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- Creator:
- Henle, Erika
- Description:
- Interactive writing demonstrates concepts of print, early strategies, and how words work. This type of writing is used to assist children with their understanding the processes in reading and writing. Interactive writing integrates demonstrations of writing and modeling of the writing process that can assist children to progress in their own writing. Through the use of interactive writing, instructors are able to create an encouraging environment for writing. This project is being developed in order to enhance the language arts programs that are adopted by districts and to enable teachers to easily use the interactive writing techniques. This graduate project consists of an instructor's manual for kindergarten teachers utilizing the interactive writing method. The project offers information and research gathered on the topic of interactive writing and the effects interactive writing has on literacy. The literature review details and investigates classrooms that contain some type of interactive writing experience. The literature has shown that interactive writing can offer many lasting benefits for young writers. Emergent writing in a classroom provides support for reading and writing skills. Although many authors have designed instructor's manuals for interactive writing, there is no available resource specifically designed for kindergarten and early primary grades. While the materials that are currently available offer a sample of interactive writing activities this manual will provide teachers with all of the tools necessary to teach using interactive writing in a kindergarten or early primary classroom. The overriding sections include: Writing Together Means ..., Preparing the Classroom for Interactive Writing, Routines, Assessment, Composing and Constructing Text, Parents, Teacher Tools, and A Balanced Literacy Program. Each section scaffolds the next ultimately integrating all of the components necessary to begin using interactive writing in the kindergarten classroom.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Education
- Creator:
- Rivera-Tubbs, Tammy
- Description:
- This project is about a survey (Appendix A) given to one public school with a population of768 students having 10 percent of the school's population identified with multiple disabilities. The survey was place in the mailboxes of 35 general education teachers, three special educators, and two administrators. This survey was conducted to find out what the teachers knew about collaborative teaching and inclusion, how their district handled the inclusion of students with disabilities & collaborative teaching. The survey also asked specific questions about the teachers knowing who was their program specialist, inclusion facilitator. This survey also covered specific laws that are well known in the special education world and are important for general educators and administrators to be aware of. The teachers from this survey have students that ranged in age from 5 to 12. Students were restricted to access to general education classrooms and their ability to leisure activities at the beginning of this study.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Education
- Creator:
- Hirsch, Gita Mera
- Description:
- Schools in the United States are moving towards an inclusive model of education. There is, therefore, an increased need for general education teachers to be well versed in the implementation of accommodations for students with special needs. Yet, there is very little training of this kind provided in our traditional teacher training programs. Teachers are given only a basic level of preparation in accommodating for the needs of all learners. To better understand which accommodations are currently being implemented in general education classrooms and general education teachers' preparedness level in implementing those accommodations and teaching students with special needs a survey was given. It was self-reported through the survey that a majority of teachers are implementing seven of the nine accommodations listed and they feel they have knowledge as to how to use those accommodations. Yet, teachers felt only an average level of preparedness (3 .28 out of a possible 5) to meet the needs of all students in their class. A website was created to better train teachers in the use of accommodations in their classroom.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Education
- Creator:
- Lopez, John R.
- Description:
- Mexican Americans are both the oldest and newest minority group in the United States. Except for the Indians, colonial settlers coming from Mexico were the earliest inhabitants of what is now the United States. Yet, they can be termed a "newest minority" as it was not until the Presidential campaign of 1960 in which John F. Kennedy attempted to win their votes that this group received recognition. The Cabinet Committee Hearings on Mexican American Affairs in 1967 further enhanced this "current discovery." Mexican Americans began to discover themselves about the same time that the national leaders noticed their existence. T The impact of this recognition has had a profound effect on the State of California, particularly Los Angeles as it has the largest Spanish-surnamed population in the world in any city north of Mexico City. Lost or yet to be recognized among this population segment are the Mexican American Deaf. They are a minority within a minority group. Although there has been extensive research in the area of Mexican American problems by various scholars and disciplines since 1960, there has been only one study of the Mexican American Deaf which was conducted by Lydio Trujillo of the National Leadership training Program at California State University, Northridge, in 1972 and is the source of my decision for a different type of research of this project. Lest we forget the subjects at hand are the Mexican American Deaf and their situation.
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Education
- Creator:
- Iurlano, Anita M.
- Description:
- The developmentally disabled hearing impaired is a growing population with unique needs for services. The goal of any agency providing services to this population is to maximize independence, productivity and community integration. This document outlines a model service delivery plan to facilitate transition from school to work. It focuses on the role of the parent, special and vocational educators, rehabilitation counselors, local business advisors and independent living/community service providers. The establishment of an interagency task force and a deaf advisory committee is recommended to coordinate these responsibilities. Collaboration and cooperation are the keys to effective programming. This model addresses adaptations, modifications and accommodations necessary to provide quality services to the developmentally disabled hearing impaired.
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Education
- Creator:
- Wendel, Tanya D.
- Description:
- A school-to-work transition model for the deaf-disabled student is proposed to complement the model offered by the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitation Services for the transition of all students with disabilities from school to work. The model is designed to fit into any administrative structure and interface with all existing support systems. An integral part of the deaf-disabled model is a Quality Circle Facilitator (QCF) to coordinate the students transition process beginning at the 11th grade level and extending through successful employment placement. The model emphasizes the role of the QCF in preparing and identifying industrial work-training sites for the deaf-disabled person while working with the youth counselor in the secondary school in selection and assignment of students for the preselected employment.
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Education
- Creator:
- Hoover, Gerald W.
- Description:
- This paper was designed to serve as a manual for the general organization and administration of a deaf-blind work-study program. It includes a step-by-step procedure that is adapt able for most programs serving the deaf-blind. Neither specific curriculum nor job analysis has been included because they are available commercially. The primary tenets for establishing a work-study program are spelled out in Public Law 90-230 and Public Law 94-142, which states that handicapped children s hall be educated with the goal of accomplishing an effective transfer from the educational setting t o t he social and economic structures of the community. A work-study program can be very valuable in reaching this goal. A major problem with most work-study programs for the handicapped is the stress placed on specific work skills. The program presented in this paper instead stresses the following objectives to acquire skills that will lead to the more important goal of maximum independence: 1. Self-awareness. 2. Appropriate interaction with others. 3. Emotional security and stability. 4. Appropriate health and hygiene practices. 5. Communication skills. 6. Orientation and mobility skills. 7. Work skills. 8. Leisure time skills.
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Education
- Creator:
- Cronlund, Philip E.
- Description:
- There is a well re cognized need for specialized training for house parents in residential schools for the deaf, and there is increasing interest in the preparation and duties of the se staff members. Surveys have indicated that there is little negative reaction to job preparation but there is some conflict in regards to the job expectations of the house parents and thusly the extent and nature of the preparation required. An attempt was made to resolve these differences by Clatterbuck, Roth and Epperson in 1960 in their report to the Conference of Executives. The recommendation of this report was that the Converence set up a certification plan for houseparents.
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Education
- Creator:
- Galloway, Jaime D.
- Description:
- Adult education for the deaf is not a new trend in the United States and there are several successful programs. However, there continues to be a notable lack of successful adult education programs for the deaf in many areas of the United States in comparison to the number of adult education programs for "normal" hearing adults. For successful adult education programs for the deaf, many factors must be considered. Participation by the deaf adults in planning and developing adult education programs for the deaf is a crucial element and a paramount factor if adults education for the deaf is to succeed. The purpose of this survey was to determine what adult education classes the deaf adults in North Dakota are interested in and to ascertain whether or not these interests are currently being met by the universities, colleges, junior colleges or vocational/trade school s in North Dakota through organized adult education programs for and by the deaf adults of North Dakota. The conclusions drawn from this survey were (1) that the deaf adults in North Dakota are interested in a wide variety of adult education classes, (2) that the universities, colleges, Junior colleges and vocational/trade schools do provide adult education programs, (3) that the existing adult education programs in North Dakota, in general, do not provide interpreter, notetaker, or counseling services for the deaf, (4) that deaf adults are not actively involved in planning and developing adult education programs and (5) that the majority of the deaf adults in North Dakota are not currently enrolled in adult education programs.
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Education
- Creator:
- Dreger, Dorothy S.
- Description:
- The purpose of this project is to provide the elementary public school administrator with basic information about deafness, its relationship to the deaf child, particularly in the area of education, and to suggest possible guidelines and procedures for mainstreaming deaf students into the educational program of the school. This will be carried out in the form of a professional paper. A bibliography will be included with particular references called to the attention of the reader as being considered specifically useful in the context of the subject.
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Education