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Toh, Tin Lam; Kaur, Berinderjeet; Tay, Eng Guan; Lee, Ngan Hoe; Leong, Yew Hoong – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2019
This paper provides an overview of a programmatic research project, the Enactment Project, at the National Institute of Education in Singapore. The project studies the enactment of school mathematics by competent experienced teachers in secondary schools and also how widespread practices of these competent experienced teachers are in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction, Secondary School Mathematics, Secondary School Teachers
Ulferts, Hannah – OECD Publishing, 2019
This systematic review investigates the relevance of general pedagogical knowledge for successful teaching. It synthesises the empirical evidence of 10 769 teaching professionals and 853 452 students from primary to tertiary education in 21 countries. The meta-analysis of 20 quantitative studies revealed significant effects for teaching quality…
Descriptors: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Teacher Effectiveness, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
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Mario I. Suárez; Kim B. Wright – Journal for STEM Education Research, 2019
The present study used 2011-12 Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) data to determine the impact of school organizational factors on secondary STEM teacher retention in the post-NCLB era. Researchers utilized teacher and principal instruments from the SASS to measure the retention of grades 9-12 STEM teachers (n = 920). Due to the nested nature of…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, STEM Education, Faculty Mobility, Teacher Persistence
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Koutrouba, Konstantina; Michala, Myrto – International Journal of Instruction, 2017
The present questionnaire-based study examines 379 Greek teachers' perceptions about professional satisfaction and dissatisfaction. According to the results, teachers are professionally satisfied when they, firstly, feel able to effectively establish behaviour and communication rules in their classrooms, secondly, respond to students' expectations…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Job Satisfaction, Secondary School Teachers, Questionnaires
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Horan, Anne Puidk – Journal of Research on Christian Education, 2017
Christian education seeks to foster millennials' spiritual formation to equip them for future challenges and to benefit society. Using nonexperimental mixed methods, 504 secondary educators revealed what spiritual formation programs their schools implement and their perceptions about millennial spiritual formation. Descriptive analysis showed that…
Descriptors: Spiritual Development, Christianity, Mixed Methods Research, Adolescents
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Landor, Floriane; Perepa, Prithvi – Support for Learning, 2017
This research identifies the way in which one secondary school with a resourced provision for students with Asperger syndrome promotes social inclusion for them, and the perceptions of staff members and parents on the social experience of schooling for these children. Interviews were conducted with five teachers, two learning support assistants,…
Descriptors: Mainstreaming, Secondary School Students, Asperger Syndrome, Questionnaires
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Schoone, Adrian – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2017
From working with tutors in New Zealand alternative education centres and through phenomenological poetic inquiry, the author of this article discusses approaches he found that re-engage disenfranchised young people in education. These approaches were not based upon knowledge tutors gained from teaching qualifications, but rather developed from…
Descriptors: Tutors, Foreign Countries, At Risk Students, Inclusion
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Chiang, Hanley S.; Clark, Melissa A.; McConnell, Sheena – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2017
Teach For America (TFA) is an important but controversial source of teachers for hard-to-staff subjects in high-poverty U.S. schools. We present findings from the first large-scale experimental study of secondary math teachers from TFA. We find that TFA teachers are more effective than other math teachers in the same schools, increasing student…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Schools, Teacher Effectiveness, Secondary School Teachers, Mathematics Teachers
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Knotts, Sandra; Mohr, Peter J.; Phillips, William D. – Physics Teacher, 2017
Plans are under way to redefine the International System of Units (SI) around 2018. The new SI specifies the values of certain physical constants to define units. This article explains the new SI in order to provide a resource for high school teachers as well as for advanced students already familiar with the pre-2018 SI.
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Advanced Students
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Sherin, Miriam Gamoran; Dyer, Elizabeth B. – Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education, 2017
Numerous video-based programs have been developed to support mathematics teachers in reflecting on and examining classrooms interactions without the immediate demands of instruction. An important premise of such work is that teacher learning occurs at the time that the video is viewed and discussed with teachers. Recent advances in technology,…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Teachers, Video Technology, Teacher Education
Wang, Tianchong – Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning, 2017
Flipped classroom teaching has become a significant trend in education in recent years, but there remain significant challenges in persuading some teachers to adopt this novel method. Through the lens of Ertmer's first- and second-order barriers to change, this paper presents a study began with the need to understand barriers to the adoption of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Homework, Video Technology, Barriers
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Hawthorne, Casey – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2017
While the mathematics education community encourages teachers to support students in developing a more meaningful contextual understanding of algebraic symbols, very little is known about teachers' quantitative understandings of algebraic symbols themselves. The goal of this study was to fill this gap and examine secondary teachers' ability to…
Descriptors: Algebra, Secondary School Teachers, Symbols (Mathematics), Generalization
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Guskey, Thomas R.; Link, Laura J. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
The purpose of this study was to investigate the specific factors teachers consider when assigning the grades they record on students' report cards. Data were gathered from 943 K-12 teachers from five school districts in a Southeastern state who completed the "Teachers' Grading Practices Survey." Analyses focused on how teachers weigh…
Descriptors: Grades (Scholastic), Grading, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
Engledowl, Christopher – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This study examined middle and secondary mathematics teachers' knowledge structures, informal inferential reasoning (IIR), and pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) for statistics. Using task-based clinical interviews (Goldin, 1997) and cross-case analysis (Creswell, 2013), a stratified purposeful sample (Patton, 2002) of nine teachers responded to…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Inferences, Abstract Reasoning
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Pabon, Amber; Capello, Sarah – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
This qualitative research study employed thematic analysis to examine a cohort of pre-service teachers understandings of equity in a capstone seminar. The data revealed that many participants lacked awareness of, or misunderstood the concept. These findings have implications for teacher education curriculum centered on equity as well as…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Capstone Experiences, Equal Education, English Teachers
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