A Case Study of Exemplary Practice in Fourth Grade

2005 ◽  
pp. 307-326
Keyword(s):  
Fourth Grade ◽  
Exemplary Practice

Let It Go

2017 ◽  
pp. 130-146
Author(s):  
Yonty Friesem ◽  
Brien J. Jennings ◽  
Carol Prest
Keyword(s):  
Literacy Practices ◽  
Fourth Grade ◽  
Media Specialist ◽  
Media Production ◽  
Library Media Specialist ◽  
Library Media ◽  
Grade Teacher ◽  
Multimedia Production ◽  
Support Team

This case study introduces a two-year process in which a fourth grade teacher working with a library media specialist experienced a successful integration of digital and media literacy practices. During that time the fourth grade teacher adopted a less protectionist approach by having her students explore different multimedia production projects to enhance their learning in social studies. This book chapter introduces the process of both the fourth grade teacher as she explored new instructional strategies to incorporate media production and the Common Core State Standards and the library media specialist as a support team member. The standards index and its media production application can help educators integrate media production into their classrooms. This case study can help promote media production activities as they foster 21st century skills in elementary students.

Let It Go

2017 ◽  
pp. 245-261
Author(s):  
Yonty Friesem ◽  
Brien J. Jennings ◽  
Carol Prest
Keyword(s):  
Literacy Practices ◽  
Fourth Grade ◽  
Media Specialist ◽  
Media Production ◽  
Library Media Specialist ◽  
Library Media ◽  
Grade Teacher ◽  
Multimedia Production ◽  
Support Team

This case study introduces a two-year process in which a fourth grade teacher working with a library media specialist experienced a successful integration of digital and media literacy practices. During that time the fourth grade teacher adopted a less protectionist approach by having her students explore different multimedia production projects to enhance their learning in social studies. This book chapter introduces the process of both the fourth grade teacher as she explored new instructional strategies to incorporate media production and the Common Core State Standards and the library media specialist as a support team member. The standards index and its media production application can help educators integrate media production into their classrooms. This case study can help promote media production activities as they foster 21st century skills in elementary students.

scholarly journals Unpacking Everyday Critical Pedagogy: Languaging Critique and Dialogue

2020 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 266-284
Author(s):  
Laura A. Taylor ◽  
Michiko Hikida
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Pedagogy ◽  
Fourth Grade ◽  
Literacy Events ◽  
Everyday Talk ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Grade Classroom ◽  
Literacy Research

This article explores how critical pedagogy unfolds in the everyday interactions between teachers and students. Specifically, Freirean constructs of critique and dialogue were explored in two key literacy events drawn from an ethnographically informed case study of one fourth-grade classroom. The events were first examined from an ethnographic perspective to understand how sociopolitical issue(s) were being critiqued (or avoided). These events were then analyzed again through microanalytic discourse analysis to explore how teachers and students jointly accomplished dialogue and critique through proposing and taking up of particular stances toward text(s). By juxtaposing these two analytic lenses, the researchers argue for an understanding of critical pedagogy, particularly the tenets of critique and dialogue, as interactionally co-constructed in the continually evolving, everyday talk between teachers and students. This article closes by considering the implications of this work for classroom-based literacy research that examines critical pedagogy.

Teaching elements of nature of science: A yearlong case study of a fourth-grade teacher

2003 ◽  
Vol 40 (10) ◽  
pp. 1025-1049 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valarie L. Akerson ◽  
Fouad Abd-El-Khalick
Keyword(s):  
Nature Of Science ◽  
Fourth Grade ◽  
Grade Teacher

Technological Literacy, Perspectives, Standards, and Skills in the USA

2011 ◽  
pp. 34-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jared V. Berrett
Keyword(s):  
Technological Literacy ◽  
Technology Literacy ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Technology Teacher ◽  
Literacy Perspectives ◽  
Technology Educators ◽  
Exemplary Practice ◽  
K 12 ◽  
Excellent Resource

This chapter is written to provide a framework for understanding perspectives on technology literacy and how it might be taught in the K-12 setting. Numerous U.S. governmental reports, initiatives, definitions, and professional standards are reviewed. Though there are many fields interested in technological literacy, the argument is made that technology educators may prove to be an excellent resource in meeting the challenge of creating a technologically literate citizenry. A case study of exemplary practice is introduced as a point of investigating how one technology teacher is being successful in teaching technological literacy. It is up to the reader and all those concerned with technological literacy to continue to evaluate and search for best teaching practices for teaching technological literacy in K-12 schools.

Using Project-Based Learning to Teach Sustainability Issues to Elementary Students

2014 ◽  
pp. 190-209
Author(s):  
Ingrid Weiland ◽  
Elisa Pokral ◽  
Kristin Cook
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Elementary Students ◽  
Fourth Grade ◽  
Project Based Learning ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Support Students ◽  
Grade Classroom

This chapter describes a project-based learning unit on sustainability that was implemented in a fourth grade classroom by an informal educator (the second author) employed by a local waste management district. Previous instruction by the informal educator consisted of one-hour lessons that were separate units lacking the project-based learning format and transition links. This chapter describes a mixed-method case study in which pre and posttest tests as well as focus group interviews assessed students' learning as a result of participating in a cohesive project-based learning unit designed by the authors. There was a statistically significant change (p<0.05) in students' pre to posttest scores, and focus group interviews indicated that students could elaborate much more deeply on their ideas about sustainability after the program. The authors conclude that project-based learning can support students' understandings of sustainability while providing an engaging and enriching format to informal educator programs.

scholarly journals Model-based reasoning about energy: A fourth-grade case study

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (8) ◽  
pp. 1134-1161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger G. Tobin ◽  
Sara J. Lacy ◽  
Sally Crissman ◽  
Nick Haddad
Keyword(s):  
Fourth Grade ◽  
Model Based

scholarly journals Using social media to create a participatory library service: an Australian study

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (117) ◽  
pp. 54-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen Smeaton ◽  
Kate Davis
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Library Service ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Exemplary Practice

Public libraries are increasingly using social media in an attempt to meet users in their own spaces. Social media can be useful when used to create a participatory library service emphasising engagement with users. However, there has been little empirical investigation into the success of social media use by public libraries. This article reports on the findings of a research project that explored the use of social media by Australian public libraries. Two organisations participated in case studies that involved interviews, document analysis, and social media observation. To contextualise the use of social media in the case study organisations, a sub-study was undertaken involving observation of an additional 24 public libraries across Australia. This article focuses on the findings from the observation sub-study. It presents and applies a methodology for classifying social media content to determine whether the sample libraries’ social media use is indicative of a participatory approach to service delivery. This article explores how a range of social media platforms are used by the sample libraries and considers what best practice in participatory library service looks like. The two case study organisations’ use of social media is highlighted as exemplary practice.

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