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João Torres; João Grácio; Maria Do Rosário Rodrigues; Miguel Figueiredo – Educational Media International, 2023
The GEN10S Portugal project offered 15-hour face-to-face Scratch programming courses to groups of students and two or more teachers from each class, from schools that were project members. Two Scratch teachers per class, hired by the project, participated in 12 of these 15 hours, supporting the activities. When the schools' face-to-face activities…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Programming, Minicourses, Digital Literacy
Pamela Snow; Tanya Serry; Eamon Charles; Joanna Barbousas – Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 2024
Coverage of reading and reading instruction in initial teacher education is highly contested, with the "reading wars" representing decades of debate concerning approaches that should be promoted to teachers-in-training. Empirical evidence strongly endorses explicit and systematic teaching of code-based skills as a starting point,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
Cristyne Hébert; Trudy Keil – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2025
This pilot project examines the experiences of a small sample (n = 4) of elementary pre-service teachers (PSTs) as they designed and attempted to implement a series of short lessons, or mini-units, using Ozobots or Makey Makeys during their field experience. Results indicated that, despite the fact that none of the PSTs were able to deliver their…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Elementary School Teachers, Technology Uses in Education
Jessica F. Cantlon; Katherine T. Becker; Caroline M. DeLong – Journal for STEM Education Research, 2024
STEM experiences that capture students' curiosity have a unique role in inspiring awe in science, enculturing science engagement, and recruiting students to pursue STEM careers. Here, we present a unique interdisciplinary STEM experience for elementary school students that teaches them to write computer code to test primate intelligence at a zoo…
Descriptors: Authentic Learning, Interdisciplinary Approach, STEM Education, Elementary School Students
Xie, Zhiyong; Xiao, Leifeng; Hou, Meiteng; Liu, Xianling; Liu, Jian – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2021
The article introduces a mathematics education measure in response to the COVID-19 epidemic in China and explores students' degree of approval and perception of digital equity towards the response. After the outbreak of the COVID-19, "the Chinese New Century Primary School Mathematics Textbook" (NCPM) committee had developed a series of…
Descriptors: Minicourses, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Mathematics, Mathematics Education
Persons, Marij; de Groot, Yvonne; Stoffels-Engering, Anneke – Gifted Education International, 2020
We work as teachers in one-day-a-week classes for gifted elementary school students in the Netherlands. The classes are centred on themes that last about 8 weeks. Twice a year, the students work on a project using the TASC Wheel to systematically gain more knowledge on the subject as well as to practise their executive skills. As an example of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academically Gifted, Gifted Education, Elementary School Students
Cofré, Hernán; Vergara, Claudia; Lederman, Norman G.; Lederman, Judith S.; Santibáñez, David; Jiménez, Javier; Yancovic, Macarena – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2014
Understanding nature of science (NOS) is considered critical to the development of students' scientific literacy. However, various studies have shown that a large number of elementary and secondary science teachers do not possess an adequate understanding of NOS. This study investigated how elementary teachers' understanding of NOS was impacted…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Faculty Development
Zhang, Jinbao, Ed.; Yang, Junfeng, Ed.; Chang, Maiga, Ed.; Chang, Tingwen, Ed. – Lecture Notes in Educational Technology, 2016
Intended to promote the innovative use of technology in education and promote educational advances all over the world, this volume brings together 16 best-practice cases on technology-enhanced educational innovations. Experts from Turkey, Tunisia, Cyprus, Italy, Malaysia, China, India and Finland have contributed to these cases, highlighting the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Best Practices, Educational Innovation, Technology Uses in Education
Broyles, Iris A. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This study evaluated the effectiveness of a distributed cognition hybrid minicourse in increasing a 1-day camp's ability to effect long-term knowledge retention and pro-environment attitudes and behaviors in sixth graders. The preevent-postevent minicourse was designed to reduce cognitive overload generated by an intense immersion into the…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Pretests Posttests, Grade 6, Minicourses
Sigel, Deena – Journal of Jewish Education, 2009
The Torah teacher faces a dilemma of how to teach complex, ancient, sacred texts to modern children. How can she convey the relationship between rabbinic commentary and Scripture? This article recounts the story--and the challenges--of one midrash mini-course that I taught an American class as part of a wider research project. The aim of the…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Metropolitan Areas, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
Newton, Douglas P.; Newton, Lynn D. – Educational Studies, 2009
Primary school teachers generally have to teach several subjects. Their training, however, is often fairly short and it is tempting to force-feed them with everything they need to know to teach these subjects. It is more realistic to accept that a short course cannot do everything. Instead, it would be better to equip these students with skills…
Descriptors: Minicourses, Problem Based Learning, Skill Development, Teaching Methods