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A Study on the Evaluation of the Applicability of an Environmental Education Modular Curriculum
Author: Artun, Hüseyin
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Environmental Education,Case Studies,Grade 7,Secondary School Students,Semi Structured Interviews,Questionnaires,Student Attitudes,Teacher Attitudes,Program Effectiveness,Curriculum,Course Content,Foreign Countries,Qualitative Research

The purpose of this study was, in line with the views of the students &amp; teacher, to examine Environmental Education Modular Curriculum (EEMC) developed to give environmental education with a specific content. In the study, the case study method was used. The research sample was determined with the purposeful sampling method &amp; made up of 23 7th grade students (12 male &amp; 11 female) attending a secondary school in the city of Gümüshane. During the application of EEMC in 11 weeks, the data were collected with Semi-Structured Interviews (SSI), Environmental Activities Evaluation Questionnaire (EAEQ), Environmental Education Self-evaluation Form (EESF) &amp; the Constructive Learning Environment Questionnaire (CLEQ). The research data were analyzed with content analysis &amp; frequencies, &amp; the related categories &amp; themes were formed. In the study, it was found that EEMC not only included a content which met the students' needs &amp; which allowed them to produce solutions to environmental problems but also had the quality of a dynamic modular curriculum.
A Day in Court: How Mock Trials Bring Learning to Life
Author: Sherrin, David
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Law Related Education,Courts,Social Studies,English Instruction,Learner Engagement,Role Playing,Experiential Learning,Learning Activities,Simulation,Teaching Methods,Court Litigation,Secondary School Teachers,High School Students,Criminal Law

This article is drawn from the authors' book, &quot;Judging for Themselves: Using Mock Trials to Bring Social Studies and English to Life,&quot; which discusses the effectiveness of mock trials as tools for learning and assessments. Mock trials are effective because they are challenging, authentic projects in which students create and then do something &quot;real.&quot; The projects serve as both learning and assessment tools since students learn from doing the work, and teachers have a tangible product for evaluating understanding and growth. Mock trials are engaging for students, and the role-playing aspect gets them out of their chairs, collaborating, and entering into the mindsets and perspectives of their characters. This article describes the necessary steps in preparing a successful mock trial: (1) choosing and teaching a story; (2) selecting a defendant; (3) choosing the witnesses; (4) creating the affidavits and exhibits; and (5) assigning the students. The rigorous nature of mock trials does not mean it is only for the elite; they can be incorporated with diverse groups of students. An example of how to adapt a trial transcript into a witness evidence sheet is provided.
A Look at Teacher Diversity
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Diversity (Faculty),Ethnic Diversity,Minority Group Teachers,Minority Group Students,Racial Composition,Racial Differences,Disproportionate Representation,Student Diversity,Racial Relations,Public Schools,Teacher Integration,Teacher Recruitment,Teacher Persistence,Teacher Employment,Teaching (Occupation),Elementary Secondary Education,Personnel Selection,Urban Areas

More than 60 years after the ruling in &quot;Brown v. Board of Education&quot; was handed down, its promise remains unfulfilled. In many respects, America's public schools continue to be &quot;separate and unequal.&quot; Indeed, the growing resegregation of American schools by race and ethnicity, compounded by economic class segregation, has become the dominant trend in American education. Little attention has been paid to an important related issue, however--the state of racial and ethnic diversity in America's teaching force. For the general public, basic facts about teacher diversity are difficult to understand or inaccessible. The Albert Shanker Institute, working with Richard Ingersoll of the University of Pennsylvania, undertook the challenge of pulling together what research there is, and conducting original research where data were lacking, in order to provide a factual basis for public discussion and further research. In September 2015, the Albert Shanker Institute published &quot;The State of Teacher Diversity in American Education,&quot; a major report that found teacher diversity in the United States to be an area of concern. This article is excerpted from the report, and presents the findings and recommendations aimed at federal-, state-, and district-level policymakers, working collaboratively with local teachers unions and communities. The teacher workforce has become less ethnically and racially diverse and more female over time, a development that has adversely affected students, particularly males of color. Based on Ingersoll's national analysis of data, limited progress toward greater diversity is being made, but not nearly enough to meet the need for more teachers of color. [For &quot;The State of Teacher Diversity in American Education,&quot; published by the Albert Shanker Institute, see ED563794.]
The Concept of Personological Information-Educational System of Forming Professional Effectiveness of a Specialist
Author: Vlasova, Vera K.
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Specialists,Teacher Characteristics,Teacher Effectiveness,Self Efficacy,Foreign Countries,Professional Development

Professional self-effectiveness is a key quality of a modern specialist together with cultural, general professional and professional competences, which are realized in his further activity. But in normative documents regulating preparation of a specialist, this quality is not present. The aim of the article is in working out a conception of personological information-educational system of teaching specialists. The major approach to the investigation of this problem became: instrumental-active, competentive and subadjective approaches which enable us to project a teaching computer program, as well as formulate a conception of personological information-educational system, directed at formulating a professional self-effective specialist when tutoring specialists. The concept of the article may be useful for practical use for specialists and heads of educational-business centers for forming professional self-effectiveness when educating young specialists; for refresher courses and re-training courses; specialists who are interested in increasing personal self-effectiveness.
Styles of Self-Regulation of Learning Activities of University Students
Author: Khusainova, Rezeda M.
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: College Students,Student Centered Learning,Goal Orientation,Self Management,Activities,Statistical Analysis,Questionnaires,Foreign Countries

The relevance of the study is largely due to changes in the country's education system in recent years, in particular--the transition to a two-tier system of education--undergraduate and graduate--the purpose of which is to improve learning efficiency. One feature of this system is to strengthen the role of independent educational activity of students enrolled in this program. In this regard, the growing interest to the organization by students of their time, the ability to self-set goals, analyze solutions the way to reach them, which, in turn, determine the success of the training activities. That is, the level of self-regulation is having a major impact on the success of the training. The article aims to study the style features of self-regulation of students. The leading approach to the study of this problem is the subject-activity approach, allowing to reveal representations of the functional structure of the system of self-conscious arbitrary human activity. The article defines the styles and levels of self-regulation activities of the students; identified formed skills of the group of students with a high level of self-regulation; revealed the relationship between styles of self-regulation and the level of subjective control and volitional qualities of students. Article may be useful in the work of teachers, psychologists to optimize learning processes and the development of self-regulation of a personality.
Interdisciplinary Learning as a Basis for Formation of Intercultural Communicative Competence
Author: Redchenko, Nadezhda N.
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Interdisciplinary Approach,Intercultural Communication,Communicative Competence (Languages),Program Effectiveness,Instructional Effectiveness,Second Language Instruction,College Students,Research Universities,Technical Institutes,Languages for Special Purposes

An interdisciplinary approach provides many benefits that warrant the need for its use at technical universities teaching foreign language as an academic discipline. This article reviews recent Russian researches focused on interdisciplinary integration, summarizes advantages and proves overall high efficacy of the interdisciplinary approach to teaching a foreign language for students. When taken as a basis, this approach was found to open up new prospects for implementation of didactic principles of learning at foreign language classes. The article describes the implementation of the principles of interdisciplinary coordination, systematicity and consistency, scientificity, occupational focus, visualization, affordability, strength, consciousness, pro-active behavior, educational training, availability, focus on student's individual character, and intercultural interaction within the framework of the interdisciplinary approach. Incorporation of these principles is demonstrated using training of students of the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI [Moscow Engineering Physics Institute] as an example. At MEPhI, students learn a foreign language during the entire period of their education and study the following credit modules: Introduction into General Technical Foreign Language; General Technical Foreign Language; Occupation-oriented Foreign Language; Foreign Language for Occupation-oriented Communication, Business Communication; Foreign Language for Academic Research; and Communication Foreign Language (in-depth study).
The Professional Educator: The Case for a Teacher Like Me
Author: Preston, Harry F., V
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Teacher Effectiveness,Diversity (Faculty),Minority Group Teachers,Males,African American Teachers,Student Diversity,Minority Group Students,Urban Schools,Secondary School Teachers,High School Students,Teacher Student Relationship,Teacher Persistence,Diversity (Institutional),Secondary School Science,Science Teachers,Engineering Education,STEM Education,Graduation Rate,Role Models

Professional educators--in the classroom, library, counseling center, or anywhere in between--share one overarching goal: ensuring all students receive the rich, well-rounded education they need to be productive, engaged citizens. In this article, a teacher of color in Baltimore discusses his career trajectory, and explains why teacher diversity matters to him and his students. Because the author is a black male educator who teaches at an urban high school where almost all of his students receive free or reduced-price meals, he understands the importance of providing access to additional opportunities and supports, as well as to images of success. Students cannot imagine future educational and career opportunities if they have never seen them firsthand. An educator of color can give students of color--especially black males--a concrete image of possibility. To turn that possibility into reality, we must ultimately change the conversation about who is in education, and change who is in the conversation about education.
Cultivated Lands of Kuban and Features of Their Development
Author: Belyuchenko, Ivan S.
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Agriculture,Agricultural Production,Management Systems,Soil Science,Ecology,Wastes,Plants (Botany),Farm Management

The basis of cultivated lands consists of the interacting populations of annual and perennial weeds and updated annually cultural annual plants, which have very limited data on the aboveground net production, and even less information about the yield of their underground organs. The aim of the research is scientific and theoretical development of crops agriculture in Kuban region also with analysis of land systems and practical mistakes in the agriculture. The development of the agricultural system operation management systems provides a basis to solve the problems of environmental management, their protection, as well as ecological safety at the level of the cultivated land system formation through improving the soil, increasing the vegetation structure complexity, and including corresponding life forms in the vegetation composition. The results of study shows that management of cultivated lands is provided from the outside, where it takes place in a faster way, so it is more reasonable to organize agricultural ecosystems. Besides, the colloidity of wastes of different industries and their role in the formation of complex compost changes the aggregate composition of ordinary chernozem and impacts other aspects of the formation and development of soil and plants in the system of cultivated lands.
Project Activities as a Form of English Language Teaching Based on the Interdisciplinary Approach to Form Intercultural Communicative Competence
Author: Redchenko, Nadezhda N.
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,English (Second Language),Second Language Instruction,Interdisciplinary Approach,Intercultural Communication,Communicative Competence (Languages),Creativity,Creative Activities,Learning Processes,Information Technology,Educational Technology,Learning Motivation,Individualized Instruction,Student Centered Learning,Cooperative Learning,Educational Innovation,Active Learning,Student Projects

The authors of this article suggest a thesis about the purpose of teaching a foreign language--it is student's communicative activities, i.e. learning a foreign language in practice. The teacher's task is to encourage activities of every student and to create situations to develop their creative activities in a learning process. New information technologies streamline and diversify the learning process and, at the same time, open up good prospects to expand the educational framework and undoubtedly bring an incredible motivational drive and promote the principles of individualization of learning. At the current stage of development, the educational system tends to gradually shift towards learner-centered cooperation where a learner plays an active role. Non-standard technologies, encouragement of teacher's creative pursuit and professional advancement, and implementation of innovations proved to be useful in the learning and educational process.
Design Education: Peculiarities of Design Students' Creativity Development
Author: Aboimova, Irina S.
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Design,Creative Development,Creativity,Creative Activities,Self Actualization,Problem Solving,Intellectual Development,Specialists

The main goal of the Russian professional education becomes the preparation of competent, qualified graduates, who are able not only to put their knowledge and skills to use, but also make original nonstandard decisions in the situations happening in their professional activities. The process of the design students' creativity development requires scientific substantiation and procedural guidelines due to insufficient knowledge, theoretical insight and guidance papers. The researchers recommend refusing from transition of ready-made knowledge and value and guideline representations in the course of learning by means of reproductive pedagogics and applying to development of new pedagogical technologies for education of personality. The most careful analysis is required for research of the problematic field for such concepts as &quot;creative work&quot;, &quot;creative activities&quot;, &quot;creativity&quot;. Model of pedagogical support of students' creativity formation has peculiarities in accordance with the concept, when pedagogical activities, oriented to pedagogical support of design students' creativity formation, connect self-actualization of the teacher and his or her purposeful involvement in the change of student and in development of creativity. Thereby, today there is high demand for creative, intellectually developed, educable, flexible people, who are capable of applying gained knowledge in practice, and looking for the ways of rational and nonstandard solution of evolving problems.
Nurturing Young Readers: How Digital Media Can Promote Literacy Instead of Undermining It
Author: Guernsey, Lisa
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Young Children,Technology Uses in Education,Educational Technology,Computer Oriented Programs,Literacy Education,Reading Instruction

Young children today are gaining access to a dizzying array of apps, games, and videos. With all of this digital media at their fingertips, two urgent questions have emerged in preschools and elementary schools: Could technology interfere with the way children learn to read? Or could it help? While questions continue to arise about the challenges of the digital age, more investment in early childhood must be coupled with a strategy that recognizes the challenges and opportunities of the digital age. An area of concern for parents with preschooler's is better identification of products for particular ages. Often apps are described as being for &quot;young children,&quot; not recognizing that there is a large difference between the needs of a 3-year-old and the needs of a 6-year-old. Several interviewed educators desired more time to try out new tools, critique apps and e-books, and adapt them to the needs of their particular classrooms. The children and families of the 21st century will grow up with screens and digital media everywhere. Educators and parents will need new models for how to use these tools to promote learning. So, instead of pushing screens away, put them into the hands of adults and children to use together to learn and grow.
Criteria for Formation of Active Personal Position of Schoolchildren
Author: Kunanbayeva, Magziya Sh.
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Student Role,Student Responsibility,Student Characteristics,Skill Development,Self Management,Cooperation,Thinking Skills

The article considers the problem and the importance of formation of the active personal position of schoolchildren. Active personal position is a complex concept, which includes the ability to a problem solution, the ability to work in a team, the ability to express his or her views. The formation of an active personal position at school is necessary for the further development of the personality and the ability to evaluate their own activities in the society. Assessment and monitoring system is needed for complex and comprehensive development of active personal position. Thus, the purpose of the article is to develop such system theoretically. For this purpose, the methods of analysis, synthesis, and theoretical modeling were applied, and psycho-pedagogical and methodological literature was studied and summarized. The developed theoretical assessment system of active personal position of schoolchildren allows to devise an individual approach to each child based on the evaluation results, as well as to develop new methodological approaches for students' development.
Higher Education Marketing Strategies Based on Factors Impacting the Enrollees' Choice of a University and an Academic Program
Author: Kalimullin, Aydar M.
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Higher Education,Marketing,College Students,College Choice,Majors (Students),Student Recruitment,Multivariate Analysis,Correlation,Student Characteristics,Questionnaires,College Applicants,Academic Achievement,Self Determination,Reputation,Tuition,Student Costs,Career Guidance,Occupational Aspiration

The relevance of studying the stated problem is due to the fact that for increasing the efficiency of higher education marketing it is necessary to take into account several factors, namely, factors that impact the choice of a university and an academic program by enrollees, as well as socio-psychological characteristics of the latter, while systematic research of this problem has not been done by now. The goal of this paper is to give recommendations for the implementation of higher education marketing strategies aimed at potential enrollees. The main method used by us for studying the stated problem was the questioning of 1515 enrollees of Kazan (Volga region) Federal University (KFU) with subsequent statistical data processing. Namely, by using techniques of cluster, factor, and correlation analysis we have succeeded in determining certain characteristic features of enrollees and main factors that impact the choice of a university and an academic program by enrollees; we have also ranked these factors. We refine factors that impact the choice of a university and an academic program by enrollees, rank their motives for entering a university, reveal factors that influence the total number of enrollees in a university, and determine new academic programs demanded by enrollees. Basing on the obtained results, we propose a model of an enrollee of one of Russian universities and prove that the implementation of an education marketing strategy should take into account the factors that impact the choice of a university and an academic program by enrollees, as well as socio-psychological characteristics of the latter. The practical value of obtained results consists in their applicability to the implementation of higher education marketing strategies. The recommendations proposed by us can contribute to increasing the competitiveness of universities among enrollees.
Epistolary Literature and Journalism: Theoretical and Practical Aspects
Author: Toktagazin, Muratbek B.
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Journalism,Comparative Analysis,Questionnaires,Authors,Fiction,Literary Genres,Literary Criticism,Letters (Correspondence)

The relevance of the research problem is caused by the lack of a single complete system for determining the subgenre differences in the epistolary genre in literary criticism. Thus, this research is devoted to the problem of clarification of the difference between epistolary literature and epistolary journalism in their development over time. The comparative analysis of the main aspects of the epistolary genre of fiction and journalism was conducted. The research also provided a survey of 360 respondents: 180 writers and 180 journalists. The aim of the questionnaire was to confirm or to refute the hypothesis: there are some key differences between epistolary literature and epistolary journalism, which suggest that they are two varieties of a single of the epistolary genre. Moreover, the paper bridges the gaps in the epistolary terminology. The content of the paper will be useful to journalists, researchers of the epistolary genre, and literary critics.