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No full textReviews of Readicide: How Schools are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About it and Mindset, the New Psychology of Success
A Multi-Case Analyses of Pre-service and In-service Teachers Response to Coaching Techniques
Get PDFThis multi-case analysis investigates two separatestudies that involve pre-service and inserviceteachers. These studies aimed to seekeffective coaching models to improve instructionalteaching strategies. Data in both studieswere triangulated to find common and emergingthemes, validating the efficacy of coaching andthe improvement of teaching practices. Whilethere are many formats of providing high qualitycoaching experiences to both pre-serviceand in-service teachers, this study utilized after actionreview and instructional coaching methods.These studies examined opportunities inwhich both pre-service and in-service teacherswere able to rethink teaching practices to triggerchange in instructional practice by ignitinga metacognitive process. It is through a metacognitiveprocess that teachers refine the past, presentand future teaching strategies
Twenty-First Century Early Childhood Teaching, Learning and Play
Get PDFHow is play or technology implemented in early childhood classrooms? As preservice teachers entering the field of early childhood education, we wanted to systematically examine this question and increase our understanding of twenty-first-century teaching practices. The objective for this study was to research and consider cur-rent ideas and teaching practices therefore expanding our knowledge of early childhood curriculum, teaching, and learning. Action research was selected as the research method to achieve this objective (Kemmis & McTaggart, 1988). The purpose was to develop a broader perspective and understanding of our future as early childhood teachers in the twenty-first century. This article describes twenty-first century re-search on teaching practices in early childhood including play and technology, a comparison between the research and current early child-hood teachers’ practices as well as our personal early childhood experiences
Grades 4-8 Children and Young Adult Book Reviews
No full textReviews of Ruby\u27s Wish, Hope for Winter: The True Story of a Remarkable Dolphin Friendship, 2312, Math Girl\u27s Talk about Trigonometry, The Girl Who Never Made Mistakes, No!, The Tsar of Love and Techno, Cashville Kidz: SMART Budgeting episode
Dis-Alternative Stories: Disability Awareness, Teacher Preparation, and the Writing Process
Get PDFQuality children’s literature may facilitate thedevelopment of positive self-images for studentswith disabilities, for English language learners(ELL), and help with the development of acceptanceand awareness among peers. This articledescribes the outcomes of a writing assignmentin a teacher education course in which 35undergraduate preservice teachers, studyingspecial education or ELL, were challenged torewrite familiar stories with disability or language-sensitive slants. Though this process wasoriginally developed for students majoring inspecial education, the reading class was expandedto include students studying how toteach English language learners. Approximately5 out of 35 students were ELL majors. Theseinnovative stories were coined dis-alternativestories. An emphasis was placed on the writingprocess as the undergraduates moved throughstages of the writing workshop while integratingpositive attributes of specific disabilities or languageissues for ELLs within the main charactersof their stories. The preservice teachers’post-assignment reflections indicated theirgrowth and awareness in three categories: thepower of children’s literature to change disability/ELL perceptions and increase acceptance, the value of writing workshop, and the empowerment and agency they felt as change agents
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No full textReview of Red Midnight by Ben Mikaelsen and Heart-Shaped Cookies by David Rice
Scholarly Book Reviews
Get PDFReviews of The Sociolinguistics of Digital Englishes by Patricia Freidrich and Eduardo H. Diniz de Figueiredo and Conducting Qualitative Research of Learning in Online Spaces by Hannah R. Gerber, S.S. Abrams, J.S. Curwood and A.M. Magnific
