Case Study Illustrating Family Systems Interventions in a School Setting to Address Anxiety and School Avoidance

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Matthew Carlson ◽  
Scott Browning ◽  
Lucy Goodman ◽  
Kristine Carlson
Keyword(s):  
Family Systems ◽  
School Setting ◽  
School Avoidance

PCS For Families: A Case Study in the Participatory Design of a Technology-Rich Elementary School Classroom

1998 ◽  
Vol 42 (8) ◽  
pp. 646-650 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faith McCreary ◽  
Ray Reaux ◽  
Roger Ehrich ◽  
Susan Hood ◽  
Keith Rowland
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Participatory Design ◽  
School Setting ◽  
Network Connectivity ◽  
Multiple Roles ◽  
System Support ◽  
Laboratory Facilities ◽  
Working Day ◽  
Workspace Design

Computers and network connectivity in the classroom raise new challenges in workspace design. Unlike corporate or dedicated laboratory facilities, a technology-rich classroom plays multiple roles throughout its working day. Classroom design demands flexible and robust construction, particularly when applied in an elementary school setting. Using the PCs for Families project as a case study, this paper discusses design issues of a technology-rich networked classroom from ergonomic design to system support.

Teaching playground behavioural expectations to secondary age students with intellectual disabilities attending a special school

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
David Simó-Pinatella ◽  
Marisa Carvalho
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Secondary Students ◽  
School Setting ◽  
Special School ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Students With Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Special Education School ◽  
Adults With Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Materials Used

Purpose School-wide positive behaviour support (SWPBS) is a proactive behavioural support system that fosters behaviour change in individuals in a school setting. This article aims to present a case example of teaching and reinforcing behavioural expectations in a special school. Design/methodology/approach This case study reflects different steps and materials used before and during the intervention in a special education school with 61 secondary students with intellectual disabilities. An AB design (A – baseline; B – intervention) was used to collect and analyze data. Findings Results suggest that teaching behavioural expectations as a universal measure may be feasible and positively impact school climate. Suggestions and recommendations for implementing SWPBS within a school are provided. Originality/value This case study provides a step-by-step guide illustrating the process of teaching and reinforcing behavioural playground expectations to young adults with intellectual disabilities attending a special school.

scholarly journals Understanding and evaluating teaching effectiveness in the UK higher education sector using experimental design

2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiju Antony ◽  
Stavros Karamperidis ◽  
Frenie Antony ◽  
Elizabeth A. Cudney
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Experimental Design ◽  
Teaching Effectiveness ◽  
School Setting ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Interesting Study ◽  
Designed Experiment ◽  
The Uk

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the power of experimental design as a technique to understand and evaluate the most important factors which influence teaching effectiveness for a postgraduate course in a higher education (HE) context.Design/methodology/approachThe methodology involves the execution of a case study in the form of an experiment in a business school setting. The experiment was carried out with the assistance of over 100 postgraduate students from 26 countries. The data were collected over a two year period (2015 and 2016) from a postgraduate course offered by the same tutor for repeatability reasons.FindingsThe key findings of the experiment have clearly indicated that students’ perceptions of teaching effectiveness based on intuition and guesswork are not identical to the outcomes from a simple designed experiment. Moreover, the results of the experiment provided a greater stimulus for the wider applications of the technique to other processes across the case study HE sector.Research limitations/implicationsOne of the limitations of the study is that the experiment was conducted for a popular postgraduate course. It would be beneficial to understand the results of the experiment for less popular postgraduate courses in the university in order to drive improvements. Moreover, this research was conducted only for postgraduate courses and the results may vary for undergraduate courses. This would be an interesting study to understand the differences in the factors between undergraduate and postgraduate teaching effectiveness.Practical implicationsThe outcome of this experiment would help everyone who is involved in teaching to understand the factors and their influences to improve students’ satisfaction scores during the delivery of teaching.Originality/valueThis paper shows how experimental design as a pure manufacturing technique can be extended to a HE setting.

Training Preservice Teachers to Match Assistive Technology to Student Needs

2020 ◽  
pp. 016264342091833
Author(s):  
Beth A. Jones ◽  
Maria Peterson-Ahmad ◽  
Melanie Fields ◽  
Nichole Williams
Keyword(s):  
Preservice Teachers ◽  
Assistive Technology ◽  
School Setting ◽  
Individualized Education Program ◽  
Training Session ◽  
Teacher Preparation Programs ◽  
Preparation Programs ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Training Case

Understanding how to appropriately choose, implement, and utilize assistive technology (AT) for students on an individualized education program (IEP) is imperative to success within a school setting and has been shown to improve with preservice teachers’ (PST) training. This study investigated the impact that a training session in which PST were exposed to a variety of AT devices/software in one university’s AT lab and given direct instruction in the Student Environment Tasks Tools (SETT) framework for selecting appropriate AT by working through a training case study would have on PST knowledge of AT and its selection. Sixty-eight PST participated in this study, and the results demonstrate that the training increased their ability to name specific AT items on a presurvey ( M = 3.56, SD = 14.88) compared to the postsurvey ( M = 9.57, SD = 25.14). The increase of number of devices and software named pre- and postsurvey was significantly greater than chance, t(67) = −7.64, p < .01). Most notably, participants could name the components of SETT on the postsurvey (94.12%) and apply the SETT framework to a hypothetical student, improving the quality and quantity of recommendations for the student. This study provides further evidence for inclusion of AT in teacher preparation programs.

Family systems consultation with an athletic team: A case study of themes

1994 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toni Schindler Zimmerman ◽  
Howard O. Protinsky ◽  
Craig Schindler Zimmerman
Keyword(s):  
Family Systems ◽  
Athletic Team

Hunter’s Syndrome and Its Management in a Public School Setting

1992 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 102-106
Author(s):  
Carol Sober Alpern
Keyword(s):  
Public School ◽  
Genetic Disorder ◽  
School Setting ◽  
Upper Airway ◽  
The Body ◽  
Team Approach ◽  
Delay In Diagnosis ◽  
Skeletal Changes ◽  
Hunter's Syndrome

Hunter’s syndrome is a progressive, degenerative, genetic disorder that results from faulty functioning of the enzymes responsible for breaking down mucopolysaccharides, the complex carbohydrates found in connective tissue. When incompletely degraded mucopolysaccharides accumulate throughout the body, numerous muscular and skeletal changes occur. Typically, hearing loss and eventual upper airway obstruction result in a degeneration of speech and language functioning. Presented here is a case study of a child with the mild form of Hunter’s syndrome. This study demonstrates the typical delay in diagnosis and shows how a team approach can maintain such a child in a regular public school setting.

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