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Alanko, Antti – Schools: Studies in Education, 2023
This study investigates the hopes of a group of Finnish of ninth-graders and how hopeful they are. This study also explores how to teach in a way that promotes hope. The theoretical framework of this study combines two different theories of hope, C. R. Snyder's psychological hope theory and Paulo Freire's philosophy of hope. This study holds that…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Foreign Countries, Grade 9, Guidelines
Allen, Megan; Arnold, Erin D.; Carroll, Richard E.; Freze, Matthew B.; Parson, Daniel W.; Mattson, Shawna M.; Inouye, Martha C. – Schools: Studies in Education, 2021
It is rare when a group of teachers gets to embark on a sustained, collaborative journey together to transform their teaching. It is even rarer that this group gets to reflect on this work and take a step back to appreciate the triumphs of their toils. In this article, six science educators share their reflections on how a journey of sustained…
Descriptors: Teacher Collaboration, Educational Change, Science Teachers, Faculty Development
Hsu, Shihkuan – Schools: Studies in Education, 2021
Active participation of learners has been viewed as the key to the learning process. To constructivists, challenging materials and cooperative activities where students participate and become engaged are essential in classroom instruction. In comparison, classrooms in Chinese heritage culture classrooms, where lectures are the main form of…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Active Learning, Lecture Method, Student Motivation
Murphy, Jeremy T. – Schools: Studies in Education, 2020
In this personal account, the author recounts navigating a school uniform policy as a new teacher in a large public high school in Baltimore. He loosely situates this telling in the recent history of the public school uniform movement, of which Baltimore was central. Writing in an urgent present tense, the author details the many complexities…
Descriptors: School Uniforms, Public Schools, School Policy, Beginning Teachers
Mitchell, Gloria; Hudson, Will; Barone, Melissa – Schools: Studies in Education, 2020
William Heard Kilpatrick's essay on "The Project Method," first published in 1918, argues for a method of education in which students' school activities are inspired by their own interests and guided by their own purposes. This article describes the project method as it is carried out in the sixth, seventh, and eighth grades at an…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Middle School Students, Private Schools, Cooperative Learning
McFarland, Jon – Schools: Studies in Education, 2020
The literature on the uses of gamification in education is increasingly popularizing the implementation of game elements in nongame environments, but the scholarship tends to remain theoretical and lacks a focus on practical application for educators seeking to utilize gamified methods. This article focuses on the design and implementation of…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Instructional Design, Program Implementation, Student Motivation
Lim, Chi-Ming – Schools: Studies in Education, 2020
Research reveals that although teachers in English as second language (ESL) classrooms are often good at teaching language forms and skills, many are less confident about the cognitive engagement required to develop critical thinking skills. However, little research has been done to examine the development of critical thinking in the context of…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Philosophy
O'Connor, John S. – Schools: Studies in Education, 2020
It is difficult to capture the life of a classroom. Schools usually measure the performance of students and teachers alike through numbers, quantifying students' attendance and test scores. But what of each individual student's experience, their unique understanding and life concerns in and out of school? Building on the work of Vivian Paley, who…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Student Experience, High School Students, Teacher Student Relationship
Katch, Jane; Harrow, Sheryl; Lockney, Jackie; Baffa, Nancy; Fuchs, Juliana; Peters, Heather; Whitney, Steve; Inman, Katy; Diller, Susan; Lewenberg, Anne – Schools: Studies in Education, 2019
Teachers at a, mostly white, independent school met monthly for a year, discussing how to talk with children from pre-K through eighth grade about race. They looked at interactions that arose spontaneously in the classroom, from younger children's comments about skin color to racially tinged remarks in the older classes. Faculty members, who all…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Elementary School Teachers, Middle School Teachers
Mitchell, Gloria – Schools: Studies in Education, 2019
Any activity that involves making choices entails the risk of failure, and the more personally meaningful the choices are, the more deeply felt the failure will be. Drawing on my experiences in supervising the self-chosen, long-term projects of my eighth-grade students, I argue that it is neither possible nor desirable to prevent young people from…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Decision Making, Risk, Grade 8
Ratner, Andrew – Schools: Studies in Education, 2018
The author, a professor of English education, reads to his nine-year-old son nightly, and has for many years. The mutually cherished and fulfilling routine is strained to the breaking point because of the author's growing concern about his son's prospects for being admitted into a "good" public middle school. The narrative offers…
Descriptors: Reading Aloud to Others, Middle Schools, Literacy Education, High Stakes Tests
Tsang, Kwok Kuen; Jiang, Lianjiang – Schools: Studies in Education, 2018
Informed by symbolic interactionism, this study examines how positive emotional experiences in teaching, teacher identity, and student behaviors are associated. According to the symbolic interactionism perspective, positive student behaviors signify that teachers have successfully embodied the teacher identity, which results in positive emotional…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Professional Identity, Student Behavior, Interaction
Laufer, Matt; Butler-Vanderlinden, Emma; Carlin, Lindsay; Saker, Sophia; Taylor, Molly – Schools: Studies in Education, 2018
The article documents the process by which four independent high school students from the Francis W. Parker School in Chicago and the faculty adviser of their school newspaper, "The Weekly" (a monthly), produced a daylong journalism symposium designed to promote and explore democratic education, student leadership, and professional…
Descriptors: High Schools, Journalism, Journalism Education, School Newspapers
Quaresma, Maria Luísa – Schools: Studies in Education, 2017
In this article, I aim to analyze the perceptions regarding excellence shared by students of high-performing public schools in Santiago de Chile and simultaneously to reflect on the way in which they experience it, inside and outside of school. Through the analysis of 24 focus groups conducted in six schools, I conclude that students share…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, High Achievement, Public Schools
Ascenzi-Moreno, Laura – Schools: Studies in Education, 2017
Although the number and diversity of emergent bilingual students is rising, this population is viewed as homogeneous rather than vibrant and eclectic. This case study explores how two secondary teachers of English as a new language uncover the diversity of their recently arrived emergent bilingual population by implementing translanguaging…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Educational Change, Teaching Methods