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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Teachers' backgrounds."”.
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Navigating the Context: Implementing Inquiry in the Middle School Social Studies Classroom
… the K-12 social studies classroom (Saye, 2017). Teachers face significant barriers to the use of inquiry-based learning. In particular, contextual barriers such as curriculum breadth, high-stakes testing, and lack of context-specific resources are indicated (e.g., Konopack et al., 1994; Martell, …
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Case Studies in Teaching Evolution: The Intersection of Dilemmas in Practice
… is currently taught. Evolution is often avoided, teachers minimize its importance within biology, infuse misconceptions, and/or interject non-scientific ideologies into lessons. My research focused on how teachers in two geographically and culturally distinct school districts in the southwestern …
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Teaching Evolution: A Heuristic Study of Personal and Cultural Dissonance
… its teaching in American public schools. Biology teachers in all 50 states are responsible for teaching science content standards that include evolution. As products of their backgrounds and affiliations teachers bring personal attitudes and beliefs to their teaching. The purpose of this study was …
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THE EFFECTS OF TEACHER MATHEMATICS PREPARATION ON STUDENT PERFORMANCE IN THE MIDDLE LEVEL SCHOOLS.
… and varying attitudes toward mathematics by teachers had a significant effect on the mathematics performance of their eighth grade students. Mathematics preparation was determined by the total number of college credits a teacher had accumulated and attitude toward mathematics was determined …
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The power of teachers: exploring identity, agency, and collaboration in the context of literacy
This is a time when teachers are not treated as professionals and often are blamed for the state of today’s public education system. Although, there are deep complexities (i.e., race, class, language, funding) that contribute to the inequities in schools, blaming teachers cannot be the answer to …
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Teacher Beliefs About the Outcomes of High-Stakes Testing and Measurement-Driven Instruction in Virginia's Public Schools
… 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 members of the Virginia Education Association (VEA) was selected to participate …
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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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A Critical Race and Critical Whiteness Theory Analysis of Preservice Teachers' Racialized Practices in a Literacy Across the Curriculum Course
… racialized practices enacted by seven preservice teachers while they participated in a university-based literacy across the curriculum course that included a school-based tutoring component. Research questions asked: 1) what racialized practices were enacted by preservice content-area teachers …
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An Examination of High School Teacher Experiences with STEAM Curriculum Implementation
… study examines the experiences of high school teachers as they implement STEAM. Despite the potential benefits of STEAM to learning and STEM career interest, little is known about the teachers who are an integral part of its implementation. This study aims to fill this gap by examining how high …
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Examing the new education experiment in China: An exploratory study of participating teachers' changed view of comprehensive efficacy
… 10 years since 2002. This study examines how teachers' view of the NEE model (TVM) mediates between participating teachers' demographic and contextual factors, and their changed view of comprehensive efficacy as a result of NEE implementation. It is hypothesized that teachers' backgrounds …
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A case study exploration of primary teachers' conceptions of whole class interactive mathematics teaching
… its form and function, is a complex phenomenon. Teachers develop and exploit pedagogical strategies, which they believe are effective either in engaging their children in mathematical learning or in presenting mathematics to learners. Such strategies, whether later shown to be effective or not, …