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Developing Teacher Curriculum Design Expertise: Using the CDC Model in the Music Classroom
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McPhail, Graham; Tibbles, Sally; Cornish, Mary – British Journal of Music Education, 2023
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the impact of the Curriculum Design Coherence Model (CDC Model -- Rata, 2019) on the design practice of two music teachers in a middle school music class in New Zealand. The CDC Model proposes that deep learning first requires deep design coherence. This coherence is generated by three interrelated design…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Music Teachers, Music Education, Middle School Teachers
Facilitating Real-Time Observation of, and Peer Discussion and Feedback about, Practice in Writing Classrooms
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Parr, Judy M.; Hawe, Eleanor – Professional Development in Education, 2017
This study investigates conditions designed to optimize learning where professionals utilize the expertise and support of one another. It describes a research--practice collaboration to enhance teacher knowledge and practice through peer observation of, and feedback about, classroom practice in writing. A collaboratively designed observation…
Descriptors: Observation, Feedback (Response), Writing Instruction, Teaching Skills
Teachers' Attitudes toward Teaching Science in a New Zealand Intermediate School
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Ualesi, Yvonne; Ward, Gillian – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2018
Concern has been raised globally that a lack of interest by teachers towards teaching science has a negative impact on the children they teach. While attention has been paid to the teacher as a contributing factor to students' attitudes, less has been written about the attitudes of teachers. To bridge this gap, the current study examines six Year…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Science Instruction, Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes
The Apiscope Buzz: A Mixed Methods Action Research Project Investigating STEM to STEAM Using the Apiscope as a Tool for Differentiated Teaching and Learning
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Riley, Tracy; Noble, Anne – Teaching and Learning Research Initiative, 2021
This Teaching and Learning Research Initiative (TLRI) project was a 2-year exploratory study focusing on differentiating the curriculum in response to individual learner differences. The project was designed to explore learning and teaching of differentiated scientific content through observational processes and the expression of that learning…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Art Education, Individual Differences, Teaching Methods
Students as Action Research Partners: A New Zealand Example
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Nelson, Emily; Bishop, Penny – Middle School Journal (J3), 2013
Student voice has long been emphasized as a key component of developmentally responsive middle level education. For decades, researchers and educators alike have urged consideration of students' perspectives in the design of curriculum to improve learning opportunities. The purpose of this article is to present a New Zealand example of a middle…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Teachers, Action Research, Student Attitudes
Big Fish, Little Fish: Teaching and Learning in the Middle Years
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Groundwater-Smith, Susan, Ed.; Mockler, Nicole, Ed. – Cambridge University Press, 2015
"Big Fish, Little Fish: Teaching and Learning in the Middle Years" provides pre-service and early career teachers with a pathway to understanding the needs of students as they make the important transition from primary to secondary schooling. The book explores contemporary challenges for teaching and learning in the middle years, with a…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Beginning Teachers, Middle School Teachers, Middle Schools
Leaders for a Movement: Professional Preparation and Development of Middle Level Teachers and Administrators. The Handbook of Research in Middle Level Education.
Andrews, P. Gayle, Ed.; Anfara, Vincent A., Jr., Ed. – 2003
Papers included in this volume include: "Leaders for Movement: An Introduction to the Professional Preparation and Development of Middle Level Teachers and Administrators" (P. Gayle Andrews and Vincent A. Anfara, Jr.); (1) "Middle Level Teacher Preparation: Status, Progress, and Challenges" (C. Kenneth McEwin, Tracy W. Smith,…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Alternative Teacher Certification, Classroom Observation Techniques, Curriculum Development