EDTD 6491 - Advanced Instructional Management - Classroom and Instructional Management

Evidence-based Improvement Plan
Suggested steps

Evidence-based Improvement Plan Assignment Description

"Candidates will write an evidence-based improvement plan for how to improve their current classroom management. Plans must be based on learning theory, research, best practices for management, and student development. This paper allows candidates to improve their own personal model of instructional management based on the information you have learned in this course from readings, class discussions, and other outside sources related to instructional management. Critique your current instructional management. Then describe which theories, strategies, methods, principles, and techniques of this course you will implement to improve your current management. Discuss how your planned improvements will impact student learning."

At a minimum include the following components:

Critique of current management
Learning theories that undergird your management
Current research that informs your planned improvements
Planned improvements to your current management. Management topics to discuss could include:
- Preventive management
- Supportive management
- Problem-solving management
- Collecting and using data
- Individualization
- Student motivation
- Working with parents
Impact on student learning"

Break down the assignment into manageable steps. For example:

Select an aspect of classroom management you wish to improve in the grade/s that you teach. If you aren't full-time teaching yet, reflect on your student or sub-teaching experiences. For example:

General off-task behavior in your lower elementary class?
Highly disruptive behavior from a student with behavioral issues; and this offsets the rest of your middle school class?
Cell phones or smart devices distracting your senior high school class?

Critique your current instructional management. Are you applying any strategies to deal with this situation? Are these strategies currently having any positive impact? Works for some of your class, or works some of the time, but not all? Or not helpful at all?
Research the literature to find research-based, scholarly journal articles: Search:
- GALILEO - Searches all of the Libraries' databases at once.
- Individual or collections of Education databases - If you don't find enough useful results in GALILEO, try searching within an individual, or a collection of databases.
Skim read what you gathered. Select the articles that will be most useful to you, to help you address your classroom management issue.
Read your chosen articles more carefully. Take note of the strategies the author/s suggest.
Use the articles + the learning in your course to inform your Evidence Based Improvement Plan: Synthesize the research you read about in these articles Use these articles, in addition to the learning you have undertaken in this EDTD 6491 course.

Search GALILEO - the "broadest" library search

GALILEO searches across all of the Libraries' databases at once.
Enter a few keywords and/or "key phrases", or search by title or author > Search or hit Enter/Return

Find articles in databases - a "medium level" search

Top databases
Additional databases

Why search within an individual or a set of databases rather than GALILEO?

As GALILEO covers a wide range of disciplines, searching within an individual, or a small set of subject-specialty databases can be more on target and efficient. It is worth trying GALILEO first, and then run a similar search in a subject database/set of databases.

Did you know EBSCOhost databases can be searched together?
Enter one of the EBSCOhost databases below> Select 'Choose Databases' > Select desired databases > OK.

Education Database (Proquest)

ProQuest Education Journals gives users access to over 790 top educational publications, including more than 615 of the titles in full text.
Education Source
Education Source offers the largest and most complete collection of full-text education journals and encompasses an international array of English-language periodicals, monographs, yearbooks, and more to meet the needs of education students, professionals and policy makers. It covers all levels of education - from early childhood to higher education.
ERIC (at EBSCOhost)

A database covering all aspects of education and educational research.
Child Development and Adolescent Studies
Child Development & Adolescent Studies™ provides references to the current and historical literature related to growth and development of children through the age of 21. This database includes all of the issues of Child Development Abstracts & Bibliography from 1927 - 2001 previously published by the Society for Research in Child Development, plus new coverage on child rights and welfare issues. Book reviews and abstracts from hundreds of journals and a bibliography of thousands of technical reports, books, book chapters, theses and dissertations covering biomedical and social sciences worldwide are indexed in this database.
Professional Development Collection (education)
Professional Development Collection is a specialized collection of journal articles and pamphlets especially for professional educators that includes abstract and index coverage for 800 professional development titles and searchable full text for over 500 journals covering the most current topics in the field of education.

Did you know EBSCOhost databases can be searched together?
Enter one of the EBSCOhost databases below> Select 'Choose Databases' > Select desired databases > OK.

ERIC (at www.eric.ed.gov)
ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education, provides access to education literature to support the use of educational research and information to improve practice in learning, teaching, educational decision-making, and research. The ERIC website is available to the public for searching more than one million citations going back to 1966.
JSTOR

Provides electronic access to back issues (from the date of first publication) of selected, core journals, organized into the Arts and Sciences Collections I & II, the General Sciences Collection, the Ecology and Botany Collection, and the Business Collection.
Project Muse
Project Muse similar to JSTOR, is a full-text journal database for over 100 journals in the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, and gender studies.
PsycARTICLES

PsycARTICLES, from the American Psychological Association (APA), includes full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in general psychology and specialized basic, applied, clinical, and theoretical research in psychology.
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection includes articles from 410 full-text journal covering information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods.
PsycINFO
The American Psychological Association's (APA) resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, is the largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health. The database also includes information about the psychological aspects of related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, technology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law, and others.
Social Science Database (ProQuest)
ProQuest Social Science Journals is a definitive resource for those who need access to a variety of scientific journals. The database includes over 570 titles, with more than 340 available in full text. ProQuest Social Science Journals provides information on hundreds of topics,

Using search tactics and techniques - Example

The table below outlines search techniques to help you find more relevant results. Go to each tab to find out more about each one.

The examples given are for searching the following research question:

Discuss classroom management interventions for dealing with bullying in the elementary classroom

Firstly, brainstorm any synonyms: Think of additional synonyms or related keywords to include in your search. For example:

elementary - elementary, primary, K-5

Apply the following search techniques wherever applicable to find more relevant results.

Search Technique	Format	Example
Exact Phrase Searching	"key phrase"	"classroom management"
Boolean Operators	AND, OR, NOT	"classroom management" OR "behavior modification"
Parentheses	(keyword/phrase BOOLEAN OPERATOR keyword/phrase)	("classroom management" OR "behavior modification) AND bullying
Truncation Device	Typically an asterisk: * May vary according to database	"classroom management" OR "behavior modification) AND bully*
Wildcard	Typically a pound: # , or a question mark: ? Varies from database to database.	"classroom management" OR "behavio?r modification" AND bully*

Exact Phrase Search

What it does	The format	Example/s
Will retrieve results containing your "key phrase" in the order that you have inputted at least once in the record details or the item contents	"Key phrase"	"classroom management" will find the phrase 'classroom management' at least once; it won't separate the words.

Boolean Operators

What they do	The format	Example
Boolean operators are 'connectors'. They combine keywords or key phrases in order to narrow or expand your search. In a simple search, if you use no Boolean Operator, the default operator is typically AND.	AND OR NOT	"Classroom management" AND bullying AND elementary NOT "high school"

Parentheses

What they do	The format	Example/s
Parentheses direct the search engine to perform your search in a certain order. They are great for expanding your search by combining synonyms and then connecting groups of synonyms with a Boolean Operator.	Example: (keyword/phrase BOOLEAN OPERATOR keyword/phrase) BOOLEAN OPERATOR (keyword/phrase BOOLEAN OPERATOR keyword/phrase)	"classroom management" AND bullying AND (elementary OR primary) NOT "high school"

Truncation

What it does	The format	Example
Enter part of a keyword and place the truncation symbol at the end. The database will return results that include any ending of that partial word.	Typically an asterisk i.e. * May vary from database to database.	"classroom management" AND bully* AND (elementary OR primary) NOT "high school" *** bully* will retrieve bully and bullying

Wildcard

What it does	The format	Example
A wildcard will substitute a symbol for one letter of a word. Great for including spelling variations of a keyword in your search.	Typically a question mark: ? May vary according to the database. Consult the database's 'Help' or 'Search Tips' page to verify the wildcard symbol.	behavio?r will retrieve behavior, behaviour

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Classroom and Instructional Management: EDTD 6491 - Advanced Instructional Management

Evidence-based Improvement Plan Assignment Description

Search GALILEO - the "broadest" library search

Find articles in databases - a "medium level" search

Why search within an individual or a set of databases rather than GALILEO?

Using search tactics and techniques - Example

Search Technique

Format

Example

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