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Russell Gersten; Joseph Dimino; Madhavi Jayanthi; Mary Jo Taylor – Elementary School Journal, 2024
We discuss an original study and two replications conducted over 18 years examining the impact of Teacher Study Group (TSG) in Vocabulary, a professional development (PD) approach for improving pedagogy and student learning. Study 1 focused on the design and development of the PD and included a small-scale randomized controlled trial to assess the…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Vocabulary Development, Teaching Methods, Comparative Analysis
Andersson, Sonja; Bergstrom-Nyberg, Susanne; Dumbrajs, Martina; Dumbrajs, Sivbritt; Martelin, Victoria; Westerlund, Tove – Online Submission, 2010
The authors investigate how an integrative approach can be applied to teaching of different disciplines at school. Interdisciplinarity can be defined as a process of answering a question, solving a problem or addressing a topic that is too broad to be dealt with by a single discipline. In addition to an integrated understanding of the topic, the…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Integrated Curriculum, Problem Solving, Group Activities
Dunn, Arthur W. – United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1915
This description of the plan of civic education in the Indianapolis elementary schools has been prepared because of a growing, general interest in the subject, and because of the numerous inquiries as to existing methods of organized elementary civic training. The Indianapolis teachers and school authorities would be the last to claim that they…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Social Life, Civics, Elementary Schools