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The Kids Will S.C.O.R.E In The Classroom, Stuart Peterson Apr 2010

The Kids Will S.C.O.R.E In The Classroom, Stuart Peterson

Service-Learning Program

My service project purpose was to have me promote and provide a positive attitude for the students. They would be able to use this not only in school but in the community as well. I was also there to promote teamwork and to build their self confidence. The learning goal for my Ed-Sped 350 class was: “This SL project was intended to assist the candidates in gaining a deeper insight into students with exceptionalities and the resources and organizations which strive to enhance their post-secondary outcomes, educational services, social services, and/or familial services.” –Dr. Humphrey


Score, Joan Rudd Apr 2010

Score, Joan Rudd

Service-Learning Program

Service Project Purpose: I was a mentor to at-risk students at Sliver Sage Elementary, providing educational assistance and companionship for students in the Homework Club. I worked with small group of students on their schoolwork, as well as helping them build intrapersonal skills such as self-confidence, motivation, and self-determination. Learning goals: This service learning project is intended to assist student mentors in gaining a deeper insight into at-risk students. This opportunity comes while working with organizations whose service-delivery models strive to enhance post-secondary outcomes, educational, social, and/or familial services for these at-risk youth.


Life Inc, Bri Neal Apr 2010

Life Inc, Bri Neal

Service-Learning Program

Service Project: I assisted in developmental therapy during my time at LIFE. This consisted of working on intensive training skills to help them improve functional skill level, achieve independence, increase self-help skills, mobility, learning, receptive and expressive language, self-direction, capacity for independent living, economic self-sufficiency, and decrease maladaptive behaviors. The program really strives to promote community inclusion and participation, relationship building with peers, and positive social behaviors…while taking part in fun and enjoyable activities. Learning Goals: To provide services required from non-school-based organizations which strive to enhance our post-secondary outcomes, educational services, social services and/or familial services for students with …


Critical Literacy: Changing The World Through The Word, Martha S. Mendoza Apr 2010

Critical Literacy: Changing The World Through The Word, Martha S. Mendoza

McNair Scholars Research Journal

This study analyzes the role that children’s literature plays in acquiring critical tools and deconstructing the internalized sense of worthlessness and oppression that Latinos living in poverty might experience. The goal is to provide literacy spaces and critical tools for both, teachers and students from marginalized and oppressed backgrounds, as Paulo Freire and Donaldo Macedo suggest, to become aware of one’s reality and act upon our world. This intends to engage students in dialogue and reflection, in order to critically analyze and understand issues of social, economic and political injustice and inequities; and deconstruct their internalized sense of worthlessness and …


Tools For Informed Decision-Making: Effectively Implementing Program-Wide Positive Behavior Support In Early Childhood Settings, Deborah R. Carter, Elizabeth Steed, Tina Pomerleau Mar 2010

Tools For Informed Decision-Making: Effectively Implementing Program-Wide Positive Behavior Support In Early Childhood Settings, Deborah R. Carter, Elizabeth Steed, Tina Pomerleau

Deborah Russell Carter

Presenters will share (a) tools for monitoring child outcomes and implementation of key features of PWPBS, and (b) strategies for using these tools to make data-based decisions and inform practice in early childhood settings.


The Phenomenon Of Character Development In A Distance Education Course, Michael C. Johnson, Richard Osguthorpe, David D. Williams Mar 2010

The Phenomenon Of Character Development In A Distance Education Course, Michael C. Johnson, Richard Osguthorpe, David D. Williams

Curriculum, Instruction, and Foundational Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations

Rarely are character development-related aims espoused by higher education reflected in the design and delivery of distance education programs. Further, literature exploring the character development aspects of distance education is sparse. This study finds that the instructor and students in a fantasy literature distance course perceived myriad kinds of character development related to performance, moral, relational, and spiritual character traits and strengths. This paper considers implications for character development in distance education and directions for future research.


Handy Manny And The Emergent Literacy Technology Toolkit, Howard P. Parette, Jack Hourcade, Nichole Boeckmann, Craig Blum Jan 2010

Handy Manny And The Emergent Literacy Technology Toolkit, Howard P. Parette, Jack Hourcade, Nichole Boeckmann, Craig Blum

Early and Special Education Faculty Publications and Presentations

This paper outlines the use of a technology toolkit to support emergent literacy curriculum and instruction in early childhood education settings. Components of the toolkit include hardware and software that can facilitate key emergent literacy skills. Implementation of the comprehensive technology toolkit enhances the development of these critical literacy skills in at-risk young learners.


Mom Tested, Janice Neri Jan 2010

Mom Tested, Janice Neri

Art, Design & Visual Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations

Leaf through an issue of a parenting magazine and you will be inundated by page after page of bright, colorful products. These products reassure you that they are safe and reliable, often bearing labels such as "Mom Tested" or "Pediatrician Approved." The person shown is usually a smiling, physically fit Caucasian woman clad in a stylish outfit playing with her clean, happy children in a sunny and well-organized home. She is the Mythic Mom: buy these products and you too may attain her state of charming, if sometimes unruly, bliss.


Evidence Of Metacognitive Control By Humans And Monkeys In A Perceptual Categorization Task, Joshua Redford Jan 2010

Evidence Of Metacognitive Control By Humans And Monkeys In A Perceptual Categorization Task, Joshua Redford

Curriculum, Instruction, and Foundational Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations

Metacognition research has focused on the degree to which nonhuman primates share humans’ capacity to monitor their cognitive processes. Convincing evidence now exists that monkeys can engage in metacognitive monitoring. By contrast, few studies have explored metacognitive control in monkeys and the available evidence of metacognitive control supports multiple explanations. The current study addresses this situation by exploring the capacity of human participants and rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) to adjust their study behavior in a perceptual categorization task. Humans and monkeys were found to increase their study for high-difficulty categories suggesting that both share the capacity to exert …