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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Classroom Structure"”.
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The Effect of Classroom Structure and Practice on Transition to Middle School
… organizational, and academic declines. The classroom structure of elementary school varies between a team teaching setting and a self-contained setting, and each instructional environment has the potential to impact all areas of development for each student. The purpose of this study was to …
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An Examination of the Effects of Classroom Structure on Third Graders' Reading and Mathematics Achievement
… has been on other school elements, including classroom size, scheduling, novice teacher and teacher mentorship, professional training or development, and teacher certification. Researchers have conducted few empirical studies and less attention to classroom structures (e.g., traditional …
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A Comparison between READ 180 Students and Non-READ 180 Students Reading and Math Scores by Classroom Structure.
… READ 180 program within self-contained classroom organizations with the achievement of READ 180 students within departmentalized classrooms and with students not enrolled in READ 180. Classroom organizational structure at the intermediate grade is a highly debated issue. The READ 180 …
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Why Montessori: A Parent's Perspective
… parents choose Montessori education due to the classroom structure and the curriculum, known as the Montessori Method. It was also noted the reason for continuing Montessori was because their children enjoyed learning and had positive self-perceptions of the learning environment present in a …
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Experiments in participatory architecture : adventure classrooms and the construction of micronational realities
… architecture." The first was ting-ing, a modular classroom structure designed to be built, redesigned, and rebuilt by a group of high school students. The structure was prototyped at full scale with the hands-on help of local high students and expanded into a system of virtual and model-scale …
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Building Community in a Standards-Based Classroom
<p>Creating a sense of classroom community has social, emotional, and academic benefits. The problem confronting schools today is how to create community in a standards-based environment, where teachers are no longer the primary decision makers about how time and resources are allocated in their …
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Organization strategies to enhance math performance of high school students with attention deficit disorders
… analysis, and notebook checks to improve their classroom participation, assignment completion, and assessment scores. The overall results indicate that the students slightly improved their academic performance upon the implementation of organizational strategies and tools. Of the data reported, …
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ISLAMIC TEACHERS' PERCEPTIONS OF IMPROVING CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS IN SAUDI ARABIAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS
… phase, qualitative data is collected using semi-structured interviews with a number of Islamic teachers in order to explore more fully their perceptions toward improving students' critical thinking skills in Saudi elementary schools. The reason for collecting both quantitative and qualitative …
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Breaking the silence in classroom participation: A study of a regular classroom and a computer-mediated setting
This qualitative study of classroom processes focuses on the roles students play in two different environments, a regular classroom and an anonymous, collaborative, technological environment using GroupSystems. As students from an urban high school engaged in a brainstorming session about complex, …
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Disrupting the School-to-Prison Pipeline for Black Students in Secondary Schools: Understanding Teacher’s Culturally Sustaining Pedagogical Practices
… and incarceration rates, unpacking how the classroom structure plays a part in this epidemic can help improve the school system as well as societal outcomes for other historically marginalized students. This study sought to identify what teachers believe (through their conceptions and …
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A Discourse Analysis of Parents' and Teachers' Social Constructions of School Readiness and Transition to Kindergarten for Children With Disabilities
… school district in Southern California. Semistructured interviews were conducted to invite participants to share their experiences working with students with disabilities and their roles in these students’ transitions to kindergarten. A dialectical–relational approach to discourse analysis, …
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The Effects Of Departmentalized And Self-Contained Structures On Student Achievement
… effects of departmentalized and self-contained classroom structures on student achievement of fourth, fifth, and sixth grade students in Mississippi schools. Historical MCT2 proficiency level percentages were collected from the Mississippi Department of Education website for the following school …
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Multiple Intelligences and Their Impact on Science Instruction on One Second Grade Classroom
… There were twenty-two students in a second grade classroom with two teachers. The class was broken into groups of four or five students, assigned a leader, and each had an hour per week to utilize the science learning center area. A three week time frame was used with six learning centers designed …
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A Narrative Inquiry into Experiences of Teaching Reading
… English teacher participants through interviews, classroom observations, and journal entries. I also made use of a personal frame not only as researcher but as an impetus for understanding teaching reading at the high school level in today’s English classrooms. There were three distinct themes …
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A synthesis of studies pertaining to facilities, student achievement, and student behavior
… maintenance, density, climate conditions, and classroom structure. From the research reviewed, educators and designers should consider the impact of building condition, lighting, and site noise when planning, remodeling, designing, or maintaining schools, as there was conclusive evidence that …
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Places of Purpose, Purposeful Places: An Exploration of the Physical Environment of Primary Level Classrooms
<p>The physical environment of the classroom impacts teachers and students. In many settings teachers are given some autonomy but little guidance in the establishment of the physical environment of the classroom. Relatively few studies examine issues related to the totality of the physical …
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Accessibility of Visuals in the Music Classroom Focusing on Students with Disabilities, Students in Poverty, and Culturally Diverse Students
… to visuals that could be used in a music classroom.</p> <p>When considering the accessibility for students with disabilities, it is crucial to review legislation such as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (1990, 2004, 2013) which mandates services to children with disabilities …
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Literate Attachments in a Multilingual Kindergarten: A Case Study
… attachments served a variety of functions in the classroom. Most importantly, they inspired the children to engage repeatedly with language and literature. These voluntary, repeated interactions with favorite texts then led to the development of many of the skills needed for beginning reading. …