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Leveraging Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy, Thought Partners, and Technology for Collective Efficacy in the Instrumental Music Classroom
Get PDFThe instrumental music education classroom is no stranger to collaborative learning framed within a culture that values community. Developing collective efficacy in this setting could be a particularly power tool for fidelity in curricular outcomes. I selected three practices that could be leveraged by a pedagogue to facilitate collective efficacy and reviewed literature on culturally sustaining practices, teacher self-reflection, and technology in music education. I identified three questions to guide my research of my own pedagogy: How has my educational praxis developed to support the facilitation of a community of learners? How has reflection with qualified thought partners guided my curricular planning and instruction? How does my integration of technology in the classroom support a music curriculum? By collecting data from lesson plans, formal feedback from qualified thought partners, and journal entries, I found that I am leveraging each of these practices with positive student outcomes. The data suggests that I proficiently facilitate cultural competency within a rigorous curriculum derived from my students’ cultural funds of knowledge, but critical consciousness is not being adequately developed. My work with qualified thought partners resulted in pedagogical changes to assessment and instruction, improving student outcomes. While a music production curriculum embedded in an instrumental education scope and sequence can produce positive learning outcomes, and is a pedagogical value of mine, the data indicates that it is not currently being deployed in my classroom. Finally, technology is deployed as a tool that further builds on students’ cultural funds by scaffolding relevant supports and also serves as a tool to facilitate assessment
A Journey of Growth Through Practicum: Research Based Strategies of Differentiation, Planning, and Content Pedagogy
Get PDFAn Action Research Project completed during a full year of student teaching practicum which included a literature review, research questions/goals, data collection, and analysis. The overarching goal is to ensure that teaching candidates improve and heighten their skills with research backed theories and processes. Research was gathered based on three more detailed and personal questions/goals: What is differentiation, and what does it mean in a classroom setting to students, to educators, to a school, and to a community? How can using a research-backed strategic planning method, or combination of methods, improve my planning, instruction, assessment and adjustments throughout my student teaching and subsequent career? What skills and knowledge am I missing from my pedagogical understanding of secondary social studies, and how can I apply newly acquired information into my student teaching? I used the research to plan and teach throughout my practicum. I gathered data using videos, lesson plans, cooperating teacher and university supervisor feedback, and students work samples. With the gathered data presented, I did an analysis of the information in relation to my research questions. The determination is that applying the research, I was able to reach the overarching goal of improving my teaching skills. I also thoroughly answered my research questions with data and researched backed expertise.
Keywords: Differentiation, Universal Design for Learning, Technolog
Effects of Salinity Stress from Deicing Salts on Brandywine Tomato Plants
Get PDFEffects of Salinity Stress from Deicing Salts on Brandywine Tomato Plants
Stephani Symanowicz
Tomatoes, Solanum lycopersicum, are glycophytic and lack adaptations to easily combat salinity stress. Under salinity stress internally the metabolism is impacted by biomolecule destabilization and protein conformational changes. Externally it causes physiological drought due to water being energetically unavailable, which leads to structural changes and decreased transpiration. Due to climate change increasing severe weather patterns and the possibility of deicing salts
being used by counties as road management solutions, we wanted to investigate how deicing
salts impact a crop plant. We studied growth, metabolic processes, and anatomy of six tomato plants under salinity stress using deicing salts and six tomato plants under normal conditions over six weeks. Salinity negatively impacted all growth measures (biomass, stem height and diameter) and leaf gas exchange rates (conductance, transpiration). Single leaf photosynthesis rate was not impacted, and salinity plants had greater specific leaf area (SLA) and a much darker green coloration. The higher SLA and coloration may be an adaptive stress response that minimizes whole plant loss of sugar production. These results could impact how farmers of the Willamette Valley advocate to county officials about road management solutions to snow and ice
Building Partnerships with Families through Community Literacy Events
Get PDFBuilding Partnerships with Families through Community Literacy Events
By: Najma Cheema
Master of Science: Education
MSED: Reading
Western Oregon University
July, 2022
This professional project describes the development of family literacy nights for our school. My life experience has motivated me to help our ELL students and families. As an ELL student myself I struggled with literacy since I didn’t have access to resources to help me. With my own experience and working as an ELD teacher for one year and assessing our schools needs I quickly realized that there wasn’t enough family engagement or involvement. Our ELL students are some of the most underserved students with low reading scores. Using my experience and research I was able to plan for eight family literacy nights. My goal is to support students with literacy by engaging our families with our school
Know The Truth Campaign
Get PDF“Know The Truth Truth Campaign” is a collection of informational and entertaining deliverable products designed to entice the underrepresented demographic of teenagers to acquire the Covid-19 vaccination. With galaxy backgrounds and fun illustrations, the campaign consists of a brochure, stickers, and pens. Together these deliverables inspire teens to make their own choice to be informed and get vaccinated
2021-04-06 (Western Howl)
Get PDFStudent newspaper includes campus, local and national news stories and photographs. For additional information about this collection see: http://digitalcommons.wou.edu/studentnewspapers
Effective Geometry Teaching through Communication, Collaboration, and Common Core Standards
Get PDFStudents today move through high school thinking about what they want to do after graduation. While science classes show students what scientists do, and CTE programs show them what life would be like working in a trade, math classes are notorious for implementing “drill and kill” strategies to teach arbitrary formulas and rules. Switching the classroom focus to that of a cooperative learning environment gives students the opportunity to see what life would be like as a mathematician: they see that math is filled with inquiry, perseverance, and collaboration. This has the potential to open their eyes to careers in STEM fields, such as Engineering and Computer Science. Furthermore, they see the relevance and beauty of mathematics through the tasks they complete in class, whether that be independently or collaboratively.
This review examined research on the importance of engaging families and communities in the learning process, cooperative learning strategies and their effects on learning, and how the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics has affected educators. The research and literature so far show that if you can engage students and their families in work that is meaningful to them, they will not only see the importance of math, but will be more willing to take the risk to learn, too. This aligns with Frier’s definition of teaching: “to teach is not to transfer knowledge but to create the possibilities for the production or construction of knowledge (Freire, 1968). Through researching best practices and analyzing my current strategies for teaching Geometry, I have gained an appreciation for effective teaching and have learned that I, too, am capable of teaching Geometry well