Sentences with phrase «belief about classroom practice»

Not exact matches

What I've learned from my research is that in addition to making sure our classroom practices are engaging, we also need to talk to students directly about their beliefs about school, helping them see how disengagement works against them, and what engagement actually is.

Greene's recognition of the values - laden nature of discipline systems all but begs for choice: Parents should be able to weigh, as one factor among many, schools whose philosophy about behavior management, classroom culture, and approach to student discipline most closely mirror their own beliefs and practices.

Practicing critical thinking in the classroom may mean discussing the quality of a textbook, considering whether traditional beliefs about a subject are accurate, or even discussing the teacher's instructional style.

Future research will address the relationship between Latina teachers» literacy experiences and beliefs about their current classroom practices.

Technology has the potential to reshape teacher education: «It has become a catalyst for challenging our attitudes, long - held beliefs about the way things have always been done, classroom practices and the way students learn» (Willis & Raines, 2001, p. 3).

«What promises to increase the worth of districtwide professional development, especially if based within schools and involving teachers in the planning, are those efforts concentrating on prevailing beliefs among teachers about teaching and learning, current norms in the school community, and classroom practices.

In her most recent post, Cassie Erkens wrote about how we can build efficacy through our assessment practices and how, as she wrote, «The evidence that is generated from classroom assessments must be used to help learners believe that they can produce desired effects by their own actions and beliefs.»

Adopting technology into classroom practice is dependent not only on the amount of training a teacher receives, but also the teacher's philosophy and beliefs about the benefits of technology (Balajthy, 2000; Vannatta & Fordham, 2004).

Instructional Environment: Instructional environment refers to classroom level dimensions of instructional practice assumed to reflect teachers» philosophical beliefs about mathematics, students, teaching, and learning (Stein et al., 1991).