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2004

California State University, San Bernardino

Curriculum planning

Arts and Humanities

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Zoophonics Keyboards: A Venue For Technology Integration In Kindergarten, Marie Bess Forst Jan 2004

Zoophonics Keyboards: A Venue For Technology Integration In Kindergarten, Marie Bess Forst

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of the project was to create a program of instruction that seamlessly meshed with my current emergent literacy curriculum, a popularly used phonics program entitled Zoo-phonics, which can easily be applied by other kindergarten teachers using the same phonics instruction program.


Being Sisyphus: A Writing Pedagogy For At-Risk Students, Eric David Sullivan Jan 2004

Being Sisyphus: A Writing Pedagogy For At-Risk Students, Eric David Sullivan

Theses Digitization Project

This thesis discussess the limitations of the standards-based movement and suggests that some schools, especially those whose mission it is to work exclusively with at-risk students, need to be allowed to set local behavioral standards before any consideration can be given to setting and teaching academic standards. It mainly focuses on Phoenix High School, a community day school in the Corona-Norco Unified School District, and discusses how the standards based movement is not suited to meet the needs of its students.