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How To Promote Education For Sustainable Development? Vision Of The Educational Situation And Its Contribution To Sustainable Development., Khalid Aada

Writing and Language Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations

During the last decade, the importance of leaving a rational paradigm, debtor of functionalist and utilitarian models, towards another more congruent with the preservation of natural resources, and therefore of life, has been widely discussed. In the same way, different voices have been raised, pointing out the urgency of inserting these precepts into the educational field, hoping to achieve the true cultural transformation that is needed to consolidate the change. Multiple International Entities promote sustainability in Education as an initiative that should be ambitious, complex and reforming character, given the global scope of the social, economic and environmental situation affecting …

The Digital Reading Experiences Of Middle School Readers: A Phenomenological Study, Laura A. Hayward

Theses and Dissertations

Reading digitally is part of the 21st century New Literacies, residing in the curriculum as a comprehension skill developed with print reading skills. Differences exist between purpose of digital reading and print reading, manifested in the association of digital reading as a mostly non-fiction genre, the immediacy to digital information and its relevance to a reader’s decision about the usefulness of the information. Contrastingly, print reading can be fiction or non-fiction with access to all the text. The differences suggest that learning focused on immediate evaluation, synthesis, and application of information while reading digitally should be taught in the context …

Cultural Clashes And Cultural Bridges: My Story In Afghanistan, Joe A. Hinojosa Jr.

Theses and Dissertations

Narrative inquiry and grounded theory are the methodology used to tell the story of the researcher’s experiences in Afghanistan. This entailed identifying and researching a process of storytelling and weaving experiences together into a coherent and meaningful whole. The narrative inquiry method is appropriate for this project because the critical sources of data consist of the researcher’s perceptions and experiences in Afghanistan, as reported in the form of narrative stories. This qualitative analysis focuses on examining and interpreting concrete pieces of evidence, formulating quantitative analysis along with sharing personal and professional experiences. To that end, external resources, including letters and …

Educator Perspectives Of High-Stakes Testing In An Urban School District In Deep South Texas, Sergio R. Garcia

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to explore how the high-stakes testing setting and the state assessments have influenced elementary teachers and other school professionals’ approach to preparing students for standardized tests. Policymakers and the public see standardized tests as simple quantifiable measures of school quality and student learning. They assume that high stakes tests will influence teachers and students to try harder and that the results will be used rationally to benefit all students.

Fredrick Herzberg’s Motivation-Hygiene Theory was used as a framework for this research. Study participants included nine experienced elementary school educators in a large urban district …

Investigating The Use And Effectiveness Of The Istation Advanced Reading Program With Fourth-Grade At-Risk Struggling Readers, Andres Martinez

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of computer-based-instruction (CBI) and multimedia when used as an intervention with upper elementary students experiencing reading difficulties on the State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness (STAAR) Reading Assessments. The researcher employed a quantitative, causal-comparative research design for this study. A Texas supplemental reading program, the Istation Advanced Reading Program, was used as a Response to Intervention (RTI) for those at-risk students of failing their Reading STAAR Test in the fourth grade and to sustain an effective reading program district-wide.

Archived data was collected from three South Texas Title I …

Identity Fluidity, Empowerment, And Engendered Poverty: Performing A Veteran-Latina-Online-Graduate Student, Maricela Burns

Theses and Dissertations

The goal of this project is to use critical race theory and gendered discourse to shed light on engendered poverty, cultural capital and resilience in efforts to identify how the American educational system affects marginalized groups when the systems of power and privilege were not created for them. It is through a poignant narrative of one of these students (myself) in the educational system that I reflect, recollect, write and interweave my lived curriculum with what the literature says about ethnic experiences like mine. The efforts here serve to analyze the processes of constructing and building social and gender identity …

An Examination Of Professional Learning Community And Teacher Leadership Practices As Perceived By Educators In A District-Wide Plc, Melissa Castaneda

Theses and Dissertations

This quantitative research explored the correlational and causal analysis between professional learning community (PLC) and teacher leadership, as well as the demographic and capacity-building variables and dimensions of the PLCA-R and TLSS instruments as perceived by educators in an identified emergent district-wide PLC (Lopez, 2015) located in south Texas. The overarching question focused on examining the associations between professional learning communities (PLCs) and teacher leadership in South Central ISD (pseudonym).

The findings lend support to the notion that teacher leadership and PLCs are correlated concepts, and further establish that a healthy school culture embraces and empowers teachers by providing professional …

A Critical Bricoleur Assumes Positive Intent: Pablito's Problem, Paul Perez-Jimenez

Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation serves to further critical theory research through bricolage autoethnography of a Latinx English teacher from the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. The bricolage functions to unify reflective constructs that expose an emancipatory catharsis and painful reacquaintance with individual and cultural identity. This project offers the concept of a happening as a construct embedded with the ongoing, reflective, and liberating critical consciousness process. Four happenings are offered and establish that the dichotomies of oppression and liberation, how they happened, are happening or may happen are not easily recognizable unless critical introspection is involved. The leading happening titled Pablito’s Problem …

Elementary Statistics Instructors' Uptake Of The Teaching Practices Recommended By The American Statistical Association, Marisol Sanchez Cortez

Theses and Dissertations

Previous studies point out there has been a wide gap, in the teaching of mathematics, between the practices recommended in the credential programs and the practices teachers actually do. The purpose of this study is to explore how consistent the teaching practices of introductory statistics instructors are to the recommendations endorsed by the American Statistical Association, to understand what their attitudes to the gap are, and to identify the factors that prevent the instructors from implementing the recommended practices. Data were collected from nine statistics instructors at a state university through survey, classroom observations, and interviews. Findings indicate that the …

Unidad Didáctica, Ciencias Sociales, Quinto, Jill Swanson

Fall Workshop October 2019

Competencias y Aptitudes Esenciales del Estado de Texas (TEKS, por sus siglas en inglés): 1.A, 6.A, 17.D, 22A, 23.C, 24.B, 24.C

Objetivos de la lección: 1. Comprender las causas y los efectos de la colonización europea en los Estados Unidos. a. Causas y efectos para los europeos. b. Causas y efectos para los indígenas americanos. 2. Cómo leer una cronología. 3. Usar las matemáticas para trazar las coordenadas geográficas.

Diferenciación de estrategias para necesidades específicas de un estudiantado diverso: Participación: entrevistar a familiares. Hacer que los alumnos entrevisten a los miembros de la familia de mayor edad. Establecer un diálogo …

Lesson Plan, U.S. History, 11th Grade, Bernice Barrón, Albert Guerrero

Fall Workshop October 2019

TEKS: 6A Analyze Causes and Effects of Events and Social issues such as immigration, eugenics, race relations, nativism, the Red Scare, prohibition, and the changing role of women.

Lesson objective(s): 1. Changing Role of Women 2. The Twenties Woman Flapper 3. Amelia Earhart

Differentiation strategies to meet diverse learner needs:+Power point Lecture +Visuals +video clips (to simplify what students process while learning)

Using Inquiry In Teacher Professional Learning To Build Efficacy For Writing Instruction, Jacqueline B. Koonce, Melissa Brooks-Yip, Kathleen Gibson

Bilingual and Literacy Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations

Whitacre (2019) and Curtis (2017) found that participants’ efficacy impacted their writing instruction and ability to engage students. We share our experiences with a professional development program aimed to improve teacher efficacy and literacy of elementary teachers. In this professional learning network, the Study of Early Literacy (SOEL), a higher percentage of teachers reported to a Hanover Research survey that they felt less confident in teaching writing than other areas of literacy. To address this need, one of the authors developed a subgroup to specifically address the teaching of writing with an inquiry-based action research component. Most of the teachers …

Lesson Plan, World History, High School, Romeo D. Revuelta

Fall Workshop October 2019

TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills): - APUSH Key Concept 1.1

Lesson objective(s): 1.Identify the Olmec and Anasazi civilizations. 2.Describe the achievements of the two civilizations. 3.Evaluate the similarities and differences of the Olmec and Anasazi.

Differentiation strategies to meet diverse learner needs: -Teacher will model and explain the visual resources. -Students will create and personalize their venn diagrams.

Lesson Plan, Social Studies, 5th Grade, Jill Swanson

Fall Workshop October 2019

TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills): 1.A, 6.A, 17.D, 22A, 23.C, 24.B, 24.C

Lesson objective(s): 1.To understand the causes and effects of European colonization in the United States A. European cause and effect B. Indigenous People cause and effect. 2.How to read a timeline 3.Mapping Coordinates (Math)

Differentiation strategies to meet diverse learner needs: Engagement: Family Interview: Have students interview the oldest family members possible. Use class discussion to form the list of questions for the interview. (Ensure that location is one of the interview questions) Have a map where students can place a marker to display where their family …

Lesson Plan, Social Studies, 5th Grade, Johana Reséndez

Fall Workshop October 2019

TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills): 4 G(S)-Science Reading comprehension

Lesson objective(s): 1. Agave plants grow. 2. Properties of soil gives nutrients 3. Rio Grande Valley (RGV) agave plant is native. (The tequila worm novel)

Differentiation strategies to meet diverse learner needs: Use nearpod so students can be able to collaborate, draw and record the answers in reflection of their learning

Lesson Plan, Geography, 1st Grade, Baleria Magaña

Fall Workshop October 2019

TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills): 6A: identify and describe the physical characteristics of place such as landforms, bodies of water, natural resources and weather SA: create and use simple maps of the community 14A: locate places using the four cardinal directions

Lesson objective(s): 1. The learner will identify a body of water that is on the side of the Santa Ana Wildlife Refuge. 2. The learner will identify that the body of water is located to the South of the Santa Ana Wildlife 3. The learner will be able to locate The Santa Ana Wildlife Refuge on a map. …

Physical Violence And Vulnerable Adolescents: The Roles Of School Climate And Presence Of Similar Peers, Igor Ryabov

Sociology Faculty Publications and Presentations

Using nationally representative data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (a.k.a., Add Health), this study examines the impact of school climate and share of vulnerable groups of students on self-perceived discrimination and violence involvement in high school. Violence involvement is operationalized as victimization and perpetration of physical violence. Five categories of vulnerability status are analyzed: the emotionally disabled, learning disabled, physically disabled, obese and LGB. Results suggest that relatively higher odds of violence involvement for individuals who were members of vulnerable groups as adolescents are fully explained by school climate and an extensive set of individual-level controls. While …

Lesson Plan, U.S. History, 8th Grade, Luis Sandoval

Fall Workshop October 2019

TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills): 8.1 A, 8.29, 8.30

Lesson objective(s): 1. How humans interact with the environment

Differentiation strategies to meet diverse learner needs: -Ready for the Honors/GTS -Pictures & videos

Precolumbian History, Part 1 People Of Antiquity​ Olmecs To Mayas, Servando Z. Hinojosa

Fall Workshop October 2019

No abstract provided.

Historia Precolombina​ 1a. Parte ​Pueblos De La Antigüedad De Los Olmecas A Los Mayas​, Servando Z. Hinojosa

Fall Workshop October 2019

No abstract provided.

Perspectives On The Lower Rio Grande: Archeology, Linguistics And Ethnohistory (Native American Settlement And Immigration On The Delta), Martín Salinas Rivera

Fall Workshop October 2019

No abstract provided.

Visión Arqueológica, Lingüística, Etnohistórica Y De La Inmigración Indígena Del Delta Del Rio Grande O Bravo [Perspectives On The Lower Rio Grande: Archaelogy, Liguistics And Ethnohistory (Indian Settlement And Immigration)]​, Martín Salinas Rivera

Fall Workshop October 2019

No abstract provided.

Lesson Plan, U.S. History, 11th Grade, Ana Patricia González

Fall Workshop October 2019

TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills): Grade 5- 8A,8B,8C,9A,9B,25A,25C,25D,25E

Lesson objective(s): 1. Explain the reasons for nomadic lifestyles. 2. Explain the route nomads took. 3. Describe the groups that settled in the Rio Grande Valley (RGV) and N.E Mexico

Differentiation strategies to meet diverse learner needs: -Visuals- maps-color them -Cognates -Highlighted text

Unidad Didáctica, Historia De Ee.Uu., Undécimo, Ana Patricia González

Fall Workshop October 2019

Competencias y Aptitudes Esenciales del Estado de Texas (TEKS, por sus siglas en inglés): Grade 5- 8A, 8B, 8C, 9A, 9B, 25A, 25C, 25D, 25E

Objetivos de la lección: 1. Explicar las causas de los estilos de vida nómada. 2. Explicar las rutas que tomaron. 3. Describir a los grupos que se asentaron en El Valle del Río Grande y en el Noreste de México.

Diferenciación de estrategias para necesidades específicas de un estudiantado diverso: Herramientas visuales: colorear mapas. Cognados. Texto destacado.

Unidad Didáctica, Historia Universal, Preparatoria, Romeo D. Revuelta

Fall Workshop October 2019

Competencias y Aptitudes Esenciales del Estado de Texas (TEKS, por sus siglas en inglés): APUSH: 1.1 concepto fundamenta

Objetivos de la lección: 1. Identificar las civilizaciones olmeca y anasazi. 2. Describir los logros de sendas civilizaciones. 3. Evaluar las similitudes y diferencias entre los olmecas y los anasazi.

Diferenciación de estrategias para necesidades específicas de un estudiantado diverso: El docente proporcionará recursos visuales y los explicará. Los alumnos confeccionarán y personalizarán sus diagramas de Venn.

Lesson Plan, World History, 6th Grade, Sylvia Rodríguez

Fall Workshop October 2019

TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills): 6.3A identify and Explain geographic factors responsible for patterns of population in places and regions 6.15A Identify and describe means of cultural diffusion such as trade, travel, and war 6.13A Identify and describe common traits that define and culture and culture region.

Lesson objective(s): 1. The learner will (TLW) analyze and explain the similarities and differences between the Olmec, Maya and Aztecs. 2. TLW explain the geographic factors responsible for the settlement of the Olmec, Maya and Aztecs.

Differentiation strategies to meet diverse learner needs: Provide Visuals Positive Reinforcement Peer Support Teacher Support

Lesson Plan, U.S. History, 8th Grade, Emma Montiel

Fall Workshop October 2019

TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills) 10A • LOCATE PLACES AND REGIONS OF IMPORTANCE IN THE United States 10B - Compare places and regions of the United States in terms of physical and human characteristics, 30A - Use Social Studies terminology correctly.

Lesson objective(s): 1. The Learner will (TLW) describe the Rio Grande River and compare the river at the Port of Entry to the river as viewed at Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge 2. TLW list the impact the Rio Grande River had on Native People of the area 3. TLW complete a chart of edible and nonedible food …

Lesson Plan, U.S. History, 8th Grade, George Saldaña

Fall Workshop October 2019

TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills): 1A

Lesson objective(s): How humans interact with the environment 1. Google maps

Differentiation strategies to meet diverse learner needs: Pics and videos

Unidad Didáctica, Historia De Estados Unidos, Octavo, George Saldaña

Fall Workshop October 2019

Materiales: Mapas, lápices de colores, papel, lectura de texto.

Competencias y Aptitudes Esenciales del Estado de Texas (TEKS, por sus siglas en inglés): 1A

Objetivos de la lección: ¿Cómo interactúan los seres humanos con el medio ambiente? 1. Google Maps.

Unidad Didáctica, Historia De Los Estados Unidos, Octavo, Luis Sandoval

Fall Workshop October 2019

Competencias y Aptitudes Esenciales del Estado de Texas (TEKS, por sus siglas en inglés): 8.1 A, 8.29, 8.30

Objetivos de la lección: 1. Cómo interactúan los seres humanos con el medioambiente.

Diferenciación de estrategias para necesidades específicas de un estudiantado diverso: -Listo para los alumnos de cuadro de honor y estudiantes con talentos avanzados. -Fotografías y videos.