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Heidi Cian; Alexandria Brasili – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2025
While both citizen science engagements and computational thinking practices can mutually support student ownership in the science classroom, both face similar challenges to adoption in that they require teachers to openly position themselves as learners alongside their students. This dual role--as a teacher and as a learner--poses self-efficacy…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Elementary School Teachers, Self Efficacy, Thinking Skills
Tamashwar Budhoo – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Geometry is a complex subject to teach and learn at all levels in education. Poor performance in geometry in Bermuda has raised concerns about whether teachers are fully prepared to deliver content effectively. The purpose of this research was to examine teachers' efficacy in the geometry classroom using a basic qualitative study design. The study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geometry, Mathematics Instruction, Teacher Effectiveness
Jason Singleton – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study explored how adopting an empathy education framework and strategies for teacher empathy modeling and student-centered learning experiences cultivates more empathy in middle school classrooms. This study extended the work of Snead et al. (2016) entitled "Challenge Course Work around Teaching Empathy in the Classroom."…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Empathy, Student Centered Learning, Middle School Students
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Brooke A. Moore; Earl F. Legleiter; Kylia Owens; Brynne Packard; Jessica Wright – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2024
In rural, geographically dispersed school districts, access to high-quality face-to-face professional development (PD) is challenging. Our study developed and compared the effectiveness of an online PD for middle-school science teachers working in remote, rural areas of Kansas with an evidence-based traditional face-to-face PD with the goal of…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Middle School Teachers, Science Teachers, Faculty Development
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Howard, Christy M.; Miller, Sam – Urban Education, 2022
This study evaluated five teachers from a middle school with a history of low-performances and high teacher turnover. This school participated in a reform program, Pay-For-Performance, where they received financial bonuses to increase performances on literacy and mathematics assessments. Additional requirements included participation in workshops,…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Merit Pay, Teacher Salaries, Incentives
Julie Stivers – Knowledge Quest, 2023
The students at the author's alternative, academic-recovery school come from their base schools and at the author's school are able to rewrite their own school stories. Some of that rewriting naturally happens in the library. Many of the students have experiences at multiple schools, but it is not until they come to the author's school that many…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Grade 8, Middle School Students, Student Participation
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Stieben, Margaret E.; Pressley, Thomas A.; Matyas, Marsha Lakes – Advances in Physiology Education, 2021
Many national reports call for K-12 teachers to increase their content knowledge, expertise in student-centered learning methods, and skills in working with an increasingly diverse student population. Historically, most teacher professional development (PD) has not addressed these multiple challenges. We evaluated two PD models--research…
Descriptors: Teacher Researchers, Teaching Experience, Electronic Learning, Faculty Development
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Hwang, Sunghwan – International Journal of Instruction, 2021
Professional development (PD) has been widely implemented to shift mathematics instruction practices from teacher-centered (traditional practice) to studentcentered. As such, a study examining mediating factors on the relationship between PD and student-centered instruction is of great importance in enhancing the effectiveness of PD and shifting…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Anxiety, Faculty Development, Student Centered Learning
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Julia Shields Chrestay; Kyra Atterbury, Contributor; Janet Chance, Contributor; Stecy Mbemba, Contributor; Helena Miller, Contributor; Joe Alberti, Contributor; Sara Caselle, Contributor; Suzanne Cilli, Contributor; Katherine Collier, Contributor; Erica Darken, Contributor; Emily Goedde, Contributor; Rochelle Krauss, Contributor; Bernadine Magee, Contributor; Noga Newberg, Contributor; An Nguyen, Contributor; Candice Smith, Contributor – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2024
Need in Deed's work with Philadelphia public school teachers and their students centers empathy, informed investigation, and civic action. Bolstered by these values and with the support of the My Voice framework and dedicated Need in Deed staff, educators are equipped to co-create authentic classroom communities with their students. In Need in…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Citizen Participation, Public School Teachers, Empathy
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Soraya Abdulatief; Xolisa Guzula – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Literacy Association of South Africa, 2024
Background: South Africa's "Language-in-Education Policy" (LiEP) provides for bi/multilingual education, but schools are only supported to choose monolingual English language policies from Grade 4 and ignore the learners' home language or languages as resources for learning. Many teachers translanguage orally, using the learners' home…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Writing (Composition), Code Switching (Language), Epistemology
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Mameli, Consuelo; Grazia, Valentina; Molinari, Luisa – Journal of Educational Change, 2020
The aim of this study was to compare students' and teachers' perceptions of two differently organized learning environments, i.e. teacher- versus student-centred activities. Specifically, we considered their views on the dimensions of student agency, responsibility and context equity. The study was held on a sample of 26 teachers and 397 middle…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods, Student Centered Learning
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Burton, Amy – Learning Professional, 2020
Why is formative assessment -- a proven powerful instructional practice -- so elusive in classrooms? As a regional professional learning provider for several years, Amy Burton rarely observed the use of formative assessment, even though, when asked, teachers could define it -- a quick check, during instruction, of what all students understand so…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Formative Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Teacher Attitudes
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Vasil, Martina – International Journal of Music Education, 2019
The purpose of this multiple case study was to examine the practices and perspectives of four music teachers who integrated popular music and informal music learning practices into their secondary school music programs in the United States. A primary goal was to understand music teachers' process of enacting change. Data included 16…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Music Teachers, Informal Education, Secondary School Students
MacDonald, Ronda A. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This study investigated the effectiveness of the role of an instructional technology coach in a K-8 school district in Southern California as a model for professional development for the integration of technology in instruction. It was hypothesized that a change initiative developed with the philosophy of the concerns-based adoption model (Hall…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Coaching (Performance), Faculty Development
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Teeters, Leah A. Peña; McKimmy, Caitlin; Shedro, Michelle; Ashar, Yoni K.; Alvarez, Adriana; Price, Emily Claire; Dimidjian, Sona – Journal of Teacher Education and Educators, 2021
This article investigates a teacher learning program in Mexico, Desarrollo de la Inteligencia a través del Arte: DIA (Development of Intelligence through Art: DIA), that supports teachers in applying holistic approaches to instruction that support social, emotional, academic, and cognitive growth. Using qualitative and quantitative measures, this…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Faculty Development, Holistic Approach, Student Development
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