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Bubbling Vs. Writing: Bridging The Gap Between Fourth Grade Writing Standards And Composition Theory, Pamela Lynn Dobbins
Bubbling Vs. Writing: Bridging The Gap Between Fourth Grade Writing Standards And Composition Theory, Pamela Lynn Dobbins
Theses Digitization Project
Currently, fourth grade writing curricula in California public schools are dictated by California State English Language Arts standards, which are measured by the California Achievement Test. In this thesis, I explore the relationship between state standards and what compositionists identify as "meaningful" writing and learning.
Creating A Content Management System To Support K-12 Teachers Implementing A Web Enhanced Classroom, Marc Thomas Drescher
Creating A Content Management System To Support K-12 Teachers Implementing A Web Enhanced Classroom, Marc Thomas Drescher
Theses Digitization Project
Using instructional design methodology, this project identified the features of an effective classroom website and incorporated them into the design of a Course Management System (CMS) for K-12 teachers. The purpose of this CMS is to deliver online information to students and parents while meeting the needs of K-12 teachers.
The Spanish Assistant, James Randolph Campbell
The Spanish Assistant, James Randolph Campbell
Theses Digitization Project
The Spanish Assistant is an electronic resource created with Macromedia Flash, Dreamweaver and Hot Potatoes 6, to help students in their quest to learn Spanish faster and easier. This project includes a discussion of the processes used to analyze, develop, design, implement and evaluate the electronic resource.
Do San Bernardino City Unified School District Special Education Teachers Have Knowledge Of The Social Stories Teaching Strategy For Students With Autism?, Heather Dana Lozano
Do San Bernardino City Unified School District Special Education Teachers Have Knowledge Of The Social Stories Teaching Strategy For Students With Autism?, Heather Dana Lozano
Theses Digitization Project
This project was done by a special education teacher of the severely handicapped. The goal of this project is to promote a teaching strategy called Social Stories which combine the written word with various scenarios for the autistic individual. Preliminary findings of teachers who are using Social Stories show great promise for some autistic individuals who function at a variety of levels. Unfortunately, Social Stories seems to be neglected as a teaching strategy and what can be done to change so that more teachers are aware of it and using it?
Foster Care Adolescents And Higher Education, Mary Ann Holmes
Foster Care Adolescents And Higher Education, Mary Ann Holmes
Theses Digitization Project
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the Independent Living Program in San Bernardino and Riverside counties to transition foster care youth to independence of the social services system. The study provided a compilation of services and resources available through Cameron Hill Aftercare Services in San Bernardino for emancipated foster youth to assist with the successful transition toward independence as well as access to higher education and stability in housing and employment.
Virtual Field Trip Design And Development: Mission San Diego De Alcala, Kyle Trevor Griffith
Virtual Field Trip Design And Development: Mission San Diego De Alcala, Kyle Trevor Griffith
Theses Digitization Project
This design and development project focused on creating an online virtual field trip of Mission San Diego de Alcala (San Diego Mission) for use by California fourth grade teachers. This CD-ROM was designed to assist the teacher and enhance a field trip to California's first mission.
Survey Of Advice For Beginning Environmental Education Instructors, Scott Charles Rennie
Survey Of Advice For Beginning Environmental Education Instructors, Scott Charles Rennie
Theses Digitization Project
The purpose of the research done in this study was to collect techniques, methods and advice from environmental education professionals and create a concise summary of the results. The study showed the importance of using constructivist techniques in environmental education, essential to be successful in teaching in the outdoors.
Elementary Education Curriculum Reform: Integration Of The Basic Content Areas, Karen Hartsuff Zak
Elementary Education Curriculum Reform: Integration Of The Basic Content Areas, Karen Hartsuff Zak
Theses Digitization Project
The purpose of this study will present research validating the contention that the basics that were eliminated to adopt these limiting curriculums, must be put back into the curriculum, not merely for a well-rounded greatly needed educational background for children to acquire, but also because all of these basic study areas of science, social studies, the arts, health and music are intricately associated and help each of the other doctrines.
Interactive Multimedia E-Learning System, Wen-Yi Shih
Interactive Multimedia E-Learning System, Wen-Yi Shih
Theses Digitization Project
This project is an interactive, multimedia, on-line learning system. It provides a friendly and simple interface to let kids easily learn their ABC's. Teachers and administrators can modify and view files and database information from a normal web browser to customize the student's learning experience. The web browser is written in Java Server Page (JSP), Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) and Macromedia Flash.
San Jacinto Center For Environmental Education, Susanna Catherine Hamilton
San Jacinto Center For Environmental Education, Susanna Catherine Hamilton
Theses Digitization Project
The author sets out to find what the characteristics of a functional and successful nature center includes. In doing so, she helps to create the San Jacinto Center for Environmental Education. The desire behind this is to bring more school-age children and university students to the site as well as to manage and expand the public walks on the San Jacinto Wildlife Area.
Development Of A Strategic Plan For The Highland Environmental Learning Center, Jessica Ann Sutorus
Development Of A Strategic Plan For The Highland Environmental Learning Center, Jessica Ann Sutorus
Theses Digitization Project
The project focuses on the development of a strategic plan for the Highland Environmental Learning Center (HELC), the completely integrated environmental learning center located in the Highland Branch Library of the San Bernardino County Library system. The plan was developed through the investigation of other nature centers, interpretive centers, and environmental learning centers to help define the purpose and mission for environmental education in a non-formal setting. It is also meant to serve as a guideline for future programming, budgeting, promotion, and staffing of HELC. The plan supports HELC's goal to foster environmental sensitivity and environmentally responsible citizenship.
Key Communication Aspects Of A High School Website, Douglas Clayton Soles
Key Communication Aspects Of A High School Website, Douglas Clayton Soles
Theses Digitization Project
The purpose of this study is to find and analyze data that can help schools create websites that are more useful for their students, staff, and community. There is a need in the educational community to have a blueprint for an educational tool (website), that allows students, parents, and school officials the opportunity to quickly and decisively share important information in an arena available to all and available 24 hours a day. It was completed by comparing the current websites of all the high schools in Riverside County, California.
Comparison Of Needs Of (Adhd) Children As Perceived By Elementary, Middle And High School Teachers, Cynthia Renee Bailey
Comparison Of Needs Of (Adhd) Children As Perceived By Elementary, Middle And High School Teachers, Cynthia Renee Bailey
Theses Digitization Project
The purpose of this qualitative study is to gain insight into the needs of children with ADHD from the perspective of teachers. Interviews were conducted either face-to-face or by telephone with teacher participants provided by Sylvan Learning Center and through snowball sampling. Findings of this study are expected to give social workers an opportunity to work collaboratively with teachers, parents and mental health professionals in applying a multimodal approach toward developing effective treatment strategies for children with ADHD.
Why Parents Choose A Two Way Immersion Program For Their Children, Elisa Maria Barr
Why Parents Choose A Two Way Immersion Program For Their Children, Elisa Maria Barr
Theses Digitization Project
This project investigates the reasons parents cite for enrolling their children in a bilingual alternative program, Two Way Immersion (Dual Immersion).
Tools For Teaching Intersession In A Year-Round School, Rebecca Jane Santana
Tools For Teaching Intersession In A Year-Round School, Rebecca Jane Santana
Theses Digitization Project
The purpose of this project was to create a website that would assist teachers who teach intersession at the year round school. The goal is to allow teachers to spend less time on paperwork and focus on what they need to do in order to service their students and help them meet their goals.
Theory Development For The Use Of Dvd Technology Based On Brain Research, Cathleen Ruth Summerford
Theory Development For The Use Of Dvd Technology Based On Brain Research, Cathleen Ruth Summerford
Theses Digitization Project
This thesis will provide the importance to teachers how brain based research on visual and motion activities can be assimilated into technological innovations that are easily utilized in classroom instruction. This is significant because in order to ensure that best practices are being implented, teachers must recognize the validity of an approach, understand its applications and find it easily accessible on a routine basis.
Writer's Workshop: Teaching Students To Own Their Work, Amanda Kaye Naimy
Writer's Workshop: Teaching Students To Own Their Work, Amanda Kaye Naimy
Theses Digitization Project
This thesis shows one way of presenting a writing process to students in conjunction with other writing programs which are mandated to be taught by the school district.
A Teacher's Handbook Post-Traumatic Vision Syndrome: Awareness, Assessments, Accommodations, Elaine Ruth Lewis
A Teacher's Handbook Post-Traumatic Vision Syndrome: Awareness, Assessments, Accommodations, Elaine Ruth Lewis
Theses Digitization Project
The purpose of the project is to construct a handbook for pre-school, elementary and middle school teachers that will provide the information essential in developing an awareness of the signs and symptoms of a traumatic brain related to a ocular motor injury. Also included in the handbook are recommended assessments and accommodations that can be utilized in the management of PTVS.
The San Gorgonio Wilderness: A History Of Human Presence And Implications For Management, Cynthia Jeanne Holman
The San Gorgonio Wilderness: A History Of Human Presence And Implications For Management, Cynthia Jeanne Holman
Theses Digitization Project
The San Gorgonio Wilderness in Southern California is surrounded on three sides by roads, and receives thousands of visitors each year. Its character as a wilderness is threatened by the large populations of people nearby, as well as the humans who venture into its boundaries. This project outlines the history of human presence in the Wilderness, and describes the impact of that presence. There is a discussion of attempts by various organizations to mitigate that impact, and deal with the increasing numbers of visitors. The project concludes with predictions and suggestions for the future of the San Gorgonio Wilderness.
An Elementary Habitat Curriculum For The Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve, Linda Jan Matthews
An Elementary Habitat Curriculum For The Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve, Linda Jan Matthews
Theses Digitization Project
This place-based curriculum, developed to address the alienation that children often feel from the natural environment around them, is an inquiry-based, hands-on teaching module for third and fourth grade children. It is designed around a one-day field trip to vernal pool habitat at the Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve. Three pre-visit and three post-visit lessons are included. The lessons enable students to acquire required California academic content standards, and also incorporate education principles stated in California's Education and the Environment Initiative.
Career Development Curriculum For Welfare Recipients, Eileen Jackson Alsina
Career Development Curriculum For Welfare Recipients, Eileen Jackson Alsina
Theses Digitization Project
In this project a four week computer-based career assessment program was developed to equip employable welfare recipients in San Bernardino with the necessary tools to explore, seek, obtain, and maintain employment that is self-sustaining. The first three weeks of the curriculum addresses major areas of career development, while the last week focuses on job searching.
Development Of A Usable Website For An Electric Motorboat Drag Racing Physics Project, Reno Don Barry
Development Of A Usable Website For An Electric Motorboat Drag Racing Physics Project, Reno Don Barry
Theses Digitization Project
The project developed a web site for a high school physics projected called "Electric Motorboat Drag Racing." The web site was produced following the ADDIE instructional design model (analyze, design, develop, implement, evaluate) and was designed using key usability concepts identified through research: speed, content, appearance, and navigation (SCAN). The web site was developed and tested by asking experts for their feedback and by having participants use the web site. The web site was implemented in physics classrooms and data from 43 participants were evaluated. The data showed 97 percent of the participants' boats successfully completed the five-meter drag race. …
Making Sense Of Nonsense, Violeta Erendira HernáNdez
Making Sense Of Nonsense, Violeta Erendira HernáNdez
Theses Digitization Project
The project focuses on the creation of supplemental teaching materials that can be used to support reading and writing activities in the science content curriculum taught in a bilingual fifth grade classroom. Mediated structures are used to link the curriculum in the language arts with science materials. They are also used to provide depth and complexity to the materials offered by textbooks adopted by the school district. The mediated structures discussed and developed in the project are included.
Narratives In A Drug Court Setting, Anna Catherina Maria Keller
Narratives In A Drug Court Setting, Anna Catherina Maria Keller
Theses Digitization Project
The purpose of the project is to develop and evaluate a writing unit that could be used to teach adult students in a drug court program. The project is based on theories behind narrative therapy, its use in the treatment of persons with addiction problems, and how the reframing of students' own life stories through writing can bring about change. By using writing prompts as both therapeutic and educational tools, the author hoped to improve the students' life-coping skills and their writing abilities. The unit consists of paragraph writing, essay writing, reflective writing that focused on past events, and using …
Activity Theory As A Basis For Negotiation Training In Adult English-As-A-Foreign-Language Instruction, Cheng-Wei Lu
Activity Theory As A Basis For Negotiation Training In Adult English-As-A-Foreign-Language Instruction, Cheng-Wei Lu
Theses Digitization Project
The project offers Taiwanese teachers who work with adults a new concept of teaching crosscultural negotiation skills as part of their EFL instruction. It also presents Taiwanese teachers with a method of analyzing their educational practice to encourage more active and engaged teaching with a useful curriculum and its corresponding assessment.
Moving Traditional Teaching Methods Of Advanced Placement Biology Toward Improving Opportunity For Students To Develop Understanding Of Scientific Principles, Mabell Jeannette Martinez
Moving Traditional Teaching Methods Of Advanced Placement Biology Toward Improving Opportunity For Students To Develop Understanding Of Scientific Principles, Mabell Jeannette Martinez
Theses Digitization Project
This project investigated the role of the advanced placement program in the classroom. The research suggested that implementation of inquiry-based methods in science classrooms, including advanced placement biology courses, would improve student understanding.
Boys And Literacy: Disengaging From Reading, Barbara Ann Ell
Boys And Literacy: Disengaging From Reading, Barbara Ann Ell
Theses Digitization Project
This quantitative study investigates the disparity that exists between girls and boys and how changes can be implemented to keep boys from disengaging from reading. It examines the reading materials that are available to increase boys' interest in reading and discusses ways in which teachers can develop programs and parents can take action to change boys reading habits. The study employed teacher surveys and student surveys from sixth grade boys in three San Bernardino middle schools.
Using Project Glad Strategies In The Teaching Of Literacy Genres To Second Grade Bilingual Students, Socorro Arellano
Using Project Glad Strategies In The Teaching Of Literacy Genres To Second Grade Bilingual Students, Socorro Arellano
Theses Digitization Project
The project provides second grade teachers at the Perris Elementary School District with teaching approaches, tools, and strategies that have been proven to increase comprehension skills in English language learners (ELL) when teaching literary genres. Project GLAD (Guided Language Acquisition Design) offers an alternative curriculum to the scripted curriculum as required by the No Child Left Behind Act.
A New Model Of Evolution Education For Middle School Science, Walter Lee Owen
A New Model Of Evolution Education For Middle School Science, Walter Lee Owen
Theses Digitization Project
Proposes a new model for teaching inquiry and critical thinking in the middle school science classroom. This model will assist students in learning the evidence for evolution for themselves, as well as assisting them in developing skills in critical thinking and inquiry. The objective of this model is to create a more scientifically literate student body who can go on to pursue an even greater understanding of the nature of science.
Writing And Metacognition: Empowering Young Authors In The Writing Workshop, Suzanne Gagne Cooke
Writing And Metacognition: Empowering Young Authors In The Writing Workshop, Suzanne Gagne Cooke
Theses Digitization Project
The purpose of this study is to find out if teaching the students how to use the writing process will improve the content of their work.