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Krista Senatore – Reading Teacher, 2024
The author, a fifth-grade teacher, describes how she reimagined the literary essay curriculum to amplify student identity, agency, and voice by creating a class podcast. Because of their similar structure and organization, teaching students literary analysis and interpretation through podcast writing offered entry into literary essays. The author…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Essays, Self Concept, Personal Autonomy
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Ash, Andrea Malek; Hand, Brian – Learning: Research and Practice, 2022
The centrality of knowledge construction to student learning is well-recognised in education. In this study, we explore what it means to go beyond knowledge construction to knowledge evaluation, and how knowledge evaluation combined with direct disciplinary access improves opportunities for meaningful learning. We first review literature to…
Descriptors: Learning, Intellectual Disciplines, Evaluation, Scientific Concepts
Andrea Malek Ash – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Students do their best work when they have a sense of agency around science and science learning. Scientific practices like argumentation and critique are areas in which students' agency is especially visible, as they require many points of decision-making and evaluation. While argumentation and critique are fundamental practices in both classroom…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Personal Autonomy, Case Studies, Grade 5
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Gibbs, Brian – Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 2022
This manuscript describes the implementation of a co-created (teacher and researcher) unit of instruction focused on the teaching of war. This unit examines war through a critical lens and emphasizes anti-war movements. A design study this research investigated how the teaching of war as difficult knowledge can impact student sense of critical…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Elementary School Students, War, United States History
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Griffin, Claire; Blatchford, Peter – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2021
A significant increase in the paraprofessional workforce has occurred internationally, aimed at facilitating inclusive education. Within Ireland, this is evidenced in the SNA scheme for pupils with significant care needs. This paper focuses on the constructs of SNA support and pupil independence, as based on large-scale research across 20 Irish…
Descriptors: Criticism, Special Needs Students, Educational Practices, Foreign Countries
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Sun, Jin; Tang, Yixuan – Early Child Development and Care, 2019
This study examined the relationship between aspects of maternal scaffolding and Chinese preschoolers' self-regulation. Thirty-three children aged 3-5 (12 boys and 21 girls) and their mothers from one kindergarten in Nanning, China, participated in 2 dyadic problem-solving tasks. The children's self-regulation was assessed using the tapping task…
Descriptors: Mothers, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Preschool Children, Child Development