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Diane Newby:
Researching integrated
K-8 teaching
Teacher Education
Diane Newby, professor of education, has
been researching ways to help K-8 science
and social studies teachers actively engage
students by integrating their disciplines
with language arts.
Research Goals
• Show
teachers how to integrate science
and social studies with language arts
• Increase
teachers’ confidence when they are teaching
science
• Increase
students’ academic performance
• Address
student diversity
Significance
“Quite a bit of my research has focused on
the professional development of classroom
teachers, with outcomes of raising academic
achievement and helping teachers to align
their units and lessons with the standards
and benchmarks in the Michigan Curriculum
Framework.”
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