High-Quality Trade Books and Content Areas

2017 ◽  
pp. 38-52
Author(s):  
Carolyn A. Groff
Keyword(s):  
Best Practice ◽  
Lesson Plan ◽  
Informational Text ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Trade Books ◽  
Book Selection ◽  
Integrated Instruction ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Content Areas ◽  
Visual Learners

Integrating high-quality children's tradebooks into elementary content areas has long been considered a best-practice (Olness, 2007). When teachers choose to incorporate these texts into content area lessons, they are exposing students to art through the pictures and reaching an array of visual learners. Hoffman, Collins and Schickedanz (2015) state that teachers have difficulty discussing the concepts presented in the books. The goal is to strike a balance between the literacy skills and strategies needed to read the informational text, and the concepts that must be discussed (Hoffman, Collins & Schickedanz, 2015). In order to increase students' understanding, teachers must be able to successfully merge their book selection with a carefully scaffolded lesson plan (Fisher & Frey, 2015). This chapter presents a lesson plan template that assists teachers in planning for integrated instruction.

High-Quality Trade Books and Content Areas

2020 ◽  
pp. 40-54
Author(s):  
Carolyn A. Groff
Keyword(s):  
Best Practice ◽  
Content Area ◽  
Trade Books ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Content Areas ◽  
Literacy Strategies ◽  
Delicate Balance ◽  
Actual Content ◽  
Visual Learners

Integrating high-quality children's tradebooks into elementary content areas has long been considered a best practice. When teachers choose to incorporate these texts into content area lessons, they are exposing students to art through the pictures and reaching an array of visual learners. There is a delicate balance between teaching the literacy strategies needed to read these texts and the actual content materials that students need to learn in the STEAM areas. This chapter explores how to incorporate texts appropriately into content area lessons so that students can focus on the content, as well as apply literacy strategies for comprehension.

scholarly journals Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors in Urothelial Carcinoma: Recommendations for Practical Approaches to PD-L1 and Other Potential Predictive Biomarker Testing

Cancers ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 1424
Author(s):  
Antonio Lopez-Beltran ◽  
Fernando López-Rios ◽  
Rodolfo Montironi ◽  
Sophie Wildsmith ◽  
Markus Eckstein
Keyword(s):  
Cell Death ◽  
Programmed Cell Death ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Checkpoint Inhibitors ◽  
Predictive Biomarker ◽  
High Quality ◽  
The Status ◽  
Biomarker Testing ◽  
Novel Biomarkers ◽  
Scoring Algorithms

Immuno-oncology (IO) agents (anti–programmed cell death 1 (PD-1) and anti–programmed cell death-ligand 1 (PD-L1)) are approved as first- and second-line treatments for metastatic UC. PD-L1 expression levels in UC tumors help clinicians determine which patients are more likely to respond to IO therapies. Assays for approved IO agents use different antibodies, immunohistochemical protocols, cutoffs (defining “high” vs. “low” PD-L1 expression), and scoring algorithms. The robust control of pre-analytical and analytical standards is needed to obtain high-quality PD-L1 results. To better understand the status and perspectives of biomarker-guided patient selection for anti–PD-1 and anti–PD-L1 agents in UC, three workshops were held from December 2018 to December 2019 in Italy, Malaysia, and Spain. The primary goal was to develop recommendations for best practice approaches to PD-L1 testing in UC. Recommendations pertaining to the interpretation and reporting of the results of PD-L1 assays from experienced pathologists and oncologists from around the globe are included. A test request form for pathology laboratories was developed as a critical first step for oncologists/urologists to encourage communication between clinicians and pathologists, ensuring fast and high-quality test results. In this era of personalized medicine, we briefly discuss novel biomarkers being evaluated for IO agents in UC.

scholarly journals The value and impact of cross professional collaborations in developing student information and academic literacy skills at Sheffield Hallam University, UK.

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane Rushton ◽  
Alison Lahlafi
Keyword(s):  
Best Practice ◽  
Academic Literacy ◽  
Academic Skills ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Skills Development ◽  
Professional Collaboration ◽  
Practice Recommendations ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Student Information

The paper is jointly written by an academic and librarian and discusses the value and impact of two examples of cross professional collaboration at Sheffield Hallam University. The collaborations addressed information and academic literacy skills development of 640 students across four years and involved a librarian, an academic, an academic skills tutor and an e-learning expert. The paper includes analysis on the value and impact of cross-professional collaborations in developing student information literacy (IL) and academic literacy skills. It concludes with discussion of lessons learned and best practice recommendations.

scholarly journals A SHORT STORY READING SECTION AS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY TO IMPROVE STUDENT’S LITERACY IN SD N 6 PANJER KEBUMEN

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 117
Author(s):  
Dwi Novitasari ◽  
Eka Fajriatul Janah ◽  
Muhamad Chamdani
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Reading Skills ◽  
Lesson Plan ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Story Reading ◽  
Fictional Narrative ◽  
Sentence Patterns ◽  
Narrative Prose ◽  
The Impact

<em>The goverment made changes to the Indonesian education curriculum of the education unit level curriculum into the curriculum of 2013. Changes in the curriculum in 2013 lies in the preparation of the RPP (Lesson Plan) and the ability of literacy. The emphasis on the preparation of the RPP has been resolved with the holding of training, but to literacy still unwell. One way to improve the literacy skills is through the reading of short stories. The reading of the short story aims to help improve reading skills and knowledge of sentence patterns, so it can be an idea to create an article. The focus on this study include: (1) The concept of reading a short story; (2) The impact of short story readings. These studies include: (1) The reading of short stories is an activity habituation to read a fictional narrative prose text .; (2) The impact resulting from the reading of short stories such as enhancing the knowledge, encourage the growth likes to read, and to foster the ability to write.</em>

Improving life after stroke needs global efforts to implement evidence-based physical activity pathways

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 457-459 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederike van Wijck ◽  
Julie Bernhardt ◽  
Sandra A Billinger ◽  
Marie-Louise Bird ◽  
Janice Eng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Recurrent Stroke ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Preliminary Evidence ◽  
Low Income Countries ◽  
Active Lifestyle ◽  
High Quality ◽  
The World

There is an urgent need to improve life after stroke across the world—especially in low-income countries—through methods that are effective, equitable and sustainable. This paper highlights physical activity (PA) as a prime candidate for implementation. PA reduces modifiable risk factors for first and recurrent stroke and improves function and activity during rehabilitation and following discharge. Preliminary evidence also indicates PA is cost-effective. This compelling evidence urgently needs to be translated into seamless pathways to enable stroke survivors across the world to engage in a more active lifestyle. Although more quality research is needed—particularly on how to optimize uptake and maintenance of PA—this should not delay implementation of high-quality evidence already available. This paper shares examples of best practice service models from low-, middle-, and high-income countries around the world. The authors call for a concerted effort to implement high-quality PA services to improve life after stroke for all.

Content Areas

2011 ◽  
pp. 24-49
Author(s):  
Lisa Dawley
Keyword(s):  
Learning Experience ◽  
Lesson Plan ◽  
Deep Understanding ◽  
Learning Objectives ◽  
Content Areas ◽  
Online Tool ◽  
Online Tools ◽  
Specific Learning ◽  
Over Time

The strengths and weaknesses of each tool are discussed in detail, and educators are taught to match the strengths of the specific tool to the learning objectives they seek to achieve in their courses. Multiple examples of objectives and online learning activities are provided to help instill a deep understanding of the power of each online tool. This leaves you with a long-term ability to adapt your own curriculum over time, because you have learned options for using a variety of online tools to achieve specific learning objectives. Finally, each chapter includes a sample lesson plan that demonstrates how to integrate the tool into the learning experience. These ideas and activities provide tried and true suggestions for creating an online environment that engages and empowers learners for success. And when your students are successful in learning, you are successful in teaching.

Elementary classroom libraries and social studies trade books

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-27
Author(s):  
Tracey S. Hodges ◽  
Katherine Landau Wright ◽  
Julianne M. Coleman ◽  
Holly Hilboldt Swain ◽  
Claire Schweiker ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Studies ◽  
Elementary Classroom ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
National Council ◽  
Trade Books ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Social ◽  
Classroom Libraries ◽  
K 12

Purpose Standards and policy changes in K-12 education have created the unintended consequence of reducing instructional time spent on social studies content. This limited time devoted to social studies presumably has led to more integrated social studies and literacy instruction. The purpose of this paper is to document the types of high-quality social studies children’s books found in classroom libraries across five states. Design/methodology/approach In the present mixed methods study, the researchers utilized a database of 60 classroom libraries across five states to identify which high-quality trade books, defined by the National Council for the Social Studies, were present. The researchers document trends in both frequencies of books and social studies content across decades, classrooms, grade levels and states from 1972 to 2015. Findings The findings indicate that National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) Notable Trade Books for Young People texts are largely missing from the elementary classroom libraries the researchers sampled. Of the 5,544 unique titles included on the NCSS lists from 1972 to 2015, 453 were located in the US classroom libraries database, representing 8.17 percent of books found on the notable lists. Originality/value Before teachers can take steps toward integrating social studies and literacy, they need easy access to high-quality social studies texts. Many high-quality trade books are recommended each year for exposing students to social studies content; however, the researchers found limited numbers of these books in classroom libraries. The researchers recommend the lists be circulated to a wider audience to inform more teachers about these texts.

scholarly journals Audit committee compensation, best practices and audit fees

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bum-Jin Park
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Regression Models ◽  
Audit Committee ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Audit Quality ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
Audit Fees ◽  
High Quality ◽  
The Relationship

Background: It is extremely important that an audit committee (AC) monitors a company’s financial reporting process, and that the committee engages a high-quality auditor to carry this out effectively. Prior research on ACs has paid much attention to the relationship between AC best practices and audit fees (AF). Although compensation is a means of aligning interests between ACs and stakeholders, previous studies have neglected the complementary interaction between AC compensation and compliance with best practices on audit quality.Objectives: The purpose of this study is to investigate how compensation for ACs affects AF, and how the association is moderated by compliance with best practices to capture effective monitoring.Method: The regression models are estimated to verify how the relationship between AC compensation and AF is moderated by AC compliance with best practice. Moreover, the logistic regression models are used to investigate how the relationship between AC compensation and the opportunistic achievement of earnings goals is moderated by AC compliance with best practice.Results: The findings show a positive association between the levels of compensation AC members receive and AF, which is reinforced in firms that have ACs that comply with all best practices.Conclusion: The results suggest that highly paid ACs engage high-quality auditors to complement their function of monitoring management and AC compensation and compliance with best practices are complementary to enhance audit quality. This study thus provides the interesting insights that can be applicable to countries with requirements relating to the compensation schemes for ACs or the formation of the AC.

scholarly journals What does best practice care for musculoskeletal pain look like? Eleven consistent recommendations from high-quality clinical practice guidelines: systematic review

2019 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivan Lin ◽  
Louise Wiles ◽  
Rob Waller ◽  
Roger Goucke ◽  
Yusuf Nagree ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Clinical Practice Guidelines ◽  
Practice Guidelines ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Quality Care ◽  
Surgical Care ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Eligibility Criteria ◽  
Evidence Database

ObjectivesTo identify common recommendations for high-quality care for the most common musculoskeletal (MSK) pain sites encountered by clinicians in emergency and primary care (spinal (lumbar, thoracic and cervical), hip/knee (including osteoarthritis [OA] and shoulder) from contemporary, high-quality clinical practice guidelines (CPGs).DesignSystematic review, critical appraisal and narrative synthesis of MSK pain CPG recommendations.Eligibility criteriaIncluded MSK pain CPGs were written in English, rated as high quality, published from 2011, focused on adults and described development processes. Excluded CPGs were for: traumatic MSK pain, single modalities (eg, surgery), traditional healing/medicine, specific disease processes (eg, inflammatory arthropathies) or those that required payment.Data sourcesFour scientific databases (MEDLINE, Embase, CINAHL and Physiotherapy Evidence Database) and four guideline repositories.Results6232 records were identified, 44 CPGs were appraised and 11 were rated as high quality (low back pain: 4, OA: 4, neck: 2 and shoulder: 1). We identified 11 recommendations for MSK pain care: ensure care is patient centred, screen for red flag conditions, assess psychosocial factors, use imaging selectively, undertake a physical examination, monitor patient progress, provide education/information, address physical activity/exercise, use manual therapy only as an adjunct to other treatments, offer high-quality non-surgical care prior to surgery and try to keep patients at work.ConclusionThese 11 recommendations guide healthcare consumers, clinicians, researchers and policy makers to manage MSK pain. This should improve the quality of care of MSK pain.

Development of provincial clinical standards for the province of Ontario.

2015 ◽  
Vol 33 (29_suppl) ◽  
pp. 117-117
Author(s):  
Sara Urowitz ◽  
Denise Marshall ◽  
Jeff Myers ◽  
Deanna Bryant
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Stakeholder Engagement ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Quality Care ◽  
Clinical Environment ◽  
Consensus Process ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Clinical Change ◽  
Clinical Standards

117 Background: The province of Ontario is committed to improving palliative care services. This commitment to change is outlined in The Declaration of Partnership, the provincial roadmap for improving palliative care. To help drive this change in the clinical environment, a Clinical Council for Palliative Care was established to be responsible for providing direction on clinical implications of policy, and advancing clinical improvement in palliative care in Ontario. To this end, Clinical Council has articulated a set of 12 interrelated provincial clinical standards which outline priority areas for clinical change and improvement in the province. Methods: Key stakeholder engagement was undertaken to identify evidence-based, best practices for delivery of palliative services. A consensus process was used to identify the priority set of essential clinical standards for high quality care that is both practical and scalable. Expert working groups were established to refine the standards based on evidence and leading or best practice to the Ontario context. Response was solicited from stakeholders, and qualitative analysis was conducted; standards will be refined based on feedback. Results: Based on the results of the stakeholder engagement, a “Clinical Change Strategy” was identified and a set 12 “clinical imperatives” were identified. Through the consensus process 12 Provincial Clinical Standards were endorsed. Conclusions: Engaging in an evidence informed process with key stakeholders has enabled the creation of a set of 12 interconnected Provincial Clinical Standards for palliative care in Ontario. These standards will help to advance high quality palliative care in the province. The standards represent a population health based strategy for change, which can have a positive impact at the systems level. Stakeholder feedback will result in further refinement of the standards, which will ultimately provide the foundation for standardized approaches for palliative services across Ontario.

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