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- Creator:
- Higinio, Eliseo
- Description:
- As technology becomes more abundant in society, digital information is also becoming the norm. With the growing dependability on digital communications, school districts are doing away with paper newsletters and relying on digital platforms to bridge home-school communications. This convenient form of communication places parents, more specifically Latino parents with limited access to computers or the internet at a disadvantage. This digital divide affects Latino parent involvement and places English language learners at an academic disadvantage, as research supports the idea that involved parents increase student academic achievement (Becker, 2007; Cheung & Pomerantz, 2012). This technology curriculum was designed specifically for Latino parents in an effort to provide access to technology and the internet. Parents integrate inherent knowledge and skill sets to acquire complex technological skills. In this manner, parents are able to actively participate in the 21st century classroom. This project provided technology skills to 10 Latino parents in a rural community of North San Diego County. The curriculum covers the fundamentals of technology and builds to more complex tasks such as creating presentations, documents and movies. Additionally, this curriculum encourages parents to become advocates for their and their students’ needs and challenge the status quo of equity and access in a digital age.
- Resource Type:
- Project
- Campus Tesim:
- San Marcos
- Department:
- Education
- Creator:
- Takeshita, Tori
- Description:
- Currently, many schools do not have the funding for the arts programs in schools and with the switch to Common Core State Standards, there is a greater emphasis on Mathematics and English Language Arts. Not only are the arts beneficial for all students, but it allows students with and without disabilities the opportunities to foster relationships and communicate in a different way. Therefore, creating a music and dance, arts integrated curriculum ensures that the arts can be taught in the general education classroom while meeting the needs of all learners. This project contains a scope and sequence of a music and dance, arts integrated curriculum for first grade as well as a 4-week unit integrating music and dance with social studies content. The unit contains four lessons, the first being a music or dance lesson that will be incorporated throughout the rest of the unit and school year. The goal of this project is to provide general education teachers the necessary tools and activities to utilize a music and dance integrated curriculum and foster an inclusive environment for all learners. Keywords: Arts Integration, Dance Integration, Integrated Curriculum, Integrated Arts Curriculum, Inclusion, Inclusive Classrooms, Learning Styles, Multiple Intelligences, Music Integration, and Universal Design for Learning.
- Resource Type:
- Project
- Campus Tesim:
- San Marcos
- Department:
- Special Education
- Creator:
- Knox, Valerie E
- Description:
- What do colleges, American corporations, and state government have in common? Each spends an astronomical amount of money annually for remedial writing instruction: college campuses spend approximately $1 billion to boost freshmen writing skills; American corporations spend as much as $3.1 billion, and state governments spend approximately one quarter of a billion of taxpayers' dollars ("Most American Students Must Improve Writing," A Ticket to Work Sec A:4, A Powerful Message from State Government 6). The publicly funded university has a wealth of excellent writing resources in faculty and graduate students that if engaged could improve the overall writing health of its community. One successful means to engage students in the community is through community service learning, a pedagogy in which students serve in the community doing planned and meaningful activities that meet both a community identified need and the course's goal and objectives. At California State University San Marcos, the Office of Community Service Learning, the Literature and Writing Graduate Studies program and Human Resources and Equal Opportunity created a synergistic partnership to launch the Professional Writing Workshop Series. The series is designed for the professional working adult who wants to gain confidence in his/her writing ability. Key words: graduate students, English graduate students, community service learning, service learning, professional writing, writing projects, facilitating writing Item only available to the CSUSM community. Authentication with campus user name and password required.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Marcos
- Department:
- Literature and Writing Studies
- Creator:
- Beagle, Taylor
- Description:
- Much research in the field has established that many new teachers struggle with maintaining a balance and leveraging support with responsibilities in their professional lives, particularly those who serve in the field of special education. In turn, these factors contribute to the high attrition rates prevalent in the special education teaching field. Induction programs are one method that states, including California, utilize in an attempt to address this issue. Despite pointed efforts, data shows that attrition rates have continued to grow, even with induction programs in place. The formal mentoring that constitutes a large portion of most induction programs is examined in this work and has revealed a gap between the less beneficial formal process and the more success found in informal mentoring strategies at retaining education specialists. This study discusses this gap in research that has resulted in a training manual about the best methods and strategies to incorporate informal mentoring procedures into typically formal induction programs within California. Incorporating informal mentoring includes a) establishing a rapport with mentees, b) developing and maintaining trust, c) phrasing feedback to alleviate pressure, and d) appropriately structuring formal meetings. The training manual explores and provides an alternative approach which is promising for both mentors and new teachers.
- Resource Type:
- Project
- Campus Tesim:
- San Marcos
- Department:
- Special Education
- Creator:
- Todd, Bryan
- Description:
- Students in my middle school science courses often describe the material as not relevant to their lives and future, and as a result seem to take an apathetic approach to their learning. To better understand why my students feel that some science topics are not important, and how I can increase student interest in science phenomena through my classroom teaching, I investigated the research question: What shapes students’ interest in engaging in science curriculum? To help define and investigate the main research question, the following subquestions guided my inquiry: In what ways, if at all, do my students ascribe importance to science phenomena? How does the learning structure and pedagogical approaches used in my classroom shape students’ interest in science, if at all? There were two major findings revealed through this study: Students find science important when they feel a connection to the topics. Students feel more interest towards science when they have hands on activities to explore science phenomena and their teachers show interest in the material and students. My research study has shown understanding students’ interests and demonstrating how science can directly impact students’ lives and future will increase their inquisitiveness and thereby engagement with science curriculum. Students enjoy learning science more when they have an encouraging environment where they know their teacher has their best interest at heart and when they have multiple activities to engage with curriculum, such as hands-on engineering projects and labs.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Marcos
- Department:
- Education
- Creator:
- Crawford, Ashley
- Description:
- With a great need in our nation for innovative thinkers in the careers of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), it becomes crucial that educators capture the power of STEM education at the middle school level (National Academies, 2007). During this impressionable time, students can be encouraged to learn problem-solving skills that promote STEM careers. This project created a yearlong STEM curriculum that provides middle school science educators with resources to implement lessons that support developing skills needed for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics careers. The lessons and resources utilize mobile learning with iPads to integrate with STEM curriculum. The curriculum aligns with the Common Core State Standards and the California science standards for grades six through eight. Each module is designed to capture the interest of students at the middle level grades and creates challenges that require students to learn science, engineering, technology, and mathematics in creative and innovative ways.
- Resource Type:
- Project
- Campus Tesim:
- San Marcos
- Department:
- Education
- Creator:
- Equipado, Krisanto
- Description:
- Vaccines have been considered the most effective intervention to reduce morbidity and mortality from vaccine-preventable diseases. However, there have been recent outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases and infant deaths linked to unvaccinated children. These children are unvaccinated because new parents are worried about vaccine efficacy, and vaccine safety, and healthcare professionals are unable to provide proper education. Currently, newborn vaccine education is not incorporated in parenting classes, which further impacts awareness of the significance of vaccine benefits. This grant proposal is focused on the study of the impact of newborn vaccine education implemented in parenting classes on primigravida women or parents. The participants’ vaccine knowledge will be assessed using questionnaires related to vaccine knowledge, and reassessed two weeks after they are shown a vaccine education video. The participants will then be reassessed two and four months after giving birth to see if the proper vaccines have been given to their newborn per CDC guidelines. This study is significant to healthcare professionals and the community as it will raise awareness that it is essential to provide early vaccine education on primigravida vaccine safety and effectiveness.
- Resource Type:
- Project
- Campus Tesim:
- San Marcos
- Department:
- Nursing
- Creator:
- Engles, Brooke
- Description:
- There is a shortage of support for educators willing to teach an inclusive classroom. The lack of training and experience in an inclusive setting, which would include a wide range of disabilities. What are the benefits and improvements that need to be addressed in an inclusive classroom? Having to continually modify lesson plans, teaching strategies and activities that would include all students to help them be successful in the classroom. The research is based upon the behaviorist, and cognitive learning theories. The goal is to transpose the ideology of the learning theories into teaching strategies that can be used within an inclusive classroom.
- Resource Type:
- Capstone project
- Campus Tesim:
- Chico
- Department:
- Liberal Studies
- Creator:
- Briggs, Sterling
- Description:
- My study is a critical analysis of the reproduction of structural oppression within contemporary high school Social Studies and Sociology. The purpose of my critical analysis was to identify whether or not classroom content within Social Studies and Sociology reproduced various modes of oppression through the process of covert and overt discriminatory practices. The significance of my study is reflective of the growing diverse student population to which represents intersecting social identities that may fall victim to multiple modes of discrimination and oppression. My study is theoretically informed by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva’s Color-Blind Racism (CBR), Gloria Ladson-Billings Critical Race Theory (CRT), Kimberle Williams-Crenshaw’s Intersectionality, and Herbert Blumer’s theoretical concept of Symbolic Interactionism. Utilizing a mix methods approach of quantitative content analysis and qualitative discourse analysis, I conducted a comparative study in which I examined (2) Social Studies U.S. History Classes and (1) Sociology Class, all three from high schools within the City of San Diego. To answer my research question, “does high school coursework within Social Studies and Sociology challenge or reproduce conditions of inequality?”, I coded a combined total of 2,124 documents representing curriculum, textbooks, daily assignments, PowerPoint presentations and visual images. From my quantitative and qualitative analysis of classroom content I was able to identify numerous examples of how current Social Studies and Sociology reproduce multiple modes of oppression, through the construction of heteronormativity, colorblind racist and overt racist ideology, and the practice of exclusion. My study is just a small glimpse of the reproduction of white eurocentric colonialism that without a critical lens operates covertly, maintaining power and privileges for heteronormative men while reproducing various modes of oppression for marginalized groups.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Marcos
- Department:
- Sociological Practice
- Creator:
- Regan, Holly
- Description:
- This thesis investigates the ways in which choice shapes middle school students’ engagement in novel study. I asked the following research questions: How do my students’ views on engaging novel study shift following the integration of more choice? Also, in what ways does choice reduce students’ barriers to learning from novel study units? Through my research, I found that students enjoy the freedom to choose the learning products they complete during novel study and that they felt more comfortable when they were able to discuss the novel in small groups of their choice. The results of my research have illustrated the importance of allowing students opportunities for more autonomy in the classroom. Teachers can foster engagement by implementing more instances of structured choice during novel study units.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Marcos
- Department:
- Education