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Direct linkHazelton, Melody; Brearley, Donna – Understanding Our Gifted, 2008
Teachers know their students must struggle and grapple with authentic tasks in order to grow stronger. Classroom teachers of the gifted know that their students cannot advance cognitively without facing relevant and challenging material that demands higher level thinking and reasoning. Therefore, the teacher of gifted mathematics students must…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Textbooks, Academic Achievement, Mathematics Tests
Download full textBulgakov-Cooke, Dina – Wake County Public School System, 2010
In 2009-10 Wake County Public Schools System (WCPSS) exited District Improvement in reading and remained in level one for mathematics. All District Improvement efforts gained momentum. The Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP®) continued as the primary focus to meet the needs of limited English proficient (LEP) students in elementary…
Descriptors: Public Schools, School Districts, Educational Improvement, Reading Achievement
He, Ye; Rohr, Jean; Miller, Samuel D.; Levin, Barbara B.; Mercier, Susan – School-University Partnerships, 2010
The purpose of this study was to develop a model for evaluating a professional development school program to enact an evidence-based model for a continuous cycle of program improvement. Guided by the logic model for program evaluation, we developed three survey instruments based on the professional development school standards of the National…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Professional Development Schools, Models, Program Improvement
Wagner, Diana; Baron, Jessica – Online Submission, 2008
This study examines characteristics of teachers participating in the national Guitars in the Classroom program in the 2007-2008 school year. 96 teacher participants from programs across the United States completed an online survey at the start of their professional development programs, usually 6-10 hours. 75 percent of teachers electing to…
Descriptors: Music Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Faculty Development, Computer Mediated Communication
George, Courtney – Middle Grades Research Journal, 2009
This study emerged out of a year-long narrative ethnography that investigated the first year of ESL teachers. It describes key personal, contextual, and structural factors that influenced the teachers' professional beliefs and practices. The focus of this study centers on the conversations of three middle school ESL teachers during new teacher…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Ethnography, Middle School Teachers, English (Second Language)
O'Neal, Debra D.; Ringler, Marjorie; Rodriguez, Diane – Rural Educator, 2008
The number of English language learners (ELL) students in the US is increasing dramatically. The growth is even more evident in rural areas of the United States such as North Carolina where teachers are facing classrooms with a majority of second language learners. The authors conducted a study interviewing 24 teachers at a rural elementary school…
Descriptors: Colleges, Second Language Learning, Interviews, Rural Areas
Rouse, William A., Jr. – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2008
The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, founded in 1987, serves as a clearinghouse for National Board Teacher Certification whereby individuals must demonstrate competence and professional teaching excellence through a two-part process. Accordingly, this particular advanced level of teacher certification has perpetuated the…
Descriptors: National Standards, Teacher Certification, Professional Associations, Accreditation (Institutions)
Peer reviewedVogler, Kenneth E.; Lintner, Timothy; Lipscomb, George B.; Knopf, Herman; Heafner, Tina L.; Rock, Tracy C. – Journal of Social Studies Research, 2007
Social studies and social studies education is in the midst of what aptly can be described as a crisis of relevancy. In today's post-"No Child Left Behind" curriculum defined by test scores and proficiency targets, social studies has, as some have said, "been placed on the backburner" to make room for seemingly more important…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Testing, Program Effectiveness, Social Studies
Wasilewski, Yvonne; Gifford, Beth; Bonneau, Kara – Center for Child and Family Policy, Duke University (NJ1), 2008
The purpose of this report is to provide the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) with information about teachers' responses to School-wide Positive Behavioral Support (PBS) and key educational outcomes on students in North Carolina elementary schools implementing School-wide (PBS). A web-based survey of teachers at eight…
Descriptors: Suspension, Student Behavior, Elementary School Teachers, Program Evaluation
National Council on Teacher Quality, 2010
The 2009 "State Teacher Policy Yearbook" provided a comprehensive review of states' policies that impact the teaching profession. As a companion to last year's comprehensive state-by-state analysis, the 2010 edition provides each state with an individualized "Blueprint for Change," building off last year's "Yearbook"…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Policy, Teacher Evaluation
Oliver, Kevin; Kellogg, Shaun; Townsend, Latricia; Brady, Kevin – Distance Education, 2010
Eight teams of elementary and middle school teachers developed pilot online courses for the North Carolina Virtual Public School (NCVPS) in the USA. A qualitative case study with focus groups and a follow-up survey helped to identify common needs of these non-traditional course designers during course development efforts. Findings suggest virtual…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Focus Groups, Web Based Instruction, Middle School Teachers
Ladd, Helen F. – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research, 2009
This quantitative study uses data from North Carolina to examine the extent to which survey based perceptions of working conditions are predictive of policy-relevant outcomes, independent of other school characteristics such as the demographic mix of the school's students. Working conditions emerge as highly predictive of teachers' stated…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Teacher Surveys, Teacher Attitudes, Statistical Analysis
DODSON, TAYLOR; STAURT, HELEN – 1956
A SUGGESTED GUIDE WAS PREPARED FOR NORTH CAROLINA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHERS TO ASSIST THEM IN PLANNING INDOOR PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES FOR CHILDREN. THE GUIDE IS DIVIDED INTO THREE SECTIONS--GAMES, STUNTS, AND RELAYS. THE GRADE LEVEL, APPROPRIATE EQUIPMENT, FORMATION, AND NECESSARY RULES ARE DESCRIBED FOR EACH GAME AND RELAY. THE STUNTS ARE APPLICABLE…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Games, Physical Activities, Physical Education
Rock, Tracy C.; Heafner, Tina; O'Connor, Katherine; Passe, Jeff; Oldendorf, Sandra; Good, Amy; Byrd, Sandra – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2006
In response to the growing concern of the marginalization of social studies education, members of the North Carolina Professors of Social Studies Education (NCPSSE) organization began a longitudinal study in 2003 to examine elementary social studies education. This study is part of a statewide initiative among six universities in the North…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Longitudinal Studies, Elementary Education, Statewide Planning
Adams, Edgar D. – ProQuest LLC, 2008
The purpose of this study was to determine if there was a significant difference between teachers' perceptions of principals' use of consideration and initiating structure and elementary school student achievement as measured by academic growth according to the results of North Carolina End of Grade tests for reading and math during the school…
Descriptors: Public School Teachers, Teacher Persistence, Statistical Analysis, Grade 5
