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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"instructional focus"”.
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The Effect of Prosody Instruction on Reading Fluency and Comprehension Among Third-Grade Students
… to become proficient readers with current instructional methods used in American schools. Students frequently make improvements in two of fluency’s dimensions, rate and accuracy, but these improvements have not consistently correlated to improvements in reading comprehension, which is the …
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Elementary Teachers of Writing: Paths, Passions, and Practices
… relationships between their experiences and instructional practices. Data included a survey of 61 kindergarten, first, and second-grade teachers and two focus group interviews in a large urban district in the Midwest. Three major themes emerged from the data concerning the writing …
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Conversational Repair Strategies of Teachers of English as a Second Language
… that both student proficiency levels and instructional foci influenced the types and distribution of the teachers' strategic decisions in a variety of ways. In the High Level class the male teacher employed more Repetition of initiation turn and Metalinguistic clues strategies than in his …
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Readiness in the basal reader
… of activities and workbook pages with the major instructional focus on letters and words. There are minor differences in connected text among the various series, but those differences are primarily in regard to the specific type of vowel control used. Considerations about the syntactic and …
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Teacher Educators' Approaches to Assessment
… particular attention to the relationship between instructional focus (e.g., assessment, curriculum, professional studies) or assessment education model on teacher educators’ approaches to assessment. A quantitative design was used to examine teacher educators’ approaches to classroom assessment. …
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An Investigation Of Implementations Of Smaller Learning Communities In Florida High Schools
… accountability, (b) autonomy, (c) identity, (d) instructional focus, and (e) personalization. Based on the survey results, an implementation score was determined for each participating school. Based on 5-point Likert scale (with a not applicable option) for the 35 questions that pertained to the …
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LANGUAGE, IDEOLOGY, AND EQUITY IN CHINESE-ENGLISH DUAL LANGUAGE BILINGUAL EDUCATION: FROM CURRICULUM TO CLASSROOM PRACTICES TO STUDENT EXPERIENCE
… privilege English over Chinese, narrowing instructional focus and excluding students most in need of support. Teachers’ translanguaging practices, influenced by test preparation demands, pressure from English-side colleagues, and limited bilingual resources, often took problematic forms …
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A multiple case study of female students' academic self-efficacy while participating in a middle school robotics program
An instructional focus on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) is a current popular educational due to the widespread need for skilled workers in these growing fields. Compounding this labor shortage is the fact that female students and workers are underrepresented in STEM subjects. …
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Flexible grouping in first and second-grade: differentiating instruction to meet individual needs
… teacher support. In the second-grade classroom, instructional time and instructional focus varied among performance levels. Children who struggled received increased emphasis on word level knowledge. Finally, instruction was modified by explicitness of directions, expectations for independent …
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Exploring the Professional Responsibilities of Educators in Special Day Schools Serving Secondary Students with Emotional Disabilities
… collected through a qualitative design using focus group methodology. Major findings that emerged regarding professional responsibilities were categorized as (a) knowing content, (b) designing instruction, (c) assessing student learning, (d) monitoring student behavior, (e) communicating with …
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An investigation of portfolio assessment with fifth grade teachers and students: a case study
… portfolio assessment contributed to teachers’ instructional decision-making. Four fifth grade teachers and twenty-four fifth grade students were selected as the participants for this case study. The dual role of teacher as instructional leader and assessor was examined. Data were collected from …
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One Rural Elementary School's Experience in Becoming A School of Distinction
… (1) a successful school staff maintains an instructional focus; (2) in a successful school, communication occurs among all stakeholders; (3) collaboration among teachers, parents, and the principal occur often in schools; (4) a successful school has a class size below twenty students; (5) a …
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The Effect of Public Pre-Kindergarten Attendance on First Grade Reading and Social Achievement: A District Level Analysis
… emotional development is not receiving adequate instructional focus in the form of lesson plans, activities or time in the division Pre-K in order to make a meaningful difference for children in later grade school. The study contributes to the PK – 3 alignment discourse and offers a valuable case …
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Principal Selection and the Stories Superintendents Tell.
… a sense of justice and fair play, a focus on community, and instructional leadership were qualities they considered important. Direct reference was not made to the Interstate School Leaders Licensing Consortium (ISLLC) Standards during interviews, however 48 of 182 indicators were …
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The relationship between organizational culture and the implementation of response to intervention in one elementary school
… RTI affects the entire district by changing the instructional focus to include early intervening services and the process by which students are found eligible for special education. This impacts multiple aspects of the school: scheduling, the use of instructional staff, student placement in …
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Looking Through Their Lens: The Decisions about Reading Instruction Made by Experienced 2nd, 3rd and 4th Grade Teachers
… in the early 1980's, yet little current research focuses on decision making concerning reading instruction. Often studies examine primary level reading instruction and if grades beyond primary are investigated, comprehension is the center of the examination (Durkin, 1978). The purpose of this …
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Middle School Teachers’ Perceptions of Administrator Influence on Teaching and Learning
… in this study’s design. Symbolic interaction focuses on the nature of interaction and the notion that people act and react to things based on the interpreted meanings things have for them. People are constantly undergoing change based on social interactions, and society changes through …
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Justice-Centered Mentorship in Science Teacher Education: Black Men Decolonizing Science Teaching
… six tenets: relationships, relevance, race, instructional complexity, resistance, and liberation. In the study, I combined the creation of a Afrofuturistic narrative entitled Sankofa: Black Space Futures with case study methods using a variety of data that included notes and records of …
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Site-Based Management – Principal Perceptions and Behaviors after 19 Years of Implementation
… it brings, it is imperative for educators to focus on the academic growth of students. Indeed, the nation's schools, school districts, and states are being held accountable for student achievement. Administrators in numerous school districts across the United States have implemented a popular …