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Universal Evaluation: An Invitation to the Creation of Innovative Models for Teacher Training
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Fitch, Rosa Isela Gluyas; Pineda, Ziranda González – Journal of Case Studies in Education, 2014
In 2007, Mexico's Federal Government, through the Public Education Secretariat, started a project with the participation of the states' education authorities in order to optimize teaching and the management of the quality of schools. This project was carried out as a mean to solve the decades of falling behind that the quality of education in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Evaluation, Elementary School Teachers, Educational Quality
Every Day Successes: Powerful Integration of Social Studies Content and English-Language Arts
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Field, Sherry L.; Bauml, Michelle; Ledbetter, Mary – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2011
Instructional time for social studies has been reduced nationwide, particularly in the elementary grades. Yet states continue to promote content standards in history, economics, civics, and geography for young learners. Purposeful integrative content that is appropriate for grades K-6, while sometimes difficult to find, seems to many elementary…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Elementary School Teachers, Social Studies, Language Arts
The Year We Learned to Collaborate
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Silva, Janice; Contreras, Kathia – Educational Leadership, 2011
In 2008-09, Colegio Ingles had a watershed year in terms of teachers learning to enhance one another's skills. Beneath a deceptively congenial surface, teachers at this Mexican preK-9th grade school were avoiding professional confrontations and rarely observed one another's classes or shared teaching solutions and innovations. That same year, the…
Descriptors: Student Centered Curriculum, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers
Mexico, Our Closest Neighbor: Three Elementary Teachers' Perspectives
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Field, Sherry L.; Bauml, Michelle; LeCompte, Karon; Alleman, Janet – Social Studies, 2009
The authors describe how three elementary teachers working in very different parts of the United States teach about Mexico. These teachers' practices allow them to enhance the traditional social studies curriculum, help children learn about themselves and other people, and increase children's capacities for global citizenship. (Contains 1 figure.)
Descriptors: Citizenship, Foreign Countries, Social Studies, Elementary School Teachers
Primary Teachers' Conceptions about the Concept of Volume: The Case of Volume-Measurable Objects
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Saiz, Mariana – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2003
In this paper part of the results obtained by a research project called "Primary Teachers' Thinking about the Concept of Volume and its Teaching", performed from 1997 to 2001, are reported. This paper focuses in one of the two main objectives of the aforementioned research: To describe the mental object volume of the participant…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Concepts, Teacher Attitudes, Workshops
Genesis of the Migrant Binational Program.
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Dorn, Arlene R. – 1996
Through a personal narrative, this chapter describes the history of the Gomez Farias-Pajaro Valley Project, which was renamed Project MEDIR and is now known as the Binational Program. The Binational Program is administered by the Migrant Education Programs in 10 U.S. states and all 31 Mexican states and the federal district of Mexico City. This…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Educational Change, Educational Cooperation, Elementary School Teachers