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Lacourt, Jeanne; St. Clair, Darlene; Kokotailo, Patricia K.; Wilson, Dale; Chewning, Betty – American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 2005
American Indian children have systematically been denied the opportunity to learn about their origin stories and oral traditions in the mainstream American public school system and have suffered from approaches long documented as failing them. Tribal entities across the nation are making concerted efforts to revitalize Native languages and…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Educational Change, Cultural Maintenance, Oral History
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Varjas, Kris; Meyers, Joel; Henrich, Christopher C.; Graybill, Emily C.; Dew, Brian J.; Marshall, Megan L.; Williamson, Zachary; Skoczylas, Rebecca B.; Avant, Marty – Journal of Applied School Psychology, 2006
The purpose of the Peer Victimization Intervention (PVI) was to develop and implement a culture-specific pilot intervention to address the effects of bullying on middle school students who are victims utilizing the Participatory Culture-Specific Intervention Model (PCSIM; Nastasi, Moore, & Varjas, 2004). The involvement of participants who serve…
Descriptors: Intervention, Student Attitudes, Bullying, Grade 8
Baturo, Annette R.; Cooper, Tom J.; Thompson, Kylie – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2003
This paper describes an approach to mathematics teaching and learning using teacher-constructed "virtual" materials. In this approach, virtual copies of real materials are manipulated with mouse movements to replicate the traditional physical manipulation of real materials. The paper reports on three case studies where the approach was…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Case Studies, Arithmetic, Mathematics Instruction
Clark, Christina; Foster, Amelia – National Literacy Trust, 2005
This report, based on a recent survey of over 8,000 primary and secondary pupils in England, explores why some pupils choose to read and others do not. The research literature shows that reading for pleasure benefits children in numerous ways. Yet, research also shows that young people's reading enjoyment may be declining. Given current political…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Surveys, Reading Motivation, Reading Attitudes
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Kercood, Suneeta; Zentall, Sydney S.; Lee, David L. – Learning & Individual Differences, 2004
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of actively categorizing math problems on the math problem solving performance of students with and without attention deficit disorder (ADD). To this purpose, 52 fifth and sixth grade students were involved in actively categorizing or noncategorizing (control) tasks followed by two problem…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Attention Deficit Disorders, Problem Solving, Grade 5
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Witte, James E.; Witte, Maria Martinez; Saltiel, Iris; Hackett, Paul T.; Hesler, Kathy; Johnson, Mike – Journal of Educational Research & Policy Studies, 2005
A collaborative partnership provides school administrators and university researchers an opportunity to evaluate a school-based initiative. Richards Middle School (RMS) in Columbus, Georgia identified school improvement goals and involved university researchers in a collaborative evaluation with implications for strengthening leadership, training,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Change, Grade 6, Partnerships in Education
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Beckmann, Sybilla – Mathematics Educator, 2004
Out of the 38 nations studied in the 1999 "Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study" (TIMSS), children in Singapore scored highest in mathematics (National Center for Education Statistics, NCES, 2003). Why do Singapore's children do so well in mathematics? The reasons are undoubtedly complex and involve social aspects.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Mathematics, Visual Aids
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Loukia, Ntinou – Information Technology in Childhood Education Annual, 2003
This article discusses the way online communications, and more precisely e-mail, can be used for English language teaching in a Primary Education classroom in Greece. The first part: (a) briefly describes the context where this particular technology will be used; (b) considers the pedagogical issues and language learning potential of using e-mail…
Descriptors: Electronic Mail, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Teaching Methods
McCloskey, Patrick J. – Teacher Magazine, 2002
In this article, the author describes how Math/Science Institute (M/SI) in New York City prepares minority students to take the rigorous entrance exam for the city's three specialized science high schools: Stuyvesant, Bronx Science, and Brooklyn Technical. M/SI was created in 1995 by Ramon Cortines, who was then chancellor of New York City's…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Minority Groups, Neighborhoods, African American Students
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Brigman, Greg; Campbell, Chari – Professional School Counseling, 2003
This article describes a study evaluating the impact of school-counselor-led interventions on student academic achievement and school success behavior. A group counseling and classroom guidance model called student success skills (SSS) was the primary intervention. The focus of the SSS model was on three sets of skills identified in several…
Descriptors: Self Management, Educational Change, Guidance Objectives, Group Counseling
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Rickard, Anthony – Journal of American Indian Education, 2005
This case study examines a sixth-grade teacher and her students in an urban school district in Alaska, engaging in an activity from a module that is part of the Math in a Cultural Context (MCC) series. By analyzing the module, the teacher's practice, classroom discourse, and students' work, the case shows that the teacher and the MCC module…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Urban Schools, Mathematics Achievement, Control Groups
Ruthmann, Stephen Alexander – ProQuest LLC, 2006
This study investigated the lived experiences of a group of students and their teacher as they negotiated learning and teaching during a sixth-grade exploratory music technology course taught in a music technology lab. Taking a qualitative and naturalistic approach, I sought to understand the challenges, issues, and successes experienced by the…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Music, Learning Laboratories, Grade 6
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Chamberlain, Patricia; Leve, Leslie D.; Smith, Dana K. – International Journal of Behavioral Consultation and Therapy, 2006
Transition into middle school presents complex challenges, including exposure to a larger peer group, increased expectations for time management and self-monitoring, renegotiation of rules with parents, and pubertal changes. For children in foster care, this transition is complicated by their maltreatment histories, living situation changes, and…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Substance Abuse, Intervention, Sexual Abuse
Shapley, Kelly; Sheehan, Daniel; Maloney, Catherine; Caranikas-Walker, Fanny – Texas Center for Educational Research, 2008
The Technology Immersion Pilot (TIP), created by the Texas Legislature in 2003, set forth a vision for technology immersion in public schools. Senate Bill 396 called for the Texas Education Agency (TEA) to establish a pilot project to "immerse" schools in technology by providing a wireless mobile computing device for each teacher and…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Public Schools, Technology Integration, Academic Achievement
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Randler, Christoph; Zehender, Irene – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2006
Species identification tasks are a prerequisite for an understanding of biodiversity. Here, we focused on different educational materials to foster the identification of six European reptile species. Our educational training unit was based on natural plastic models of six species and pupils either used an illustrated identification book or a…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Animals, Teaching Methods, Books
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