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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Teacher Pedagogy"”.
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How Principals Understanding Of Best Practices In Professional Development Impacts Teacher Pedagogy
… lever to creating professional development with teachers in order to improve teaching and learning. The single most important variable to student achievement is the quality of the teacher in the classroom ( Darling-Hammond, 2014). In order to ensure teacher quality, principals need to understand …
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Universal Design for Learning: Is Training Making a Difference in Teacher Pedagogy
… and educational research that allowed teachers to proactively identify barriers that might exist between students and learning and account for those barriers during lesson development and implementation (CAST, 2015). One school district in southwest Georgia provided UDL training for …
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An exploration of what determines teacher pedagogy in the context of conceptual change in science
… learning decisions made by a group of teachers using as a context lessons intended to achieve conceptual change. To achieve this change, teachers look to move their pupils’ understanding of key ‘big’ scientific ideas toward versions nearer to those accepted as accurate by the scientific …
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Schooling as a field of practice: Exploring teacher pedagogy and student learning in private secondary classrooms in the Republic of Guinea
… qualitative research contextually examines teacher pedagogy and student learning in classroom interactional practices in Guinea. It adopts a sociocultural perspective drawing from the theories of Bourdieu and Bernstein in the analysis of data collected from sixty-one participants in three …
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Language environments in toddler classrooms: the contribution of setting, teacher, and child variables.
… ascertain the relative contribution of setting, teacher, and child variables to the prediction of the amount of language teachers used in their toddler classrooms as well as the amount of engaged conversations they had with children. The Language ENvironment Analysis (LENA) system, Early …
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An Evaluation Of The New Teacher Mentoring And Induction Program At A Title One Elementary School
… Title I schools often experience a lower teacher retention rate when compared to schools with higher academic achievement. Vacancies are typically filled with new or inexperienced teachers who leave the school within a few years. To counter this problem, West Creek Elementary (pseudonym) …
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Community Connected Experiential Learning: Change in the K-12 Classroom
… cornerstones. The prominent themes of teacher pedagogy and community connections emerge and offer implications for theory and practice. The resulting implementation framework—viewed from the school/district/state tri level lens—will guide teachers, administrators, and policy makers on …
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2010 A Digital Odyssey: Exploring Document Camera Technology and Computer Self-Efficacy in a Digital Era
… DCT; to see if there is a relationship between teachers’ comfort with DCT and to the self-efficacy beliefs of teachers. The literature describes our educational system “at risk,” comprised of digital “natives” and “immigrants” each challenged by a culture of “disconnected” digital-kids (DOE, …
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Blogging in response to literature: reading, writing, and thinking through the digital medium
… of short stories and poetry; blogging altered teacher pedagogy to accept a wider definition of text and student analysis of text such as movies and music; and blogging reinforced the need for direct, explicit instruction of reading and writing strategies in the language arts classroom.
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Principals' Perceptions of the Effectiveness of Alternatively Certified Teachers in New Orleans Public Schools
… to increasing attention to the issues of teacher quality, quantity, and the mandate for highly qualified teachers, alternative approaches to teacher certification have become widespread. Alternative certification allows individuals who typically posses an undergraduate degree in a field …
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Beyond Lip Service: How teachers in a private school utilize multicultural literature
… of the experiences of four middle grade teachers, three female and one male, three Caucasian and one African American who use multicultural literature in their language arts classrooms and the responses of the students of color they teach. The teaching experience of the teacher …
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An evaluation of teachers' perceptions of a state developed educational portal
The purpose of this study was to investigate teachers’ perceptions use of a state developed educational portal. The research evaluated the differences in the quality, usefulness, and relevance of learning objects found on the website based on teachers’ gender and grade level they taught. Grade …
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An Examination of the Discourse in a Graduate Mathematics Methods Course
… suggests that attention be placed on prospective teachers’ development of content knowledge and pedagogical content knowledge. One way to develop teacher knowledge and discourse skills of prospective teachers is to engage them in purposeful discourse that focuses on mathematical knowledge for …
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Stressors Which Affect Learning: A Case Study of Learners in A Further Education College in The East of England
… have been suggested. The need for the learner teacher relationship to be caring, learner focused, needs led, holistic and humanistic in approach as opposed to the culture of performativity in the FE sector has also been discussed. Involvement of relevant external agencies to provide support, …
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Teachers' Perceptions and Experiences in Adopting "Blackboard" Computer Program in a Victorian Secondary School: A Case Study
… there is a pressing need to study how teachers experience and feel about the integration of new technology in their teaching practice. This study investigated seven teachers' perceptions and experiences in adopting 'Blackboard' computer program into their teaching. This research …
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Reform-Based Science Teaching: A Mixed-Methods Approach to Explaining Variation in Secondary Science Teacher Practice
… explain the variation seen in secondary science teachers' enactment of reform-based instructional practices. Utilizing teacher socialization theory, this mixed-methods analysis was conducted to determine the relative influence of secondary science teachers' characteristics, backgrounds and …
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An investigation of curriculum arrangements conducive to fostering creativity in post-compulsory education and training institutions
… and practices? What are students' perceptions of teachers' classroom behaviours and practices? What are leaders', managers', teachers' and students' perceptions of creativity? To what extent are colleges' institutional variables, curriculum arrangements and teaching approaches driven or not driven …
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How does professional development affect interactive whiteboard use in public and private international school mathematics teaching in Saudi Arabia?
… of knowledge in integration of IWB technology in teacher pedagogy and its impact on student attainment in schools in the Saudi context, gaps in our knowledge still remain. Whilst the barriers to using IWB technology in schools-based education have been explored by earlier researchers in Saudi …
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Collegiality and Instructional Supervision: A Case Study of Relationships In the Context of Walkthrough Observations In Six Rural South Carolina Schools
<p>This study explores principal-teacher collegiality in the context of walkthrough observations. Collegiality may enhance a positive school culture and thus support the development and ownership of shared goals among instructional leaders and teachers. Downey, Steffey, English, Frase, and Poston …
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Exploring Teacher’s Attitudes and Behaviors in Implementing Instructional Technology into Curriculum
… of technology resources and systems with teacher training and curriculum development can occur despite teachers limited technology competencies. Theses competencies increase when teachers have desire and opportunities to become better acquainted with utilizing digital tools. Perceived …