...an infant or toddler is like a sponge; the brain is in its’ prime. Increased mental and physical stimulated offered to a child during this time, the greater the chances of increased developmental growth. Attitudes have changed over the last few decades in regards to children with disabilities. Instead of hiding or ignoring the disability, models of advocacy and early intervention are espoused as being key to helping disabled children have academic success and also learn the social and life skills needed to transition in their adult lives. Introduction: Many years ago, when a child exhibited a potential developmental disability parents were advised to let a child ‘grow-out of it’. As the field of special education has evolved and grown, it readily acknowledged that catching issues early, not ignoring them, is the most effective way to help the child. “Early childhood experts agree that the earlier intervention begins, the better. Child development expert Burton White, who has conducted years of research with typically developing infants and preschoolers at Harvard University’s Preschool Project, believes that the period between 8 months and 3 years is critical to cognitive and social development:“to begin to look at a child’s educational development when he is 2 years of age is already much too late”(Heward, 2009, p. 535). The consensus, however seems to be that the earlier a deficiency or disability is discovered the better chances for helping a child learn...
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...roject ID: 30215 - Pyramid of Interventions School Authority: 4208- Christ the Redeemer Catholic Separate Regional Division No. 3 Scope: 650 Students, Grades 10 to 12, 1 School PROJECT PLAN Project Description: The project is needed to improve academic achievement and increase graduation rates. We will research and receive professional development on the concept of Professional Learning Communities to enable us to collaboratively establish a school wide "Pyramid of Interventions" that will be enacted proactively to prevent failure and reactively when we encounter failure. Our initial staff brainstorming has indicated that some of these interventions may include the following: a) systematic school wide extra-help sessions; b) departmental extra-help initiatives; c) enhanced communication systems to assist parents and students in identifying academic concerns; d) improving our counseling and recommendation process to ensure students are in programs that they can be most successful in, without closing doors and counseling qualified students into programs that are too easy for them; e) the development of a life skills program for students incapable of earning a regular diploma. The majority of our interventions will be developed by the faculty over the next three years. The interventions we will put in place will be research based and sustainable. Some of the areas that we would like to explore in particular are: a) the strategies enacted by the model schools in...
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...Art-Based Intervention for College Student’s Suffering from Anxiety According to the American College Health Association National College Health Assessment, Within the last 12 months, 21.9% of the students reported anxiety affected their individual academic performance, they either received a lower grade on an exam, course, received an incomplete or dropped the course. Twenty-three percent of the students also reported that in the last 2 week they felt overwhelming anxiety (American College Health). Anxiety, according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, is excessive and constant uneasiness and worry (DSM-5; American Psychiatric Association, 2013). College is a transitional phase—college students have to leave home, tackle new and more...
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...first-grade students did not have the reading readiness skills to be reading at their benchmark target. The purpose of the project was to improve the students overall reading ability. The project was for about four months. There were 74 students and 74 parents that participated in this research study. The teacher researchers noticed that the students lacked reading readiness skills that were necessary to meet grade level benchmarks. The teacher researchers used a parent survey, baseline assessments, and observational checklist to document evidence. The teacher researchers found from the parent survey that students who lacked interest in books and reading them demonstrated low reading readiness skills. The baseline assessment the students took showed an overall weakness in letter identification, initial sounds, medial sounds, and ending sounds. The observational checklist indicated difficulty with segmenting sounds, letter sound knowledge, inability to rhyme, decoding difficulties and reading miscues, poor comprehension, lack of interest in books, lack of print awareness skills, poor attentions spans, lack of response during whole group instruction, and off-task behaviors. The teacher researchers used a variety of interventions to improve their students overall reading skills. These interventions included small guided reading groups, word work, phonemic awareness drills, and posters that gave visual clues on how to decode unknown words. In the guided reading groups the students were paired...
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...Field Visit Report on Equivalency Program Prepared By: Ishrat Jahan Shukhi Equivalency Program Field Visit Report Name of the individual visited the project site | Ishrat Jahan Shukhi | Name of the project visited | Unique Intervention for Quality Primary Education (UNIQUE II) | Date of project visit | January 22,2014 | Project Location | Shareng Bari Bosti, Mirpur-1, Dhaka | Name of Local Non-ProfitOrganization operating thisproject | Dhaka Ahsania Mission | Equivalency Program In education, an Equivalency Programme is defined as an alternative educational programme Equivalent to existing formal general or vocational education. Countries in the Region have come to recognize the critical role of education in individual and societal development and ultimately, national development, hence, the constitutional mandate on education. The world-wide economic decline; widening disparities in the distribution of wealth among and within nations; the dire consequences of war, civic strife, crime, environmental degradation, and rapid population growth among others, pose problems for all nations, which unless addressed effectively will constrain development. These global crises have ushered in new challenges to, as well as opportunities for revitalising the education sector for the purpose of building productive human resources. Most developing countries have yet...
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...Youth at Risk Prevention Proposal – XYZ High School Anti-Bullying Program 20130228 Juvenile Justice Prevention Program Proposal Section 1. DESCRIBE THE TARGET GROUP The direct target group is the current freshman class at suburban middle class XYZ High School (XYZHS). Naturally, as the sophomore, junior, and senior classes matriculate through the school, they will be indirectly affected by the program and expected to hold true to the lessons and values taught in the anti-bullying curricula during their freshman year. The demographic for the direct and indirect target groups are as follows: • General Demographic o The population of residents ages 15 to 19 for the school district is 9,075 making up roughly 8.3 of the county population (Harnett County Schools, NC General Demographic Characteristics, n.d.). o Of the 108,885 residents, 71% are white, 23% are African American, 2% claim American Indian or Alaskan native as their race, 1.3% are Asian, 0.2% claim Pacific Islander, and 5.5% claim some other race (Harnett County Schools, NC General Demographic Characteristics, n.d.). o 9,171 residents or 8.4 of the county population are of Hispanic or Latino descent (Harnett County Schools, NC General Demographic Characteristics, n.d.). • Social Characteristics o Out of 39, 356 households, 1,130 are single fathers with kids under 18, and 3,918 are single mothers with kids under 18 (Harnett County Schools, NC Social Characteristics...
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...9th edition is not the same). Course Description: This course explores the theories and concepts managers can apply, on their own or in collaboration with an OD consultant, to drive effective change management initiatives within their departments or organizations. The course examines how to create and enact positive change in business at the systems level by understanding the elements of organizational design as well as theories and models pertinent to organizational change. The course focuses on large-scale OD interventions as well as strategies and tactics managers can employ to plan, enact and monitor change within their spheres of influence. Topics covered in the course include: understanding the fundamentals of organizational design; systems thinking and its impact on the change process; defining OD and the dynamics of change in relationship to organizational culture; exploring core OD values in the context of globalization; various OD interventions used at the individual, group and organizational levels; and key issues managers should weigh to initiate and successfully manage change processes within their organizations. Course content: Topics include: a. Basic elements of...
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...play an important role in fostering young peoples’ healthy development through the adolescent years (Meece, 2003). Thus, ignoring the developmental needs of students in school might result in the students developing a wrong notion of school until adulthood. Students’ eagerness and motivation to go to high school may decline as they go through their first year in high school if they may still lack the interaction they need to become familiar with and to be exposed to the high school’s norms and environment (Eccles & Midgley, 1989) (Barone, Aguirre-Deandreis, & Trickett, 1991). First year students tend to become lost in the “new world” they are in (Mizelle, 1995; Phelan, Yu, & Davidson, 1994) as they are expected to be more independent in high school, with less spoon-feeding of information and more application of good study habits. The new first year students are expected to be more mature as they deal with new classroom subjects, adopt a better value system, and be more proactive in all classroom activities, both extra- and co-curricular. Dealing with new and sometimes unfamiliar lessons, numerous projects and deadlines, adjusting in a new environment and taking on a different and new culture contribute to low marks in some of their subjects (Baronne, Aguirre-Deandreis, & Trickett, 1991). If not remedied, the students would lose their motivation to...
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...Project proposal 1. Title of the Proposed project Study the corelates of study habits among teen agers and development of intervention program and its improvement. 2. Back ground of the study Academic qualification, normally is the initial introduction of any person. Academic process starts from 1st year of school and is further shaped during all the years of school/college education. Academic qualification is achieved by learning and education. Process of formal learning takes place throughout life as a child in school and later as an adult in graduation/post-graduation. As most of the processes have parameters which govern performance of the process, learning process have parameters which are laid in early school years. Academic performance depends on study habits formed in early age. The relationship between study habit and students’ academic performance has for long received attention from scholars and educational agencies. Nuthane & Yenage (2009) have examined the causes of poor academic performance among university undergraduates. One of these factors identified was study habits. Early schooling years are normally spent at home with family. Family members are directly or indirectly influencing children in the early age for all sorts of habits including study habits. Like all other habits, once formed, habits are difficult to change. Family atmosphere is the initial setup through which child...
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...Appreciative Inquiry as a Team Development Intervention: A Controlled Experiment Gervase R. Bushe Ph.D. Graeme Coetzer MBA Faculty of Business Administration Simon Fraser University Burnaby, BC, Canada V5A 1S6 (604) 291-4104 FAX: (604) 291-4920 email: bushe@sfu.ca An edited version of this paper was published in the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 1995, 31:1, 13-30 Gervase R. Bushe (Ph.D. Case Western Reserve) is Associate Professor, Organization Development in the Faculty of Business Administration, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada, V5A 1S6. Graeme Coetzer (MBA Simon Fraser University) is a doctoral student in organization development in the Faculty of Business Administration, Simon Fraser University. Appreciative Inquiry as a Team Development Intervention: A Controlled Experiment ABSTRACT In a controlled laboratory experiment the effects of a team development intervention based on the theory of appreciative inquiry was compared with task oriented team development and lectures on group processes, outcomes and performance. 96 undergraduate students in two semesters of an introductory organization behaviour course participated in 4 person teams and had 13 weeks to complete a task worth 25% of each member's final grade. One third of teams received an appreciative inquiry intervention, another third received a task oriented team development intervention and the final third received a lecture on group...
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...Research Project Stacey N. Lodge St. Thomas University Abstract Teaching children with learning disabilities requires extensive knowledge in terminology and multiple frameworks of classroom instruction and management. When implementing different frameworks, it is imperative to understand the role of each concept and how it can be used successfully to support students with learning disabilities. Differentiated Instruction can be provided through Response to Intervention (RTI), the Universal Design for Learning (UDL), and Technology in the Classroom, which are all well-known frameworks or strategies when discussing the teaching of students with disabilities. This paper will discuss each framework and its use within the classroom. Terminology Research Project Teaching students with learning disabilities presents difficulties for teachers utilizing traditional teaching strategies. “As every veteran teacher realizes, students with learning disabilities and other learning disorders may be less engaged in the learning task, unable to cope with multiple instructions, and poorly organized in their thinking and work habits when compared with students without disabilities.” (Bender, 2012, p.1) With this in mind, experts in the field have, over the course of time, developed several frameworks to support students with learning disabilities in the classroom. These frameworks of differentiated instruction, The Universal Design for Learning (UDL), Response to Intervention (RTI), and...
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...Youth At-Risk: Preventing Student Dropouts and Facilitating Reintegration A State of Israel Experience Full Paper Melfi M. Caranto. Technological Institute of the Philippines, Manila Overview of Israel’s Educational System The wellbeing of the youth is being taken as a serious national issue in Israel and they have done concrete actions about it. First of all, Israel has a very good educational structure and system. Education is free and compulsory from 1st to 12th grade. There is no private school in Israel because almost all of the school is supported by the state. It is very interesting to note that there is no student who repeats a term because of difficulty coping with lessons. They have a good team who are composed of a school counsellor, a home room teacher and a subject teacher who ensures that a student is getting the attention and the help that he/she needs to finish the term or the school grade where they belong. The Baggrut or the Matriculation examination is a very systematic way of assessing a student’s readiness to land on a decent job or go to college after serving the army. It is a must for all students to enter the Israeli Defense Force (IDF). After finishing the 12th grade (senior high school) boys have to serve in the army for three years while the girls should serve for two years. Educational System In Israel |Age Bracket |Educational Level | |3-5 |Pre-Primary Education...
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...STUDY HABITS OF GRADE 10 STUDENTS AT TINAJEROS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL: A BASIS FOR INTERVENTION PROGRAM ________________________ A Thesis Presented to The Faculty of Graduate Studies and Applied Research City of Malabon University City of Malabon ________________________ In Partial Fulfilment Of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts in Educational Management ________________________ By CHERYL B. CISTER 2016 RECOMMENDATION FOR ORAL EXAMINATION This thesis entitled “STUDY HABITS OF GRADE 10 STUDENTS AT TINAJEROS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL: A BASIS FOR INTERVENTION PROGRAM” prepared and submitted by CHERYL B. CISTER in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Arts in Educational Management, has been examined and is hereby recommended for Oral Examination. LUCILA B. BONDOC, Ed. D. Adviser APPROVAL SHEET Approved in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master in Educational Management by the Oral Examination Committee. MARCELINA A. STO. TOMAS, Ed. D. Chairman GLORIA O. GOMEZ, Ed. D. LOURDES B. CABAÑERO, Ed. D. Member Member _________________________________________________________________ Accepted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Arts in Educational Management. December 22, 2015 Date ATTY. RAMON M. MARONILLA Acting Dean Graduate Studies...
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...interact, usually undertaken in order to improve the organization. The practice of organizational psychology consists of intervening with organizations to achieve one or more of the following objectives: (1) raise performance, (2) improve processes and relationships, (3) enhance fairness and equity, and (4) increase subjective well-being. Always within the context of organizations, interventions may focus on individuals, pairs of individuals, groups, combinations of groups or whole organizations. Methods of intervention derive from explicit psychological concepts and theories appropriate to the objectives and entities engaged in change processes. When fully utilized, the practice of organizational psychology begins with assessment or diagnosis, proceeds to design and implementation, and concludes with evaluation of the efforts to bring about change. Organizational psychology is practiced with service delivering and product generating organizations from the public, private and not-for-profit sectors of society. Mission: The purpose of the organizational psychology program is to provide students with the finest possible education for practice and for becoming license eligible in New Jersey and other states. Comparisons with Related Fields : Organizational psychology has common interests with both organizational behavior and industrial/organizational psychology. But the field also differs from these related disciplines. All three fields of study, for example, concern themselves...
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... Name: DONARD O. CABANGON School: CALAUAG NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL Period of Research: SCHOOL YEAR 2015-2016 Proposed Action Research Title: USE OF ICT THROUGH VIDEO PRESENTATION: AN INTERVENTION IN TEACHING COOKERY IN CALAUAG NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL I. Introduction: Teaching cookery among high students requires more time to facilitate the lessons and its activities. This is to comply to the K12 curriculum in senor high school in the TLE subject under the Technical Vocational Course with specialization in COOKERY. Having demonstrations in front of the students need ample time to prepare the...
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