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Direct linkStevens, Rachel – Teaching in Higher Education, 2015
Role-play is viewed by scholars as an effective active learning strategy: it encourages participation among passive learners, adds dynamism to the classroom and promotes the retention of material. But what do students think of role-play? This study surveyed 144 students after a role-play activity in a history course and asked them to identify what…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Role Playing, Learner Engagement, Active Learning
Download full textWebster, R. Scott; Wolfe, Melissa – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2013
This paper reports on a case study that was undertaken to discover not only the belief and intent behind the everyday opportunities that four exemplary teachers offered their high performing students but what activities they incorporated into their everyday lessons in an attempt to make sense of how aesthetic experiences may enhance learning. The…
Descriptors: Aesthetics, Teaching Methods, Case Studies, Educational Philosophy
Coffin, Caroline – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2006
This study uses the tools of functional linguistics to illuminate the writing requirements of the history curriculum in the context of Australian secondary schools. It shows how the resulting linguistic description was integrated into a sequence of teaching and learning activities through collaboration between linguists and content/pedagogic…
Descriptors: Language Research, Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Writing Skills
Tasmanian Education Dept., Hobart (Australia). – 1986
Part 1 of this five-part project invites students of the Tasmanian region of Australia to explore the history of Port Arthur, a 19th century penal colony located in Tasmania. The project is based on three ideas: (1) studying history can be educational and enjoyable; (2) imagination is an essential part of studying history; and (3) history is most…
Descriptors: Correctional Institutions, Creative Dramatics, Creative Teaching, Elementary Secondary Education
Tasmanian Education Dept., Hobart (Australia). – 1986
Part 2 of this five part project asks students of the Tasmanian region of Australia to explore the history of Port Arthur, a 19th century penal colony located in Tasmania. The project is based on three ideas: (1) studying history can be educational and enjoyable; (2) imagination is an essential part of studying history; and (3) history is most of…
Descriptors: Correctional Institutions, Creative Dramatics, Creative Teaching, Dramatic Play
Sharpe, Tina; Thompson, Julie – 1993
This package of training materials is intended for use in a professional development program for teachers of two courses in New South Wales: Human Society and the Environment and Technological and Applied Studies. The package consists of nine booklets and a course outline for each course. The first module contains the following: introduction to…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Business, Catholic Educators, Catholic Schools
