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Rosemarie Hill – Teacher Education Advancement Network Journal, 2024
The National Curriculum is a document written by the Department for Education and contains the statutory requirements all teachers in maintained schools in England must follow. This research study will examine the path primary teachers in England, those who teach 5 to 11 year olds, navigate to meet the requirements of the National Curriculum and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, History Instruction, Inquiry, Active Learning
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Geraldine Magennis-Clarke – Teacher Education Advancement Network Journal, 2024
This paper examines a literacy book study group as a potentially useful vehicle for the delivery of teacher professional learning in a primary setting. A small group of teachers, in conjunction with a university lecturer, participated in weekly workshop sessions centred around a chosen literacy-based text. The goal of this project was to provide…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Elementary School Teachers, Foreign Countries, Discussion Groups
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Biberman-Shalev, Liat; Korem, Anat; Ram, Drorit – Teacher Education Advancement Network Journal, 2022
Pre-service teachers' reflection is a common professional practice in the context of teacher education. The integration of blogs as reflective journals in teacher education may contribute to bridging practical field know-how with the academic knowledge base. In particular, the blog may serve as a virtual space for a community of practice where all…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Educators, Electronic Publishing
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Robinson, Pinar – Teacher Education Advancement Network Journal, 2022
Recently, teacher recruitment and retention has been the focus of the government and a step taken to support recruitment was the abolishing of the skills tests. Initial teacher training providers became responsible for assessing trainees' mathematicsrather than having it externally assessed. The purpose of this literature review is to synthesise…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Competencies, Mathematics Instruction
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Tope, Clare – Teacher Education Advancement Network Journal, 2021
There is broad agreement that the choice of mathematical examples is central to the teaching of mathematics and that a teacher's choice of examples may either facilitate or impede learners' understanding. From this starting point it can be deduced that programmes of instruction for teachers should include the study of mathematical examples.…
Descriptors: Observation, Demonstrations (Educational), Elementary School Mathematics, Textbooks
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Hooton, Debbie – Teacher Education Advancement Network Journal, 2019
This study is an evaluation of learning style profiles and multiple intelligence domains of level seven trainee primary school teachers who chose to specialise in mathematics at the university where the research took place. Whilst this study focusses on mathematics specialists studying at post graduate level the information could be adapted to…
Descriptors: Profiles, Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Mathematics Teachers
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Zsargo, Liz; Palmer, Jean F. – Teacher Education Advancement Network Journal, 2019
The small-scale research study reported in this paper aimed to explore the ways in which mentors in primary school settings approach the assessment of trainee teachers within the English Initial Teacher Education system. Consistency and accuracy of assessment is judged by Ofsted (Office for Standards in Education) as a key indicator of quality,…
Descriptors: Accuracy, Mentors, Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers
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Gomersall, Suzanne – Teacher Education Advancement Network Journal, 2019
This small scale study investigated how much value undergraduate primary trainee teachers perceive there to be within a programme of peer mentoring. As this was a small scale study gathering qualitative data, the findings do not represent a general consensus and may be situational to this setting. The literature suggests that there are a wide…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Elementary School Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Mentors
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Boyd, Pete; Ash, Andy – Teacher Education Advancement Network Journal, 2018
South Asian approaches to teaching mathematics have been influential globally and are entangled with mastery approaches. This study investigates changing strategies and beliefs of Primary School teachers in England as they engage with a sustained curriculum development project. The teachers were working with a commercially available text book…
Descriptors: Discovery Learning, Mastery Learning, Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Teachers
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Henthorn, J.; Cammack, P. J. – Teacher Education Advancement Network Journal, 2017
There is a growing body of evidence that the educational use of social media has the potential to enhance a number of aspects of teaching and learning but there is a limited range of research on how Twitter can be integrated into classroom practice and school-life in primary schools. This paper adds to the emerging evidence of how social media…
Descriptors: Web 2.0 Technologies, Social Media, Technology Uses in Education, Instructional Effectiveness
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Clarke, Emma; Visser, John – Teacher Education Advancement Network Journal, 2017
This paper will consider how teaching assistants' (TAs') roles are changing from the historical 'mum's army' (Bach Kessler & Heron, 2006) of paint-pot washers, as some considered it pre-national curriculum, to the developing conception of the TA as a 'paraprofessional'. Contemporary issues arising from the loosely defined current expectations…
Descriptors: Teacher Aides, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Role Perception
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Hanscomb, Stuart; Rinaldi, Carlo – Teacher Education Advancement Network Journal, 2017
In his "Report of a Review of Teacher Education in Scotland" (2010), Donaldson presents the idea of the 'twenty-first century teacher'. Central to this is the requirement for an 'extended professionalism' in which emphasis is placed on the development of the student teacher's academic and intellectual qualities. This article aims to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education
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Val Poultney – Teacher Education Advancement Network Journal, 2016
This paper examines how one primary school in the East Midlands region has worked to establish a culture of teacher-led, evidence-based teacher inquiry. It reports on a pilot year of research when the senior leadership team (SLT) decided to implement a strategic focus on evidence-based teaching, which would generate their own school knowledge,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Schools, Evidence Based Practice, Elementary School Teachers
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David Boorman – Teacher Education Advancement Network Journal, 2015
This literature review examines calculators in the primary school classroom in light of their recent prohibition for younger children in England. Contrary to political fears about calculators being harmful, the existing literature indicates that calculators have many benefits: they can develop conceptual understanding, support and improve mental…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Classroom Techniques, Calculators