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Middle level teacher preparation and support first-year teachers' perceived competence and influencing factors /Stonner, Nancy C. January 1998 (has links)
Thesis (Ed. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 1998. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 187-203). Also available on the Internet.
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A study of teacher effectiveness in the teaching of literacy to middle school English language learners using the Language Enrichment II programGonzález, Guadalupe López, January 1900 (has links) (PDF)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2006. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.
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Critical thinking: Integration into the middle school literature classroomMook, Julia Denise 01 January 2000 (has links)
The pendulum of educators' interests often swings back and forth. In the current climate of high stakes assessment, there appears to be a greater emphasis placed on literal recall of information when reading. While in the short term, this may benefit score reports, there is a concern that higher order thinking skills, such as analysis, will fall by the wayside. In so doing, there may be long term effects on the citizenry of this country. A lack of shared experiences, paired with little or no opportunity to discuss and discern, could lead to an inability to participate in and manage a complex form of government, such as a democracy. In today's middle school literature classrooms, however, there is room for all types of thinking: from the simple to the complex. Teachers who desire to create an atmosphere that values the application of a variety of thinking can make their classrooms into communites that offer students the opportunity to think in a myriad of ways. These opportunities may be explicitly modeled by the educator and take the form of whole and small group discussion, developing questioning skills and using journal writing as a tool to develop meta-cognition.
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Supporting A Standards-based Teaching And Learning Environment A Case Study Of An Expert Middle School Mathematics TeacherAkyuz, Didem 01 January 2010 (has links)
Although it has been more than 20 years since the publication of Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics (NCTM, 1989) and 10 years since the second version of standards, Principles and Standards for School Mathematics (NCTM, 2000), the research underlines the lack of essential practices for standards-based teaching (Franke, Kazemi, & Battey, 2007). The literature also emphasizes the importance of planning in standards-based teaching, although few studies focus on the direct planning of the teacher (Kilpatrick, Swafford, & Findell, 2001). The aim of the current study was to conduct a case study to extract the planning and classroom practices of an expert seventh grade mathematics teacher. The extracted practices were interpreted using the teaching-in-context theory which is based on the beliefs, goals, and knowledge of the teacher. The case study was conducted in a design experiment environment where the instructional sequence was revised based on the classroom instruction. The data were collected through different resources including videotapes of classroom sessions, teacher notes, students‟ artifacts, audiotapes of daily teacher interviews, weekly teacher meetings and classroom small groups in five weeks. Transcripts were used to observe the action patterns of the teacher during both planning and classroom practices. By triangulating the data, planning practices were separated into five categories: preparation, reflection, anticipation, assessment, and revision. These practices were interrelated in an environment of collaboration. Classroom practices also were categorized into five groups, namely creating and sustaining social norms, facilitating genuine mathematical discourse, supporting the development of sociomathematical norms, capitalizing on students‟ imagery to create inscriptions and notation, and developing small groups as communities of learners. Similar to the planning practices, these iii were also highly interrelated with social norms playing a key role in application of all other practices. The results showed that the expert teacher used a diverse set of practices with each practice comprised of multiple actions to create and sustain a standards-based environment. The results also indicated that standards-based teaching requires a rich and connected body of knowledge about students, curriculum, content, and literature. It was found that the depth of the teacher‟s knowledge allowed her to develop practices that were consistent with her beliefs and goals. Finally, the planning and classroom practices were found to be highly interrelated. While effective planning practices facilitated the application of standards-based teaching, the classroom teaching practices equipped the teacher with the data necessary to perform effective planning practices.
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The extent to which the teaching for understanding instruction/assessment practices in my classroom facilitate students' understanding of scientific processes and experimentationCrittenden, Gwyndolyn Graham 01 July 2003 (has links)
No description available.
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Assessment of K-12 educators' awareness and need for online self-publishing services in the classroom /Gargiulo, Vincent J. January 2009 (has links)
Thesis (M.S.)--Rochester Institute of Technology, 2009. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaf 55).
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Enhanced learning performance in the middle school classroom through increased student motivation, by the use of educational software and question-based gaming technology.Dorr, David L. 12 1900 (has links)
The purpose of this research was to determine if the introduction of a competitive and collaborative computer-based gaming software system into middle school classrooms would result in improved attendance and grades, and motivate students to have a greater interest in their studies. This study was conducted over a 6 week period, with attendance and performance data being collected from 284 students. Two quantitative surveys were used to measure course interest and motivation: (a) the Course Interest Survey (CIS), and (b) the Instructional Materials Motivation Survey (IMMS). Participation in these surveys consisted of 84 students taking the CIS and 40 students taking the IMMS. The results indicated that the experimental group showed statistically better scores than the comparison group in attendance and performance. Students participating in the experimental group had significantly lower mean ranks of absenteeism compared to students in the comparison group. Results also revealed significant differences on grades. Students that were in the experimental group had significantly higher grades compared to students that were in the comparison group. Results of the CIS suggest that a statistically significant difference does not exist on Attention, Relevance, Confidence, and Satisfaction between the experimental and comparison groups. Results of the means and standard deviations for the IMMS Motivation Scores fell somewhere between Moderately true and Mostly true. This research study suggests that student's attendance and performance can be improved when quiz based gaming software that is both collaborative and competitive is used regularly in the classroom. However, for student's that participated in the gaming software, their interest in studying the subject doesn't appear to be significantly different from students that did not participate.
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An examination of how middle school science teachers conduct collaborative inquiry and reflection about students’ conceptual understandingUnknown Date (has links)
This qualitative case study examined how middle school science teachers
conducted collaborative inquiry and reflection about students’ conceptual understanding,
and how individual teachers in the middle school science group acted and made
reflections in response to their collaborative inquiry. It also examined external influences
that affected the teachers’ ability to engage in collaborative inquiry. Observational,
written, and interview data were collected from observations of teachers’ face-to-face
meetings and reflections, individual interviews, a focus group interview, and online
reflections. The results of this study revealed that collaborative inquiry is a form of
professional development that includes answering curricular questions through
observation, communication, action, and reflection. This approach was developed and
implemented by middle school science teachers. The premise of an inquiry is based on a
need with students. Middle school science teachers came to consensus about actions to affect students’ conceptual understanding, took action as stated, and shared their
reflections of the actions taken with consideration to current and upcoming school
activities. Activities involved teachers brainstorming and sharing with one another,
talking about how the variables were merged into their curriculum, and how they
impacted students’ conceptual understanding. Teachers valued talking with one another
about science content and pedagogy, but did find the inquiry portion of the approach to
require more development. The greatest challenge to conducting collaborative inquiry
and reflection was embedding teacher inquiry within a prescribed inquiry that was
already being conducted by the Sundown School District. Collaborative inquiry should be
structured so that it meets the needs of teachers in order to attend to the needs of students.
A conducive atmosphere for collaborative inquiry and reflection is one in which
administrators make the process mandatory and facilitate the process by removing an
existing inquiry. / Includes bibliography. / Dissertation (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2013.
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A study of teacher effectiveness in the teaching of literacy to middle school English language learners using the Language Enrichment II programGonzález, Guadalupe López 28 August 2008 (has links)
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Impact of discourses on preservice literacy teacher identity development : subjectivity and agency /Larson, Mindy Legard. January 1900 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Oregon State University, 2006. / Printout. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 119-125). Also available on the World Wide Web.
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