What Preservice Teachers Can Learn From a Content Area Expert

2022 ◽  
pp. 316-334
Author(s):  
Brian T. Beck-Smith
Keyword(s):  
Preservice Teachers ◽  
Real World ◽  
Mathematics Classroom ◽  
Virtual Classroom ◽  
Content Area ◽  
Authentic Engagement ◽  
Content Area Instruction

In this chapter, the author presents the negotiation between students and teachers to combat disengagement in a virtual classroom. To address this concern, the chapter presents a model that increases authentic engagement in a mathematics classroom for a group of sophomores, juniors, and seniors using an academic dialogue strategy that prepares students to think critically about what they are learning in the classroom and how these abstract learnings connect to real-world experiences. The dialogues that occur between the author and the students provide an approach that is widely used in literacy settings but may not always happen in content area instruction.

“Is There Lead in My Water?”: Employing a Culturally Compelling Instructional Perspective to Teach for Change

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fenice B. Boyd ◽  
Monica L. Ridgeway ◽  
Tiffany M. Nyachae
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Real World ◽  
Instructional Practice ◽  
Instructional Delivery ◽  
Learning Opportunities ◽  
Content Area ◽  
Illustrative Case ◽  
Water Crisis ◽  
Alternative Learning ◽  
Instructional Perspective

AbstractIn this paper we build a conceptual framework to argue for culturally compelling instruction that leads to teaching for change. Culturally compelling instruction calls for a substantive shift in how teachers view their students, communities, and what the perspective might mean for students’ future when they have access to alternative learning opportunities. The framework encourages teachers to take a stance and assume responsibility and ownership for their own decisions about the curriculum and instructional delivery. Most prominent is to acquire a depth of understanding of their students’ identities and needs. To represent our vision for culturally compelling instruction we use the lead poisoned water crisis in Flint, Michigan, USA as an illustrative case. Our work provides an example of how a real-world circumstance such as Flint’s may be integrated into content area subjects to frame a culturally compelling instructional practice.

Embedding reading comprehension training in content-area instruction.

2009 ◽  
Vol 101 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna P. Williams ◽  
K. Brooke Stafford ◽  
Kristen D. Lauer ◽  
Kendra M. Hall ◽  
Simonne Pollini
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Content Area ◽  
Content Area Instruction

Instructional Practices to Boost Tier 1 Content Area Instruction for Students with Disabilities: A Closer Look at PACT

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Swanson ◽  
Alexis Boucher
Keyword(s):  
General Education ◽  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Instructional Practices ◽  
Content Knowledge ◽  
Content Area ◽  
Students With Learning Disabilities ◽  
Reading Support ◽  
Eighth Grade Students ◽  
Content Area Instruction ◽  
Based Instruction

For students with learning disabilities, providing text-based instruction in general education content area classes can provide students with additional reading support while simultaneously boosting their content knowledge. This article will outline a set of instructional practices delivered in social studies classes that has been shown to improve performance of eighth grade students with disabilities on measures of content knowledge, vocabulary, and content reading comprehension. Each instructional practice will be described in detail with a timeline of step-by-step procedures and accompanying language that demonstrates how the intervention may unfold in the classroom setting.

ABCs and PCs

2014 ◽  
pp. 1831-1834
Author(s):  
Cory Cooper Hansen
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Student Engagement ◽  
Elementary Teachers ◽  
Teaching Practices ◽  
Leadership Skills ◽  
Content Area ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Effective Professional Development ◽  
Integrated Technology ◽  
Content Area Instruction

Effective professional development holds the power to transform teaching practices that invigorate teachers and increase student engagement. Arizona Classrooms of Tomorrow Today (AZCOTT) was one such experience. Eighteen elementary teachers completed a yearlong, rigorous, sixty-hour workshop experience that focused on integrating technology in content area instruction. Participants integrated technology effectively, began to develop leadership skills, and experienced changes in attitude, beliefs, knowledge, and skills as technology influenced existing curricula.

Online Learning for the Real World

2003 ◽  
pp. 159-176
Author(s):  
Bridget Khursheed
Keyword(s):  
Continuing Education ◽  
Real World ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Virtual Classroom ◽  
Usability Evaluation ◽  
Online Course ◽  
Course Development ◽  
The Real ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
The University

This chapter examines usability evaluation in the context of the Diploma in Computing via the Internet offered by the University of Oxford Department for Continuing Education and, to some extent, its on-site course partner. This ongoing online course is aimed at adult non-university (the “real world” of the chapter title) students. The chapter follows the usability evaluation process through the life cycle of course development, delivery and maintenance, analysing the requirements and actions of each stage and how they were implemented in the course. It also discusses how pedagogical evaluation must be considered as part of this process, as well as the more obvious software considerations, and how this was achieved within the course. Finally it draws some conclusions concerning the enhancements to course usability of the virtual classroom and how this atypical evaluation material can and should be integrated into an overall usability evaluation picture.

Field Report

2011 ◽  
pp. 777-805 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Bösche ◽  
Florian Kattner
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Environments ◽  
Real World ◽  
Psychological Impact ◽  
Virtual Classroom ◽  
Map Reading ◽  
Emergency Rescue ◽  
Psychological Theories ◽  
Classical Paper ◽  
Voice Chat ◽  
Field Report

This chapter reports on the transformation of a classical seminar paper presentation course into a completely virtual classroom experience beginning with the planning phase and ending with the students’ final evaluations. The virtual course included homework lessons and online examinations. Findings on what is actually needed to accomplish this goal are provided, while demonstrating what barriers arose in the process and how they were solved. The course topic was the psychological impact of violent video games and included learning in virtual environments. An up-to-date internet multiplayer game was applied encompassing comprehensive communication features and non-violent interactivity of the players with each other as well as the environment. Beyond the classical paper presentations held via voice chat, accompanying missions for the game were designed to demonstrate the crux of the matter in a playful style. This included both real world procedures well known to the participants such as map reading and vehicle driving as well as rather uncommon ones like flying a helicopter and complex missions with different roles needed like emergency rescue or organized mass killing. This way, participants were able to compare their known real world experiences with virtual ones and evaluate the relevant psychological theories in a comprehensive virtual world. Further, participants could reflect on learning in general and especially on the learning of aggression in virtual environments in a depth that would hardly have been possible without experiencing the interactive phenomena by themselves.

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