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Education Opportunities For The Aspiring Aquatic Professional: A Qualitative Analysis Of Experience-Based Building Blocks For Success, Hannah Hickman

Honors Theses

While recent growth in the aquatics industry requires professionals to be more skilled and knowledgeable than ever before, educational opportunities for students pursuing this career are limited. There is not an all-encompassing course or degree program titled, "How to be an Aquatic Professional." This study utilizes interviews from 10 aquatic professionals regarding their experiences and opinions on this topic to explore the need for promoting aquatics education to students and to help outline a series of building blocks that students could potentially take to pursue a career as an aquatic professional. It attempts to answer the question: How do educational …

Twitter: More Than Tweets For Undergraduate Student Researchers, Nathan S. Reyna, Christin Pruett, Mike Morrison, Jennifer Fowler, Sumali Pandey, Lori Hensley

Articles

During the COVID-19 pandemic, biology educators were forced to think of ways to communicate with their students, engaging them in science and with the scientific community. For educators using course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs), the challenge to have students perform real science, analyze their work, and present their results to a larger scientific audience was difficult as the world moved online. Many instructors were able to adapt CUREs utilizing online data analysis and virtual meeting software for class discussions and synchronous learning. However, interaction with the larger scientific community, an integral component of making science relevant for students and allowing …

What Animals Teach Us, Christina Beger

Honors Theses

This thesis explored folktales from different cultures and compared and contrasted how those cultures viewed certain animals. From this research, I created and taught applicable fifth-grade English Language Arts lesson plans.

Utilizing Technology As A Means Of Teacher Professionalism, Jordan Ford

Honors Theses

A key component of professionalism in education lies in each teacher’s personal commitment to professional development. Charlotte Danielson’s Framework for Teaching acts as a guide for novice and seasoned teachers alike in this endeavor. A common theme seen throughout the framework is the need for teachers to meet students where they are. Today’s children are growing up in a technology-driven world, and they need educators to rise to the challenge of integrating technology into the classroom in order to equip them for adulthood.

Math Anxiety From All Angles, Katie Harmon

Honors Theses

The purpose of this thesis is to display the causes and impacts of math anxiety for students, especially in secondary education, and how to prevent math anxiety or help students with math anxiety. Three main groups, teachers, parents, and students, are discussed in this thesis. Overall, research is used to emphasize the significance and relevance of math anxiety and the ability of teachers and parents to help prevent the development or increased intensity of math anxiety for individual students.

Computer Science In The Elementary Classroom: The Basics, Mary Grace Belle Hill

Honors Theses

Computer Science is often ranked with Nuclear Physics or Biochemical Engineering; people understand it is an academic discipline, but have no desire to study or learn anything about it. With the introduction of Arkansas Computer Science Standards in the elementary classroom, many teachers wonder how to satisfy these and to do so without full knowledge of computer science and alongside all the other demands they must meet in the classroom. This paper covers my interest in computer science and why it is needed in elementary schools, specifically in Arkansas. It also incorporates the standards, including a chart of all the …

Stage: The Middle Schooler's Guide To Success, Kelsey Harrison

Honors Theses

For some, the thought of middle school brings back happy memories of JV sports, fine arts competitions, and lunch with friends. For others, thoughts of homework struggles, drama, and other adolescent woes come to mind. Whatever the words "middle school" bring back, it can be agreed by all that middle school is a time of change: biological changes, mental changes, and environmental changes. Amidst all of that, a middle school student's academic world changes as well. Grades K-2 were new and exciting adventures. In grades 3-5, most students settled into a comfortable academic routine. Suddenly they enter grades 6-8 and …

Science Learning Museums As An Extension Of The Elementary Classroom, Aaron Ward

Honors Theses

The lack of good science education in the American school is a problem that will affect the future of the United States. Not only is the decline of science-based teaching of elementary school students due to lack of funds and increase of class size, it is caused by a deficiency of creative teaching methods. One possible method that has and can be cultivated and developed is the use of Science Learning Museums (SLM) as effective teaching tools. The integration of classrooms and science museums can bring about positive, creative, fun, and exciting ways to learn, bringing an unenthusiastic textbook example …

A Study Of The Significant Contributions Of Irvin Cooper To Music Education On The Junior High School Level, Norma Louise Robertson

OBU Graduate Theses

The purpose of this study has been to determine the significant contributions of Irvin Cooper to the field of junior high school choral music by giving consideration to the following areas: (1) his educational preparation, (2) his professional activities, (3) his research and experimentation in the area of junior high choral music, and (4) his published works.

A Study Of The Use Of Musical Drama In The Development Of Creativity In School Children, Beverly Gallegly Coad

OBU Graduate Theses

This study is a descriptive analysis of research and writings concerning the use of musical drama for the development of creativity in children of selected public schools across the United States. The intent of this study is to illustrate that the development of creativity by the utilization of musical drama is an important element in public school education.

Bibliography Of Books For Use In Senior English Classes, Wanda Faye Williams

Honors Theses

This thesis is a bibliography of books for use in a senior English class. It is arranged by time periods, including the Old English period, Middle English period, Renaissance and Elizabethan, Seventeenth Century and Eighteenth Century, the Victorian Age, and the Twentieth Century. Each time period categorizes books further into people and material traits, government, literature and art forms, language, biographies, poetry and prose.

A Survey Of Educational Literature, April Dunham Lane

Honors Theses

There is much literature being written today pertaining to the field of education. I feel that by reading this literature a perspective teacher can gain great insight into the profession of teaching. The problem today is that few people have enough time to read. Much of the valuable literature goes to waste sitting on a shelf.

I decided that for my special studies project I would read some books and see what I could learn. I feel that I have gained a lot from reading these six books. I have developed many new ideas which I think will be useful …

A Study Of The General Music Course In Public Schools Since 1954, Anna Marie Lowe

OBU Graduate Theses

The problem of this study is to discuss different philosophies and resulting methods of teaching the general music course in the public schools for the purpose of detecting any valid trends in this area of music education.

Since music is an integral part of our democratic educational system and since there is much demand for its teaching, it has been advantageous to determine the most valid methods of instruction. This study, through exploration of different philosophies and methods of teaching the general music class in the public schools, will attempt to ascertain future valid trends in the general music area …

The Status Of High School Music In A Selected Arkansas Area, Linda Kay Miller

OBU Graduate Theses

The element of change is an ever-present factor of our American society, and this is reflected in our system of public school education. The fact that our society has become science oriented has greatly accelerated this rate of change in our school curriculum. The question, "Should music be given a share of the school day along with English, physics, and social sciences?" is being asked with increasing frequency. Therefore, it seems necessary and important to examine what is presently happening in high school music programs in order to anticipate what the future needs will be.

The problem of this study …