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Book Synopsis The Impact of Fourth Graders' Purposeful Writing on a Teacher's Professional Transformation by :
Download or read book The Impact of Fourth Graders' Purposeful Writing on a Teacher's Professional Transformation written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose and objectives of this qualitative teacher research (Hubbard, Power, 1993) is to explore my teaching by examining the purposeful writing of my students as I consider the following questions:1. How does a teacher actualize a system of beliefs in a specific classroom context?2. How do fourth grade children evolve as writers over the school year?3. How is writing measured on district developed benchmark writing tests and the Georgia Criterion Referenced Competency Test?4. What are fourth grade children's perspectives on purposeful writing?I teach from a humanistic perspective (Rogers, 1980) and these principles lead me to emphasize purposeful writing, which I define as writing that has its roots in topics and feelings the writer cares about, and writing experiences that have a clear function and audience. I analyzed the students' writing using a 6-trait 4-point writing rubric. Authentic assessment at the state and district level was not provided for the children and writing ability was not measured authentically other than in the classroom. Major conclusions of this study include:1. Purposeful writing increased children's enjoyment of writing;2. Student oral presentations of prewriting are an effective method for the revision and editing of their written work;3. Written language is a tool for self-expression. This tool should be applied in ways that encourage learners to develop and define themselves;4. Students were most satisfied with the inquiry projects that encouraged them to answer their own questions;5. In light of increased feedback, students were more willing to rework their papers multiple times to develop a clear message;6. In response to a desired connection with peers, students chose to communicate more in writing;7. Students worked at and valued the art of storytelling and presentation of material that mattered;8. Students took more risks in their writing; and9. Reflecting on student writing provided many opportunities to actualize my belief system as a teacher in the classroom.
Book Synopsis Dissertation Abstracts International by :
Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Fourth Graders' Purposeful Writing by : Michael McManus
Download or read book Fourth Graders' Purposeful Writing written by Michael McManus and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-20 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose and objectives of this qualitative teacher research (Hubbard, Power, 1993) is to explore my teaching by examining the purposeful writing of my students. I teach from a humanistic perspective (Rogers, 1980) and these principles lead me to emphasize purposeful writing, which I define as writing that has its roots in topics and feelings the writer cares about, and writing experiences that have a clear function and audience.
Book Synopsis Writing to Learn by : Stacey M. Templeton
Download or read book Writing to Learn written by Stacey M. Templeton and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Development in writing, motivation to write, and student self-perceived writing ability all play pivotal roles what students are able to produce. The National Commission on Writing in America’s Schools and Colleges (2003) placed writing at the center of educational reform, calling upon the educational system of the nation to participate in a “writing revolution.” Data support this call to arms: the National Assessment of Educational Progress reported that only 23% of fourth graders wrote at the “proficient” or "advanced" levels; the majority of children—61% of fourth-grade students—wrote at the “basic” level; 16% of fourth graders produced “below basic” writing (U.S. Department of Education, 1999). To address these concerns about the state of writing in America, this study investigates a content-area writing intervention, Reflection/Exit writing, and its effect on three student writing outcomes: (1) student self-perceptions; (2) writing development as measured in quantity; and (3) writing development as measured in quality. Freiberg (1993) developed Reflection/Exit writing to help teachers establish a calm, productive end to class, bring closure to their lessons, and enable purposeful reflection on the learning for the day the learning of the day during the last five to six minutes of class, by asking students to reflect on what was learned that day. This mixed-methods case study included a sample of 56 fourth grade students, in both bilingual and traditional (ESL) classrooms, in a predominately Hispanic, low SES elementary school. Two intervention classrooms taught by fourth grade Math/Science teachers and two comparison classrooms taught by fourth grade Language Arts/Social Studies teachers were the units of analysis and multiple points of data were examined for each classroom. A concurrent, parallel mixed-methods design was employed, utilizing qualitative and quantitative methodologies, which were analyzed through three different strands of research. In Research Strand 1, samples were analyzed for compositional fluency, or length, by calculating the number of words and syllables to determine if students were able to produce a greater quantity of writing over time. Research Strand 2 was used to determine if the intervention affected the quality of student writing over the study period through the use of the state's holistic writing rubric (used from 2003-2011; The Texas Education Agency, n.d.) and through content analysis procedures. The holistic rubric considered writers’ focus and coherence, organization, and development of ideas. Content analysis procedures assessed writers’ cognitive development in writing, through the themes of: (1) planning; (2) knowledge telling; and (3) knowledge transforming (Flower and Hayes, 1981; Bereiter & Scardamalia, 1987). In Research Strand 3, students' writing self-perceptions were measured through the Writer Self-Perception Scale (Bottomley, Henk, & Melnick, 1997/1998). Results indicate that when implemented with fidelity, Reflection/Exit writing improved the quality of student writing, as measured through content analysis and scale scores on the state's holistic writing rubric. In the case of the high-fidelity intervention, improvements in writing quality from pre-post intervention, as measured on the holistic rubric, were significant (p = .002), with a large effect size (ɳ2 = + .54; see Cohen, 1998). Comparison group classrooms and the low-fidelity intervention classroom did not have significant gains in the quality of writing from pre-post intervention. Between groups (intervention vs. comparison), there was a significant difference between students’ change in writing quality, as measured on the holistic writing rubric (p = .005; ɳ2 = + .17). Students in the high-fidelity intervention group also demonstrated improved writing quality through content analysis measures, with higher levels of cognitive development in writing at post-intervention. Comparison classrooms and the low-fidelity intervention classroom made little growth in cognitive development in writing. Comparison classes observed statistically significant gains in the length of the writing samples from pre-post intervention, as did the high-fidelity intervention classroom. Between groups, however, there were no statistically significant differences in the change in writing length. There were also no statistically significant differences in students’ writing self-perceptions in either comparison or intervention classrooms. This study demonstrates that when Reflection/Exit writing is implemented with fidelity, students in the intervention classroom outperformed comparison group students in writing quality on the holistic rubric and in their levels of cognitive development in writing. When the intervention was implemented without consistency or fidelity, there were no notable changes in student writing quantity, quality, or self-perceptions. This study sets an important precedent—student growth in writing should be analyzed through multiple lenses and from various ways of knowing. Implications for this study include the expanded use of Reflection/Exit types of writing to improve the quality of student writing. Preparing for a post-secondary-ready environment builds at the early grades; writing skills are a necessary building block for future success (National Commission on Writing in America’s Schools and Colleges, 2003). Most students can write adequately, but few can write at a high degree of proficiency (Institute of Education Sciences, 2008). This study implies there is a need for content-area teachers (e.g. Math/Science teachers) to dedicate a few minutes each day writing about what students learn across the curriculum in order to improve writing quality. Future research should examine the use of Reflection/Exit writing with bilingual-only populations, as an intervention for LEP students, as well as its expanded use with different ages of learners.
Book Synopsis The Communication Effect by : Jeff Zwiers
Download or read book The Communication Effect written by Jeff Zwiers and published by Corwin. This book was released on 2019-10-21 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “communication effect” is what happens when we saturate our classrooms with authentic communication, which occurs when students use language to build up ideas and do meaningful things. For starters, authentic communication deepens and increases language development, learning of content concepts and skills, rigor and engagement, empathy and understanding of others’ perspectives, agency and ownership of core ideas across disciplines, and social and emotional skills for building strong relationships. And these are just the starters. With The Communication Effect, Dr. Jeff Zwiers challenges teachers in Grades 3 and up to focus less on breadth and more on depth by grounding instruction and assessment in authentic (rather than pseudo-) communication. This book provides: Ideas for cultivating classroom cultures in which authentic communication thrives Clear descriptions and examples of the three features of authentic communication: 1. building up key ideas (claims and concepts); 2. clarifying terms and supporting ideas; and 3. creating and filling information gaps Over 175 suggestions for using the three features of authentic communication to enhance twenty commonly used instructional activities across disciplines Additional examples of not-so-commonly-used activities that embody the three features Suggestions for improving four different types of teacher creativity needed to design effective lessons, activities, and assessments that maximize authentic communication Our students deserve to get the most out of each minute of each lesson. Authentic communication can help. As you read The Communication Effect and apply its ideas, you will see how much better equipped and inspired your students are to grow into the amazing and gifted people that they were meant to become.
Book Synopsis Writing for Pleasure by : Ross Young
Download or read book Writing for Pleasure written by Ross Young and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores what writing for pleasure means, and how it can be realised as a much-needed pedagogy whose aim is to develop children, young people, and their teachers as extraordinary and life-long writers. The approach described is grounded in what global research has long been telling us are the most effective ways of teaching writing and contains a description of the authors’ own research project into what exceptional teachers of writing do that makes the difference. The authors describe ways of building communities of committed and successful writers who write with purpose, power, and pleasure, and they underline the importance of the affective aspects of writing teaching, including promoting in apprentice writers a sense of self-efficacy, agency, self-regulation, volition, motivation, and writer-identity. They define and discuss 14 research-informed principles which constitute a Writing for Pleasure pedagogy and show how they are applied by teachers in classroom practice. Case studies of outstanding teachers across the globe further illustrate what world-class writing teaching is. This ground-breaking text is essential reading for anyone who is concerned about the current status and nature of writing teaching in schools. The rich Writing for Pleasure pedagogy presented here is a radical new conception of what it means to teach young writers effectively today.
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Book Synopsis Educational Leadership and Administration: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications by : Management Association, Information Resources
Download or read book Educational Leadership and Administration: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications written by Management Association, Information Resources and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2016-10-12 with total page 2224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The delivery of quality education to students relies heavily on the actions of an institution’s administrative staff. Effective leadership strategies allow for the continued progress of modern educational initiatives. Educational Leadership and Administration: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications provides comprehensive research perspectives on the multi-faceted issues of leadership and administration considerations within the education sector. Emphasizing theoretical frameworks, emerging strategic initiatives, and future outlooks, this publication is an ideal reference source for educators, professionals, school administrators, researchers, and practitioners in the field of education.
Book Synopsis Incorporating the Purposeful Teaching of Organizational Skills Into a Fourth Grade Classroom by : Mary Bogs
Download or read book Incorporating the Purposeful Teaching of Organizational Skills Into a Fourth Grade Classroom written by Mary Bogs and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This action research project studied the impact of the purposeful teaching of organizational skills upon a classroom. The study was conducted in a fourth grad classroom at the beginning of the school year. Data sources collected in a fourth grade classroom at the beginning of the school year. Data sources collected during the five week study included student and parent surveys, interviews, checklists of strategies implemented, and the researcher's field notes and observations. The purpose of the study was to intentionally incorporate a set of strategies, organizational skills of the students. Patterns found within the data indicate that the teaching of organizational skills was a worthwhile investment. Organizational skills, modeled by the classroom teacher, became a part of the classroom daily routine. These acquired skills can be used in other aspects of a student's life, and have a positive affect on student self esteem.
Download or read book Research in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 1092 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Purpose-Driven Learning by : Adam Moreno
Download or read book Purpose-Driven Learning written by Adam Moreno and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-12 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purpose-Driven Learning advocates that the primary goal of education is to empower our students’ innate drive to learn, which can be unlocked through the discovery and development of key social-emotional learning skills. This book offers an intentional framework for exploring strategies of inclusion, SEL, and assessment that goes beyond abstract buzzwords. It features heartfelt stories, intriguing research, and effective action steps to inspire and empower teachers and their students to write authentic stories of social-emotional well-being and passionate, lifelong learning. PDL is a process that can be explored and utilized in any educational context; teachers, coaches, camp directors, faith leaders, parents, and more will all find value in this resource.
Book Synopsis Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8 by : National Research Council
Download or read book Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8 written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2015-07-23 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children are already learning at birth, and they develop and learn at a rapid pace in their early years. This provides a critical foundation for lifelong progress, and the adults who provide for the care and the education of young children bear a great responsibility for their health, development, and learning. Despite the fact that they share the same objective - to nurture young children and secure their future success - the various practitioners who contribute to the care and the education of children from birth through age 8 are not acknowledged as a workforce unified by the common knowledge and competencies needed to do their jobs well. Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8 explores the science of child development, particularly looking at implications for the professionals who work with children. This report examines the current capacities and practices of the workforce, the settings in which they work, the policies and infrastructure that set qualifications and provide professional learning, and the government agencies and other funders who support and oversee these systems. This book then makes recommendations to improve the quality of professional practice and the practice environment for care and education professionals. These detailed recommendations create a blueprint for action that builds on a unifying foundation of child development and early learning, shared knowledge and competencies for care and education professionals, and principles for effective professional learning. Young children thrive and learn best when they have secure, positive relationships with adults who are knowledgeable about how to support their development and learning and are responsive to their individual progress. Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8 offers guidance on system changes to improve the quality of professional practice, specific actions to improve professional learning systems and workforce development, and research to continue to build the knowledge base in ways that will directly advance and inform future actions. The recommendations of this book provide an opportunity to improve the quality of the care and the education that children receive, and ultimately improve outcomes for children.
Book Synopsis Digital Storytelling in the Classroom by : Jason Ohler
Download or read book Digital Storytelling in the Classroom written by Jason Ohler and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides information on integrating digital storytelling into curriculum design.
Book Synopsis Academic Conversations by : Jeff Zwiers
Download or read book Academic Conversations written by Jeff Zwiers and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conversing with others has given insights to different perspectives, helped build ideas, and solve problems. Academic conversations push students to think and learn in lasting ways. Academic conversations are back-and-forth dialogues in which students focus on a topic and explore it by building, challenging, and negotiating relevant ideas. In Academic Conversations: Classroom Talk that Fosters Critical Thinking and Content Understandings authors Jeff Zwiers and Marie Crawford address the challenges teachers face when trying to bring thoughtful, respectful, and focused conversations into the classroom. They identify five core communications skills needed to help students hold productive academic conversation across content areas: Elaborating and Clarifying Supporting Ideas with Evidence Building On and/or Challenging Ideas Paraphrasing Synthesizing This book shows teachers how to weave the cultivation of academic conversation skills and conversations into current teaching approaches. More specifically, it describes how to use conversations to build the following: Academic vocabulary and grammar Critical thinking skills such as persuasion, interpretation, consideration of multiple perspectives, evaluation, and application Literacy skills such as questioning, predicting, connecting to prior knowledge, and summarizing An academic classroom environment brimming with respect for others' ideas, equity of voice, engagement, and mutual support The ideas in this book stem from many hours of classroom practice, research, and video analysis across grade levels and content areas. Readers will find numerous practical activities for working on each conversation skill, crafting conversation-worthy tasks, and using conversations to teach and assess. Academic Conversations offers an in-depth approach to helping students develop into the future parents, teachers, and leaders who will collaborate to build a better world.
Book Synopsis Professional Capital by : Andy Hargreaves
Download or read book Professional Capital written by Andy Hargreaves and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2015-04-24 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The future of learning depends absolutely on the future of teaching. In this latest and most important collaboration, Andy Hargreaves and Michael Fullan show how the quality of teaching is captured in a compelling new idea: the professional capital of every teacher working together in every school. Speaking out against policies that result in a teaching force that is inexperienced, inexpensive, and exhausted in short order, these two world authorities--who know teaching and leadership inside out--set out a groundbreaking new agenda to transform the future of teaching and public education. Ideas-driven, evidence-based, and strategically powerful, Professional Capital combats the tired arguments and stereotypes of teachers and teaching and shows us how to change them by demanding more of the teaching profession and more from the systems that support it. This is a book that no one connected with schools can afford to ignore. This book features: (1) a powerful and practical solution to what ails American schools; (2) Action guidelines for all groups--individual teachers, administrators, schools and districts, state and federal leaders; (3) a next-generation update of core themes from the authors' bestselling book, "What's Worth Fighting for in Your School?" [This book was co-published with the Ontario Principals' Council.].
Book Synopsis The Science of Learning and Development by : Pamela Cantor
Download or read book The Science of Learning and Development written by Pamela Cantor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-21 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essential text unpacks major transformations in the study of learning and human development and provides evidence for how science can inform innovation in the design of settings, policies, practice, and research to enhance the life path, opportunity and prosperity of every child. The ideas presented provide researchers and educators with a rationale for focusing on the specific pathways and developmental patterns that may lead a specific child, with a specific family, school, and community, to prosper in school and in life. Expanding key published articles and expert commentary, the book explores a profound evolution in thinking that integrates findings from psychology with biology through sociology, education, law, and history with an emphasis on institutionalized inequities and disparate outcomes and how to address them. It points toward possible solutions through an understanding of and addressing the dynamic relations between a child and the contexts within which he or she lives, offering all researchers of human development and education a new way to understand and promote healthy development and learning for diverse, specific youth regardless of race, socioeconomic status, or history of adversity, challenge, or trauma. The book brings together scholars and practitioners from the biological/medical sciences, the social and behavioral sciences, educational science, and fields of law and social and educational policy. It provides an invaluable and unique resource for understanding the bases and status of the new science, and presents a roadmap for progress that will frame progress for at least the next decade and perhaps beyond.
Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Handbook of Research on Literacy and Digital Technology Integration in Teacher Education by : Keengwe, Jared
Download or read book Handbook of Research on Literacy and Digital Technology Integration in Teacher Education written by Keengwe, Jared and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With widespread testing and standards-driven curriculum and accountability pressure in public schools, teachers are expected to be highly skilled practitioners. There is a pressing need for college faculty to prepare current and future teachers for the demands of modern classrooms and to address the academic readiness skills of their students to succeed in their programs. The Handbook of Research on Literacy and Digital Technology Integration in Teacher Education is an essential academic publication that provides comprehensive research on the influence of standards-driven education on educators and educator preparation as well as the applications of technology for the preparation of teachers. Featuring a wide range of topics such as academic success, professional development, and teacher education, this book is essential for academicians, educators, administrators, educational software developers, IT consultants, researchers, professionals, students, and curriculum designers.
