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Technology and Peer Conferencing on Student Writing Performance by Maria Breen
The classroom website Maria Breen created helped her motivate her students and provide another method for them to improve their writing skills. |
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Mathematics Intervention in the Primary Grades by Frances Schuchman
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A New Experience Teaching Phonemic Awareness by Ivy Ng
This study will examine the challenges for young English Language Learners (ELLs) to achieve phonemic awareness skills in an English-language classroom. |
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What Good is Accountable Talk If You Can’t Understand It? by Karen Ramirez
We obviously spend a lot of time teaching students to read and write according to these literacy standards. However, I think that very little time, if any, is spent teaching speaking and listening. |
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Connecting Generations in Music Education by Rebecca Ponka
Music education is an integral part of students’ school experience. This study examines the relationship between students who participate in voluntary music programs and their parents’ participation in, encouragement, and support of their child’s music studies. |
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Breakfast
& Book: The Importance of Making Home-School Connections
by Nicole Nadeau |
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Teaching
Kids How to Talk: The Benefits of Teaching Struggling Readers
to have Deeper, More Effective Conversations by Karen
Ramirez
How can I best use my after school time
with my struggling readers and how will these skills show up
in the classroom? |
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Does
Right = Write? How Does Student Writing About Math Connect
to the Assessment of Students’ Mathematical Understanding?
by Maureen Connelly
As the Math Lead Teacher in Grade 3
I was concerned about an apparent disconnect between math
understanding and “getting the right answers”
on work pages and quizzes. |
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Teaching
to the Test and Beyond: Finding Academic Value in a Test Prep
by Amy Kopchains
What
if teaching to the test did not mean teaching to simply raise
scores but teaching the knowledge and skills that the test sought
to measure? |
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Learning
to Be a Good Guy: Teaching Social Justice in the Primary Classroom
by Liz Goss
What happens when teachers take back some
of their power to make curricular choices and then use this
power with their students to investigate how to create a better
world for all of us? |
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How
Great is the Correlation between a Second Grade Student’s
Fluency Rate and the Ability to Comprehend Text?
by Cynthia Brawner
I set out to see how helping students
to improve their oral fluency when reading would make a difference
in their comprehension of text and ultimately in their achievement. |
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Using
Readers Theater to Show Off Good Reading by Janet
Caluris
Readers theater improved my students’
reading rate, word recognition accuracy and use of expression
while reading as well as their attitudes toward reading. |
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Manipulatives
or Algorithms? A New Teacher’s Adventure with Constructivist
Math by John Chew
The teaching of mathematics, especially
elementary school math is so easy to do badly, yet so difficult
to do well. |
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The
Effectiveness of an After School Web-Enhanced Tutorial Program
by Joy Levy
What happens to mathematical achievement
scores when fifth grade students and their parents interact
in an after school web- enhanced tutorial program? |
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What
Happens to Third Graders' Writing When They Participate in a
Reading and Letter Writing Program? by
Cynthia Brawner |
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A
Second Grade Writing Colony
by Sarah Picard (pdf file.
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Click here.) |
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The
Holy Grail: In Search of Reading Comprehension in the Second
Grade by
Marika Páez |
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Play
Matters by Susan Courtney
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Is
That Crab Really Dead? by Leslie Ann Gravitz |
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You Gotta Know the Rules to Break the Rules:
Code-Switching and Attitudes About Language by
Erin McCrossan Cassar
What is the impact of contrastive analysis language instruction? |
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Making 37 ½ Minutes Count: Teaching Learning-Disabled Middle School Students in a Pull-Out Program by Amy Kopchains
Does teaching learning disabled students in a pull-out program under current conditions work? |
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Leaving
No Child Behind by Greer Stangl
Can
you motivate an underachieving regular education student to
graduate? |
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Closing
the Achievement Gap by Chris McLean
Would
an ethnocentric curriculum raise the achievement levels of my
struggling minority students? |
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Implications
of No Child Left Behind by Tamara Grimes-Stewart
Does
inclusion include students with disabilities and teachers? |
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Encouraging,
Thoughtful, and Helpful Responses to High Stakes Writing: How
Do Writing Teachers Do It All? by Jennifer Rygalski
I questioned whether the comments I wrote
in response to the students’ work assisted them in improving
not only their writing, but also their attitudes and confidence
about writing as well. |
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"Gimme
that school where everything's scripted!" by
Marika Paez |
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Breaking
the Code: An Action Research Study of My Role as an Instructional
Facilitator
by Lara Goldstone (pdf file.
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Click here.) |
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Evidence
of Understanding in an 8th Grade Classroom by Matt Wayne
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Getting
Smarter at School by Matt Wayne |
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The
Mother
Tongue by Lara Goldstone |
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Rising
to the Challenge of High Standard by Matt Wayne
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Benefits and Challenges to Service-Learning with First Generation Immigrant Students by Shahzia Pirani-Mellstrom and Laura Berson
What are the benefits and challenges service-learning curriculum presents to first generation immigrant students? |
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Tearing Down the Classroom Walls: Analyzing the Effects of Interdisciplinary Team Teaching by Nicole Mirra
Does interdisciplinary collaborative planning and teaching affect students’ critical thinking skills and teacher creativity? |
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Chemistry in Art: Crossing the Curriculum by James Kopchains
Can teaching chemistry be paired with art instruction to boost student performance in chemistry? |
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Looking in the Mirror: Helping Adolescent Talk More Reflectively During Portfolio Presentations by Tim Fredrick
Unsatisfied with the experiences I was having with portfolios, but still convinced of their potential, I spent the summer contemplating how I could improve my use of portfolios in the classroom. |
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Chemistry in Art: Learning to Understand by James Kopchains
Student understanding of chemical concepts is difficult to gauge. However, if you tie it into objective tests and test through a specific curriculum, you might be able to determine how much a student understands? |
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The
Implications of Basic Math Class Required Learnings on the Graduation
Rates of Basic Math Students by Shelly Klein
What would happen if you required your
freshman and sophomore basic math students to correctly complete
a set number of tutorial software problems each day, and to
pass 36 standard quizzes, 60% or better, and they would fail
them if they did not do these required learnings? |
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After
the Bell Rings: Student Perceptionsof Afterschool
by Erica Litke
How can I effectively structure my time
with my students in an afterschool program so that they attend
and reap the greatest educational benefits? |
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Choosing
to Belong: Increasing Adolescent Male Engagement in the ELA
Classroom by Tim Fredrick
Boys are engaged at lower levels than
girls in all subjects, but most of all in the English Language
Arts. |
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Reducing
"Alliteracy" in High School Students by Joanne Collison
How
can teachers and librarians reduce alliteracy in high schools?
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It's
More than Throwing Out the Ball by
Carolann Space
Do
children who are physically active during the school day perform
better in school than those who are not?
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What
Factors Impact the Success of Special Education Students in
the Inclusive Secondary English Classroom? by
Juanita Pritchett |
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Finding
the Right Fit by Jill Rumley
How
will immerged special education students being tested in their
actual grade level perform in high-stakes reading and writing
tests? |
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Consider
Advanced Placement for Career Technical Students
by Sharon Crossen
How
does offering advanced placement classes in a before-school
setting affect a diverse population of students in a vocational
school? |
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Making
Meaning through Written Response by Rosemary Barilla
and Karen Dreyfuss
With
great pressure on teachers to ensure that students perform well
on standardized tests, teachers must be able to understand how
different kinds of readers comprehend what they read. |
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Adolescent
Literacy by Carol Tureski |