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The Role of Principals in Supporting Early Childhood Teachers
(2019-12-13)
Dissertation Abstract
As access to state-funded preschools continues to increase, a steady rise in the number of preschool children enrolled in public education has occurred across the United States. Since 2004, the ...
MATHEMATICS TEACHING IN AN URBAN SCHOOL: A CASE STUDY OF TWO TEACHERS
(2019-05-10)
Authentic teaching and learning practices have been part of the educational landscape for over two decades and include student-centered approaches such as construction of knowledge, disciplined inquiry, and finding value ...
EVALUATING THE EFFECTS OF STEM OUT-OF-SCHOOL TIME PROGRAMMING ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF STEM ATTITUDES AND 21st CENTURY SKILLS OF COMMUNITY SCHOOL STUDENTS
(2019-08)
National attention has turned to the provision of high quality science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) instruction to help prepare students for the 21st century workforce. To promote innovation, creative ...
SPIRALING DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE: A CASE STUDY OF STUDENTS’ AND PARENTS’ PERCEPTIONS OF ANXIETY IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS
(2019-05)
The current study explores students’ and parents’ perceptions of the growing phenomenon of
adolescent anxiety, its triggers, and its manifestations, specifically anxiety related the English
language arts classroom, ...
ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS IN THE COUNCIL FOR THE ACCREDITATION OF EDUCATOR PREPARATION
(2019-05)
The standard of excellence in teacher preparation is accreditation by the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP). Millions of dollars, untold hours of human effort, and countless pages of reports go ...
The [Integrated] Art of Teaching: Early Career Teachers' Perceptions of Integrated Arts Practices and their Creative Self-Efficacy
(2019-05-10)
From teacher preparation programs, preservice and novice teachers understand the expectations and their responsibility to prepare secondary students for tests required for postsecondary opportunities. But often forgotten ...
MEANING MAKING THROUGH NEGOTIATING LANGUAGE DIFFERENCES IN MULTILINGUAL WRITING
(2019-05-10)
The purpose of this qualitative case study was to gain an understanding of the perceptions of multilingual writing from monolingual and multilingual instructors teaching First-year Composition (FYC) as well as international ...
THE DECISION TO TEACH IN AN ERA OF DECLINING ENROLLMENTS IN TEACHER PREPARATION PROGRAMS
(2019-05)
In America, declining enrollments in teacher education programs pose a problem for the future of education. Some studies (Barry & Shields, 2017; Westervelt, 2015) suggest high-stakes testing and top-down education reforms ...
Setting the standard: Perceptions and implementations of standards for mathematics teacher preparation programs
(2019-12)
The development and use of standards have become a key aspect of education.
Significant research has been conducted to understand the perceptions and implementations of standards in PK-12 school settings. There exists ...
Use of the Target Language in Beginning Japanese
(2019-05)
The purpose of this study was to investigate how two Japanese teachers used the target language (Japanese) and students’ first language (English) in a college-level, beginning Japanese course. Although the ACTFL (American ...