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Principal Investigator: (2009-2010)Exploring Emerging Identities Of Special Needs Officers In Singapore Primary And Secondary Schools (Oer05/08sl) Erfp Nie (S$54,486.56), Sirene Lim
Sirene Lim
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It's Not Just About Speed: The Role Of Prosody In Reading Fluency Instruction, Kathy Kersul-Wiener
It's Not Just About Speed: The Role Of Prosody In Reading Fluency Instruction, Kathy Kersul-Wiener
Kathy Kersul-Wiener
With direct instruction in elements of prosody, teachers can see improvements in assessment scores, as well as hearing better readers who understand that reading isn't just about reading fast.
Review Of The Kindergarten Book: A Guide To Literacy Instruction, Marcy B. Zipke
Review Of The Kindergarten Book: A Guide To Literacy Instruction, Marcy B. Zipke
Marcy B Zipke
Reviews the book The Kindergarten Book: A Guide to Literacy Instruction.
Challenging The Status Quo: Campus Community School, Marcy B. Zipke
Challenging The Status Quo: Campus Community School, Marcy B. Zipke
Marcy B Zipke
Campus Community School is a 300-student charter school in Dover, DE, which serves children in grades 1 through 8. As a new charter school the founders have had the opportunity to build our ideal school, from designing a constructivist project-based curriculum, to implementing site based management, and focusing heavily on parent participation. This essay illustrates how well the charter school model can work. As the administrator and one of the founding members of CCS, I describe our challenges and hurdles as well as successes.
By Whom And How Is Service-Learning Implemented In Middle-Level Schools Involved In Documenting School Improvement: A Quantitative Study Of Opportunity-To-Learn Conditions And Practices, Anne Seitsinger
Anne M. Seitsinger
National educational standards call for an increased focus on meaningful teaching and learning that is developmentally appropriate and helps all students reach levels of proficiency not only in basic skills but in higher order thinking skills and real-world application of skills. Among the recommendations for including real-world experiences in the community into students' education is service-learning. Service-learning uses community service experiences as an integral element of the teaching and learning process. The paucity of research and mixed findings on academic outcomes from K-12 service-learning led to an examination of the opportunity-to-learn conditions and practices in 271 middle-level schools in 16 …