Effective Use of Volunteers in Group Work and Recreation Programs

1959 ◽  
Vol 53 (10) ◽  
pp. 361-366
Author(s):  
Robert Shapiro ◽  
Shura Saul
Keyword(s):  
Group Work ◽  
Work Program ◽  
Total Community ◽  
Recreation Programs ◽  
Informed Group ◽  
Effective Use ◽  
Intelligent Assistance ◽  
Natural Way

We believe that the volunteer is a living link between our members and the total community. To our members, the volunteers are continuous proof that there is some acceptance of them by the sighted community. Their voluntary presence, their devoted, sensitive and intelligent assistance, their regular attendance, attest to this much more than would any verbalization. Using the volunteer's services in the group work program has created a splendid and natural way in which blind and sighted people may exchange viewpoints. Rehabilitation of our members may be speeded through such continued contact; each relationship may be considered as another step in the long process of this rehabilitation. An adequately trained volunteer is a better-informed citizen, more aware of people's needs and of the community's responsibilities toward them. We feel that an informed volunteer adds a new dimension to his community as well as to the agency. Certainly, then, a better-informed group of volunteers makes for a more knowledgeable public.

scholarly journals The investigation of effectiveness of individual and group forms of learning a foreign language in Kazakhstan

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 382-393
Author(s):  
Saltanat Meiramova ◽  
Akniet Zhanysbayeva
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Group Work ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Teaching Strategy ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Language Class ◽  
Academic Communication ◽  
Effective Use

It is known that the language classroom is the place where teachers and learners come together for interaction and students can learn English in natural settings. Group work is a teaching strategy at all levels of education and researchers have observed that group based assignments and discussions are a common feature of tertiary education. The effective use of group work in the language class can provide a valuable learning experience to students and give them the opportunity to practically experience the language exposure of the ideas presented and strengthen their learning. In this regard, this paper attempts to identify the efficiency of individual and group work teaching strategy of the students to excel at foreign language learning. Then, the paper aims to define the effect of individual and group work of students’ value participation in academic communication. Finally, the paper tries to determine the most effective methods for working in a group and individually with the help of the data obtained with the help of a purpose-designed questionnaire to assess their preference for different teaching methods.

scholarly journals Serious Games in Vocational White-Collar Lessons – A Methodological End in Itself or a Competency-Promoting Learning Method?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Björn Paape ◽  
Christoph Maus ◽  
Iwona Kiereta ◽  
Lars Entgens ◽  
Alina Hüben ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Group Work ◽  
Serious Games ◽  
Research Question ◽  
White Collar ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Traditional Group ◽  
Precise Analysis ◽  
Learning Test ◽  
Effective Use ◽  
The Impact

It is indisputable that games are suitable for lessons, and in this context “serious games” have a special role. The goal of the current study is to establish whether serious games are efficient in the area of vocational white collar education, whereby the following research question is asked: To what degree do serious games lead to superior learning results in comparison to traditional group work? In order to answer this question, four groups were formed, two of which took part in a serious game on the topic of “stock market” and two took part in a group work approach to the same topic. Within these different formations, the respective approach was applied at two different DQR (German Qualifications Framework) levels. Subsequently, the learning results were measured by using a uniform learning test. By means of a twofactor variance analysis, both the impact of the method as well as the DQR level were measured. Although no generally increased effectiveness of serious games as a methodology could be found over the methodology of “group work”, the analysis does show a significantly positive change in the learning effectiveness of serious games among the DQR levels, so that we can assume that serious games show increased effectiveness over group work at lower DQR levels. In line with this finding, we can speak of a “meaningful supplement” with regard to the use of serious games. However, this does not signify that this method is generally better than that of group work: a precise analysis of classes is needed in order to ascertain whether method competence has been trained sufficiently in order to make effective use of serious games.

Resettlement

2019 ◽  
pp. 276-314
Author(s):  
Yoosun Park
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Group Work ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Work Program ◽  
Local Populations ◽  
War Relocation Authority

Mere months after the opening of the camps, the War Relocation Authority instituted a scheme for the “permanent relocation” of the Nikkei outside the camps. Henceforth, all social work in the camps became oriented toward this end goal. Resettlement, actively supported by the YWCA and a host of social welfare organizations, was a project that provoked profound dread and anger in much of the incarcerated Nikkei. Social work agencies involved were cautioned to work quietly and inconspicuously to avoid public attention which would inevitably incite opposition from local populations. Resettlement was an assimilationist project, explicitly designed for the “decentralization” of the Nikkei to aid in their Americanization. Such goals of integration and assimilation were promoted in the camps through group work program designed to “counter Japanizing influences” of the Issei and “extend the Americanism” of the Nisei.

Neuro‐Informed Group Work

2017 ◽  
pp. 179-194
Author(s):  
Chad Luke ◽  
Joel F. Diambra
Keyword(s):  
Group Work ◽  
Informed Group
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