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Full-Text Articles in Curriculum and Instruction
Child Prodigies Exploring The World: How Homeschooled Students Narrate Their Literacy In The Digital Archive Of Literacy Narratives, Alicia A. Mccartney
Child Prodigies Exploring The World: How Homeschooled Students Narrate Their Literacy In The Digital Archive Of Literacy Narratives, Alicia A. Mccartney
English, Literature, and Modern Languages Faculty Publications
Approximately 1.8 million students in the United States are homeschooled, according to 2012 data from the National Center for Education Statistics (Redford et al.). However, researchers have only begun to examine how these homeschooled students reflect on their own literacy development, especially once they have entered college. Using the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives (DALN), I gather and analyze eighteen literacy narratives of currently and formerly homeschooled students, exploring how these students reflect on their own developing literacies, especially as they contrast their experiences with those of their traditionally-schooled classmates. The results of this study reveal, first, that these homeschoolers …
Supervising Teachers: An Edification And Instructional Model, Timothy L. Heaton
Supervising Teachers: An Edification And Instructional Model, Timothy L. Heaton
Education Faculty Presentations
Using current research and the Praxis III model, supervisory techniques will be presented as well as checklists for supervision of classroom instruction.
Helping First-Year Teachers Survive, Timothy L. Heaton
Helping First-Year Teachers Survive, Timothy L. Heaton
Education Faculty Presentations
This workshop gives ideas to administrators from the research and actual experience of what really is helpful to first year teachers, including protecting them from over commitment, structured support systems in the school for the spouse, finances, locating resources for education, classroom management, positive mentoring from other teachers, and other helpful hints to keep the first year teacher from burning out and want to return to your school.