scholarly journals Mapping E-Commerce Locally and Beyond: CITT K12 Special Investigation Project

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas O’Brien ◽  
Deanna Matsumoto
Keyword(s):  
National Board Certified ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Lesson Plans ◽  
Long Beach ◽  
Science Standards ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Special Investigation ◽  
National Board ◽  
National Board Certified Teacher ◽  
Certified Teacher

As all aspects of the American workplace become automated or digitally enhanced to some degree, K12 educators have an increasing responsibility to help their students acquire the technical skills necessary to organize and interpret information. Increasingly, this is done through Geographic Information Systems (GIS), especially in careers related to transportation and logistics. The Center for International Trade & Transportation (CITT) at CSU Long Beach has developed this K12 Special Investigation Project to introduce ArcGIS StoryMaps, an engaging, accessible and sophisticated web-based GIS application. The lessons center on e-commerce and its accompanying environmental and economic impact. Still, the activities can be easily adapted to projects in any subject area, such as humanities, science, math, or language arts. This teacher blueprint includes a teacher training guide with ten detailed lesson plans and activities. With the guidance of a National Board-Certified Teacher in Early Adolescence Math as lead instructor, the curriculum is designed to align with Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). Also, exploration of STEM and GIS-related careers are incorporated into the lesson plans.

scholarly journals School Librarian Leadership: Research and Practice

2021 ◽  
pp. 386-405
Author(s):  
Nancy Everhart ◽  
Melissa Johnston
Keyword(s):  
Technology Leadership ◽  
Leadership Education ◽  
School Librarian ◽  
Florida State University ◽  
State University ◽  
Doctoral Graduates ◽  
National Board ◽  
National Board Certified Teacher ◽  
Teacher Librarians ◽  
Certified Teacher

A core body of research concerning teacher librarian leadership has been generated by faculty and doctoral graduates from Florida State University. Substantive studies have been conducted on leadership in technology integration by National Board Certified teacher librarians, enablers and barriers to technology leadership by teacher librarians, leadership in state initiatives related to digital textbooks, leadership with e-books and electronic devices, one-to-one computing, and school librarian leadership education. This paper provides an overview of that research and presents implications for teacher librarian education.

Curricular Contradictions: Negotiating Between Pursuing National Board Certification and an Urban District’s Direct Instruction Mandate

2020 ◽  
Vol 90 (3) ◽  
pp. 474-496
Author(s):  
TRAVIS J. BRISTOL ◽  
JOY ESBOLDT
Keyword(s):  
Direct Instruction ◽  
National Board Certification ◽  
Urban School ◽  
Board Certification ◽  
National Board ◽  
Organizational Conditions ◽  
National Board Certified Teacher ◽  
Teaching Standards ◽  
School Based ◽  
Certified Teacher

In this article, Travis J. Bristol and Joy Esboldt examine the supports and constraints teachers at one midsized urban school serving predominately Latinx students encountered during school-based professional development aligned with becoming a National Board Certified Teacher (NBCT). Research has established that Black and Latinx students have less access to NBCTs when compared to White students, yet few studies offer insight into the organizational conditions that influence urban school teachers’ capacity to earn certification. Drawing on two years of ethnographic observations, interviews, and artifact analysis, this study finds that district and school-based factors constrained teachers’ capacity to earn National Board Certification, reporting that participants believed there was a misalignment between the district’s vision for instructional improvement, which focused on Direct Instruction, and the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.

A web-based language learning environment: general architecture

ReCALL ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 11 (S1) ◽  
pp. 31-39
Author(s):  
Pierre-Yves Foucou ◽  
Natalie Kübler
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
General Architecture ◽  
The Web

In this paper, we present the Web-based CALL environment (or WALL) which is currently being experimented with at the University of Paris 13 in the Computer Science Department of the Institut Universitaire de Technologie. Our environment is being developed to teach computer science (CS) English to CS French-speaking students, and will be extended to other languages for specific purposes such as, for example, English or French for banking, law, economics or medicine, where on-line resources are available.English, and more precisely CS English is, for our students, a necessary tool, and not an object of study. The learning activities must therefore stimulate the students' interest and reflection about language phenomena. Our pedagogical objective, relying on research acquisition (Wokusch 1997) consists in linking various texts together with other documents, such as different types of dictionaries or other types of texts, so that knowledge can be acquired using various appropriate contexts.Language teachers are not supposed to be experts in fields such as computer sciences or economics. We aim at helping them to make use of the authentic documents that are related to the subject area in which they teach English. As shown in Foucou and Kübler (1998) the wide range of resources available on the Web can be processed to obtain corpora, i.e. teaching material. Our Web-based environment therefore provides teachers with a series of tools which enable them to access information about the selected specialist subject, select appropriate specialised texts, produce various types of learning activities and evaluate students' progress.Commonly used textbooks Tor specialised English offer a wide range of learning activities, but they are based on documents that very quickly become obsolete, and that are sometimes widely modified. Moreover, they are not adaptable to the various levels of language of the students. From the students' point of view, working on obsolete texts that are either too easy or too difficult can quickly become demotivating, not to say boring.In the next section, we present the general architecture of the teaching/learning environment; the method of accessing and using it, for teachers as well as for students, is then described. The following section deals with the actual production of exercises and their limits. We conclude and present some possible research directions.

scholarly journals Utilization of an educational web based mobile app for acquisition and transfer of critical anatomical knowledge, thereby increasing classroom and laboratory preparedness in veterinary students

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Hannon
Keyword(s):  
Traditional Method ◽  
Contact Time ◽  
Educational Experience ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Mobile App ◽  
Veterinary Students ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Initial Learning ◽  
Anatomical Knowledge ◽  
Reading Assignment

Contact time with students is becoming more valuable and must be utilized efficiently. Unfortunately, many students attend anatomy lectures and labs ill-prepared, and this limits efficiency. To address this issue we have created an interactive mobile app designed to facilitate the acquisition and transfer of critical anatomical knowledge in veterinary students, thereby increasing classroom and laboratory preparedness. We have found that in contrast to a traditional reading assignment, utilization of such an app to introduce students to a subject area significantly enhanced the initial learning of anatomy and the transfer of that learned material to a related, but novel area. We propose that students using the apps were subsequently better prepared for lecture and lab, than students using the more traditional method of reading a textbook. Exposure of students to a topic prior to lecture and laboratory, using methods that students embrace, can only lead to a more efficient and better educational experience.

National Board Certification in North Carolina

2016 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Teresa Petty ◽  
Amy J. Good ◽  
Laura K. Handler
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Financial Incentives ◽  
National Board Certification ◽  
Research Question ◽  
National Board Certified ◽  
Board Certification ◽  
National Board Certified Teachers ◽  
National Board

The purpose of this study is to report National Board Certified Teachers' (NBCTs) motivators for pursuing National Board Certification. The guiding research question for this study, “Why do teachers pursue National Board Certification?” was explored. A total of 496 NBCTs currently teaching in North Carolina public schools completed the survey questionnaire in which they responded to demographic questions, Likert item questions, and open-ended questions. Thematic analysis revealed several reoccurring themes that NBCTs revealed having influence on their pursuit of certification. These included impact on financial incentives, improved teaching, professionalism, challenge and encouragement from others.

Scholarly Chinese Legal Works in the Vernacular: A Selective Topical Treatise Finder (Part I)†

2011 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 295-311 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evelyn Ma
Keyword(s):  
Subject Area ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Journal Literature ◽  
Legal Information ◽  
Chinese Law ◽  
Scholarly Publications

The number of Chinese legal scholarly publications has grown dramatically in the last ten years as the Chinese government legislature churned out an expansive body of law, with an impressive proliferation of print treatises and web-based legal information in the vernacular. This article offers a sampling of legal scholars and their treatises. It is organized by subject area, and is offered as a selective annotated treatise finder. The list focuses on legal publications published within the last two decades subsequent to the amendment of the 1982 Chinese Constitution in 1989. Some of the authors included here wrote extensively on specific legal topics, while others were involved in the deliberation, preparation, and drafting of key legislation. It is hoped that the article provides a roadmap that will be useful to students and others new to research in Chinese law; to help them locate relevant treatises, journal literature, and to jumpstart their research into specific legislation and legal topics.

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