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I Don’t Always Know What It Means For a Child To Be Gifted
Get PDFGifted education, or more specifically the gifted label, needs clarification. Labeling students as gifted leads to preconceived beliefs and ideas about students and their overall abilities. The purpose of this study was to acquire insight into how gifted students are perceived in order to better understand and meet the needs of gifted students. Through a qualitative approach, interviews were conducted with teachers and administrators regarding their perceptions surrounding the characteristics, identification process, and needs of gifted students. Results yielded consistencies and discrepancies in the perception of gifted education, ranging from student behaviors, identification of students, and perceived understanding of the term gifted. Findings indicated the need for a revised, comprehensive, and uniform definition of giftedness across the district, along with professional development pertaining to how to accurately identify gifted students and ways to effectively differentiate instruction
Understanding Staff Perceptions of SWPBIS
Get PDFAbout eight years ago a school district, located in the foothills of western Maine, implemented a Tier-1, universal, school-wide positive behavior interventions and supports (SWPBIS) framework to provide school staff with positive behavior supports to achieve positive outcomes for all students. A key factor to the initial success of SWPBIS was staff buy-in. Research has shown that teacher and staff support is needed, not just for the implementation phase, but for the continued success of the framework. In the eight years since implementation, one of the district’s elementary schools has seen a staff and teacher turnover rate of over 50%. Also, a recent Fidelity Evaluation Report (FET) on the health of the framework reported the absence of a formal process of professional development for new staff. Research supports the benefit of developing targeted training by understanding individuals’ perceptions of a phenomenon. Such is the focus of this research project –to understand teacher and staff perceptions of SWPBIS in order to create targeted professional development of the framework at this school
Interpreting Gertrude Stein’s “If I Told Him, a Completed Portrait of Picasso”
No full textI researched Gertrude Stein\u27s poem If I told him, a Completed Portrait of Picasso and compiled my findings into a single, animated presentation. This presentation includes elements of close reading as well
Good Trouble
No full textGood Trouble
(inspired by the words and work of Congressman John Lewis – Feb 21, 1940 - July 17, 2020)
An original performance work created by UMF Theatre for fall 2020 Mainstage Production
“Get in good trouble, necessary trouble, and help redeem the soul of America.” – John Lewis at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on March 1, 202
The Motivation of an Obliger, Upholder, Questioner, and Rebel: How Tailored Academic Planning Can Suit Unique Student Tendencies
Get PDFThe purpose of this paper is to examine the tendency of humans to meet or resist inner and outer expectations and uncover how these tendencies influence academic performance. Past research has primarily focused on intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, revealing what may ultimately motivate us to behave, but little research has been done to investigate how we act based on what is expected of us. The framework of expectation styles created by Gretchen Rubin was chiefly drawn upon to explore the four different tendencies regarding expectations: Upholder, Obliger, Questioner, and Rebel (2017). Our study involved student participants who were given a questionnaire to assess their academic habits, motivation, and personality traits. They were also asked to take The Four Tendencies Quiz to identify their tendency regarding how they react to expectations (Rubin, 2017). They were then asked to select a small academic plan to carry out each week; there were plans designed for each tendency. It was hypothesized that these small, individual plans would help students perform better academically. The hypothesis was supported using feedback from participants. This research reveals that understanding one’s own tendency towards meeting or resisting expectations is beneficial in shaping plans to enhance academic performance. Furthermore, it suggests that we may be able to mold our environment for better productivity.
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The Effects of Math Manipulatives In the Classroom
Get PDFThis study is a quantitative study of the correlation between student achievement and the use of individual math toolkits. Research indicates that the use of manipulatives has a positive effect on student learning in math classrooms. However, studies are limited to manipulative use in one unit of study or one grade level. In addition, researchers and teachers use only one type of manipulative when looking for growth in student achievement. In this study, students with individual toolkits comprised of many manipulatives from their program of study were followed over a nine-week period. Students had access to manipulatives and exhibit voice and choice when choosing manipulatives to help make meaningful math connections. Students were given a pretest in which percentages are compared and cross-referenced with a log of daily toolkit use. Teachers were also surveyed about toolkit promotion during the course of the nine-week study. This study was conducted to add to current research concerning manipulative use in the mathematics classroom
Asteria
Get PDFAn idea comes to my mind as a miniscule dot, representing my own expressions of fears, desires, or curiosities. This piece started with the idea of subtleness. A language that tells everything by what is not being said. I wanted to capitalize on this technique requiring a simple plot that would be able to dive deep into the many layers. Decisions can be a simple, yet complex topic as not only do you have to consider which is the right direction for you but also whatever you decide will put to rest the other option entirely. That is the conundrum that Annabelle faces as she discusses getting married to an emotionally abusive man. Meanwhile, Nell must decide if she should express her worries regarding Sam and simultaneously her fears regarding the future of their friendship or let Annabelle decide for herself.
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Amanda Wingfield’s monologue
No full textAmanda Wingfield’s monologue from the Tennessee Williams play “The Glass Menagerie
Fedco Seeds and Supplies 2020
Get PDFWhen is a seed catalog more than a seed catalog? When it is the Fedco Seed catalog.
Fedco, founded in 1978, is a worker-consumer cooperative in Maine known for promoting the ideals of cooperation, transparency, and the common ownership of seeds. These archives contain thousands of pages of Fedco’s seed catalogs. As one of its editors noted, “We give our readers things to think about.” Annual themes have included the role played by soil bacteria—the microscopic heroes that make life on this planet possible; the contributions of plant breeders and seed keepers; poetry by Walt Whitman, Vergil, and Russell Libby, among others. Editorials often stress the negative impact multinational corporations have on the genetic diversity of food crops, and provide annual updates on genetic engineering and the consolidation of the seed industry. Bits of humor are throughout, some of them in possibly the catalogs’ best feature: original art, and engravings from old seed catalogs and horticultural books. It is, in the words of Fedco’s founder CR Lawn, “More than a marketing tool.
Honors Journal 2019
Get PDFThe work presented here from our five contributors addresses the theme of the unknown, which mirrors the process of starting a journal from scratch. In this edition, reader, you will see that there is uncertainty in what lies in a relationship once financial struggles cause strain, and there is the struggle to keep knowledge alive when other forms of it have been forced onto populations. There are questions in how we cope and how we heal; there are questions regarding if we survive, or if we burn. We are very fortunate to have had the opportunity to feature the work of these students, and we thank you for witnessing their showcase