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Escape Reality: Reaching Your Students With Virtual Instruction And Fun (Presentation), Jenny Bruxvoort, Kate Wimer, Amanda Matthysse

Faculty Publications - George Fox University Library

Creating a virtual escape room might seem overwhelming, especially at first, but don't worry, you've got this! Focusing on instructional design from the beginning will give you a solid foundation and help you bring the project to life - you don't need any crazy tech skills to create an engaging, educational experience like this for your online students! In this session, we will share our experiences creating virtual escape rooms for first-year students at two different universities and give you our best tips and a structure for how to get started with your own.

Participants will:

• Understand the importance of …

The Administrator, Iss. 8, May 2021, Illinois State University College Student Personnel Administration

The Administrator

Newsletter of the Illinois State University College Student Personnel Administration

Mackenzie Glaser Honors Portfolio, Mackenzie Glaser

Honors Capstone Portfolios

Mackenzie Glaser's honors portfolio captured in May 2021.

To Read Or Not To Read: Navigating Young Adult Literature In The Classroom In The Age Of Trigger Warnings And Banned Books, Ashley Sell

Honors Projects

Most public school libraries or English classrooms celebrate Banned Books Week during the school year, featuring dozens of Young Adult novels that have been challenged or banned in public schools across the country. However, books aimed towards young readers are typically not optimized for educational use in the classroom. In this project, I will explore the benefits of using Young Adult literature in the classroom, while also investigating the obstacles that one might face in order to do so, i.e. censorship, sensitive subject matter. I also want to summarize and respond to an argument for the retainment of classic literature …

Black [Out]: Discipline Inequity Matters For Black Females At The Elementary School Level, Oliver K. Patterson

Educational Leadership & Policy Studies Dissertations - Archive

Nearly 3.5 million American students (K-12) experience some form of ostracization from educational settings yearly in the form of In-School-Suspension (ISS), Out-of-School suspension (OSS), or expulsion. Impact research reveals that exclusionary practices correlate with negative outcomes for students including academic achievement (e.g., lower test scores, higher dropout rates), socio-emotional struggles, and increased problem behaviors and interactions with the criminal justice system Studies have also demonstrated that school systems tend to promote negative attitudes towards Black children beginning in elementary grades. Many studies indicate that the inevitability of academic exclusion stems from teacher bias against Black students and lack of training …

The Latinx Student Experience At An Elite College In Texas, Jennifer Sutton

Educational Leadership & Policy Studies Dissertations - Archive

Increased enrollment of Latinx students in college has led to reshaping the landscape of American higher education, diversifying college enrollment and degree completion. This qualitative study explored the lived experience of Latinx graduates from the same elite Texas college, so we can better understand how high-achieving, under-represented students successfully navigated a college environment historically attended by high-achieving students from upper socio-economic backgrounds. Jalomo and Rendón’s (2004) three critical processes for students in transition provided the framework. Participants engaged in semi-structured interviews to share their experience of transitioning to campus (separation), feeling of validation in college (validation), and description of the …

Library Connection, V8n2, Spring 2021, University Of Northern Iowa. Rod Library.

Library Connection

Contents:

--- Improvisational Entrepreneurship and the Modern Library
--- Kelsie Willert: Connecting the Past with the People
--- Brennan Hamilton: Sharing the Personal Side of History
--- Keeping Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the Forefront
--- UNI is Sharing Knowledge with the World!

Variety In Second Language Instruction: Student Engagement In Sla, Emily Borgstrom Woodruff

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

This portfolio is a collection of works completed by the author during her time as a student in the Master of Second Language Teaching program at Utah State University. It highlights important aspects and experiences of foreign language education that represent the author’s personal journey of learning and teaching.

The first section is comprised of the author’s teaching perspectives which are represented through the author’s desired professional environment, her teaching philosophy statement, and the author’s professional development through teaching observations. The second section presents the author’s pedagogical research pertaining to foreign language pragmatics and music integration in the classroom. The …

A Case Study In The Use Of Mentorships In Academic Instructional Coach Development., Matt Anderson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Academic instructional coaches have long been used to support teacher development and student learning. As a recent position in the education field, there is little information regarding the development of staff in this role. This study sought to better understand how academic instructional coaches are mentored and developed within challenging school contexts. The theoretical framework for this research is guided by the social constructivism epistemology. In alignment with this framework, a collective case study was utilized to better understand the relationship between the principal and the academic instructional coach. Exploring this relationship emphasized how principals support academic instructional coach growth. …

Collaborative Classrooms: Incorporating Pragmatics And Technology In Language Learning With A Focus On Generation 1.5, Brandee Burk

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

This portfolio is a compilation of work that the author accomplished during the Master of Second Language Teaching program at Utah State University (USU). It reflects the culmination of the author’s learning and teaching experiences during her coursework and as a graduate teaching assistant (GTA) in the Intensive English Language Institute (IELI).

The portfolio contains three main sections: teaching perspectives, research perspectives, and an annotated bibliography. In the first section the author explains her desired professional environment, her philosophy of teaching, as well as insights from language classroom observations she will incorporate into her teaching. The research perspectives section consists …

Sixth-Grade Sight-Singing For Low Vision Students: A Course To Enhance Confidence And Music Reading Ability, Jamie Lane Carpenter

Masters Theses

Students enter the private or public-school system with a wide variety of emotional, mental, and physical impairments that impact their confidence, self-esteem, and overall path to their future. One misunderstood and under-represented population of students are those who are not fully blind but fall under the category of low vision. Since the low vision spectrum is wide, students must advocate for themselves according to their unique visual condition. While some students may be nearsighted, others may experience color blindness, tunnel vision, a wide variety of partial blindness in one or both eyes, and more. If educators are not aware of …

Hello, Neighbor! A Curriculum For The Instruction Of Social And Emotional Learning In The Early Childhood Music Classroom Using The Pedagogical Strategies Of Fred Rogers, Julia Conceison

Masters Theses

Modern music educators are faced with many unique challenges while teaching in the early childhood and elementary classroom. With these challenges come the added stressors of students’ individual and collective experiences as they learn to process and regulate their behaviors and emotions through a variety of often unfamiliar social, political, and familial challenges. Currently, while many university teacher preparation programs focus on teaching content differentiation, curriculum creation, and content knowledge, they do not often focus on cultural relevance and responsiveness. One champion of cultural relevance and responsiveness in music education is composer, educator, minister, and children’s television host, Fred Rogers, …

An Examination Of Chinese Private College Students’ Intercultural Competence, Li Li

Education (PhD) Dissertations

With globalization being a focus of the 21st century, the primary approach for responding to global challenges for higher education institutions is to adopt an internationalization strategy and accelerate the internationalization pace. To cultivate “global-ready” graduates, developing students’ intercultural competence (IC) has become one of the core missions of international and Chinese higher education institutions. Given the scarcity of quantitative studies on Chinese private college students’ IC and inconsistent findings on the relationships between foreign language capability, international experience, and IC in the extant literature, a quantitative study was conducted in a Chinese private college to explore 1,983 undergraduate students’ …

Bidimensional Assessment Of Youth Mental Health: Evaluation Of The California Healthy Kids Survey As A Measure Of Youth Subjective Well-Being, Michael Doria

Education (PhD) Dissertations

This study comprehensively analyzed extant data from the 2016–2017 California Healthy Kids Survey (CHKS) secondary core and Social Emotional Health Module (SEHM) to explore the ability of the CHKS to measure subjective well-being (SWB), a critical component in the assessment of youth mental health (MH). Research has validated the significance and utility of a dual continuum model of MH, with SWB predicting emotional, behavioral, and cognitive engagement. Accordingly, when coupled with an assessment of psychopathology, positive evaluations of SWB can provide a more descriptive and comprehensive view of youth functioning than psychopathology alone. This more comprehensive view of students’ functioning …

2021-May-01-Enjoy Retirement, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

Congratulations to the following members of the East Tennessee State University family who retired in April.  Thank you for your service!

Joy C. Hoover – Executive Aide, Center for Advisement and Student Excellence, College of Arts and Sciences, 4 years of service

Cheryl Garby Moore – Research Specialist, Biomedical Sciences, 18 years of service

Published May 2021 as part of the Accent email newsletter for faculty and staff.

2021-May-01-Etsu Class Of 2021 Spring Commencement, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

Final ceremony Sunday, May 9

JOHNSON CITY (May 8, 2021) – East Tennessee State University continued its four-day Commencement celebration on Saturday as degrees were presented to graduates of the colleges of Nursing, Public Health, and Clinical and Rehabilitative Health Sciences and the Clemmer College.

Throughout the weekend, degrees are being conferred to over 2,000 students.  In addition, the university held a special ceremony on Friday at 10 a.m. honoring the Class of 2020 graduates.  Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, degrees were conferred to these students in virtual ceremonies, but yesterday they had the opportunity to don their cap and …

2021-May-01-1911 Society - Class Of 2021, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

11 members of the Class of 2021

JOHNSON CITY – Eleven members of the Class of 2021 who have distinguished themselves for academic excellence, service and leadership at East Tennessee State University have been inducted into the 1911 Society.

1911 Society - Class of 2021

Named in commemoration of the year when ETSU was founded, the 1911 Society recognizes the university’s most notable graduates from undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. The selection committee evaluates applicants on academic achievement; sustained service; honors, awards, recognitions, publications and presentations; demonstrated leadership; work experience, such as study abroad, internships, externships and clinicals; and personal …

2021-May-01-Going Places, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

ETSU welcomes the following employees who recently joined the university: 

Thomas Bauer is an information security engineer in Information Technology Services. He was previously a security analyst with Affinity Tech Solutions.

Mark D. Christian is a police officer in Public Safety. Before coming to ETSU, he was a deputy in the Carter County Sheriff’s Office. He holds a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from Bethel University.

Devin Clark is a dispatcher in Public Safety. He holds a B.S. degree in exercise science from ETSU.

Crystal Harrell is a career specialist with the Center for Community Outreach. She holds a B.S. …

2021-May-01-Grad Students Conclude Cdc Mascup Study, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY — A team of graduate students from East Tennessee State University College of Public Health have been busy placing Johnson City on the map as they conclude four months of local observations for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) national MASCUP! study. 

Under the direction of Dr. Sam Pettyjohn, research assistant professor, ETSU is one of 66 locations nationwide chosen to assess mask wearing behaviors at U.S. colleges and universities as part of a larger “Mask Adherence Surveillance at Colleges and Universities,” or MASCUP!. Students have collected field data gathered on and off campus.

Since February, …

2021-May-01-Horsepower 2021 Tweetsie Celebration Running Back-To-Back, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

Horsepower 2021, Tweetsie Celebration running back-to-back

JOHNSON CITY — Prepare for two weekends filled with railroading history at East Tennessee State University. On May 29, the George L. Carter Railroad Museum, located in the Campus Center Building, will kick off its Modern Equipment “Horsepower 2021” Heritage Day, followed by a limited-attendance, two and a half-day Tweetsie Celebration, June 4-6.

Both events will allow visitors to see railroading’s diverse history, beginning with the annual modern diesel day to showcase today’s high-horsepower equipment. Operating in …

2021-May-01-Pocket Ace Published In International Journal, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

Study finds wording change in ACEs test could help find more childhood sexual abuse survivors

JOHNSON CITY – Could modifying the wording of a screening test commonly used to identify adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) result in identifying more survivors of childhood sexual abuse, and therefore lead to improved health outcomes for these individuals?

It could, if the findings of research led by East Tennessee State University’s Robyn Dolson spur changes in the way childhood sexual abuse is identified.

Dolson is the author of “Pocket ACE: Child Sexual Abuse Survivors Missed by the ACEs Study Questionnaire,” which appears in the July …

2021-May-01-Renaissance Child Camps Offered This Summer, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY — East Tennessee State University’s Office of Professional Development invites children and youth to participate in its 2021 Renaissance Child Camps, scheduled for June 7-July 31. 

For the 19th year, these one-week camps will offer a variety of educational, hands-on and interactive opportunities for participants in first grade through high school, with programming based on the STREAM (science, technology, reading/recreation, engineering, arts and math) educational curriculum, which follows Tennessee Core State Standards. An emphasis on the well-rounded child is completed by outside play and creative activities.

Returning camps for participants entering seventh grade, and ages 12 and up, …

2021-May-01-Spring 2021 Commencement Schedule, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

After holding both spring and fall commencement ceremonies virtually in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, East Tennessee State University is pleased to host ceremonies on campus for its expected 2,091 spring 2021 graduates, as well as graduates from both spring and fall 2020.

For the health and well-being of those who will gather for the celebration, the university will host several ceremonies over the course of four days instead of the traditional two Saturday ceremonies. To support a safe environment for graduates, guests and all participants during these events, a number of protocols will be in place.

Ceremony programs …

2021-May-Cheer Tryouts For 2021-2022 School Year, University School, East Tennessee State University, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

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2021-May-High School Boys Basketball Tryouts, University School, East Tennessee State University, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

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2021-May-Petro's Fundraiser - Tuesday May 4th, University School, East Tennessee State University, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

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2021-May-Uh Track Team State Qualifiers, University School, East Tennessee State University, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

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2021-May-Uh Track Athlete Skyler Miller To Sign With King University, University School, East Tennessee State University, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

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Arbor Day Foundation Programs: Analysis And Recommendations, Justin Myers, Emily Alston, Cameron Claborn, Charles Erker, Braelyn Isernhagen, Jonathan Jameson

Honors Program: Senior Projects (Public)

We are proposing the enhancement of the current Tree City USA program to include a special recognition program for high-achieving communities. These “Golden Oak” tree cities will be recognized each year based on a variety of metrics detailed in a new and more comprehensive program application. Recommendations:

● Updated application to include more information about both quantitative and qualitative insights

● Special recognition program awarding “Golden Oak” status to communities in village, town, city, and metropolis categories based on either percentile or benchmarking system

● A cumulative “Golden Oak” award given to the State that achieves the highest percentage of …

Mamba Mentality: A Blueprint For Success, Josiah Payne

Goal 2: Life Skills Narrative

Purpose:

The purpose of this program is to help students develop a mindset and habits that will facilitate success in pursuing their interests.