The effect of lower case letter forms on beginning reading and writing: An action research

This paper reviews the literature on letter naming and conducts an action research to determine the value of focusing instruction on lower case letters for kindergarten students. The traditional practice of teaching letter names to kindergarten students involved teaching both letter forms, upper and lower case, concurrently or upper case first. The following questions are addressed: I. What letters can children identify, by name, at the beginning of kindergarten? 2. Will the recognition of lower case letters transfer to upper case letters naturally or is specific instruction required? 3. Which lower case letters are the easiest to learn, and which lower case letters are the hardest to learn? 4. Do students experience more (or less) difficulty in writing lower case letters? A morning kindergarten class participated in the study. Students were given a pretest on their letter naming knowledge and for a ten week period students focused on lower case letter recognition. The classroom environment was designed to make lower case letters more readily accessible and visible to students. A post test was given at the end of the study and the results were compared with the pretest

A comparison study on collaboration between regular and special education teachers

The purpose of this study was to examine the collaboration between regular and special education teachers in a South New Jersey School District. A secondary purpose of the study was to evaluate the current inclusion program in the district where an inclusion program was implemented approximately 5 years ago. A survey was distributed to approximately 50 teachers in this particular district. Thirty-two of the fifty teachers participating in an inclusion program completed the survey with 26 questions. Four categories were analyzed: Training/Preparation, Role of the Special Education Teacher, Role of the Regular Education Teacher and Improvements. The results indicated that the participants have a clear understanding of both the role of the regular and special education teacher. However, as noted by many teachers in the section of Training/Preparation 56% of respondents agreed that teachers would benefit from training in order to provide appropriate instructional strategies to teach diverse students in an inclusion program. Sixty-three percent of the respondents strongly agreed that the role of the special education teacher should include modifying the same lessons the regular education teacher presents to the class to meet the needs of the classified student. Overall, the participants appear to give many comments on inclusion such as more planning time, training and selection of students to improve the existing inclusion program

CD 651 Professional Foundations of Christian Education

REQUIRED TEXTS A History of Christian Education by Reed and Prevost The Big Little School by Robert Lynn Augustine and the Catechumenate by William Harmless SOURCEBOOK of the Christian Faith by Robert Lay RECOMMENDED TEXT Models of Religious Education: Theory and Practice in Historical and Contemporary Perspective by Harold Burgesshttps://place.asburyseminary.edu/syllabi/2287/thumbnail.jp

CD 511 The Pastor and Christian Discipleship

REQUIRED TEXTS Basics of Christian Education by Karen B. Tye The Younger Evangelicals by Robert Webber John Wesley’s Class Meeting: A model for making disciples by Michael Henderson Making All Things New: An Invitation to the Spiritual Life by Henri Nouwen The Big Little School: Two Hundred Years of The Sunday School by Robert W. Lynn and Elliott Wright Growing in the Life of Faith: Education and Christian Practices by Craig Dykstra *On Reserve - Leading the Congregation: Caring for Yourself While Serving the People by Norman Shawchuck and Roger Heuser Christian Religious Education: Sharing Our Story and Vision by Thomas Groomehttps://place.asburyseminary.edu/syllabi/1939/thumbnail.jp

CD 560 The Ministry of Teaching

Barbara Bruce, Our Spiritual Brain. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2002. ISBN: 0-687-09266-3 Marlene D. LeFever, Learning Styles: Reaching Everyone God Gave You to Teach. Colorado Springs: Cook Communications Ministries, 1995. ISBN: 0-7814-5117-5 Dorothy Mackeracher, Making Sense of Adult Learning, 2nd Edition, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004. ISBN: 0-8020-3778-X Mary Elizabeth Moore, Teaching as a Sacramental Act. Cleveland: The Pilgrim Press, 2004. ISBN: 0-8298-1647-X Parker Palmer, The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher’s Life. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1998. ISBN: 0-7879-1058-9 Robert Pazmino, Basics of Teaching for Christians. Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1998. ISBN: 0-8010-2173-1 Susan Shaw, Storytelling in Religious Education. Birmingham: Religious Education Press, 1999. ISBN: 0-89135-111-6https://place.asburyseminary.edu/syllabi/3623/thumbnail.jp

CD 663 Older Adult Ministry

REQUIRED TEXTS Aging: God’s challenge to church and synagogue by Richard H. Gentzler, Jr., and Donald F. Clingan 121 pages Senior Adult Ministry in the 21st century: Step-by-Step Strategies for Reaching People Over Fifty by David P. Gallagher 136 pages Aging: The fulfillment of Life by Henri J. M. Nouwen and Walter Gaffney 157 pages Growing Old in Christ edited by Stanley Hauerwas, Carole Bailey Stoneking, Keith G. Meador and David Cloutier. 301 pageshttps://place.asburyseminary.edu/syllabi/3769/thumbnail.jp

CD 552 Adult Education Seminar

Designing an Older Adult Ministry by Richard H. Gentzler, Jr. (Discipleship Resources, 1999) The Graying of the Church: A Leader’s Guide to Older Adult Ministry in The United Methodist Church by Richard H. Gentzler, Jr. (Discipleship Resources, 2004) Building a Ministry for Homebound and Nursing Home Residents by Marie White Webb (Discipleship Resources, 2003) Winter Grace: Spirituality and Aging by Kathleen Fischer (Upper Room Books, 1998)https://place.asburyseminary.edu/syllabi/1262/thumbnail.jp

CD 651 Professional Foundations of Christian Education

1. Models of Religious Education: Theory and Practice in Historical and Contemporary Perspective by Harold Burgesshttps://place.asburyseminary.edu/syllabi/2233/thumbnail.jp

CD 651 Professional Foundations of Christian Education

Required Reading A History of Christian Education by James E. Reed and Ronnie Prevost. Sourcebook of the Christian Faith: Primary source readings from the history of Christian education(latest edition), edited by Robert F. Lay, Taylor Universtiy, 2004. (This text can only be purchased at the ATS Cokesbury bookstore.) Augustine and the Catechumenate by William Harmless The Big Little School: Two Hundred Years of the Sunday School, by Robert W. Lynn and Elliott Wright Religious Education in the African American Tradition: A Comprehensive Introduction by Kenneth H. Hillhttps://place.asburyseminary.edu/syllabi/3766/thumbnail.jp