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Littlefield, Amy Root – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Research on early adolescence reveals significant declines in intrinsic motivation for reading and points out the need for metacognitive strategy use among middle school students. Research indicates that explicit instruction involving motivation and metacognitive support for reading strategy use in the context of a discipline is an efficient and…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Teaching Methods, African American Students, Social Studies
Allen, Korrie; Akinyanju, Kim; Milliken, Tammi; Lorek, Edward; Walker, Tamu Thomas – Middle School Journal (J3), 2011
School systems often implement character education initiatives in reaction to a violent event. Following the school shootings that occurred in the 1990s, many school systems started to implement character education and violence prevention programs. Unfortunately, because the efforts were reactive, little thought was given to sustainability…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Student Attitudes, Prosocial Behavior, Prevention
Pepperell, Jennifer L.; Rubel, Deborah J. – Qualitative Report, 2009
This research explored the experiences of gifted girls transitioning from elementary school to sixth and seventh grade. The current literature indicates that gifted girls often struggle emotionally during this transition. Seven research participants were selected and interviewed over a four-month period. Grounded theory methodology was used to…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Academically Gifted, Females, Grade 7
Gorzelsky, Gwen – College Composition and Communication, 2009
Based on an ethnographic study of a writing course taught by a talented instructor who integrated process and critical pedagogy approaches, I argue that many students actively engage with the concerns of critical pedagogy when the classroom ethos strongly supports their agency--their ownership of their developing ideas and texts. (Contains 10…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction, Role of Education
Esposito, Jennifer; Swain, Ayanna N. – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2009
This article explores issues surrounding teaching for social justice in urban schools. Using qualitative methods, our study examined the ways in which seven urban teachers used culturally relevant pedagogy as a mechanism for teaching for social justice. We found that by adhering to the tenets of culturally relevant pedagogy (e.g. personal…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Urban Schools, Urban Teaching, Culturally Relevant Education
Berry, Robert Q., III. – Adults Learning Mathematics, 2008
The stories of four mathematically successful middle schools African American boys are used to describe the roles, perceptions, and experiences of their parents. The parents of played multiple roles for their sons: (a) guardians of opportunities, (b) standard setters, (c) resources for mathematical knowledge, and (d) models of success. As…
Descriptors: African American Students, Middle School Students, Mathematics Achievement, Sons
Lopez, Nancy – Theory Into Practice, 2008
How can teachers and administrators improve the educational environment for Latino/as and other racially stigmatized youth? What does antiracist pedagogy for Latino/a immigrant youth look like? This article describes the thought, action, and reflection employed by a bilingual 9th grade teacher in the Southwest. Antiracist pedagogical strategies…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Grade 9, Educational Environment, Immigrants
Barger, Rita; Haehl, Martha – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2007
This article describes middle school mathematics activities that relate measurement, ratios, and geometric sequences to finger positions or the placement of frets on stringed musical instruments. (Contains 2 figures and 2 tables.)
Descriptors: Mathematical Concepts, Musical Instruments, Geometric Concepts, Mathematics Activities
Taylor, Roger S.; Rittle-Johnson, Bethany; Matthews, Percival G.; McEldoon, Katherine L. – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2009
The focus of this research is to develop an initial framework for assessing and interpreting students' level of understanding of mathematical equivalence. Although this topic has been studied for many years, there has been no systematic development or evaluation of a valid measure of equivalence knowledge. A powerful method for accomplishing this…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Parochial Schools, Instructional Materials, Elementary School Students
Solomon, Laura J.; Bunn, Janice Y.; Flynn, Brian S.; Pirie, Phyllis L.; Worden, John K.; Ashikaga, Takamaru – Health Education & Behavior, 2009
Theory-driven, mass media interventions prevent smoking among youth. This study examined effects of a media campaign on adolescent smoking cessation. Four matched pairs of media markets in four states were randomized to receive or not receive a 3-year television/radio campaign aimed at adolescent smoking cessation based on social cognitive theory.…
Descriptors: Smoking, Telephone Surveys, Adolescents, Mass Media
Szecsy, Elsie; Jensen, Bryant – Online Submission, 2007
This study describes perspectives of participants in a substance abuse and HIV prevention (HIVP) program targeted to middle school students and families in an urban Phoenix, Arizona, school district. Data collection and analyses complement past quasi-experimental, pre/post designs which found the program to be successful in terms of increasing…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Learning Theories, Substance Abuse, Prevention
Kaya, Osman Nafiz – Hacettepe University Journal of Education, 2008
The purpose of this study is to present the whole process step-by-step of how a science lesson can be planned and implemented based on Multiple Intelligences (MI) theory. First, it provides the potential of the MI theory for science teaching and learning. Then an MI science lesson that was developed based on a modified model in the literature and…
Descriptors: Multiple Intelligences, Cognitive Structures, Science Teachers, Grade 8
Whitin, Phyllis E. – Reading Teacher, 2009
This article explores one context in which language arts instruction can be enhanced through digital technologies. It describes how preservice elementary education teachers first investigated aspects of visual literacy and then engaged in digital and traditional multimodal forms of response to historical nonfiction literature. They read,…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Visual Literacy, Literacy, Language Arts
Reumann-Moore, Rebecca; Sanders, Felicia – Research for Action, 2012
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has invested in the development and dissemination of high-quality instructional and formative assessment tools to support teachers' incorporation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) into their classroom instruction. Lessons from the first generation of standards-based reforms suggest that intense…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Science Instruction, Teacher Surveys, Mixed Methods Research
Adams, Dolly L. – Journal of Leadership Education, 2009
Effective leadership in public schools includes, but is not limited to being able to communicate goals, set expectations, monitor instructional progress, coordinate the curriculum, and supervise and evaluate faculty (Snowden & Gorton, 2002). All of these leadership skills are driven by a need for leaders to build collaborative rapport and…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Personality Theories, Leadership Styles, Public Schools