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Bauer, Adriana – Teaching Science, 2009
This article evaluates three online educational resources on the Queensland Museum website in terms of their use of ICTs in science education; how they relate to the Queensland Middle School Science Curriculum and the Senior Biology, Marine Studies, Science 21 syllabuses; their visual appeal and level of student engagement; the appropriateness of…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Museums, Scientific Literacy, Science Education
Denham, Kristin, Ed.; Lobeck, Anne, Ed. – Cambridge University Press, 2010
Linguistics is a subject that has remained largely confined to the academy, rather than being integrated into school curricula. This is unfortunate but not surprising, as although some teacher education programs include courses on linguistics, it is not comprehensively integrated into teacher education, so it is largely absent from the curriculum.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Childrens Writing, Speech, Sociolinguistics
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Perso, Thelma – Australian Mathematics Teacher, 2004
This paper will provide an informative backdrop for some professional discussion for teachers of mathematics who teach middle years students in their classrooms. It will also attempt to draw out some likely implications of the generic discussion presented for mathematics teaching in the middle years. It also provides some much needed information…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction, Adolescents, Middle School Students
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Bellert, Anne – Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 2009
This article focuses on the cognitive factors that impact on students in the middle school years experiencing learning difficulties in basic mathematics. It begins with a review of selected literature providing information about the learning difficulties in mathematics. Focus then shifts to an implementation of the "Quicksmart"…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Mathematics Education, Intervention, Standardized Tests
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Prosser, Brenton; McCallum, Faye; Milroy, Philippa; Comber, Barbara; Nixon, Helen – Australian Educational Researcher, 2008
In this paper, we draw on accounts from students to inform a Middle Schooling movement that has been variously described as "arrested", "unfinished" and "exhausted". We propose that if the Middle Schooling movement is to understand the changing worlds of students and develop new approaches in the middle years of…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Early Adolescents, Middle School Students, Student Attitudes
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White, Brian – English Education, 2011
Educational researchers are accustomed to institutional review board (IRB) requirements (e.g., protecting participants) with students often identified as the only "vulnerable population" for IRB purposes. However, as practitioner research has gained more prominence, the vulnerability of teacher-researchers themselves has begun to…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Educational Research, Teacher Researchers, Teacher Motivation
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Hamann, Berta – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2007
German Geography textbooks are structured using the principle of "Systematic Geography based on a regional example" that is predominant in Germany. Compared to other macroregions such as Europe, North America, Africa, or Asia, however, Australia is presented less frequently in school textbooks. Those textbooks which deal with Australia…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Middle Schools, Textbooks, Tourism
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Dowden, Tony – Australian Educational Researcher, 2007
Integrative curriculum design promises much for middle level teachers who wish to develop classroom programmes that will encourage early adolescents to actively engage in their learning (Beane 1990, 1997). Beane's model is highly responsive to the educational and developmental needs of young people. In contrast, multidisciplinary curriculum design…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Curriculum Design, Laboratory Schools
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Adie, Lenore – Journal of Learning Design, 2010
This paper investigates the complex interactions that occur as teachers meet online to justify and negotiate their assessment judgements of student work across relatively large and geographically dispersed populations. Drawing from sociocultural theories of learning and technology, the technology is positioned as playing a role in either…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Theories, Student Evaluation, Curriculum Implementation
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Prosser, Brenton – Australian Journal of Education, 2008
The state of Middle Schooling in many Western countries has been described as under threat, at a crossroads and like a wasteland. Within Australia, it has also been claimed that the past generation focus on Middle Schooling is unfinished and exhausted. But a Middle Schooling movement continues in Australia that provides examples of a way out of a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Middle Schools, Educational Change
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de Jong, Terry; Chadbourne, Rod – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2005
The recent growth of separate middle schools for young adolescents raises the question--do we now need separate teacher education programs in middle schooling? Or, can the staffing requirements of middle schools be met adequately by existing primary and secondary teacher education programs? This paper provides a contribution to answering these…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Middle School Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Graduate Study
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Neville, Mary – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2010
This article discusses a study of three Australian middle-years teachers who deployed Learning by Design principles and practice to support multiliteracies learning through students' production of digital/multimodal texts. The aim of the research was to develop an understanding of how three teachers embraced new e-learning pedagogical designs for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inservice Teacher Education, Urban Schools, Curriculum Development
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de Jong, Terry; Chadbourne, Rod – Middle School Journal (J3), 2007
Over the past 15 years, Australia has seen the growth of separate middle schools for lower secondary school students and in some cases, upper primary school students. For example, every new government high school built in the state since 1995 has taken the form of a middle school for young adolescents and a separate senior campus for young adults.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Trends, Young Adults, Teacher Education Programs
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Watson, Jane M. – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2008
This study documented efforts to facilitate ideas of beginning inference in novice grade 7 students. A design experiment allowed modified teaching opportunities in light of observation of components of a framework adapted from that developed by Pfannkuch for teaching informal inference with box plots. Box plots were replaced by hat plots, a…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Educational Change, Grade 7, Inferences
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Dole, Shelley – School Psychology International, 2003
Issues associated with intervention, systematic errors and upper primary students are addressed through a discussion of results of previous research into seventh graders' subtraction knowledge development by overcoming error patterns in subtraction computation. It is proposed that both good teaching and effective intervention strategies should be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intervention, Learning Problems, Mathematics Instruction
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