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Teachers’ and Administrators’ Perceptions of Parental Involvement Practices of African American Parents in Urban Schools
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2014-06)
M@ny Write W@ys 2 Write! Multi-Genre Writing Prompts to Improve Writing for Secondary Students
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2014)
This paper reviews and synthesizes the relevant literature of the Writing Workshop (Clippard & Nicalse, 2009; Calkins, 1994), genre theory (Bahktin, 1979), and the efficacy of teaching multi-genre writing (Chapman, 1999; ...
An Investment in Social Identity: Making Language Learning Meaningful and Effective for Adult ESL Learners
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2014)
Traditionally, adult ESL education has been dominated by rote memorization of cultural and language facts, audio-lingual drillings, and delivery of frequent daily conversations, while students’ social identities and their ...
Culturally Responsive Pedagogy in Action for Teaching ELLs
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2014-04-20)
My fundamental thinking on the issues and ideas in educating EL students are influenced by two courses EDUC 3530: Foundations for Teaching English Language Learners by Prof. Lisa Pray and EDUC 3590.01: Issues in ELL ...
Developing a Writer’s Identity in Upper Elementary Students through a Writing Workshop Model
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2014-06-15)
The purpose of this capstone essay is to synthesize the literature on teaching writing through a process-oriented approach—specifically a writing workshop model—and to draw connections between this type of writing instruction ...
Making Adaptations to the Daily 5 Literacy Program to Meet the Needs of Beginning English Language Learners
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2014)
The Daily 5 is an instructional framework designed to organize the literacy block in early elementary classrooms. The model is grounded entirely in research-based practices for early literacy instruction, and has been ...
Providing Quality Instruction in Urban Schools: Through Tracking?
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2014-07-15)
This paper explores the issue of tracking and equity in urban schools. Implications for detracking as well as differentiation are given as possible solutions to the growing gap between our highest and lowest performing ...
Supporting Literacy Development Through Different Teacher Read Aloud Styles in the Early Elementary School Classroom
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2014-04-01)
Pushing Beyond Procedures to Enhance Mathematics Learning
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2014-07)
While many ideas abound in the literature about what effective mathematics instruction entails, procedural instruction still dominates in United States mathematics classrooms. Many math teachers seem to have a natural ...
Literacy 2.0: New Literacies in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse K-12 Classrooms
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2014-04-01)
This paper is a review of the literature on the impact of demographic and technological changes on research and practice of literacy education of English Language Learners (ELLs) in American K-12 school settings. It is ...