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Bresina, Britta Cook; McMaster, Kristen L. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2020
Data from a small randomized control trial of teachers' use of Data-Based Instruction (DBI) for early writing were analyzed to determine the influence of teacher knowledge, skills, and treatment fidelity on student Curriculum-Based Measurement (CBM) slope. Participants included 11 elementary grade teachers who delivered intensive intervention in…
Descriptors: Knowledge Base for Teaching, Teaching Skills, Writing Instruction, Curriculum Based Assessment
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McMillen, Jennifer D.; Swick, Shayna D.; Frazier, Lauren M.; Bishop, Matthew; Goodell, L. Suzanne – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2019
The perceived benefits of outdoor learning have influenced recommendations and policies alike in early childhood education, yet one component (garden education) in Head Start preschools is inconsistent and researchers do not yet know why. The purposes of this qualitative interview study were to explore preschool teachers' experiences and…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Gardening, Preschool Education, Early Intervention
Collins, Ginger G.; Goforth, Anisa N.; Ambrose, Laura M. – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 2016
Rural students are at risk for vocabulary underdevelopment and often have less access to educational resources. The purpose of this investigation was to examine the effectiveness of an Internet-based Speech/Language Pathologist (SLP)-teacher consultation to support rural teachers' vocabulary instruction to improve their students' lexical…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Special Education, Inferences, Rural Areas
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Gagnon, Joseph C.; Houchins, David E.; Murphy, Kristin M. – Teacher Education and Special Education, 2012
Personnel in juvenile corrections (JC) work with students who have challenging academic, behavioral, and mental health needs. The complexity of the JC setting requires personnel to be highly skilled in effective practices to meet the demands of their job. Unfortunately, juvenile correctional personnel are neglected as an important link in the…
Descriptors: Health Needs, Mental Health, Professional Development, Juvenile Justice
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Garza, Ruben; Ovando, Martha N. – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2012
Providing authentic encounters with secondary students may be a way to provide a realistic image of students' academic challenges, and enhance preservice teachers' skills, knowledge, and dispositions to better address the needs of their future academically, linguistically, socially, and culturally unique students. The purpose of our study was to…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Mentors, Self Efficacy, Adolescents
Greenwood, Sylvia Joyce – ProQuest LLC, 2011
In public education we are faced with three realities: (1) our student population is diverse and growing in children of color; (2) children of color are the students most at risk of being caught on the negative end of the achievement gap; and (3) the adopted curriculum and instructional practices are predominately Eurocentric. There is a need to…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Culturally Relevant Education, Action Research, Minority Group Students
Mead, Sara; Carey, Kevin – Brookings Institution, 2011
There is a growing movement in the early childhood advocacy community to address the dual problems of quality and compensation by turning to a credential with a much different track record: the bachelor's degree. The B.A. is already the foundational degree for K-12 educators, after all, and people who have bachelor's degrees earn much more than…
Descriptors: Credentials, Early Childhood Education, Minority Groups, Educational Quality
Mead, Sara; Carey, Kevin – Brookings Institution, 2011
High-quality early childhood education has tremendous potential to improve children's and families' lives. Yet access to such education remains limited, and many early childhood educators lack the skills and credentials to improve quality in the field. To address these issues, advocates and a growing number of states have sought to extend the…
Descriptors: Credentials, Early Childhood Education, Minority Groups, Educational Quality
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Connor, Carol M.; Alberto, Paul A.; Compton, Donald L.; O'Connor, Rollanda E. – National Center for Special Education Research, 2014
Reading difficulties and disabilities present serious and potentially lifelong challenges. Children who do not read well are more likely to be retained a grade in school, drop out of high school, become a teen parent, or enter the juvenile justice system. Building on the extant research and seminal studies, including the National Reading Panel and…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Learning Disabilities, Reading Skills, At Risk Students
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Brownell, Mary T.; Bishop, Anne G.; Gersten, Russell; Klinger, Janette K.; Penfield, Randall D.; Dimino, Joseph; Haager, Diane; Menon, Shailaja; Sindelar, Paul T. – Exceptional Children, 2009
This study explored beginning special education teacher quality and the role that knowledge and skill for teaching reading plays in defining quality. The authors examined the relationship between beginning teachers' knowledge for teaching reading and their classroom practices during reading instruction and, further, relationships between classroom…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Teacher Effectiveness, Reading, Achievement Gains
Benjamin, Elissa M. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The new IDEIA (2004) mandates regarding the implementation of Response-to-Intervention (RtI) present challenges for general education teachers. The law dictates the implementation of Response-to-Intervention, which requires the application of a pyramid of interventions for students failing to make adequate yearly progress in response to general…
Descriptors: Teacher Responsibility, General Education, Learning Disabilities, Educational Improvement
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Lewis, Scott; Lee, Okhee; Santau, Alexandra; Cone, Neporcha – School Science and Mathematics, 2010
Student initiatives play an important role in inquiry-based science with all students, including English language learning (ELL) students. This study examined initiatives that elementary students made as they participated in an intervention to promote science learning and English language development over a three-year period. In addition, the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Grade 5, Grade 3, English (Second Language)