Sentences with phrase «primary grade methods»

She teaches courses that emphasize collaborating with families, community members, and professionals for early childhood and special education, teaches primary grade methods courses and student teaching seminars in early childhood education.

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Biemiller's current research involves vocabulary development identifying specific vocabulary needed during the elementary years, analysis of developmental factors in vocabulary development, and testing new teaching methods for promoting vocabulary and language development in both primary and junior grades.

The dysfunctional nature of how urban schools teach students to relate to authority begins in kindergarten and continues through the primary grades.With young children, authoritarian, directive teaching that relies on simplistic external rewards still works to control students.But as children mature and grow in size they become more aware that the school's coercive measures are not really hurtful (as compared to what they deal with outside of school) and the directive, behavior modification methods practiced in primary grades lose their power to control.Indeed, school authority becomes counterproductive.From upper elementary grades upward students know very well that it is beyond the power of school authorities to inflict any real hurt.External controls do not teach students to want to learn; they teach the reverse.The net effect of this situation is that urban schools teach poverty students that relating to authority is a kind of game.And the deepest, most pervasive learnings that result from this game are that school authority is toothless and out of touch with their lives.What school authority represents to urban youth is «what they think they need to do to keep their school running.»

This study examined an instructional method rarely used as a form of integration at the primary - grade level - interactive read - alouds of informational text - in order to determine the degree that this intervention might simultaneously build kindergarten students» knowledge of economic concepts and content literacy in low - SES settings.

We used quantitative and descriptive methods to examine the programs and practices in 11 moderate - to high - poverty schools selected because of their dual reputation for implementing recent reading reform and for beating the odds by promoting greater than expected primary - grade reading achievement.

An effective method for building meaning vocabulary in primary grades Journal of Educational Psychology, 98 (1), 44 — 62.

Andrew Biemiller and Catherine Boote, «An Effective Method for Building Meaning Vocabulary in Primary Grades,» Journal of Educational Psychology 98 (2006): 44 — 62.

This method is usually used in preschool and primary grades.