There is a growing body of research that suggests that video-based interventions, such as video modeling and video prompting, are effective tools for teaching academic skills to students with disabilities. This study used a single subject, multiple-baseline-across-subjects design to evaluate whether a video-prompting intervention could effectively assist second grade students who had been identified by their teachers as "struggling"in mathematics to better solve multiplication story problems. Five second grade students (one female and four males) ages 7 to 8 viewed the intervention videos on an iPad that modeled how to solve multiplication word problems. To evaluate the effectiveness of the videos, a rubric was used as the primary measure to assess the domains of problem-solving, communicating, and representing with numbers. Based on visual analysis between baseline and intervention, there was a functional relationship between the introduction of the intervention and the performance on the math problems. In addition, a visual analysis between intervention and maintenance appeared stable for all participants. These results indicate that technology can be used to implement interventions for struggling learners and may be utilized in regular classrooms. Results also demonstrate that video modeling can be a useful instructional tool for helping many individuals, not just those with an identified disability, to learn complex tasks. Implementing video models in a classroom setting could enable teachers to consistently provide interventions to students that work more independently, allowing teachers to work on a more one-on-one or small group basis with their students.

The state of Maryland has implemented the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSSM) operations & algebraic thinking and number & operations-fractions with emphasis on students in Grades K-5 acquiring the ability to solve word problems for state and curriculum math assessments. However, since the implementation of CCSSM, 30% of elementary students in a Maryland school district have demonstrated underachievement (basic or below basic level) on problem-solving sections of the state and school standardized tests. This qualitative case study, guided by Polya's model of the four phases of mathematical problem-solving, was conducted to address this problem. The research questions addressed teachers' perceptions of how they teach underachieving students' word problem-solving skills, how prepared they feel, the challenges they experience when teaching word problem-solving skills, and the resources for instructing underachieving students on mathematical word problem-solving. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 8 certified elementary classroom teachers. Data from the teacher interviews were analyzed using pattern coding and thematic analysis. The findings indicated that teachers are not fully prepared to teach the CCSSM, teachers need assistance in creating standards-based detailed lesson plans, and teachers need help with the development of pedagogical strategies that enhance students' math vocabulary. Findings may lead to positive social change by informing the design of professional development and increasing the number of students who achieve proficiency in mathematical word problem-solving.

Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for writing have created a challenge for teachers at an urban elementary school as they struggled to provide effective writing instruction to support the rigorous expectations of the standards. The purpose of this study was to explore elementary teachers' lived experiences of instruction and better understand instructional writing procedures and strategies. The conceptual framework of this study was based on Dennick's work for incorporating educational theory into teaching practices, which combined elements of constructivist, experiential, and humanist learning theories. Research questions investigated how teachers perceived the impact of the CCSS writing standards on their practice and what kinds of support they needed in order to effectively support writing instruction. A phenomenological design was selected to capture the lived experiences of participants directly associated with CCSS writing instruction. The study included 6 individual teacher interviews and a focus group session of 6 teachers who met the criteria for experience in Grades 3-5 at the elementary school. Data were coded and then analyzed to determine common themes that surfaced from the lived experiences of teachers including the need for training in writing instruction, the impact of common core standards on the increased rigor of current writing instruction, a lack of PD at the local school, and instructor challenges with differentiated writing instruction. A job-embedded professional development model was designed to support teachers with effective writing instruction and improve teacher practice at the local school, the district, and beyond. When fully implemented, this professional development may provide elementary teachers with research-based writing strategies that will support the rigor of CCSS standards and college and career readiness.

Local High School, a pseudonym, located in Northwest Mississippi has in place two differing Biology 1 curricula; in one curriculum, the students use interactive notebooks daily and in the other curriculum, they are not used. The purpose of this ex post facto quasi-experimental study was to investigate the impact that an instructional tool, such as the interactive notebook, could have on student achievement. Instructional design theory and the materials, methods, environment, collaboration, content, and assessment (MMECCA) framework served as the theoretical framework for this study. The standard measure of science proficiency was provided by the test results from the Biology 1 Subject Area Testing Program assessment (SATP). Using data from 2016-2017 Biology 1 students who took the pretest, CASE 21 assessment, and the posttest, Biology 1 SATP assessment (N = 184), three independent samples t tests were used to analyze the data. The first independent samples t test performed on data from the pretest established that the two groups began the study with similar science proficiencies. The second and third independent samples t tests, conducted using overall mean scores and the mean scores for each of the individual six categories from the SATP Biology 1 assessment, determined that there was a statistically significant difference in the overall science proficiency of the two groups. A position paper was developed recommending the use of the interactive notebook to improve science proficiency. Positive social change is expected to occur as this information can be used to inform educational policy makers and close the achievement gap.

This study investigated teacher perceptions of preparedness for implementing the English Language Arts Common Core State Standards/Mississippi College and Career Readiness Standards (ELA CCSS/MCCRS) that require the use of technology. Participants included 101 ELA teachers in Mississippi from varying backgrounds and school sizes who responded to a survey via email. The survey was comprised of questions written in order to expand on professional development opportunities teachers have had available to them, technology that teachers have access to in their schools/districts, levels of self-efficacy teachers have with technology use, value assigned to technology in the classroom, and support that teachers have within their school/district for issues related to technology. Descriptive statistics, plots, and regression models are included to highlight factors that have an effect on the amount of technology teachers are or are not using in conjunction with the ELA CCSS/MCCRS. The findings revealed that teachers in Mississippi believe that the integration of technology into the ELA Standards is important, but they are not all equipped with the technology nor support needed in order to meet the standards in the way that they are written. The results also showed that although teachers do assign a high level of value to technology use in the classroom, this was not enough of an influence to inform the amount of technology implemented into their classrooms. The same was true for self-efficacy. Value and self-efficacy related to technology are integral for implementation, but if teachers are not supplied with the applicable technologies or appropriate professional development and support in order to utilize classroom technology, then they are not enough to affect implementation. Many areas such as availability and use of technology, teacher value and self-efficacy for technology, issues with professional development, educational policy, and additional research were informed by the results revealed in this study.

When Tennessee Department of Education adopted Common Core in 2010, Tennessee implemented New Critical ideas associated with the college classroom, but did not present this connection to English teachers. Comparing high school education reforms like A Nation at Risk (1983) and TNCore to the New Critical works of Cleanth Brooks, T. S. Eliot, John Crowe Ransom, Robert Penn Warren, William Wimsatt and Monroe Beardsley, reveals that New Criticism is the literary method grounding current ELA education reform. Referencing Deborah Appleman’s Critical Encounters in Secondary English (2015), Diana Ravitch’s The Death and Life of the Great American School System (2010), and questionnaires completed by Tennessee teachers, this study tracks New Criticism’s influence from the college classroom to the high school classroom. Presenting English teachers the history behind what and how they teach will equip them to explain their methodology to students.

The researcher in this case study sought to determine the ways in which teachers support their students to create viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others (SMP3). In order to achieve this goal, the self-conceived classroom roles of two teachers, one experienced and one novice, were elicited and then compared to their actualized roles observed in the classroom. Both teachers were provided with professional development focused on supporting student engagement in SMP3. This professional development was informed by the guidelines that describe the behaviors students should exhibit as they are engaged in the standards for mathematical practice contained in the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics. The teachers were observed, video recorded, and interviewed during and immediately after the professional development. A final observation was performed four weeks after the PD. The marked differences in the teachers' characteristics depicted in each case added to the robustness of the results of the study. A cross-case analysis was performed in order to gauge how the novice and experienced teachers' roles compared and contrasted with each other. The comparison of the teachers' self-perception and their actual roles in the classroom indicated that they were not supporting their students as they thought they were. The analysis yielded specific ways in which novice and experienced teachers might support their students. Furthermore, the cross-case analysis established the support that teachers are able to provide to students depends on (a) teaching experience, (b) teacher content and pedagogical knowledge, (c) questioning, (d) awareness of communication, (e) teacher expectations, and (f) classroom management. Study results provide implications regarding the kinds of support teachers might need given their teaching experience and mathematics content knowledge as they attempt to motivate their students to engage in SMP3.

The goal of this dissertation in practice was to create professional development and curriculum modules focused on historical literacy in order to help teachers fully engage students in learning historical literacy skills. Historical literacy is the ability to understand the importance of the source of a document, being able to close read a text, to place a source within its proper context, and to corroborate the information from one source to another. The implementation of a program of this nature is designed to help teachers and students develop these skills with the hope that it positively impacts not only student learning in the social studies classroom, but will also have a positive impact on student test scores, student college experiences, students* future careers, and students* role within our civic society. Included within this dissertation in practice is a model for how to facilitate an effective professional development program that helps increase teacher efficacy, teacher skill level, and teacher use of historical literacy. This model pays special attention to ensuring that teachers also see how the demands of various standards and teacher evaluation systems can be addressed through the use of historical literacy. Suggested use for this dissertation in practice is the creation of professional development programs that help schools implement best practices throughout the learning organization.

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Submitted by Jadson Francisco de Jesus SILVA (jadson@uefs.br) on 2018-01-31T23:13:22Z No. of bitstreams: 1 CONTRIBUIC?A?O A? CRI?TICA DA BASE NACIONAL COMUM CURRICULAR ? A MA?SCARA DO CONFORMISMO NA EDUCAC?A?O DO BANCO MUNDIAL.pdf: 5035554 bytes, checksum: dd051b51c6e19b99ca4ab9e4c284dc87 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-01-31T23:13:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 CONTRIBUIC?A?O A? CRI?TICA DA BASE NACIONAL COMUM CURRICULAR ? A MA?SCARA DO CONFORMISMO NA EDUCAC?A?O DO BANCO MUNDIAL.pdf: 5035554 bytes, checksum: dd051b51c6e19b99ca4ab9e4c284dc87 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-04-04 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior - CAPES / We refer to BNCC as the central object of analysis since this document is being drawn up and discussed. We consider the neoliberal project of society, the globalization of capital as conditioning expressions to solve the structural crisis of capital from the perspective of the bourgeoisie and, in fact, we ask ourselves: In general, what are the nexus and determinations between the neoliberal agenda imposed by the World Bank , The interests of mixed hegemony apparatuses such as the National Council of Secretaries of Education (Consed), the National Union of Municipal Managers of Education (Undime) and the educational and pedagogical theory defended at BNCC? We review the bibliography of 29 texts with a variable composition of characteristics such as scientific articles, basic monographs, dissertations, reports, political articles. Guided by historical and dialectical materialism, we had as a general objective to analyze the links between public educational policies and the theories of knowledge that underlie the prescriptions of public policies of the multilateral organs and their possible impacts on education, starting from the critique of the categories of Politics for the New Millennium, citizenship and learning and development rights. We conclude that the essence of the BNCC is consistent with the maintenance of the status quo when it impedes working and color access to quality and free public management education through decentralization of basic education, transfer of public money to private institutions of Education, the imposition of goals and the probable control over the evaluation, and for denying the students to understand the concrete reality by the negation of science, the fragmentation of education and the theoretical emptying of the category of citizenship. Providing an education for conformism. / Elencamos a BNCC como objeto central de an?lise uma vez que este documento encontra-se em elabora??o e discuss?o. Consideramos o projeto neoliberal de sociedade, a mundializa??o do capital como express?es condicionantes para solucionar a crise estrutural do capital na perspectiva da burguesia e, com efeito, nos perguntamos: No geral, quais s?o os nexos e determina??es entre a agenda neoliberal imposta pelo Banco Mundial, os interesses de aparelhos mistos de hegemonia como o Conselho Nacional de Secret?rios de Educa??o (Consed), a Uni?o Nacional dos Dirigentes Municipais de Educa??o (Undime) e a teoria educacional e pedag?gica defendida na BNCC? Realizamos uma revis?o da bibliografia de 29 textos com uma composi??o vari?vel de caracter?sticas como artigos cient?ficos, monografia de base, disserta??es, reportagens, artigos pol?ticos. Orientado pelo materialismo hist?rico e dial?tico, tivemos por objetivo geral analisar os nexos entre as pol?ticas p?blicas educacionais e as teorias do conhecimento que fundamentam o receitu?rio de pol?ticas p?blicas dos ?rg?os multilaterais e seus poss?veis impactos na educa??o, partir da cr?tica ?s categorias de Pol?tica para o Novo Mil?nio, cidadania e direitos de aprendizagem e desenvolvimento. Conclu?mos que a ess?ncia da BNCC coaduna com a manuten??o do status quo quando dificulta o acesso da classe trabalhadora e de cor a um ensino de gest?o p?blica, gratuito e de qualidade atrav?s da descentraliza??o da educa??o b?sica, do repasse de verba p?blica para institui??es privadas de educa??o, pela imposi??o de objetivos e o prov?vel controle sobre a avalia??o, e por negar aos estudantes compreender a realidade concreta pela nega??o da ci?ncia, da fragmenta??o da educa??o e pelo esvaziamento te?rico da categoria cidadania. Proporcionando uma educa??o para o conformismo.