scholarly journals Using Simple Interactions to Improve Pedagogy in a Cross-Aged Leadership Program

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 126-130
Author(s):  
Michael A. Hemphill ◽  
Tom Martinek
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Development ◽  
Teaching Program ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Developmental Relationships ◽  
Innovative Strategy ◽  
Youth Leaders ◽  
Leadership Experiences ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Teaching Programs ◽  
The Impact

Cross-aged teaching programs provide leadership experiences to youth who aim to influence children to be responsible, caring, and compassionate. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of a leadership development protocol on relationship development in an established cross-aged teaching program. Method: Guided by the developmental relationships framework, “Simple Interactions” was implemented with a group of nine youth leaders. The intent was to help them improve their relationships with children in four categories (a) connection, (b) reciprocity, (c) participation, and (d) progression. Data were collected through reflection documents and focus group interviews. Results: Qualitative results explain how Simple Interactions impacted reflection and revealed strategies youth leaders used to build relationships with children. Discussion: The findings suggest that the Simple Interactions protocol may provide an innovative strategy to promote reflective practice and develop positive relationships in a cross-aged teaching program.

Being “adopted” into a teaching community

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 228-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erinn Bentley ◽  
Madison Workman ◽  
Alex Overby
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Teacher Candidates ◽  
Mentor Teachers ◽  
Mentoring Relationships ◽  
Field Placement ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
The Impact

Purpose In order to prepare new members of the education profession, it is imperative that teachers enter their classrooms with the confidence, knowledge, and skills to serve their students from day one. One method for preparing such teacher candidates or student teachers is through school-based field placements during their preparation program. The purpose of this paper is to describe one example of a yearlong field placement and the mentoring relationships that emerged among participants. Design/methodology/approach This qualitative study used the following data sources: focus group interviews among the teacher candidates, focus group interviews among the mentor teachers, field placement reflections and teaching analyses composed by the teacher candidates, and interviews conducted among teacher candidates and mentor teachers. Findings Analysis of the data revealed that the yearlong field placement promoted positive mentoring relationships between teacher candidates and their classroom teachers. Specifically the following themes emerged: the “adoption” of teacher candidates into the high school classrooms, risk-taking within the classrooms, the mentor teachers’ use of constructive feedback, and collaborative “mentoring-down-the-hall.” Originality/value In recent years, various scholars have investigated the impact of field placement experiences on teacher candidates; however, these studies have lacked a detailed analysis of how such experiences impacted mentoring relationships among candidates and their mentor teachers in a collaborative setting. This paper provides an in-depth study of the perceived experiences of mentor teachers and their candidates.

scholarly journals Leierskapontwikkeling in ‘n verplegingskollege

Curationis ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Harms ◽  
M. Muller
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Development ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Leadership Practice ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Nursing College ◽  
Educational Staff

This study is conducted within the context of nursing colleges and focuses on the empowerment of educational staff in a nursing college to facilitate excellence in leadership practice. A qualitative exploratory and descriptive study was conducted in different phases: the views and expectations of educational staff as leaders, as well as the views and expectations of the fourth year students as followers and potential professional leaders were explored and described by means of focus group interviews. A provisional conceptual framework for leadership development in a nursing college was compiled, exposed to a literature control and a final conceptual framework was refined, together with guidelines for leadership development in a nursing college. This article focuses on the final conceptual framework as well as the programme for leadership development in a nursing college. It is recommended that this programme be implemented and exposed to purposeful evaluation.

scholarly journals Change in store? An investigation into the impact of the book superstore environment on use, perceptions and expectations of the public library as a space, place and experience

2009 ◽  
Vol 28 (88) ◽  
pp. 13-26
Author(s):  
Helen Cartwright
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Community Resource ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
The Public ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Perceptions And Expectations ◽  
The Impact

The book superstore is promoted not just as a place to buy books but also as a community resource in which to read, learn and socialise: traits that have in combination traditionally been the preserve of the public library. This study investigates the impact of the bookstore environment on public library space. The attitudes and behaviours of library and bookstore users were examined through focus group interviews and a self-completed questionnaire. Clear areas of overlap in the functions of the two sites were found, as was evidence of age and income-related splits in use and perception of bookstores and libraries. Results suggest attention should be paid to the beliefs and behaviours of young people and middle-income earners (the groups most noticeably increasing their use of the bookstore) and to the desired balance of education and recreation in the image and nature of the public library.

Healthcare professionals’ perceptions of their work with patients of working age with heart failure

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 160-166
Author(s):  
Catharina Frank ◽  
Camilla Lindbäck ◽  
Christina Takman ◽  
Lena Nordgren
Keyword(s):  
Heart Failure ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Sample Population ◽  
Individual Interview ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Working Age ◽  
Returning To Work ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
The Impact

There is a lack of knowledge about healthcare professionals’ perspectives on rehabilitation in relation to heart failure. Still, collaboration between different professionals can impact patients. The purpose of this study was to describe healthcare professionals’ perceptions of their work with patients of working age with heart failure. The sample population consisted of six nurses, one physiotherapist and one cardiologist. One individual interview and two focus-group interviews were conducted. The interviews were analyzed using qualitative content analysis. Three descriptive categories were constructed: ‘the impact of heart failure on patients’ life situations’, ‘heart failure service’, and ‘patients’ process of returning to work’. To support patients, healthcare professionals need to find ways to combine patients’ personal needs with protocol-driven care.

scholarly journals A Qualitative Study of Barriers to the Implementation of a Rheumatoid Arthritis Guideline Among Generalist and Specialist Physical Therapists

2012 ◽  
Vol 92 (10) ◽  
pp. 1292-1305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leti van Bodegom-Vos ◽  
John Verhoef ◽  
Margot Dickmann ◽  
Marjon Kleijn ◽  
Ingrid van Vliet ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rheumatoid Arthritis ◽  
Physical Therapists ◽  
Guideline Implementation ◽  
Implementation Strategies ◽  
The Body ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Roles And Responsibilities ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
The Impact

Background Although the increasing complexity and expansion of the body of knowledge in physical therapy have led to specialized practice areas to provide better patient care, the impact of specialization on guideline implementation has been scarcely studied. Objectives The objective of this study was to identify the similarities and differences in barriers to the implementation of a Dutch rheumatoid arthritis (RA) guideline by generalist and specialist physical therapists. Design This observational study consisted of 4 focus group interviews in which 24 physical therapists (13 generalist and 11 specialist physical therapists) participated. Methods Physical therapists were asked to discuss barriers to the implementation of the RA guideline. Data were analyzed qualitatively using a directed approach to content analysis. Both the interviews and the interview analysis were informed by a previously developed conceptual framework. Results Besides a number of similarities (eg, lack of time), the present study showed important, although subtle, differences in barriers to the implementation of the RA guideline between generalist physical therapists and specialist physical therapists. Generalist physical therapists more frequently reported difficulties in interpreting the guideline (cognitive barriers) and had less favorable opinions about the guideline (affective barriers) than specialist physical therapists. Specialist physical therapists were hampered by external barriers that are outside the scope of generalist physical therapists, such as a lack of agreement about the roles and responsibilities of medical professionals involved in the care of the same patient. Conclusions The identified differences in barriers to the implementation of the RA guideline indicated that the effectiveness of implementation strategies could be improved by tailoring them to the level of specialization of physical therapists. However, it is expected that tailoring implementation strategies to barriers that hamper both generalist and specialist physical therapists will have a larger effect on the implementation of the RA guideline.

scholarly journals Understanding Parents’ Experiences with Children with Type 1 Diabetes: A Qualitative Inquiry

2022 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 554
Author(s):  
Justin A. Haegele ◽  
Steven K. Holland ◽  
Eddie Hill
Keyword(s):  
Type 1 Diabetes ◽  
Family Planning ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Internal Conflict ◽  
Diabetes Diagnosis ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Parents Experiences

Parenting is often described as a stress-inducing experience, which can be further complicated or made more stressful and anxiety-inducing when parenting children with chronic conditions such as type 1 diabetes (T1D). The incidence of T1D among children has risen and continues to rise globally, resulting in a need to understand the experiences of parenting children with T1D. The purpose of this qualitative inquiry was to explore the lived experiences, and the meaning ascribed to those experiences, of being a parent of a child with T1D. This qualitative study was conducted through an interpretivist paradigm and includes the experiences of 29 parents (19 mothers and 10 fathers) of 24 children (aged 6 to 15 years) with T1D. Parents, and parent dyads, completed demographic questionnaires and written prompts, and participated in focus group interviews. Three themes were developed from the data, namely, a) the costs of T1D, b) the ultimate helicopter mom, and c) dealing with “being different”. Generally, the participants reported on the direct (e.g., financial and time) and indirect (e.g., family planning) costs associated with parenting children with T1D, their role as a primary provider and anxieties with relinquishing control and dealing with the stigma surrounding a diabetes diagnosis. Unique findings from this study included the impact a T1D diagnosis had on future family planning as parents navigated the fear and uncertainty of having additional children with T1D, as well as the internal conflict parents had with entrusting others to care for their child, especially if they deemed them to be unqualified or unnecessarily stigmatizing or ostracizing their child.

scholarly journals Avaliar para Aprender no Ensino da Ginástica Acrobática em Contexto de Estágio

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 36-45
Author(s):  
Ana Silva ◽  
André Moura ◽  
Paula Batista
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Peer Assessment ◽  
Assessment For Learning ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Level Of Involvement ◽  
Audio Recordings ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Enhanced Learning

Assessment is a regulatory and fundamental element of the teaching-learning process (Dutra et al., 2018), which in the perspective of the Assessment for Learning allows fostering the learning (Broadfoot et al., 1999). This study aimed to analyse students’ involvement and motivation in the Assessment for Learning processes and the impact on learning. The participants were 21 students of a class of the 11th grade of the Scientific- Humanistic Course of Science and Technology, with an average age of 17.23. The instruments used were focus group interviews, audio recordings of teacher feedbacks, several self and peer assessment moments and the teacher’s diary. Auto evaluation data were analyzed using descriptive measures (average and mode) and the information from pear observations, focus group interview and teacher board diary were analyzed using the content analysis procedures (Bardin, 2008).The data showed that students raised their level of involvement and motivation for the sessions, especially in the construction of the gymnastic scheme. In addition, the application of this methodology has enhanced learning in the acquisition of knowledge, as well as in the dynamics of the different groups.

scholarly journals Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Family Caregivers

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 950-950
Author(s):  
Tina Kilaberia ◽  
Janice Bell ◽  
Kristen Bettega ◽  
Jennifer Mongoven ◽  
Kathleen Kelly ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Family Caregivers ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Evaluation Study ◽  
Support Service ◽  
Adult Day Care ◽  
Community Resources ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Technology Platforms ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
The Impact

Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has affected human life in unprecedented ways. Lives of older persons and their families have been especially adversely affected. Eleven Caregiver Resource Centers (CRCs) support family caregivers across the state of California, providing services such as assessment, counseling and respite. This presentation is part of a larger evaluation study and addresses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on family caregivers and systems supporting them. We interviewed directors, clinical staff and family consultants (n=35) from CRCs across diverse communities and geography in California, conducting semi-structured focus group interviews by Zoom. Questions explored perceptions of staff about effects on caregivers and implications for systems of support for caregivers. Interviews were transcribed and analyzed using the Dedoose software. Caregiver effects included increased isolation, higher stress, loss of support, neglected health needs, and accelerated technology adoption. Caregivers at particular risk were those facing multiple demands and experiencing compromised resources under the pandemic, such as closure of adult day care. System effects included challenges with hastened virtual delivery, disruption in services, and new opportunities to serve clients virtually. Community resources, such as internet connectivity, exacerbated disparities for family caregivers. We make recommendations to mitigate these challenges including technology platforms to support service delivery and education, training and preparedness for both caregivers and providers. These recommendations are relevant to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and adaptable to other crisis situations such as natural disasters.

scholarly journals The Impact of Religion and Provision of Information on Increasing Knowledge and Changing Attitudes to Organ Donation: An Intervention Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 2082-2095 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ferid Krupic
Keyword(s):  
Organ Donation ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Organ Donors ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Attitudes And Practices ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Changing Attitudes ◽  
Religious Aspects ◽  
The Impact

AbstractOne of the most significant developments in recent history has probably been organ donation and organ transplantation. They are frequently the only treatment available in certain cases. However, there is an ever-increasing discrepancy between the number of people needing transplantation and the organs available, because the decision to donate an organ is up to each individual. The study aims to assess the impact of the intervention on knowledge, attitudes and practices on organ donation among religious immigrants in Sweden. Data were collected through three group interviews using open-ended questions and qualitative content analysis. Thirty-six participants, 18 males and 18 females from six countries, participated in the focus group interviews. The analysis of the collected data resulted in two main categories: “Religion in theory and practice” and “More information—more knowledge about organ donation” including seven subcategories. Understanding of religion and religiosity, happiness by taking the class, the practice of religion in everyday life, the overcoming the prejudices in religion, having more information about organ donation and the donations process, as well as that the increased information changes people’s minds, were some of things the informants emphasised as predictors of the decision of organ donation. A class dealing with religion, the religious aspects of organ donation and the way the Swedish healthcare system is organised increased people’s knowledge and changed their attitudes so they became potential organ donors. More intervention studies are needed in every field of medicine to build confidence and give time to educate and discuss issues with potential organ donors in Sweden.

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