Studies in Educational Issues

In this capstone, individual students and/or student teams will collaborate with the instructor and peers to identify and conduct an investigation or complete a creative project that focuses on a specific problem or issue in education. This seminar course will emphasize intensive reading, research, writing, and interaction in student-selected areas of study with opportunities for analysis and reflection. The course format may include class discussion, team work, student presentations and writing projects. The culminating activity will be an oral and/or written presentation or exhibition which demonstrates the student's work to the understanding or resolution of the issue or problem studied.

Performance Pyramid

The Performance Pyramid is a website that has been developed by Dr. Douglas Brooks, Professor of Education at Miami University and Director of Partners In Learning.

The Performance Pyramid is a web-based model for school district's continuous improvement on proficiency tests and systems implementation.

The Performance Pyramid offers fourteen critical intervention areas factored from statewide district continuous improvement intervention plans, Ohio Operating Standards, and research-based practice.

The base areas of the Performance Pyramid are systemic interventions that support learner performance interventions higher up in the Performance Pyramid.

For more information on Performance Pyramid

TESOL

The section of the Performance Pyramid webpage that I helped to develop was based on TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) since students who speak english as a second language are becoming more popular in our classrooms. Visit the following link to explore more about the page I helped to develop and to learn more about the organization TESOL.

Performance Pyramid - TESOL