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Journey To Refuge: Understanding Refugees, Exploring Trauma, And Best Practices For Newcomers And Schools, Trina D. Harlow Jan 2019

Journey To Refuge: Understanding Refugees, Exploring Trauma, And Best Practices For Newcomers And Schools, Trina D. Harlow

NPP eBooks

Pre-K through 12th grade schools within the United States have become much more diverse in recent years. Schools are now commonly not only diverse because of diverse students born in the United States, but also have many immigrant students. A growing number of these immigrant students are resettled children who have refugee status. In schools, these recent immigrants are called newcomers. This book is a culmination of research and anecdotal experiences regarding the refugee issue as it pertains to these students in American schools and schools elsewhere in the world. Scholars, policy makers, educators, those who work in the refugee …


Habilidades De Pensamiento Crítico Y Estrategias De Lectura Crítica En Docentes Y Estudiantes Del Colegio Menorah: Estudio De Caso, Cristian Camilo Callejas Saldarriaga, Laura Vanessa Cuellar Martin, Andrea Ocampo Ocampo Jan 2019

Habilidades De Pensamiento Crítico Y Estrategias De Lectura Crítica En Docentes Y Estudiantes Del Colegio Menorah: Estudio De Caso, Cristian Camilo Callejas Saldarriaga, Laura Vanessa Cuellar Martin, Andrea Ocampo Ocampo

Licenciatura en Español y Lenguas Extranjeras

Investigación cualitativa que se realizó como un estudio de caso intrínseco, ya que este método nos permitió centrarnos en examinar a profundidad las dinámicas del fenómeno de lectura crítica en un grupo particular de individuos y ampliar nuestro conocimiento sobre dicho nivel de lectura. Durante la práctica pedagógica, mediante un curso de lectura crítica con seis (6) estudiantes de grado décimo del Colegio Técnico Menorah IED, identificamos dificultades relacionadas con las habilidades de pensamiento crítico y las estrategias de lectura crítica de las estudiantes, así como también la importancia del rol docente en estos procesos. Datos que fueron recopilados a …


Indentifying Effective Communication Practices For Eliciting Parental Involvement At Two K-8 Schools, Karen Lynn Moore Jan 2015

Indentifying Effective Communication Practices For Eliciting Parental Involvement At Two K-8 Schools, Karen Lynn Moore

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Conventional wisdom suggests effective and timely school communications increase parental involvement. Guided by this wisdom and contemporary parental involvement theory, effective educational institutions have established systems that foster communication and collaboration between school representatives and the local community. Despite such efforts, research has revealed persistent declines in parental involvement within schools. This phenomenological study documented 16 parents' perceptions of communication between teachers and parents at 2 K-8 schools in the American southwest. Semi-structured interviews were used to explore parents' perceptions of the effectiveness of various school-based communication systems and the specific impact these systems had on parental involvement. NVivo software …