Surveying Teachers on Reading, Reforms, and Resources: Elementary Teachers Teach Literacy in Contexts of Mandated Curriculum and Educational Policies

• In Event: 29.090 - Roundtable Session 9
  In Roundtable Session: 29.090-10 - Problematizing Literacy Practices

Abstract

This study investigated elementary in-service teachers’ contexts for literacy teaching as influenced by educational policies and literacy curriculum, instruction, and assessment. This presentation will focus on the survey results of teachers within one large metropolitan school district as part of a larger multiple methods study. The findings of this survey illustrate how complexity in both instructional resources and educational policies shaped practices and decision-making of teachers at the local level of the classroom, impacting student achievement. This study is relevant to research in teacher education, literacy instruction and assessment, and educational policy.

Author

• Chad H. Waldron, The Pennsylvania State University - Erie, The Behrend College