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Willis, Judy – Middle School Journal (J1), 2007
In this article, the author discusses the psychosocial benefits of cooperative learning. She discovered that when she relinquished traditional autocratic control and allowed her students to collaborate interactively with classmates to achieve common goals, her students became more invested and engaged in their learning. She also discovered that…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Brain, Cooperative Learning, Brain Hemisphere Functions
Ching, Cynthia Carter; Kafai, Yasmin B. – Teachers College Record, 2008
Background: Existing research suggests that one of the challenges for teachers in persisting with innovative inquiry curricula is their difficulty scaffolding students' transitions into technology-supported and open-ended activities. The question of whether students can effectively scaffold one another's transitions has not been previously…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Student Attitudes, Ethnography, Discourse Analysis
Sicilia-Camacho, Alvaro; Brown, David – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2008
Background: Teaching styles in physical education (PE) found prominence through Muska Mosston's teaching styles "Spectrum" model. Mosston's Spectrum has been remarkably successful and its logic currently underpins the conceptualisation of teaching styles in many PE practices in Western education systems, including those in the United…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Teaching Styles, Models, Teaching Methods
Blazer, Christie – Research Services, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, 2010
Students are under pressure from teachers, parents, and college admissions counselors to maintain high grade point averages, score well on high-stakes tests, participate in a variety of extracurricular activities, and gain admission to top colleges. In fact, surveys have found that most students identify academic pressure as the main reason for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, High Stakes Tests, Grade Point Average, College Admission
McLean, Cheryl – Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 2006
Awareness of how perceived roles shape how people see themselves and how others see them prompted Cheryl McLean to question how her new label of "teaching assistant" helped or hurt the teaching and learning process. As a teaching assistant, she moved into the dual role of teacher and student. She believes that the labels she adopts…
Descriptors: Teaching Assistants, Professional Identity, Reflective Teaching, Self Concept
Rizzo, Margaret; Brown, Joyce – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2006
Developing a community service project for middle school students can be a daunting task. The sheer number of contacts necessary for the project to be successful can be overwhelming. This manual will provide materials and guidance to simplify this process and ensure its success. Included in this workbook are sample letters, worksheets, lesson…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Middle School Students, High School Students, Student Participation
White, Naomi Rosh – Higher Education Research and Development, 2006
The psychodynamics of learning and teaching at a time of changing funding arrangements and priorities are explored and discussed through students' accounts of their experience of university. The contextual, organizational and socio-political characteristics implicated in these psychodynamic processes are considered. Among the psychodynamic issues…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Learning, Cognitive Processes, Teacher Student Relationship
Major, Claire H.; Palmer, Betsy – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2006
A qualitative study of faculty members participating in a campus-wide problem-based learning initiative examined the process of transforming faculty pedagogical content knowledge. Researchers found that faculty existing knowledge and the institutional intervention influenced new knowledge of faculty roles, student roles, disciplinary structures,…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Teacher Characteristics, College Faculty
Yuksel, Sedat – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2006
Student resistance can be a very important problem for the instructors in universities. Student resistance includes the conscious and preplanned behaviors towards the information presented to them in the classroom and the institutional practices. Typically, student resistance takes the form of passive or active non-compliance with roles and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Psychology, Guidance, Student Attitudes
Glass, Becky L. – Teaching Sociology, 2007
This article describes the successful use of videoconferencing in a sociology capstone course as a way to introduce students to eminent scholars and authors across the country. The author begins by discussing the institutional context, and how videoconferencing fits with the departmental capstone philosophy and with her course goals. This is…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Student Attitudes, Scholarship, College Curriculum
Memon, Rafique; Badger, Richard – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2007
"The teacher who works for or allows status quo is the traitor. Purposeful change is the new norm in teaching" [Fullan, M., 1993. Change Forces: Probing the Depths of Educational Reform. Falmer, London.]. The University of Sindh, Jamshoro, Pakistan (USJP) is the main provider of tertiary education in English in the province of Sindh.…
Descriptors: Reading, Interaction, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Floerchinger, Debra S.; Young, Kelvin E. – 1990
"Wellness" is a widely used term to describe a participative process through which the individual becomes aware of and makes choices toward a more successful or healthy existence. Many colleges and universities have utilized wellness philosophies or models in a variety of areas. The wellness model serves as an outline for decision making in which…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, College Students, Counselor Role, Health
Wesson, Caren – 1983
The study explored the effects of student selection versus teacher selection of instructional activities on the activities selected and reasons given by teachers and 42 elementary resource room students for selecting particular activities. Ss' progress was monitored by a curriculum-based repeated measurement data collection and evaluation system…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Education, Learning Activities, Resource Room Programs

Sheehan, Daniel S. – Instructional Science, 1976
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Models
Bradshaw, Jim; Amundson, Kristen J. – 1985
Students and parents are offered advice in this booklet on how to make the most of homework. The booklet first reviews the basic reasons for assigning homework: homework helps students learn better and faster, helps families become involved with education, communicates the school's high expectations, and helps students develop self-discipline and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Homework, Parent Role, Parent Student Relationship