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Jacobs, Charlotte E.; Kuriloff, Peter J.; Cox, Amanda B. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2014
If educators want to engage girls in learning, they must align teaching practices with girls' specific needs. In a study modeled after Reichert and Hawley's study of boys, the authors learned that lessons with hands-on learning, elements of creativity, multimodal projects, and class discussions all worked to stimulate girls'…
Descriptors: Females, Gender Differences, Learner Engagement, Student Needs
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Connors, Sean P.; Sullivan, Racheal – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2012
This article recounts what happened when one of the authors, a pre-service teacher, introduced a digital multimodal composition project in her 9th-grade inclusion English classes to support junior high students as they read the novel "To Kill a Mockingbird". Rather than regard new literacies as competing with print literacy for attention, the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Teachers, Language Arts, Secondary Education