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Math study skills workbook - 0 views

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    By Paul Nolting, published by Houghton Mifflin, 2008. Helps students to assess their math learning style, as well as building math study skills.
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    This book was mentioned in the "radical_ideas" group (Cohort 1) as well as a choice event.
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    Coach BM mentioned this book in the context of teaching study skills in conjunction with developmental math.
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The Tutoring and Learning Center at Sinclair Community College - 0 views

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    This student resource provides professional tutoring in the subject areas of English grammar and writing, reading text marking and note taking strategies, and basic math.
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SMARTHINKING - 1 views

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    Online tutoring and writing services.
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Elluminate (product website) - 0 views

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    Collaborative tool for instructors and students to interact in real time to add synchronous content to asynchronous distance learning.
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SoftChalk (product website) - 0 views

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    Authoring Tool to create e-learning exercises.
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No longer lost in translation: how Yu-Chung helps her students understand (and love) wo... - 0 views

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    This chapter from Dr. Yu-Chung Chang's ePortfolio describes her work helping her students at Pasadena City College overcome their math anxiety.
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Students at risk for academic failure: learning to learn classes - 0 views

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    By Claire E. Weinstein, published in Handbook of College Teaching: Theory and Applications, ed. by Keith W. Prichard, R. Mclaran Sawyer. Greenwood Press, 1994. This is an excerpt of Weinstein's article. Her basic premise is that developmental ed students often must learn how to learn. Full chapter can be purchased from this link. The book might be available in your college library, or via interlibrary loan.
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Code-switching in Chicano theater : power, identity and style in three plays ... - 0 views

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    by Carla Jonsson. Published Umeå : Institutionen för moderna språk, Umeå universitet, 2005. The idea of code-switching is often attributed to the writings of Chicana Cherrie Moraga.
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The very best of UB40 1980-2000 (downloadable sample tracks from Amazon) - 0 views

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    11th track, Higher Ground. Mentioned in Choice Events: Code Switching
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Freakonomics: a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything - 0 views

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    By Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, published by William Morrow, 2005.
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    Mentioned in Choice Event: Imitation (JE)
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Better : a surgeon's notes on performance - 0 views

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    By Atul Gawande. Published by Metropolitan, 2007. This book, written by a doctor, looks at how doctors try to match their best intentions with best performance.
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Learning styles: concepts and evidence - 0 views

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    By Harold Pasher, Mark McDaniel, Doug Rohrer, and Robert Bjork. Published in Psychological Science in the Public Interest, vol 9 (3), Dec 2008, pp. 105-119. The authors looked at scientific evidence related to learning-style assessments in education. They concluded that evidence did not bear out the use of such assessments, but also point out that many versions of learning styles have not been tested at all (and thus there is no evidence).
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Understanding the supplemental instruction (SI) model - 0 views

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    By David R. Arendale from New Directions for Teaching and Learning, vol 1994, issue 60, pp. 11-21. This is a widely-cited article that explains supplemental instruction.
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Program in narrative medicine - 0 views

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    Academic program within the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University. The basis for this program is to listen carefully to patients' stories and use the stories to help treat the patients. The program's founder, Dr. Rita Charon, combines her MD with a PhD in literature.
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Standard English, Black English, and bidialectalism : a controversy - 0 views

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    By Hanni U. Taylor. Published by Peter Lang, 1989, as part of American University Studies, series XIII, Linguistics, vol 9.
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Teaching standard English in urban classrooms - 0 views

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    From Forum Network of PBS and NPR. This forum features Rebecca Wheeler, Catherine Snow, Rachel Swords, and Ronald Ferguson discussing how to "build on students' existing knowledge of everyday English." (1 hr 16 mins).
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code-switching (definition) - 0 views

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    From Wikipedia, this is the term as it is used in linguistics.
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"My goldfish name is Scaley": there's nothing to correct / codeswitch to teach standard... - 0 views

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    By Rebecca Wheeler, published in Doubletake/Points of Entry, spring 2006. Looks at how to use the idea of "codeswitch" to differentiate between formal (standard) and informal English, rather than teaching students that their (informal) language is "wrong." With bibliography.
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The real ebonics debate : power, language, and the education of African-American children - 0 views

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    By Theresa Perry and Lisa D. Delpit. Beacon Press, 1998.
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Flipping the switch: code-switching from text speak to Standard English - 0 views

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    By Kristen Hawley Turner. English Journal, vol 98 (5), 2009, pp. 60-65. Rather than looking at African-American English (as many of our other code_switching resources do), Turner looks at how texting has affected students' writing and how teachers can employ code-switching to help.
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