Psychology for High-School TeachersThe Psychology of Secondary School Teaching. James L. Mursell

1933 ◽  
Vol 41 (5) ◽  
pp. 387-388
Author(s):  
W. S. Miller
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
School Teaching

scholarly journals Improving Engagement With Biomechanics: Student Perspectives and a Professional Development Initiative

2019 ◽  
Vol 141 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah P. Shultz ◽  
Sarah-Kate Millar ◽  
Philip W. Fink ◽  
Kim Hébert-Losier ◽  
Geoffrey Handsfield ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
High School ◽  
Teacher Training ◽  
Student Engagement ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Teaching Quality ◽  
First Year ◽  
Training Workshop ◽  
School Teaching

Abstract Student engagement is an essential aspect of educational environments, and this is especially true for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines, where student engagement declines in middle and high school years. Techniques for bolstering student engagement, such as hands-on learning, may be especially effective in the field of biomechanics since this discipline is rooted in STEM and has fundamental applications to everyday movement. To this end, this paper describes (1) the perceptions of student teachers in their first year of tertiary (undergraduate) education regarding the biomechanics content from their secondary (high school) education, and (2) a professional development initiative, in the form of a discipline-specific teacher training workshop, to enhance biomechanics resources for teachers via peer networking. The perception of student teachers in their first year of tertiary education in teaching indicated a positive relationship between perception of secondary school teaching quality and self-confidence with specific biomechanical concepts. Open responses focused on the need to cover concepts thoroughly, using practical activities where possible, and taking time to ensure understanding before progressing to more advanced concepts. The teacher training workshop provided secondary school Physical Education teachers with an opportunity to network nationally with other teachers across New Zealand, and internationally with university-based biomechanics researchers. Peer focus groups helped to design and refine sets of experiential learning activities that could be easily implemented in the classroom.

Classics in Mathematics Education: Algebra and the Development of Reason

1966 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-166
Author(s):  
Susanne K. Langer
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Reason ◽  
High School Algebra ◽  
School Teaching ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Points Of View

WHAT I wish to say to you today is a general reflection on the subject of high school algebra. As a layman both in mathematics and in secondary school teaching, I can speak only from two lay points of view—that of the pupil, which meets you at one end of your activity, and that of the philosopher, which you encounter at the other. Consequently, I shall begin by talking about the futility and barrenness of algebra, and end, I hope, by reviewing with you its importance, interest, and charm. For it is a peculiarity of the subject that an uninitiate mind can usually see nothing in it but a dry, lifeless discipline, whereas the adept sees in it the apotheosis of human reason.

Practical Mathematics for High Schools

1918 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 181-184
Author(s):  
W. H. Dooley
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
High School Mathematics ◽  
Secondary School Mathematics ◽  
General Educator ◽  
The Social ◽  
School Teaching ◽  
Traditional Courses ◽  
Practical Mathematics

One of the most constructive critićisms that have been made of secondary-school mathematics, by a general educator, was made by H. C. Morrison, State Commissioner of Education, of New Hampshire, when he said, “The traditional courses in algebra, geometry, trigonometry and advanced algebra must be revised as to organization and content to meet the need of the adolescent, and the social purpose of the high school … mathematics must be considered as a language to interpret science. … It must be presented to give immediate opportunity for functioning. It should be adapted to meet the needs of the different courses.” These suggestions were offered after years of observation of high-school teaching of mathematics, and were no doubt due to the following causes: change in type of pupil in the high school; feeling that the industrial and commercial needs should be recognized in secondary-school mathematics; disbelief in the formal discipline theory.

Algebra and the Development of Reason

1931 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 285-297
Author(s):  
Susanne K. Langer
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Reason ◽  
High School Algebra ◽  
School Teaching ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Points Of View

What I wish to say to you today is a general reflection on the subject of high-school algebra. As a layman both in mathematics and in secondary school teaching, I can speak only from two lay points of view—that of the pupil, which meets you at one end of your activity, and that of the philosopher, which you encounter at the other. Consequently I shall begin by talking about the futility and barren, ness of algebra, and end, I hope, by reviewing with you its importance, interess and charm. For it is a peculiarity of the subject that an uninitiate mind can usually see nothing in it but a dry, lifeless discipline, whereas the adept sees in it the apotheosis of human reason. The mean from the former outlook to the latter is your ministry.

Personal and Eponymous Nicknames in Historical Retrospective

2020 ◽  
Vol 81 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-87
Author(s):  
Yu. V. Shcherbinina
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
School Teaching ◽  
History Of ◽  
Methodological Practice ◽  
Historical Periods

The article is devoted to the genesis of personal and eponymous nicknames as a vivid phenomenon in the history of language and speech, which has irrefutable potential for developing methods of teaching and educating schoolchildren. The main varieties of nicknames, the conditions for their formation and the specifics of daily life in different historical periods are considered. The interconnections of nicknames with similar and related phenomena of Russian and European speech cultures are analyzed. The feasibility of analysing nicknames in the methodological practice of secondary school is postulated. Possible ways of the implementation of intrasubject and intersubject communications in the school teaching of humanities are offered on the basis of familiarizing students with the history of eponymous and personal nicknames.

Gender Non-traditional High School Study: Reasons for Choice and Evaluation of Experience

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 46-66
Author(s):  
Irena Smetáčková ◽  
Petr Pavlík
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Peer Groups ◽  
Male Students ◽  
School Program ◽  
School Study ◽  
Qualitative Thematic Analysis ◽  
Opposite Sex

Career choices of most pupils at the end of the primary school conform to gender norms. Only a few of them continue to study in a field traditionally considered appropriate for the opposite sex. The qualitative study presented here maps the reasons for such choices based on a sample of 25 female and 31 male students who study gender-atypical secondary school program for one to three years. The data were collected using a questionnaire with open-ended items and analysed using the qualitative thematic analysis. The results revealed that the reasons for school choices of boys and girls differ to certain extent. Their situation also differs with respect to the support they receive from their close ones and the acceptance by their classmates. The parents of girls disapproved of their choices more often than the parents of boys. Girls were also ridiculed more frequently by their peer groups.

scholarly journals Sleepmore in Seattle: Later school start times are associated with more sleep and better performance in high school students

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (12) ◽  
pp. eaau6200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gideon P. Dunster ◽  
Luciano de la Iglesia ◽  
Miriam Ben-Hamo ◽  
Claire Nave ◽  
Jason G. Fleischer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Research Study ◽  
School Students ◽  
Start Time ◽  
Adolescent Sleep ◽  
Single Intervention ◽  
School Start Times

Most teenagers are chronically sleep deprived. One strategy proposed to lengthen adolescent sleep is to delay secondary school start times. This would allow students to wake up later without shifting their bedtime, which is biologically determined by the circadian clock, resulting in a net increase in sleep. So far, there is no objective quantitative data showing that a single intervention such as delaying the school start time significantly increases daily sleep. The Seattle School District delayed the secondary school start time by nearly an hour. We carried out a pre-/post-research study and show that there was an increase in the daily median sleep duration of 34 min, associated with a 4.5% increase in the median grades of the students and an improvement in attendance.

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