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Water A Precious Gift 2019.Pdf, Natasha Yates
Water A Precious Gift 2019.Pdf, Natasha Yates
Education Faculty Scholarship
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Yates Closure Tpc19 Final.Pptx, Natasha Yates
Yates Closure Tpc19 Final.Pptx, Natasha Yates
Education Faculty Scholarship
How can closure activities end my lessons with a lasting impression? Natasha Yates, St. Catherine University20-Minute Mentor SessionYou will take away many quick and easy closure strategies for your lessons from this session. Lectures or class meetings that just end do not leave lasting impressions as well as classes with closure. Closure or the wrap up of a lesson helps students recognize, summarize, acknowledge, and synthesize what they just learned. As education reformer John Dewey is credited for stating, “We do not learn from an experience. We learn from reflecting on an experience.” Closure strategies for a lesson are just …
Breaking Through The Noise: Literacy Teachers In The Face Of Accountability, Evaluation, And Reform, Catherine Kelly, Sara Miller, Karen Kleppe Graham, Chelsea Bahlmann Bollinger, Sherry Sanden, Michael Mcmanus
Breaking Through The Noise: Literacy Teachers In The Face Of Accountability, Evaluation, And Reform, Catherine Kelly, Sara Miller, Karen Kleppe Graham, Chelsea Bahlmann Bollinger, Sherry Sanden, Michael Mcmanus
Education Faculty Scholarship
In an era of increased accountability, it is important to understand how exemplary teachers navigate the demands placed on them by their schools, districts, and states in order to support student learning aligned with their beliefs of effective instruction. To understand these negotiations, the authors examined tensions facing exemplary literacy teachers through a qualitative interview study. Participants were 19 experienced Pre-K through sixth-grade teachers from across the United States. Results of the study indicate that teachers experience discrepancies between their beliefs and state and local mandates, and they discuss a variety of strategies for negotiating these discrepancies. Findings suggest that …