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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 ...
The Value of Using Primary Source Documents in the History Classroom
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2008-06-15)
This essay attempts to explore what a valuable teaching resource primary source documents are for teachers. History education is becoming, and rightly so, less focused on students learning "the facts" and more centered on ...
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 ...
Using Various Forms of Media to Teach Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2007-08-24)
This project includes research about teaching Shakespearean texts and the implementation of that research in the form of a unit plan for Romeo and Juliet. Several key issues discovered in research and considered in the ...
Poetry in the Elementary Classroom: Promoting Integration and Social Education through the use of a Thematic Element
(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 ...
Improving English as a Second Language Instruction at the Secondary Level:
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2008-04-23)
Observations of six middle and high school Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools classrooms in
the fall of 2007 raised questions about the clarity of the secondary ESL curriculum and about the
knowledge that ESL teachers ...
Guided Reading with English Language Learners: An Emphasis in Vocabulary Instruction
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2007-09-15)
This project centers on guided reading instruction with English Language Learners (ELLs). The focus of the lessons is vocabulary, since it is important in the development of ELLs. There is a review of the available ...
Reading Comprehension: Start it early and teach it often
(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 ...
Museums and Education: Connecting the Elements of Education to Science and Children's Museums
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2008-09-12)
Museums are informal environments that incorporate various elements of learning, such as: the learner environment, learners and learning, curriculum and teaching strategies, and
assessment. This paper focuses on these ...
Using African American Children's Literature to Support the Literacy Development of Three and Four Year Olds
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2008-04-23)
When contemplating which Capstone experience to select, I chose to look at which product would be most beneficial for me upon completion of my degree. As a graduate candidate who plans to immediately return to the classroom ...