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Twenty-First Century Skill Building For Homeschooled Students With Special Needs, Jami M. Tipton Sep 2021

Twenty-First Century Skill Building For Homeschooled Students With Special Needs, Jami M. Tipton

Journal of Educational Research and Practice

Although problem-based learning (PBL) is not new, the ways in which homeschool teachers use attributes of PBL with their students with special needs is unknown. Posts were collected from 20 homeschool teachers’ blogs. After I coded 87 blog posts, results showed that homeschool teachers provided a variety of opportunities for their students to practice 21st-century skills. Specifically, they developed lessons that encouraged students to share what they learned and developed cross-disciplinary content, most often with language arts. Results may provide insights for homeschool teachers interested in more purposefully implementing PBL experiences with the purpose of teaching 21st-century skills.


Understanding Western Pacific Teachers’ Perceptions And Experiences Implementing Technology In The Classroom, Roque Castro Indalecio Jan 2021

Understanding Western Pacific Teachers’ Perceptions And Experiences Implementing Technology In The Classroom, Roque Castro Indalecio

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

At a Western Pacific Region school district with six public high schools, district administrators implemented an educational technology training program (ETTP) to improve technology integration in the classroom as measured by the Effective Learning Environments Observation Tool, but there was no follow-up to determine how the teachers perceived the ETTP and to identify the experiences of teachers related to instructional technology after taking the district training. This basic qualitative study, guided by the technology acceptance model, addressed this problem in the district by exploring how the teachers perceived the technology professional development program provided by the district and the teachers’ …


Exploring Destination Imagination Alumni Perceptions Of 21st-Century Skills And Workforce Readiness, Sharon Kovalevsky Jan 2020

Exploring Destination Imagination Alumni Perceptions Of 21st-Century Skills And Workforce Readiness, Sharon Kovalevsky

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Workplace requirements are vastly different from the past due to rapid changes in technology and globalization, and they require graduates to have well-developed 21st-century skills and innovation strategies. The problem addressed in this study was the lack of understanding of how 21st-century skills that alumni learned through academic extracurricular experiences informed their early career and workforce readiness. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore how Destination Imagination (DI) alumni perceived that the 21st-century skills they learned as part of their academic extracurricular experiences informed their early career readiness. The study was grounded by the 3 constructs of work …