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Editorial Introduction, Catherine F. Compton-Lilly
Editorial Introduction, Catherine F. Compton-Lilly
Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research
Welcome to Volume 16, Number 2 of Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research. I am happy to introduce you to another volume featuring the voices of educators. This issue includes articles that focus on talk in a grade three classroom, first year teachers in science classrooms, pre-service teacher development, action research in a special education classroom, dialogic interactions and reading, the project approach in kindergarten, as well as a short article on action research and first year faculty and a review of Critical Discourse Analysis in Education by Rebecca Rogers.
Promoting Reflective Practices In Special Education Through Action Research: Recommendations From Preservice Teachers, Paula Wenner Conroy
Promoting Reflective Practices In Special Education Through Action Research: Recommendations From Preservice Teachers, Paula Wenner Conroy
Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research
In response to research showing the benefits of reflective practices, many personnel preparation programs have sought ways to help teachers-intraining (pre-service teachers) develop reflective practices in their teaching. This has been done by providing multiple opportunities for reflection and scaffolding within a variety of reflective experiences during extensive field and student teaching practicum experiences (Harford & MacRuairc, 2008). One powerful approach for integrating inquiry into teaching and reflection in practice is action research. The purpose of this article article is to provide a description of an effort by faculty to increase teacher reflection in the preparation program area of special …
How Does Talk Around Reading Influence Comprehension In Third Grade?, Karen Gruhn Tomczak
How Does Talk Around Reading Influence Comprehension In Third Grade?, Karen Gruhn Tomczak
Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research
This study attempts to document the efficacy of peer-support and self-monitoring during partnered reading by third grade students as evidenced by their discourse. Pairs of third grade students engaged in partnered reading in a general education third grade classroom. Their oral reading, coaching and conversations were recorded using i-Pod2s over the course of twenty days. The digital audio recordings were then analyzed to determine if the students employed reading strategies, what types of reading strategies they used, and how other discourse between the students influenced reading behaviors.
Roles Beyond Instruction: Facilitating The Development Of Preservice Teachers, Yvonne Franco
Roles Beyond Instruction: Facilitating The Development Of Preservice Teachers, Yvonne Franco
Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research
Identifying a Signature Pedagogy that ensures high-quality teacher preparation is essential to the field of teacher education, as inconsistencies across programs throughout our country threaten our profession. Drawing on a comprehensive study of the professions, Lee Shulman (2005) provides a lens from which to identify Signature Pedagogy and the underlying experiences that support it, as pedagogies of uncertainty, engagement, and formation. As a teacher-educator, this action research study examines my efforts in understanding how I can use my knowledge of Signature Pedagogy to design, implement and study practices that facilitate pre-service teachers’ conceptualization of the teacher’s role beyond instruction. Using …
Critical Dialogues About The Reading Process With In-Service Teachers And Children, Koomi Kim, Maria Perpetua Liwanag, Violet Henderson, Peter Duckett
Critical Dialogues About The Reading Process With In-Service Teachers And Children, Koomi Kim, Maria Perpetua Liwanag, Violet Henderson, Peter Duckett
Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research
This article investigates how teacher educators and teachers collaborate via dialogic interactions to support the development of elementary students’ reading strategies. By implementing comprehension-centered reading tools such as the Burke reading interview and strategy rulers in partnership with in-service teachers, we are able to sustain ongoing inquiry and evaluation of effective literacy practices that enhance student learning.
Action Research And Project Approach: Journey Of An Early Childhood Pre-Service Teacher And A Teacher Educator, Ellie Wastin, H. Sophia Han
Action Research And Project Approach: Journey Of An Early Childhood Pre-Service Teacher And A Teacher Educator, Ellie Wastin, H. Sophia Han
Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research
The purpose of this article is to share an action research study conducted by an early childhood pre-service teacher in a Kindergarten classroom. There were dual goals for this action research: (a) to enhance preservice teacher’s questioning and classroom management strategies, and (b) to enhance Kindergarten children’s scientific inquiry and knowledge. A teacher guided mini-project approach was adopted as a main instructional methodology for a ‘Rain and Water Cycle’ project. Using video, we documented self-reflection and feedback. Through this experience, the pre-service teacher gained both knowledge and confidence. At the same time, the Kindergarten children took an active role in …
Action Research As First Year Faculty: Exploring The Path Less Taken, Emily A. Daniels, Maureen Squires
Action Research As First Year Faculty: Exploring The Path Less Taken, Emily A. Daniels, Maureen Squires
Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research
The integration of educational research and practice is essential if any genuine progress is to be achieved in addressing compelling, complex and significant issues in education (Pine, 2009, p. 3). As new faculty members, both authors came to the process of action research through collaboration. The path was a new one that we had previously not explored, one that emerged as we moved forward together. We started down this woody lane with ideas, hopes and flashlights to begin to clarify our work, our ideas, and the needs of our students. We also hoped to illuminate the way for other junior …
Updating Critical Discourse Analysis In Education, Erica Newhouse
Updating Critical Discourse Analysis In Education, Erica Newhouse
Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research
The publication of the second edition of Rogers’ An Introduction to Critical Discourse Analysis in Education is timely and relevant to the current social, political, and educational climate. Rogers’ text provides an in-depth introduction to critical discourse analysis (CDA) in education, an understanding of how the education “crisis” has been constructed, and the possibilities for researchers to use this approach to interrupt these “naturalizations.” This edition reflects changes in the field with the addition of Gunther Kress’ multimodal social semiotic approach to discourse analysis, which opens new areas of investigation and critique.
Shifting The Intellectual Authority In Science Classrooms From Teachers To Students: How Novice Teachers Use Tools To Analyze And Advance Practice, Jessica Thompson, Anna Kramer, Lindsay Carlson, Lindsay Holladay, Bethany Sjoberg
Shifting The Intellectual Authority In Science Classrooms From Teachers To Students: How Novice Teachers Use Tools To Analyze And Advance Practice, Jessica Thompson, Anna Kramer, Lindsay Carlson, Lindsay Holladay, Bethany Sjoberg
Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research
To meet the immense challenges our society faces in areas such as energy, health, and environmental protection, we, as science teachers and teacher educators, need to invest in the creation of classroom cultures that turn the intellectual heavy lifting over to the students while developing students’ identities as competent learners. Our vision is that classrooms are both intellectually rigorous—accountable to important ideas and practices in the discipline—and uncompromisingly responsive to students’ developing scientific ideas. Problematically, this type of teaching is currently rare in science classrooms (Corcoran & Gerry, 2011; Kane & Staiger, 2012; Pasley, 2002; Roth & Garnier, 2007; Weiss, …
Table Of Contents And Editorial Information For Vol. 42, No. 1, Fall 2014, M. Gail Shroyer, Sally J. Yahnke, Debbie K. Mercer, David S. Allen
Table Of Contents And Editorial Information For Vol. 42, No. 1, Fall 2014, M. Gail Shroyer, Sally J. Yahnke, Debbie K. Mercer, David S. Allen
Educational Considerations
This content includes the table of contents, editorial information, public information and more for this special issue "The Kansas State University Professional Development School Partnership."
A Professional Development School In Action: Meeting The Needs Of Military-Connected Students And Families, Sandy Risberg, Laurie Curtis, Lucas Shivers
A Professional Development School In Action: Meeting The Needs Of Military-Connected Students And Families, Sandy Risberg, Laurie Curtis, Lucas Shivers
Educational Considerations
The College of Education (COE) at Kansas State University and its Professional Development Schools (PDS) are partnering in innovative ways that demonstrate a commitment to work collaboratively to solve educational issues involving preservice teachers, practicing teachers, and faculty members, as well as K-12 students and their families.
Changing Traditions: Supervision, Co-Teaching, And Lessons Learned In A Professional Development School Partnership, David S. Allen, Michael Perl, Lori Goodson, Twyla K. Sprouse
Changing Traditions: Supervision, Co-Teaching, And Lessons Learned In A Professional Development School Partnership, David S. Allen, Michael Perl, Lori Goodson, Twyla K. Sprouse
Educational Considerations
Considering how long societies have been educating their youth, the history of teacher education is relatively brief. The first efforts to provide systematic education for teachers with some kind of practical experience occurred in Rheims, France, in the late 17th century when Jean Baptiste De La Salle opened the first normal school.
Blurring The Boundaries: Reflecting On Pds Roles And Responsibilities Through Multiple Lenses, Lotta C. Larson, Amanda D. Lickteig, Vicki S. Sherbert, Deborah A. Nauerth
Blurring The Boundaries: Reflecting On Pds Roles And Responsibilities Through Multiple Lenses, Lotta C. Larson, Amanda D. Lickteig, Vicki S. Sherbert, Deborah A. Nauerth
Educational Considerations
It is well documented that successful Professional Development School (PDS) initiatives are contingent on trusting relationships between the university and school districts.
Benefits Of 25 Years Of School District-University Partnerships To Improve Teacher Preparation And Advance School Renewal, Michael C. Holen, Dan C. Yunk
Benefits Of 25 Years Of School District-University Partnerships To Improve Teacher Preparation And Advance School Renewal, Michael C. Holen, Dan C. Yunk
Educational Considerations
Generalizing about school district-teacher education program relationships across the long history and broad landscape of teacher preparation in America can prove challenging.
The Pds Model As A Vehicle For Simultaneous Renewal In Mathematics Education, Sherri L. Martinie, Chepina Rumsey, David S. Allen, Andrew Bennett, Deborah Abernathy, Brandys Zolnerowich, Melisa Hancock
The Pds Model As A Vehicle For Simultaneous Renewal In Mathematics Education, Sherri L. Martinie, Chepina Rumsey, David S. Allen, Andrew Bennett, Deborah Abernathy, Brandys Zolnerowich, Melisa Hancock
Educational Considerations
For a quarter century, Kansas State University’s College of Education has supported a Professional Development School (PDS) model involving professional collaboration with selected public school systems across Kansas.
The History And Future Of Professional Development Schools In Kansas, Debbie K. Mercer, Scott Myers
The History And Future Of Professional Development Schools In Kansas, Debbie K. Mercer, Scott Myers
Educational Considerations
Quality clinical experiences are an integral component of effective teacher preparation programs. Evidence clearly indicates that experiences in classrooms, under the mentorship of effective teachers and mentors, greatly enhance the preservice teacher’s growth and development.
Educating Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders (Asds) To Delay Gratification In The Contet Of Temper Tantrums, Seungyeon Lee
Educating Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders (Asds) To Delay Gratification In The Contet Of Temper Tantrums, Seungyeon Lee
The Advocate
Temper tantrums among young children are common, especially those with autism spectrum disorders. Delay of gratification is an essential component of temper tantrums. Teachers and parents seek management strategies for temper tantrums that are efficient, effective and ethical. The purpose of this applied behavioral analysis research was to compare various types of functional communication training with three children in the three and a half year old age range. In Phase One, to determine the misguided goal or function of each child’s temper tantrum, functional behavioral assessment was undertaken. In Phase Two, a reward menu was used to determine preferred rewards …
Contextualizing Teacher Education Emphases For Classroom Diversity, Kevin Murry, Cristina Fanning, Shabina Kavimandan
Contextualizing Teacher Education Emphases For Classroom Diversity, Kevin Murry, Cristina Fanning, Shabina Kavimandan
The Advocate
Nominal attention has been dedicated to standards of best practice that local teachers should demonstrate in teaching culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) students. The CREDE standards address the gap and emphasize five transnational, universals of best practice for CLD students/families. However, recent research indicates that teachers practices indicative of the most important of these, contextualization, are among the least robust of those observed. Necessarily, future research is needed to unpack these findings. In the interim, we argue that teachers’ critical reflection on their own socialization is essential to the fundamental understandings necessary for standards-based practices with these students and families.
Ethical Decision Making: Increasing Your Chances To Make Better Decisions, Robert F. Hachiya
Ethical Decision Making: Increasing Your Chances To Make Better Decisions, Robert F. Hachiya
The Advocate
Ethical decision-making is an important skill for leaders that can be acquired and improved with experience. Successful leaders consistently make right decisions and inspire confidence in others. While many fields include formal ethics classes as a part of their required curriculum, only recently has the field of education included formalized ethics training for principals. This article provides guidance and advice for those seeking to increase the likelihood they will make better decisions each day.
Educational Considerations, Vol. 42(1) Full Issue, M. Gail Shroyer, Sally J. Yahnke, Debbie K. Mercer, David S. Allen
Educational Considerations, Vol. 42(1) Full Issue, M. Gail Shroyer, Sally J. Yahnke, Debbie K. Mercer, David S. Allen
Educational Considerations
Educational Considerations, vol. 42(1)-Fall 2014-Full issue
Table Of Contents And Introductory Materials For Vol. 22. No. 2, 2014, Bruce Quantic
Table Of Contents And Introductory Materials For Vol. 22. No. 2, 2014, Bruce Quantic
The Advocate
This content includes the table of contents and editorial information for vol. 22, issue 2 (Fall 2014).
Developing The Next Generation Of Distance Supervision, Lori A. Goodson, David S. Allen
Developing The Next Generation Of Distance Supervision, Lori A. Goodson, David S. Allen
The Advocate
Student teaching has long been an essential component of teacher education programs, and effective supervision is essential for successful internship experiences. Pre-service students’ needs must be weighed against the limitation of time and access for the university supervisor, often a full-time faculty member who has a formidable teaching load and other responsibilities. Additionally, direct, in-person observations can create observer effect, altering the reality of what is actually being observed. This article examines one university’s use of distant supervision utilizing technology to aid in the virtual classroom observations and conferencing to allow an elementary education major to student teach in a …
The College-Wide Military-Connected Learner Initiative In K-State’S College Of Education, Debbie Mercer, Linda Thurston, Judy Hughey
The College-Wide Military-Connected Learner Initiative In K-State’S College Of Education, Debbie Mercer, Linda Thurston, Judy Hughey
The Advocate
The Military-connected Learner Educational Initiative at Kansas State’s College of Education, initiated in 2012, provides a college-wide framework preparing in-service and pre-service personnel to serve military, veterans and their families in educational settings. This article describes the college-wide initiative which includes: (1) providing professional development for faculty and students; (2) implementing curricular and co-curricular modifications to address military/veteran-connected issues; (3) conducting research to contribute to the knowledge base about educational issues, strategies and adaptations for military personnel, veterans, and K-12 students in their families. The college is the recipient of the 2014 Taylor Higher Education Partnership of Excellence award from …
Don’T Tap The Keg And Eight Other Essential Rules Of Early Career Principals: An Editorial, Carolyn L. Carlson, Scott P. Myers
Don’T Tap The Keg And Eight Other Essential Rules Of Early Career Principals: An Editorial, Carolyn L. Carlson, Scott P. Myers
The Advocate
Principals that are early in their careers have unique challenges to face in order to become successful in their administrative positions. Early career principals, future principals, and those who educate future principals in education administration programs at colleges and universities should be aware of these potential obstacles. This list of nine “essential rules” seeks to challenge new and future principals, as well as those who educate them, to consider some of the unique challenges faced as well as offer insight to effectively overcome them.
Learning Across A Lifetime Of Learning: Stages Of Teacher Development, Charles Kent Runyan, Steve Brown, Carolyn Fehrenbach, Kenny Mcdougle, Pam Sells, Ray Willard
Learning Across A Lifetime Of Learning: Stages Of Teacher Development, Charles Kent Runyan, Steve Brown, Carolyn Fehrenbach, Kenny Mcdougle, Pam Sells, Ray Willard
The Advocate
This study presents a conceptual framework for examining the developmental stages of teachers and illustrates the differences found in student teachers as they develop. The research illustrates how by assessing a teacher candidate’s own perception of importance, mastery, and desire to improve, an instrument can be used to prioritize needs at different points of a teacher’s career as well as identify stages of development. The statistical data, analysis, and interpretation of a study utilizing the Teacher Need Assessment Questionnaire (TNAQ) with teacher candidates is displayed.
Foreword, M. Gail Shroyer, Sally J. Yahnke, Debbie K. Mercer, David S. Allen
Foreword, M. Gail Shroyer, Sally J. Yahnke, Debbie K. Mercer, David S. Allen
Educational Considerations
In her examination of Powerful Teacher Education (2006), Linda Darling-Hammond concludes that, “Clearly, a key to dramatically successful preparation of teachers is finding ever more effective ways of connecting the knowledge of the university with the knowledge of the school.”
The Development Of The Ksu Pds Model: 25 Years In The Making, M. Gail Shroyer, Sally J. Yahnke, Teresa Miller, Cindi Dunn, Nancy Y. Bridges
The Development Of The Ksu Pds Model: 25 Years In The Making, M. Gail Shroyer, Sally J. Yahnke, Teresa Miller, Cindi Dunn, Nancy Y. Bridges
Educational Considerations
Educational improvement demands continuous change, but change is not always productive. Reflecting on the past and vision setting for the future helps chart a course for a more productive change process. Historians urge learning from history to guide future actions.
Theory Into Practice: The Ksu Pds Model, Sally J. Yahnke, M. Gail Shroyer
Theory Into Practice: The Ksu Pds Model, Sally J. Yahnke, M. Gail Shroyer
Educational Considerations
The 1983 publication of A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform (National Commission of Excellence in Education) “initiated the longest sustained period of attention to public education in the nation’s history and ignited a new wave of interest in teacher preparation.”
Growing Into The Digital Age: A Small Academic Library Confronts The Practical Challenges Of Transition, Steven Gromatzky
Growing Into The Digital Age: A Small Academic Library Confronts The Practical Challenges Of Transition, Steven Gromatzky
Kansas Library Association College and University Libraries Section Proceedings
This paper outlines the recent history of the Benedictine College Library and traces the development of the library’s digital collections since 2006. The librarians have worked to provide an integrated search solution through the EBSCO Discovery Service and streamline off-campus access through EZPROXY. As the library’s electronic resources have grown, we have continued to support its historic core collection in the humanities as well as some unique and eclectic special collections. A range of issues are discussed: integrating electronic resources, ensuring 24-hour access, working with IT staff and the impact of the institutional culture on the college library. The challenges …
Please Come In!: Transitioning From No Access To An Open Door In The Special Collections And Archives, Ashley Todd-Diaz
Please Come In!: Transitioning From No Access To An Open Door In The Special Collections And Archives, Ashley Todd-Diaz
Kansas Library Association College and University Libraries Section Proceedings
After four years of being closed to patrons due to a combination of a mold outbreak, renovation, and transitioning to a new location, the Emporia State University Special Collections and Archives reopened in fall 2012. While the department was closed, staff members worked hard to care for the collections, reply to patron requests, and prepare to open our doors again; however, after all that work we were not prepared for the lack of patrons walking through the doors. This paper shares our successes and lessons learned, as well as offers ideas for implementing innovative outreach strategies that challenge a variety …