Download or read book A Survey of Secondary Teachers Attitudes Towards Reading and Content Area Instruction written by Karen Marie Flahive and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Teaching Reading in the Secondary Content Area Classroom written by Sara L. Norton-Ejnik and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strategic teaching of reading occurs at the elementary level, and students are expected to "read to learn" once they enter high school. The majority of the nation's secondary students do not have all the requisite skills to read and learn from high school texts and materials, and even drop-out rates have been attributed to students' inability to keep pace with the literacy skill demanded by the secondary curriculum. No Child Left Behind legislation now mandates secondary school reading initiatives, from high stakes testing to remediation. Despite the national focus on secondary reading, teachers in America's secondary schools are not teaching the skills and strategies necessary for their students to grow as readers and learn from what they read (ACT, 2007; Biancarosa & Snow, 2004). The study quantified Michigan's secondary content area teachers' attitudes toward teaching reading and examined the relationship between those attitudes and predictor variables of content area, level/type of training in teaching reading, degree level, and degree of learner centerdness. Data was collected from 191 male and female respondents vai email link to a survey using the Otto Smith Inventory Scale to measure teacher attitudes toward teaching reading and a portion of the Learner Centered Battery Scale to measure the respondents' learner-centeredness. Teacher respondents had generally positive attitudes toward teaching reading. Math and science respondents had significantly lower attitude scores that English teachers. Post-bachelors' training/education correlated positively with teacher attitudes toward teaching reading. A positive relationship existed between respondents' learner centered beliefs and their attitudes toward teaching content area reading. The data showed a negative relationship between non-learner centered beliefs and the respondents score on the OSI. Both correlations were significant at the .01 level. According to the data, the more learner centered a teacher, the more positive her attitude toward content area reading instruction. Conversely, the stronger a teacher's non-learner centered beliefs, the more negative her attitude toward content area reading instruction. The findings from this study provide important insights for designing inservice or post-bachelors training programs to create learner-centered belief systems and positive attitudes toward teaching content area instruction.
Download or read book A Survey of Secondary Social Studies Teachers Attitudes Toward Teaching Critical Reading Skills in Their Content Area written by Joyce Alexander Hiebert and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Teacher Attitudes written by Marjorie Powell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teachers’ attitudes have been a subject of study and interest for many years. Originally published in 1986, this bibliography attempts to review the large field of research between the years 1965 and 1984. To identify all the sources of information, and to list documents that discuss research on teachers’ attitudes. It does not include an assessment of the quality of the research reported in the listed documents, however, the value is in its comprehensiveness. Users of the bibliography can locate the listed studies and then evaluate the studies using criteria relevant to their individual purposes.
Download or read book Strengths Limitations and Required Supports of a School wide Reading Comprehension Strategy written by Michael J. Siggins and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The middle school that served as the focal point of this case study failed to meet required performance levels on the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA) reading assessment for four consecutive years, and in 2006 was assigned the negative distinction of School Improvement I status by the Pennsylvania Department of Education. Through the incorporation of a school improvement team, a detailed implementation plan was developed to address this failure by requiring the consistent use of a singular reading strategy within all discipline-specific classrooms. Therefore, the purpose of this case study was to examine the perceptions of middle school classroom teachers regarding the strengths, limitations, and necessary supports of the required school-wide use of a singular reading strategy across all content areas. Perceptual data were obtained through the use of a web-based survey (33 respondents) and ten personal interviews. Findings from this study supported the need for a clear vision, daily time for collaboration, teacher accountability, and professional development as necessary supports to effectively provide reading strategy instruction within discipline-specific classrooms. Student academic performances within discipline-specific classrooms and on mandated state standardized assessments improved to the level that the school was awarded a 2012 National Blue Ribbon. Findings indicated that the school's climate transformed from isolation to collaboration, where teamwork drove the school's mission of improving the academic performances of students and the instructional practices of teachers. Additionally, this study revealed that the attitudes of secondary content area teachers had positively changed toward the teaching of reading strategies within their discipline-specific classroom.
Download or read book Secondary School Reading Instruction written by Betty D. Roe and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been written primarily for secondary school content teachers--those who are preparing for teacher certification and the experienced who wish to learn how to help their students read content assignments with more understanding. The book uses introductory level information on reading instruction. There is also useful information for reading specialists who work with content teachers or helping secondary students with reading difficulties, and administrators who need to know about the reading needs of secondary school students in order to set appropriate policies. The aim of this book is to equip secondary school classroom teachers with the tools to teach more efficiently by helping their students understand material better. Teachers who can add improvement of reading skills to their toolkit will enhance their success in the classroom.
Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Secondary School Reading written by Allen Berger and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of current research related to reading instruction for the classroom teacher in the secondary school.
Download or read book English Medium Instruction written by Ernesto Macaro, and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ernesto Macaro brings together a wealth of research on the rapidly expanding phenomenon of English Medium Instruction. Against a backdrop of theory, policy documents, and examples of practice, he weaves together research in both secondary and tertiary education, with a particular focus on the key stakeholders involved in EMI: the teachers and the students. Whilst acknowledging that the momentum of EMI is unlikely to be diminished, and identifying its potential benefits, the author raises questions about the ways it has been introduced and developed, and explores how we can arrive at a true cost–benefit analysis of its future impact. “This state-of-the-art monograph presents a wide-ranging, multi-perspectival yet coherent overview of research, policy, and practice of English Medium Instruction around the globe. It gives a thorough, in-depth, and thought-provoking treatment of an educational phenomenon that is spreading on an unprecedented scale.” Guangwei Hu, National Institute of Education, Singapore Additional online resources are available at www.oup.com/elt/teacher/emi Ernesto Macaro is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Oxford and is the founding Director of the Centre for Research and Development on English Medium Instruction at the university. Oxford Applied Linguistics Series Advisers: Anne Burns and Diane Larsen-Freeman
Download or read book Research in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 1006 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reading Instruction Through Content Teaching written by Earl H. Cheek and published by C.E. Merill Publishing Company. This book was released on 1983 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstracts of dissertations available on microfilm or as xerographic reproductions.
Download or read book A Practical Approach to Content Area Reading written by Richard P. Santeusanio and published by Addison Wesley Publishing Company. This book was released on 1983 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reading in the Content Area written by Peter Andrew Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study focused on evaluating the sufficiency of research in reading in the content area used to instruct classroom teachers. The research used was conducted between 1970 and 2000 and incorporated into textbooks written between 1975 and 2005. Studies examined were those reported in the following journals: Review of Educational Research, Review of Research in Education, Social Education, Theory and Research in Social Education, Reading Research Quarterly, and Research in the Teaching of English. Some attention was also given to two major educational curriculum and issue journals- Educational Leadership and Phi Delta Kappan as these sources might identify relevant research studies for further investigation. References cited in more than one text helped identify and establish a baseline of those studies considered most significant by textbook authors. The findings of this study showed that the majority of citations looked at the following themes: -Learners acquire meaning from the printed page through thought.-Reading can and should be done for different purposes using a variety of materials.-A number of techniques can be used to teach reading skills.-Reading materials need to be selected according to changes in a child's interests.-Reading ability is the level of reading difficulty that students can cope with. It depends on ability rather than age or grade level.-Readability contributes to both the reader's degree of comprehension and the need for teacher assistance when reading difficulty exceeds the reader's capability.-Reading instruction, in some form, needs to be carried on into the secondary grades. Research findings from the 1970s were concerned with reading strategies, reading skills, reading comprehension, readability, attitudes towards reading, vocabulary, study skills, and content area reading programs. In the 1980s research cited in content area reading books looked at reading comprehension, reading skills, vocabulary, learning strategies, curriculum issues, purposes for reading and writing, content area reading programs, readability, schema theory, thinking skills, summarizing, comprehension strategies, and cooperative learning. By the 1990s more research cited in content area reading books focused on reading strategies, curriculum issues, how to read documents and graphs, reading skills, vocabulary, attitudes towards reading, reading comprehension, and activating background knowledge.
Download or read book International Handbook of Research on Teachers Beliefs written by Helenrose Fives and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-08-21 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teacher beliefs play a fundamental role in the education landscape. Nevertheless, most educational researchers only allude to teacher beliefs as part of a study on other subjects. This book fills a necessary gap by identifying the importance of research on teacher beliefs and providing a comprehensive overview of the topic. It provides novices and experts alike a single volume with which to understand a complex research landscape. Including a review of the historical foundations of the field, this book identifies current research trends, and summarizes the current knowledge base regarding teachers’ specific beliefs about content, instruction, students, and learning. For its innumerable applications within the field, this handbook is a necessity for anyone interested in educational research.
Download or read book Content Teachers Perceptions of the Effective Implementation of Secondary Literacy Instruction Initiatives written by Therese M. Lewis and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examined teachers' perceptions of the implementation of literacy instruction initiatives in secondary content classrooms. It explored the extent to which literacy training impacted the practice of middle and high school teachers and the reasons why they did or did not implement the literacy practices they learned. The differences between early literacy and adolescent literacy were presented, as well as overviews of three secondary literacy frameworks that support the adolescent literacy research including Reading Apprenticeship, Literacy Design Collaborative, and Penn Literacy Network. Professional development models, such as instructional coaching and professional learning communities, were described and change theory was examined. The study was conducted in two school districts in southeastern Pennsylvania. Middle and high school teachers from both districts, as well as teacher leaders from each district participated in the study. Content area teachers completed a survey, which provided information about literacy trainings in which they participated and how and why these literacy trainings impacted or did not impact their practice in the classroom. Interviews were conducted with teacher leaders to provide more information about the literacy training and ascertain their perceptions of implementation of the literacy initiatives. The results of this study demonstrated that teachers are more likely to implement new literacy frameworks if they understand the value of the initiative for their students. The findings also indicated that combinations of literacy initiatives correlated to greater levels of implementation, rather than a single initiative.
Download or read book Master s Theses in Education written by T. A. Lamke and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
