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Pre-Service General Education Teachers' Attitudes On The Education Of English Language Learners, Rachel Margaret Zidon
Pre-Service General Education Teachers' Attitudes On The Education Of English Language Learners, Rachel Margaret Zidon
Honors Program Theses
Although increasing numbers of English Language Learners (ELLs) are joining native English speaking peers in general education classrooms, little research has been conducted to investigate general education teachers' preparation to work with ELLs in a classroom setting or their attitudes toward teaching ELLs. This research surveyed 260 pre-service general education teachers at a mid-sized university in the Midwest to explore their perceptions in the following areas: (1) their level of training and perceived preparedness to work with ELLs, (2) accommodations they would make for ELLs, (3) their expectations for ELLs, and (4) their attitudes toward including ELLs in general education …
Master Students' Perception Of Informal Faculty Mentoring : An Explorative Investigation, Nangai Yang
Master Students' Perception Of Informal Faculty Mentoring : An Explorative Investigation, Nangai Yang
Dissertations and Theses @ UNI
Originated from Mentor, a wise counselor to Ulysses and then teacher and protector to Ulysses' son Telemachus in Homer's Odyssey, the word mentoring now means teacher, advisor, sponsor and role model (Jacobi, 1991). The mentoring literature now characterizes this type of mentoring as informal or traditional mentoring that has been found to be very beneficial to doctoral students (Heinrich, 1995; Holland, 1995; Lyons, Scroggins & Rule, 1990; Schlosser, Knox, Moskovitz, & Hill, 2003). The purpose of this study was to investigate informal faculty mentoring at the master's degree level, namely the extent to which informal faculty mentoring activities were …