Beyond Standards: Reimagining Our Literate Roots

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Tue, 05/29/2012 - 09:00 - 17:50

Re-imagining Literacy for the 21st Century: Methods for Integrating Multimodal Texts in Language Arts Instruction

Crystal Little and Kathy Garland

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EDFS 5211 Classroom Research (2012)

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Spring
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2012


The purpose of this course is to prepare reflective educators who are capable of examining thoroughly their students or their own specific teaching practice. Through the action-research methods that are described by Dana and Yendol-Hoppey (2009) and Caro-Bruce, et. al (2007), student teachers develop, conduct and present their own classroom research. Findings are presented at the Graduate Student Conference at the Macon Graduate Center. The attached Power Points represent sample projects.

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Shifting Concepts of Literacy: How Media Literacy can Serve as Transformative Pedagogy for Secondary Students and Pre-Service Teachers

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Third Annual Middle Georgia Student Diversity Conference: Beyond Checking the Box: Changes in Place, Space and Practice

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Mon, 03/05/2012 - 08:30 - 15:00

Third Annual Middle Georgia Diversity Conference

Beyond Checking the Box: Changes in Place, Space and Practice

 

March 5, 2012

High Museum, Atlanta, Georgia

 

The third annual Middle Georgia Diversity Conference will be hosted and sponsored by Georgia College & State University in collaboration with Fort Valley State University on Monday, March 5, 2012.

 

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EDFS 6225 - Sociocultural Issues in Education

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Summer
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2011

The following PREZI PRESENTATIONS represent student products that illustrate how students met (partially) the listed course objectives:

Banks (1997) Multicultural Education

Cortes (2000) Media Literacy Education

EDFS 5209-Culture and Schooling

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Fall
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2010
Group #2's visual representation of Banks' theory of ME

As a result of EDFS 5209, students were able to determine the most appropriate ways to acknowledge their students’ cultural backgrounds. Students read about multicultural education (Banks, 2007) culturally responsive teaching (Gay, 2010) and culturally relevant pedagogy (Ladson-Billings, 2009).  They presented methods to the class and created and executed sample lessons based on the methods. The attached materials demonstrate students' products.

Banks, J. (2007). An Introduction to multicultural education. Pearson: Boston.

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EDFS 5211 - Classroom Research

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Semester: 
Spring
Offered: 
2011

The purpose of this course is to prepare reflective educators who are capable of examining thoroughly their students or their own specific teaching practice. Through the action-research methods that are described by Dana and Yendol-Hoppey (2009) and Caro-Bruce, et. al (2007), student teachers develop, conduct and present their own classroom research. Findings are presented at the Graduate Student Conference at the Macon Graduate Center. The attached Power Points represent sample projects.

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research_andrews.ppt1.51 MB
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