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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Teachers -- Decision making"”.
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Student teachers' decision-making about working at Masters level on their PGCE courses
Decisions about different educational pathways have been linked extensively with inequality of outcome and explaining this link has been a focus of much recent research. The emphasis for such research has largely been at key transition points such as secondary school choice and entry to Higher …
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Descriptions of expert middle school band teachers’ decision-making processes before, during, and after instruction
Teacher 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' …
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Factors influencing curriculum in elementary self-contained special education classrooms
… settings may be the result of numerous teacher decisions about curriculum. These decisions may be influenced by student, teacher, and contextual characteristics which impact the teacher's decision-making about development and implementation of the curriculum. Subjects were four teachers of …
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The Choices and Uses of Technological Tools in High School Government Classes
… of this study was to examine how government teachers make decisions regarding the type of technological tools they incorporate in their instruction. As a case study of two teachers, this work was oriented by the question: How are U.S. Government teachers' beliefs and perspectives about …
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CONCEPTUALIZING HOLOCAUST EDUCATION ACROSS CONTENT AREAS: A CASE STUDY AND CONTENT ANALYSIS OF TEACHERS’ APPROACHES
The purpose of this study is to explore how teachers across content areas conceptualize planning and teaching of the Holocaust. Although there are numerous studies on Holocaust education, particularly on teachers’ approaches and practices, there is little research regarding teachers’ use of …
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The process of making meaning: The interplay between teachers' knowledge of mathematical proofs and their classroom practices
… and describe how middle school mathematics teachers make meaning of proofs and the process of proving in the context of their classroom practices. A framework of making meaning, created by the researcher, guided the data collection and analysis phases of the study. This framework describes …
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The integration of ICT in Hong Kong preschool settings: case studies of two Hong Kong kindergartens
… Technologies (ICT) integration into kindergarten teachers' practice has received a mixed reception from practitioners. However, whether and how Hong Kong preschool teachers actually integrate ICT into their teaching practice is influenced by many factors. This study aimed to explore Hong Kong …
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Collaborative planning of interdisciplinary experiences : a case study at the middle school level
… case study examined how a team of middle school teachers from different subject areas collaboratively planned interdisciplinary experiences for their students. Using fieldwork research methods, including long-term participant-observation, interviewing and document analysis, the study explored how …
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An ethnographic study of ‘Steiner Fever’ in China: Why are Chinese parents turning away from mainstream education towards the holistic ‘way’ of Steiner education?
… perceptions and experiences of parents and teachers in relation to Steiner education in China. I have taken a transdisciplinary, dialectical approach, with a conceptual framework inspired by the notion of ‘Tao’ in which events are never thought of as occurring in isolation but embedded in a …
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Pedagogy for Latino/a Newcomer Students: A Study of Four Secondary Social Studies Teachers in New York City Urban Newcomer Schools
This dissertation study examined how teachers in four newcomer schools conceptualized and implemented social studies education for newcomer Latino/a youth. I designed this multi-site, collective case study to examine the perspectives and decision making of four social studies teachers' enacted …