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Honors Abroad Through Third-Party Providers, Susan E. Dinan

National Collegiate Honors Council Monographs: Chapters

Given the challenges of promoting internationalization by expanding our institutions’ international student populations (Fischer), the development of our students as global citizens through study abroad and curriculum offerings appears more important than ever. Providing innovative and challenging curriculum options that align with the long-espoused pedagogical approaches of the National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC)— many of which foreshadowed today’s highly touted high-impact practices such as undergraduate research, strong faculty-student mentor relationships, and study abroad—constitutes a desirable path to pursue (NCHC Board; Kuh). Yet, admittedly these valuable practices come with a price for institutions and students. For example, the increasingly popular summer …

Early Impact: Assessing Global-Mindedness And Intercultural Competence In A First-Year Honors Abroad Course, Michael Carignan, Maureen Vandermaas-Peeler

National Collegiate Honors Council Monographs: Chapters

Within the expanding field of study abroad scholarship, recent research on honors-based programming indicates an evolving understanding of how the goals of most study abroad programs align with those of honors programs (Camarena and Collins; Frost et al.; Markus et al.). The tradition of incorporating international experiences into honors education is longstanding, and recent descriptions of related programming highlight the diversity of disciplines, locations, aims, and pedagogies across institutions (Mulvaney and Klein ix–x). One common thread, however, is a desire to facilitate not only academic but also intercultural competencies in order to prepare honors students for an increasingly interconnected world. …

K–2nd Grade: English Level 1, Learning Packet #1 • Theme: Back To School, Dennise Torres, Lydiah Kananu Kiramba, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 1 of English Proficiency (K-12)

My Plan for the Week

Day 1 • Design and name your Buddy, Back to school words, All about me, Trace numbers 1-12, Count the pencils

Day 2 • Sentences with school words, Letter Aa, What goes inside?, Label the pictures, How many pencils?, Connect the dots

Day 3 • Memory game, Letter A book, Scavenger hunt - A, Let's add and color, Let's move

Day 4 • Letter Bb, Draw yourself at school, Dictionary, Matching numbers and words, How many books?

Day 5 • Scavenger hunt - Bb, Number line, Get up and dance

K–2nd Grade: English Level 1, Learning Packet #3 • Theme: Seasons, Dennise Torres, Lydiah Kananu Kiramba, Kara Mitchell Viesca, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 1 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Design and name your Buddy, Check the weather, Weekly words, What is a season?, Letter of the day - H, Longer and shorter

Day 2 • Check the weather, Letter of the day - I, Write the words, Answering questions, Math game

Day 3 • Check the weather, Letter of the day - J, Fall, Degrees

Day 4 • Check the weather, Letter of the day - K, How does weather affect animals?, Match pictures to words, Spiders and math

Day 5 • Check the weather, Sorting leaves, Letter of the day - L, Dictionary page

3rd–5th Grade: English Level 1, Learning Packet #5 • Theme: Space And Time, Sarah E. Ansari, Lydiah Kananu Kiramba, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 1 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Choose a Buddy, Space, time, and weather, Matching game, Solar system, Time

Day 2 • Calendars, Months of the year, My favorite month, Days of the week, My daily schedule

Day 3 • The four seasons, Season: fall, Season: winter, Season: spring, Season: summer, Get up and move!

Day 4 • Weather, Weather and seasons, Observe light and shadows, get up and move!

Day 5 • Space, time, and weather, Word search, Crossword puzzle, My dictionary, My week

My Packet Journal

Reference Sheet

Answer Key

4th-5th Grade: English Level 3, Learning Packet #5 • Theme: Nutrition, Part 2, Claudia T. Yunes, Nicole M. Ponti, Tricia Gray, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 3 of English Proficiency (K-12)

These packets are self-contained. Everything a child will need to be successful with the activities is provided in the packet. Students will only need a writing utensil. Additional tools like crayons or scissors can be used, but do not have to be.

My Buddy, Choose a Buddy

Nutrition Vocabulary

Nutrition Memory Game

Nutrition Vocabulary Review

My Healthy Meal

Healthy Snacks

8 Tips: Kid-friendly Veggies and Fruits

My Healthy Funny Snack

Understand the Price Tag

Unit Price

Food Temperature

Is It Done Yet?

Be a Food Critic!

A Day in the Life of My Favorite Fruit

Finding Fruits and Vegetables

My …

2nd–3rd Grade: English Level 2, Learning Packet #4 • Theme: Seasons And Days, Rachael Ballweg, Tricia Gray, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 2 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Choose a Buddy, Vocabulary practice Day 1, Vocabulary trace, Watch the Earth rotate, Watch the Earth revolve, Use a clock, Journal writing

Day 2 • Vocabulary practice Day 2, Workout time, Clocks to cut out, Earth mini book, What time is it?, Journal writing

Day 3 • Vocabulary practice Day 3, Workout time, Trip around the world, Important times in my day, Journal writing

Day 4 • Vocabulary practice Day 4, Play Go Fish, Workout time: yoga, Earth puzzle, Telling time, Journal writing

Day 5 • Vocabulary practice Day 5, Create a poem: globe poem, Earth poem, …

2nd–3rd Grade: English Level 2, Learning Packet #3 • Theme: North America, Rachael Ballweg, Tricia Gray, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 2 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Choose a Buddy, Vocabulary practice Day 1, Vocabulary trace, Countries of North America, Canada, United States, Mexico, Central America, Caribbean Islands, Find the product, Journal writing

Day 2 • Vocabulary practice Day 2, Vocabulary match, Workout time, Learn about the State of Florida, Florida expert, Multiplication, Journal writing

Day 3 • Vocabulary practice Day 3, Workout time: toss and catch, Trip to Nebraska, Trip back home, Arrays and multiplication, Journal writing

Day 4 • Vocabulary practice Day 4, Vocabulary sentences, Play BINGO Texas is the best!, Multiplication arrays, Journal writing

Day 5 • Vocabulary practice Day 5, …

9th–12th Grade: English Level 1, Learning Packet #5 • Theme: Neighborhood, Tricia Ramaekers, Mary Royers, Claudia T. Yunes, Tricia Gray, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 1 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Sight word phrases 1-minute race

Directions vocabulary

Following directions

Writing directions

Neighborhood vocabulary

Vocabulary memory game

Walking around my neighborhood

Neighborhood responsibilities

Spot the differences

Neighborhood sentences

What is a good neighbor?

Vocabulary dictionary

Creative writing

Essential question

My Packet Journal

Reference Sheet

9th–12th Grade: English Level 1, Learning Packet #2 • Theme: Family, Mary Royers, Tricia Ramaekers, Claudia T. Yunes, Kara Mitchell Viesca, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 1 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Reading daily practice

Roll your sight words

Family vocabulary

This is my family

My family tree

Physical characteristics vocabulary

Memory game

True or false?

Physical descriptions

Family member symbols

Altar to remember

Gendered vocabulary

My relationships

How old are you?

Family and food

Question words

Pastimes vocabulary

Likes and dislikes

Family pastimes

Comparisons

Pastime locations

Math numbers practice

Numbers in word form and expanded form

Let's move!

My Packet Journal

Reference Sheet

Vol. 59, Issue 3 Editorial Review Board

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

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Dive In: Oceanographic Engineering, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy, Fusion

Fusion

Although some is known about the oceans, many believe that there is still a majority of the oceans that remains unexplored. The oceans are home to wide variety of organisms and are constantly changing. Humans rely on the ocean for a multitude of reasons including food, products, recreation, and energy. Engineering is involved in all aspects of harnessing these resources. During Dive In: Oceanographic Engineering, students will be engaged in identifying problems, designing, testing, and evaluating potential solutions.

Engineering: Design & Build, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy, Fusion

Fusion

Engineering: Design & Build focuses on investigating engineering. Student led teams conceptualize, build, test and acquire knowledge while becoming familiar with the engineering design process. Using an open-ended inquiry approach students are able to foster their creativity. Students learn to apply multiple skills and develop the habits of innovators.

Students are encouraged to think about needs, requirements, and alternatives as they progress throughout the curriculum. Additionally, students consider materials, energy, inputs and outputs. Unit lessons combine generative, analytical, synthesis, and evaluative thinking to allow students to finalize their design choice and initiate construction.

Living In A Material World, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy, Fusion

Fusion

Materials science is an interdisciplinary field concerned with the understanding and application of the properties of matter. Materials scientists study the connections between the underlying structure of material, its properties, its processing methods, and its performance in applications.

Scholars have long classified eras of ancient civilizations by their progress in materials science, coining such terms the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age. What is known about ancient cultures, especially those without written records, often comes from a scientific examination of the artifacts they left behind. Advances in materials science often went hand-in-hand with other cultural developments. In many cases …

Mars: Manifest Destiny, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy, Fusion

Fusion

From the earliest days of space exploration, no other object has excited the imagination of writers, scientists, engineers, and the public more than Mars. A neighbor in space, and visible to the naked eye on many clear evenings, the Red Planet beckons.

The development of modern rocketry was advanced by visionaries such as Robert Goddard and Werner von Braun, who always considered Mars to be their true destination. Today, we have the technology to make that dream a reality. What’s more, there is a compelling reason to go, beyond the human instinct for exploration. Life on Earth has suffered a …

Out Of The Silo: Agronomic Stem, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy, Fusion

Fusion

Out of the Silo: Agronomic STEM is a grade 6 – 8 curriculum which highlights the interplay between science, technology, engineering and mathematics inherent in the field of Agronomy. The growing of plants for commercial use, particularly food, is the essence of agronomy and the heart of this curriculum.

Agronomy in the Illinois region began long before Europeans arrived. Native Americans found the soil and climate well suited to growing corn and so it remains today. Fields for growing corn and soybeans dominate the state, as can be seen easily from the air. Students living in urban centers, who were …

Secret Communications: Sharing Concealed Messages, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy, Fusion

Fusion

Secret Communications: Sharing Concealed Messages presents learners with examples of various encryption methods. Opportunities abound to use inquiry as an approach to get into the mind of the code writer in order to decipher messages encrypted in various fashions.

Exposure to such examples empowers learners with the capacity to transfer and extend their knowledge of logical schemes and rules to different and novel situations. This ability is an earmark of genuine understanding.

Synthetic Scorecard, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy, Fusion

Fusion

Synthetic biology is a young field with promises of finding solutions to issues such as water and environmental pollution, making more nutritional food, treating cancer and other medical conditions, cleaner energy, and improving computer power. Biologists, electrical engineers, and computer scientists merged forces to develop this venture. Taking the approach of design, test, build enables participants to work together to develop methods of standardization, abstraction, and synthesis that are used while engineering biological systems. The genetic code of G, A, T, C can be written and programmed at the cellular level inexpensively with a predictable outcome. In order for this …

Seen In Science: Lgbtq+ Inclusivity In Anatomy & Physiology Texts, Harshini Sirvisetty, Kat Ray King, Linda Catherine Fuselier

Undergraduate Arts and Research Showcase

Biology is unique from other science disciplines in that concepts taught in core classes can inform our student’s understanding of sex and gender. A biology major encounters lessons on sex determination, sexual reproduction, and sex characteristics in their courses. The language used in these units matters. It is imperative that educators consider how the language, examples, and content that we use in classrooms drive (or not) inclusivity for gender- and sexuality-diverse (GSD) (aka LGBTQ+) individuals. We chose to analyze four college-level human anatomy/physiology (AP) textbooks for GSD population inclusivity. We adopted a queer theory framework to critically examine how sex, …

The Long-Term Impact Of Study Abroad On Honors Program Alumni, Mary Kay Mulvaney

National Collegiate Honors Council Monographs: Chapters

Note: An earlier version of this chapter was published in Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad (vol. 29, no. 1, 2017, pp. 46–67). This essay appears with permission of that journal and in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution License Agreement. This reprint includes an Afterword that briefly explains three international education initiatives that evolved from the original findings of this study.

“Study abroad enables students to experience an interconnected world and to embrace difference rather than being threatened by it; it shows them the collective heritage of mankind” (Wolfensberger 281). Indeed, study abroad is often thought to be …

7th–8th Grade: English Level 3, Learning Packet #1 • Theme: Disasters #1, Caryn G. Jones, Lauren Gatti, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 3 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Disasters Happen, Grades 7-8

Building academic language

Welcome to disaster preparedness

Defining disaster

Location, location, location: Refreshing your geography mind, More maps and stuff

Where are the dangers?

Looking for signs and warnings: You could save a life!

A success story

What would you pay attention to?

Most deadly disasters

Analyze the data

What is it like? How does it feel?

Vocabulary

Warn your colleague example

My personal dictionary

My Packet Journal

Reference Sheet

Answer Keys

6th–8th Grade: English Level 1, Learning Packet #3 • Theme: School, Tricia Ramaekers, Mary Royers, Claudia T. Yunes, Tricia Gray, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 1 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Reading daily practice

Roll your sight words

School vocabulary

Write and draw

Try the words in a sentence

Class vocabulary

Matching vocabulary

Class schedule

My schedule

School actions

Prepositions introduction

Vocabulary cards: prepositions

People at school

Job description

Drawing prepositions

How to open a lock

Lock combination

Make a safety plan

Your turn!

Similarities and differences

Facts and opinions about classrooms

Compare and contrast

Safety and school

Vocabulary dictionary

Essential question

Angles and polygons

Let's take a break!

My Packet Journal

Reference Sheet

Answer Keys

2nd-3rd Grades, Level 1-2: Spring Week 1, Tianna Bankhead, Molly Heeren, Brandon Heinz

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 1-2 of English Proficiency (K-5)

In this packet, we have included the following activities: - Create a Buddy. This is the first activity in the packet and is intended to help your student have someone to talk to about the work they are doing in the packet. We have included images of potential “buddies” that your student can choose from. We suggest they choose a buddy and add features and color to the buddy however they would like. They should also name their buddy. Throughout the packet activities, your student will be told to talk to their buddy or even to ask their buddy questions. …

Graphic Novels In Biology – A Novel Assessment Idea, Sowmya Anjur

Faculty Publications & Research

Galileo once said, “You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.” (Goodreads, 2020). I have often pondered upon how best I could use this advice. I have been an educator for 24 years and have loved every minute of it. During this time, I have seen students of all cadres come and go, but they all have one thing in common - their innate fear of written assessments. In general, students in high school tend to have a different perspective on education than their adult counterparts - they tend to procrastinate, are usually …

Kinder – 1st Grade: Summer Packet #3 • Theme: Community, Tricia Gray, Jessica Mitchell-Mccollough, Alexa Yunes-Koch

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 1-2 of English Proficiency (K-5)

These packets are self-contained. Everything a child will need to be successful with the activities is provided in the packet. Students will only need a writing utensil. Additional tools like crayons or scissors can be used, but do not have to be.

Day 1 • My Buddy • Check the Weather • What will you wear? • Let’s Write! Color the pictures and trace the words. • Read the story What is a Family? • Let’s Count! • Journal • Let’s Move! Play Tic Tac Toe!

Day 2 • Check the Weather • What will you wear? • Vocabulary Review …

Perfecting The Craft Of Teaching, Stephanie Nunez

CGU Theses & Dissertations

This ethnographic narrative follows my journey as a fifth grade teacher in the greater Los Angeles area. The purpose of this ethnography is to follow the development of my journey as a first-year teacher. In this ethnography, I explore my positionality and the levels of community, school, and classroom as ways to inform and improve my teaching practices as a social-justice educator. I begin this four part narrative by discussing my positionality and how it relates to my desires of becoming a teacher. Through this narrative, I was then able to conduct three case studies of students with different identities …

Trifecta Of Student Engagement: A Framework For Engaging Students In Online Courses, Heather J. Leslie Phd

Learning Design Center: Staff Scholarship

This chapter describes a framework adapted from Michael Moore's three essential areas: student-content interaction, student-student interaction, and student-instructor interaction for engaging students in online courses. To be fully engaged in an online course, students need to be engaged with the course curriculum content, with their peers, and with their instructor. When students are engaged in all three areas, it is referred to as the Trifecta of Student Engagement. This chapter incorporates literature on each area of the Trifecta of Student Engagement: student-to-content engagement, student-to-student engagement, and student-to-instructor engagement as well as some suggested synchronous and asynchronous digital tools.

Feasibility Of A Readiness Exam For Predicting Radiography Program Success: A Pilot Study, Tammy L. Webster, Sarah B. Mcbrien, Gregory M. Mehrer, Harlan R. Sayles

Internet Journal of Allied Health Sciences and Practice

ABSTRACT

Background: Research investigating predictors of academic success in rigorous health science education is valuable for curricular intervention for identified at-risk students. Various predictors of success have been investigated, but the literature is insufficient when examining anatomy and physiology readiness scores as they correlate to radiography curricular success. This pilot study assessed the correlation between readiness exam scores and programmatic course GPA to determine if the scores could be used as a metric for identifying academic success resources for incoming students. Cohorts of the radiography program at a midwestern health sciences center demonstrated a longitudinal trend of difficulty with anatomy …

Reflections Of Hope: The History, Development, And Growth Of Service Learning At An Urban Catholic High School In West Virginia, Susan Divita Malinoski

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

The purpose of this study is to capture the history, atmosphere, and experience of HOPE (Housing Outreach Project Express). Charleston Catholic High School’s HOPE is a story of service and learning put into action. For 25 years, Charleston Catholic students, teachers, administrators, and alumni have been involved in home renovation projects for fellow West Virginians in need. Since 2005, this service has been focused on the families of Clay County, and during the past 12 years, 124 families in Clay County have warmer, safer, and drier homes as a result of HOPE. HOPE is the call to build a just …

Women Leaders In Mathematics Education: An Analysis Of Gender In Leadership Roles In Professional Organizations, Brianna Kurtz, Farshid Safi

Journal of Educational Leadership in Action

Professional organizations within mathematics education have been a source of development, connection, pedagogical direction, and policy for decades. With gender and equity discussions reaching the forefront of the mathematics education conversation, one must consider the gender representation of those leading the organizations upon which we rely. The authors analyzed historical presidential data from four major mathematics education professional organizations in the United States. Women were found to be in presidential roles at a statistically significantly less proportion (p<0.001) in three of the four organizations. When the organizations were considered aggregately since the enactment of Title IX, a trend to a plateau at 40% female leadership was seen. Future analysis beyond the presidential role and breakdowns by other factors are advisable.