Peabody College Teaching and Learning: Recent submissions
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2014)Traditionally, adult ESL education has been dominated by rote memorization of cultural and language facts, audio-lingual drillings, and delivery of frequent daily conversations, while students’ social identities and their ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2014-04-20)My fundamental thinking on the issues and ideas in educating EL students are influenced by two courses EDUC 3530: Foundations for Teaching English Language Learners by Prof. Lisa Pray and EDUC 3590.01: Issues in ELL ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2014-03-01)This ESL Portfolio demonstrates my competence in teacher knowledge of how to best serve English Language Learners (ELLs) in the United States in a public school system. I reflect upon the knowledge and practices that an ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2014-03-08)While creativity is difficult to measure, it is not impossible. Educators must begin to identify and assess creativity in students in order for America to remain a competitive force in STEM fields. One way to measure ...
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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, 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, 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 ...
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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, 2013-05-31)Through the collection of the life stories, this research explores the college application process of two undocumented students in Nashville, Tennessee in order to examine ways in which teachers and college counselors can ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2013-05-31)This paper presents a discussion of service learning, its benefits and struggles, its place amongst students in urban schools, and how to transition the common practice of service learning in high school to elementary ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2013-03-01)This project, which consists of a literature review and a social studies unit, investigates linking education about the Civil Rights Movement to a service-learning project. The social constructivist learning theory and ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2012-06-15)Research has shown that while the discipline of mathematics focuses on negotiation, interpretation, and uncertainty, classroom mathematics often focus on rigidity, rules, and prescribed algorithms. This misalignment of ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2012-06-15)In this project, I describe a unit of curriculum designed for Secondary Three Singapore students in the Normal Technical (NT) stream. Being in the lowest track, NT students are often perceived through a deficit lens by ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2012-06-15)This capstone essay focuses on the role of motivation in the middle grades Language Arts classroom. I frame the essay through an investigation balanced on the importance of intrinsic motivation and its relationship with ...
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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, 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 ...