Stories Make Readers

Using literature in multilingual and second language classes promotes literacy skills and helps children to adapt to second language instruction. This chapter presents the theoretical framework and practical implementations for enhancing the use of literature in multilingual environments employing Stories Make Readers (StoRe)–project as an example. StoRe concept helps to promote the use of fictional literature and to increase the reading materials and reading time at school and at home. An important aim is to offer, in multilingual groups, reading materials that correspond to the reading abilities and interest of the readers, and to connect different collaborative, child-centered, and multidisciplinary activities in reading. The multilingual line of the StoRe project, called Creating Innovative Approaches to Language Education (IKI), identifies and promotes innovative models for the use and development of language in education and creates research-based, pedagogical maps that help teachers develop and improve their pedagogical practices.

Frameworks for Integration of Future-Oriented Computational Thinking in K-12 Schools

Computational thinking (CT) K-12 curricula and professional development should prepare students for their future, but historically, such curricula have limited success. This chapter offers historical analogies and ways that CT curricula may have a stronger and more lasting impact. Two frameworks are central to the chapter's arguments. The first recalls Seymour Papert's original description of CT as a pedagogy with computing playing a formative role in young children's thinking; the computer was a tool to think with (1980, 1996). This “thinking development” framework emphasized child-centered, creative problem solving to foster deep engagement and understanding. Current CT seems to include creativity only tangentially. The second framework encompasses emergent machine learning and data concepts that will become pervasive. This chapter, more prescriptive than empirical, suggests ways that CT and requisite professional development could be more future-focused and more successful. It could be titled “Seymour Papert meets Machine Learning.”

Building Educational Environment in the Child-Centered Perspective: A Survey in Preschools in Thai Nguyen City, Thai Nguyen Province, Vietnam

Building an educational environment at a preschool has a direct influence on the quality of children's education, shaping its own values in the organizational culture of each school. This study aims to clarify what work needs to be done to build an educational environment from a child-centered point of view? What are the requirements for preschool teachers and principals? How have preschools in Thai Nguyen city, Thai Nguyen province, Vietnam built an educational environment? Theoretical research methods are used to have a theoretical model of building an educational environment from a child-centered point of view. The survey method by questionnaire combined with observation and unstructured interviews was used with a survey sample of 10 managers and 50 teachers to find out the above situation in preschools in Thai Nguyen city, Thai Nguyen province, Vietnam. Building an educational environment should pay attention to the physical environment in the classroom and outside the classroom, the psychosocial environment, all of which must be based on the needs of the child and create the most favorable conditions for the child to develop. The survey shows that preschools in Thai Nguyen city perform well in the contents with an overall GPA of 3.51/4.0 and are ready to welcome children back to school after more than 3 months of suspension because of the covid epidemic and summer vacation.

Çocuk Hastalara Uygulanan Fekal Mikrobiyota Transplantasyonuna Yönelik Hemşirelik Yaklaşımı

Fecal Microbiota Transplantation (FMT) is the process of taking stool from a healthy donor and placing it in the gastrointestinal tract of the sick individual. Today, it has been seen that FMT is mostly used for the treatment of clostridium difficile infection. Depending on the child’s condition, physician preferences, and/or protocol requirements, the route of administration in the FMT procedure can be oral capsule, upper or lower gastrointestinal route. Detailed information about FMT, including all aspects of the process, needs to be provided in writing to children, families and donors. Pediatric nurses should plan the individualized care process with a holistic approach based on child-centered care, family-centered care, atraumatic care models in the management of the FMT process. It is the nurse’s responsibility to increase the child’s comfort, protect his privacy, and prevent complications that may arise in the child. Because the FMT procedure is a specific application, nurses need to have detailed information about a qualified nursing process. In this review, the topics of microbiota, FMT and the nursing process before, during and after the procedure are discussed. Keywords: Child, fecal microbiota transplantation, nursing, pediatrics

Pemikiran Pendidikan Islam Prof. H. Muzayyin Arifin, M.Ed dan Relevansinya di Era Modern

The study explains the Islamic education thinking of Prof. H. Muzayyin Arifin, M.ED. and its relevance in the modern age. His goal is to know the biography of Prof. H. Muzayyin Arifin, M.ED, Islamic education thinking Prof. H. Muzayyin Arifin, M.ED., dan its relevance in the modern age. The study uses library research methods with a descriptive approach. The study of Muzayyin Arifin’s thinking on Islamic education was that the correct science in his view was that it benefited many fields of modern life, both theoretical and practical. The ultimate goal of Islamic education is to achieve happiness in the world and the afterlife. The curriculum is viewed as both comprehensive and integrated with the purpose of Islamic education, as well as covering general and religious science. Educators should use principled methods of education in child-centered, that learners are more important than the educators themselves. The evaluation in Islamic education is the assessment technique on the behavior of learners based on comprehensive standards of accounting for all aspects of both religion and psychological life. The relevance of Islamic education thinking Muzayyin Arifin is in harmony with Indonesia’s rules of education.

Producing Child-Centered Interventions: Social Network Factors Related to the Quality of Professional Development for Teachers of Autistic Students

Autistic students benefit from child-centered goals that align with evidence-based practices (EBPs) that meet their individualized needs, however, most teachers are not trained in how to implement autism-specific EBPs. The challenges do not lie with teachers alone. Professional development (PD) providers, such as district or regional autism experts who train and coach teachers on how to implement autism-specific EBPs, face barriers accessing the needed supports to conduct high-quality PD and lack experience with individualizing their methods for training and coaching teachers. When PD providers have networks of professional support, they can potentially gain access to resources to provide successful individualized coaching for teachers. No research has measured the impact of the social networks of PD providers on their performance as coaches in classrooms for teachers of autistic students. To test the hypothesis that social network resources can impact the performance of PD providers who coach teachers how to use EBPs for their autistic students, we conducted social network analysis with PD providers. Findings suggest that network factors were associated with the self-reported performance for PD providers. PD providers who have more people in their networks who were autism EBP experts, as well as more people in their networks who supported them with how to individualize their PD efforts to specific teachers or districts, had higher performance as teacher coaches. We discuss future research about how to support network development for PD providers and policy implications.