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Planning Effective School Field Trips For Elementary Students, Marcella Sidars
Planning Effective School Field Trips For Elementary Students, Marcella Sidars
Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)
Field trips for elementary school students are valuable contributors towards improved learning, motivation, and student social interactions. Unfortunately, they are often underutilized in the support of student learning due to several factors: often teachers do not know how to use field trips to their best advantage, often planning field trips is time consuming and difficult, teachers are pressured to justify field trips in terms of links to measurable educational standards, and preservice teachers seldom are instructed in their effective use. To address these concerns, a guidebook for preservice and current teachers has been developed. In it, research based teaching strategies …
Homework In Elementary School: A Guide For Educators, Deann Hoffman
Homework In Elementary School: A Guide For Educators, Deann Hoffman
Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)
Homework in elementary school has been the subject of much research and controversy. In this project, the author created an in-service designed with the intention of discussing both the positive and negative effects of homework in elementary school. The target audience was parents, elementary teachers and administrators. The presentation provided a brief history of homework, a synthesis of the theories of both the proponents and opponents of homework, best practices for the assigning of homework and examples of school districts' homework guidelines and policies.
First Grade Fairy Tale Thematic Unit: Improving Writing, Chelsi Gross
First Grade Fairy Tale Thematic Unit: Improving Writing, Chelsi Gross
Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)
This project integrated writing and literature to better teach first grade students how to write. The thematic unit utilizes a variety of learning styles and ties varying schools of thought together into one succinct unit through 14 lessons, one being a celebration. Each lesson is designed to incorporate Colorado State Writing Standards, Step Up to Writing, 6 Trait Writing, and the Writing Process. Upon review, this project was found to be well laid out, successful in addressing a range of learning styles, and easy to implement. However, the project may be at times too difficult for struggling writers and may …