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Critical Pedagogy in Prison Education: Teaching for Democracy, Liberation, and Civic Engagement in an Institution of Control
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2015-06-15)
The purpose of my capstone essay is to situate prison education as an issue of justice and critical pedagogy as the catalyst for transformation. The prison population is disproportionately from non-dominant culture and is ...
Model, Meet, and Mimic: How to Use Children’s Literature with ELLs in the Elementary Classroom
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2011-06)
This paper was my Teaching and Learning Department capstone project, giving examples of how to best incorporate children's literature into an elementary classroom. Also discussed is how these practices can help ELLs. Such ...
Capstone Portfolio Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2014-03-01)
This English as a Foreign Language (EFL) Teaching Portfolio consists of three sections. The first section is my philosophy of teaching statement, in which I reflected on how sociocultural theory influenced my understanding ...
Supporting Literacy Development Through Different Teacher Read Aloud Styles in the Early Elementary School Classroom
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2014-04-01)
Pushing Beyond Procedures to Enhance Mathematics Learning
(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 ...
Literacy 2.0: New Literacies in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse K-12 Classrooms
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2014-04-01)
This paper is a review of the literature on the impact of demographic and technological changes on research and practice of literacy education of English Language Learners (ELLs) in American K-12 school settings. It is ...
Concept Maps in Early Childhood Literacy Classrooms
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2014)
This paper explores the use of concept maps in early childhood literacy classroom, with particular emphasis on specific methods that teachers can apply. Concept maps--as visual organizers that can enrich students' understanding ...
Reading and Adapting Texts to Screenplays to Improve Literacy Motivation in High School Students
(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 ...
Fan-fiction and ELA Instruction
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2015-06-15)
Supporting Teachers in Developing Multicultural Family Engagement
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2015-06-15)