Search results for: Yerrick Randy

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Collected from the Cutting Room Floor: An Examination of Teacher Education Approaches to Digital Video Editing as a Tool for Shifting Classroom Practices
Authors: Yerrick Randy, Thompson M., McLaughlin S., MacDonald S.
The purpose of this article was to examine four approaches to teachers’ strategies through digital video emphasized teachers’ own planning and teaching as they edited their video accounts of personal growth. Common themes that emerged from data across all four projects were predicated upon facets of professional development as purposeful disruption of traditional teaching, the promotion of rigorous participation in analysis of effective teaching strategies, and the building of learning communities through apprenticeship models of personal growth.
Published: 2011
Updated: Jan. 27, 2013
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Meeting the Needs of Middle Grade Science Learners Through Pedagogical and Technological Intervention
Authors: Yerrick Randy, Johnson Joseph
The goal of this study was to examine the effects of inserting laptops and science technology tools in middle school environments. Working together with a local university, middle school science teachers wrote and aligned curricula, explored relevant science education literature, and prepared evaluation measures for their year-long implementation of laptops, probeware, and other scientific hardware and software. The findings revealed differences in student achievement, responses to pedagogy, and effectiveness of tools implemented by teachers over the course of the year.
Published: 2009
Updated: Jun. 13, 2010