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Title: (RE)-AUTHORING THE STUDENT: AN EXPLORATION INTO FIGURED WORLDS, IDENTITY FORMATION, GENRE, PUBLICS, AND HOW POWER RELATIONS IMPACT CHILDREN'S WRITING
Author: Iannone, Anthony
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Education, Elementary, Curriculum planning, Language arts
Description: As digital media makes its way into elementary school classrooms, urban school culture moves slowly to join in. The move to integrate new technologies into schools is both enabled and constrained by factors such as the need for students and teache...

Title: A Comparison of Factors that Influence the Quality of PEPs in Title I Schools
Author: Williams, Connie
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Education, Education, Elementary, Curriculum planning
Description: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between school-based organizational structures that support teachers' development of Personalized Education Plans (PEPs) and their quality as written for third through fifth grade stude...

Title: An Examination of Elementary Math Anxiety, Self Efficacy, and Academic Achievement
Author: McMillian, Kimberley
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Education, Education, Elementary
Description: The study aims to explore the level of suburban 5th grade students’ mathematics self-efficacy, math anxiety, and academic achievement, to discover the possible interconnections between these parameters. The measures used to evaluate each included ...

Title: An Investigation of Literature Circles and Critical Literacy: Differentiated Learning Opportunities for High-Ability Students
Author: Soares, Lina
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Education, Elementary, Reading, Curriculum planning
Description: ABSTRACTThis qualitative research study investigated how literature circles provide an optimal differentiated learning context for high-ability (sixth-grade) readers that centered on the connection between critical pedagogy and collaborative readi...

Title: An exploration of blended learning in fifth grade literacy classrooms
Author: Ramadan, Kimberly
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Education, Elementary
Description: The development of the Internet allows for hybrid models of instruction that marry face-to-face and online learning (Osguthorpe & Graham, 2003). The purpose of this study was to explore blended learning and traditional instruction in three fifth g...

Title: DEVELOPING A FRAMEWORK FOR THRESHOLD CONCEPTS IN ELEMENTARY MATHEMATICS METHODS COURSES
Author: Glavich, Courtney
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics--Study and teaching, Education, Elementary, Teachers--Training of
Description: Teacher education programs have long sought to increase preservice teachers' competency through coursework that promotes content, pedagogical knowledge, and specialized forms of knowledge that interweave the two. Still, newly licensed teachers are...

Title: EFFECTS OF DIRECT INSTRUCTION ON ACQUISITION OF EARLY ELEMENTARY MATHEMATICAL VOCABULARY BY STUDENTS WITH AUTISM
Author: Patterson, Dawn
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Special education, Education, Elementary
Description: Education in American schools is driven by the No Child Left Behind Act (2001) with the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (2004) ensuring that educators provide students with disabilities a grade-aligned education. Recently, ...

Title: EFFECTS OF SHORT-TERM, STRUCTURED TEACHER TRAINING IN ACTIVE READING ON LANGUAGE AND READING OUTCOMES OF STUDENTS AT RISK AND NOT AT RISK FOR READING FAILURE, TEACHER IMPLEMENTATION OF ACTIVE READING, AND TEACHER PERCEPTIONS OF READ ALOUD PRACTICES.
Author: Cleaver, Samantha
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Special education, Education, Elementary, Reading
Description: The current study evaluated the effects of short-term, structured teacher training in Active Reading on student outcomes in listening comprehension, reading comprehension, and vocabulary. Active Reading is an approach to whole group read aloud tha...

Title: EXPLORING ELEMENTARY TEACHERS’ PERCEPTIONS OF MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION: A MULTIPLE CASE STUDY
Author: Casto, Amanda
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Education, Education, Elementary
Description: Schools around the world have experienced unprecedented change during the contemporary era of globalization. The student population is becoming more diverse and, consequently, teachers have been tasked with meeting a wider range of needs from mult...

Title: Education for Sustainable Development in Global Ready Schools: A Comparative Case Study
Author: Holshouser, Kaitlyn
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Environmental education, Education, Elementary
Description: This comparative case study explored the implementation of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) at two of North Carolina’s Global Ready elementary schools. The following research questions guided the study: 1) How do educators and affiliate...

Title: Effects of Tier 1 Enhancement Training on Teachers' Instructional Unit Accuracy
Author: Kretlow, Allison
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Special education, Education, Elementary
Description: Early intervention models such as Response to Intervention have shown promise in reducing risk of academic failure (Bursuck et al., 2005; Foorman, Fletcher, Francis, & Schatschneider, 1998). General education teachers assume primary responsibility...

Title: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Montessori Reading and Math Instruction for Third Grade African American Students in Urban Elementary Schools
Author: Brown, Katherine
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Education, Education, Elementary
Description: Improving academic achievement for students of color has long been the subject of debate among advocates of education reform (Anyon, 2013; Breitborde & Swiniarski, 2006; Payne, 2008). Some scholars have advocated for the Montessori method as an al...

Title: ExperiencED Success: Does Mentoring Beginning Teachers Impact the Mentor?
Author: Dooley-Kennedy, Torrieann
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Education, Education, Elementary
Description: While available research supports the impact mentoring has on beginning teachers, little has been written about the impact the role of mentoring has on the experienced teacher serving as a mentor. Mentor teachers are experienced teachers in school...

Title: Oral Reading Fluency and Maze Measures as Predictors of Performance on North Carolina End-of-Grade Assessment of Reading Comprehension
Author: Galloway, Tara
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Special education, Education, Elementary
Description: Current legislation (IDEA, 2004; NCLB, 2001) mandates all students, including students with disabilities, demonstrate progress toward the same standards. However, students continue to struggle with attainment of statewide academic standards as mea...

Title: PHONEMIC AWARENESS INSTRUCTION IN ONE DISTRICT’S KINDERGARTEN CLASSROOMS: AN ANALYSIS OF HOW CLOSELY CLASSROOM PRACTICES REFLECT RESEARCH-BASED BEST PRACTICES
Author: Farrow, Joyce
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Education, Elementary, Reading
Description: The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore how closely kindergarten teachers in a high performing school district in North Carolina instruct students towards mastery of phonemic awareness skills. This study explored to what degree t...

Title: TEACHER PERCEPTION OF ADHD AND ITS INFLUENCES WHEN TEACHING READING TO ELEMENTARY MALES WITH ADHD
Author: Keller, Beth
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Education, Elementary
Description: The learning needs of students diagnosed with ADHD have been of interest of researchers over the last three decades. It is important to understand how best to support these learners in the classroom as they comprise about 10% of students in our na...

Title: TEACHERS AS GATEKEEPERS: DEVELOPING DEEPER UNDERSTANDINGS TO CULTIVATE PRO-SOCIAL STUDIES LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS IN THE ELEMENTARY GRADES
Author: Fitchett, Amy
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Education, Elementary
Description: AMY FITCHETT: Teachers as gatekeepers: Developing deeper understandings to cultivate pro-social studies learning environments in the elementary grades. (Under the direction of DR.TRACY ROCK) Teacher instructional decision-making is a multi-dimensi...

Title: THE EFFECTS OF TEACHERS' ATTITUDES, BEHAVIORS, AND SKILLS ON CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE TEACHING AND THE MULTICULTURAL CURRICULUM: AN ACTION RESEARCH STUDY OF A CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE TEACHING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT GUIDE IN AN ELEMENTARY CLASSROOM
Author: Long, Pamela
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Multicultural education, Education, Elementary
Description: Today's students are more ethnically diverse than ever, but are taught by teachers who are a majority white. In response to this cultural mismatch, teachers are adopting innovative practices such as culturally responsive teaching. This qualitative...

Title: THE POSSIBLE ROLE OF INTUITION IN THE CHILD'S EPISTEMIC BELIEFS IN THE PIAGETIAN DATA SET
Author: Bickart, John
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Education, Education, Elementary, Cognitive psychology
Description: U.S. schools teach predominately to the analytical, left-brain, which has foundations in behaviorism, and uses a mechanistic paradigm that influences epistemic beliefs of how learning takes place. This result is that learning is impeded. Using dis...

Title: Teachers' Beliefs and Practices Regarding the Role of Technology in Literacy Instruction: A Mixed Methods Study
Author: McIntyre, Beverly
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Education, Elementary, Reading, Education
Description: The purpose of this study was to gain a deeper understanding of teachers' beliefs about the role of technology in their literacy instruction in the context of one elementary school with a technology-rich environment by investigating those beliefs ...