This paper reports on teaching assistants’ perceptions of the Phase 1 Higher Level Teaching Assistant (HLTA) training programme, the match to their changing role in classroom support, and suggests resulting issues for the design and delivery of HLTA training programmes. It explores what impact undertaking the training and gaining HLTA professional status has had upon the school activities under...

This article, the second in a two-part series, provides guidance to speech-language pathologists (SLPs) for implementing the explicit component of the embedded-explicit emergent literacy intervention model for at-risk preschool and kindergarten children. The explicit component refers to the provision of regular structured therapeutic interactions that intentionally target critical emergent lite...

A study of 120 randomly selected classrooms in 30 schools in central and south Texas, USA was conducted to begin assembling baseline information on the condition of indoor air in Texas elementary schools. Part I of the study consisted of questionnaires sent to all teachers and staff in the schools to obtain information about the use of their rooms, room contents and their perceptions of its ind...

Programming with the KIBO Robotics Kit in Preschool Classrooms Mollie Elkin, Amanda Sullivan & Marina Umaschi Bers To cite this article: Mollie Elkin, Amanda Sullivan & Marina Umaschi Bers (2016) Programming with the KIBO Robotics Kit in Preschool Classrooms, Computers in the Schools, 33:3, 169-186, DOI: 10.1080/07380569.2016.1216251 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07380569.2...

The Learning Through Collaborative Visualization Project is attempting to establish open-inquiry collaborative science projects as a classroom activity structure. This efforts are described from a design experiment perspective where social and material supports are strategically arranged to encourage this classroom evolution. Supports are provided to help teachers form community, teachers manag...

Students' capabilities to use symbolic information in classroom setting could be expected to influence their possibilities to be active and participating. The development of strategies for teachers to compensate for reduced capability need specific operational definition of symbolic behavior. Fifty-three students, aged 11-13 years old, 29 boys and 24 girls, from three classes in the same Swedis...

The three teachers in this study selected many types of humor to exemplify their points. To avoid predictability, they varied their humor presentation styles and frequency by using simple cartoons projected on a screen, jokes and stories, and songs and dance routines. All three teachers engaged in a continuous search for new material to further expand their repertoire. Careful not to overuse hu...

Current training strategies implemented in online WBT training sessions are rather simple strategies. They lack a number of aspects of typical classroom training strategies, such as composite training strategies, possibility to customize and adapt training strategy, collaborative training strategies, and so on. In this paper we present a novel WBT tool called Virtual Classrooms, which we implem...

The use of data from student surveys has become a common element of universities’ and governments’ strategies to assure the quality of university teaching. With the introduction of a new government policy in Australia in 2005, these survey-derived teaching performance indicators now determine the distribution of many millions of dollars of funding and universities are understandably keen to enh...

This Conference has brought together many insights into the learning of algebra, and into aspects of teaching that can help students to understand and do it better. Here I want mainly to comment on what else may be needed to turn these insights into actual improvements in learning in school classrooms around the world. Some of these comments are specific to algebra; others apply more widely, to...