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M. Taylor Haynes; Justin M. Pratt; Matthew A. Cranswick; Kyle A. Grice; Chip Nataro; Sarah E. Shaner; Kari L. Stone; Meghan Porter; Jeffrey R. Raker – Discover Education, 2024
Members of the Interactive Online Network of Inorganic Chemists (IONiC) report the development and sustained efforts to provide virtual professional development sessions: Supporting Learning with Interactive Teaching: a Hosted, Engaging Roundtable (SLiThEr). SLiThEr's emerged from a community need at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic; since then,…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Teachers, Virtual Classrooms, Group Discussion
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Helsel, Ryan T.; Lambert, Sammi; Dickerson, Lindsey; Strelich, Jack; Woods, Vanessa; Feldwinn, Darby – School Science and Mathematics, 2022
This study describes the design and implementation of a science outreach program (elementary; 2nd-5th) and its associated student outcomes. Key features of the program include: (a) phenomenon-based, NGSS-aligned curriculum designed by science education experts and influenced by educational, sociocultural, and cognitive science theories, (b) active…
Descriptors: Science Education, Outreach Programs, Elementary School Science, Professional Development
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Liu, Yongcan – Research Papers in Education, 2019
This paper reports on a study that looks at the micro-processes of teacher learning in a language teacher professional community in China. Following the tradition of ethnomethodology, teacher learning in this paper is conceptualised as interactional accomplishment of negotiation of practice through talk. Based on a purposively selected discourse…
Descriptors: Situated Learning, Language Teachers, Learning Processes, Teacher Attitudes
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Gröschner, Alexander; Seidel, Tina; Kiemer, Katharina; Pehmer, Ann-Kathrin – Professional Development in Education, 2015
For developing professional development (PD) programs, research suggests referring to effective components. In developing a PD program on classroom dialogue, we explored to what extent effective components could be addressed. We conducted a study with two groups. In the "Dialogic Video Cycle" (DVC), six German teachers participated in a…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Teaching Methods, Intervention
Wilt, Mary E. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to explore the formation of teacher identity among four teachers of students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and my own by examining our perspectives, influences, and experiences at different points in our careers and determining the similarities and differences that exist in our professional and educational…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Teacher Attitudes
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Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaías, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2021
These proceedings contain the papers of the 18th International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA 2021), held virtually, due to an exceptional situation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, from October 13-15, 2021, and organized by the International Association for Development of the Information Society…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Open Educational Resources, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices
Nunes, Miguel Baptista, Ed.; McPherson, Maggie, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2015
These proceedings contain the papers of the International Conference e-Learning 2015, which was organised by the International Association for Development of the Information and Society and is part of the Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, July 21-24, 2015). The e-Learning 2015…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Failure, Electronic Learning, Success
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Madrid, Samara; Dunn-Kenney, Maylan – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2010
This research examines the emotional themes and discourse of emotion of early childhood educators using a post-structuralist theoretical framework of emotion. The data selected and analyzed is taken from 4 two-hour discussion groups that were conducted over an eight-week period with four female early childhood educators. The emotional themes and…
Descriptors: Discussion Groups, Young Children, Interaction, Anxiety
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Groth, Randall E. – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2007
Two teachers participating in an online study group provided the foci for in-depth case studies. Transcripts of conversations they had with colleagues about issues related to reform-oriented pedagogy were analyzed from both acquisition and participation perspectives on learning. Both teachers exhibited mainly marginal changes to their pedagogical…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Teacher Collaboration, Mathematics Teachers, Case Studies
Brown, Susan A.; Vician, Chelley – 1997
Student interaction and computer-based communication tool appropriation patterns were examined in two different communication assignments requiring active use of computer-based communication tools. University students completed either: a set of communication assignments and activities with the instructor as sole audience; or a set of communication…
Descriptors: Aggression, Assignments, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Uses in Education
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Adie, Lenore – Journal of Learning Design, 2010
This paper investigates the complex interactions that occur as teachers meet online to justify and negotiate their assessment judgements of student work across relatively large and geographically dispersed populations. Drawing from sociocultural theories of learning and technology, the technology is positioned as playing a role in either…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Theories, Student Evaluation, Curriculum Implementation
Kim, Tina Lim Swee; Wah, Wong Kiet; Lee, Tan Ai – Online Submission, 2007
This paper examines the practice of online discussion in a course specially tailored for in-service teachers who are pursuing their basic degree qualification at a teacher training institute. Analyses of postings to the asynchronous electronic discussion group were made according to the type of postings as proposed by Poole (2000). Four focus…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Interaction, Discussion Groups, Tutors