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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Expert teachers"”.
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Expert teaching: what matters to expert teachers? A cultural-historical perspective on relational expertise
Teacher expertise is commonly regarded as fast and fluent pedagogical decision-making. Research in this area has predominantly applied models of expertise based on the notions of deliberate practice or a novice to expert continuum to the practice of teachers. Expert teachers’ perceptions of what …
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The Role Of Reflection In Expert Teacher Instruction
<p>Teachers in K-12 education have a difficult and sometimes chaotic work life. However, the experts in the field make difference in the lives of the students they teach. These effects are seen even years after the course has ended. Quality teaching has been shown to affect employability and even …
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Descriptions of expert middle school band teachers’ decision-making processes before, during, and after instruction
… decision-making is a cognitive activity in which teachers identify problems, extract relevant cues from the environment, and evaluate potential strategies to decide the most appropriate action (Calderhead, 1981; Clark & Peterson, 1978). According to Clark and Peterson (1986), teachers' decisions …
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Igniting the Mind: Engaging Nursing Students in the Process of Learning
… findings of this study will provide novice and expert teachers with the tools to actively engage students in the process of learning.
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Professional Development and Learning of In-Service Teachers at Different Career Stages in China: A Teacher Knowledge Building Perspective
… approaches should be provided for in-service teachers at different career stages. This research aims to add to the paucity of research that explores what PDL approaches are best suited for in-service teachers at different career stages. By integrating personal and environmental factors …
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Managing inclusive education in mainstream public primary schools: A case of four primary schools in Zimbabwe and four primary schools in South Africa
… were school principals, heads of department and teachers in public inclusive mainstream schools. Data was collected from 4 purposively selected primary schools in Zimbabwe and 4 purposively selected primary schools in South Africa. 8 school principals 16 heads of department and 16 teachers were …
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The implementation of intervention programmes that enhance the inclusion of learners with dyslexia in mainstream primary schools of Bubi District, Zimbabwe
… random sampling technique was used to choose 150 teachers, that is, 3 from each school. In this case, 50 were Grade 1 teachers, the other 50 taught Grade 3 classes and the last 50 were schools’ clinical language remedial teachers. Purposive sampling was used to select 10 heads of schools who had …
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Science teachers' perceptions of expertise in practice : An exploratory study.
… nature and characteristics of science teaching expertise as exhibited by six identified expert science teachers. An action research methodology was adopted with data gathered through: semi-structured interviews; classroom observations, and reflective discussions. A culture of collaboration …
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TRANSFORMATIVE LEARNING AND TEACHING: USING THE NATIONAL WRITING PROJECT`S TOOLS AND PRINCIPLES TO PREPARE GRADUATE STUDENT INSTRUCTORS TO FACILITATE FIRST-YEAR COMPOSITION
… development summer workshops that K-16 expert teachers consistently praise as transformative. The central question posed in this dissertation focuses on whether the NWP workshop, based on a teachers-teaching-teachers design, could also serve as an effective professional development …
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An Analysis Of Student Teachers’ Instruction In A Beginning Band Setting
… investigated the teaching behaviors of student teachers in a beginning band setting and identified their instructional targets to compare the data between the participants from two different conditions, the on-podium condition and the off-podium condition. Previous research of expert and …
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What Does It Mean To Be A Learning Support Teacher? A Life-History Investigation Of Ten Learning Support Teachers In The East-Coast Of Ireland
… with approximately one in fifteen primary-school teachers currently working as learning support teachers (LSTs). Although there is a small body of quantitative research on LS teaching, there are no qualitative studies on LSTs themselves. This gap in the research is unfortunate because of the …
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Development and validation of instruments to assess content knowledge and topic specific pedagogical content knowledge of teachers of organic chemistry
… of PCK as one of the knowledge bases of teachers. Many researchers have proposed models to characterise this transformation of Content Knowledge (CK), one of the most recent of which describes the construct of Topic Specific PCK (TSPCK) (Mavhunga, 2012). This study attempts to evaluate …