Competency Based Program: Its Effects on Residential School Students

1978 ◽  
Vol 72 (6) ◽  
pp. 209-211
Author(s):  
Nancy J. Bryant
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Morale ◽  
Student Population ◽  
Residential Program ◽  
Residential School ◽  
Residential Setting ◽  
School Students ◽  
School Population ◽  
Competency Based

Points out that the mainstreaming trend has drastically changed the residential school population from one that was fairly homogeneous to one containing all levels of student abilities. While the residential setting makes it possible for teachers of various different specialties to work in one location, the competencies required have to change along with changes in the student population, and this can undermine teacher morale and leave gaps in the programs provided for the students. Teachers entering a residential program must be willing to be flexible, until parameters of the student population are better established.

Preparing Paraprofessionals to Become Teachers: A Study Examining the Effect of Catalytic Interventions

2021 ◽  
pp. 105678792110036
Author(s):  
Tonya Johnson ◽  
Edward Lehner
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Skill Acquisition ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Teacher Candidates ◽  
New York State ◽  
Student Population ◽  
School Students ◽  
Preparation Programs ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Public School Students

New York State, in all of its regions, has a growing number of diverse public-school students, including many immigrant groups, accounting for a significant change in the ethnic and racial demographics of the state’s student population. Despite the rapidly changing student population, the teaching force nonetheless remains disproportionately White and populated primarily by women. A growing body of research suggests that the ranks of paraprofessionals, many of whom are already working in schools, may be the ideal population from which to develop a more fully diversified teaching candidate pool. Informed by a theoretical lens of social reproduction and drawing from an expansive data set, this research surveys the unique barriers that paraprofessionals face in accessing information about licensure and navigating local and state requirements. Specifically, the current work examines the needs of candidates at an urban community college and presents findings from a pilot support program designed to increase paraprofessional credentialing leading to teaching licensure. The findings of this work highlight not only the need for teacher and paraprofessional preparation programs to alter recruiting and skill-acquisition practices but also the need for continued research to better understand how to support multiethnic, multilingual, and multiracial teacher candidates.

scholarly journals The Development of English Competency-Based Curriculum Integrated with Local Community for High School Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 39
Author(s):  
Goachagorn Thipatdee
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Curriculum Implementation ◽  
Cluster Sampling ◽  
School Students ◽  
English Expression ◽  
Medium Level ◽  
Competency Based ◽  
Quota Sampling

The purposes of this research were to study needs of high school students and teachers on competency-based curriculum integrated with local community for high school students, develop a curriculum based on the needs, implement the developed curriculum, and evaluate the developed curriculum. The samples of the needs study stage consisted of 244 high school students, and 82 teachers in schools located in Ubon Ratchathani, and Warinchamrab Municipalities, gained by quota sampling, and those for the curriculum implementation consisted of 34 high school students studying at Luekamhan Warinchamrab School, in the second semester of academic year 2018, gained by cluster sampling. The research instruments were the developed curriculum, questionnaires for the students and the teachers, a test of English expression, a test of writing, and an attitude evaluation form. The findings revealed the students and the teachers rated their needs on competency-based curriculum at a higher level, the developed curriculum consisted of vision, mission to achieve the students’ competency through the aims, contents, and instructional procedures concentrated on practicing and the evaluation focused on performances, the students had significantly higher learning achievement and writing skills after the curriculum implementation than those before the implementation at the level .01. The developed curriculum was evaluated by the students at medium level of its feasibility.

Deaf Adolescents' Textisms

2015 ◽  
pp. 1419-1430
Author(s):  
Yoshiko Okuyama
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Mobile Communication ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Text Message ◽  
Text Messages ◽  
Detailed Account ◽  
Residential School ◽  
School Students ◽  
The U.S

This article starts with an overview of the existing literature on mobile communication and then presents a more detailed account of the current scientific knowledge in mobile communication and deaf studies, followed by a summary of the findings from the two case studies that the author recently conducted. The first study investigated how texting was used by deaf adolescents in Japan. The second study examined text messages written by U.S. deaf adolescents. Both studies collected a small corpus of dyadic messages exchanged via cell phone between two deaf high-school students at each residential school to examine the unconventional spellings typically used in text messages, or “textisms.” The characteristics of each text-message corpus (356 messages produced by the Japanese pair, and 370 messages by the U.S. pair) were analyzed in order to explore the features of textisms adopted by these deaf adolescents.

Maximizing opportunities at medical school to support a career in surgery

2019 ◽  
Vol 80 (11) ◽  
pp. 670-673
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Medical School ◽  
Surgical Training ◽  
Nominal Group ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
School Students ◽  
The Core ◽  
Surgical Career ◽  
Competency Based ◽  
The Uk

Introduction: During medical school, students have numerous opportunities to develop their portfolios for a career in surgery, such as undertaking additional surgical placements and participating in surgical research. However, at present, there is little guidance available for medical students on how to build a strong portfolio for the UK core surgical training application. This article outlines work undertaken to provide concise guidance to support future surgeons, via application of the competency-based CanMEDS framework to the current UK core surgical training specification. Materials and methods: A pre-conference meeting was arranged for medical students at the Society of Academic and Research Surgeons annual conference in January 2018. Self-selected research enthusiasts from different university years discussed practical approaches to pair the CanMEDS model with the core surgical training specification, with support from the STARSurg Collaborative committee to facilitate discussion. A nominal group-based method was adopted in order to reach areas of consensus. Results: Practical tips and recommendations for each respective CanMEDS domain (communicator, collaborator, leader, health advocate, scholar, professional) were made in relation to the core surgical training specification. These included key action points and named opportunities that are currently available to UK medical students. Conclusions: A consensus approach was taken to address key areas of competence across each CanMEDS domain. This informed the development of a guidance framework to support students to develop a strong portfolio for a core surgical training application. This framework can be followed by medical students, equipping them with the skills necessary to succeed in their future surgical career.

Criterion-Related Validity of Raven's Progressive Matrices with Deaf Residential School Students

1994 ◽  
Vol 139 (2a) ◽  
pp. 104-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynne Blennerhassett ◽  
Sara J. Strohmeier ◽  
Cheryl Hibbett
Keyword(s):  
Residential School ◽  
School Students ◽  
Raven's Progressive Matrices

scholarly journals General characteristics of psychoactive substances consumption and abuse among high school population

2010 ◽  
Vol 63 (9-10) ◽  
pp. 616-619 ◽  
Author(s):  
Snezana Radovanovic ◽  
Caslav Milic ◽  
Sanja Kocic
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
School Health ◽  
Psychoactive Substance ◽  
Psychoactive Substances ◽  
School Students ◽  
School Population ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
Substance Consumption ◽  
The Town

Introduction. Consumption of psychoactive substances among the youth is suggestive of a trend indicating an accelerated and continual growth of the tendency in question. This research was aimed at investigating the frequency of psychoactive substance consumption among high school students on the territory of the town of Kragujevac so that the adequate measures on prevention should be taken. Material and methods. Data from the questionnaire answered by high school student attending the 1st and 4th grade of the medical, technical and economic high schools in Kragujevac were thereby used. The survey included the overall number of 1280 students: there were 793 (62%) male participants and 487 (38%) female. The research was conducted from October 2007 until January 2008. The questionnaire from the project 'Health Status, Health Needs and Utilization of Health Care of the Population of Serbia' conducted by the Institute of Public Health of Serbia 'Dr Milan Jovanovic Batut' in 2000 was used in the survey. Results and Discussion According to the answers, alcohol was used by 45.5%, cigarettes by 20.% and drugs by 3.1% of the examined subjects. Following the use of alcohol and cigarettes, the most often used psychoactive substance was cannabis, which was consumed by 7.8% of the examined subjects out of who 9.8% were boys and 4.8% were girls. Since the risky behavior seems not to be isolated and individual, but rather as a combination of several forms of it, school programmes should treat young people before certain forms of behavior are established. Family, school, health service and society should work on an organized basis as well as methodically on prevention and on fighting against these inadequate habits.

scholarly journals Knowledge, attitude and practice of secondary school students toward COVID-19 epidemic in Italy: a cross selectional study

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dafni Souli ◽  
Maddalena Dilucca
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Virus Transmission ◽  
Student Population ◽  
World Health ◽  
School Students ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Modes Of Transmission ◽  
The World ◽  
Level Of Knowledge

AbstractThe coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a highly transmittable and pathogenic viral infection caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which emerges in December 2019 in Wuhan, China and spreads around the world at the beginning of 2020. The World Health Organization declares the outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on the 30th of January, and a pandemic on the 11th of March. On the 4th of March, the Italian government orders the full closure of all schools and universities nationwide.The aim of this study is to investigate the knowledge, practice and attitudes (KAP) of secondary school at the time of COVID-19 pandemic in Italy. In this cross-sectional, web-based survey, conducted among the high school student population with age ranging from 14 to 19 years old, a questionnaire with 19 items regarding the KAP toward COVID-19 is asked. Study participants are recruited from several secondary schools of different areas. Frequencies and histograms are computed for descriptive purposes. Statistical analysis is computed with Chi square test, utilized to depict relevant difference between geender. Among a total of 2380 students who answers the questionnaire, 40.7% are male and 59.3% are female.Level of knowledge about generical characteristics of COVID-19 is quite similar among gender. Students present a good level of knowledge about the clinical presentation of the disease, the basic hygiene principles, the modes of transmission and the method of protection against virus transmission. The knowledge about number of this pandemia and easy scientific correlation with COVID-19 is quite confused. The most frequently reported source of knowledge about COVID-19 is television, whereas the less is the school. Our findings suggest that student population shows appropriate practice, and positive attitude towards COVID-19 at the time of its outbreak.More emphasis should be placed on education of the student partecipants about biological meaning of this infection and relative preventive or future measures.

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