Browsing by Subject "classroom practice"

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    A collaborative professional development model: promoting shifts in classroom practice
    (PMENA, 2020-12-23) Bharaj, Pavneet Kaur; Galindo, Enrique; Liu, Jinqing; Borgioli, Gina; School of Education
    To ensure conceptual learning in mathematics, teachers must shift many aspects of their instructional practices. We report on a two-year endeavor using a collaborative and responsive professional development model to help elementary school teachers enact seven shifts in classroom practice. We share evidence of teachers addressing the instructional shifts and discuss the promise of the approach used for those interested in co-constructing collaborations between and among universities and school districts.
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    Sound and Simple Approach to an Extensive Reading Project
    (INTESOL, 2020-11) Kane, Sarah Grace; Gusich, Jordan; Upton, Thomas; English, School of Liberal Arts
    The evidence is undeniable that extensive reading (ER) improves reading comprehension, vocabulary, and motivation. Nevertheless, ER is often neglected in ESL classrooms. In order to introduce ER to more ESL teachers’ repertoires, this article will present a developed, principled, and practical ER project suitable for almost any classroom teaching situation. Readers will gain an overview of the literature surrounding ER and be provided with practical ideas, resources, rubrics, activity descriptions, and examples from the author’s personal practice of ways to implement an ER project in their institutions and classrooms.