with current views of assessment to support learning and instruction. However, in the practical realm, the participants demonstrated varying degrees of sophistication of assessment use while teaching atomic structure and electron configuration. Based...

The purpose of this study was to determine if computer based real-time video mentoring (RVM) is a viable tool for mentoring music teachers in rural school districts. Research has shown that mentoring is effective in reducing ...

Electronic networks have provided new intellectual environments where people can accumulate their cognitive power and have increased the necessity to provide students opportunity to learn together in online CoI (Community of Inquiry) beyond...

consideration and peer learning were driving forces during the practice of the aforementioned strategies. Based on these findings, recommendations for teaching include the incorporation of social media in university and school classrooms. These will allow...

This study examined how algebra teachers plan curriculum units when they actively design their curriculum. I used a case study (Yin, 2013) of five experienced high school mathematics teachers who came from school districts of varying sizes across...

, as they engaged in SSI-focused learning activities and curriculum design, in an SSI-focused methods course built around the SSI teaching and learning (SSI-TL) framework (Sadler et al., 2017). PSTs' beliefs about SSI were influenced by their existing beliefs about...

A multicultural approach to music teaching has become increasingly important in music education. Due to a lack of materials about Taiwanese songs in the United States, I designed music curriculum materials for American teachers to implement...

of learning (Pearson & Gallagher, 1983) with the co-teaching model of student teaching strengths as follows: extensive modeling by a More Knowledgeable Other (Vygotsky, 1978), extensive professional reflection and immediate feedback, a narrowing of focus...

literacy, I first examine the discourse of the newly implemented 2019 K-6 primary school curriculum and public discourses of educational leaders to learn how curricular policies, content, assessment, and teaching and learning activities continue to ch...

of PD curriculum, and knowledge of assessment.; (c) the professional developers' knowledge and orientations influenced their decisions in selecting PD activities and teaching approaches; (d) their orientations and PCK as well as the time factor...

The purpose of this study was to assess if new curriculum implemented by the University of Missouri's Hotel and Restaurant Management program is meeting industry and students' educational needs. The study sought to provide insight on the learning...

the instrument. Personal Importance was the most influential factor impacting their decision to teach the agricultural mechanics curriculum areas: Arc Welding, Project Construction, Oxy-Gas and Other Cutting/Welding Processes, Woodworking, Metals, and Finishing...

development programs and ultimately improve the teaching and learning of mathematics....

This study investigated faculty principles of practice in curricular learning communities (CLC) compared to faculty in non-curricular learning community environments. A sample of CLC faculty and non-CLC faculty who teach comparable courses at three...

and promotion, and district requirements for learning. Even though, novice and experienced teacher needs differed significantly, most of the teachers described needed professional development related to eight mathematics topics: content, curriculum, assessment...

., 2000). The following research questions were developed to guide the research. 1) In what ways do districts use data to inform decisions around curriculum and instruction for student learning? 2) What factors impede developing and implementing curriculum...

for subsequent qualitative analysis. Teacher interviews were conducted to explore how participant teachers decide what to do in their classroom, as well as whether or not exposure to the constructivist based curriculum influenced their beliefs about learning...

agriculture instructors in teaching concepts related to science; 2) To assess how such a change in the curriculum would impact current agricultural education programs. The sample was derived from the population of agriculture instructors teaching in Missouri...

Reading is a foundational skill that contributes to success in school and life-long endeavors. Teaching students to read and ensuring they learn how to master the five components of the reading process is a primary task of those in the education...