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Reviews, Lisa Tyler, Fran Claggett, Bruce Novak, Neal Lerner

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Lisa Tyler. Writing and Healing: Toward an Informed Practice. (Charles M. Anderson and Marian M. MacCurdy, eds., 2000).

Fran Claggett. Revisioning Writers' Talk: Gender and Culture in Acts of Composing. (Mary Ann Cain, 1995).

Bruce Novak. Tomorrow's Children: A Blueprint for Partnership Education in the 21st Century. (Riane Eisler, 2000).

Neal Lerner. Stories from the Center: Connecting Narrative and Theory in the Writing Center. (Lynn Craigue Briggs and Meg Woolbright, eds., 2000).

Discredited Metaphors Of Mind Limit Our Vision, Marilyn Middendorf

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Teachers will be intrigued by recent discoveries in "the brain sciences" and the new metaphors of consciousness they suggest.

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Prediction Of Ohio Fourth Grade Proficiency Test Performance From Gesell, Metropolitan, And Otis-Lennon Scores, Ned L. Pakosz

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

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Personality Profiles Of Teachers In A Secondary School In Petaling Jaya, Selvi Gopal Kalai

Student Works (2000-2009)

The purpose of this research is to study the personality profile of teachers in a secondary school. Based on the Leonard Personality Inventory (1999), the behavioral orientations of teachers were examined, using 50 samples from a school in Petaling Jaya. The findings of the study have shown that the teachers in the school were in the Neutral behavioral domain which highlights the teachers as agreeable, caring, easy­going and warm personalities. The findings also indicate that there were eight behavioral orientations: (i) Analytical + Neutral, (ii) Neutral + Relational, (iii) Neutral, (iv) Openness + Neutral, (v) Openness, (vi) Relational, (vii) Relational …

Kapasiti Kepimpinan Dan Keberkesanan Sekolah : Kajian Ke Atas Sekolah Menengah Daerah Besut Terengganu, Azizol Rahman Hj Lope Pihie

Student Works (2000-2009)

The objective of this study was to evaluate the existence of staff leadership capacity and school leadership capacity in two schools, considered to be effective by the District Officer of Education of Besut. The study was based on the concept of leadership capacity given by Lambert (1998). According to Lambert (1998), leadership capacity act as institutional in nature as a result of the following critical characteristic which are: (i) Broad-based, skillful participation in the work of leadership. (ii) Inquiry-based, used of information to inform shared decisions and practice (iii) Roles and responsibilities that reflect the broad involvement and collaboration (iv) …

The Effect Of Educational Kinesiology On Second Language Acquisition, Tina Lynne Haverstick

MA TESOL Collection

This thesis is a summary of my experience working with the theory of Educational Kinesiology (Edu-K) in the foreign language classroom environment. It may serve as a guide for anyone who is interested in tapping into the full potential of students’ brains within a structured learning environment.

A case study is presented here examining the effects of educational kinesiology on two groups of kindergarten students I taught simultaneously in my EFL classroom in Taiwan.

I chose to assess their attitudes toward different classroom activities, including those geared toward improving listening, speaking, reading and writing, as well as the overall attitude …

Reflective Teaching: In-Sights Into The Process And Development Of The Skill Of Reflection, Marie-Claude M. Durand

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The primary purpose of this study was to investigate and document the stages and levels of reflection based on the Millett, Rogers, & Stanley Framework for Reflection as they manifested in the working lives and professional contextual realities of three experienced teachers. Their Framework is a four-step model of reflection that looks at the reflective cycle in terms of the stages of Experience, description, Analysis, and Intelligent Action. It further categorizes the skill of reflection in terms of Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced levels. The second goal of the study was to examine the development of the reflective process in a …

Persepsi Guru Terhadap Peranan Pendidikan Jarak Jauh Dalam Meningkatkan Tahap Profesionalisme Perguruan Di Dua Buah Sekolah Di Kuala Lumpur, Muniammiah Saminathan

Student Works (2000-2009)

The purpose of this study was to observe the perception of teachers about developing their career via distance education in two schools in Kuala Lumpur. The main aspects of this study include determining whether the teaching profession needs development and aspect, which needs development. The researcher also analyses problems faced by teachers to develop their career, teacher's knowledge about distance education and their perceptions about professional development via distance education. The subject of the study comprised J5f 30 secondary school teachers and 30 primary school teachers. A set of questionnaires was used as the research instrument. Frequency counts and percentages …

Tekanan Dan Kepuasan Kerja Di Kalangan Guru Sekolah Menengah Di Kota Bharu, Kelantan, Laila Hassan

Student Works (2000-2009)

The purpose of this study is to identify the levels of job stress, job satisfaction and teacher's commitment in the district of Kota Bharu, Kelantan. It is also to identify the sources that lead to stress among teachers. ln addition, this study is to overview the different levels of job stress, job satisfaction and teacher's commitment according to gender, working experience and classes taught

College Teacher Trainees Understanding Of The Nature Of Science And Its Relationships With Formal Reasoning Ability, Academic Background And Gender, Lee Kim Low

Student Works (2000-2009)

This study was designed primarily to determine the understanding of the nature of science among science graduate teacher trainees and to identify their misconceptions of the nature of science. The study also investigated the relationships between the trainees' understanding of the nature of science and the independent variables of formal reasoning ability, academic background, and gender. The subjects of the study comprised 80 teacher trainees from four teacher training colleges in Peninsular Malaysia. A two-part survey questionnaire was used 10 collect the trainees' demographic data and to assess their understanding of the nature of science. The instrument used to assess …

Motivasi Kerja Di Kalangan Guru-Guru Jabatan Agama Islam Selangor (Jais) Di Sabak Bernam, Siti Jamiaah Ishak

Student Works (2000-2009)

A research has been carried out on 100 secondary school teachers of JAJS, Sabak Bernam. The aims of this research are, firstly, to detect the teachers' working motivation level: secondly, to detect the teachers' level of satisfaction towards motivator and hygiene/actors; thirdly, to detect the significant correlation between the satisfactory level towards motivator and hygiene factors, and the working motivation level; and fourthly lo detect the extend in which individual characteristics cause differences in working motivation factor. The results of this research shows that 32% of the teachers have very high motivation level, 64% high and 4% low. 96% of …

Faktor-Faktor Yang Menyebabkan Tekanan Di Kalangan Guru Pelatih : Satu Kajian Kes, Saraswathy Kuthirakkal

Student Works (2000-2009)

Being in a stressful state is a common experience encountered by most people today. Various internal and external factors have been identified to have contributed to this state of mind. Toe purpose of this study is to determine the level of emotional stress experienced by a group of 70 teacher trainees in a teacher training college in Pahang. It also aims to determine the influence of three contributing factors to stress, namely, the training process, the socio psychological factors and the subjects perception towards teaching as a profession. In addition, the study hopes to establish whether there is a significant …

International Business And Culture Course Development And Teacher Growth, Deborah Lang Bainbridge

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This paper describes the development process of an International Business and Culture Course for a new certificate program at the Colorado International Education and Training Institute (CIETI). I was hired for the specific purpose of designing this course. This paper is a compilation of some of the resources I’ve collected, experiences of what worked and what did not work, learning and teaching ideas I’ve incorporated from my course work at SIT, and my personal values and beliefs. My keen interest is in emotional intelligence and I have used it as a unifying theme to explain why I have chosen to …

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Editor's Message

Zen students, Charlotte Joko Beck tells us, have a job to do, "a very important job: to bring . . . life out of dreamland and into the real and immense reality that it is" (12). The goal and the way to the goal are the same: mindfulness, a return to the clear experience of the present moment, within which the artificial dualism separating self and object dissolves. To be mindful is to be aware, The American Heritage Dictionary says, to hold in the fullness of mind rather than to be destitute of mind or consciousness. Mindfulness is …

Writer Motivation: Beyond The Intrinsic/ Extrinsic Dichotomy, Bradford A. Barry

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This article articulates and develops a much needed theory of communication motivation which shows how we can nurture in our students rhetorically-based intrinsic motivations.

The Ethics Of Empathy: Making Connections In The Writing Classroom, Kia Jane Richmond

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Kia Jane Richmond teaches composition and ESL at Illinois State University, where she is completing her Ph.D. in English Studies. Her focus is on the intersection between emotions and the teaching of composition at the college level.

The Architectonics Of Information: Ancient Topical Thought And Postmodern Information, Catherine L. Hobbs

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This paper examines the usefulness of thought patterns from ancient rhetoric as they have been appropriated historically and as potentially applicable concepts for the present and future in today's interlinked electronic environment.

An earlier version of this paper, first delivered as part of a panel at the Rhetoric Society of America meeting at Tucson in May 1 996, was delivered and published as "The Architectonics of Information: Ancient Topical Thought and Postmodern Cognition" in Proceedings of the Mid-America Symposium on E merging Computer Technologies, October 1 996. (The published papers are available in "Information Problems" at http://www.ou.edu/cas/english/agora/). I would like …

Learning From Everyone, David Bleich

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In the teaching of writing and literature, it would be helpful to teachers and students to encourage students to overtake, use, and reuse one another's various uses of language in essays and other course work.

This essay was the keynote address at the Fourth Annual Colorado Conference of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning in Estes Park, Colorado in June 1998.

Narratives Of Pain: Trauma And The Healing Power Of Writing, Lisa Tyler

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Writing about traumatic events is useful, healing, and meaningful, and such work deserves a place in the composition classroom.

Jaepl, Vol. 5, Winter 1999-2000

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Essays

David Bleich. Learning from Everyone. In the teaching of writing and literature, it would be helpful to teachers and students to encourage students to overtake, use, and reuse one another's various uses of language in essays and other course work.

Lisa Tyler. Narratives of Pain: Trauma and the Healing Power of Writing. Writing about traumatic events is useful, healing, and meaningful, and such work deserves a place in the composition classroom.

Bradford A. Barry. Writer Motivation: Beyond the Intrinsic/Extrinisic Dichotomy. This article articulates and develops a much needed theory of communication motivation which shows how we …

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Spirituality In Pedagogy: "A Field Of Possibilities", Susan A. Schiller

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Students' responses to a spiritual approach to teaching provide evidence of the efficacy inherent in such an approach.

Reviews, Anne E. Mullin, Keith Rhodes, Ellen Davis, Jean R. Trounstine

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Anne E. Mullin. Teaching Writing Creatively. (David Starkey, Ed., 1998).

Keith Rhodes. Zen in the Art of Rhetoric: An Inquiry into Coherence. (Mark Lawrence McPhail, 1996).

Ellen Davis. Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women. (Jane Hirshfield, Ed., 1994).

Jean R. Trounstine. Educational Drama and Language Arts: What Research Shows. (Betty Jane Wagner, 1998).

Block Scheduling: A Comparison Of Block Scheduling And Traditional Scheduling And Its Relationship To Student Achievement, Student Satisfaction And Teacher Methodology In A Junior-Senior High School In New Jersey, Thomas Matarazzo

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Attitudes Toward Writing, Laurence E. Musgrove

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This essay describes one teacher's approach to helping students understand the role attitude plays in contributing to or interfering with success in the writing class.

Goddess Spirituality And Academic Know Ledge-Making, Hildy Miller

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Goddess-centered spirituality, an alternative way of making meaning, complements rationalism, the traditional notion of academic knowledge making.

Plato, Gorgias, And Trickster: Seeking Rhetoric's Muse, Keith Rhodes

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From an historical perspective, rhetoric is the premier Tricksterish art. Seeing this permits us to re-evaluate Plato's role in the history of rhetoric and re-think current practices.

Reflection And An Appetite For Experience: Theory To Classroom Practice, Judith Halden-Sullivan

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Reflection promotes an openness to thinking and an appetite for experience that must ground everyday classroom practice.

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Editor's Message

We live in a culture dominated by boundaries of all sorts. Personal space is precious to us, and we become uneasy when others do not honor those invisible borders, ignoring, perhaps, the ways in which those borders shift with age, class, gender, and ethnicity. We have office doors, house doors, and bedroom doors that we close and lock. Many of us demarcate a sharp separation between private life and public work, arguing, as does Michael Bèrubé that the life lived has nothing to do with the work written. And so we exist, being careful not to overstep our …