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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Teaching United States"”.
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Secondary teachers' perceptions on their competency and self-efficacy levels associated with an integrated professional development approach to teaching United States history
… offered to middle school and high school United States history teachers. The major focus of the study was scaled exit surveys and free response questions completed by teachers in six school districts in northeastern Tennessee, who were part of a Teaching American History Grant program …
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Countering privilege: Toward a critical pedagogy of compassion in the teaching of United States history
… given minority status in our society by having United States history teachers teach history in such a way that the affluent come to have a greater understanding for the “other.” The study begins with a discussion of concepts of privilege, compassion and empathy, and the poor. This is followed by …
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Contending art education paradigms and professionalization.
In 1982, the Getty Center for Education in the Arts, an operating entity of a private foundation, began to promote discipline-based art education (DBAE), a newly-articulated paradigm that had evolved within the art education field over the previous twenty years. The new paradigm, which advocated …
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Differentiated instruction: The effect on student achievement in an elementary school
<p>The purpose of this study was to determine if differentiated instruction had an effect on student achievement. The researcher sought to answer two research questions “Does differentiated instruction have an impact on student achievement?” and “Are there components of differentiated instruction …
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Achieving intercultural knowledge through global awareness programming at liberal arts college
<p>This thesis investigated the success of global awareness co,curricular programming as a tool for increasing intercultural knowledge at a liberal arts college. The study asked the following question: do internationally themed campus-wide events increase student interest in, and appreciation of, …
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Special education reading instructional strategies in one Midwestern intermediate school district
… strategies were integrated into the teaching of students with reading difficulties, and to what extent sustainability factors were evidenced in service delivery models. From the original 46 survey participants, a subset of thirteen special education teachers participated in a …
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An examination of student perceptions of knowledge transfer in the first-year composition experience
… recommendation is to equip instructors with teaching strategies that provide students with the ability to transform knowledge to useable skills. The researcher recommends the research be expanded to a longitudinal study following select students throughout their collegiate writing experiences.
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Risking “good trouble” : an examination of novice middle school social studies teachers’ readiness and approaches to teaching LGBTQIA+ history
… practice. The current political climate in the United States is the latest manifestation of these countervailing forces. The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine novice, middle school social studies teachers’ perceptions of their ability to teach LGBTQIA+ history, the methods used …
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Service-learning and reflection in dental hygiene education
… students. SL in dental hygiene is an ideal teaching medium and use frequently; however, few studies have specifically studied if it is being done effectively. This study aimed to increase the knowledge available about SL in dental hygiene educational facilities and to discover if SL was …
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Process-writing instruction in one teacher's classes and its impact on the writing of her seventh grade students
<p>The purpose of the project was to determine whether process-writing instruction in the classroom was improving one group of seventh grade language arts students' writing. Students in three classes with the same language arts teacher were involved in the study. Over the course of the first three …
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