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Text Sets For Social Justice, Jessica Buck
Text Sets For Social Justice, Jessica Buck
School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Projects
Secondary students diagnosed as having an Emotional/Behavioral Disorder (EBD) are at an increased risk of performing below grade level in reading. The author explored the question of: How can EBD middle school students use social justice themes to develop critical literacy skills? Texts with social justice themes can increase engagement and motivation in reading, which may lead to an increased development of critical literacy skills. This capstone addressed the need, as revealed in the literature review, that secondary EBD classrooms have to be afforded opportunities to engage with multi-modal texts that reflect diverse and multiple perspectives, as well as explore …
Strategies That Enhance Voice-On Activities In Middle School Science, Larry Hunter
Strategies That Enhance Voice-On Activities In Middle School Science, Larry Hunter
School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Projects
Teachers willing to listen over lecture can implement voice-on activities that create equitable learning environments for all learners. Today’s students arrive to us nourished by multiple streams of knowledge gleaned from family, friends, books, games, television, Internet, and various technologies. Equipped with complex layers of knowledge— students have something to say—but how they say and synthesis this information during voice-on activities is paramount for building new constructs. In 2016, the phrase voice-on activities was first used in a middle school science classroom as a cue to model preferred behavior and categorize the following oral activities: argumentation, collaboration, conversations, discourse, discussions, …