scholarly journals Implementation of Personalized Learning in a New Charter School

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 21-35
Author(s):  
Emily Cowart
Keyword(s):  
Charter School ◽  
Sixth Grade ◽  
First Grade ◽  
Personalized Learning ◽  
School Principal ◽  
Teacher Behaviors ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Educational Approach ◽  
Implementation Challenges ◽  
Professional Development Workshop

Personalized Learning (PL) is an educational approach that tailors instruction to the academic needs of each student. Most research on PL focuses on student achievement, technology, and implementation challenges. Little research has been conducted on the actual practices that teachers use to personalize instruction and on students’ and teachers’ feelings about being in a school that implements PL. I conducted a case study at a recently opened rural elementary charter school in the southern United States, which was implementing PL schoolwide. After attending a professional development workshop on PL hosted by the State Department of Education, I conducted classroom observations in a first-grade and a fifth/sixth-grade classroom. I interviewed the teachers of these classes, the school principal, and three students. Three themes emerged from my analysis of this material, relating to student engagement, teacher behaviors and dispositions, and student outcomes. Overall, I concluded that PL is not a quick or easy transition for a school to make, nor does it involve just changing the curriculum to individualize instruction for students. Personalized Learning requires an adaption of teacher and student mindsets and the development of a school culture that fosters both academic and social-emotional growth among the students.

Disfluency Behavior of Elementary-School Stutterers and Nonstutterers: Loci of Instances of Disfluency

1969 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 308-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dean E. Williams ◽  
Franklin H. Silverman ◽  
Joseph A. Kools
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Word Length ◽  
Sixth Grade ◽  
First Grade ◽  
Grammatical Function ◽  
Initial Phoneme ◽  
Speech Task ◽  
Sentence Position ◽  
Word Attributes

One hundred fifty-two children from kindergarten and grades one through six, 76 stutterers and 76 nonstutterers, performed a speech task. Each of the kindergarten and first-grade children repeated 10 sentences after the experimenter, and each of the second- through sixth-grade children read a passage. All words judged to have been spoken disfluently were analyzed for the presence of each of Brown’s four word attributes—initial phoneme, grammatical function, sentence position, and word length. Disfluencies were not randomly distributed in the speech of these children. For both stutterers and nonstutterers, disfluencies occurred most frequently on words possessing the same attributes as those reported by Brown to be troublesome for adult stutterers. The findings of this study demonstrate the essential similarity in the loci of instances of disfluency in the speech of (1) children and adults and (2) stutterers and nonstutterers.

scholarly journals Personal Analytics Explorations to Support Youth Learning

2018 ◽  
pp. 145-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor R. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
High School ◽  
Behavior Change ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
High School Student ◽  
Sixth Grade ◽  
Personalized Learning ◽  
The Other ◽  
Direct Experience ◽  
Walking Behavior

While personalized learning environments often include systems that automatically adapt to inferred learner needs, other forms of personalized learning exist. One form involves the use of personal analytics in which the learner obtains and analyzes data about himself/herself. More known in informatics communities, there is potential for use of personal analytics for design of instruction. This chapter provides two cases of personal analytics learning explorations to demonstrate their range and potential. One case is of a high school student examining how sleep influences her mood. The other case is of a sixth-grade class of students examining how deviations from typical walking behavior change distributional shape in plotted step data. Both cases show how social support and direct experience with data correction are intimately involved in how youth can learn through personal analytics activities.

An analysis of individual differences in arithmetic

1964 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 471-473
Author(s):  
Oscar T. Jarvis
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Individual Differences ◽  
Grade Level ◽  
Common Knowledge ◽  
Sixth Grade ◽  
First Grade ◽  
Level 1 ◽  
Level 2

It is common knowledge among teachers of arithmetic that individual pupil differences in the elementary school are very pronounced at every grade level. It is equally apparent that the range of individual differences increases from grade level to grade level. Wrightstone has stated that these differences may be as great as three to four years in the first-grade, five to six years in the fourth-gmde, and seven to eight years at the sixth-grade level.1 Beck, Cook and Kearney have observed, however, that normally in “arithmetic reasoning and computation the range is … between six and seven years at the sixth-grade level.”2

Judgments of a Child Involved in Accidental Damage and Responding Differentially to Adult Reprimand

1976 ◽  
Vol 43 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1071-1082 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlton C. Aldrich ◽  
James C. Mancuso
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Moral Judgment ◽  
Sixth Grade ◽  
First Grade ◽  
Mutual Trust ◽  
Mutual Respect ◽  
Older Children

72 first-grade and 72 sixth-grade boys viewed scenes showing a boy involved in accidental damage, then receiving and responding differentially to adult reprimand. Children, having viewed one of the films, recorded their attribution of goodness-badness and also predicted the potential good-bad conduct of the transgressor. Analyses support conclusions, consistent with Piaget's moral judgment theory, that (a) young children perceive an accidental transgressor more negatively than do older children; and (b) young children evaluate responses to reprimand in terms of whether they conform to adult command, whereas older children evaluate those responses in accordance with whether they are congruent with the principle of mutual respect. Piaget's theory requires reconsideration in light of the finding that older children predicted a preponderance of good behaviors for the boy who was shown responding in a manner that can be taken as a violation of the principle of mutual trust.

Aptitude-Treatment Interactions in an Experiment on Teacher Effectiveness

1977 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 389-409 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip H. Winne
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Effectiveness ◽  
Sixth Grade ◽  
Teacher Behaviors ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Sixth Grade Students ◽  
Dependent Variables ◽  
Trained Teachers ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Criterion Variables

Aptitude-treatment interactions (ATI) are relatively unexamined in research on teacher effectiveness but may be important in describing the teaching-learning process. In an experiment on teacher effectiveness, 399 sixth-grade students were taught ecology for nine lessons. Trained teachers used one of eight factorially defined teaching treatments which varied teacher behaviors of structuring, soliciting, and reacting. Generalized regression analyses on dependent variables of multiple choice, attitude, and perception of teaching showed aptitudes to be major predictors relative to teacher, treatment, and ATI effects. ATI effects were more frequent and stronger predictors than treatment effects in almost all cases, though ATI terms usually absorbed only one to two percent of variation in the criterion variables. The methodology and findings of this study suggest changes for research on teacher effectiveness.

The intervention: Improving social-emotional skills in early childhood as a factor of school performance

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 344-354
Author(s):  
Coste Monica
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Systematic Observation ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Educational Approach ◽  
Emotional Skills ◽  
Active Involvement ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Emotional Education

Contemporary studies show the major impact of early education on the future development of children, that justifies a quality educational approach from the early childhood, to meet the needs of children’s education for the onset of schooling. The dynamics of society and the updates in the field of education make it necessary to create an educational context as a response of the current needs of children’s competencies. In many countries, social-emotional education gains importance as an essential element of education, emotional intelligence being considered a determinant for success in life. The methods used were the pedagogical experiment, surveys, curricular analysis and systematic observation. When children experience well-being, the ability to think is increased. The active involvement of the teachers in the implementation of the programme, the use of recommended practices and the solving of the challenges that have appeared have led to an increase in the impact of the intervention. Keywords: Early childhood education, social-emotional skills, well-being, social-emotional education.

scholarly journals The Effect of Classroom Environment on Achievement in English as a Foreign Language (EFL): A Case Study of Secondary School Students in Gezira State: Sudan

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdul-Majeed Attayib Umar
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Classroom Environment ◽  
English Language ◽  
First Grade ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
School Students ◽  
Environment Effect ◽  
Study Zone

Classroom environment plays a significant role in determining students’ level of academic achievement and enhancingtheir holistic growth. For students, the classroom is not just an intellectual space, but also a social, emotional andphysical environment. The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of classroom environment on learningEnglish as a foreign language by a group of first grade students at Secondary Schools in Gezira State in the Sudan. Thisstudy indorses the experimental approach to realize its objective. Two groups of students are classified as theExperimental and the Control group and assigned to study under two different classroom environments. TheExperimental group consists of (122) students. These are accommodated in three well renovated classrooms; while theControl group which includes (135) students are assigned to study in non-renovated schools under relatively poorclassroom environments. The two groups are taught the same English language material by teachers with similarqualifications and experiences during the first term of the academic 2016. Scores in the English Final Examination forthe two groups are compared to check the classroom environment effect on the students’ achievement. These scores aretabulated and analysed using descriptive statistics. The results reveal that there are significant differences between theachievements of the Experimental and the Control group in English in favour of the Experimental group who havestudied under favourable classroom conditions. The researcher has also explored the administrators’ and teachers’viewpoints regarding the learning environment in the study zone and its possible impact on students’ achievement inEnglish. The study ends up with some recommendations including conducting further studies on the environmentaleffect on other school subjects and on female students’ achievement.

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