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Valuing The Success Of Failure: Reflective Journaling And Mistake Acceptance, Elisabeth Thomas May 2020

Valuing The Success Of Failure: Reflective Journaling And Mistake Acceptance, Elisabeth Thomas

Masters of Education in Teaching and Learning

This study examined ninth-grade students’ acceptance of their own mistakes in the classroom. The author implemented a journaling process twice a week in an attempt to give students a positive perception of their academic failures in a school setting. She collected data by using surveys, interviews, reflective writing, and a focus group. On top of this, the researcher asked about student perceptions of the journaling process as applied to the acceptance of their mistakes. Surveys were analyzed using descriptive statistics and were graphed. The constant-comparative method was used to understand major themes. This resulted in four major findings which included …


Student Perceptions Of Social-Emotional Learning Through Morning Meetings In A 12th-Grade Economics Classroom, Summer Anguiano May 2020

Student Perceptions Of Social-Emotional Learning Through Morning Meetings In A 12th-Grade Economics Classroom, Summer Anguiano

Masters of Education in Teaching and Learning

With increased interest in Social-Emotional Learning (SEL), teachers have worked to find ways in which SEL can be brought into the school and classroom community. For this study, the researcher wanted to bring SEL into the classroom and understand how the students perceived it. The study was conducted in an on-level senior Economics classroom where SEL had not previously been introduced into the classroom culture. Data was gathered through a student survey, individual student interviews, and a focus group interview. To analyze the data, the researcher used a constant comparative method of coding to identify the data thematically. From the …


Exceptional Mathematics Teachers: What The Learners Think, Brianna Louvier May 2020

Exceptional Mathematics Teachers: What The Learners Think, Brianna Louvier

Masters of Education in Teaching and Learning

The purpose of this study was to determine high school learners’ perceptions of what makes an exceptional mathematics teacher. The author was a pre-service teacher serving her clinical teaching internship in a high school mathematics classroom in which Precalculus, Pre-AP Precalculus, and AP Calculus were taught. For this study, data was collected through a student survey, one-on-one interviews, and focus group interviews with students. The data was analyzed using the constant comparative method. Four major themes emerged from the data, including the significance of a teacher’s attitude, the importance of a teacher’s desire to help and teach learners, whether or …