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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"teaching beliefs"”.
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Ethics of Teaching: Beliefs and Behaviors of Community College Faculty
This study examines the ethical beliefs and behaviors of full-time community college faculty. Respondents report to what degree they practice sixty-two behaviors as teachers and whether they believe the behaviors to be ethical. Survey participants engaged in few of the behaviors, and only reported …
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Exploring the Teaching Beliefs of Chinese-born Engineering Faculty in the United States: A Qualitative Case Study with a Focus on Teamwork
… the pedagogies to build teamwork, faculty beliefs about teamwork remain an underexplored area, particularly in engineering education. This study contributes to addressing this research gap by investigating how engineering faculty conceptualize teamwork, how their beliefs influence their …
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An Evaluation of the Impact of the Preservice Teacher Education Program at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center on the Foreign Language Teaching Beliefs of Preservice Language Instructors
… teachers are adults with well-established beliefs. They start teacher-education programs with traditional beliefs about language teaching reflecting their own experiences. The field of foreign-language teaching, however, underwent a paradigm shift from grammar-based to communicative …
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Teacher Development for English Language Teaching in China: Based on English Language Teachers' Beliefs and Practices in New Zealand
… study inquired into English language teachers’ beliefs and practices in China and in New Zealand, and explored the process of using New Zealand English language teachers’ beliefs and practices as a stimulus in promoting and developing Chinese English language teachers’ understanding of English …
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A Tale of a Collaborative Venture: Team Teaching in an Early Childhood Classroom
Suggestions for future team teaching practice included providing clear and specific definition of teaching roles and responsibilities, adequate time for planning and discussing issues on team teaching, effective communicating skills, a mediator to facilitate collaboration, and the development of …
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Perceptions of Blended Learning in the High School Classroom
… previous online learning experiences, and teaching beliefs were used as independent variables to determine if a relationship exists towards teachers’ intention to use blended learning in their high school (grades 9-12) classes. Findings indicated a relationship exists between teaching …
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Meeting the Needs of Gifted Students by Providing Year-Long Professional Development on Differentiated Instruction
… study focused on how teachers' planning and teaching methods changed after they acquired more confidence in applying differentiated strategies in their instructional units. Teachers were given a questionnaire about their skills, qualifications and teaching beliefs comparing teaching general …
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The epistemic beliefs of novice and expert college professors
… that when teachers have sophisticated epistemic beliefs, they are more likely to adopt constructivist teaching beliefs and behaviours. In order to explore the belief sophistication of teachers, the goal of the current research is to compare different types of experiences common to CEGEP …
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Poetry, media, and second language acquisition
… how the graduate course: "Writing, Reading and Teaching Poetry" influenced American and international students' writing, thinking, response to poetry, teaching beliefs and English learning through their participating in the class activities. In this study, I examine the following areas: (1) …
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The Effect of Faculty Development on Active Learning in the College Classroom
… mentoring program on the use of active learning teaching techniques by college faculty. A quasi-experimental study was conducted using convenience samples of faculty from two private Christian supported institutions. Data for the study were collected from surveys and faculty course evaluations. …
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The relationship between teacher education, teacher cognition and classroom practice in language teaching: a case study of MA students beliefs about grammar teaching
… study examines the development of the grammar teaching beliefs and practices of three practising teachers of English in Turkey taking an MA course. Teachers were interviewed and observed over a 20-month period; the observations shed light on how they taught grammar, while the interviews …
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Pre-Collegiates Students' Teaching Identities
… 4 pre-collegiate students' construction of a teaching identity during their participation in an introduction to teaching course conducted in a rural high school located in a southeastern state. Two purposes framed this investigation, 1) to gain an in-depth understanding of the pre-collegiate …
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A Phenomenological Inquiry into the Process of Teaching Jazz Improvisation
… creativity, this study describes the pedagogical beliefs and practices utilized by jazz educators for the teaching of improvisation as a creative process. Improvisation has been an integral feature of the jazz performance tradition for well over a century. However, the field of creativity studies …
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An investigation into the Professional Development of English Teachers in Syrian Secondary Schools.
… as an important topic within English language teaching, the researcher identified some areas where there is much still to reveal. These include: teachers' customary engagement with different TPD activities aside from when a researcher imposes some TPD activity on them for a study (normal TPD …
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The use of a short-cycle formative assessment observation protocol to investigate alignment between a secondary science teacher's beliefs and practices : a narrative inquiry study.
… describe a feeling of disconnect between their teaching beliefs and instructional practices. Whether dissonance stems from high-stakes testing or contention among colleagues regarding best instructional practices, this tension can influence how an educator constructs their classroom environment. …
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EFFICACY-RELATED BELIEFS AND PRACTICES ABOUT EQUITABLE SCIENCE TEACHING: A CASE STUDY IN AN URBAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
… multiple student indicators in urban schools. Teaching quality is one of the important factors that contribute to such outcomes and these disparities raise the issue of equitable teaching practices, especially in science. A review of the literature at the intersection of science education and …
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Chinese language teaching facilitated by anthropomorphised technologies: Using chatbots as smart teaching assistants
… lack of research on chatbot use within situated teaching contexts, particularly from the perspective of foreign language teachers who are not technology enthusiasts but are shaped by this technological shift. This study attempts to go beyond the technology-driven tendency that is prevalent in …
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Understanding Grade 4-8 Teachers’ Instructional Practices and Beliefs as a Function of Transdisciplinary Coaching in STEM-Language Literacy
… to investigate Grade 48 teachers’ practices and beliefs. Four types of data—pre-questionnaires, interviews, researcher reflections, and fieldnotes—were coded to highlight recurring concepts and descriptive words and expressions. Three meaningful themes and sub-themes were identified to respond to …
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Graduate students' motivation to teach plant sciences to K-12 audiences
… as future scientists is informed by their beliefs and perceived value of science literacy outreach. Graduate training programs in academia integrate outreach teaching components to equip future scientists with a variety of communication skills, which may reflect either a transmission of …
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The educational beliefs of a group of university teachers and their students: Identification, exploration and comparison
The quality of teaching and learning in tertiary education contexts is influenced by many factors including the educational beliefs of the university teachers and students who teach and learn in such contexts. Most belief research in the tertiary education sector has, to date, reported on the …
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