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Dooley, Karen – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2009
The arrival of substantial cohorts of English language learners from Africa with little, no or severely interrupted schooling is requiring new pedagogic responses from teachers in Australia and other Western countries of refugee re-settlement. If the students are to have optimal educational and life chances, it is crucial for them to acquire…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Educationally Disadvantaged, Refugees, English (Second Language)
Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Spector, J. Michael, Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaias, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2016
These proceedings contain the papers of the 13th International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA 2016), October 28-30, 2016, which has been organized by the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS), co-organized by the University of Mannheim, Germany, and endorsed by the…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Foreign Countries, Constructivism (Learning), Technological Advancement
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Watson, Jane M.; Nathan, Erica L. – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2010
To capture aspects of pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) not illuminated in an earlier written survey, an interview protocol was used with 40 middle school teachers. The scenarios were intended to elicit teachers' understanding of the big ideas, ability to anticipate students' answers, and intervention strategies for the classroom. This was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interviews, Questionnaires, Teacher Attitudes
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Watson, Jane; Skalicky, Jane; Fitzallen, Noleine; Wright, Suzie – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2009
Among the practical applications of statistics is the collection of data from manufacturing processes. Often collected in the form of a time series, data collected from a series of measurements show the variation in those measurements, such as mass of a product manufactured. Limits are set for quality control and if these are exceeded then a…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Quality Control, Manufacturing, Grade 3
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Yates, Lyn; Holt, Brenda – Australian Educational Researcher, 2009
This article examines a Victorian high school's implementation of a new Year 9 program which was intended to interrupt a traditional academic curriculum and to create an imagined oasis of care and personal development for students. It explores ways in which (1) the existing culture and context of the school continues to frame the subjectivities of…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Teacher Student Relationship, Educational Policy, Program Implementation
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Bate, Frank; MacNish, Jean; Males, Steven – Australian Educational Computing, 2012
This paper provides some initial findings from a current longitudinal study that examines the implementation of a student-owned 1:1 laptop program in a school for boys in Perth, Western Australia. This research tracks 196 students, their families and associated teachers for a 3-year period (2010-2012). Underpinning this research is a mixed methods…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Longitudinal Studies, Educational Objectives, Mixed Methods Research
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Sproston, Carlyn – Educational Action Research, 2008
This article is the story of what happens when students are given the opportunity to be part of the decision-making process, both in the negotiation of what takes place in the classroom and in the "action" of the action research process itself. An action research approach was used as the most appropriate method by which to analyse the…
Descriptors: Action Research, Student Motivation, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
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Comber, Barbara; Nixon, Helen – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2009
A great deal of educational policy proceeds as though teachers are malleable and ever-responsive to change. Some argue they are positioned as technicians who simply implement policy. However, how teachers go about their work and respond to reform agendas may be contingent upon many factors that are both biographical in nature and workplace…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Ethnography, Discourse Analysis, Educational Change
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Thomas, Peter; Martin, Elaine – Computers & Education, 2008
This paper builds on research into using multimedia and hypermedia as creative writing tools and reports on a study in using a hypermedia authoring program with middle-years students at an Australian secondary school. The study explored a classroom where collaborative work built on the technical facilities and expertise of young people. The paper…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Written Language, Hypermedia, Feedback (Response)
Watson, Jane – Australian Mathematics Teacher, 2008
This author was surprised to read a short article in "The Mercury" newspaper in Hobart about blue-eyed people being more intelligent and brown-eyed people having faster reaction times. Such an article invites immediate scepticism from the statistically literate. The lack of data in the article should lead the interested reader to a…
Descriptors: Reaction Time, Human Body, Internet, Middle Schools
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Sanden, Sherry; Darragh, Janine – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2011
In today's Web 2.0 world, teachers are perpetually struggling with how to incorporate technology into the classroom effectively in order to meet the diverse literacy needs of 21st-century learners. Utilizing the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE, 2008) Position Statement addressing these needs, the theoretical framework of Lankshear…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Uses in Education, Web Sites, Electronic Publishing
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Paige, Kathryn; Whitney, John – Teaching Science, 2008
This paper describes an innovation in science pre-service education that endeavours to increase student engagement in learning and doing science in the middle years through integrating science, mathematics and art. (Contains 8 figures.)
Descriptors: Science Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Learner Engagement, Middle School Students
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Clarke, Doug – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2006
About fifteen years ago, the author discovered an interesting activity in some materials that Malcolm Swan from the Shell Centre (University of Nottingham, UK) had developed for the English National Curriculum Council in 1991. The activity, one which has been used by several presenters in professional development workshops in Australia in recent…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Middle School Students, Foreign Countries, Middle Schools
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Main, Katherine; Bryer, Fiona – Australian Educational Researcher, 2007
As a new reform in Australian education, middle schooling has been gaining momentum. The rationale behind middle schooling is to bridge the traditional primary-high school gap and provide a more developmentally appropriate educational experience for young adolescents. Middle schooling in the USA has gone through a "boom-to-bust" cycle…
Descriptors: Educational Experience, Educational Change, Middle Schools, Foreign Countries
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Blackall, David; Lockyer, Lori; Harper, Barry M. – Learning, Media and Technology, 2011
There are movements internationally towards curricula that incorporate values and citizenship education. In Australia, this movement has been illustrated with the adoption of a national curriculum in values education. This has arisen from the perceived need for citizens to hold values around the rights and responsibilities of functioning within a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, National Curriculum, Middle School Students, Citizenship
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