"They believed that only one idea was right".And yet the views of Hojatoleslam Gharavian turn out to be more nuanced than his teacher's.
The motherly proprietress, Harumi Okochi, whose husband's family have been innkeepers in Karatsu for more than a century, is a former English teacher with a nuanced command of the language, and of the local society and folklore.
In the case of gifted and talented classes, that might mean including the nuanced expertise of schools and teachers in making decisions for gifted classes in their community.
However, the teachers noticed specific, nuanced distinctions across their own approaches to PBL, including a contrast between (1) the use of a single theme in which content could be embedded and (2) the intentional connecting of content from various academic areas.
The questionnaire data revealed more nuanced groupings, including seven types of current teachers, and three types of former teachers (Fig. 1).
The findings underscore the need for a more nuanced view of the role of teachers' gestures in students' comprehension and learning.
Building on the work of Ball and Cohen (1999), Rosebery et al. (2015) represent formative assessment as interpretive power, through which teachers assess students' responses as nuanced and refined rather than as simply correct or incorrect, and adjust instruction accordingly.
Might there be a way for more nuanced decision-making on the parts of teachers and administrators to allow some of these breakthrough apps into the classroom with the proper context and training?
Fish's research offers a more nuanced picture of the different sets of expectations teachers may have for students of different races ― a disparity that reflects American life overall.
O'Brien's performance, too, is well embodied, though less nuanced — she becomes what we all should fear, a teacher who's dead inside.
