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Morris, Lajuana Trezette – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study was to examine the implementation of brain-based instructional strategies by teachers serving at Title I elementary, middle, and high schools within the Memphis City School District. This study was designed to determine: (a) the extent to which Title I teachers applied brain-based strategies, (b) the differences in…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Urban Schools, Teacher Surveys, Brain
Boyd, Donald; Grossman, Pam; Hammerness, Karen; Lankford, Hamilton; Loeb, Susanna; Ronfeldt, Mathew; Wyckoff, James – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2010
School districts often struggle to recruit and retain effective math teachers. Alternative-route certification programs aim to expand the pool of teachers available; however, many alternate routes have not been able to attract large numbers of teacher candidates with undergraduate degrees in math. In response, some districts, including Baltimore,…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Comparative Analysis, Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Effectiveness
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Byrd-Blake, Marie; Afolayan, Michael O.; Hunt, John W.; Fabunmi, Martins; Pryor, Brandt W.; Leander, Robert – Education and Urban Society, 2010
This study tested how well Fishbein and Ajzen's Theory of Reasoned Action predicted the attitudes and morale of urban teachers in high poverty schools under the pressures of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). NCLB forced local administrators to target schools that had not made adequately yearly progress (AYP) for two or more consecutive years.…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Urban Teaching, Poverty, Federal Legislation
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Rogers-Ard, Rachelle; Knaus, Christopher B.; Epstein, Kitty Kelly; Mayfield, Kimberly – Urban Education, 2013
This article argues that economic exclusion, standardized testing, and racially biased definitions of teacher quality continue the exclusion of teachers of color from the urban teaching force. The authors highlight two urban programs designed to address such barriers and situate such efforts within a critical race theory framework that identifies…
Descriptors: Minority Group Teachers, Teacher Evaluation, Models, Urban Programs
Kinloch, Valerie – Teachers College Press, 2012
In her new book, Valerie Kinloch, award-winning author of "Harlem on Our Minds", sheds light on the ways urban youth engage in "meaning-making" experiences as a way to assert critical, creative, and highly sophisticated perspectives on teaching, learning, and survival. Kinloch rejects deficit models that have traditionally…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Current Events, Student Attitudes, Urban Youth
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James-Wilson, Sonia; Hancock, Michele – Journal of Staff Development, 2011
Teachers are leaders when they function in professional learning communities to affect student learning, contribute to school improvement, inspire excellence in practice, and empower stakeholders to participate in educational improvement. From an equity perspective, teachers also lead when they serve as change agents who collaborate to use…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Urban Teaching, Teacher Leadership, Leadership Training
Darling-Hammond, Linda – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2009
The vision Megan Hopkins offers for the future design of Teach for America (TFA) combines the appeal of TFA--a pathway into teaching for able college graduates who are willing to work in high need schools--with recognition that to serve their students well, such schools must have highly skilled teachers who are able to address a wide range of…
Descriptors: Urban Teaching, Teacher Effectiveness, College Graduates, Educational Quality
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Miranda, Rommel J. – Astronomy Education Review, 2010
This study addresses the link between urban teachers' beliefs about their students' ability to succeed in astronomy and their instructional decisions and practices in response to those beliefs. The findings suggest that teachers believe that the student characteristics that are necessary for high achievement in astronomy include specific cognitive…
Descriptors: Urban Teaching, Prior Learning, Astronomy, Student Characteristics
Blake, Robert W., Jr., Ed.; Blake, Brett Elizabeth, Ed. – Peter Lang New York, 2012
"Becoming a Teacher" revisits the concept of Teacher Lore (Schubert and Ayers, 1992), by providing a cross-disciplinary approach linking elements of narrative theory to all aspects of pre- and in-service teaching. In essence, it embraces the notion that what teachers say matters. The rationale behind this text is the idea that narrative can not…
Descriptors: Reflective Teaching, Preservice Teacher Education, Story Telling, Special Education Teachers
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Polly, Drew, Ed.; Heafner, Tina, Ed.; Chapman, Marvin, Ed.; Spooner, Melba, Ed. – IGI Global, 2015
School-university partnerships have the potential to greatly benefit teaching and learning in PK-12 environments, as well as educator preparation programs. This collaboration is advantageous to teachers, counselors, and administrators. "Professional Development Schools and Transformative Partnerships" provides a comprehensive look at the…
Descriptors: Professional Development Schools, College School Cooperation, Partnerships in Education, Elementary Secondary Education
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Durham-Barnes, Joanna – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2011
While many urban teachers flee urban schools after a few years of teaching, many spend their careers in teaching in the urban environment. A series of biographical interviews was conducted with four "career" urban teachers; throughout the data collection and analyses and despite their decade or more in the field, the interactions between the…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Urban Teaching, Teacher Effectiveness, Urban Environment
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Mouza, Chrystalla – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2011
This study investigated the potential of a professional development program centered on case development to help urban teachers: (a) integrate technology with content and pedagogy and (b) cultivate habits of reflection required to learn from practice. Qualitative analysis revealed that case development helped teachers develop an understanding of…
Descriptors: Urban Teaching, Case Method (Teaching Technique), Professional Development, Technology Integration
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Chen, Pearl – Journal of Urban Learning, Teaching, and Research, 2011
A complex view of the socioeconomic digital divide in urban schools requires us to address not only the gaps in access to technology, but also inequities in access to human support, digital content, and "effective pedagogical" approaches to technology integration. This study explored the use of social networking site (SNS) as a platform…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Urban Schools, Urban Teaching, Technology Integration
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Mangiante, Elaine Silva – Education Sciences, 2013
Science education reform standards have shifted focus from exploration and experimentation to evidence-based explanation and argumentation to prepare students with knowledge for a changing workforce and critical thinking skills to evaluate issues requiring increasing scientific literacy. However, in urban schools serving poor, diverse populations,…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Grade 4, Elementary School Science, Science Instruction
Church, Gregory L. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Teachers may not be trained on how to prevent or address school violence and/or may lack the skills necessary to provide adequate intervention strategies. The purpose of this study was to explore urban K-6 teachers' perceptions of school violence at one metropolitan school. The conceptual framework for this study was supported by Bronfenbrenner's…
Descriptors: Urban Teaching, Violence, Urban Schools, Metropolitan Areas
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