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Targeted Instruction for Struggling Readers: It Takes a Team
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Richburg-Burgess, Jacqueline – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Closing the achievement gap in reading for struggling students is a goal that most urban schools are striving to achieve in this era of No Child Left Behind. Early intervention remains the best approach for successfully supporting those who struggle in the primary grades, but instruction must be targeted or matched to the assessed needs of the…
Descriptors: Intervention, Urban Schools, Achievement Gap, Teaching Methods
A Qualitative Study of the Perceptions and Beliefs of Elementary Teachers' Value of and Responses to Their Professional Development
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McFarlan-Price, Regina A. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
A challenge that professional development coordinators and instructional leaders face is designing and implementing professional development that is the most effective for improving teaching and learning in their school. To determine what is the perceptions and beliefs of elementary teachers' value of and responses to their professional…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Teacher Attitudes, Faculty Development, Program Effectiveness
Literacy Block: Meeting the Needs of All Learners; A Summative Program Evaluation
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Pelletier, Nancy L. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This summative program evaluation study investigated the Response to Intervention (RTI) pilot literacy block program that was implemented in first and second grade classrooms in a small southeastern suburban school. All 111 students in the first and second grade were involved in this RTI model during the 2010-2011 school year including special…
Descriptors: Summative Evaluation, Program Evaluation, Response to Intervention, Literacy Education