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Roberts, Greg; Vaughn, Sharon; Wanzek, Jeanne; Furman, Gleb; Martinez, Leticia; Sargent, Katherine – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2023
Promoting Adolescents' Comprehension of Text (PACT) is a text- and discourse-based set of instructional practices that engage students with disciplinary texts as a means of building content knowledge and improving reading comprehension. PACT)s "efficacy" has been the subject of extensive previous trials. The purpose of this study was to…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, History Instruction, United States History, Reading Comprehension
Anne Kathryn Innis – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Settler-colonial narratives permeate the social studies curriculum. This qualitative study engages the experiences and reflections of three teacher-participants as well as the researcher as an additional teacher-participant to explore how and why practicing teachers teach against settler colonial narratives. The study is framed through a…
Descriptors: Decolonization, Teachers, Social Studies, United States History
Utah State Office of Education, Salt Lake City. – 1991
This resource file contains information for Utah secondary school teachers to help their level 8 students meet the state's instructional objectives in the social studies. This particular student level emphasizes U.S. history. The following disciplines are covered in the resource file: psychology, anthropology, sociology, geography, history,…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Grade 8, Junior High Schools, Learning Activities
Utah State Office of Education, Salt Lake City. – 1991
This resource file contains information for Utah secondary school teachers to help their level 7 students meet the state's instructional objectives in the social studies. This particular student level emphasizes Utah studies. The following disciplines are covered in the resource file: psychology, anthropology, sociology, geography, history,…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Grade 7, Junior High Schools, Learning Activities
Birkinshaw, Scott B. – 1981
This section of the Country School Legacy: Humanities on the Frontier Project, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and sponsored by the Mountain Plains Library Association, traces the development of schools in Utah during the Territorial Period (1847-1896). Following a discussion of the influence of the Church of Jesus Christ of…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Community Schools, Cultural Background, Curriculum
Embry, Jessie L. – 1981
The papers in this portion of the Country School Legacy: Humanities on the Frontier Project, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and sponsored by the Mountain Plains Library Association, trace the development of Utah's country schools since 1896. "Country Schools as Historic Sites" describes the early schools as they…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Community Centers, Consolidated Schools, Cultural Background