Issue 1, 2016
Teachership Academy
TA Journal
Teachership Academy
El Paso Community College
Northwest Campus
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focusing on Teaching and Learning and providing them the opportunity to
implement what they have learned through an Action Research Project
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Table of Contents
Bomback, Kathleen
Effect of Podcasting on Student Self-Editing Skills
Camacho, Gabriel R.
The Logical Way to Teach Introduction to Philosophy 15
Camarillo, Melinda R.
Integrating Mathematics into Introductory Biology
24
Chavira, Rogelio
Correcting ESL Writing Errors
34
Conklin, Michelle
Bring History Alive
43
Diaz, Delia
Metacognition and the ESL Student: Grammar Errors
Frost, Judy F. H.
Enhanced. Read, Think and Share assignment for a
Brick and Mortar class
54
Learning Outcomes Utilizing both Individual vs.
Collaborative Activity Based Assignments
63
An Experiment Investigation of Thinking Modes
in Remedial Mathematics
72
Small Group Mentoring: A Method for Improving
Outcomes in Foundations of Nursing Practice
80
Guided Inquiry in the Scientific Method: A Revision
of Laboratory Activities– Classroom
A Study of Termites
90
Hernando, Audrey M.
Kalantarian, Enayat
Lopez, Jose Luis
Pacheco Lucero, Jose
6
Pope De La Torre, Helen
Effectiveness of Animal Models vs. Animal Dissections 100
Rhoden, Ronda J.
Reaching the Kinesthetic Learner
Rinker, Martha B.
Emporium Classroom vs. Traditional
108
118
Bomback, Kathleen
Short Biography of TA faculty member
Effect of Podcasting on Student Self-Editing Skills
Acknowledgments
Teachership Academy Administrative Liaison
Dr. Lydia Tena
Teachership Steering Committee
Oscar Baeza
Pat Duran
Mary Ervin
Dr. Rebecca Escamilla
Alvino Hernandez
Rudy Hernandez
Dr. Audrey Hernando
Paul Hotchkin
Ivan Iniguez
Dr. Jose Pacheco-Lucero
Dr. Hilda Taylor
Eddie Urquidi
Dr. Miguel Vasquez
Tracy VonMaluski
Dr. Barbara Yancy-Tooks
Special Thank You to El Paso Community College President Dr. William
Serrata and Vice President of Instruction Steven Smith.
For more information about the Teachership Academy at El Paso Community College,
please visit us at www.epcc.edu/teachershipacademy.