Professor at the Graduate School of Education UCR Roll Anda O'Connor | Courtesy of the UCR News Professor at the Graduate School of Ed...
Professor at the Graduate School of Education UCR Roll Anda O'Connor | Courtesy of the UCR News
Professor at the Graduate School of Education UCR Roll Anda O'Connor received a grant of $ 1.4 million from the Ministry of Science Institute of Education Education of the United States to finance its ongoing research, like reading, writing and language development in middle school children improve with learning disabilities.
The three - year project that O'Connor is working on titled "Vocabulary CHAAOS: create habits that academic language accelerate students", aims to help students to acquire and understanding of academic language. The project will support teachers as they teach important scientific concepts in special education students in grades six to eight school districts in Southern California and North Carolina.
Principals and teachers in these districts have volunteered pilot this method of training of students of secondary help with reading difficulties. "They agreed to work for two people with the team of UCR three years in addition to this possible and to make effective strategies," said O'Connor.
O'Connor believes that children, who often have to receive special training to help with vocabulary development because they read than their conventional counterparts is not so much. The project aims to teachers, to reduce this gap before it interferes in other subjects to learn. O'Connor plans, sets launch process to align words and concepts to students with the definitions youth, shown in pairs and work in contexts a series of 12-weeks - cycles and by then this method teaching teachers.
"In the last 25 years I have young children helped with the beginning skills that can only facilitate learn to read, and in the last 5 years, I have been working with young people to improve their ability, long to read complex words to understand what it means and the use of strategies to improve their reading comprehension, "O'Connor said, pulling on his experiences of education.
The work on this project continues - on the previous building, O'Connor interventions for the materials of the general cultural project designed reading (bridges), created the courses for teachers, which has been shown to improve performance in students with poor reading skills. She hopes that their current projects routines allow the instruction for pupils with reading difficulties to teachers across the country.
O'Connor received his doctorate in education at the University of Washington in 1992. He has taught in the public schools for 16 years for students with disabilities in reading and is currently the President of the Management Eady and Hendrick difficulties the school the formation of the UCR learn.
