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Mapping New Routes To Composition: Allowing Access Through Universal Design For Learning, M. Lynn Dill
Mapping New Routes To Composition: Allowing Access Through Universal Design For Learning, M. Lynn Dill
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Looking at multimodal composition through the perspective of disability studies, this thesis explores the links between multiple intelligences and multimodality to discover the rhetorical skills students report learning as a result of this method of teaching. The exploration of this topic includes a study involving students enrolled at a small Midwestern university. A qualitative approach was used, with the author directly interviewing students about their experiences with multimodal composition to determine the skills developed as a result of this approach. Prior to the interview, the student volunteers took a test based on Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences. This test …
Teacher Awareness Of Social Emotional Learning Standards And Strategies, Mary Reynolds
Teacher Awareness Of Social Emotional Learning Standards And Strategies, Mary Reynolds
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This study investigated teacher knowledge and attitudes of both special education and general education teachers towards social emotional learning. A total of twenty-five certified special education teachers and twenty-five certified general education teachers were surveyed regarding their familiarity with the State of Illinois Social Emotional Learning Standards. Teachers’ perceptions of the competency of their higher education preparation and professional development to meet their students’ social emotional needs were solicited. The data gathered from this study suggests that universities should prepare teachers more adequately in the areas of social emotional learning. The data also supports that there is a need for …
Determining Whether Classroom Dojo Will Decrease The Number Of Behavior Referrals, Venessa Martinez
Determining Whether Classroom Dojo Will Decrease The Number Of Behavior Referrals, Venessa Martinez
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This is a quantitative study that uses A-B design to determine whether the use of classroom management behavior intervention Classroom Dojo would decrease the amount of behavior referrals. This intervention was implemented in a special education classroom in the south suburbs of Chicago with 8th grade students that attend an alternative school for behavior issues that were exhibited while at their district school. All of the students were exposed to the intervention while two students with the highest number of behavior referrals were progress monitored on a weekly basis using a data collection system called SWIS Data. This data collection …