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Jennifer M. Lennon – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Modern classrooms are increasingly diverse. Students vary in their academic abilities, personal interests, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, and previous experiences (Allen et al., 2013). To meet the varied needs of students, educators must adapt their instruction so all are able to find success. Modifying lesson plans and changing instruction…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Lesson Plans, Reading Centers, Universities
Concannon-Gibney, Tara – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018
Teaching and learning literacy in the early years can be a joyful, explorative and meaningful experience. This accessible book will give teachers and practitioners the practical and theoretical skills and knowledge they require to successfully and confidently teach reading, writing and oral skills in the early years classroom. Foregrounding the…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Reading Instruction, Writing Instruction, Language Skills
Paquette, Kelli R.; Laverick, DeAnna M. – Reading Improvement, 2017
This qualitative study explores preservice teachers' experiences in a service-learning literacy tutoring program offered at a university with children in grades one through eight. This study examines briefly the history of literacy centers and service-learning, the specific instructional tutoring methods employed by preservice teachers connected…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Professionalism, Tutoring, Literacy
Flint, Tori K. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Play in the school setting is a highly contested issue in today's restrictive academic environment. Although many early childhood educators advocate the use of play in their classrooms and emphasize the importance of play for children's learning and development, children beyond the preschool and kindergarten years are not often afforded…
Descriptors: Play, Teaching Methods, Grade 1, Elementary School Students
Hayden, H. Emily; Rundell, Trisha D.; Smyntek-Gworek, Sylvia – Teaching Education, 2013
Case studies provide two views of adaptive expertise in teaching by analyzing the written reflections of teachers working in a reading clinic. David, with 20?years of experience, described adaptive judgments he made after careful description, data gathering, and analysis of students' responses that allowed him to form hypotheses and craft…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Case Studies, Adjustment (to Environment), Expertise
Collet, Vicki S. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
My purpose in this collective case study was to identify ways in which teacher education, and coaching specifically, supports teacher change. I was particularly interested in considering what types of feedback are best at what times in the teacher education process. I investigated how coaching and other teacher education processes support…
Descriptors: Inservice Teacher Education, Feedback (Response), Coaching (Performance), Reading Centers
Hayden, H. Emily – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This mixed methods study explores reflective analytical practices of novice teachers who taught in a University Reading Clinic just prior to student teaching. Novices' reflective practices are compared to reflective practices of experienced teachers in a pilot study in the same setting. A theoretical model of novices' reflective analytical…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Teaching Methods, Student Teaching, Locus of Control
Chambers, Jennifer R. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This qualitative comparative case study identified factors that distinguish between high and low-performance on reading achievement in elementary rural Appalachian schools. This study determined the most effective instructional reading strategies, as well as other influential factors, implemented by school districts in the rural Appalachia area…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Reading Achievement, Educational Strategies, Program Effectiveness
Dunston, Pamela J. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2007
The author shares insights gained through teaching middle and high school struggling readers and raises issues related to the complexity of addressing the literacy needs of adolescents for whom reading is difficult. The role of university-based reading clinics in helping inservice teachers' think differently about struggling readers and the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Literacy Education, Adolescents, Reading Centers
Tetteris, Belinda Christine – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2006
This book will help teachers better relate to, understand, and love their job. This is a professional resource that contains innovative ideas, visuals, and reproducibles that can be referenced quickly to help make the job easier. This comprehensive resource offers practical teaching techniques, solutions, and tips on: (1) Planning and designing…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Classroom Environment, Bulletin Boards, Instructional Development
Atkinson, Terry S.; Colby, Susan A. – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2006
This qualitative study examined the professional growth of literacy teachers as they scaffolded students' one-to-one literacy learning within a university reading clinic tutoring experience. These teachers--graduate students within a reading education program--documented both their own learning and that of their students through various venues.…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, High Stakes Tests, Reading Centers, Tutors