The Emerge for Future Teachers project provides University of West Florida students with high-impact educational practices through collaborative research in a partnership school. The goal is to immerse students in hands-on, meaningful learning activities like undergraduate research, capstone projects, study abroad, and community-based learning. These practices have been shown to increase student engagement and persistence, as well as foster greater appreciation for diversity. The current research project involves implementing Class Wide Peer Tutoring in reading to increase student engagement and guided practice in the partnership school. Students are gaining experience with all aspects of the research from design to implementation to dissemination through collaboration with faculty, teachers, and staff.

1. Emerge for Future Teachers:
Collaborative Research in a
Partnership School
Project Co-Investigators:
Keith W. Whinnery
Amanda Sellers
Destin DeMarco

2. Goal of Emerge:
O Provide UWF students with High-
Impact Practices (HIPs)
O Learning opportunities that immerse
students in activities
O Hands-on, meaningful learning
activities that engage the student
O Provide feedback & require reflection

3. Emerge Activities
O Study Abroad / Study Away
O Undergraduate Research
O Capstone Courses or Projects
O Collaborative Assignments or
Projects
O Diversity/ Global Learning
Experiences
O Community-Based Learning

4. Emerge Activities
O Study Abroad / Study Away
O Collaborative Assignments or
Projects
O Capstone Courses or Projects
O Undergraduate Research
O Diversity/ Global Learning
Experiences
O Community-Based Learning

5. Benefits of High-Impact
Practices
HIPs have been associated with:
O Greater persistence & higher GPA
O Higher rates of student- faculty interactions
O Greater experience with and appreciation
for diversity
O Greater appreciation of the learning experience

6. Research Project:
Class Wide Peer Tutoring in Reading

7. Class Wide Peer Tutoring
Evidence-based technique to
increase student engagement &
guided practice
O Class divided into 2 teams
O Pairs assigned on teams
O Pairs earn points for team
O “Repeated Readings” to work on fluency
O “Passage Summaries” to work on
comprehension

8. HIPs in Research
O IRB certification
O Research design selection
O Random assignment of classrooms
O Selection & administration of pre-tests
O Training of students
O Implementation of CWPT
O Post-testing
O Dissemination

9. Collaboration HIPs
Collaboration
on:
O Testing
O Training
O Problem-
solving
O Scheduling

10. Collaboration HIPs
Collaboration
w/:
O Faculty
O Teacher
O SoE Intern
O Staff

11. Community Engagement HIPs
O Working in a Partnership school
O Addressing an expressed need
O Learning inner-workings of school
O Making contacts with local
educators
O Developing insights for future
teaching careers

12. Reflections so far
O No injuries and No law suits…

13. Reflections