A second-grade teacher's adaptive teaching during an integrated science-literacy unit

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 35, Issue , 2013, Pages 114-125

  Allen, Melony Holyfield ^a   Matthews, Catherine E ^a   Parsons, Seth A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive teaching; Teacher decision making

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880386143     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2013.06.002     Document Type: Article

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