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Designing Pedagogy For Existing Mathematics: Measurement Curriculum In A Language Immersion School, Jihee Jina Kim
Designing Pedagogy For Existing Mathematics: Measurement Curriculum In A Language Immersion School, Jihee Jina Kim
School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Projects
This project addressed the research question of how instruction in the multilingual classroom learning environment can be beneficial in a language immersion school? How should the first-year teacher start to deliver effectively for students in multicultural circumstances? This document created curriculum for the subject of measurement taught by a first-year language immersion school teacher and included appropriate teaching pedagogy according to students’ individual circumstance in second grade mathematics. The author has keenly researched current, various perspectives from teachers, parents, and students as well as other facts regarding language immersion schools. Where there are students of different educational backgrounds, the teacher …
How Can Students Benefit From Chinese Immersion Schools, Li Zheng
How Can Students Benefit From Chinese Immersion Schools, Li Zheng
School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Projects
The research question in this article is to find out in what ways students can benefit from Chinese immersion schools. It documents in depth of three areas: Chinese language skills, students’ academic success, and classroom learning environments. The author integrates research data and interviews about Chinese immersion schools students and teachers. Findings suggest that Chinese immersion schools encourage students’ Chinese language skills, improve students’ academic success, and provide effective classroom learning environments.
Trauma In Refugee And Immigrant Students: A Website Resource For Educators, Christine Marie Houstman
Trauma In Refugee And Immigrant Students: A Website Resource For Educators, Christine Marie Houstman
School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Projects
After the 2016 presidential election of Donald Trump, many of my elementary refugee, immigrant, and native-born English Learners (ELs) became distraught with the safety of their future in the United States, and that of their family and friends. In my school building, EL students were negatively acting out both socially and academically. Our mainstream and EL teachers, along with administration, struggled to help this traumatized population. Determining the need for a readily available web-based resource was an efficient method to get much needed, research-based, information into the hands of concerned teachers. The website was created for educators and administrators as …
Strategies To Encourage Chinese Immersion Students To Speak More Chinese In The Classroom, Fan Feng
Strategies To Encourage Chinese Immersion Students To Speak More Chinese In The Classroom, Fan Feng
School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Projects
This capstone explores strategies that Chinese immersion teachers can utilize to increase students’ use of Chinese language in the classroom. The literature on factors discouraging students from speaking target language in the foreign language classroom and characteristics of effective foreign language instruction were reviewed in the capstone. The reasons why students need to speak more target language in the foreign language classroom and second language learning and teaching standards were explained. This capstone also provides a description in regard to strategies and activities to increase use of target language in the classroom. The culminating project of this capstone is PowerPoint …
Creating An At-Home Learning Tool For Chinese Language Immersion Students, Xuanyao Polga
Creating An At-Home Learning Tool For Chinese Language Immersion Students, Xuanyao Polga
School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Projects
The research question addressed in this capstone was, why it is important to provide an at-home learning tool for parents to help their child improve their Chinese language learning by connecting in-school learning with at-home reviewing materials. It will show that an online language learning website is a wonderful solution to this question. When parents set up an at-home routine for their child, it is easy for their child to transition the routine concept from home to school smoothly. The capstone project informed the creation of the language learning website. An at-home language learning website will be a transitional tool …
Learning Through Student Driven Inquiry In A Spanish Immersion Fourth Grade Classroom, Anne Mcginn
Learning Through Student Driven Inquiry In A Spanish Immersion Fourth Grade Classroom, Anne Mcginn
School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Projects
The driving question in this capstone is, how can I design a Spanish immersion social studies unit to bring student driven inquiry to a suburban elementary school while still meeting state and district requirements? This capstone describes one teacher’s exploration of models and elements of Student Driven Inquiry and the creation of a Spanish Immersion Social Studies unit that guides students to learn through their own inquiry and the model of Project Based Learning. This capstone project documents the process and justification for creating the unit and includes all necessary lessons and resources for implementing the unit itself.
Free Voluntary Reading: Enhancing The Reading Component Of Teaching Proficiency Through Reading And Storytelling In An Elementary Spanish Classroom, Elizabeth M. Werner
Free Voluntary Reading: Enhancing The Reading Component Of Teaching Proficiency Through Reading And Storytelling In An Elementary Spanish Classroom, Elizabeth M. Werner
School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Projects
The research question discussed in this project is what impact does access to Spanish books at their level and time to read Spanish books of their choice have on elementary students' language development and fluency? In includes a review of literature and research on the values of stories, comprehensible and compelling language input, and Free Voluntary Reading (FVR). The project consists of a teacher’s creation of two Spanish chapter books written for elementary students studying Spanish as a second language. The purpose was to expand the repertoire of available literature for elementary Spanish students in an attempt to promote FVR …
Spanish Reading Intervention Program Using Multisensory Methods, Marissa Jurado
Spanish Reading Intervention Program Using Multisensory Methods, Marissa Jurado
School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Projects
The purpose of this project was to create a Spanish reading intervention program that incorporated multisensory strategies. It documents the creation of a program based on research on reading instruction and interventions, dyslexia, multisensory strategies, and the Spanish language. The format and structured was adapted for Spanish, inspired by Winsor Learning’s Orton-Gillingham based Sonday System program that is in English. The program created through this project includes a lesson plan book with thirty-six lessons and ten progress checks, a word book, and cards that correlate to the sounds being introduced in each lesson. Different syllabaries from Fe y Alegria (n.d) …
How Could I Create A Project Based Learning Unit To Help Third Grade Students Develop 21st Century Skills In A Chinese Immersion School, Ying Wang
School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Projects
The research question addressed in this project was, how could I create a project based learning unit to help third grade students develop 21st Century Skills in a Chinese immersion school? The purpose of this project is to help Chinese immersion teachers with a guidance in designing and implementing project based learning (PBL) instead of starting from scratch. The capstone provides a definition, benefits, challenges of project based learning, and the importance of integrating 21st century skills into project based learning. The author documented the process of creating a project based learning unit on social studies for third grade classroom. …