How teachers would spend their time teaching language arts: The mismatch between self-reported and best practices

Journal of Learning Disabilities

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 418-430

  Cunningham, Anne E ^a   Zibulsky, Jamie ^a   Stanovich, Keith E ^b   Stanovich, Paula J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Education policy; Reading instruction; Teacher beliefs; Teacher knowledge

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CHILD; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EDUCATION; HUMAN; IN SERVICE TRAINING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; POLICY; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; STANDARD; TEACHING; UNITED STATES;

ATTITUDE; CHILD; CULTURE; DATA COLLECTION; EDUCATION, SPECIAL; HUMANS; INSERVICE TRAINING; LANGUAGE ARTS; LINGUISTICS; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PUBLIC POLICY; TEACHING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70249142880     PISSN: 00222194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022219409339063     Document Type: Article

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