Browsing Teaching & Learning Capstone Projects by Title
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2015-06-15)Decades of research has been dedicated to demonstrating differences between low- income children’s early language and high-income children’s early language: much of this research also indicates differences between ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2018-03-01)This portfolio comprises of my teaching philosophy and is supported by the eight domains of the TESOL standards of English as a Second or Foreign language. My teaching philosophy is a conceptual framework, supported by ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2008-02-20)This essay seeks to contribute to the body of knowledge of how to successfully engage language minority students in the study of history. It is separated into four distinct sections, each containing findings from ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2012-07-15)For decades, research has shown that traditional grammar instruction taught in isolation in secondary English language arts classrooms is ineffective in both improving student writing and also in grammar recognition. ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2010-03-01)Service-learning is increasingly being used in schools to enrich curriculum and provide students with new ways of thinking and linking what the learn in the classroom with life and issues outside the school. While it is a ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2008-04-07)Abstract Literature circles are an important component of the literacy curriculum in elementary classrooms. Literature circles are small groups of students with heterogeneous abilities talking together about a shared text. ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2013-04-16)This is my capstone portfolio for the ELL strand. The portfolio consists of three parts which are 1) philosophy of teaching, 2) artifact introduction, and 3) reflection. In the philosophy of teaching, I discuss what my ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2010-06-15)Traditional research papers cannot stand as the lone measuring stick for how well students can present their knowledge and thoughts. Their very essence goes against much of what recent pedagogy says about teaching research ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2008-06-15)The paper describes the growing number of immigrant students in secondary schools and discusses how these students present teachers with particular challenges and resources in teaching the civic education needed to sustain ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2011-03-01)As America continues to be the culturally rich and diverse nation that it is, there is a tremendous need for schools to be well-equipped with the tools to recognize and support each student’s unique culture. All students’ ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2011-06-15)Decreasing levels of motivation in students to read and write throughout elementary school is many teachers face. This challenge is especially pertinent due to the evidence found within the field of literacy education ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2017-07-15)With the implementation of new Common Core State Standards that emphasize the significance of writing skills for both in-school and out-of-school settings, writing instruction in the ELA classroom has received more ...
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Implementing Sustained Silent Reading to Produce Gains in Reading Achievement and Reading Attitude (Vanderbilt University. Peabody Collegehttp://www.vanderbilt.edu/, 2012-03-01)Sustained Silent Reading (SSR), an independent voluntary reading program, has been implemented in classrooms for over sixty years, however its effectiveness in improving reading achievement and reading attitude has been ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2013-02-28)This paper examines the current research and theories that can help those teaching the third Mathematical Practice in the Common Core State Standards of Mathematics. Driven by a Constructivist approach to learning, the two ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2008-06-15)Since the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) wrote their Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics in 1989, the mathematics education community has focused on developing students' mathematical ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2008-04-23)Observations of six middle and high school Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools classrooms in the fall of 2007 raised questions about the clarity of the secondary ESL curriculum and about the knowledge that ESL teachers ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2008-06-14)SRA's Open Court Reading is a research-based literacy program that has been adopted in schools across the nation. The program exhibits a number of strengths, including effectiveness in raising reading test scores and ...