Master of Education: Secondary Education Final Projects
Description: Course-based M.Ed. students in the Department of Secondary Education are required to complete a final inquiry project at the end of their Master's programs. M.Ed. projects are governed by three underlying principles: 1) the exploration of an inquiry question of academic and professional interest. 2) the creation of knowledge as a result of the inquiry. 3) the dissemination of knowledge to the appropriate audiences. Departmental contacts are the Graduate Coordinator and/or the Graduate Programs Administrator.
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In what ways do the elements of the Caribbean curriculum encourage/ support the teaching of higher order thinking in mathematics?
Download2021-04-17
Mathematics teachers have been widely criticized for not teaching their students to think critically. The purpose of this paper is to determine the cognitive level of thinking in the curriculum based on the Anderson and Krathwohl Taxonomy. The Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC)...
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2021-04-07
How does interleaving the mathematics curriculum while promoting productive struggle, improve student understanding in and between mathematical concepts? To clarify, I mean to say that ‘understanding’ is more about knowing ‘why’ and knowing ‘when’ to apply specific concepts and strategies, and...
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EXPLORATION MOBILE ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING(MALL) APPLICATION, DUOLINGO AS A TOOL TO IMPROVE LANGUAGE LEARNERS COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE.
EXPLORATION MOBILE ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING(MALL) APPLICATION, DUOLINGO AS A TOOL TO IMPROVE LANGUAGE LEARNERS COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE.
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This paper explores Mobile Assisted Language Learning Application(MALL), Duolingo as a tool to improve or develop the communicative competence of language learners in a traditional classroom environment.
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The Foundational Knowledge of Arriving Here Together
2021-04-13
In 2018, Alberta Education released its Teacher Quality Standards with a competency directly related to ensuring Alberta Teachers develop and apply foundational knowledge of First Nations, Métis and Inuit for the benefit of all students (p. 6). The competency may seem to be a step in the right...
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2021-04-01
A large portion of mathematics education research focuses on elementary and middle year’s content with professional development about how to teach mathematics often focused using specific tasks to teach certain topics. This kind of professional development makes it difficult for teachers to...
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2021-04-17
The expansion of English develops it into an international language and evolves many varieties of English consequently, categorized into three concentric circles including inner, outer, expanding circle (Kachru, 1988). Culture as an essential composition of language learning, can be demonstrated...
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Rethinking Classrooms & Envisioning a Future That is Female: A Feminist Analysis of Gender Inequalities in Education and Possibilities for Progress
Rethinking Classrooms & Envisioning a Future That is Female: A Feminist Analysis of Gender Inequalities in Education and Possibilities for Progress
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In our current society, women are continually bombarded with inequalities, oppression, and hardships based solely on their gender. In school, girls are also afflicted with sexism which negatively affects their educational opportunities. As an intersectional feminist and teacher, I have great...
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Journey with Indigenous Knowledge and Science Education
2020-04-01
Exploring ways of coming to know, are demonstrated through a Wholistic exploratory analysis of literature of ways of Indigenous knowledge can be brought into students learning through curricula, pedagogy and also through activities in the classroom. This analysis it supports understandings that...
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To what end? An analysis into the relationship between neoliberalism and desire in education
Download2020-04-04
Twentieth century post-structuralists Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari provide a lens by which desire and its role in education can be analyzed. This analysis is done in the hope of understanding some of the ways by which our desires are manufactured, singularized, and then leveraged in the name...
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Communicating Mild Intellectual Disability
2020-01-01
A key assumption with respect to Intellectual Disability (ID) and special needs education is that principals understand the programming and criteria for specialized school sites that focus on employability education for the mild intellectually disabled. A flaw with this assumption is evident due...