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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"mainstream classrooms"”.
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Correlates of learning disabled students' social acceptance in mainstream classrooms
The present study investigated the social status of learning disabled (LD) students among their non-LD peers and explored how their social acceptance related to personal attributes, behavioral characteristics, and social information processing. Subjects were 22 white, third through fifth grade LD …
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Elementary Teachers’ Perceptions Regarding the Inclusion of English Learners in Mainstream Classrooms
… of this qualitative study was to investigate how mainstream elementary teachers perceive the inclusion of English learners (ELs) in their classrooms and what strategies they use to enhance the learning of ELs. Utilization of Bandura’s self-efficacy occurred in the research. The two research …
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Individualized Instruction Strategies in Mainstream Classrooms: Including Students with Autistic Spectrum Disorder
… diagnosed with autism. General education classrooms are often made up of students with a broad spectrum of abilities, and it is the teacher’s job to meet the needs of those students.</p> <p>Strategies addressed in this review include animal assisted therapy, antecedent, peer mediated, and …
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Taking Matters into Our Own Hands: Advocating for Advanced Language Learning in Mainstream Classrooms Through A ‘Multi-Cultural Capital’ Curriculum
<p>The purpose of this project is to supply teachers with curriculum for targeted advanced language learning skills, particularly in writing. It is also to acknowledge that despite the language status of the advanced student, language development should be seen more as a continuum and should …
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The Smartpen as a Mediational Tool for Learning Language and Content Areas: The Case of English Learners in Mainstream Classrooms
… about how English Learners (ELs) educated within mainstream classrooms choose to appropriate mobile technologies to meet their learning needs, with respect to both their development linguistically and across academic course disciplines. </p><p> To inform this gap in research, this study used a …
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Managing linguistic and cultural diversity in Merseyside's primary schools : theory, policy and practice
… additional language (EAL) are being educated in mainstream classrooms where they have little or no opportunity to use their mother tongue. This study investigates how educators at primary schools in Merseyside, where English is usually the only language in the classroom, respond to the …
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Educators' attitudes towards the inclusion of hearing impaired learners
… the inclusion of hearing impaired learners in mainstream classrooms As an introduction to the study the attitudes of educators towards inclusion were reviewed by means of a study of available and relevant literature. Educators are the people who make learning possible and their own attitudes …
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Dialogic teaching for students with conditions within the autism spectrum
… of practices that support autistic students in mainstream schools. It focused on the support of the participation of verbal autistic students in formal class activities in mainstream classrooms. This is a relevant topic for investigation due to the growing number of autistic students attending …
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Examining The Challenges And Benefits Of Inclusion In Urban Secondary Schools
… that integrate students with disabilities into mainstream classrooms? 2) How do teachers describe their qualifications/preparation to provide appropriate instruction to students with disabilities in their mainstream classrooms? 3) How do teachers describe the influence of professional …
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Communicative Inferencing Between Classroom Teachers and Limited English Proficient International Children (Sociolinguistics, Discourse)
… speaking international pupils in three mainstream classrooms: a kindergarten, first grade and third grade. The locus of observation was a dyadic instructional encounter, in which one of the participants perceived that the child required help to carry out a task. Natural classroom …
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Collaboration and Coteaching: The Gateway to Successful Instruction for ELLs
… the benefits of coteaching between TESOL and mainstream teachers collaborating and coteaching to improve instruction for ELLs. This topic derived from observations and interviews of TESOL teacher when being asked the question: How can organizing and co-designing instruction between TESOL and …
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Creating Meaningful Literacy Instruction with ELLs
… and promote meaningful lessons for ELLs in mainstream classrooms. While the research prioritizes the teacher's side of education and instructional practices from their perspective, a potential avenue for future research is to study these challenges from the student perspective.
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Exploring Early Career Public General Education K–6 Teachers’ Experiences With Their Training For Teaching Special Education Students In Inclusive Classrooms
… is typically implemented by placing students in mainstream classrooms with individualized accommodations. This qualitative phenomenological study explored the lived experiences of seven early career K–6 public general education teachers in Ontario (1–4 years of practice) as they engaged in …
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Developing Academic Self-Efficacy: Strategies to Support Gifted Elementary School Students
… are regularly successful academically in mainstream United States classrooms. However, in the face of a true intellectual challenge, rather than be inspired to learn and grow, the literature reports that gifted students’ academic self- efficacy can falter because of perfectionism, a …
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An Exploratory Study of the Curriculum in Primary School Nurture Groups: From a Pupil, Parent and Practitioner Perspective.
… and learning needs could not be met by mainstream provision (Boxall, 2002). Nurture group intervention emphasises that creating opportunities to develop attachment and security can modify some negative early experiences. Previous research has indicated that primary school nurture groups …
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Examining the Impact of Acquiring the ESL Endorsement on Teacher Knowledge, Dispositions, and English Language Learner Performance on a Standardized Mathematics Test
… make-up of students in general education classrooms. Data from the 2000 Census establish that more than 14 million immigrants entered the United States during the 1990s. The percentage of English language learners (ELLs) in U.S. public schools increased from 8% (3.8 million students) in …
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"""Movin' Up That Third Grade Hill"": Discourses of Progress and Hybrid Language and Literacy Practices in a ""Mainstream"" Multilingual Classroom"
"The increasing linguistic diversity in ""mainstream"" classrooms requires that educators rethink literacy instruction in this setting. This case study draws from ethnographic and narrative data, and feminist-poststructuralist theories to examine a ""mainstream"" novice teacher as she attempted to …
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Iowa High Schools: Meeting the Challenges of Educating Limited English Proficient Students
… of education of Iowa secondary LEP students in mainstream classrooms has not been studied extensively. Valid and reliable tools for studying the education of LEP students have not been developed. In this study, the author developed a survey tool that measures how much mainstream teachers …
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Teachers' Perceptions of French Immersion Inclusionary Strategies
… with diverse learning needs were segregated from mainstream classrooms. It was not until the 1990’s that this model was replaced with inclusive education, whereby all students are well integrated into the mainstream classroom and all students learn together with some modifications that suit their …
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Implementing The SIOP Model To Support English Language Learners
… learning. These students are transitioning into mainstream classrooms, lacking basic literacy foundation skills, including vocabulary, grammar, comprehension, phonology, and meaning, which is preventing them from accessing grade-level content. Teachers who are charged with educating English …
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