ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
The ESL Family Science Night: A Model for Culturally Sensitive Science Education Pedagogy
Author: Valadez, Gilbert
Date: 2010-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Preservice Teacher Education,Second Language Learning,English (Second Language),Minority Group Children,Minority Groups,Teaching Methods,Science Curriculum,Science Instruction,Cultural Awareness,Elementary School Students,Disproportionate Representation,Program Development,Family Programs,Parent Participation,Science Activities

This paper will describe a five year research project of a teaching strategy whereby pre-service credential students at a southern California university were taught to develop and apply science curriculum to parents of elementary-aged English as a Second Language students. The paper will elaborate upon the importance of parental engagement in science pedagogy as it relates to working with under-represented minority groups. Moreover, the focus of this teacher research centers upon the implementation of teaching strategies that are culturally sensitive, contextually rich, and scientifically accurate. The article will conclude upon general findings and suggestions for further research and pre-service teacher education as it relates to teaching science pedagogy in a way that better serves minority children and their parents and/or guardians. Here, we are defining minority children as those that come from non-mainstream Anglo-American culture and are second language learners.
Curriculum Recommendations for Inclusive Teacher Education
Author: LePage, Pamela
Date: 2010-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Special Education Teachers,Preservice Teacher Education,Knowledge Base for Teaching,Inclusion,Academic Accommodations (Disabilities),Curriculum Development,Curriculum Guides,Research Committees,Change Strategies,Articulation (Education),Pedagogical Content Knowledge,Teacher Characteristics,Teacher Associations,National Standards

In 1989, the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education (AACTE) published "The Knowledge Base for the Beginner Teacher". More than a decade later, teachers, teacher educators and scholars from across the country came together to revise and refine the curriculum in teacher education. This article focuses on the recommendations of the Committee on Teacher Education (CTE) which wrote three books describing the basic foundational knowledge that all American teachers--including special education teachers--should know before they graduated from their pre-service programs. In this paper, the authors articulate the CTE's recommendations and then provide additional special education content recommendations for general education teachers working in highly diverse inclusive classrooms. (Contains 1 table.)
Early Childhood Inclusion: A Silver Lining in the Dark Clouds for African Immigrant Children?
Author: Agbenyega, Joseph
Date: 2010-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Early Childhood Education,Foreign Countries,Immigrants,Inclusion,Parent Attitudes,Interviews,Preschool Children,Educational Environment,Equal Education,Social Bias,Blacks,Child Care,Labeling (of Persons),Racial Bias,Refugees

This article presents preliminary findings of an ongoing study that attempts to gauge the level of access to and support for early childhood education and care programs for sub Saharan African immigrant families living in Melbourne Australia. Using the Australian Early Years Learning Framework as a guide, we explored 30 parents' perception of their children's care experience through face-to-face in-depth interviews. Initial findings show that the parents felt their children are Othered, labelled and denied citizenship, and that their children's future is uncertain. We provided discussions of these issues alongside offering suggestions for improving the research and conditions for children from African families.
Co-Teaching in Urban Secondary School Districts to Meet the Needs of All Teachers and Learners: &quot;Implications for Teacher Education Reform&quot;
Author: Cramer, Elizabeth
Date: 2010-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Program Evaluation,Educational Change,Teacher Educators,Teaching Methods,Teacher Collaboration,Team Teaching,Urban Schools,Secondary Schools,Teacher Education,Federal Legislation,Teacher Competencies,Surveys,Interviews,Observation,Teacher Attitudes,Special Education Teachers,Disabilities,Individualized Instruction,National Standards,Program Effectiveness

In this paper, the authors address the question: what are skills, knowledge and professional dispositions that U.S. co-teachers need to balance the seemingly competing mandates of NCLB and IDEIA in order to prepare teachers for the classrooms of today and tomorrow? Based on the results of two recent studies that focused on secondary co-teacher teams (one conducted in Florida; one in California), the authors report both quantitative and qualitative data obtained through the use of surveys, interviews, and observations in California and Florida. In this paper, we extrapolate information for teacher educators as to how to prepare urban co-teachers to meet their needs and the needs of their students. Successful co teaching practices that were observed are described and the assessed needs of current co teachers are discussed for future planning of co-teaching preparation policies and practices. (Contains 3 tables.)
Working Vacations: Jobs in Tourism and Leisure
Author: Torpey, Elka Maria
Date: 2011-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Musicians,Vacations,Marketing,Ecology,Employment Opportunities,Career Exploration,Careers,Occupational Information,Employment Potential,Training,Hospitality Occupations,Recreational Activities,Tourism,Travel,Job Search Methods,Job Application,Employment Qualifications,Information Sources

Vacation jobs often mix work and play. For some, the job is their ticket to career happiness. The article's first section describes four jobs specific to entertainment and leisure: (1) cruise ship musician; (2) destination marketing manager; (3) resort activities director; and (4) river rafting guide. The second section helps a person decide if a vacation career is a good fit for him/her. The third section explains how to find and get these jobs. (Contains 8 online resources.)
Careers in Wind Energy
Author: Liming, Drew
Date: 2011-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Industry,Employment Opportunities,Career Exploration,Careers,Energy,Energy Conservation,Power Technology,Utilities,Occupational Information,Employment Potential,Emerging Occupations,Training,Information Sources

As a common form of renewable energy, wind power is generating more than just electricity. It is increasingly generating jobs for workers in many different occupations. Many workers are employed on wind farms: areas where groups of wind turbines produce electricity from wind power. Wind farms are frequently located in the midwestern, western, and northeastern regions of the United States. But many other States are in the process of substantially increasing their wind-generating capacity, and there are wind energy jobs nationwide. This article provides information on some of the career opportunities in wind power. The first section provides an overview of the wind energy industry and the work that goes into building a wind farm. The second section describes selected professional, construction, production, and transportation occupations in the wind energy industry. The third section gives information on typical education and training backgrounds for workers in these occupations. A final section contains sources for additional research.
House Work: Jobs in Residential Upkeep
Author: Bierer, Amy
Date: 2011-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Housework,Employment Opportunities,Careers,Occupational Information,Employment Potential,Training,Employment Qualifications,Information Sources,Horticulture,Maintenance,Unskilled Workers

For many people, domestic bliss does not involve cleaning, home repairs, or yard work. That doesn't mean that their vision of a happy home involves a dirty, broken-down house with an unkempt yard. It simply means that they prefer to pay others to do the grittier tasks of residential upkeep. And in doing so, they create employment opportunities for the care and cleaning of homes. This article highlights three occupations--handy-persons, maids and housekeepers, and landscaping and groundskeeping workers--that involve specific types of house calls. These occupations may not be at the top of every jobseeker's choice careers, but they offer some advantages. In general, entering these occupations requires little formal education, and paid training occurs on the job. Workers often have the opportunity to work part time, and self-employment is possible. This article describes the job duties, training, wages, and more for each occupation. It concludes with some sources of additional information.
You're a &quot;What&quot;? Recycling Coordinator
Author: Torpey, Elka Maria
Date: 2011-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Recycling,Coordinators,Sanitation,Job Skills,Employment Opportunities,Occupational Information,Conservation (Environment),Wastes

Recycling coordinators supervise curbside and dropoff recycling programs for municipal governments or private firms. Today, recycling is mandatory in many communities. And advancements in collection and processing methods have helped to increase the quantity of materials for which the recycling coordinator is responsible. In some communities, consumers presort their recyclable materials before the materials are sent to a transfer station or processing facility. In others, all recyclables are collected together and then are sorted at the facility. Both types of processing facilities prepare the sorted materials for shipment to the paper mills, glass plants, and other companies that create new products from recyclables. In this article, Joanne Shafer describes her job as a recycling coordinator for Centre County, Pennsylvania.
Blazing a New Path: Collaborating towards Best Practice in Urban Teacher Education
Author: Smiley, Azure Dee
Date: 2010-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Urban Schools,Elementary Secondary Education,Educational Change,Urban Education,Faculty,Best Practices,Teacher Educators,Intellectual Disciplines,Qualitative Research,Cooperation,College School Cooperation,Partnerships in Education,Fellowships,College Faculty,Colleges,Higher Education,Schools of Education

This study utilized qualitative means to gain a better understanding of the experiences of faculty members from a school of education, college of arts and sciences, and K-12 urban  educators as they worked across academic disciplines to create and implement a collaborative secondary urban teacher fellowship program. This study is meant to inform the  larger field of urban education on pathways to successful collaboration between universities  and K-12 urban schools, as well as between education and content area faculties at the university level engaged in teacher preparation reform efforts.
A Pipeline Program for Urban Community Teachers: Standing in the Gap of Achievement and Possibility
Author: Hill, Djanna
Date: 2010-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Self Concept,College Programs,High School Students,High Schools,College School Cooperation,Urban Schools,College Preparation,Curriculum Design,Student Educational Objectives,Academic Achievement,Teaching (Occupation),College Bound Students,Achievement Gap,Secondary School Curriculum,Secondary Education

&quot;Paterson Teachers for Tomorrow&quot; is a project designed to attract high school students from Paterson, NJ to careers in teaching. This article is based on an exploration of high school students' sense of self, college awareness and preparedness, and academic achievement during a year-long pre-college program. Data indicate that students developed a strong self concept as capable learners through the structure, activities and opportunities to see themselves accomplishing their academic goals. The program also succeeded in raising college awareness by allowing the students to be on campus and see what it takes to get there and stay there. Finally the program increased student's academic skills through a rigorous, comprehensive curriculum that challenged students at every turn to be their best. (Contains 1 footnote.)
The Learning and Practice of Preservice Teachers in an Urban School-University Partnership: The Struggle to Enact Culturally Responsive Pedagogy
Author: Stairs, Andrea J.
Date: 2010-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Preservice Teachers,Urban Schools,College School Cooperation,Partnerships in Education,African American Students,Hispanic American Students,Whites,High School Students,Pretests Posttests,Surveys,Observation,Interviews,Culturally Relevant Education,Cultural Pluralism,Teacher Collaboration,Student Diversity,Consciousness Raising

This paper reports on an interpretive, collective case study that examined preservice teacher learning and practice in an urban school-university partnership. Multiple data sources were collected from 55 predominantly White middle-class preservice teachers at a predominantly Black and Latino high school, including pre- and post-surveys, coursework, lesson observations, interviews, and artifacts. Findings suggest participants clearly articulated their learning about culturally responsive pedagogy (CRP), but they struggled to apply their learning in practice. This study confirms that important preservice teacher learning can take place in urban school-university partnerships, especially if the teacher education experiences make explicit applicable theories such as CRP. (Contains 3 tables.)
Mathematics Teaching with the Stars
Author: McKinney, Sueanne E.
Date: 2010-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Mathematics Instruction,Teaching Methods,Elementary School Mathematics,Elementary School Teachers,Interviews,Urban Schools,Poverty,Teaching Skills,Educational Quality,Culturally Relevant Education,Equal Education,Academic Standards,Teacher Effectiveness,Teacher Competencies

The mathematics instructional approaches of effective elementary teachers in urban high-  poverty schools were investigated. Approximately 99 urban elementary teachers were   administered the Star Teacher Selection Interview; a total of 31 were identified as star   teachers. These teachers were then administered the Instructional Practices Assessment to   identify their mathematical instructional practices and the degree to which they implemented   these practices. The findings indicated that the star teachers are using a variety of   instructional approaches that are culturally relevant and aligned with the NCTM's   Principles and Standards for School Mathematics. The highest mean ratings were associated   with principles and practices related to equity and strong adherence to curriculum standards   infused with personal creativity. (Contains 6 tables.)
Youth Spaces and the Power and Possibility of Performance
Author: Cytrynbaum, Joe
Date: 2010-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: American Studies,Program Effectiveness,Asian American Students,Cultural Pluralism,Cultural Differences,Popular Culture,Asian Americans,Performance,Youth,Music,Leadership Responsibility,Identification (Psychology),Ethnicity,Clubs,High School Students,Urban Schools,Consciousness Raising,Poetry

In this paper, the author looks closely at two spaces where students engaged in practices and forms of cultural production with transformative possibilities. Specifically, the author sought out spaces where youth came together for one of two important purposes: to cross boundaries of difference or to affirm and re-imagine identities. The two spaces discussed in this paper capture best the limits and possibilities of such spaces. Specifically, these spaces highlight how performative forms of cultural production both reproduced and challenged the dominant institutional dynamics with respect to difference. Students created and ran one of the spaces, Lyric, an after school hip-hop club. The other space, an Asian American Studies class, came into existence through the collective efforts of a group of Asian American students. Building on the youth spaces literature, the author uses Conquergood's (1989; 1991; 1992) synthesis of performance theory as a framework for discussing the role of performance in Lyric and the Asian American Studies class. By focusing on the role of performance, he demonstrates how performance theory can enrich the important scholarship on youth spaces. Moreover, he calls attention to how forms of performance can play a significant role in supporting the social and academic work that takes place in such spaces. Here, the author describes each youth space separately, focusing his analysis on one key performance in each: the cipher, an improvisational rap performance, and the performance project that he developed with an Asian American Studies teacher and his students. The author concludes with a brief discussion of the role of leadership in structuring and facilitating the work of youth spaces.
Why Youth Culture
Author: Cintron, Ralph
Date: 2010-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Youth,Popular Culture,Cultural Influences,Social Behavior,Social Attitudes,Social Justice,Moral Values,Individual Differences,Democratic Values,High Schools,Adolescents,Stereotypes,Consciousness Raising

In this article, the author discusses youth culture and raises concerns about the tricky social terrain modernity offers for youth identity. He discusses familiar "topoi" or thematics that seem to drive most work on youth culture, suggests that justice and fairness are moral imperatives, and that acknowledging the worthiness of difference is one way to realize a more just world.
More than a Library?: Urban Poverty and an Exploratory Look at the Role of a Neighborhood Institution
Author: Ly, Carolyn
Date: 2010-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Neighborhoods,Poverty,Participant Observation,Economically Disadvantaged,Public Libraries,Internet,Urban Areas,Social Influences,Local Issues,African Americans,Access to Information,Library Materials,Library Services,Library Role

Libraries have traditionally tended to be one of the few institutionally provided public resources for local residents in poor, urban, neighborhoods. This paper presents findings from the exploratory phase of an ongoing research project which examines, through participant observation, the "value" of a public library in a poor urban neighborhood. To what extent do residents make use of traditional library resources? What alternative functions does the library serve in the neighborhood? The findings collected have suggested that the library as a social space contains value to the immediate neighborhood in ways beyond physical utility; it holds a significant symbolic value or meaning to local residents. These findings suggest that within impoverished urban neighborhoods, locally oriented public institutions need to be recognized as fulfilling a variety of unintended functions for the surrounding community. (Contains 22 endnotes.) [The introduction to "More than a Library?: Urban Poverty and an Exploratory Look at the Role of a Neighborhood Institution" was written by Waverly Duck.]
Stories of Struggle and Hope: Lived Experiences of Puerto Ricans in Chicago Schools
Author: Davila, Erica
Date: 2010-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: High Schools,Nontraditional Education,Vocational Education,College Preparation,General Education,Magnet Schools,Educational Practices,Biographies,Educational Experience,Puerto Ricans,Hispanic American Students,Urban Schools,Interviews,High School Students,Student Experience,Immigrants,Cultural Influences,Acculturation,Student Diversity

This qualitative research project highlights the experience of ten Latina/o students in the Chicago Public Schools (CPS). The youth interviewed attended a range of types of high schools; including schools categorized as general education high schools, college preparatory schools, magnet schools and one alternative school. The author conducted life history interviews with ten individuals who identify as Puerto Rican and experienced part or all of their high school years in CPS. The methodology of life history served to provide deeper understanding and analysis of the educational experiences surrounding peers, teachers, counselors and family. This article will provide a brief overview of historical educational practices and policies impacting Puerto Rican children that will help frame the experiences of the youth interviewed. The stories highlighted in this article focus on the youth's experiences while in high school. However, the method of life history provided many rich stories about their lived experiences outside of school which are as important in analyzing their stories of this critical time in the lives of many youth. Their stories were analyzed for a larger study (Davila, 2005) and several themes emerged in that study. In this article the themes of student agency and resistance theory are highlighted. (Contains 2 tables and 7 endnotes.)
On Joyous Teaching...
Author: Belcher, Catherine L.
Date: 2010-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Social Justice,Teacher Education Programs,Teacher Educators,Personal Narratives,Teaching (Occupation),Job Satisfaction,Cultural Pluralism

In this article, the author shares her personal reflections on praxis and social justice through her work in a teacher education program in Los Angeles. She also shares her thoughts of why she became a teacher, why she became an education professor, and of those who inspired her to work in education. She describes the joy in educational work and stresses that teacher educators must advocate for space and time to allow teacher growth to happen.
"Supreme Efforts of Care and Honest Utterance": Grasping the Singular Power of the Spoken Word in School Spaces
Author: Wissman, Kelly
Date: 2010-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Poetry,Public Schools,Writing Assignments,Rural Schools,Urban Schools,Suburban Schools,Literacy Education,Photography,Films,Educational Technology,Teaching Methods,Inquiry,Adolescents,Computer Uses in Education

In this article, the author investigates the teaching and writing of poetry within public school spaces, illuminating how the work of poetry in an Academic Interventions classroom stirs new visions of who the students and the teacher can be. The study involves five teachers from a range of rural, urban, and suburban districts. These teachers developed data collection tools to learn from their students about their literacies; analyzed this data; developed curricula and projects to build on their students out-of-school literacies and lives; and utilized digital cameras, digital video, and movie-making software purchased with money from a research grant to engage their students in multimodal learning. Here, the author explores the experiences of just one member of the inquiry group.
The Tactics of Hope
Author: Cytrynbaum, Pamela
Date: 2010-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Poetry,Career Academies,Urban Schools,Writing Instruction,Writing Assignments,Social Justice,Teacher Competencies,High School Students,At Risk Students,Teacher Influence,Teacher Student Relationship

In this article, the author provides an intimate glimpse into the writing work that Joe Cytrynbaum did with students from Manley Career Academy High School in Chicago. The author's discussion of Joe's &quot;tactics of hope&quot; is layered and brought to life by Joe's poetry and the poetry of his students. The author presents Joe's poems and the insights of Joe's wife into these poems, revealing how the poems were indeed graphs of Joe's mind working.