current contradictory policies surrounding the push for phonics instruction in Texas schools. Focusing on this current iteration of the reading wars, this article seeks to help teachers develop a historical context for reading instruction, review existing research on learning to read, and turn that knowledge into…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Reading Instruction, Phonics, Educational Policy
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Emden, Markus; Gerwig, Mario; Jänichen, Michael; Wildhirt, Susanne – School Science Review, 2021
Martin Wagenschein's ideas of prioritising phenomena in making sense of science processes have influenced the German "Lehrkunstdidaktik" (art of teaching) approach. This article sketches a "Lehrkunstdidaktik" teaching unit inspired by Michael Faraday's "Chemical History of a Candle." It shows how primary and lower…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Elementary School Science, Secondary School Science
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Brianne Kramer, Editor – Myers Education Press, 2024
In recent years, the field of education has been fraught with a variety of different challenges. A multi-year pandemic, book banning, and legislative efforts seeking to ban Critical Race Theory and LGBTQ positive curriculum have had negative effects on K-12 education, leaving many educators feeling the progress made in several states and…
Descriptors: Activism, Advocacy, Teacher Morale, Democratic Values
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Gallavan, Nancy P.; Whittingham, Jeff L. – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2016
In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson approved legislation to establish the National Park Service (NPS) as part of the U.S. Department of the Interior. It was charged with protecting and managing the 35 National Parks and monuments in the country. One hundred years later, in 2016, the NPS protects and manages more than 400 parks located in all 50…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Educational History, United States History, Parks
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Howard-Shaughnessy, Candice; Bush, Gayle; Cherry, Starla – Strategies: A Journal for Physical and Sport Educators, 2013
Physical education should have a powerful and positive impact on students' ability and desire to be physically active for a lifetime. Increasing physical activity continues to be a national priority because of the positive physical and mental health benefits associated with an active lifestyle (Pangrazi & Beighle, 2010). To promote these…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Activities, Elementary School Students, Exercise
Hall, Gene E., Ed.; Quin, Linda F., Ed.; Gollnick, Donna M., Ed. – John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2018
This enlightening handbook offers current, international perspectives on the conditions in communities, contemporary practices in schooling, relevant research on teaching and learning, and implications for the future of education. It contains diverse conceptual frameworks for analyzing existing issues in education, including but not limited to…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Teaching Methods, Educational Practices, Context Effect
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Muller, Jorg; Norrie, Caroline; Hernandez, Fernando; Goodson, Ivor – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2010
This article explores the restructuring of education in England and Spain. Against a presumably homogeneous global streamlining of educational systems according to competition-driven goals, the comparison of teachers' work-lives and professional knowledge evidences a variety of experiences under-represented in discourses on global restructuring.…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Welfare Services, Knowledge Base for Teaching
Kuhn, Barbel, Ed.; Cavana, Maria Luisa Perez, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012
Using constructivist principles and autonomous learning techniques the ELP has pioneered innovative and cutting edge approaches to learning languages that can be applied to learning across the spectrum. Although articles on the success of the ELP project have appeared in some academic journals, "Perspectives from the European Language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Independent Study, Educational Innovation
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McAninch, Amy C. – Teacher Education and Practice, 2009
Theorizing about teacher education and democracy is a challenging task in the year 2009. According to this author, the antidemocratic forces of the social efficiency movement have intensified with the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act, and recent activities of the Obama Department of Education have ratcheted up social efficiency's premise…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Preservice Teacher Education, Democracy, Teacher Role
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Metzler, Michael – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2009
A debate over the quality of teacher education programs has been ongoing for nearly 100 years. The most current round in this debate started with "A Nation at Risk" (National Commission on Excellence in Education, 1983) and has escalated in recent years to involve an increasing number of participant-constituents, each of whom has voiced…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Physical Education, Excellence in Education, Rhetoric
Cox-Petersen, Amy – SAGE Publications (CA), 2010
This comprehensive text helps prepare pre-service and in-service teachers to build and sustain family, school, and community partnerships that are vital to student success. Focusing on grades preK-8, and with a particular emphasis on diverse families and learners, this book helps teachers to overcome barriers, create action plans, and sustain…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Community Organizations, School Community Relationship, Family School Relationship
Walsh, John H.; Suzzallo, Henry – D.C. Heath and Company, 1915
This textbook is part of a series that aims to develop all the mathematical power needed by the average person in the accurate control of his affairs. The purpose has been to teach first the most important topics of arithmetic and last those least frequently used. This book presents topics, problems, and processes that are representative of the…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Mathematics Instruction, Educational History, Grade 3
Walsh, John H.; Suzzallo, Henry – D.C. Heath and Company, 1915
This textbook aims to develop all the mathematical power needed by the average person in the accurate control of his affairs. The purpose has been to teach first the most important topics of arithmetic and last those least frequently used. In consequence, the teacher may feel that the child who is leaving school at the end of any particular grade…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Elementary Education, Mathematics Instruction, Arithmetic
Walsh, John H.; Suzzallo, Henry – D.C. Heath and Company, 1915
This arithmetic textbook aims to train children to meet the ordinary demands of life. This book fulfills the need identified by school superintendents that the social and economic applications of arithmetic be taught in the upper grades so that grammar school children will have an insight into the typical business practices of modern life.
Descriptors: Grade 7, Arithmetic, Mathematics Instruction, Middle School Mathematics
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