August 28, 2019
Networks edition offers ideas for taking educational risks in the classroom
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Suzanne Porath, assistant professor of curriculum and instruction, served as editor of the Summer 2019 Issue of Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research. Her editorial introduction is titled "Taking Risks with New Forms of Instruction."
Networks is hosted through New Prairie Press and is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal for educator action research.
The articles in this edition:
- "Bringing Math to Life: Provide Students Opportunities to Connect their Lives to Math."
- "When Words Do Not Work: Exploring Preservice teachers’ Confidence in Teaching Reading to English Learners."
- "The Impact of a Short Test-Wiseness Intervention on Standardized Numeracy assessment scores: A Cautionary Tale about Using NAPLAN Growth Data to Evaluate Primary Schools."
- "I Notice My Feelings: Exploring Mindfulness with 1st Graders and their Families."
- "The Impact of Math Vocabulary on Conceptual Understanding for ELLs."
- "Developing Instructional Skills: Perspectives of Feedback in Student Teaching."
- "It Does Not Need to be Perfect! Two Teacher Educators' Quest to Enhance Online Instruction with Videos."