Supporting Students Impacted by Poverty Through Literacy Methods, Resources, and Strategies

2022 ◽  
pp. 235-251
Author(s):  
Jill T. Tussey ◽  
Leslie Haas
Keyword(s):  
Literacy Education ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Opportunities To Learn ◽  
Equitable Access ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Income Status ◽  
Literacy Methods ◽  
Wealth Gap

This chapter is based on supporting students impacted by poverty through literacy education. Specifically, it looks at literacy methods, resources, and strategies that offer students engaging opportunities to learn in safe and supported environments. Student-centered instructional examples provide both voice and choice through quality pedagogical practices. As the wealth gap continues to widen, it is more important than ever to be diligent in ensuring equitable access to educational resources available to all students regardless of income status. Within this chapter, the authors have offered ways in which educators can access some of these resources.

Artificial Intelligence in Education

2021 ◽  
pp. 256-277
Author(s):  
Rashmi Khazanchi ◽  
Pankaj Khazanchi
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Intelligent Tutoring Systems ◽  
Intelligent Tutoring ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Tutoring Systems ◽  
Artificial Intelligence In Education ◽  
K 12 ◽  
Insight Into

Current educational developments in theories and practices advocate a more personalized, student-centered approach to teach 21st-century skills. However, the existing pedagogical practices cannot provide optimal student engagement as they follow a ‘one size fits all' approach. How can we provide high-quality adaptive instructions at a personalized level? Intelligent tutoring systems with embedded artificial intelligence can assist both students and teachers in providing personalized support. This chapter highlights the role of artificial intelligence in the development of intelligent tutoring systems and how these are providing personalized instructions to students with and without disabilities. This chapter gives insight into the challenges and barriers posed by the integration of intelligent tutoring systems in K-12 classrooms.

Transforming Teaching for Virtual Environments

2021 ◽  
pp. 534-560
Author(s):  
Irina Lyublinskaya ◽  
Xiaoxue Du
Keyword(s):  
Preservice Teachers ◽  
Instructional Technology ◽  
Teaching Strategies ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Pedagogical Content ◽  
K 12 ◽  
Teachers Perspectives

This chapter describes pedagogical practices and teaching strategies with instructional technology used in an online summer course with preservice K-12 teachers. The course provided preservice teachers (PSTs) with experiences in using technology in K-12 classrooms from both students' and teachers' perspectives, engaged PSTs in active explorations of various K-12 curriculum topics using technology that could enhance high-impact teaching strategies, and supported PSTs in development of virtual lessons using instructional technology. The study identified effective practices with instructional technology to support preservice teachers' development of Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) for their own online teaching. Study findings suggest that online immersive experience created a virtual student-centered space to nurture collaborative inquiry and that contributed to the growth of PST's TPACK. However, this experience also brought challenges and concerns for sustaining and transforming teaching and learning with instructional technology to an online environment.

scholarly journals A design-based approach to support and nurture open educational practices

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shironica P. Karunanayaka ◽  
Som Naidu
Keyword(s):  
Belief Systems ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Educational Practices ◽  
Process Data ◽  
Instructional Resources ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Open Educational Practices

Purpose A critical attribute of open educational practices (OEP) is the pursuit of open scholarship which comprises the release of educational resources under an open licence scheme that permits no-cost access, use, reuse, adaptation, retention and redistribution to others. The degree of openness in relation to this attribute will depend on the context and culture of the place and the people in it. When left to chance, the adoption and practice of open scholarship by educators is at best sketchy. For optimum impact, a design-based approach is essential. A central focus of such an approach will need to target educators’ belief systems and practices about their scholarship. Any such work will involve researchers collaborating with practitioners in real-life settings to improve educational practices through iterative analysis, design, development and implementation. The purpose of this paper is to report on how the development and use of such a design-based approach, implemented by the Open University of Sri Lanka, impacted the adoption and uptake of open scholarship among teachers in the Sri Lankan school system in terms of changes in their use of instructional resources, pedagogical thinking and pedagogical practices. Design/methodology/approach The study adopted a design-based research (DBR) approach (Reeves, 2006), which involved researchers collaboratively working with practitioners in real-life settings to improve their educational practices along three aspects – instructional resource use, pedagogical perspectives and pedagogical practices. Based on the four stages of the DBR approach – analysis, solution, testing and refinement, and reflection, a professional development intervention programme was designed and implemented to support teachers on the integration of open educational resources (OER) and adoption of OEP in their teaching-learning process. Data collected throughout the process using multiple strategies such as questionnaire surveys, concept mapping, lesson plans, focus group interviews, self-reflections and “stories”, were analyzed using both qualitative and quantitative methods. Findings By the end of the intervention, significant changes were observed in teachers’ use of instructional resources, their pedagogical thinking and pedagogical practices. While resource usage has shifted from no or low usage of OER to reuse, revise, remix and creation of OER, the pedagogical thinking and practices of teachers moved from a content-centric and individualized patterns to more constructivist, context centric and collaborative ways. The diffusion of OEP was prominent along two dimensions – enhancements in the individual practices in innovative OER use as well as collaborative practices of sharing of resources, knowledge and good practices. Practical implications The systematic and flexible methodology adopted based on the DBR approach via a framework designed as a contextualized, process oriented and a self-reflective enquiry has been very useful to support changes in OEP among practitioners over time. Originality/value This iterative process allowed the researchers to function as “designers”, while investigating real-life issues in collaboration with the practitioners through reflective enquiry to further refine innovative practices towards OEP. This provides valuable insights for improved design solutions for future interventions in similar contexts.

The Role of Children’s Literature in Cultivating Preservice Teachers as Transformative Intellectuals: A Literature Review

2019 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 214-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tracey T. Flores ◽  
Saba Khan Vlach ◽  
Catherine Lammert
Keyword(s):  
Preservice Teachers ◽  
Children's Literature ◽  
Instructional Practices ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Literacy Education ◽  
Methods Courses ◽  
Literacy Methods ◽  
K 12 ◽  
Literacy Educators

This review of literacy education scholarship examines the ways that children’s literature is used as a resource within literacy methods courses in the preparation of preservice teachers (PTs) as transformative intellectuals. The research indicates that the use of children’s literature in literacy methods courses has served two distinct purposes: (a) to engage PTs in learning literacy instructional practices and (b) to engage PTs in building sociocultural knowledge and learning transformative (e.g., culturally relevant) pedagogies. This review is framed by Giroux’s call for educators to disrupt technocratic approaches to instruction. The findings emphasize the importance of using children’s literature with PTs to broaden PTs’ understandings of their future student’s lives, so they might engage in transformative pedagogies as future K-12 literacy educators.

ALT-PE Versions I and II: Evolution of a Student-Centered Observation System in Physical Education

1985 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 134-142
Author(s):  
Frank Rife ◽  
Shirley Shute ◽  
Patt Dodds
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Academic Learning ◽  
Observation System ◽  
Opportunities To Learn ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Learning Time ◽  
Similar Information ◽  
Observation Instruments ◽  
Short Time

Although many observation instruments have been developed in physical education, few have enjoyed such widespread use in such a short time as the Academic Learning Time in Physical Education (ALT-PE) model. Not only has this observation system been used in a variety of research settings, but it has undergone an evolution in concept and coding categories. What does this do to the conceptual underpinnings of this observation system? Will the newer version yield similar or different kinds of information? This article attempts to answer such questions by comparing the two versions on the same set of videotaped physical education classes. Results demonstrate that versions I and II both provide similar information about students’ opportunities to learn physical education skills, yet each system has some advantages over the other. Either version can be a useful and appropriate research tool depending on the research question(s) being asked.

scholarly journals English Teachers' Conceptual Knowledge and Pedagogical Practices on Student-Centered Learning in Primary Schools in Denpasar Municipality

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Candra Dewi
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Schools ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Conceptual Knowledge ◽  
English Teachers ◽  
Pedagogical Knowledge ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Student Centered Learning ◽  
Public Elementary Schools ◽  
Child Centered

This study aims at (1) describing the conceptual pedagogical knowledge of the English teachers in public elementary schools in Denpasar municipality on child-centered learning, (2) describing the pedagogical practices of the English teachers in public elementary schools in Denpasar municipality on child-centered learning, and (3) describing the relation of English teachers’ conceptual pedagogical knowledge and pedagogical practices in the context of child-centered learning in public elementary schools in Denpasar municipality. The subjects who are under investigation in the study are three English primary teachers from three public primary schools in Denpasar municipality. The type of this study is embedded mixed method which was adapted from Creswell (2012). The instruments used to collect the data in this study are observation sheet, questionnaire, and interview guide. The result of the questionnaire shows that the Teachers have very strong concept on child-centered learning as the mean score is in the range of 3.3335 ≤ M ≥ 4.0005. This was contradicted with the data obtained from the classroom observation in which implementation of child-centered learning was low implemented. It indicated that there was tendency of inconsistent between teachers' conceptual knowledge and their practices on child-centered learning

scholarly journals Ética hacker, campos de experimentação e as possibilidades da educação aberta / Hacker ethics, fields of experimentation and open education possibilities

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 174-184
Author(s):  
Ana Carolina Sampaio Coelho
Keyword(s):  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
Open Education ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Deleuze And Guattari

RESUMO: O presente trabalho propõe uma discussão a respeito da “educação aberta” a partir da imagem do “rizoma”, conceito presente nas obrasMil Platôs, de Deleuze e Guatarri, e nas “linhas de errância”, presentes nos mapas apresentados por Fernand Deligny, em “Aracniano”. O presente trabalho discute como os professores podem assumir o papel de “intelectuais transformadores” no contexto da cibercultura e de negação do modelo de “educação bancária”, adotando uma perspectiva crítica de ensino na utilização dos processos da cultura digital em suas práticas pedagógicas. Por fim, propõe uma breve reflexão acerca do potencial dos recursos educacionais abertos e de como eles podem ser vistos como possibilidades de “errância” e “desterritorialização” no contexto da educação brasileira.PALAVRAS-CHAVE: rizoma; educação aberta; educação bancária; Recursos Educacionais Abertos (REA). ABSTRACT:This paper proposes a discussion about open education, based on the concept of rhizome, articulated by Deleuze and Guattari in “A Thousand Plateaus”, and the "wandering lines", present in theFernand Deligny's cartography in "The arachnean and other texts". The paper explores how teachers can act as “Transformative Intellectuals” in the cyberculture context, opposing the banking model of education, adopting a critical perspective of teaching in the utilization of digital culture processes in their Pedagogical practices. In this regard, the discussion ends by suggesting a reflection about the potential of Open Educational Resources (OER) and how they can be considered possibilities for wandering and deterritorialization in the context of Brazilian education.KEYWORDS: rhizome; open education; banking model; Open Educational Resources (OER).

scholarly journals Connection Over Correction: Engaging Students in Conversational Commitments for Effective Communication Across Difference and Difficulty

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 31-39
Author(s):  
Jennifer Sandoval
Keyword(s):  
Dispute Resolution ◽  
Effective Communication ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Teaching Philosophy ◽  
Classroom Engagement ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Teacher Centered ◽  
Authentic Teaching

In light of a national reckoning with racism in the U.S., many instructors are assessing their own pedagogical practices with regard to handling these topics in their classrooms. In developing my authentic teaching philosophy over the course of 18 years, I have adapted many practices I used in my prior career in dispute resolution. To clarify, I center classroom engagement around what Hart (2007) describes as “a pedagogy of interiority.” Classroom engagement focuses on connection rather than correction as we help students develop their “authentic inner potentials” (p. 2). I regularly challenge myself to invite students to develop their authentic personal selves via contemplation and reflexivity. In doing so, we move from a teacher-centered focus to a student-centered one derived from a relational partnership with them. By focusing on connection rather than correction, we create an environment of curiosity, compassion, and intensive reflection where students come to know themselves and their strengths in ways that extend beyond the classroom. This essay highlights how students co-create conversational commitments coupled with a rapid debrief process that moves my students forward together toward shared mindfulness in thought and behavior.

Critical Thinking, Instruction, and Professional Development for Schools in the Digital Age

2016 ◽  
pp. 27-46
Author(s):  
Howard V. Coleman ◽  
Jeremy Dickerson ◽  
Dennis Dotterer
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Depth Of Knowledge ◽  
Critical Thinking Instruction

This chapter presents theories, issues and practices for creating effective, technologically rich learning environments in schools. In the digital age, teachers and school leaders must work together to ensure the development of higher level critical thinking skills for students. Using Bloom's Revised Taxonomy of Knowledge and Webb's Depth of Knowledge as theoretical guides, this chapter discusses how teachers may move towards more flexible, student-centered instructional models rather than traditional teacher-centered methodologies. Guiding questions are presented to assist teachers in determining what to consider when designing technology-enhanced instruction to promote higher level critical thinking skills. Topics include a review of technological factors influencing technology integration, modifications of teacher practices to best match the changing culture in K-12 classrooms, examinations of pedagogical practices in techno-centric classrooms, current and future professional development needs for teachers, and the importance of assessment and evaluation in monitoring the effectiveness of instructional practices in 21st Century learning environments.

Critical Thinking, Instruction, and Professional Development for Schools in the Digital Age

2017 ◽  
pp. 1235-1254
Author(s):  
Howard V. Coleman ◽  
Jeremy Dickerson ◽  
Dennis Dotterer
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Depth Of Knowledge ◽  
Critical Thinking Instruction

This chapter presents theories, issues and practices for creating effective, technologically rich learning environments in schools. In the digital age, teachers and school leaders must work together to ensure the development of higher level critical thinking skills for students. Using Bloom's Revised Taxonomy of Knowledge and Webb's Depth of Knowledge as theoretical guides, this chapter discusses how teachers may move towards more flexible, student-centered instructional models rather than traditional teacher-centered methodologies. Guiding questions are presented to assist teachers in determining what to consider when designing technology-enhanced instruction to promote higher level critical thinking skills. Topics include a review of technological factors influencing technology integration, modifications of teacher practices to best match the changing culture in K-12 classrooms, examinations of pedagogical practices in techno-centric classrooms, current and future professional development needs for teachers, and the importance of assessment and evaluation in monitoring the effectiveness of instructional practices in 21st Century learning environments.

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