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Direct linkchanicka, jeewan; Mahari de Silva, Renuka; Merkley, Kevin – Intercultural Education, 2018
In local, diverse learning communities in Ontario, educators may have to look closely at how engagement can be established in meaningful and authentic ways that encourage and foster student agency and democracy. As students are critically engaged and grasp the relevance of their learning within the context of their daily lives, learning in a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Student Relationship, Democracy, Trust (Psychology)
Pianta, Robert C.; Hamre, Bridget K. – Educational Researcher, 2009
The authors advance an argument that placing observation of actual teaching as a central feature of accountability frameworks, teacher preparation, and basic science could result in substantial improvements in instruction and related social processes and a science of the production of teaching and teachers. Teachers' behavioral interactions with…
Descriptors: Observation, Educational Change, Psychometrics, Accountability
Download full textWesterhof-Shultz, Jolanda; Weisner, Jill – Educational Foundations, 2004
In spite of the ongoing discussion and emphasis on student voice, talk curriculum, and small group discussion (Barnitz 1994; Johnson & Johnson 1994; Barnes & Todd 1995; Johnston & Nicholls 1995; Johnson & Johnson 2000), most classroom language/discourse strategies remain rooted in Socratic premises. That is to say, official classroom discourse…
Descriptors: Discussion (Teaching Technique), Middle Schools, Classroom Communication, Teacher Student Relationship
Grobe, William J. – National Middle School Association (NJ3), 2005
In this article, the author discusses seven characteristics of classrooms that encourage maximum student participation in the education process: (1) democracy; (2) scientific method; (3) creativity; (4) change; (5) individualization; (6) socialization; and (7) problem solving. Using these concepts to make students part of the instructional…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Instructional Development, Thinking Skills, Scientific Methodology
Barnes, Peter – Teaching Pre K-8, 2006
In this article, the author presents a quiz to identify whether or not a person is a nerd. He also offers a new definition for nerd: "A person who is excited about learning and who thinks that sharing knowledge is cool." A nerdy teacher loves when students bring in articles from the newspaper about the upcoming meteor shower or the new movie about…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Teacher Influence, Middle School Teachers, Teacher Student Relationship
Shreve, Jenn – Instructor, 2005
Bullying, drug use, sex--curious about whether or not these news-making trends describe a teacher's middle school students? And if so, how do they affect the classroom? This article presents an interview with Linda Perlstein, a reporter who spent a year attending classes at Wilde Lake Middle School in Maryland to find out what really is going on…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Middle School Teachers, Sexuality, Classroom Techniques
Gallucci, Chrysan; Knapp, Michael S.; Markholt, Anneke; Ort, Suzy – Center for the Study of Teaching and Policy, 2003
The convergence of two apparently opposite theories of urban educational reform is analyzed as it occurs in three middle schools in a New York City school district. The first theory, emphasizing small schools of choice, promotes close relationships between students and adults in distinctive school programs. The second--centralized, standards-based…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Middle Schools, Instructional Improvement, Educational Change
Bailey, Lynne – Middle School Journal (J3), 2005
In this article, the author relates her teaching experiences with her gifted student named Chris, as well as her understanding of behaviors of gifted and talented students like Chris. In order to understand the difficulties that gifted students encounter, she uses a case study research method in documenting her work with Chris. She emphasizes the…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Middle School Students, Student Behavior, Case Studies
Smyth, John – Educational Review, 2005
This article has at its centre the project, discourses and practices of modernization and what these mean practically and existentially for schools. The author argues that schools are, at their core, relational organizations, therefore they are primarily concerned with creating the set of relational resources and conditions that enable learning to…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Disadvantaged Youth, Adolescents, Social Change
