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2006 University Employee Service Recognition Program, Western Michigan University

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Under Pressure: Controlling Factors Faced By Classroom Literacy Teachers As They Work Through A Professional Development Program, Faith H. Wallace

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

This critical constructivist inquiry was designed to understand controlling factors faced by classroom literacy teachers involved in a professional development program. Two guiding questions framed this critical inquiry: (1) how can I describe controlling factors faced by teachers in their respective school cultures and (2) what is the resultant impact of these controlling factors on the teachers' classroom instruction. Findings indicated that participants felt pressure to conform to a particular school philosophy, but empowered themselves by solidifying their own philosophies of instruction.

Broadening Our View About Technology Integration: Three Literacy Educators' Perspectives, Shelley B. Wepner, Liqing Tao, Nancy M. Ziomek

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

What can we realistically expect teacher educators to do with technology, given the contexts in which they find themselves, the skills that they bring to their contexts, and the changes that they would need to make? We attempt to answer this question through three self-studies as we integrated technology into methods courses and student teaching supervision. Data sources included reflective journals, lesson plans, observations, and interviews. Pre-established categories and constant comparative method were used to analyze the data. Three common themes emerged (the issue of technology integration; the interdependence of skills, responsibilities, and context; and the mediation of context) that …

Id Hysteria Says More About Some People's Freudian 'Id' Than About Science, William W. Cobern

Scientific Literacy and Cultural Studies Project

One of the dumbest things I have ever heard from an otherwise intelligent person came not quite a decade ago and from astronomer Alan Hale commenting on the Heaven’s Gate mass suicide (Hale, 1997). It is silly enough that he thought that his personal encounters with a few psychotic speculators regarding the Hale-Bopp comet represented a commonly held view of comets; but no, we learn from Alan Hale that the real reason 39 people in the Heaven’s Gate cult committed suicide is that they were ignorant and superstitious. They apparently didn’t know that after all a comet is nothing more …

Western Michigan University Undergraduate Catalog 2006-2007, Western Michigan University

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Panels On Assessment, Training, Help, And Support At Wmu For 2006-07, Office Of Assessment And Undergraduate Studies

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Fact Book 2006-07, Western Michigan University

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Western Michigan University Graduate Catalog 2006-2007, Western Michigan University

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Reading Horizons Vol. 46 No. 3

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

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Increasing Fluency In Disabled Middle School Readers: Repeated Reading Utilizing Above Grade Level Reading Passages, David D. Paige

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

This study examined the effects of repeated reading using above grade level narrative passages on: (a) reading rate as measured in words per minute (wpm) and (b) reading miscues. A single group, pretest-post-test design was used to measure the treatment effects. The study group consisted of 11, sixth grade African-American students with learning disabilities who received language arts instruction in a self-contained special education setting. A pretest- post-test measurement was conducted using the Flynt-Cooter Reading Inventory for the Classroom to measure reading level and reading rate. The study results suggest that for the classroom teacher, daily, extended use of a …

Development Of Literacy Beliefs And Practices: Preservice Teachers With Reading Specializations In A Field-Based Program, Wayne M. Linek, Mary Beth Sampson, I. Laverne Raine, Kimberly Klakamp, Brenda Smith

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

This manuscript documents a year-long descriptive case study of preservice teachers specializing in reading. The objectives of this study were to (a) better understand the development of literacy beliefs and change processes in preservice teachers with reading specializations engaged in the final year of their field-based teacher education program, and (b) ascertain factors influencing their change processes during the final year of preparation. The results highlight the shifts these preservice teachers made concerning their beliefs about literacy instruction and the factors that served as catalysts for those changes.

Prism #12, January 2006, Office Of The Provost

Prism: Western Michigan University's Newsletter for Academic Affairs

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