Professor John M. Sayles, pr incipal of Milne High school, wi l l load a round table discussion at the Eighth Annual Junior High school conference, under the auspices of the school of education at New York university, March 18 and 1°. The theme of the conference wil l he "The New Age Challenges Teaching Methods;" the topic of Professor Sayles' round table wil l he " Improving Methods through Te...

How does the literacy teacher negotiate the tensions between skills and social practice? Negotiation requires engaging with the debate in which literacy is seen as a set of discrete, transferable skills, dependent upon cognitive development, to the notion of literacies which are bound to social practice, and adapting teaching practices which align these two perspectives. Literacy teacher traini...

Using an innovative method, a Single-Target Implicit Association Test (ST-IAT) was created to explore the implicit theories of intelligence among science and liberal arts teachers and their relationships with their gender. The results showed that for science teachers—especially for male teachers—there was a negative implicit association between “intelligence” and “modifiable” stimuli, whereas l...

We explore the phenomenology of embodiment based on research through design and reflection on the design of artefacts for augmenting embodied performance. We present three designs for highly trained musicians; the designs rely on the musicians’ mastery acquired from years of practice. Through the knowledge of the living body their instruments —saxophone, cello, and flute — are extensions of the...

This descriptive study used an online survey to determine how principals in two states viewed the supervision of marginal teachers. Principals ranked their own evaluation of the teacher as the most important factor when identifying marginal teachers and relied on informal methods to diagnose marginal teaching. Female principals rated a majority of supervisory methods and data sources as being m...

Abstract It is well-established in both scholarship and policy documents that students’ home language practices can be leveraged as a key resource for their learning. However, it challenging teachers to embed resources class activities ways link wider learning objectives. We report how the inclusion of literacy enhance English promote multiliteracies. Data are drawn from design-based study on i...

This chapter is a reflection on the use of computers in the author’s time as a secondary school student, and then subsequently five years later as a qualified teacher of Information Technology. Despite the uneven teaching of computing in the 1980s low student enrolments, and the marginalization of the subject, computing flourished in the 1990s. With ever increasing enrolments for computing subj...

This article discusses a telecollaborative activity that combines many strategies of interest in teacher education (i.e., case-based learning, online discussion, cross-university collaboration, and synchronous/asynchronous learning) to create a unique collaborative online learning environment for 36 social studies education students. Findings suggest that this activity fostered the development ...

We have developed a new undergraduate programming course, which has so far been taught three. Teaching practical tools and techniques without a sound conceptual basis. Matted PDF at the other, and the user interfaces are often quite polished. Overall.teaching programming, epitomized in the line of languages designed by Niklaus. Coffee fueled some of the reflections behind this course: Life is u...

This article demonstrates the importance of skills in asking questions and the value of spreadsheets in seeking answers in the spirit of experimental mathematics. This is accomplished through an activity with straws recommended for lower elementary mathematics classrooms that was expanded to a combinatorial inquiry into the triangle inequality. Whereas the article is a reflection on a mathemati...