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Co-Teaching Botany And History: An Interdisciplinary Model For A More Inclusive Curriculum, Frederica Bowcutt, Tamara Caulkins Sep 2020

Co-Teaching Botany And History: An Interdisciplinary Model For A More Inclusive Curriculum, Frederica Bowcutt, Tamara Caulkins

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This essay offers numerous ideas on how to integrate science and history into classroom pedagogy in a way that acknowledges the contributions of women and other groups underrepresented in science by highlighting the cultural and political contexts in which science developed rather than by adding token individuals to a history of science still largely defined by the achievements of a few great men. It details how students in a General Education class co-taught by a botanist and a historian of science at the Evergreen State College not only gained skills in field botany and vegetation analysis but also became more …

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Modeling Tropical Diversity In The Undergraduate Classroom: Novel Curriculum To Engage Students In Authentic Scientific Practicesum To Engage Students In Authentic Scientific Practices, Jana Bouwma-Gearhart, Sarah Adumat, Allyson Rogan-Klyve, Andrew M. Bouwma Aug 2019

Modeling Tropical Diversity In The Undergraduate Classroom: Novel Curriculum To Engage Students In Authentic Scientific Practicesum To Engage Students In Authentic Scientific Practices, Jana Bouwma-Gearhart, Sarah Adumat, Allyson Rogan-Klyve, Andrew M. Bouwma

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A feature of science is its production of evidence-based explanations. Scientific models can both provide causal explanations and be predictive of natural phenomena. Modeling-based inquiry (MBI) is a pedagogical strategy that promotes students’ deep learning about phenomena via engagement in authentic scientific practices. Some university instructors have begun to facilitate MBI in their courses, notably those aimed at aspiring K–12 science educators who, per the Next Generation Science Standards, are encouraged to implement MBI. Yet exploration of curriculum and teaching with MBI in postsecondary environments is scarce. We detail a novel MBI curriculum implemented in a postsecondary ecology course that …

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How Much Is Enough? Teachers’ Perceptions Of Literacy Instruction And Common Core State Standards, Carol L. Butterfield, Sulee P. Kindle Jan 2017

How Much Is Enough? Teachers’ Perceptions Of Literacy Instruction And Common Core State Standards, Carol L. Butterfield, Sulee P. Kindle

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As public school districts and teachers seek to understand the Common Core State Standards and what it means for literacy instruction, preservice teachers in universities are also learning about literacy and standards. The International Literacy Association (2016) defines literacy as "Literacy is the ability to identify, understand, interpret, create, compute, and communicate using visual, audible, and digital materials across disciplines and in any context." How is this definition applied to real-life teaching in the classroom? In this study preservice teachers are involved in analyzing interview data in regards to practicing teacher perceptions and attitudes about literacy instruction and the CCSS.

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A Comparative Study Of Competency-Based Courses Demonstrating A Potential Measure Of Course Quality And Student Success, Jackie Krause, Laura Portolese, Christopher Schedler Jan 2015

A Comparative Study Of Competency-Based Courses Demonstrating A Potential Measure Of Course Quality And Student Success, Jackie Krause, Laura Portolese, Christopher Schedler

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While competency-based education is growing, standardized tools for evaluating the unique characteristics of course design in this domain are still under development. This preliminary research study evaluated the effectiveness of a rubric developed for assessing course design of competency-based courses in an undergraduate Information Technology and Administrative Management program. The rubric, which consisted of twenty-six individual measures, was used to evaluate twelve new courses. Additionally, the final assessment scores of nine students who completed nine courses in the program were evaluated to determine if a correlation exists between student success and specific indicators of quality in the course design. The …

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Updates To A Sequence Of Thermodynamics Experiments For Mechanical Engineering Technology Students, Roger A. Beardsley Jun 2013

Updates To A Sequence Of Thermodynamics Experiments For Mechanical Engineering Technology Students, Roger A. Beardsley

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This paper presents an outline of thermodynamics experiments and lab activities that accompany the introductory thermodynamics course for Mechanical Engineering Technology juniors at Central Washington University (CWU) in Ellensburg, Washington. It outlines and describes the current suite of thermodynamics lab activities, comparing the current suite of seven lab activities to a sequence outlined in an ASEE conference paper presented in 1995. Some lab activities in that paper have been replaced, while others have been updated. For example an experiment to measure the Joule-Thomson coefficient has been replaced with a First Law energy balance activity and the former First Law experiment …

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Media And Teaching About The Middle East, Khodi Kaviani Feb 2009

Media And Teaching About The Middle East, Khodi Kaviani

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This qualitative study was conducted in 2006-2007 and found that teachers relied on a variety of readily available media to stay informed about the Middle East and used some of them in their teaching. Teachers tried to explain to their students that every Middle Eastern Muslim is not a terrorist and Iraq was not behind the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The guiding questions were: (1) What are the sources of news that teachers use to teach about the Middle East? (2) How do teachers use the media to teach about the Middle East in the post 9/11 schools? Semi-structured interviews were …

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Distance Learning In Accounting Courses From The Student's Perspective (1999-2006), James P. Beaghan Dec 2007

Distance Learning In Accounting Courses From The Student's Perspective (1999-2006), James P. Beaghan

All Faculty Scholarship for the College of Business

Universities throughout the nation are faced wiih the reality of an increase in demand from place-bound, adult working students who live and work in locations that may be hundreds of miles from traditional college campuses, and require a less centralized mode of course instruction. At the same time technological advances are now available that provide universities with a wide range of instructional modes of instruction that include interactive television (ITV) with real time audio and visual at a number of decentralized classroom sites, live and remote. Distance learning/distance education (DE) technologies currently allow an instructor to deliver university course instruction …

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Pupil Interest In The Core Curriculum, Robert E. Mcconnell Mar 1939

Pupil Interest In The Core Curriculum, Robert E. Mcconnell

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What does a young American do? How does he spend his time? What is he compelled to do as a young citizen? How should he spend his time? How do his parents spend their time? The proper answering of these questions on the part of the school forms the core curriculum. Time was (and is yet, for that matter) when adult teachers decided what the child should learn and then attempted to force him into learning it. They paid little attention to the circumstances of the moment and oftentimes little attention to reality. Too little attention was given to the …

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Social Studies In State Courses, Harold E. Barto Mar 1939

Social Studies In State Courses, Harold E. Barto

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A survey of social studies in the state courses of study was undertaken in an attempt to determine the comparative emphasis given to certain subject-matter areas within the scope of the social studies. Findings of the survey in the elementary field were reported in the February, 1939, issue of this magazine (page 124). Findings in the secondary-schools division are here presented.

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Social Study Survey Of State Courses Of Study, Harold E. Barto Feb 1939

Social Study Survey Of State Courses Of Study, Harold E. Barto

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This study was undertaken in an attempt to determine the comparative emphasis given to certain subject matter areas within the scope of the social studies. In order to obtain the information necessary for a working basis, the state courses of study were surveyed by means of a questionnaire. One of the most recent trends in the field of curriculum development, is definitely towards integration in the social studies. No doubt there are many who are confronted with the problem of comparative emphasis. With this in mind. a summary of the findings is hereby submitted for the benefit of the readers …

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Maneuvers In World History, Harold E. Barto May 1936

Maneuvers In World History, Harold E. Barto

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In February 1935 the Washington Education Joumal carried a brief article under the title of "World History, 'What's It All About?'" Since then several letters have come from world history teachers from within the state. Frankly, they have caused some embarrassment. In almost one accord they have chided the writer with pointing out some of the problems relative to presenting world history without giving a hint as to possible remedial measures. The following suggestions no doubt represent methods which are being employed by all history teachers either directly or indirectly. They are neither new nor unique. However, they may help …

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The Third Grade Conducts A Post Office, Mabel T. Anderson, Amanda Katherine Hebeler Jul 1935

The Third Grade Conducts A Post Office, Mabel T. Anderson, Amanda Katherine Hebeler

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Because our third-grade children were often asked to go to the down-town post office to mail letters or to buy stamps, this group of pupils decided to have a school post office. Group discussion and planning began immediately. While plans were being made, the following problems arose and had to be solved: 1. What supplies shall we need? 2. When can we buy our supplies? 3. Where shall we get the money to pay for these supplies?

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Building The School Entertainment Day By Day: Cooperating Rather Than Competing In Play, Jennie Moore Jan 1930

Building The School Entertainment Day By Day: Cooperating Rather Than Competing In Play, Jennie Moore

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To justify any school entertainment as an educational instrument, it must be rich in the learnings gained by day in the school through careful teacher guidance. How well does the average athletic meet express sound educational practice?

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Building The School Entertainment Day By Day: Sharing Experiences With The Community, Jennie Moore Nov 1929

Building The School Entertainment Day By Day: Sharing Experiences With The Community, Jennie Moore

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"What school experiences will my pupils enjoy sharing with their friends?" you ask yourself. As you think of the people in the community, it seems probable that many of them learned to read by the word method, that they mastered spelling by the valiant repetition of letters, that history to them was a mass of names and dates, and that their recesses were listless breaks in the routine of classes. To see their children or their neighbor's children doing happily that which was drudgery to them will be a rare treat. And so arises the idea for your first school …

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Our State Of Washington, Herbert C. Fish Jan 1927

Our State Of Washington, Herbert C. Fish

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This brief book details the early history of the state of Washington, and includes suggestions for discussion questions and projects related to many topics in Washington State history.

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Project Teaching Of Manual Training, Henry J. Whitney Sep 1920

Project Teaching Of Manual Training, Henry J. Whitney

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Recent numbers of this magazine and other good publications have emphasized the necessity that manual training teachers have a well recognized theory back of their work, and further, that the value of the work of any teacher is in direct ratio to the clearness with which this theory is comprehended and followed in practice. A project is any activity purposed by an individual and by him carried through. Project teaching of manual training is the most difficult kind of teaching, but withall the most fruitful, for it furnishes the opportunity to develop those qualities of manhood that our democratic society …

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Projects In Printing, Edward G. Anderson Jun 1920

Projects In Printing, Edward G. Anderson

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The value of printing as offered in the curriculum of the graded school has been demonstrated in the training department of the Washington State Normal School at Ellensburg. Students in the seventh and eighth grade classes founded the publication The School News in 1918-1919.

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A Review Of The Pedagogical Studies In The Teaching Of Spelling, Mary A. Grupe Sep 1913

A Review Of The Pedagogical Studies In The Teaching Of Spelling, Mary A. Grupe

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Despite the fact that a few far-seeing men have, from the early years of the eighteenth century, inveighed against the dominance of spelling and the "cruel drudgery" it entailed upon the learner, the subject remained an independent discipline far into the nineteenth century. To be able to spell was the criterion whereby to judge the educated man and so ingrained did this become in the popular mind that even to this day our grandfathers, nay our fathers, dubiously shake their heads because spelling no longer occupies a conspicuous place on the schoolroom program and because, as they insist, the rising …

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