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Showing 1 to 20 of 123 for “"Teacher Beliefs"”.
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Learner-Centered Teacher Beliefs and Student-Perceived Teaching Effectiveness
… survey instruments have been developed to assess teachers' beliefs about their own learner-centeredness.. The research reported in this dissertation examined the connection between college students' perceptions of teacher effectiveness on each of four dimensions appearing as questions on the IDEA …
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Teacher Beliefs On Balanced Literacy And Collective Efficacy In Kindergarten
<p>The research problem of this study was teacher beliefs about early literacy pedagogy. Research over the past 15 years had made significant strides in studying the complex relationships between teacher beliefs and practices (Fang, 2006). Teacher beliefs play an important role in teachers’ work …
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Teacher Perspectives Influencing Pedagogical Problem Solving (Microcomputer, Simulation, Teacher Beliefs)
Teacher education efforts have frequently been criticized for not providing students opportunities to practice skills and principles learned. Various forms of simulation activities have been proposed as one remedy. This research examined the use of a microcomputer simulation designed to help …
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Teacher Beliefs about Mathematics Teaching and Learning and Classroom Achievement Growth
… District offers a comprehensive exploration of teacher beliefs among K-8 educators, specifically focusing on perspectives related to mathematics instruction. The findings reveal a diverse array of beliefs, shedding light on nuanced aspects of transmissionist, facts-first, and fixed instructional …
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Writing Instruction for English Language Learners: Teacher Beliefs, Writing Tasks, and Methods
The study suggests that writing instruction for ELLs might include an optimal balance of opportunities for developing both writing competence and writing performance. Such balanced writing instruction may be represented through offering transcription-oriented and composition-oriented writing …
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Organizational Climate, Teacher Beliefs, and Professional Development: An Investigation of the Relationships
This study investigated teacher beliefs and organizational climate constructs of collective efficacy, faculty trust, academic emphasis, enabling bureaucracy, and mindfulness as antecedents for implemented professional development. Researchers previously combined collective efficacy, faculty trust, …
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Black Preschool Minds Matter: A Critical Examination of Preschool Teacher Beliefs About Discipline
… research study built on existing theory showing teachers’ beliefs and biases are a possible factor in K–12 contexts (Gregory et al., 2010; Rocque & Paternoster, 2011), further developing understanding about racial and gendered disparities in preschool discipline. Using the tenets of critical race …
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Teacher beliefs and practices: their effects on student achievement in the urban school setting
… of a Eurocentric curriculum taught by White teachers, which often limits the use of a multicultural curriculum—one that values the culture and lifestyles of diverse students. This study focused on elements within teaching practices that improved achievement among students of color. An …
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TEACHING FINANCIAL LITERACY IN K-12 SCHOOLS: A SURVEY OF TEACHER BELIEFS AND KNOWLEDGE
The purpose of this study was to learn teacher attitudes and beliefs about teaching personal finance, as well as teacher understanding of a few core personal finance concepts. The population consisted of 1,120 classroom teachers from two public school districts in two states. The research questions …
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Changes In High School Chemistry Teacher Beliefs and Practice after a Professional Development Program
… it would produce change in in-service chemistry teachers' beliefs and practices. Case study methodology and triangulation were used to collect a variety of in-depth data on teachers' beliefs and practice including interviews, journals, and classroom videotape and participant-observation by the …
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Teacher Beliefs and the Instructional Practices of National Board Certified High School English Teachers.
… methods that accomplished high school English teachers use in their classrooms to improve understanding of how those methods are influenced by the teachers' beliefs. A survey regarding classroom practices and beliefs was sent to 313 National Board Certified Teachers (NBCTs) in English Language …
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Essayons: French as a Second Language Teacher Beliefs and Experiences of Technology-Enhanced Practices
… past research has identified the importance of teacher beliefs in informing practice, fewer studies have investigated the context of Canadian French as a Second Language (FSL) teachers in recent years (Lapkin, Mady, & Arnott, 2009; Lawrence, 2014). By considering how practicing FSL teachers in …
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Investigating early childhood teacher beliefs and teaching practices related to process factors of program quality
Early childhood teachers play an important role in preparing young children for all later learning and development. Their teaching practices give children an understanding of what school is and how it works as they facilitate the construction of foundational knowledge. Teachers’ beliefs about their …
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The Effects of the Classroom Schedule and Teacher Beliefs on Head Start Teacher-Child Interactions
… large midwestern urban area using an analysis of teacher beliefs and the classroom schedule. The instruments used to measure predictor variables were the Teacher Beliefs Scale (TBS) and Evaluation of the Early Childhood Classroom Schedule (EECCS); and the outcome variables were measured by …
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Developing an Instrument for Determining Teacher Beliefs or Orientations of Secondary School Spanish Language Teachers
… instrument for use in investigating the ideas or beliefs that Spanish language teachers possess about the teaching of a foreign language. It was also the intent of the study to survey Spanish language teachers and use their responses as an aid in the development of the instrument. A questionnaire …
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Inside perspectives on early childhood program quality : a case study of teacher beliefs and embedded practices
… approach was employed to examine early childhood teachers’ perspectives on quality of early childhood programs and how they embed those perspectives in their daily classroom practices. Questions explored teachers’ education levels, years of experience, and the ways in which their individual …
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Designing Effective Professional Development for Teaching Students in Poverty: Impact on Teacher Beliefs and Classroom Practice
… professional development (PD) on teacher beliefs about students from poverty. This study focused on the creation and implementation of PD designed to help teachers explore their beliefs, and investigated whether these beliefs changed after teachers received PD addressing teaching …
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Teacher Beliefs About the Outcomes of High-Stakes Testing and Measurement-Driven Instruction in Virginia's Public Schools
The relationships between teacher opinions about Virginia's Standards of Learning testing program and five variables related to teachers' backgrounds and present working conditions were examined in the context of five dependent variables represented as discrete domains. A systematic sample of 464 …
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How Teacher Implemented Social-Emotional Learning Curriculum Impacts Collective Teacher Efficacy and Influences Teacher Beliefs About Job Satisfaction
<p>“Teachers are the engine that drives social and emotional learning (SEL) programs in classrooms and schools, and their own social-emotional competence strongly influences their students” (Schonert-Reichl, 2017, p. 137). I wanted to examine if teachers benefited from teaching SEL. The purpose of …
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