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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"teacher decision-making"”.
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Teacher decision-making in contested curriculum: A study of New Zealand social studies
This thesis is about teacher decision-making in curriculum design. It argues that design difficulties arise when these factors converge: contestation about the curriculum subject, a decentralised and localised curriculum, a high level of teacher autonomy and limited priority for teacher subject …
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How Teachers and Parents Perceive Parental Involvement in Elementary Schools
… study examined perceptions of elementary school teachers and parents about parent involvement practices, reasons, and problems. The following five categories of elementary school parent involvement activities were developed after a review of literature and collaboration with elementary school …
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Influences on teachers' decisions about literacy for students with severe disabilities
… to examine the influences on special education teachers’ decisions about literacy for their students with severe disabilities. Using multiple case study and grounded theory methodologies, four middle and high school special education teachers were purposefully selected to participate in …
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Looking Through Their Lens: The Decisions about Reading Instruction Made by Experienced 2nd, 3rd and 4th Grade Teachers
Classroom teachers determine how reading is taught and their decisions are influenced both by the policies instituted by local, state and national agencies and the beliefs teachers hold. Teacher decision making strongly influences the teaching of reading in classrooms. Marzano (2003) stated, â â ¦ …
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Continuity and Change: Curriculum and Instruction in the World History Classroom
… contexts on the work of world history teachers. The first study analyzes the world history curriculum, and the second study looks at how curriculum was enacted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, these studies make visible trends of continuity and change in the world history …
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Relationship of Teacher Epistemic Beliefs, Perceived Barriers to Technology Use, and Integration of Educational Technology
Teacher beliefs about the nature of the teaching and learning process help teachers frame or define the teaching task at hand, so in order to understand teaching and teacher decision-making from a teacher's perspective we need to understand the beliefs used to frame how they teach. This is true for …
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Instructional decisions guided by student performance: the case of an exemplary elementary science teacher
… was to understand how an exemplary elementary teacher used classroom assessments to inform instructional decisions during the act of science teaching. Within the axioms of a naturalistic inquiry (see Chapter 3), a “bounded system” (Merriam, 2009) case study was used to conceptualize this …
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High School Social Studies Teachers Beliefs and Education for Democratic Citizenship
This study explores secondary social studies teachers' beliefs about the concept of citizenship. The development of citizenship in young people is an often-stated goal for schooling in the USA. The most prominent social studies professional organization, the National Council for the Social Studies, …
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A qualitative case study deconstructing teachers' decisions in the pre-active stage of teaching to illuminate considerations made for teaching 21st-century skills and knowledge
… a deeper understanding of how middle-level teachers in one Midwestern middle school account for teaching 21st-century skills and knowledge, within the context of a standardized curriculum. This study seeks to obtain descriptive information for how teachers account for 21st-century skills and …
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A descriptive study of the supervisory model used in a large metropolitan school system: the triad support teacher model of Baltimore City, Maryland
… programs, in facilitating learning, fostering teacher progress, and selecting the school organizational patterns which will facilitate improved instructional programs. The professional literature of the past two decades is full of the theory of modern supervision. Terms such as democratic, team …
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Factors influencing curriculum in elementary self-contained special education classrooms
… development is left to the discretion of the teacher. The classroom curriculum in such 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 …
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Study of the effectiveness of instant activities on student behavior in elementary physical education
… not following the directions, and not facing the teacher during instructional time. What seems to be clear from previous research is that there is a positive correlation between physical activity and student behavior (Mahar et al., 2006). What has not yet been looked at is the relationship between …
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The impact of educational policy changes upon elementary school teachers' instructional practices
… series of new educational policies that teachers are tasked to implement within their classrooms. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to examine how five elementary school teachers experienced and responded to educational policy changes that influenced their instructional …
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Students' perceptions and practices of planning and their teacher's decision-making during writing instruction
… collective case study was to examine the teacher's instructional goals, practices, and decision making during writing instruction, to examine the practices students engage in when they plan, and to understand second grade students' perceptions of planning when writing. The design of this …
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Factors Which Influence Kindergarten Teachers Selection of Trade Books for Use in Readaloud Sessions in Their Classrooms
… to investigate the factors that influence teachers' selection of trade books for use in readaloud sessions in their kindergarten classrooms. Participants included six kindergarten teachers with varying levels of experience, and data were collected in the naturalistic setting through means …
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Developing skills to explain scientific concepts during initial teacher education: the role of peer assessment
Initial teacher education is an area of weakness within the Chilean education system. Yet it is highlighted as a crucial aspect of educational success. Success in educational improvement depends mainly on the teachers (because they enact a reform by putting it into practice), and teacher thinking …
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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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“Who your teacher is does matter”: the lived experiences of history and citizenship teachers in Northern Ireland and the consequences for pedagogical practice
… the vision of educational policy-makers and the teachers responsible for implementing curriculum policy in their classrooms is a prerequisite; yet there is a much evidence to suggest that individual teachers’ mediation of policy can lead to a refashioning of requirements to reflect self-preferred …
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Teacher Participation in School Decision-Making and Job Satisfaction as Correlates of Organizational Commitment in Senior Schools in Botswana
… educational challenges in Botswana are to retain teachers and recruit more. Both retention and recruitment efforts often involve issues of teacher decision-making, teacher job satisfaction, and how these correlate with commitment to the school organization. Little was known about Botswana …
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Learning in a digitally connected classroom: Secondary science teachers’ pedagogical reasoning and practices
… of this research was therefore to investigate teachers’ pedagogically reasoned practice. This study involved three exemplary Australian secondary science teachers, renowned for their expertise in utilising ICT working in classrooms where students had school issued one-to-one computers and …