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McCall, Ava – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2017
After Ava McCall retired from university teaching in June, 2015, she spent the 2015-2016 school year volunteering in a fourth-grade classroom helping to teach Wisconsin history. Her volunteer work was similar to other retired teachers in the local school district who returned to mentor new teachers, volunteer in classrooms, and serve as substitute…
Descriptors: Teacher Collaboration, Teacher Retirement, Social Studies, Elementary School Teachers
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Lava, Valerie F. – i.e.: inquiry in education, 2012
A year-long inquiry was conducted in response to the following questions: How does the relationship and teaching practice of a new co-teaching partnership evolve throughout the course of a school year? How can a consultant support the work of a new co-teaching partnership? The work of a general education and special education teacher in their…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Inclusion, Team Teaching, Classroom Techniques
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Upczak-Garcia, Anne – Educational Leadership, 2012
The author works as a biliteracy teacher in a bilingual school that serves students from K-5th grade. She and her coteacher provide instruction in both English and Spanish to 4th and 5th graders. They have two language arts blocks so that students receive literacy instruction in both their native and second languages, and they teach math, social…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Bilingual Schools, Bilingual Teachers, Team Teaching
Kane, Janine; Henning, John E. – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2004
The purpose of this case study was to describe how a 4th-grade teacher and a TAG coordinator collaborated to improve services for advanced learners without the support of university faculty and with limited resources. Interviews, questionnaires, transcriptions of videotaped consultation sessions, and observations of classroom instruction showed…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Teacher Attitudes, Academically Gifted, Cooperation
Schenectady City School District, NY. – 1975
The Schenectady Intensive Reading Instructional Teams (I. R. I. T.) Program, funded under the Elementary Secondary Education Act Title III, is designed to provide intensive reading instruction to 135 students from eight elementary schools in the district. The students, mostly third and some fourth graders, are nominated by their classroom teachers…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Elementary Education, Grade 3, Grade 4
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Senger, Elizabeth S.; And Others – Teaching Children Mathematics, 1997
Describes a classroom project integrating children's literature, Japanese culture, and geometry that grew out of the local killing of a Japanese exchange student. Fourth-graders read "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes" around which the interdisciplinary unit was developed. Topics covered included Japanese culture, American social…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Childrens Literature, Cultural Education, Elementary Education