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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 Descriptive Study of Elementary Mathematically Promising Student Interactions With Cognitively Demanding Math Tasks
- Author
- Lewis, Wendy
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Elementary, Curriculum planning, Gifted children--Education
- Description
- National mathematics achievement results show that elementary students in the United States are not increasing in cognitive ability or critical thinking skills (NAEP, 2020). For this increase, mathematically promising students require more opportu...
- Title
- Addressing media literacy in K-12 classrooms
- Author
- Ramsey, L. Heather
- Date Created
- 2024
- Subjects--Topical
- Media literacy, Education, Elementary, Education, Secondary
- Description
- A study of K-12 core content area teachers’ experiences teaching digital citizenship found that 80% (n=9) addressed topics of media literacy in their classrooms. The study looked at how teachers integrated media literacy topics into instruction, a...
- 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
- 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
- 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 Impact of a Multilevel Coaching Intervention on Preservice Teachers' Fidelity of Implementation of a Reading Intervention
- Author
- Kingsbery, Corinne
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Special education, Teachers--Training of, Education, Elementary
- Description
- Teacher preparation programs (TPPs) can equip preservice teachers (PSTs) with skills to implement evidence-based interventions in reading with fidelity by engaging PSTs in carefully designed clinical experience opportunities. Providing PSTs with e...
- Title
- The relationship of elementary teachers' years of teaching experience, perceptions of occupational stress, self-acceptance, and challenging student behavior to burnout symptoms in the United States and Germany.
- Author
- Ullrich, Annette
- Date Created
- 2009
- Subjects--Topical
- Special education, Education, Elementary, Educational psychology
- Description
- In the United States, stress and burnout have been identified as contributors to the shortage and attrition of both general and special education teachers (Edmonson, 2006). In Germany, intense political debate has been related to premature retirem...
- Title
- Using Tools to Support Productive Mathematical Discussions: A Multiple Case Study
- Author
- Bacak, Julie
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Teachers--Training of, Education, Elementary, Mathematics--Study and teaching
- Description
- Facilitating productive mathematical discussions is considered a core practice of mathematics education. The complexity of this teaching practice presents the need for pedagogical tools to provide structure for preservice teachers (PST) developing...
- Title
- “Seeing it in Action is More Beneficial Than Learning About it in School”: A Multi-Case of Clinical Experiences and Culturally Responsive Literacy Instruction
- Author
- Schmidt, Leslie
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Elementary
- Description
- This multiple case study explored the characteristics of clinical experiences that support preservice teachers' understandings of culturally responsive literacy in elementary classrooms. In particular, this study focused on capturing the voices an...
- Title
- “Sixth grade is too late”: A case study of diversity education for elementary grades
- Author
- Norwood, Jessica
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Multicultural education, Education, Elementary
- Description
- Recent high-profile events and rhetoric surrounding White supremacist ideology in conjunction with recent data about White Americans’ understanding of structural racism has illustrated the problematic nature of White Americans’ conceptions of race...