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Honing the art and craft of writing instruction: Teachers’ journeys in implementing writer’s workshop
Get PDFWriting is used as a means of communication and also as a way to creatively express our innermost thoughts and feelings. The act of teaching writing can be envisioned as helping students to craft and construct grammatical, easy to read sentences and compositions. Conversely, writing instruction can also be seen as providing other writers with the encouragement to create beautiful and meaningful ideas. Writer’s Workshop is an organizational framework for teaching, which allows students the time to practice using the writing process in a variety of authentic, meaningful ways.
This research study examined how four elementary teachers responded to a training session on Writer’s Workshop as they sought to strengthen their instructional practices. Data for the qualitative inquiry was collected through interviews, classroom observations, reflective journals, and student writing samples.
The findings revealed that the overall classroom culture greatly impacts writing instruction. Also, teachers’ personal ideologies drive their decisions; therefore, to change classroom practice, one must first make philosophical shifts. The results also highlighted the ongoing and multi-faceted nature of professional growth. Overall, when teachers are given choice and flexibility regarding areas they want to study, they develop the initiative to learn through a multitude of opportunities
EVEN THOUGH STUDENTS ARE GETTING A HEAD START, WHY ARE TEACHERS NOT FINISHING THE RACE?
No full textThe final composite examines factors contributing to teacher attrition in Head Start programs and explores the potential of leadership support and preparation in retaining these teachers. The initial scholarly deliverable is a case study article that can be utilized to instruct doctoral or master's degree candidates in the field of educational leadership. Titled "Battling Teacher Attrition in Head Start," this case study concentrates on challenges faced by Head Start programs, offering innovative approaches to advertising, hiring, and onboarding to reduce resignations and attract highly qualified educators. The concluding scholarly deliverable is an empirical article titled "Even Though Students are Getting a Head Start, Why Aren't Teachers Finishing the Race." This empirical study delves into the factors contributing to teacher attrition in Head Start programs and explores the potential of leadership support and preparation in retaining these teachers
Turning the Corner: From Student Writer to Writing Teacher
Get PDFMixed Methods, including qualitative and quantitative survey of student participants with the approval of our IRB proposal.One of the critical questions in education today is: How can educator preparation programs better prepare teacher candidates to become more effective writers who strive to improve their own craft of writing and who will ultimately become effective writing teachers for ensuing generations of young writers? The purpose of this proposal is to examine the efficacy of a new Teaching Writing course in preparing teacher candidates to become confident writers and writing teachers through explicit instruction, writing practice, and portfolio development. Our research study action plan investigated how the writing course helps teacher candidates become more effective writers and more skilled writing teachers. The plan creates continued engagement for those committed to developing teacher candidates' self-efficacy as confident writers and effective writing teachers
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Operation First Five (OF5): Potter County Parent Survey
No full text"This conference presentation will highlight how community partners from Operation First Five (OF5) coalition, a nonprofit organization focusing on the needs of young children, have come together to identify strategies to help infants, toddlers, and preschoolers develop the foundational skills that will help them be successful when they enter school. The OF5 organization is a diverse grassroots group of individuals and organizations with similar interests in early childhood initiatives that have united to support parents of young children by connecting them to services and/or resources that may help young children in our community have a more successful start in life. The mission of this community-wide organization is to help children succeed through a comprehensive and collaborative early childhood system that supports families and unites like-minded service providers (Zero to Five website, 2021). The coalition partners have a common vision that all children in the area grow up healthy, experience nurturing relationships, live and grow in stimulating early learning environments, and enter school ready to succeed (OF5- Amarillo Facebook page, 2021). In this presentation, the presenters will share their research study that is currently collecting survey data from the local area regarding parents' general knowledge of child development and parenting perspectives related to raising young children ages birth to 5 years old. Data collected will be used to determine a baseline of parents' knowledge before wide-spread intervention initiatives are implemented throughout the targeted community. These interventions will include research-based strategies for helping parents understand the vital role they play in their child's development from birth to age five. Although many unique strategies are planned, a prominent intervention component will focus on "The Basics", a community-wide effort to raise awareness of five basic parenting or caregiver principles (the basics.org, 2021). These principles help parents and other caregivers support young children's social, emotional, and cognitive development (the basics.org, 2021). A key objective of this conference presentation will be to share with the audience more about The Basic principles which include: 1) Maximize love, manage stress, 2) Count, group, and compare, 3) Talk, sing, and point, 4) Explore through movement and play, and 5) Read and discuss stories. This presentation will spark participant discussion surrounding the importance of developing parents' and child caregivers' understanding of ways they can easily help develop the foundational skills that children need before entering school. Through discussions with the researchers, participants will increase their own knowledge and gain insight into how intentional early childhood interventions may be an answer to the common question of "Is my child ready to be successful when they start school"
Experiential Learning and Teaching : One EPP\u27s Journey Facilitating Clinical Teaching during COVID-19
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Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
THE PURSUIT OF LEADERSHIP: AN INTERPRETATIVE PHENOMENOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE EXISTENCE OF INVISIBLE BARRIERS OF ORGANIZATIONAL POWER FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF MOTHERS IN HIGHER EDUCATION LEADERSHIP
Get PDFWomen leaders continue to be underrepresented in higher education institutions (HEI) and have been so for over 100 years. Women must overcome obstacles and barriers to power and perception in higher education institutions (Lumby, 2019). The representation of women in leadership remains an inequality issue within higher education institutions worldwide (Ford, 2016). In recent years, “progress has been made in some areas, but women continue to lag behind male colleagues” (Madsen, 2012, p. 133). Although the focus on genderization has been magnified through research and feminist movements, “increasing gender equality has shown little progression over the last few decades, despite receiving increased attention” (Kossek & Buzzanell, 2018, p. 813).
This qualitative, interpretative phenomenological analysis aims to understand a working mother’s experiences in higher educational leadership roles. Hence, this study examined if women, specifically mothers, have experienced complex, invisible, and challenging difficulties on their career journey in higher education leadership in four-year public universities throughout Texas. If participants encounter barriers, the visible and invisible organizational criteria continuum will engage the cultural elements into three distinct categories: artifacts, espoused values, and underlying assumptions using Schein’s Organizational Culture Model (1980). The semi-structured, in-depth interview will comprise questions examining each participant’s experiences as leaders at different levels of their HEIs. The key focus of this study was to explore the coalescence of women leaders' personal and professional obligations and expound on which obstacles impair a mother’s ascension into senior leadership roles
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