Browsing Teaching & Learning Capstone Projects by Title
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2011-06-15)Multicultural mathematics acts as a link between the contributive notions of ethnomathematics and the practices of culturally relevant pedagogy. It challenges the common disconnect between mathematical concepts and the ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2008)Today's American schools are in a constant battle. In the context of standardization and accountability, educators must attempt to produce measurable results on State-mandated tests, while at the same time educating the ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2008-08-18)This comprehensive essay addresses the issue of literacy in language arts and in science as it relates to learners and learning, the learning environment, curriculum and instructional strategies, and assessment in the ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2020)
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2008-09-12)Museums are informal environments that incorporate various elements of learning, such as: the learner environment, learners and learning, curriculum and teaching strategies, and assessment. This paper focuses on these ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2023-05)Dialogic teaching has been recognized as a positive and productive approach to classroom instruction, but broader uptake of dialogic practices has proven to be a challenging goal. After establishing the grounds for a ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2016-07-18)Discussions about education tend to revolve around K-12 schooling; adult education is generally not a part of the conversation even though it was an incubator of social change and progress at many points in history. Much ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2011)Book reports can many times be viewed in classrooms as a means to obtain a writing sample, a time-filler or just another “thing to do.” I believe that book reports that are uniquely and purposefully crafted can be powerful ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2017-06-15)Race has returned to the forefront of discussion in the United States given the nation’s current social and political climate, causing educational institutions to face calls to re-examine, redefine, and recreate educational ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2011-07-15)In the era of No Child Left Behind, Race to the Top, and Waiting for Superman, it is clear that our nation is keenly focused on the academic achievement of students in urban schools. At the same time, the economy is in ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2010-06-15)Educators have long contemplated how to best meet the individual needs of their students. The growing diversity of student ability, student background, and student interest in classrooms has led researchers and professionals ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2020-03-13)This project looks at the effects of using picture books as instructional tools during read aloud to support the literacy growth of young children. Furthermore, the project conducts and analyzes a survey in which local ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2015-06-15)
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2016-06-15)Play in the lives of children of all ages is on the decline. This decline is even more dramatic in the middle grades, as in this context, play is almost non-existent and has been replaced with a rise in negative qualities ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2017-06-15)This project explores the historical execution of English as a Second Language (ESL) education and how it may be improved through the use of a poetry unit. The main goals of the unit are to improve English Language Learners ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2008)Poetry is an often overlooked cornerstone of the language arts curriculum. Its exclusion from a great many elementary classrooms is most unfortunate because the genre has great potential for learning across the curriculum--and ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2012-06)In recent years, theorists have begun to explore the ways in which the narratives our children read influence the democratic ideals we wish to impart. In a nation so stratified along both racial and socioeconomic lines ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2011-03-02)This portfolio of teaching English as a second language (ESL) includes two parts. The first part is a thoroughly developed statement of teaching philosophy that is based on field research and theories. The second is a ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2007-10-29)In an effort to explore the ways in which Montessori curriculum and public schools are cooperative or mutually exclusive, I will examine the principles of the Montessori philosophy as set forth by Dr. Maria Montessori in ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2014-03-31)This paper examines the current research and theories concerning service-learning and its potential as an effective instructional strategy in middle school social studies classrooms. Traditional social studies classrooms ...