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History of Sesame Street
Get PDFIn this module, students will learn the history of Sesame Street in order to provide important context for other modules. Students will learn about the goals of the program as it was developed and some of the key players that conceptualized Sesame Street and brought it to production. Students will also begin to investigate the role of developmental psychology and research in the development of the program.https://digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/themed-coursework/1017/thumbnail.jp
Exploring the Use of Tabletop Role-Playing Games (TRPGs) to Highlight and Develop Creativity Competencies
Get PDFThis project explores how tabletop role-playing games (TRPGs) are an underutilized mechanism for developing the affective skills that constitute the foundation of creativity and reinforcing the emerging concept of the creative experience through the application of experience design principles. Outlining the core concepts of creative experience, experience design, and gamification, along with the associated role of phenomenology and embodied cognition, the project establishes a case for the intersectionality of these elements in understanding how to develop creativity. Expanding further, the project explores what existing literature shows about TRPG ability to exercise and develop cognitive, psychological, sociological, and emotional competencies through unique elements like narrative, immersion, transference of experience, and skill acquisition. This project posits that the unique manifestation of these inherent elements is what differentiates TRPGs as a creative experience tool unmatched by other training approaches. The outcomes of this project identify how existing TRPGs might be modified to maximize the effect of character creation, game mechanics, and the role of the Game Master to start exploring and testing the effectiveness for developing creativity skills and creative experience identifiers. Additionally, the outcomes include a brief description of the need to expand research in this area, with three initial suggestions for research opportunities that address gaps in existing knowledge and open doors for more research on creativity and the creative experience
Impact Study on Skill Development of Teaching English with Differentiated Instruction to High School Students in a Multi-Level English Class.
Get PDFThe research examined the difference between students placed in an ESL class with a multilevel class versus students in a differentiated class. The information from the study will be used in the future to better the quality of students\u27 success when learning English in the Mexican public education system. English classes in the public education system ranged from no skills to low literacy to high literacy. Most students who came into a public high school from a private middle school had previous English knowledge. However, students who came from a public one, even though all public middle schools had to follow a curriculum including English, had little to no knowledge of the English languag
Identity
Get PDFThis module will explore the various ways in which people form and perceive their identity. Students will use topical readings and Sesame Street video clips to learn how identity is formed, what identities are most recognized in oneself, and how other people can influence change in identities (parents, friends, culture). Students will participate in activities about their own identities as well as develop activities for others.https://digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/themed-coursework/1019/thumbnail.jp
ANT300
No full textPrerequisite: ANT 100 or 101. Ways of life of the original peoples of Western North America, reconstructed using archaeology, historic documents, and oral tradition (i.e. Ethnohistory). Tribal nations of the Plains, Northwest Coast, Southwest, Great Basin, Plateau, and California. Effects of outside exploration/colonization and the persistence of Indigenous peoples in the modern world. Every other fall, even years
BUS305
No full textSurvey of legal, policy, and social psychological perspectives of diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Overview of laws and public policies that provide the basis for diversity management, employment discrimination laws and affirmative action policies, the impact on workplaces, and management of global inclusive workforces. Offered every fall and spring
PSY458
No full textThis course is a continuation of PSY 450 and focuses on advanced methods used in psychological research and the application of these methods through the completion of a research project. Topics covered include: ethics in psychology, experimental design, research with human subjects, statistical analyses, potential confounds, the development of scales and other measures
Homelessness
Get PDFIn this module, students will learn about the impact of homelessness and housing insecurity on child development. This topic is large, and instructors may consider focusing the scope on a particular arena of child development (e.g., academic vs. psychosocial outcomes). Students will learn about which children are at risk for experiencing homelessness and why, as well as the effect of experiencing homelessness on particular aspects of child development. Students will consider the value of including examples of those experiencing homelessness in child-directed media, such as Sesame Street.https://digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/themed-coursework/1015/thumbnail.jp
Empathy Throughout the Curriculum: Using Picture Books to Promote Activism & Equity
Get PDFThe authors—a panel of teacher educators, an education librarian, and a high school student activist, share classroom practices, recent research, and scholarship that centers on fostering empathy and activism through picture books as part of culturally relevant-sustaining practices. A variety of new children’s literature and practical ways to incorporate these inclusive picture books across the curriculum are shared. Useful strategies for teachers to locate culturally responsive & sustaining children’s literature and related resources for classroom use are also provided
Sharing Experiences to Cultivate “a More Open Mind about Teaching”: A Co/Autoethnography of Pre-Collegiate Teaching Experiences
Get PDFThe purpose of this study was to create a third space between a teacher educator and an undergraduate student to explore teaching experiences while in high school within NFE programs in which we participated. We developed a series of five prompts that we responded to individually, meeting via Zoom to discuss our experiences and teacher learning. Our collaborative and iterative analysis revealed four categories related to our non-formal education teaching experiences: 1) how teacher learning was impacted by particular contexts in which it took place; 2) how our experiences revealed different and broader notions of teaching than we observed in our formal education experiences; 3) how certain contradictions shaped, and perhaps inhibited, our learning as teachers; and 4) what we learned from the teaching we did in NFE programs. Our findings depict how young people in recent years may accrue experiences teaching not accounted for in previous scholarship