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Iris Campbell – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of the qualitative exploratory case study was to explore third through fifth-grade teachers' perceptions of how being provided with curriculum-based professional development could influence instructional techniques and skills in the classroom. Two research questions guided the study. The questions focused on third to fifth-grade…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Elementary School Teachers, Grade 3, Grade 4
Thiele, Catherine; Dole, Shelley; Carmichael, Peter; Simpson, Jenny; O'Toole, Christine – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2019
This paper presents primary school teachers' perceptions associated with their engagement in a project aimed at building Year 3 and Year 4 students' number fact and computational fluency. Throughout the project, teachers were provided with classroom ideas and suggestions for engaging students in number fact practice and for generating student…
Descriptors: Computation, Mathematics Instruction, Teacher Attitudes, Elementary School Teachers
Jill Treece Leonard – ProQuest LLC, 2015
The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore the implementation of a Professional Learning Community (PLC) as a professional development model effective in altering teachers' perceptions of their knowledge and skill in teaching developmental writing in grades K-3. This research is necessary to examine how offering teachers…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Faculty Development, Teaching Methods, Models
Book, Cassandra; And Others – 1988
As part of the Teacher Explanation Project (TEP), a study examined the relationships among third-grade teachers' concepts of reading, the concepts of reading they communicated during instruction to low-level readers, and the students' concepts of reading. Subjects, 20 third-grade teachers, participated in the yearlong TEP study conducted in an…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Metacognition