Preservice teachers' perceptions of film in English language arts instruction

Sheryl Renee Long

Preservice@teachers' @?perceptions of film in English language@arts @?instruction (2010) pp. 1–169

While film has long been included in English language arts instruction, it has typically been relegated to the position of supplementary resource and considered a nontraditional text. The interest in expanding English language arts instruction to...

Editorial: Enhancing English Language Arts Education With Digital Video

Carl A. Young; Sheryl Long; Jamie Myers

Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 10, No. 1 (March 2010) pp. 7–19

In 1932, the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) officially recognized this new medium with the creation of its Committee of Photoplay Appreciation (Applebee, 1974). This committee made recommendations about film use in English classes...

An Educational Approach to Computationally Modeling Dynamical Systems

Leah Chodroff; Tim M. O'Neal; David A. Long; Sheryl Hemkin

Journal of Chemical Education Vol. 86, No. 9 (September 2009) pp. 1072–1076

Chemists have used computational science methodologies for a number of decades and their utility continues to be unabated. For this reason we developed an advanced lab in computational chemistry in which students gain understanding of general...

They Teach Us How to Teach Them: Teacher Preparation for the 21st Century

Carol Pope; Candy Beal; Sheryl Long; Lodge McCammon

Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 11, No. 4 (December 2011) pp. 324–349

This article describes an English language arts teacher preparation perspective that considers middle school students as part of the teacher educator team. Based on a recognized gap in the literature about students as powerful partners, the authors ...

Topics: English Language Arts, Teaching Methods, Collaboration, Curriculum, Literacy, Preservice Teacher Education, Middle School Education

The Voices of North Carolina Professional Development Initiative: A New Literacies Approach to Teaching Language Effectively in the Middle Grades

Carl Young; John Lee; Carol Pope; Candy Beal; Walt Wolfram; Jeff Reaser; Sheryl Long

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2008 (Mar 03, 2008) pp. 4672–4678

This paper describes a professional development initiative facilitated by university faculty aimed at providing middle grades teachers with an innovative new literacies approach to teaching language more effectively. Teachers were provided with...