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Cultivating Teachers When The School Doors Are Shut: Two Teacher-Educators Reflect On Supervision, Instruction, Change And Opportunity During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Crystal C. Loose, Michael G. Ryan Nov 2020

Cultivating Teachers When The School Doors Are Shut: Two Teacher-Educators Reflect On Supervision, Instruction, Change And Opportunity During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Crystal C. Loose, Michael G. Ryan

Early & Middle Grades Education Faculty Publications

Seven weeks into our Spring 2020 semester, the Covid-19 pandemic was wreaking havoc on the world. The pandemic caused immediate shutdowns to schools and universities fundamentally changing how we plan for, teach, guide, and work with students. This paper explores how two first-year Assistant Professors navigated the challenges we faced and the learning opportunities we embraced while continuing our work as teacher educators amid a pandemic-induced shutdown. We employed collective self-study to examine our experiences while transitioning to remote learning with pre-service teachers using Moore's (2012, 1993, 1989) transactional distance theory as an analytical framework to review our work as …


Breaking The Silence: Preservice Teachers Use Reflective Journals To Express Personal Experiences Related To Diversity, Katherine E. L. Norris Oct 2016

Breaking The Silence: Preservice Teachers Use Reflective Journals To Express Personal Experiences Related To Diversity, Katherine E. L. Norris

Early & Middle Grades Education Faculty Publications

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Promoting Critical Thinking Through An Interdisciplinary Study Abroad Program, Wei Wei Cai, Gopal Sankaran Apr 2015

Promoting Critical Thinking Through An Interdisciplinary Study Abroad Program, Wei Wei Cai, Gopal Sankaran

Early & Middle Grades Education Faculty Publications

This paper discusses the promotion of critical thinking through an interdisciplinary curriculum design using multidisciplinary faculty as well as details the implementation of an experiential short-term study abroad program in China. To achieve this educational goal of critical thinking, along with meeting the requirements specific to each course, the program was built on a framework using two interrelated approaches – theme-based interdisciplinary curriculum and cultural immersion. The theme-based interdisciplinary curriculum was constructed on three principles (the ability to pose great questions that encompassed drawing knowledge and skills from each discipline, acquiring global awareness, and developing glocal awareness). Cultural immersion was …


Integrating Service Learning Into A Course On Teaching English Language Learners And Looking At Preliminary Data, Sara Lamb Kistler, Cate Crosby Oct 2014

Integrating Service Learning Into A Course On Teaching English Language Learners And Looking At Preliminary Data, Sara Lamb Kistler, Cate Crosby

Early & Middle Grades Education Faculty Publications

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Emerging Questions: K–3 Teachers’ Reflections On Action Research Questions, Connie Dilucchio, Heather Leaman, Yvonne Eglinton, Lauren Candace Watson Apr 2014

Emerging Questions: K–3 Teachers’ Reflections On Action Research Questions, Connie Dilucchio, Heather Leaman, Yvonne Eglinton, Lauren Candace Watson

Early & Middle Grades Education Faculty Publications

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Teacher Research At The Middle Level: Strengthening The Essential Attributes Of Education For Young Adolescents, Connie Dilucchio, Heather Leaman, Kathleen Elicker, Denise Mathisen Apr 2014

Teacher Research At The Middle Level: Strengthening The Essential Attributes Of Education For Young Adolescents, Connie Dilucchio, Heather Leaman, Kathleen Elicker, Denise Mathisen

Early & Middle Grades Education Faculty Publications

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Practitioner Inquiry: Exploring Quality In Beginning Teacher Researchers' Work, Connie Dilucchio, Heather Leaman Dec 2012

Practitioner Inquiry: Exploring Quality In Beginning Teacher Researchers' Work, Connie Dilucchio, Heather Leaman

Early & Middle Grades Education Faculty Publications

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Fishbowls, Creative Controversy, Talking Chips: Exploring Literature Cooperatively, Lynda Baloche, Marilyn Lee Mauger, Therese M. Willis, Joseph R. Filinuk, Barbara V. Michalsky Oct 1993

Fishbowls, Creative Controversy, Talking Chips: Exploring Literature Cooperatively, Lynda Baloche, Marilyn Lee Mauger, Therese M. Willis, Joseph R. Filinuk, Barbara V. Michalsky

Early & Middle Grades Education Faculty Publications

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Sprouting Magic Beans: Exploring Literature Through Creative Questioning And Cooperative Learning, Lynda Baloche, Thomas J. Platt Apr 1993

Sprouting Magic Beans: Exploring Literature Through Creative Questioning And Cooperative Learning, Lynda Baloche, Thomas J. Platt

Early & Middle Grades Education Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.