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Wilcox, Kristen Campbell; Gregory, Karen; Yu, Lisa – Journal for Leadership and Instruction, 2017
This article reports on findings from a multiple case study investigating the nature of educators' approaches toward monitoring English language learners' (ELLs) performance and using data to improve instruction and apply appropriate interventions. Six New York elementary schools where ELLs' performance was better than predicted (i.e.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Elementary Schools, Elementary School Students
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Chen, Wei-Ren – Gifted Education International, 2017
This qualitative case study explored the operational curricula of an art teacher's responsive pedagogy that focused on the differentiation aspects for artistically talented students in an elementary school in Taiwan. Findings indicate that cultivating a "Jian Zi" is the heart of the value system embedded in the art teacher's responsive…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Art Teachers, Art Education, Talent Development
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Murphy, Richard; Weinhardt, Felix; Wyness, Gill; Rolfe, Heather – Education Endowment Foundation, 2017
Lesson Study is a popular approach to teacher professional development used widely in Japan. It involves a small group of teachers co-planning a series of lessons based on a shared learning goal for the pupils, with one teacher leading the co-constructed lesson and their colleagues invited to observe pupil learning in the lesson. The team then…
Descriptors: Teacher Improvement, Teacher Collaboration, Faculty Development, Foreign Countries
Stearns, Clio – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This dissertation explores the contemporary educational construct known as Social and Emotional Learning, or SEL. It investigates how the child, the teacher and the relationship between children and teachers are figured in the SEL-managed classroom. The dissertation also examines the extent to which SEL is produced by, and productive of, culture,…
Descriptors: Psychiatry, Social Development, Emotional Development, Teacher Student Relationship
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Okumura, Shinji – Online Submission, 2017
This case study explored what pre-service teachers learned through authentic experiences of English teaching for primary students, drawing upon the concept of a Community of Practice. A total of 21 pre-service teachers engaged in the training project--including planning, preparing, and teaching lessons--and wrote reflection papers after thinking…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Communities of Practice, Preservice Teachers, Interviews
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Brezicha, Kristina; Bergmark, Ulrika; Mitra, Dana L. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2015
Purpose: Many of the predominant leadership models acknowledge the need to support teachers' work, but these models rarely specify how to support teachers' implementation process. This article studies the relationship between leadership support and teachers' sensemaking processes. It brings together three divergent bodies of…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Principals, Elementary School Teachers, Educational Change
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Mwanik, Kantim; Orodho, John Aluko – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
The thrust of this study was to examine the critical challenges inhibiting effective participation in education by pupils from rural public primary schools in Central Division, Narok North Sub-County, in Narok County, Kenya. The study adopted a descriptive cross-sectional research design. Combinations of stratified and purposive sampling…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Participation, Rural Education, Elementary School Students
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Chin, Chi-Chin; Yang, Wei-Cheng; Tuan, Hsiao-Lin – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2016
This study explored the effects of arguing to learn in a socioscientific context on the fundamental and derived components of reading, writing, and science understanding as integral parts of science literacy. We adopted mixed-methods in which the 1-group pretest-posttest design with supplemental interviews and questionnaires. The pretest evaluated…
Descriptors: Pretests Posttests, Scientific Literacy, Foreign Countries, Mixed Methods Research
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Hunt, Carolyn S.; Crumpler, Thomas P.; Handsfield, Lara J. – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2016
We consider how research participants engage alongside researchers as choreographers of data generation and highlight the everyday practices of researchers and participants "in motion" within and across time and space. Data for this case analysis were generated during a two-year qualitative study investigating multimodal literacies,…
Descriptors: Writing Workshops, Bilingual Education, Qualitative Research, Ethnography
Fitzallen, Noleine – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2016
Research that has explored students' interpretations of graphical representations has not extended to include how students apply understanding of particular statistical concepts related to one graphical representation to interpret different representations. This paper reports on the way in which students' understanding of covariation, evidenced…
Descriptors: Statistical Data, Graphs, Mathematical Concepts, Concept Teaching
Escalante, Karen Elizabeth – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This study applies transformational leadership theory practices, specifically inspiring a shared vision, modeling the way and enabling others to act to examine the purposeful ways in which principals work to build the next generation of teacher leaders in response to the dearth of K-12 principals. The purpose of this study was to discover how one…
Descriptors: Capacity Building, Principals, Transformational Leadership, Educational Practices
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Çakici, Yilmaz – International Journal of Higher Education, 2018
The aim of this study is to investigate primary student teachers' drawings of the human internal organs, e.g. location, size and presence of organs (heart, lungs, stomach, liver, kidneys, pancreas and intestines etc.) This research was conducted with 104 primary teacher candidates studying in the Faculty of Education at Trakya University during…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Student Teachers, Freehand Drawing
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Çalisoglu, Murat; Tanisir, Seda Nur – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2018
With the changes done in the teacher training process in Turkey, the teachers who are going to begin active duty are asked to take a candidate teacher training under the supervision of an advisor teacher before they start their duty in the city they have been appointed, and these changes have been introduced in 2015-2016 academic years. In this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Case Studies
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Bhardwaj, Deepshikha; Tyagi, Harish Kumar; Ameta, Devendra – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
Aim: The present study has been able to analyse the different methods applied for enlightening values by English teacher and NCERT English textbook of class VII. Apart from this, school curriculum which includes cultural activities on national and international events. Methodology: Seventh grade English textbook of NCERT was reviewed and analysed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Values, Values Education, Elementary School Students
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Vincent, Kerry – Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties, 2017
This article presents the results of a small-scale research project that aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a part-time nurture group recently established in one primary school. Qualitative interviews were used to gather staff, pupil and parental perceptions about the nurture group. These focused not only on what difference the nurture group…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Group Activities, Intervention
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