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Drayton, Brian; Bernstein, Debra; Schunn, Christian; McKenney, Susan – Science Education, 2020
This study examines and compares how developers designed two primary science curricula to support teacher adaptation and enable use of innovative materials at scale. The two cases--"Literacy Science" (a science and literacy curriculum for grades 2-5) and "Science as Inquiry" (a curriculum focused on matter for grades 3-5)--were…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Science Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Literacy Education
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An, Guiqing; Chen, Yanru; Fang, Yanping; Liu, Jingwen – International Journal for Lesson and Learning Studies, 2022
Purpose: Lesson study (LS) is generally regarded as a pathway for teachers' professional development and a method for teachers' instructional research. LS has been regarded as having the potential to drive large-scale reform but little is known about how it does so from a district level. Therefore, this paper aims to reveal how lesson study…
Descriptors: Lesson Plans, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, School Districts
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Hall, James M.; Gaynor, Brian – TESL-EJ, 2020
This article reports on the design and implementation of an innovative primary EFL program in Myanmar. Begun in 2014, the program is part of the CREATE Project, a joint initiative between the Myanmar Ministry of Education and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). The project has involved the planning, designing and implementation of a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Curriculum Development
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Linder, Sandra M. – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2012
This article presents results from a case study analyzing the process of change for early childhood educators as they engage in a semester-long professional development (PD) experience focused on developing a teacher research agenda related to mathematics instruction. During this PD experience, 11 participants (5 second-grade and 6 third-grade…
Descriptors: Teacher Researchers, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Action Research
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Riley, Patricia E. – Research and Issues in Music Education, 2013
This case study consisted of an examination of the perspectives of students, teachers, and administrators at the Shuangling Primary School, a rural Chinese school in Shaanxi Province, as they relate to themes of China's most recent curricular reform efforts. The intent was to understand these perspectives and determine how to best assist teachers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music, Music Education, Music Teachers
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Walsh, Glenda; Gardner, John – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2006
Early years classroom practice in Northern Ireland is perceived to be dominated by a traditional teacher-directed model to the detriment of a more constructivist, play-based and child-initiated learning environment favoured in many nations' early education provision (see for example Walsh, 2000). In 2002, the Northern Ireland Council for…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Curriculum Development