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Revisiting Rural Education Access, Elizabeth Wargo, Ian Hoke
Revisiting Rural Education Access, Elizabeth Wargo, Ian Hoke
Educational Considerations
Drawing on a contemporary construction of rurality, which acknowledges rural education amplified by technology, we capture two examples where online mathematics resources were used in a rural middle school setting. As such we examine issues and consider rural education access as it is changed with technology towards a more nuanced understanding of rural contexts necessary to inform future rural education policy, practice, and research.
Redesigning Literacy: Our Story, Johannah D. Baugher, Victoria Seeger
Redesigning Literacy: Our Story, Johannah D. Baugher, Victoria Seeger
Educational Considerations
This manuscript details efforts to redesign a graduate literacy program guided by two, full-time faculty members to better meet candidates’ needs in an online learning environment supported with relevant and current curricula. Through professional literature, intentional curriculum, and authentic field experiences, program coursework is closely linked, easily allowing candidates to see and experience relationships across course content, better aligning with K-12 instructional practices. As a result of candidates’ completion of this program, they are steeped in best literacy practices and interventions, which equip them to celebrate their autonomy in philosophical beliefs as it relates to their identity as a literacy …
An Alternative Pathway To Elementary Teaching, Lotta Larson, Tom Vontz
An Alternative Pathway To Elementary Teaching, Lotta Larson, Tom Vontz
Educational Considerations
This article describes an alternative pathway to elementary teaching through the MAT online program at Kansas State University.