This paper summarizes variations in instructors’ implementation practices during Peer Instruction PI and shows how these differences in practices shape different norms of classroom interaction. We describe variations in classroom norms along three dimensions of classroom culture that are integral to Peer Instruction, emphasis on: 1 faculty-student collaboration, 2 student-student collaboration,...

pairing theory with methodology, this study demonstrates how efl teachers’ limited wait-time practice structures in and affects the structuring of the unfolding classroom discourse with reference to learners’ participation opportunities. informed by the tenets of conversation analysis, we have observed, videotaped, and transcribed line-by-line 10 efl teachers’ naturally-occurring classroom inte...

In the 21 st century, learners will need a different set of life skills and competencies in order to be successful in life, and at the same time contribute positively to society at large. In equipping learners with the necessary skills and attitudes, teachers play a pivotal role. They are the gatekeepers of the curriculum (Eisner, 2002) and inevitably they transmit values in the course of their...

How do we create better learning environments in the classroom? Some researchers advocate restructuring the classroom through student design-based inquiry. This paper reports a year-long classroom study that used student design-based inquiry to reform the classroom toward more constructivist teaching and learning practices. Two teachers in a rural school and their 125 seventh graders attempted ...

225 Descriptive statistics for teachers' reported self-efficacy 226 Descriptive statistics for classroom environment 227 Teachers' characteristics and classroom disciplinary climate and teachers' self-efficacy 229 Teachers' professional development and classroom disciplinary climate and teachers' self-efficacy 231 Teaching practices, beliefs and attitudes and classroom disciplinary climate and ...

Treating classroom learning as a community process of transforming participation in social practices has provided a useful corrective to predominantly abstract, mentalistic conceptualizations of learning. For example, Lave’s community of practice and Rogoff’s community of learners emphasize the ways in which learning is deeply situated in a person’s becoming part of a community through particip...

For many English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers working contingently with language learners’ problematic learner contributions in classroom interaction still remains a challenge. Drawing on conversation analysis methodology and using sociocultural and situated learning theories, this longitudinal case study traces the progressional changes in one Iranian English language teacher’s repairi...