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The Impact of Nature-Based Sensory Experiences on Outdoor Behavior
(2022)Current literature provides ample evidence to support that contact with nature can have a multitude of positive effects on people’s well-being including the learning and development of young children. Furthermore, variations ... -
Impact of remnant versus pictographic communication books on communicative interactions for an individual with aphasia
(2014-05-30)Aphasia is a loss of receptive and/or expressive language acquired most often from stroke, but can also be acquired by head trauma, tumors, degenerative diseases or removal of brain tissue. Individuals with severe aphasia ... -
Impact of Social Emotional Learning in an Urban Public Montessori School
(2022)The purpose of this study is to discover the impact a social-emotional learning program may have on an Upper Elementary Montessori Classroom. The study was motivated by the researcher’s experience of seeing the effects ... -
The Impact of Songs and Gestures on Bilingual Leaning in a Montessori Classroom
(2021-06-03)Previous studies have examined the effects of different forms of sensory input on young learners’ cognition. This study is based on theoretical models of coding, information processing theory, and depth of processing theory. ... -
Impact of student-centered strategies on vocabulary learning in a foreign language classroom
(2013-05-15)The traditional middle school foreign language classroom typically has the teacher imparting the knowledge and vocabulary of the unit to the class. The students are unmotivated to take ownership of their learning with this ... -
The Impact of Tutoring Younger Students on Third Graders' Reading Skills and Perceptions of Themselves as Readers
(2016-06-04)Schools are constantly being pushed to cut budgets and yet have all students be proficient in academic skills. Cross-age tutoring could be a solution because it provides one-on-one interventions that can focus on specific ... -
Impacts of technology on summative and self-assessment: does more technology in a secondary math classroom increase students' test scores?
(2014-01-22)This study examines the effects on students when the instructor is introducing technology in the math classroom, by taking advantage of a favorable opportunity to study two populations with highly contrasted levels of ... -
The Implementation of a Silence Area into the Environment and How it Impacts the Social-Emotional Behavior of the Students
(2017-11-14)Modern children are plagued with struggles that were unheard of decades ago. Due to busy lifestyles and limitless use of technology, the social-‐emotional and physical well-‐being of children ... -
The Implementation of an Early Childhood Montessori Peace Curriculum to Mitigate Traumatic Events
(2021-06-09)This purpose of this action research project was created to study the effects of a peace curriculum and how it can help mitigate a pandemic or a traumatic societal event. The study took place in a public Montessori School ... -
Implementation of Experiential Learning in 4-H Educational Travel Opportunities: A Delphi Study
(2021)Experiential learning has become an integral part of 4-H nationwide. All 4-H programming is done with the experiential learning model in mind. A unique educational experience that 4-H offers are the educational travel ... -
The Implementation of Practical Life Works Targeting School-Specific Skills
(2022)The purpose of this action research project was to study the implementation of practical life skills targeting school-specific skills. This study took place in a Children’s House classroom at a public Montessori school ... -
Implementing a Social Emotional Learning Unit Amid a Pandemic
(2021-06-15)The purpose of this action research is to implement a six-week Social Emotional Learning (SEL) unit amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The unit was delivered to 26 students, who are in first, second and third grade, also known ... -
Implementing co-teaching in middle school with focus on reluctant readers following the American Psychological Association's guidelines
(2013-12-15)study focused on the effect co-teaching had on the reluctant reader, special education students, and the pursuit of enhancing reading skills in middle school aged children. One theory is the use of cooperative teaching ... -
Implementing inquiry based learning into a high school science classroom
(2013-05-06)In an inquiry based classroom students are challenged to create knowledge and develop models to understand the world around them. They are asked to engage in the same activities that mathematicians, engineers, and scientists ... -
Implementing Peer Coaching: A Self-Study as a Reading Speciliast and the Motivation and Satisfaction of Elementary Teachers
(2016-01-19)Peer coaching has become a popular initiative in the area of teacher-directed professional development. The purpose of this action research was to provide teachers with opportunities for collaboration, professional ... -
Implementing Reader's Theatre as an Intervention to Improve Prosody
(2015-06-11)The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of Reader?s Theatre as a Title I classroom intervention for fourth and fifth graders to improve prosody, and ultimately fluency,as measured by AIMSweb benchmark ... -
Importance of handwriting: how Montessori didactic materials support handwriting
(2015-05-18)In this high-tech age, handwriting in modern society is at a decline; this is true in education as well. The Common Core ignores the importance of handwriting; Montessori curriculum highlights the importance of writing ... -
Importance of Studying Poetry in Lower Elementary Classroom
(2022)This project explores the importance of teaching and studying poetry in a lower elementary Montessori classroom. The purpose of the project is to examine students’ interest and involvement in reading, writing and memorizing ... -
The Importance of Writing Before Reading; How Montessori Materials and Curriculum Support This Learning Process
(2015-12-21)This action research examines the benefits of writing before reading and documents how the Montessori materials and method support students to use writing as a foundation for learning to read. During a six month period, I ... -
Improving Math Fact Fluency using Online Resources in a Virtual Upper Elementary Montessori Classroom
(2021-06-14)Math fact fluency is a problem across the United States and it affects the success of many students. Math anxiety is a very real experience and considerations are to be made for this while also seeking to help students ...