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Nair, Subadrah Madhawa; Sanai, Mogana – International Journal of Education and Practice, 2018
Students' ESL writing skills in general are not at a desirable level. The objective of this study was to determine the effectiveness of utilizing the STAD [Student Team Achievement Division] method to enhance descriptive writing skills among students in an international school in Selangor, Malaysia. This study employed an action research design.…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Teaching Methods, Descriptive Writing, Writing Skills
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Poon, Chew-Leng; Tan, Doris; Tan, Aik-Ling – Science Scope, 2009
Inquiry practices often involve more student-centered activities where students interact more intensively with materials and with other students during investigations. In addition to monitoring the learning taking place, teachers in an inquiry classroom have to manage more movements of materials and equipment and the social dynamics among…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Teaching Methods, Inquiry, Active Learning
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Hawkes, Mark – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2007
Using collaborative critical reflection as an index, this study examines the asynchronous and face-to-face discourse of 28 suburban Chicago elementary teachers developing problem based learning (PBL) curriculum. Statistical analysis of the corpus produced by the 2 mediums shows that the asynchronous online network emerges as the medium of choice…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Curriculum Design, Online Courses, Problem Based Learning