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Lock, Jennifer; Duggleby, Sandra – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2018
In today's classrooms, learning does not have to be bounded by physical space. By having access to a range of digital communication technologies, students and teachers can synchronously and asynchronously engage in authentic learning opportunities extending beyond the local community. They can be learning and interacting with others from around…
Descriptors: Quality of Life, International Cooperation, Information Technology, Cooperative Learning
Toney, Jennifer L. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purposes of this qualitative study, viewed through the New Literacy Studies (NLS) theoretical lens, were to explore third grade students' literacy practices as they composed multimodal informational texts in a digital writing workshop; and examine how these students composed multimodally in a digital format and what their perspectives were on…
Descriptors: Writing Workshops, Multiple Literacies, Case Studies, Grade 3
De Nigris, Rosemarie Previti – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The hypothesis of the study was explicit gradual release of responsibility comprehension instruction (GRR) (Pearson & Gallagher, 1983; Fisher & Frey, 2008) with the researcher-created Story Grammar Code (SGC) strategy would significantly increase third graders' comprehension of narrative fiction and nonfiction text. SGC comprehension…
Descriptors: Direct Instruction, Story Grammar, Grade 3, Elementary School Students
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Shifflet, Rena; Hennig, Lauren – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2017
Lauren Hennig is a relatively new third grade teacher in Charleston, Illinois. She knows that patiently listening to others and respectfully sharing one's own opinion is a learned skill that's essential for promoting and sustaining our democracy. This is the story of how Lauren works to help her students develop this skill through student-led…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Elementary School Teachers, Teaching Methods, Democracy
Bauer, Rebecca Lee – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This study explored the lived experiences of three third grade emergent bilinguals learning English literacies such as speaking, reading, and writing in school using a post-intentional phenomenological approach (Vagle, 2014). Learning what is unfamiliar, especially academics can be challenging for emergent bilinguals. Young elementary children are…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Elementary School Students, Phenomenology, Bilingualism
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Tarchi, Christian; Pinto, Giuliana – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2015
Different schools apply different educational approaches, and different learning concepts interpret knowledge in different ways. The two dominant perspectives classify learning as the acquisition of knowledge, or as participation in school practices. In order to support teachers in choosing the educational method that best fits their teaching…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Interaction, Cooperative Learning, Teamwork
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Sekeres, Diane Carver; Castek, Jill – Journal of Interactive Online Learning, 2016
This study examines third, fourth, and fifth grade students' reasoning that was captured as they engaged collaboratively in a teacher designed inquiry task. This task focused on choosing eco-friendly toys for a fictitious local toy store. Results indicated that students were more expressive with reasoning when they shared their ideas orally, but…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Cooperative Learning, Online Courses, Information Literacy
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Cardenuto, Nancy E. – Multicultural Education, 2015
Elementary teachers face the challenging task of meeting state curriculum standards while at the same time attempting to expand ideas that are inclusive of the wider world. True inquiry is "experienced when those involved [do] not know the answers that lay at the end of their exploration". Guiding children into true inquiry is difficult…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Social Studies, Inquiry, Teaching Methods
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Kim, Mijung – International Journal of Science Education, 2016
Research on young children's reasoning show the complex relationships of knowledge, theories, and evidence in their decision-making and problem solving. Most of the research on children's reasoning skills has been done in individualized and formal research settings, not collective classroom environments where children often engage in learning and…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Elementary School Students, Grade 2, Grade 3
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Campbell, Terry; Hlusek, Michelle – Reading Teacher, 2015
In the classroom experiences described in this article, grade three students were introduced to storytelling through the interactive read aloud of a mentor text and a storytelling demonstration, followed by daily collaborative activities involving listening, speaking, reading, and writing, culminating in dramatic storytelling performances. The…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Reading Fluency, Elementary School Students, Grade 3
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Karacop, Ataman; Diken, Emine Hatun – Journal of Education and Practice, 2017
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of laboratory approach based on jigsaw method with cooperative learning and confirmatory laboratory approach on university students' cognitive process development in Science teaching laboratory applications, and to determine the opinions of the students on applied laboratory methods. The…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Science Teachers, Science Process Skills, Class Activities
Reinhard, Mary Jo – Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education, 2017
Part of the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE) research series titled "Teachers' Time: Collaborating for Learning, Teaching, and Leading," this case study looks at Pagosa Springs Elementary School, which is located in the Town of Pagosa Springs, Colorado. The school serves students in kindergarten through fourth…
Descriptors: Teacher Collaboration, Elementary School Teachers, Kindergarten, Grade 1
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Kanevsky, Lannie – International Journal of Special Education, 2015
Pedagogical shifts favouring collaborative learning and findings of recent studies have raised concerns regarding the claim that gifted students prefer to learn alone. The purpose of this study was to further investigate if, when and how high ability learners want to work with or without others. The distributions of 416 high ability students (n =…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Cooperative Learning, Independent Study, Student Surveys
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Madden, Nancy A.; Slavin, Robert E. – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2017
This article reports on 2 experiments in inner-city Baltimore evaluating a computer-assisted tutoring approach, Tutoring With Alphie (TWA), in which 1 paraprofessional can work with up to 6 children at a time. In Study 1, we randomly assigned 14 schools to receive TWA or to continue with whatever approaches they were currently using. Each…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Technology, Tutoring, Randomized Controlled Trials
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Chen, Bodong; Scardamalia, Marlene; Bereiter, Carl – International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 2015
Evaluating promisingness of ideas is an important but underdeveloped aspect of knowledge building. The goal of this research was to examine the extent to which Grade 3 students could make promisingness judgments to facilitate knowledge-building discourse. A Promising Ideas Tool was added to Knowledge Forum software to better support…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Learning Processes, Epistemology
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