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From Test Scores To Language Use: Emergent Bilinguals Using English To Accomplish Academic Tasks, Claudia Rodriguez-Mojica

Teacher Education

Prominent discourses about emergent bilinguals’ academic abilities tend to focus on performance as measured by test scores and perpetuate the message that emergent bilinguals trail far behind their peers. When we remove the constraints of formal testing situations, what can emergent bilinguals do in English as they engage in naturally occurring classroom interactions about content? Using six months of naturally occurring emergent bilingual talk, this article shows that (1) emergent bilinguals produced a wide range of academic speech acts in English while engaged in English language arts tasks, (2) these speech acts were aligned with state academic expectations, and (3) …

Predicting Faculty Integration Of Faith And Learning, Kimberly Hardin

Teacher Education

Concern regarding the secularization of Christian higher education has

prompted researchers to investigate the extent that faith and learning

is integrated at a faculty level and what factors might predict faculty

integration (Lyon, Beaty, Parker, & Mencken, 2005). This research

attempted to replicate Lyon et al.’s (2005) logistic regression model

predicting faculty integration of faith using survey responses gathered

as part of Phase II of the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities

(CCCU) Denominational Study (Rine, Glanzer, & Davignon, 2013).

Respondents included 2,074 faculty from 55 institutions. The first

model used in this study suggested that the most powerful predictors …

Mathematics Anxiety: One Size Does Not Fit All, Kathleen Jablon Stoehr

Teacher Education

Mathematics educators agree elementary teachers should possess confidence and competence in teaching mathematics. Many prospective elementary teachers (particularly women) pursue careers in elementary teaching despite personal repeated experiences of mathematics anxiety. Previous studies of mathematics anxiety have tended to focus on physical sensations that occur during test-taking situations. This study analyzes how three women prospective elementary teachers described, explained, and related their experiences of mathematics anxiety while learning mathematics as K-12 students and while learning to teach mathematics. My research reveals that mathematics anxiety may reach beyond assessment situations and impact women prospective elementary teachers’ larger mathematical histories. I show …

Stories And Statistics: A Mixed Picture Of Gender Equity In Mathematics, Kathleen Jablon Stoehr, Kathy Carter, Amanda Sugimoto

Teacher Education

The goal of this chapter is to gain a better understanding of the experiences of mathematics anxiety that some women elementary preservice teachers encounter while learning mathematics during their own K-12 years. Specifically, this chapter is an analysis of the personal well-remembered events (WREs) told and recorded by women during their preservice teaching professional sequence. These narrative writings provide a powerful voice for the degree to which mathematics anxiety shape preservice teachers’ beliefs on what it means to learn mathematics. This intersection of teacher knowledge is important, as these are women who are on the professional track to teach mathematics. …

Una Contribución A La Interpretación Sistémica De Lo Ambiental, A Partir De La Formación En Química Basada En La Ética De Sostenibilidad / An Environmental Contribution To A Systemic Interpretation Of Epistemological Development In Chemistry Based On The Ethics Of Sustainability, Sara Soledad Garcia, Liliana Caicedo Lozano, Diana Marcela Trujillo Suárez

Teacher Education

Este proyecto es la continuación de un trabajo que se inició hace más de cinco años de esfuerzos internacionales entre California, USA y Bogotá, Colombia. Los planteamientos de la primera etapa para establecer un equipo de participación acción enfocado en un proyecto comunitario se documentan en la Revista Colombiana de Derecho y Ciencias Sociales con el título; La Responsabilidad Social, un Componente Esencial de la Formación en un Programa de Química Ambiental (Lozano, Suarez y Garcia, 2016). En el presente trabajo se describe la segunda etapa de los componentes esenciales generados como experimentales hacia una pedagogía para educación superior. Este …