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Providing an Equitable Education Through Curriculum Transformation
(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 ...
Curriculum and Instructional Leadership in the 21st Century- A Look at Schools in Nashville and Singapore
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2009-08-08)
Singapore and U.S. schools face similar challenges in preparing students for life in the 21st Century workplace, home and community. As globalization proceeds apace, future graduates are expected to possess 21st Century ...
Establishing Peace Through Conflict Resolution: Why we need it and how to make it work in the elementary classroom
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2008-06-13)
Current education practice puts little focus on conflict resolution strategies. This essay argues that, in light of the inevitability of conflict both in the classroom and in our society, teachers must teach students how ...
Immigrant Challenges and Opportunities in Civic Education
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2008-06-15)
The paper describes the growing number of immigrant students in secondary schools and discusses how these students present teachers with particular challenges and resources in teaching the civic education needed to sustain ...
Beyond Names and Dates: Teaching Students to Employ Historical Reasoning
(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 ...
Developing Word Knowledge Through Vocabulary Instruction
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2008-06-14)
Current research findings indicate that knowledge of word meanings greatly influence a reader's comprehension of text. As text comprehension is necessary for true "reading" to occur, classroom vocabulary instruction is ...
The "How-to" and "Whys?" of Literature Circles
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2008-04-07)
Abstract
Literature circles are an important component of the literacy curriculum in elementary classrooms. Literature circles are small groups of students with heterogeneous abilities talking together about a shared text. ...
Children's Literature in Science Instruction: The Use of Children's Literature in 6th Grade Science
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2008-08-11)
This project will begin by presenting research about the effectiveness of using children's literature in science instruction. This research will be used to develop a unit plan for 6th grade earth and space science which ...
Improving Open Court Reading
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2008-06-14)
SRA's Open Court Reading is a research-based literacy program that has been adopted in schools across the nation. The program exhibits a number of strengths, including effectiveness in raising reading test scores and ...
Getting Guided Reading Right in Multicultural Classrooms K - 3
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2008-06-15)
The objective of this paper is to focus on adapting and preparing guided reading instruction for multicultural students between kindergarten and third grade. Guided reading is an instructional practice used in balanced ...