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Understanding The Differences Between Novice And Experienced Reading Teachers, Katie Anderson
Understanding The Differences Between Novice And Experienced Reading Teachers, Katie Anderson
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Education researchers have documented that first-year teachers are often less effective at reading instruction than their more experienced peers. Accordingly, this qualitative, comparative case study was designed to assess the instructional skills and strategies utilized by first-year and experienced teachers using Danielson's Framework for Teaching as the conceptual framework. The research questions were used to examine two groups of teachers using the framework and the Teacher's College Reading and Writing Project's defined levels of performance for effective reading instruction. The goal was to identify the instructional differences between the two groups of teachers. Purposeful sampling was used to select 3 …
Math Teachers' Experiences Learning And Teaching Math, Kathryn Couch
Math Teachers' Experiences Learning And Teaching Math, Kathryn Couch
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Abstract
In a charter school in the Southwest United States, elementary students were struggling to
attain proficiency in math and have been failing to meet the standards in math on the
Arizona Instrument to Measure Standards test. As a result, these students may not have
been prepared for more advanced math courses as they continued their schooling, and this
failure to attain proficiency in math may continue to impact the school's ability to make
adequate yearly progress. The purpose of this explanatory case study was to explore the
perspectives of elementary math teachers toward teaching math, their preparation to teach …