The goal of this paper is to identify significant patterns of curriculum use among teachers using a reform-based elementary mathematics curriculum. Towards this end, we introduce the curriculum strategy framework as a way to characterize teachers’ interactions with reform-based materials. The framework focuses on three key interpretive activities: reading, evaluating, and adapting curriculum ma...

The first aim of this study was to contribute to a growing body of research in teacher-student classroom discourse, by describing, in detail, the discourse “moves” of a teacher during science conversations. Our second aim was to develop an enriched analytic framework that can account for the context, the content and the purpose of the discourse moves identified, arguing for a shift of attention...

The main goal of this study is to evaluate primary teacher education programs in Croatia. Prior to evaluation of the primary teacher education programs, expected primary teacher education competencies were defined. The expected teacher competencies were determined according to the goals stated in the Croatian national curriculum. In addition, international guidelines for information literacy de...

instruction that teachers bring to their students; therefore, preparing new teachers well is crucial to student achievement (Chetty, Friedman, & Rockoff, 2014; Rivkin, Hanushek, & Kain, 2005; Rockoff, 2004). Recent research on graduates of teacher preparation programs suggests that some programs are producing new teachers who are more capable than others (Boyd, Grossman, Lankford, Loeb, & Wycko...

Title of Dissertation: THE EFFECT OF INSTRUCTIONAL CONSULTATION TEAMS ON TEACHERS’ REPORTED INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICES Lauren Tracy Kaiser, Doctor of Philosophy, 2007 Dissertation Directed by: Professor Sylvia Rosenfield, School Psychology Program A primary goal of Instructional Consultation Teams (IC Teams; Rosenfield & Gravois, 1996) is that students’ problems will be prevented or resolved throu...

this study was an attempt to investigate whether teaching critical reading strategies had any significant effect on intermediate efl learners’ vocabulary retention. to fulfill the purpose of this study, 72 male and female students within the age range of 17 to 32 years studying at farzan and farzanegan language schools in tehran at intermediate level were selected from a total number of 114 par...

in order to confirm the effectiveness of language learning strategies in theiranian context in junior high schools, this study was designed to examine thepatterns of strategy use, the effects of strategy instruction on the students’ strategyuse, and the relationship between the participants’ strategy use and their englishachievement. to achieve this objective, 57 junior high school participants...

Objectives: The study was aimed to determine the effectiveness of verbal self-instruction training on math problem-solving of intellectually disabled boy students in Tehran Provinces. Methods: The study was a semi-experimental with pre-test and post-test design with control group. Thirty intellectually disabled boy students were selected randomly through cluster sampling method from 9th grad...

The importance of teachers in the success of Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) is unquestionable. However, designing a teacher course on TBLT raises many questions concerning ‘what’ and ‘how’ it can be implemented. Can teachers’ professional development be promoted through Task-Based Instruction (TBI)? This paper explores this question by examining the design and implementation of an online c...

In this paper, we describe our efforts in providing a holistic environment for our trainee teachers at the National Institute of Education (Singapore) to ‘learn by experiencing and doing’ about using technology in classroom instruction. In our deliberate attempt to move away from lecturing and teaching of discrete IT skills, we modeled various strategies that are built upon established learning...