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Professional Development For Educators In Order To Support English Learner Students From Oral Cultures, Xue Xiong
School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Projects
This capstone project addresses the question, How can I create professional development for educators in order to support English Learner (EL) students from oral cultures? This project uses a series of frameworks and theories to provide the best comprehensive two-part professional development for educators supporting EL students from oral cultures. It is tailored to educators by recognizing their unique needs as adult learners who receive ongoing training in their field. By catering to adult learners and drawing from both EL best practices and culturally responsive teaching, this professional development offers educators insight and tools to implement when working with EL …
Using Multicultural Literature To Teach Grammar To English Learners, Laura Anderson
Using Multicultural Literature To Teach Grammar To English Learners, Laura Anderson
School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Projects
The research question addressed in this project was, What are the implications for using multicultural literature as mentor texts to teach academic English language grammar structures in an elementary setting? The author describes her past personal and professional experiences as a student and teacher that led her to developing this research question. Then, the author reviews professional literature on the topics of multicultural literature, best practices in teaching ESL, and culturally responsive teaching to connect each topic to the research focus. Next, the author describes the project, which is a curricular unit of ten lessons teaching prepositions to second grade …
Crt And Educational Equity: Professional Development At The High School Level, Jessica Carlson
Crt And Educational Equity: Professional Development At The High School Level, Jessica Carlson
School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Projects
The research question addressed in this project was, how can I create professional development designed to help teachers implement culturally responsive pedagogy in the classroom? It documents one teacher’s creation of a 20 week, 10 module, professional development surrounding the topic of culturally responsive teaching. The project and paper integrate combined knowledge of culturally responsive teaching, best practices for teaching adults, best practices for enacting effective professional development, as well as instructions for deep and thoughtful reflection. The author documents the details of the creation of the professional development sessions as well as the literature and research methods involved. She …
How Might I Increase And Maintain Student Engagement Through Culturally Responsive Practices, Kristen Hitchens
How Might I Increase And Maintain Student Engagement Through Culturally Responsive Practices, Kristen Hitchens
School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Projects
Many school communities are beginning to change and the student achievement gap is growing larger and larger for children in minority groups. As the student population changes, teachers may want to consider facilitating a Culturally Responsive framework for the benefit of all diverse learners in their classrooms to increase their engagement. Thus, moving many steps closer to closing the achievement gap. As I initiated a Culturally Responsive Practices into my third grade classroom, I found there was more student engagement because they were given choice and voice and were held to high classroom expectations and educational standards. This capstone encompasses …
Culturally Responsive Teaching: A Professional Development Project, Rebecca Foster
Culturally Responsive Teaching: A Professional Development Project, Rebecca Foster
School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Projects
Why does culture play such an important role in education? Can culturally responsive teaching positively affect elementary student behavior and academic effort? It is imperative that students and teachers know each other beyond the subjective cultural experiences that each may bring to the classroom, and that educators possess an understanding of diverse cultures but not stereotype people into a one-size-fits-all cultural mold. Students need to be related to as full, complex, multidimensional people. It is more important now than ever to focus on student culture and learning differences. The political environment has changed so drastically in the last few years …
Engaging, Supporting, And Scaffolding Instruction For Students With Limited Or Interrupted Formal Education (Slife), Frances Christensen
Engaging, Supporting, And Scaffolding Instruction For Students With Limited Or Interrupted Formal Education (Slife), Frances Christensen
School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Projects
The central research question of this capstone project was How can English learners with limited or interrupted formal education best be supported at the secondary level? Students with limited or interrupted formal education (SLIFE) have unique needs that differ from other English learners. As more English learners with limited or interrupted formal education enter U.S. middle and high schools, it has become increasingly important to consider how to best serve this student population. The author conducted a review of the literature on SLIFE and examined best practices for teaching SLIFE. Although SLIFE have needs that differ from other English learners, …
Creating Smart Board Activities To Engage Students’ Learning In Chinese Immersion Kindergarten, Wenting Qiang
Creating Smart Board Activities To Engage Students’ Learning In Chinese Immersion Kindergarten, Wenting Qiang
School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Projects
The research question addressed in this capstone is How to create SMART Board activities to engage students’ learning in Chinese immersion kindergarten. Through literature review and my personal experience as a Chinese immersion kindergarten, I find that SMART Board offers very interactive activities that can be very beneficial to young children in learning. That to be said, SMART Board has transformed a typical classroom into a stimulating and encouraging learning environment. The project for this research is a website of SMART Board activities that can be used and shared among Chinese immersion teachers, as well as students and parents who …
Best Practices And Culture Change In Two-Way Immersion Through The Use Of An Action Plan, Kimberly Johnson
Best Practices And Culture Change In Two-Way Immersion Through The Use Of An Action Plan, Kimberly Johnson
School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Projects
This project consists of an action plan developed for the purpose of guiding planning committees through the process of implementing a two-way immersion program rooted in best practices. The action plan lays out important key components that must be addressed within a two-way immersion program that is in its second year of implementation. It also provides a timeline for project completion, a section for action items to be addressed, sections to determine who is responsible for implementation of the action items and who will monitor the implementation of the items, and research to support the need for the program components …
Adapting Project-Based Learning For English-Language Learners In Middle-School Social Studies, Maria May
Adapting Project-Based Learning For English-Language Learners In Middle-School Social Studies, Maria May
School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Projects
This research project addresses the question, how can Project-Based Learning (PBL) be adapted to enhance middle school social studies lessons and learning outcomes for English Language Learners and other struggling students? It reviews theory and practice for middle-school social studies teachers to invite ELLs and others reading below grade level into authentic PBL. Supports for PBL should include effective language acquisition scaffolds like Guided Language Acquisition Design (GLAD) and content engagement through non-text, multimedia strategies like Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) to invite students into deeper critical thinking and rigorous collaborative projects. Research connections are made to constructivist theories of Dewey …
Do You Have A Learning Disability?: Exploring The Experiences Of Hmong Students With Special Needs In A Public Hmong Charter School, Vang Xiong
School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Theses and Dissertations
Special education has been criticized for the practice of over-representing culturally and linguistically diverse students in special education programs. Asian American students appeared to be immune to this problem. However, when the demographics of the Asian racial group are disaggregated into individual Asian ethnic groups, there is evident of disproportionality. The purpose of the study was to explore how a charter school, serving predominantly Hmong students, addresses the issue of disproportionality pertaining to the Hmong population. Through an ethnographic research approach, the researcher engaged in participant-observation, interviewing three tenth-grade, Hmong male students, and five school staff members. The researcher found …
Implementing Multicultural Curriculum In A Metro Area Middle School 6th Grade Minnesota Studies Class, Megan De La Forest
Implementing Multicultural Curriculum In A Metro Area Middle School 6th Grade Minnesota Studies Class, Megan De La Forest
School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Projects
As the United States is becoming more diverse, so are our classrooms. Experts in the field of multicultural education agree that educators need to consider multiple perspectives, while teaching, in order to develop meaningful curriculum for all students. Therefore, the researcher aimed to design curriculum that supports the benefits of multicultural education and answers the research question: How can I change the current 6th grade Minnesota Studies curriculum to meet the needs of the changing, diverse population in a metro area middle school? The author shares of her personal experiences related to multiculturalism, which lacked diversity during her school career. …
How Social Studies Curriculum Can Help Spanish Immersion Students To Develop And Improve Their Grammar And Language Skills, Juan Perona
School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Projects
The purpose of the project is to develop examples of activities and lessons within the regular social studies curriculum of Spanish immersion students in middle school that reinforce Spanish language skills that most of these students seen to struggle to master. The rationale of the project came from the observations of the author of the language skills of Spanish immersion students in middle school, in which he notice that, although their communication and understanding skills were very advanced, the students have gaps in language areas like specific grammar concepts, and develop academic Spanish language. The literature review major studies on …
Creating A Data Structure Of Culturally Relevant Literature For Use In Middle School, Courtney Ramirez
Creating A Data Structure Of Culturally Relevant Literature For Use In Middle School, Courtney Ramirez
School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Projects
The research question for this capstone is: What tools will help teachers and students access culturally relevant classroom materials for middle school students? It reports on the process of one teacher creating a web-based data structure for categorizing books based on the following categories: race/ethnicity, gender/sexual orientation, religion, socio-economic status, and nationality. The literature review explores Culturally Relevant Pedagogy (CRP), especially as it relates to literacy, and the need for diversity in young adult literature. The project is heavily influenced by Ladson-Billings’ ideas about culturally relevant teaching practices and literature. The methods used for the creation of the project are …
Text Sets For Social Justice, Jessica Buck
Text Sets For Social Justice, Jessica Buck
School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Projects
Secondary students diagnosed as having an Emotional/Behavioral Disorder (EBD) are at an increased risk of performing below grade level in reading. The author explored the question of: How can EBD middle school students use social justice themes to develop critical literacy skills? Texts with social justice themes can increase engagement and motivation in reading, which may lead to an increased development of critical literacy skills. This capstone addressed the need, as revealed in the literature review, that secondary EBD classrooms have to be afforded opportunities to engage with multi-modal texts that reflect diverse and multiple perspectives, as well as explore …
What Are The Ways Do K-12 Public School Systems And Teacher Training Programs Contribute To The Exploitation Of Black Educators; What Political, Cultural And Economic Ends Does This Serve? How Does The Current Treatment And Deployment Of Black Educators Hamper Rather Than Further Black Educational Progress?, Donald W.R Allen Ii
School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Projects
This Capstone Research Project: What are the ways do K-12 public school systems and teacher training programs contribute to the exploitation of black educators; what political, cultural and economic ends does this serve? How does the current treatment and deployment of black educators hamper rather than further black educational progress, is the first step into examining the K-12 teacher training programs in Minnesota and across the United States. I allege that University-based teacher training programs and school districts are in need of a reset for their rejection and racist extortion of the black educator that tends to center and reify …