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Though This Be Madness, Yet There Is Method In’T: Using Graphic Shakespeare Texts To Create Meaningful Engagement In The High School Classroom, Eric Kallenborn Jul 2014

Though This Be Madness, Yet There Is Method In’T: Using Graphic Shakespeare Texts To Create Meaningful Engagement In The High School Classroom, Eric Kallenborn

All Student Theses

This thesis covers the attempt to successfully motivate and connect with high school students by giving them the option of reading a graphic form of Hamlet instead of the original text. This research was conducted to not only dispel the myth that comics and graphic novels are juvenile and adolescent but to also explain the benefits of such texts to educators and administrators.

For this research, 10th graders were assigned Hamlet and were allowed to select the graphic text over the traditional text, allowing for student buy-in from the selection. Students also took part in a project that …


Características De Los Modelos Didácticos En La Formación De Maestros De La Escuela Normal Superior Distrital María Montessori, Gloria Esperanza Castellanos Castillo Jan 2014

Características De Los Modelos Didácticos En La Formación De Maestros De La Escuela Normal Superior Distrital María Montessori, Gloria Esperanza Castellanos Castillo

Maestría en Docencia

La investigación denominada La Formación Pedagógica desde los Modelos Didácticos, se enmarca dentro del macro-proyecto de investigación en Formación docente de la maestría en Docencia de la Universidad de La Salle. Las indagaciones recolectadas entre los años 2012, 2013 y 2014, se validaron por los parámetros de la investigación descriptiva, que el diseño de un trabajo de campo de recolección de información, que incluye la elaboración de entrevistassemi-estructuradas y las observaciones de clase, realizadas en la Escuela Normal Superior Distrital María Montessori de la ciudad de Bogotá DC, tanto a los maestros como a los estudiantes, que sumado a un …


Teaching High School Students Scientific Concepts Using Graphic Organizers, Kyle Lusk Jan 2014

Teaching High School Students Scientific Concepts Using Graphic Organizers, Kyle Lusk

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

In the current study, the effect of using graphic organizers as a teaching method in a special education classroom was compared to the effectiveness of lecture style teaching in a regular education classroom. It was hypothesized that the use of graphic organizers in a special education classroom would result in a greater difference between the pre-and post-test measures than the group that was taught using lecture style instruction. Each classroom was given the same pre-test, followed by four weeks of instruction, then the same post-test. A paired samples t-test indicated that there was a significant difference observed in both groups, …