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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Educators' understanding"”.
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Dyslexia: Examining Educators' Understanding and Experiences in Providing Interventional Support
… was to examine kindergarten through second grade educators’ experiences in recognizing and remediating reading difficulties. Educators’ understanding of dyslexia and perceptions of effective identification and remediation serve to impact policy development, program selection, and effective …
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Educators’ Understanding of Child Development in Successful Schools that Face Challenging Circumstances
The purpose of this study is to examine how educators who teach in schools that face challenging circumstances understand child development and the school context, and how their understanding of child development is manifested through non-academic responses to these challenging circumstances. Using …
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EDUCATORS’ UNDERSTANDING OF SCIENTIFIC SENSEMAKING AND LITERACY: A CULTURAL-HISTORICAL ACTIVITY THEORY ANALYSIS
… to describe a community of middle school science educators’ understandings of scientific sensemaking and literacy during their participation in professional development. Six teachers from Marksboro Middle School initiated and participated in a semester-long book study of Ambitious Science Teaching …
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An unfamiliar face, an unfamiliar environment: Investigating educators’ understanding of their attachment relationships with infants and toddlers in Early Childhood Education and Care settings
… the last six decades, offering a framework for understanding risk and protective factors in early childhood. However, this work has primarily been influenced from a medical health or psychological perspective. Despite the literature highlighting the importance of attachment relationships, there …
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Efforts to Solve Real-Life Marketing Problems and Related Learning Activities
… The study contributes to theoreticans' and educators' understanding of the relationship between education and performance by: (a) revealing significant associations between learning activities and problem solving and (b) providing a new model which describes the problem-solving situations …
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Situated Teaching: Personal, Cultural, and Contextual Early Childhood Schooling
… for teachers, administrators, teacher educators, and reformers. With growing interest in teacher collaboration within already over-burdened systems, understanding school identity is becoming more important to educators. Understanding schools as places where teachers learn to teach can …
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Effects of an argumentation-based instruction on grade 10 learners' understanding of the causes of pollution at a river site
… the Western Cape. The project seeks to enhance educators' understanding of and ability to implement a Science-IKS curriculum (Ogunniyi, 2007) through using the theoretical framework of argumentation (Toulmin Argument Pattern) to the extent that learners would value the significance of both …
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A Narrative and Poetic Exploration into Self-Defining Asperger’s: Ceasing to be X-1
… on the autism spectrum often spend years not understanding why they are different resulting in experienced otherness. My self-directed study written through narrative and poetry-explored the story of a non-traditional graduate student on the autism spectrum at a university. This thesis …
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Jumping into the Cloud: Privacy, Security and Trust of Cloud-Based Computing Within K-12 American Public Education
<p>The purpose of this study is to gain a deeper understanding of how faculty view Cloud-based computing, how they perceive issues of privacy, security, and trust when using Cloud-based systems in schools, and what differences, if any, exist between their at home use of Cloud-based computer systems …
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Esta es Nuestra Historia: An Intergenerational Study with Three Latin@ Educators
… the being, work, and advocacy of three Latin@ educators in the San Marcos community who span three generations. Two Latin@ educators and myself, are the primary unit of analysis although, secondary and tertiary units of analysis which include citizens’ stories of schooling and community are …
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Exploring opportunities for children’s creativity and imagination in ‘real world’ and ‘fantasy’ play in the Reception setting.
… It aims to explore the practices of early educators and children in role play areas in the Reception setting within a local context in Wales. The overarching research question is: To what extent does ‘real world’ or ‘fantasy’ play allow children opportunities for creativity and imagination? …
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Particular Constructs of Self-Concept that are Associated with Self-Directedness Among Selected Women Students Enrolled at a Community College
… age women students may aid in helping educators provide more responsive learning environments. Additional information relative to self-concept and self-directedness can aid educators in understanding the frame of reference out of which adult women students attempt to learn. The concern …
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Effect of Coach Education on Coaches' Perspectives and Practices
… of the indirect pedagogies employed by the coach educators and interest in the content they taught. The second study described (a) how two grassroots youth soccer coaches were influenced by a progressive coach education program (CEP) and (b) the factors that supported or negated the program's …
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Understanding Parental Motivation To Home School: A Qualitative Case Study
… and elaborated by telling their stories. Educators described their experiences with children being removed from their schools and with home school children returning to the classroom. They shared their experiences and perceptions of the value of home school and issues relating to student …
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Understanding Parental Motivation To Home School: A Qualitative Case Study
… and elaborated by telling their stories. Educators described their experiences with children being removed from their schools and with home school children returning to the classroom. They shared their experiences and perceptions of the value of home school and issues relating to student …
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Examining Holocaust education museum-initiated professional development: The perspective of museum educators during planning and implementation
… provide professional development workshops for educators that focus on a topic included within those standards. The Holocaust, a topic that is mandated by over 30 states, is an example of one such topic—albeit one that might also be difficult or controversial to teach. A regional Holocaust …
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IS FAITH ON THE CAMPUS TOUR? RURAL, PUBLIC COLLEGE STUDENTS' EXPLORATION OF SPIRITUAL AND RELIGIOUS IDENTITY
… five findings of note which serve to enhance educators' understanding of rural, public college students' spiritual identity development. One, those students identifying with a faith tradition ascribed a great deal of importance to the possibility for affiliation with others of like beliefs at …
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Professional development with an emphasis on barriers, motivation, and attitudes regarding teaching biotechnology concepts
… This study examines the factors that influence educators understanding of biotechnology, and their willingness to provide instruction on concepts surrounding aspects of biotechnology. This study encompassed 4 specific objectives. 1) Describe the breadth of professional development activities in …
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Development and feasibility of a multi-component intervention to promote children’s physical activity in schools (SOKKA Schools)
… educator buy-in is essential. Further, for educators to feel confident, comfortable and motivated to deliver the proposed intervention, it appears important to support school educators’ understanding of the proposed intervention and its impact on pupil outcomes, reduce possible training …