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McGaughy, Charis; Hopper-Moore, Greg; Farkas, Rachel – Educational Policy Improvement Center, 2013
In the winter and spring of 2012-2013 the Educational Policy Improvement Center (EPIC) partnered with representatives from the Office of Secondary/Postsecondary Transitions at Oregon Department of Education (ODE) and the Oregon Department of Community Colleges Workforce Development (CCWD) to guide secondary and postsecondary instructors in the…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Faculty Development, Formative Evaluation, Teacher Workshops
Assouline, Susan G.; Colangelo, Nicholas; Heo, Nanseol; Dockery, Lori – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2013
Established in the early 1970s, the talent search model has garnered strong theoretical and programming support for addressing the academic needs of highly able students. The two main components of the talent search model are discovery (identification) and development (programming) of academic talent. Discovery of academically talented elementary…
Descriptors: Talent, Gifted, Identification, Intervention
Block, Alan A. – Language Arts, 2010
This essay addresses issues central to educational discourse in the United States by calling on texts and forms of inquiry generally unfamiliar and often unrecognized in current conversations regarding schooling and education, the Jewish tradition of Talmudic studies. Although Rabbis in this tradition never doubted the necessity of standards,…
Descriptors: Jews, Educational Change, Educational Research, Inquiry
Palmer, Erik – Stenhouse Publishers, 2011
All teachers at all grade levels in all subjects have speaking assignments for students, but many teachers believe they don't know how to teach speaking, and many even fear public speaking themselves. In his new book, "Well Spoken", veteran teacher and education consultant Erik Palmer shares the art of teaching speaking in any classroom. Teachers…
Descriptors: Public Speaking, Teaching Methods, Educational Strategies, Oral Language
Sewell, William C.; Denton, Shawn – English Journal, 2011
To provide insight into the issue of multimodal literacy instruction, the authors explore presentation techniques and instructional activities employed in their secondary language arts classes. They collaborate on assignments that focus students on "anchored media instruction" and engage them in producing multimodal, technology-infused projects,…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Literacy, Secondary Education, Multimedia Instruction
Plummer, Donna M.; Davis, Betty Jo; Brazier, Victoria – Science Activities: Classroom Projects and Curriculum Ideas, 2011
We successfully integrated science and language arts in a third-grade classroom. The students used "scientist's eyes" and "poet's eyes" to write original poetry. In addition, they created habitat posters about a swamp organism. Scoring guides for the habitat poems and posters are also included. (Contains 5 figures and 2 tables.)
Descriptors: Language Arts, Scoring, Poetry, Science Instruction
Mohnsen, Bonnie – Strategies: A Journal for Physical and Sport Educators, 2011
This article addressed the need for authentic interdisciplinary instruction. Authentic interdisciplinary instruction is defined as a learning activity that simultaneously improves student performance related to grade-level standards in two or more disciplines (e.g., science and physical education). The process described for creating authentic…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Academic Standards, Guidelines
Skerrett, Allison; Bomer, Randy – Urban Education, 2011
This article examines how a teacher drew on her urban students' outside-school literacies to inform teaching and learning in a reading/language arts classroom. The following findings are discussed: curricular invitations the teacher offered to students; the teacher's curriculum development process; the relationships between the genres of students'…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Literacy, Reading, Curriculum Development
Gutierrez, Peter – Language Arts, 2011
Reading experts have consistently cited the importance of independent reading, reading for pleasure, and fostering "a love of reading." Unfortunately, fanning the fire of fan readership is not so easy in the service of our clear-cut and standards-aligned curricula, except perhaps in small, carefully channeled doses. Moreover, the impetus for such…
Descriptors: Independent Reading, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Recreational Reading
Chapman, Thandeka K.; Hobbel, Nikola; Alvarado, Nora V. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2011
In the English language arts classroom, social justice is a way to increase students' abilities to articulate their experiences, critique their world, and address those identified issues with subsequent action. Teachers who practice social justice education cultivate student voice through class activities, readings, assignments, and assessments…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Class Activities, Language Arts, Personal Narratives
Jeon, Lieny; Buettner, Cynthia K.; Hur, Eunhye – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2014
Background: Research has documented the importance of high-quality early childhood experiences in preparing children for school. Quality rating and improvement systems (QRIS) have recently emerged in many states as a way to build quality of child care and to promote better child outcomes. Objective: The goal of this study was to determine if…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Educational Quality, Early Childhood Education, Rating Scales
Lapayese, Yvette; Huchting, Karen; Grimalt, Olga – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2014
Although biliteracy plays a vital role in academic achievement, there has been little research on the unique needs of female and male English language learners. Becoming biliterate is a complex process, compounded by other variables such as 1st-language background, class, culture, and gender. Among these variables, gender has been the least…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Gender Differences, Academic Achievement, Urban Schools
Kelley, James B. – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2012
Harper Lee's novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" is one of the most widely taught texts in language arts classrooms through the English-speaking world and is greatly valued by many readers today for its depiction of youth grappling with racism in the American South of the Depression Era. However, the novel's subtle and sustained critique of…
Descriptors: Home Schooling, Literature, Novels, Racial Bias
Avila, JuliAnna – English Journal, 2012
In 2004, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) concluded that "literature reading is fading as a meaningful activity, especially among younger people." How can educators continue to teach students about the power of literary response when the priority is for them to achieve proficiency on standardized tests, whose scores can only be narrowly…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Language Arts, Grade 11, English Instruction
Wester, Jason Michael – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study investigated the lived experiences of first-year college students who kept personal and private journals in an English composition course. The purpose of this study was to provide a description of the lived experiences of keeping those journals from the point-of-view of the journal writers themselves. Forty-eight students were involved…
Descriptors: Journal Writing, Student Journals, Language Arts, English Instruction