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Teachers' Perceptions of Curricular Change
(2012)
The purpose of this study was to examine teachers' perceptions of curricular change and how teachers in one high school in the southwestern United States viewed the potential effects of the implementation of Common Core ...
Teacher-Child Interactions in Infant and Toddler Classrooms: A Qualitative Study Examining the Nature of Care
(2015-05)
The purpose of this study was to describe and explore the nature of infants’, toddlers’, and caregivers’ lived experiences in group care settings. Multi-case qualitative research was conducted with three infant and/or ...
The Innovation Evaluation Process of Undergraduate Biology Instructors Who Actively Use Case Studies in Their Introductory Courses
(2016-08-12)
There is little detail in the literature that describes how college biology instructors have evaluated case study teaching as an innovative teaching strategy. This study used Diffusion of Innovations (DOI) Theory and ...
Hope, Strength, and Perseverance...Community and Connectedness Through Service Learning: Active Participation in the Oklahoma City Memorial Kids' Marathon
(2010)
Many complex problems affect the lives of our citizens, including our children. A particularly important problem is a lack of a sense of community and connectedness (Belenky, et. al, 1986; Bellah, et. al, 1985; Dewey, 1938; ...
Influence of a Non-traditional Mathematics Content Course on Preservice Teachers' Beliefs
(2012)
A continued and ongoing call for improvement and change in mathematics teaching and learning suggests a need for re-visioning the ways in which mathematics teachers are educated. Suggestions include incorporating reform ...
We can't dance every day: New teachers seeking balance
(2013-12)
Dedicated and competent teachers are essential to the success of public schools. However, due to the various pressures on teachers, from both the top down and the bottom up, many new teachers struggle as they enter the ...
School Experiences and the Academic Achievement of Gifted Middle School Students
(2016-05-13)
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This study investigates the lifeworld of ten gifted middle school students in an attempt to determine the role school environment plays in the academic achievement. The inquiry focuses on the experiences of ...
Learning from Student Perceptions: A Dialogical Approach to Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
(2017-05)
As the culture gap between public school students and teachers has continued to grow in the past decade, culturally relevant pedagogy (CRP) emerged as a theoretical guide to support classroom practices. Despite support for ...
Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages in Two Sociocultural Contexts
(2010)
This research study examined two teachers teaching English to speakers of other languages in two different sociocultural instructional contexts. Specifically, the purpose of the study was to determine the teachers' definitions ...
WHAT EFFECTIVE LANGUAGE TEACHERS DO: A CASE STUDY OF 5 HIGH-ACHIEVING UNIVERSITY SPANISH INSTRUCTORS
(2017-05)
The quality of instruction in foreign language classes can be widely variable. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to uncover the approaches to instruction enacted by five high-achieving university Spanish ...