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Mandee L. Carmical – ProQuest LLC, 2024
For my dissertation requirement, I conducted two research projects, collaborating with my dissertation advisor on both projects. In my first project, I employed a phenomenology methodology to investigate how teachers' professional needs, practices, and motivations align with the goals of the professional learning community to enhance teacher…
Descriptors: Teacher Participation, Professionalism, Communities of Practice, Teacher Attitudes
Corinne Sierra Mathieu – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Dual language and immersion (DLI) instruction at the secondary level is a particular challenge, as teachers are tasked with teaching abstract, cognitively complex content while supporting students in continuing to develop their partner language proficiency. This content and language integration requires a unique skill set and knowledge base, but…
Descriptors: Spanish, Program Design, Immersion Programs, Second Language Learning
Pigliacelli, Mary – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Training writing center tutors to work collaboratively with students on their writing is a complex and challenging process. This practitioner action research uses critical discourse analysis (Gee, 2014a) to interrogate tutors' understandings of their work, as expressed in their written reflections on video-recorded tutoring sessions, to facilitate…
Descriptors: Action Research, Writing Instruction, Writing (Composition), Laboratories
Gillentine, E. Paige – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Researchers have suggested that teachers use a specialized type of knowledge specifically attributed to the work of teaching. One aspect of this specific type of knowledge is the ability to analyze children's work. With continued emphasis on a teacher's ability to analyze their students' thought processes, teacher candidates will need to develop…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Mathematics
Adams, Susan R. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study seeks to understand the meaning of the experiences of a group of nine diverse educators who participated in a five-day, residential, intensive seminar known as the Teaching for Educational Equity (TFEE) seminar in 2010. Particular attention is devoted to a small subset of four educators who have continued to meet and work together…
Descriptors: Race, Equal Education, Feminism, Ethnography
King, LaGarrett Jarriel – ProQuest LLC, 2012
African American history and how it is taught in classroom spaces have been a point of contention with activists, historians, and educators for decades. In it current form, African American history narratives often are ambiguous and truncated, leaving students with a disjointed construction about U.S. history. Additionally, the pedagogical…
Descriptors: African American History, History Instruction, Preservice Teachers, Teaching Methods
Leventhal, Mary Wilson – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of the study was to examine cultural dissonance between teachers and students with its implications for student achievement in a rural Title 1 elementary school. Most U.S. teachers share a White, monolingual, middle-class, female teaching culture that is a mismatch with their increasingly multicultural student population. That problem…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Rural Areas, Critical Thinking, Reflection
Hartman, David R. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study offers an analysis of the learning of practicing teachers as they acquire a deeper knowledge of mathematics. While some professional developers have shifted part of their focus to helping practicing teachers acquire a deeper knowledge of mathematics (e.g., Stein & Silver, 1996), the results from studies often describe what translates…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Mathematics Education, Data Analysis, Mathematics Teachers
Bennett, Susan V. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
I investigated eight preservice teachers' understandings about culturally responsive pedagogy as they participated in a writing methods course in which they tutored children from different ethnic, socioeconomic, cultural, and linguistic backgrounds in an afterschool program at a local community center. I also investigated how these preservice…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Student Teachers, Methods Courses, Teacher Education Curriculum