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McFarlan-Price, Regina A. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
A challenge that professional development coordinators and instructional leaders face is designing and implementing professional development that is the most effective for improving teaching and learning in their school. To determine what is the perceptions and beliefs of elementary teachers' value of and responses to their professional…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Teacher Attitudes, Faculty Development, Program Effectiveness
The Effects of Differentiated Instruction on Academic Achievement of Struggling Second Grade Readers
McCullough, Shirley M. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The educational system has an increasing population of students with diverse learning needs that must be addressed to ensure all students are academically successful. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether differentiated instruction had a positive effect on the vocabulary and the reading comprehension of struggling 2nd grade…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Individualized Instruction, Reading Instruction, Reading Comprehension
Robinson, Isaac, III – ProQuest LLC, 2010
According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, reading skills for African American male students in Grades 4 and 8 have improved over the past decade. However, a significant reading achievement gap still exists between African American male students and their European American counterparts. The purpose, as well as the central…
Descriptors: Social Change, Reading Skills, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods
Henry, Michelle – Online Submission, 2008
Vygotsky (1978) presented ideas influential to the "constructivist" approach to education. This approach included the "zone of proximal development," and defined what is essential for student's development of a higher cognitive ability in order to become self-motivated learners. His theory also directly relates to the research regarding the…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Reading Comprehension, Parent Participation, Program Effectiveness
Blom-Hoffman, Jessica – Psychology in the Schools, 2007
Rates of childhood overweight have reached epidemic proportions (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2001), and schools have been called on to play a role in the prevention of this medical condition. This article describes a multiyear health promotion effort--the Athletes in Service fruit and vegetable (F&V) promotion program--which…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Health Promotion, Kindergarten, Grade 3