Learning Moo-re About the Dairy: Publishing a Middle Level Place-Based Informational Text

This manuscript describes the creation of an middle level informational text about the local university dairy. The place-based assignment introduced the elementary education teacher candidates to the everyday workings of the university dairy. The preservice teachers engaged in the writing process throughout the creation of the informational text

Improving the Impact of Extension Through the Use of Anticipation Guides

In this article, we present the anticipation guide as a tool for preparing Extension audiences to learn the main points of Extension materials. Anticipation guides improve learner comprehension by appealing to an individual\u27s natural curiosity and helping the individual focus on key ideas. Anticipation guides can be used with all types of Extension materials and across all Extension programs. We describe how to create anticipation guides for use with Extension materials and explain how to use them effectively and easily. We also provide examples of anticipation guides based on various Extension topics

How Economists Read Economic Texts

Using a “think aloud” framework previously applied to history, this research leads the investigation in how economists read economics text to improve students’ abilities to meet standards calling for reading, thinking, writing, and speaking like practitioners. Economic education has the reputation for being a difficult subject to teach and learn which is evidenced by disappointing individual and national economic literacy outcomes. This research finds precision, close reading, sourcing, and re-reading to be important practices of economists, and begins to fill the gap in the disciplinary literacy and economic education literatures providing direction for research and disciplinary literacy tools for educators

Fostering Graduate Education Majors’ Dispositions Toward Teaching Content Reading through a Transdisciplinary Approach

Few inquiries have investigated master\u27s students in education as they learn about transdisciplinarity (Richards, in press). Transdisciplinatiry is descriptive of collaborative research and problem solving that crosses both disciplinary boundaries and sectors of society (Repko, 2008, p. 15). This is a true story about how I introduced the concept of transdisciplinarity to a group of graduate education majors. The graduate education majors tutored at a summer literacy camp as part of their field experience requirements for a capstone literacy course

Fostering Graduate Education Majors’ Dispositions Toward Teaching Content Reading through a Transdisciplinary Approach

Few inquiries have investigated master\u27s students in education as they learn about transdisciplinarity (Richards, in press). Transdisciplinatiry is descriptive of collaborative research and problem solving that crosses both disciplinary boundaries and sectors of society (Repko, 2008, p. 15). This is a true story about how I introduced the concept of transdisciplinarity to a group of graduate education majors. The graduate education majors tutored at a summer literacy camp as part of their field experience requirements for a capstone literacy course