Browsing Faculty of Education Graduate Projects by Title
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Educare Everywhere: Exploring Character Education
(2011-04-28)At times, today‘s society seems dominated by negativity, disasters and a perceived decrease in humanity. The problems have slowly spread into schools, with education in danger of becoming a process of churning out workers ... -
EFFECTIVE READ-ALOUD PRACTICES: DEVELOPING ELEMENTARY STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY KNOWLEDGE THROUGH EFFECTIVE CLASSROOM READ-ALOUD PRACTICES
(2012-05-28)The Ontario Ministry of Education (2003a, 2003b) mandates a daily teacher-led oral reading, known as a “read-aloud”. A read-aloud is an oral delivery of a written text that involves teacher modeled or facilitated reading ... -
ENHANCING TEACHING IN THE FSL CLASSROOM THROUGH CULTURAL AWARENESS: RESEARCH AND PRACTICAL APPLICATION
(2010-04-30)With the undeniable presence of multiculturalism in Canada and the rising globalization of the world, it becomes increasingly important to develop intercultural competence in the second language classroom. The objective ... -
Experiencing Shakespeare through performance: A handbook for teachers
(2013-05-23)When I was a teenager in high school I hated William Shakespeare. Not only did I hate him I resented him and dreaded having to sit in an English class and struggle with trying to find meaning in the heightened language ... -
Explicit Vocabulary Instruction For Kindergarten Students
(2013-03-14)Learning to read begins at home as children hear their families talk and interact with one another (Hart & Risely, 1995). By age three children living in advantaged homes hear three times as many words as children living ... -
Film: an Art Form Worthy of Study
(2012-01-24)Film is an integral part of the everyday cultural experience of millions of Canadians (Ewoudou, 2005). Though we have enjoyed film as a society for close to a century, we have been reluctant to regard it as art. The ... -
FOREIGN STUDENTS IN CANADA: THE IMMIGRATION EXPERIENCE FROM START TO FINISH
(2010-09-24)The purpose of this project is to reveal the practical issues that arose for foreign students in Canada as they attempted to maintain their immigration documents in compliance with prescribed procedures, and to fully access ... -
FOSTERING TRANSFORMATIVE LEARNING FOR GRADE 3 STUDENTS PREPARING FOR EQAO EXAMINATIONS
(2013-08-07)All Grade 3 students in Ontario are required to write standardized examinations in June that test their abilities in both language and mathematics. Test results from the 2011- 2012 academic year of testing by the Educational ... -
FOUR WOMEN’S PERCEPTIONS OF LIVING A LIFETIME WITH ADHD
(2011-04-27)This project is written as a reflection of how ‘we’ think, ‘we’ being adults with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Although the project follows conventional methodology in terms of data collection and ... -
FOUR WOMEN’S PERCEPTIONS OF LIVING A LIFETIME WITH ADHD
This project is written as a reflection of how ‘we’ think, ‘we’ being adults with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Although the project follows conventional methodology in terms of data collection and ... -
From Content to Concept: Thinking Historically in the Elementary Classroom
(2016-09-30)In a little more than a century Canadian history and social studies education has faced a barrage of questions that has complicated its delivery in schools. Questions about the purpose of social studies, whose history ... -
GRADE 3 AND GRADE 6 MATHEMATICS: A COMPARISON OF ONTARIO’S 2005 CURRICULUM POLICY DOCUMENT, CURRICULUM SUPPORT MATERIALS, AND LARGE-SCALE ASSESSMENT TO COMPARABLE ELEMENTS IN FLORIDA
(2010-04-29)A high-quality, challenging, and accessible mathematics education provides students in elementary or middle school with a foundation for future understanding of mathematics (NCTM, 2007). As such, influential curriculum ... -
IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE STUDENTS’ CHALLENGES AND TEACHERS’ PEDAGOGICAL STRATEGIES
(2010-01-05)As Canada’s newcomer student population continues to rise and 42% of total new immigrants settle in Ontario (Canwest News Service, 2009), it becomes increasingly important to ensure that these students are adapting well ... -
Insights Into the Lived Experiences of Three Male Elementary School Teachers
(2011-08-24)The purpose of the present study was to understand the lived experiences of three male elementary teachers working at the Kindergarten to Grade 4 level in a single school district in northwestern Alberta. The study ... -
Interactive Whiteboard Technology: Perspectives and Attitudes of FSL Teachers.
(2010-10-19)Advancements in the use of technology in education are changing the way students learn and inevitably change the way teachers teach. This project explores French as a Second Language (FSL) teachers’ perceptions and attitudes ... -
Meeting the Needs of Adult Learners in a Faculty of Education Careers Curriculum
(2016-04-29)Adult learners are a discrete population with specific needs and characteristics. The context of this project is a Career Services office in a Faculty of Education at a Local University [pseudonym]. The office serves a ... -
Meeting the Needs of Adult Learners in a Faculty of Education Careers Curriculum
(2016-04-27)Adult learners are a discrete population with specific needs and characteristics. The context of this project is a Career Services office in a Faculty of Education at a Local University [pseudonym]. The office serves a ... -
My Deaf Autistic Son and Me
(2009-05-12)This Self Study, submitted in conformity with the requirements for the degree of Master of Education, is in the form of a series of vignettes and describes the challenges I experienced as the mother of a deaf autistic ... -
Not Just Reading and Writing: Exploring Literacy in Ontario's Secondary Schools
(2010-05-25)In 2002, Ontario became the first province in Canada to require the successful completion of a high-stakes large-scale literacy test as a requirement for graduation: the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test (OSSLT). ... -
ofChorus: Positioning a Co-Curricular Choir within a Faculty of Education
(2016-04-27)ofChorus was a co-curricular choir established in September 2014, at the Queen's University Faculty of Education in which anyone at the Faculty could participate. In order to ensure the opportunity to participate was made ...