Social Studies Literacy

The field of education is constantly evolving. It is the role of professionals in education to provide students with the best opportunity to be successful learners. One major element of modern American Education, literacy instruction in the content areas, has become a key point in the discussion of how to best educate students. For the better part of one hundred years, the notion that every teacher is a teacher of literacy has been considered best practice. Within the last thirty years, alternative methodologies for literacy instruction within the content areas have become more prevalent as the literacy scores of American students steadily decline. Thus, begging the question, is the “every teacher” model best practice, and do other literacy methodologies provide an opportunity for student content literacy growth? The purpose of this research study is to evaluate one such alternative research methodology, disciplinary literacy in a comparative study against the “every teacher” methodology to analyze which method provides larger growth for student’s Social Studies literacy in my local school district. Content area literacy is especially important in the field of social studies because of the skills the content teaches students and how those skills will assist students in their understanding of the modern world

Improving The Planning Quality Through Model-Based Factory Planning In BIM

In recent years, Building Information Modelling (BIM), which originated in the construction industry, is increasingly finding its way into the planning of factories and production environments. In the scientific assessment of this change and possible future scenarios regarding BIM, the research mostly focuses on the planning process and the influence that the use of BIM has on it. However, improving the outcome of a factory planning project enjoys priority over optimizing the planning process itself regardless of whether BIM is being used or not. This paper therefore aims to build a bridge from a process-side view to the planning result. The concept of BIM is to be explained from a technical point of view establishing a reference to the concept of synergetic factory planning. For this purpose, the process view and the spatial view will be examined and the BIM model will be characterized with regard to different levels of development in the planning process. The goal is to show how the use of BIM in factory planning can ultimately improve the planning result. For this purpose, the factory targets are considered and their optimizability through the use of BIM is investigated