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Ashley Elizabeth Wolstein – ProQuest LLC, 2022
While teachers and schools across the country actively work to impart curricula that is relevant and meaningful to their students, the written standards and reading lists too often represent a Eurocentric perspective and reinforce inequities perpetuated by the status quo. Too frequently, teachers are inadequately supported with or provided…
Descriptors: Ethnocentrism, Literature, Decolonization, Public Schools
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Makaiau, Amber Strong; Tanaka, Noboru – Journal of International Social Studies, 2018
Two international social studies teacher educators and researchers (from Japan and the USA) use qualitative methods to systematically examine the impact of the philosophy for children Hawai'i (p4cHI) approach to deliberative pedagogy on social studies teaching and learning in two countries. The study's participants are two secondary level social…
Descriptors: Philosophy, Citizenship Education, Global Education, Foreign Countries
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Froiland, John Mark; Davison, Mark L.; Worrell, Frank C. – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2016
Among 110 Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders, teacher autonomy support in 9th grade significantly predicted intrinsic motivation for math in 9th grade as well as math course-taking over the next 2 years, both of which in turn significantly predicted math achievement by 11th grade. In a second model, teacher autonomy support was positively…
Descriptors: Pacific Islanders, Student Motivation, Mathematics Achievement, Grade 9
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Seraphin, Kanesa Duncan; Philippoff, Joanna; Harrison, George; Brandon, Paul – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2013
These authors are in the process of completing the development and evaluation of a series of professional development (PD) modules consisting of in-person trainings coupled with online learning support. The PD is grounded in the Teaching Science as Inquiry (TSI) pedagogical framework, which is centered on learning through authentic application of…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Secondary School Teachers, Faculty Development, Inquiry
National Council on Teacher Quality, 2011
For five years running, the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) has tracked states' teacher policies, preparing a detailed and thorough compendium of teacher policy in the United States on topics related to teacher preparation, licensure, evaluation, career advancement, tenure, compensation, pensions and dismissal. The 2011 State Teacher…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Beginning Teacher Induction, Beginning Teachers
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Ornelles, Cecily; Cook, Lyssandra; Jenkins, Amelia – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2007
A focus group of 5 general education schoolteachers from one rural middle school in Hawaii was conducted to investigate their perspectives on the unintended effects of including students with learning disabilities. The general education teachers were asked how the inclusion of students with learning disabilities had impacted (a) their professional…
Descriptors: Inclusive Schools, General Education, Learning Disabilities, Focus Groups