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2021-02-02 (Western Howl)
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2021-04-13 (Western Howl)
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Supporting Latinx, Spanish-Speaking Emergent Bilinguals with Culturally- Sustaining Pedagogy
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This action research project was designed to help me research and apply culturally-sustaining pedagogy, focusing primarily on strategies to support my Latinx, Spanish-speaking emergent bilinguals. In addition to general strategies to develop culturally-sustaining pedagogy for Latinx, Spanish-speaking emergent bilinguals, I researched best practices for supporting these students with learning disabilities, as well as strategies to provide culturally-sustaining literacy instruction. I then worked to apply those strategies during the 2020-2021 school year and analyzed my lesson plans, teaching journal, assignments and other materials, and observation feedback to determine my success. My results were mixed, showing that I have made some improvements but need to continue making efforts to learn about and provide culturally-sustaining teaching for my students. However, completing this project has helped me develop research and data-analysis strategies to continue professional development in this area and to address future concerns and need for improvement that will arise during my teaching career
Applying Social Constructivism in a Middle School Social Studies Classroom
Get PDFThe purpose of this Action Research Project is to assess how I am applying what I have learned about educational theory and practice along with the goals I have as a teacher in the classroom. Specifically the project focuses on my use of social constructivism to guide instructional practice, the strategies I use to develop students skills in the discipline of social studies, and how I engage students in the distance learning setting.
This research project focuses on my process of revising a lesson I observed my mentor teacher deliver earlier in my student teaching. I collected data about my teaching practice from a reflection I wrote about the lesson prior to revisions, the revised lesson plans, and observation feedback from my mentor teacher. Using this data I was able to evaluate how my lesson planning and instruction aligned with the goals I had set for myself.
Through doing this Action Research project I have learned the importance of reflective practice. I was able to discover where my practice was not achieving the expectations I had set for myself including in the area of supporting students\u27 construction knowledge. The insights gained from this experience can help me continue my development as a teacher
Voices from the Islands: Culturally Responsive Pedagogical Practice and Reflections in Pacific Rim World History
Get PDFWhen considering successful teaching strategies in the context of modern social studies classrooms, it becomes imperative to consider the weight and responsibility of balancing the socio-cultural needs and knowledge of our students with voices and perspectives often left out of our collective understanding of the past. In this brief project, I endeavored to explore the potential of using culturally responsive pedagogical teaching and learning strategies during my student teaching placement in a 9th through 12th grade world history classroom in an alternative education environment. Throughout the targeted 6 week term that this project centered on, I employed varied CRP strategies and recorded my observations, student input, and professional feedback from my mentor teacher and university supervisor.
My research focus for this project sought to analyze the possible benefits and difficulties associated with teaching strategies like CRP in the context of social studies instruction specifically designed with culturally diverse voices, context, and perspectives in mind. While this would present potential challenges for my students given their traditional academic experiences, my focus on CRP strategies would also actively incorporate their perspectives and experiential knowledge to help shape our shared class content and connect more meaningfully with voices from the past