Browsing Teaching & Learning Capstone Projects by Title
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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 ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2011-06-15)The goal of this project is to evaluate the merits of implementing integrated instruction at the elementary level. A particular focus is the use of social studies concepts to organize integrated instruction around significant ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2016-03)For my capstone experience, I designed a project-based learning (PBL) unit for implementation as an after-school enrichment program in an urban, low-income girls’ public school in Karachi, Pakistan, specifically, Government ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2011-07-15)Inequity in achievement and opportunities to learn mathematics among different subpopulations of students permeate every level of the United States education system: national, local, school, and even individual classrooms. ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2010-06-14)This paper provides the rationale underlying the integrated reading-history unit I have created in fulfillment of my Capstone requirements. I begin by calling for the incorporation of any of the content areas into the ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2013-05-29)The purpose of this paper is to argue for the implementation of an education program that is effective at preventing mental disorders and promoting mental wellness. This interdisciplinary paper between the fields of ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2008)The purpose of this essay is to identify criteria within curricula that contribute to providing equitable education and to analyze and evaluate one curriculum based on these criteria. I first describe school-based factors ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2014-07-15)This paper explores the issue of tracking and equity in urban schools. Implications for detracking as well as differentiation are given as possible solutions to the growing gap between our highest and lowest performing ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2014-07)While many ideas abound in the literature about what effective mathematics instruction entails, procedural instruction still dominates in United States mathematics classrooms. Many math teachers seem to have a natural ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2019-06-01)This paper serves two purpose: First, it explores existing research on queering family engagement, and secondly, it describes two potential resources that have been created as part of a holistic approach to queering family ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2011-10-14)This paper explores the different modifications of a read aloud that are appropriate for diverse learners. Information about a typical read aloud has been analyzed to find which modifications are necessary to include all ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2014)Adolescents in the United States lag behind much of the world in reading achievement (Bozack, 2011). Researchers find that personal and situational interest acting together increase reading achievement in adolescents. In ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2007-10-24)Comprehension is the ultimate purpose for reading and is the key to reading success. Research has shown that children as young as five years old can be taught comprehension strategies and implement these strategies when ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2008-10-01)This essay explores the topic of teaching reading through the strategy of differentiated instruction. While the concept of differentiated instruction is discussed and some of the principles of reading instruction are ...