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Teacher Preparation Aimed At Integrating Technology, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee

Press Releases

Since Fall 2015 Dominican University of California has enhanced its teacher preparation curriculum in order to prepare elementary, middle, and high school teachers to integrate technology into their classes. This comes as more schools embrace tablet computers and laptops, presenting teachers with challenges related to developing and organizing digital courses.

Major General Salinas Delivers Commencement Address, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee

Press Releases

Major General Angela Salinas, U.S. Marine Corps (Retired), received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree and delivered the keynote address at Dominican University of California’s 2015 commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 16.

Nbc Bay Area Follows Inspirational Story, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee

Press Releases

NBC Bay Area in 2015 filmed a news segment about Yema Khalif Manyanki’s ‘15 journey to Dominican. Yema grew up just outside Nairobi in Kibera, the largest urban slum in Africa. Thanks to a life-changing encounter with a Hollywood actress, Yema graduated with a degree in communications, earned his MBA degree in 2016 and is now CEO and Founder of his own startup business, YEMA Sports Apparel.

Pbs Airs President Marcy At Commonwealth Club Panel, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee

Press Releases

President Marcy participated in a panel discussion at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on April 29 on the topic, “What's the Value of a College Education?” Monica R. Martinez, Deeper Learning Senior Fellow for the Hewlett Foundation and Commissioner of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics, served as moderator.

Spring Author Series Welcomes One Book One Marin Selection, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee

Press Releases

Prize-winning author Daniel Alarcón, named in 2010 by The New Yorker as one of the best 20 writers in America under the age of 40, spoke at Dominican University of California on May19, at the Institute for Leadership Studies’ Spring Author Series, presented in partnership with Book Passage.

82-Year-Old Retired Warden Returns To Earn Degree, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee

Press Releases

At the age of 82 -- 36 years after he postponed completion of his Dominican education to pursue a job -- Bill Merkle finally received his diploma on May 16.

Usc-Bound Psychology Major Among Wpa Presenters, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee

Press Releases

The love of the sea and a longing to be in the Navy is now leading Dominican senior Sarah Creely ’15 to USC.

Stanford-Bound Student Selected Newman Civic Fellow, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee

Press Releases

For all that Magdalena Fitipaldi ’15 experienced and accomplished at Dominican since the 2013 fall semester, it is no wonder that the honors Political Science and International Studies double major was named the recipient of a 2015 Newman Civic Fellow by Campus Compact.

Business Edge Briefing Series Event Focuses On China, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee

Press Releases

Allan Marson, Partner for Ishimara & Associates, and Natalie Levine, Deputy Team Leader for the Global China Team of the U.S. Department of Commerce, were guest speakers for the Business Edge Briefing Series event at Dominican University of California on April 29.

Service-Learning Symposium Celebrates 10th Year, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee

Press Releases

Dominican President Mary B. Marcy and Elaine Ikeda, Executive Director of California Campus Compact, were guest speakers at the Service-Learning Symposium on May 6 in Creekside Room.

Dominican Celebrates "Unity In Diversity" Day, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee

Press Releases

Dominican honored “Unity in Diversity” on campus March 25 with a series of events beginning in Guzman Hall and culminating with the Melba Beals Awards for Excellence in Diversity and the annual Soul Candy celebration in Angelico Hall.

The Truth Of God's Way, C. William Pollard

C. William Pollard Papers

In this speech at John Brown University's 2015 commencement exercises, Pollard encourages graduating students to build their future vocational endeavors upon God's truth as well as a commitment to servant leadership.

Survey Of Students’ Perceptions Of Assertive Discipline And Restorative Discipline In American Christian Academy, Ibadan, Nigeria., Adedayo Oladeji Okunade

Master of Education Program Theses

This action research study investigated the perceptions of students regarding two discipline methods, Restorative Discipline (RD) and Assertive Discipline (AD), at American Christian Academy, Nigeria. The total number of participants was sixty-six students from grades seven through nine. Participants were divided into two groups: grade seven (experimental group) and grades eight and nine (control group). The experimental group was exposed explicitly to the Restorative Discipline Method for four weeks while the control group continued to be exposed to the Assertive Discipline Method (the norm in the school). At the end of four weeks, both groups were given a questionnaire containing …

Holistic Versus Dualistic Christian Worldview: A Study Of Comparative Impact In A Latin American Community, Jinhi K. Roskamp

Master of Education Program Theses

This action research study investigated teacher and student perceptions regarding the impact of worldviews on educational outcomes in an urban, lower income setting in Nicaragua. Two Christian schools, one representing a holistic biblical approach and the other a dualistic approach in similar socio-economic settings were selected for a primarily non-experimental quantitative study to find out whether a holistic biblical worldview orientation in teachers was perceived as more effective in producing student transformation that connected with service to the community. A third school representing a secular approach was included as additional point of comparison. Participants included seven teachers and twelve fourth-grade …

Teachers As World-Makers In The Digital Age, Abby De Groot

Master of Education Program Theses

Despite enormous gains in educational technology and access to information, today’s students still struggle with digital literacy. In fact, some argue that today’s students are so distracted by digital media that their literacy skills are falling behind previous generations. In order to combat this phenomenon, researchers have singled out certain critical literacy skills for today’s students that, when taught effectively, will help those students develop into competent and productive adults: collaboration, composition, attention, evaluation, and responsibility. This study highlights and analyzes this important literacy research in order to help teachers better equip their twenty-first century students. Christian teachers especially should …

Education And The Future Of Jobs, Singapore Management University

Perspectives@SMU

Technological advances could soon produce robots so efficient that human labour will effectively be eliminated. Jobs that require skills that are supposedly beyond that of robot - journalism, computer programming, and even medicine - could soon be done by robots.How does that change the role of education?

Grangegorman Newsletter No. 25, Summer 2015, Dublin Institute Of Technology

Publications

Ministers visit Grangegorman Primary Care Centre site.

College Of Arts And Sciences E-News Issue 25: May 2015, College Of Arts And Sciences

College of Arts and Sciences news

• WMU shares applied behavior analysis training videos for autism
• WMU room and board rates to increase by 3.3 percent this fall
• Bush named American Council on Education Fellow
• Torres Wins National Literature Award
• Enrique Gamez '14 wins NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
• Shane Preston '12 Speaks to WMU Students Student honored for leadership, service
• Two area seniors win $20,000 scholarships to study at WMU
• WMU among grant winners recognized at 'Americas' summit

Why Should Students Want To Do A Close Reading?, John L. Beltramo, Jamy Stillman

Teacher Education

This article explores the issue of student interest in close reading. In particular, it raises questions about the limited focus on student engagement in much of the current discourse about close reading and considers how teachers might build and sustain the student interest necessary for literacy activity, especially close reading. Specifically, we draw on sociocultural perspectives on literacy and emerging findings from our own research on teachers' work with the Common Core Standards to describe a set of classroom practices we believe hold promise for facilitating engagement in close reading, particularly among students from historically underserved communities.

Differentiated Instruction: Strategies For English Language Learners Listening Comprehension Development, Stefanie Moreno

Master’s Theses and Projects

Differentiated Instruction is a hot topic right now and teachers need to keep up with the changes in the educational system. The one-size-fits-all approach that we have being dealing with for so long, no longer fits the needs, preferences and learning styles of our students. Teachers need to differentiate instruction and provide students with different avenues of learning in order to maximize their learning process. Because more attention and practice is needed on listening skills, knowledge in differentiated instruction and the different strategies to teach listening skills can be used together to help develop English language learners listening comprehension skills. …

Adapting The Process Writing Approach To English Language Learners With Special Needs: Using Visuals, Lindinalva Lima

Master’s Theses and Projects

The available literature on the writing characteristics and best practices to teach writing to English Language Learners who also present some disability is scarce. In order to understand and provide some insight on the developments in this field, I propose an adaptation of the Process Writing Approach based on a literature review of the existing bibliography about the writing characteristics of English Language Learners, Special Needs Learners, and English Language Learners with Special Needs’ writing, the effects of the Process Writing Approach in teaching writing to these groups, and the use of visuals in writing instruction. The main assumptions of …

Alternative Assessment Of Writing In Learning English As A Foreign Language: Analytical Scoring And Self-Assessment, Lenite Silva Lopes

Master’s Theses and Projects

While the educational benefits of alternative assessment are being increasingly recognized and alternative assessment procedures introduced into the different educational levels, in Cape Verde, many EFL teachers are not aware of its importance. The main purpose of this thesis is to synthesize and review the available literature on alternative assessment tools to evaluate the writing of EFL students of Cape Verde secondary schools. The issue of accurate and fair assessment of students writing probably constitutes the major dilemma in both L1 and L2 writing fields, and EFL field is not an exception. The paper also aims to make Cape Verdean …

The Relationship Between Teachers And Students In The Classroom: Communicative Language Teaching Approach And Cooperative Learning Strategy To Improve Learning, Fredson Soares Dos Reis Da Luz

Master’s Theses and Projects

The aim of this research is to investigate how a supportive relationship between teachers and students in the classroom can improve the learning process. By having a good relationship with students, teachers can offer to students chances to be motivated and feel engaged in the learning process. Students will be engaged actively in the learning instead of being passive learners. I wish to investigate how using communicative approach and cooperative learning strategies while teaching do affect and improve students’ learning performance. To achieve these goals qualitative data collection was used as the primary method. The results show that teachers and …

Une Library Services Quarterly Report May 2015, Une Library Services

Quarterly Reports

Highlights of accomplishments of the University of New England's Library Services department.

Ciis Alumni Association Newsletter, Ciis

Alumni Association Newsletter

This is the May 2015 Issue of the CIIS Alumni Newsletter

Hexapod Herald - Vol. 27, No. 2, May 2015

Hexapod Herald and Other Entomology Department Newsletters

Content: Welcome - Congratulations - Student News - Publications - Travel - Meet an Off-Campus Student - Faculty News - First Ever Alumni Dinner

The Impacts Of Youth Conservation Corps On Participants: A Multi-Method Examination 2015, Nicholas Justin Prechel

Master's Theses

The purpose of this study was to examine the benefits that participants receive from serving in youth conservation corps. The entire population of one youth conservation corps was selected to participate in the study during the summer of 2012 trail work season. The study utilized a mixed-method approach that included a one-time pre/posttest with a retrospective pretest adapted from the American Camp Association’s Youth Outcomes Battery (YOB) and an open ended interview session. Of the 109 participants in the field at the time, 101 chose to participate in the quantitative survey. The YOB tested four areas: independence, responsibility, teamwork, and …

Annual Report Of Undergraduate Research Fellows From August 2014 To May 2015, Office Of Research And Sponsored Programs. Morehead State University.

Office of Research and Sponsored Programs Reports and Publications

Annual Report of Undergraduate Research Fellows from August 2014 to May 2015.

Investigating Children’S Abilities To Count And Make Quantitative Comparisons, Joohi Lee, Shamah Md-Yunus

Faculty Research and Creative Activity

This study was designed to investigate children’s

abilities to count and make quantitative comparisons.

In addition, this study utilized reasoning questions

(i.e., how did you know?). Thirty-four preschoolers, mean

age 4.5 years old, participated in the study. According to

the results, 89 % of the children (n = 30) were able to do

rote counting and 70 % (n = 24) were able to do rational

counting. When children were asked how they knew how

many objects were in a set, 30 responded that they used a

counting strategy. Sixty-five percent of children (n = 22)

answered ‘‘zero’’ when no …

Educational Leadership Newsletter May 2015, Educational Leadership Department, University Of Southern Maine

Educational Leadership Newsletters

Inside this issue:

• From the Chair
• PhD Topics - Southern Maine Partnership Dine and Discuss
• Southern Maine Partnership Principals Meeting
• Leadership Projects
• Fall 2015 Schedule