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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2011-04)The goal of this paper is to explore the potential uses of social media in high school English classrooms. Also explored is the reasoning behind integrating social media into the English curriculum. Social media use falls ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2008-09-12)With a goal of exploring the impact of English language learners' (ELLs) affective and social needs on academic achievement, this paper examines the issue from four frameworks: the learner, the learning environment, the ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2012-06-14)This paper addresses the argument that algebra should be viewed as a civil right and mode for social justice. The framing question addressed is, “How and why is algebra a civil right?” The goal of the paper is to discuss ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2012-09-15)This essay explores the orthographic discipline of spelling instruction. More specifically, the spelling of English words is examined and the resulting suggestions for implementation and instruction in the classroom are ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2011-07-15)This Capstone project consists of a backwards design format unit plan based on corresponding units from a specific traditional Algebra I textbook. The student goals that I have identified are closely aligned with standards ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2011)Character education is the intentional effort to develop core ethical and performance values that are widely affirmed across all cultures in young people (Character Education Partnership, 2010). Benefits of character ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2017-06-15)This paper presents qualities of art education experiences that lead to transformational learning and renewed civic engagement in communities. Using critical place-based pedagogy and elements of oral history practices, ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2012-10-10)In 2000, the National Reading Panel named fluency one of the five pillars of reading instruction. As a result, schools across America adopted a variety of fluency assessments. More recently, one-minute fluency assessments ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2018-03-15)Many teachers in today’s classrooms, regardless of subject area, have little experience in the kind of learning they are asking students to engage in (Elmore, 2016). Rigorous standards in science and mathematics have set ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2012-06-15)In the paper I explore some of the history of disengaged readers and segue into an exploration of the ways in which more recent literature discusses disengaged readers. I conclude with implications as to how the more recent ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2011-06-15)This short guide is designed to speak to the novice urban educator that has limited training and experience on how to best meet the needs of a culturally diverse classroom, regardless of subject or grade taught. Through ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2011)This paper presents the idea of a “tool kit” that supplements curricula in an elementary school setting. It looks into what instructional strategies benefit ELL learners and how some of those same strategies can help ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2008)This essay explores several obstacles that a student brings into a high school history classroom. Since the main goal of history is to develop abstract reasoning, it is troublesome that a student's cognitive development ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2017-06-15)Throughout history, Black children have been dehumanized, criminalized, and sexualized. Additionally, though education can be a transformative and liberative tool, Black children have been deprived of quality and equitable ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2016-06-15)Although research on Black students disproportionality in suspensions and expulsions has been conducted since the 1970s, it has mainly centered Black male students (Smith-Evans et al., 2014). For decades, there has been ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2014-07-15)This paper explores the affordances of digital video games in the learning of science amid a changing learner demographic. Current research in this area is largely focused on motivational aspects of video games. It is ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2012-06-15)This essay addresses the matter of how to connect with and involve the parents and families of English Language Learners in their children’s literacy education at the early elementary level as well as why this topic deserves ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2011-06-15)Children’s literature provides connections across all content areas. When incorporated within mathematics, it provides an engaging, accessible, and authentic context for learning. The literary experience can lead to ...