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Reimagining Advanced Placement World History: When Teaching More Of The Same Is No Longer Enough
(2016-12)
This paper was designed as a way to document my personal growth as I explored ways to honor my identity as an educator while still navigating institutional and societal expectations regarding the meanings and methods of ...
"Like, Right Now We Don't Really Have a Voice": Stories of Secondary Social Studies Teachers Working with ELLs
(2020-05-08)
Students for whom English is a second or additional language are a significant and growing population within public schools. Notions of inclusion and citizenship are uniquely and distinctly a part of social studies. In ...
Prioritizing Engagement and Movement in the World Language Classroom: An Action Research Study on Deskless Seating in Secondary, Novice-Level Spanish Classes
(2020-05-08)
Deskless seating is a seating trend that has grown in popularity in recent years, particularly among world language educators of students of all ages. In deskless seating, the desks in the classroom are removed and the ...
A State of Unfairs: A Case Study Concerning Respect for Teachers in Oklahoma
(2016-12)
The purpose of this research study is to examine if and how Oklahoma teachers
are disrespected within their profession. This study incorporates an online survey
and in-depth interviewing to attempt to address the ...
Differentiation in the Secondary English Classroom
(2017-12)
This study seeks to show the possible positive learning outcomes gained by the use of differentiated instruction. My methods of differentiation included specializing content using the different levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy, ...
High School Students and their Experiences from U.S. History Classrooms
(2018-05)
The study uncovers a narrative lack of diversity within social studies classrooms, particularly U.S. History. When a more multicultural narrative appeared within the study of these students' curriculum, they were far more ...
The Complexities of Learning Arabic in the 21st Century
(2016-12-16)
Of four levels of difficulty and of hundreds of languages spoken worldwide, Arabic is considered a category 4, which means it is among the most difficult languages to learn. While Modern Standard Arabic (Fusha) is most ...
A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS OF BANGLADESH AND FINLAND
(2017-05-04)
This thesis compares the educational system of Bangladesh, a democratic South Asian country, with the educational system of Finland, a Scandinavian country that scores high in international comparisons on tests, such as ...
THE POWER OF STORYTELLING: USING NARRATIVE INQUIRY TO UNDERSTAND THE ROLE OF LIFE STORY FOR IDENTITY FORMATION
(2020)
This study explores the impact a person’s life story has on their sense of self, and how meaning is made in the creation of the life story. Using narrative inquiry, the author analyzes his grandmother’s handwritten life ...
Need-Based Professional Development for Secondary Math Teachers with English Language Learners
(2020-05-08)
As the number of English Language Learners in the U.S. continues to grow, all teachers, even high school math teachers, need to be prepared to scaffold both content and language for these students. However, current research ...