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Tinajero, Roberto; Todd, Anjanette; Tinajero, Josefina Villamil; Peterson, Sarah E. – Middle School Journal, 2023
On August 3rd, 2019, a racially-charged mass shooting occurred at Walmart in El Paso, TX that killed 23 people and injured another 23. Following the Walmart shooting, students in this borderland region wrote essays related to their experiences. We used the themes we identified to inform implications for teaching writing and composition for middle…
Descriptors: Violence, Weapons, Homicide, Student Experience
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Rowsell, Jennifer – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2020
For literacy educators, there is a need to understand students' pathways into composition and mediate contemporary, multimodal compositional pathways with more academic ones. In an effort to mediate between middle and high school students' schooling and curricular demands and their everyday interests and investments in media and communicational…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Middle School Students, High School Students, Writing (Composition)
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Michele Capurso; John L. Dennis; Luciana Pagano Salmi; Cristina Parrino; Claudia Mazzeschi – Continuity in Education, 2020
The isolation related to the COVID-19 pandemic is causing both physical and mental health concerns for children worldwide. When the pandemic is over, schools and kindergartens represent a crucial context that can play an important role in promoting young people's well-being. This paper presents a school re-entry program aimed at creating an arena…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Reentry Students, Elementary School Students
Hedges, S.; White, T.; Smith, L. – Center on Secondary Education for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder, 2014
"Autism at-a-Glance" is a series of practitioner and family-friendly documents created by the Center on Secondary Education for Students with ASD (CSESA) designed for high school staff members supporting students on the autism spectrum, as well as family members of adolescents with ASD. The purpose of the "Autism at-a-Glance"…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Comorbidity
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Card, Jane – Teaching History, 2012
Jane Card has long been fascinated by the power of visual sources to stimulate pupil thought and discussion. In previous articles she has shared insights from her own expert practice, fusing deep subject knowledge with careful planning to generate highly skilful questioning. Here she presents another rich example of classroom practice, carefully…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, History Instruction, Visual Learning, Secondary School Students
Subramaniam, Selva Ranee; Cheong, Loh Sau – Journal of Science and Mathematics Education in Southeast Asia, 2008
This study sought to explore the emotional intelligence of Form One mathematics and science teachers. The emotional intelligence of the teachers was determined using the Emotional Intelligence for Mathematics and Science Teachers (EIMST) survey instrument. It was adapted and adopted from related instruments and then pilot tested for validity and…
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, Teaching Methods, Science Teachers, Mathematics Teachers
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Janssen, Tanja; Braaksma, Martine; Rijlaarsdam, Gert – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2006
In this study we examined how good and weak students of literature interact with short literary stories. We focused on differences in the use of cognitive and affective reading activities, and in the extent to which good and weak students adapt their activities to (parts of) the story they are reading. 19 Dutch tenth-grade students from 8 classes…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Grade 10, Literature, Secondary Education