The Educational Achievement Gap As A Social Justice Issue For Teacher Educators,
2012
University of Dayton
The Educational Achievement Gap As A Social Justice Issue For Teacher Educators, Rachel M. B. Collopy, Connie L. Bowman, David A. Taylor
Teacher Education Faculty Publications
The educational achievement gap is a critical social justice issue. Catholic and Marianist conceptions of social justice in particular call people to work with others in their spheres of life to transform institutions in order to further human rights while promoting the common good. Drawing on key elements of Catholic teaching on social justice, we argue that the achievement gap constitutes a social injustice. We then offer a case illustrating collaboration between university-based teacher educators and school faculty to address the achievement gap through transforming the institutions of school and of teacher preparation. The Dayton Early College Academy (DECA), founded …
Professional Pathways Of Aboriginal Early Childhood Teachers: Intersections Of Community, Indigeneity, And Complexity,
2012
Macquarie University
Professional Pathways Of Aboriginal Early Childhood Teachers: Intersections Of Community, Indigeneity, And Complexity, Alma Fleet, Kerrie Wechmann, Ryan Whitworth
Australian Journal of Teacher Education
Little information is available about the employment trajectories of Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander peoples pursuing university professional qualifications. This article describes a context in which cultural space, issues of identity, pragmatics of employment, family and community and a bureaucratic regulatory environment intersect to create scenarios that are multi-facetted and layered in complexity. As has been demonstrated clearly in other arenas (Richardson & Watt, 2006), the move towards professional teacher education qualification is not linear or straightforward. To add to the knowledge base in this area, the focus in this study is on university graduates of a teacher education degree …
Community Events Flyer,
2012
University of South Florida
Community Events Flyer, Islac
Hispanic Heritage of Florida Conference 2012
No abstract provided.
Adolescent Mothers In An Intervention Study A Qualitative Analysis Of Variables Relating To Their Teaching Interactions With Their Infants,
2012
University of Central Florida
Adolescent Mothers In An Intervention Study A Qualitative Analysis Of Variables Relating To Their Teaching Interactions With Their Infants, Janisse Guzman
HIM 1990-2015
The intent of this thesis was to study, in depth, the experiences of four adolescent mothers who underwent a home intervention program. I studied two mothers who did well with teaching their 12-month old children during play, and two mothers who did not do as well. All four mothers received weekly intervention from the time of their child's birth through 12-months of age. I studied the following variables: 1) how much time the home visitors spent on selected child development and parenting topics; 2) the mother's perceived social support; 3) how many community resources the mother used; and 4) if …
Lesson 4: Changing Demographics Means Changing Political Power,
2012
Stewart Middle Magnet School, School District of Hillsborough County
Lesson 4: Changing Demographics Means Changing Political Power, Amanda Colborne
Hispanic Heritage of Florida Conference 2012
The Hispanic population has been growing steadily in Florida for a number of years. In this lesson, students will consider how the U.S. government differentiates between “race” and “ethnicity” and will learn which countries of origin are represented most in Florida’s Latin American immigrants.
Lesson 3: The Seminole Wars - A Brief Overview And The Role Of Black Seminoles,
2012
Stewart Middle Magnet School, School District of Hillsborough County
Lesson 3: The Seminole Wars - A Brief Overview And The Role Of Black Seminoles, Amanda Colborne
Hispanic Heritage of Florida Conference 2012
The Seminole Wars in Florida were some of the costliest wars in American history. This lesson will explore those conflicts and will look specifically at the role Black Seminoles played during this time period.
Lesson 2: Tampa’S Cuban Sandwich,
2012
Bloomingdale High School, School District of Hillsborough County
Lesson 2: Tampa’S Cuban Sandwich, Samantha Cook
Hispanic Heritage of Florida Conference 2012
Some historians maintain that the Cuban sandwich has more to do with Tampa than with Havana. In this lesson, students will learn how, with the input of several immigrant groups in Tampa, the “mixto” became the iconic Cuban sandwich.
Lesson 1: Spanish Exploration Of Florida,
2012
Bloomingdale High School, School District of Hillsborough County
Lesson 1: Spanish Exploration Of Florida, Samantha Cook
Hispanic Heritage of Florida Conference 2012
Using Garner’s multiple intelligence learning theory, the Teachers Curriculum Institute’s visual discovery strategies, and CRISS reading strategies, students will become familiar with the exploration of Florida by Juan Ponce de León.
Lesson 2: St. Augustine’S Turn Around: From A Small Town To A Tourist Destination For Presidents,
2012
Stewart Middle Magnet School, School District of Hillsborough County
Lesson 2: St. Augustine’S Turn Around: From A Small Town To A Tourist Destination For Presidents, Amanda Colborne
Hispanic Heritage of Florida Conference 2012
Once a small town with few residents, St. Augustine went through remarkable changes in the beginning of the 20th Century, transforming into a major tourist attraction. This lesson explores the transformation of St. Augustine from small town to major tourist attraction in the beginning of the 20th century.
Lesson 1: Retracing The Steps Of De León And De Soto,
2012
Stewart Middle Magnet School, School District of Hillsborough County
Lesson 1: Retracing The Steps Of De León And De Soto, Amanda Colborne
Hispanic Heritage of Florida Conference 2012
Juan Ponce de León and Hernando de Soto both explored Florida in the 16th century. By reading short passages and annotating maps, students will learn more about these historic voyages.
Lesson 5: Spanish Explorers In Florida,
2012
Lawton Chiles Elementary, School District of Hillsborough County
Lesson 5: Spanish Explorers In Florida, Alesha Looper
Hispanic Heritage of Florida Conference 2012
Students will work in pairs to log facts about the Spanish exploreres and their personal background, sponsors, motives, dates, the route they traveled, and their impact on Florida today. Each pair of students will learn about their Spanish explorer and then will report out through creating a matrix.
Lesson 4: Spanish Ybor City In The 19th & 20th Centuries, Today, And Tomorrow,
2012
Lawton Chiles Elementary, School District of Hillsborough County
Lesson 4: Spanish Ybor City In The 19th & 20th Centuries, Today, And Tomorrow, Alesha Looper, Daryl Saunders
Hispanic Heritage of Florida Conference 2012
This lesson addresses the beginning years of the Spanish influence in Ybor City, its current status, and trends for the future.
Lesson 3: Operation Pedro Pan - How 14,000 Children Came To Live In America Without Their Parents,
2012
Lawton Chiles Elementary, School District of Hillsborough County
Lesson 3: Operation Pedro Pan - How 14,000 Children Came To Live In America Without Their Parents, Alesha Looper, Daryl Saunders
Hispanic Heritage of Florida Conference 2012
Operation Pedro Pan was the name given to the 22-month clandestine program involving the political exodus of more than 14,000 Cuban children to the United States in the early 1960s. Fearing communist indoctrination and the rumor of patria potestad — the government assuming legal guardianship of their children— Cuban parents sent their unaccompanied (minor) children to the United States.
Lesson 2: Life In Colonial Florida,
2012
Lawton Chiles Elementary, School District of Hillsborough County
Lesson 2: Life In Colonial Florida, Alesha Looper
Hispanic Heritage of Florida Conference 2012
Creating mental maps are useful tools for clarifying assumptions and comprehension of a given place. This lesson affords students the opportunity to reflect on their own neighborhood and consider how cultural, social, and economic components influence its composition. They will also learn how early Spanish settlers helped to contribute to the cultural, social, and economic dimensions of Florida.
Lesson 1: Juan Ponce De León The Explorer,
2012
Lawton Chiles Elementary, School District of Hillsborough County
Lesson 1: Juan Ponce De León The Explorer, Alesha Looper, Bárbara C. Cruz, Daryl Saunders
Hispanic Heritage of Florida Conference 2012
The purpose of this lesson is for students to learn who Ponce de León was, why he is an important figure in Florida’s history, and what an explorer is and does.
The Effectiveness Of Embedded Picture Mnemonic Alphabet Cards On Letter Recognition And Letter Sound Knowledge,
2012
Rowan University
The Effectiveness Of Embedded Picture Mnemonic Alphabet Cards On Letter Recognition And Letter Sound Knowledge, Gabrielle Mcnamara
Theses and Dissertations
The purpose of this study is to compare the use of embedded letter and picture mnemonic cards and separated letter and picture mnemonic cards on students' letter recognition and letter sound knowledge. The study implemented a single subject, alternating treatment design. The participants were three preschool students. A pretest, posttest, and one week follow-up were utilized to collect data. The independent variables were the use of the embedded letter and picture mnemonic cards and separated letter and picture mnemonic cards. The dependent variable was the measure of the participants' letter recognition and letter sound knowledge. Overall, the results of the …
Investigating The Status Of Early Numeracy Skills In Bilingual Dual Language Learner Latino Children Attending Head Start And The Association With Parent Demographic Characteristics,
2012
University of South Florida
Investigating The Status Of Early Numeracy Skills In Bilingual Dual Language Learner Latino Children Attending Head Start And The Association With Parent Demographic Characteristics, Chavely Lissette Iglesias
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Research on mathematics achievement has become increasingly important with today's technological advances and demand for specialized knowledge. Though there is much literature regarding mathematics achievement in monolingual speakers, little is known regarding the mathematical abilities of Dual Language Learner (DLL) Latino children. This study examined the early numeracy skills in English and Spanish of 132 DLL Latino children attending Head Start programs in five counties across Florida. Relationships and differences among their performance in both languages were examined, along with the contribution of specific parent demographic variables to math achievement. Findings indicated that DLL Latino Head Start children's performance on …
Number Sense: The Underpinning Understanding For Early Quantitative Literacy,
2012
University of Strathclyde
Number Sense: The Underpinning Understanding For Early Quantitative Literacy, Effie Maclellan
Numeracy
The fundamental meaning of Quantitative Literacy (QL) as the application of quantitative knowledge or reasoning in new/unfamiliar contexts is problematic because how we acquire knowledge, and transfer it to new situations, is not straightforward. This article argues that in the early development of QL, there is a specific corpus of numerical knowledge which learners need to integrate into their thinking, and to which teachers should attend. The paper is a rebuttal to historically prevalent (and simplistic) views that the terrain of early numerical understanding is little more than simple counting devoid of cognitive complexity. Rather, the knowledge upon which early …
Building Conceptual Understanding Through Vocabulary Instruction,
2012
Texas A & M University
Building Conceptual Understanding Through Vocabulary Instruction, William H. Rupley, William Dee Nichols, Maryann Mraz, Timothy R. Blair
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
Instructional design is an integral part of a balanced approach to teaching vocabulary instruction. This article presents several instructional procedures using research-based vocabulary strategies and explains how to design and adapt those strategies in order to reach desired learning outcomes. Emphasis is placed on research-based principles that guide effective vocabulary instruction and on the importance of incorporating vocabulary instruction into all phases of the reading lesson framework--before, during, and after reading (Blair, Rupley, & Nichols 2007; Vacca, Vacca, & Mraz 2011). Vocabulary instruction should encourage students to make associations and accommodations to their experiences and provide them with varied opportunities …
The Professional Development Practices Of Two Reading First Coaches,
2012
University of Alabama
The Professional Development Practices Of Two Reading First Coaches, Charlotte A. Mundy, Dorene D. Ross, Melinda M. Leko
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
To establish job-embedded, ongoing professional development recent policies and initiatives required that districts appoint school-based coaches. The Reading First Initiative, for example, created an immediate need for coaches without a clear definition of coaches’ responsibilities. Therefore, the purpose of this case study was to investigate how two Reading First coaches interpreted and enacted their professional development responsibilities. Cross-case analyses identified similarities and differences in coaches’ enactments. Findings revealed that while each coach engaged in similar professional development responsibilities (e.g. modeling, observing, and classroom walkthroughs) their approach to these responsibilities differed — collaborative versus expert driven. These differences in approaches indicate …
