Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine undergraduate elementary education teacher candidates' abilities to successfully integrate social justice teaching into their interdisciplinary ELA and social studies thematic units. The projects were analyzed to determine the extent to which, if any, social justice education has been addressed.…

Purpose: This study aims to explore how teachers changed literature instruction in English language arts (ELA) classrooms following personal loss, and identifies factors influencing those changes. The author argues teachers regulated their responses to literature according to emotional rules they perceived to be associated with the teaching…

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine the use of game-based learning for approximations of practice within a critical, project-based (CPB) clinical experience for preservice teachers (PSTs). Within the clinical experience, secondary English Language Arts PSTs practiced modeling argumentative thinking through playing a board game,…

The perfect guide to help you embed metacognitive approaches to your teaching. What is metacognition and how can you use it in your teaching? Metacognition -- being aware of our own ways of thinking -- is popular in education, but it is not always obvious how it links to teaching practice and how to teach it explicitly. This book translates…

A migratory child is one whose parent or guardian is a migratory agricultural worker or fisher and who has moved from one school district to another during the regular school year. The Migrant Education Program (MEP) provides supplemental support to eligible migratory children from birth through age 21. Children who are themselves migratory…

This dissertation is motivated by the urgent uncertainty of teacher education pedagogy. The work is urgent because students and schools need teachers to be proficient, equitable, and self-sufficient from the moment they take the helm of the classroom, and it is uncertain because teacher education research has struggled to definitively articulate…

Literacy standards (National Governors Association Center for Best Practices & Council of Chief State School Officers, 2010) and best practices from Institute of Education Sciences practice guides (e.g., Baker et al., 2014; Kamil et al., 2008) encourage content-area teachers to use text reading to improve vocabulary and comprehension for…

In this article, classroom researcher Harrison Campbell recounts his research into the literacy experiences of eight junior high (grades 8 and 9) students over the course of a school semester in Western Canada. Using phenomenological inquiry, Campbell invited students into a process of making meaning through experience. These experiences, brought…

This qualitative classroom-based study investigates the writing practices, choices and reflections of Latinx high school students during an instructional unit on writing testimonio. The study is grounded in a sociocultural theory of writing and draws from LatCrit and Testimonio to understand how writing about self as testimonio shapes the writing…

Over the years, many special education trends have emerged and faded, each claiming to be the solution to providing students with special needs a greater chance for success. Each year, new requirements for graduation and new educational legislation are introduced to try and correct old problems of ensuring students with special needs are properly…

Most studies have focused on whether charter schools perform better than TPS. However, for the vast majority of students who remain in TPS, a more relevant question is whether charter schools have a positive or negative impact on their schools. This study uses national, district-level panel data to examine how charter school prevalence influences…

Using a project-based learning approach, three teacher educators, teaching three different methodology courses, worked together to create, plan, and assess an arts-based assignment completed by preservice candidates. The preservice teachers created an animation project while applying curriculum expectations in three subject areas: visual arts,…

The new ELAR TEKS include consistent content vocabulary across grade levels that represent an opportunity for teachers to build a strong foundation for efficient growth and development. In this article, the author looks at consistent content vocabulary, shifting content vocabulary, and content vocabulary spread in the new ELAR TEKS and then ends…

The purpose of this study is to analyze the self-efficacy and emotional intelligence in mediating the effect of implementing active learning methods on student learning outcomes. The population of this study is the population in this study were Indonesian language and literature education students in East Java who were taking Indonesian Language…

Statement of Purpose and Method of Study: The lack of student growth of students with disabilities as compared to students without disabilities in Mississippi continues to affect school districts in the effort to earn higher ratings on the Mississippi Accountability Model. This comparative quantitative study explored the relationship between the…