The primary purpose of this thesis is to identify the personality traits of creative teachers, their teaching practices and the relationship between the two. It was hypothesized that teachers who could be identified as being creative on a personal lev . . .

School should be a productive learning environment where students gain knowledge and build on top of their background knowledge. In order to fully comprehend information, students must show interest in the subject matter. Due to the curriculum being t . . .

This study identifies effective strategies for teaching informational text reading to middle school students in History-Social Science classrooms. Previous research indicated that many middle school students exhibit difficulties in reading information . . .

The purpose of this study is to examine the effectiveness of the learning community program in its initial stage at a local community college. Effectiveness is defined by the researcher as the level of satisfaction experienced by the learning communit . . .

This paper attempts to discover which instructional strategies and aids help increase the passage rate of students on the FITNESSGRAM. Recent research demonstrates within FITNESSGRAM testing that teachers who implement a variety of teaching strategies . . .

The state of California expects English Learners to learn academic content and oral academic English at the same time and mandates that all students be taught in English. This unit was created to meet the needs of first grade teachers who do not have . . .

Head Start is the nation's largest federally sponsored early childhood program, developed to serve at-risk, vulnerable young children by promoting school readiness. There are many curricula now developed to address social-emotional competence that can . . .

The project addressed the problem of instructors struggling to teach and discuss controversial issues in their classrooms. Through the literature review, a variety of practices and strategies presented a means for productively exploring volatile and p . . .