Developing Comprehensive School Safety and Mental Health Programs

Developing Comprehensive School Safety and Mental Health Programs
Author: Jeffrey C. Roth
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2021-07
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781003150510

Developing Comprehensive School Safety and Mental Health Programs offers an integrated, long-term plan to create safe and supportive learning environments. This user-friendly guide illustrates how to develop, implement, evaluate, and sustain multiple evidence-based programs that work. This book informs school mental health professionals, administrators, and teachers about multi-tiered service delivery, organizational development, and facilitating the implementation process. It describes the complementary roles of school administrators, counselors, and school psychologists, providing school staff with time, resources, and ongoing support to strengthen their skills and sustain programs they have embraced. It expresses empathy and appreciation for teachers, advocating for their personal growth, professional collaboration, and stress management. School leaders, facilitators, and teams are provided the knowledge, skills, and long-term plans to effectively advocate, assess needs, select programs, train and encourage staff, provide resources, and implement, evaluate, and sustain desired goals.

Integrated Approaches to STEM Education

Integrated Approaches to STEM Education
Author: Judy Anderson
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 569
Release: 2020-12-23
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3030522296

This book provides a platform for international scholars to share evidence for effective practices in integrated STEM education and contributes to the theoretical and practical knowledge gained from the diversity of approaches. Many publications on STEM education focus on one or two of the separate STEM disciplines without considering the potential for delivering STEM curriculum as an integrated approach.This publication analyzes the efficacy of an integrated STEM curriculum and instruction, providing evidence to examine and support various integrations. The volume focuses on the problems seen by academics working in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and provides valuable, high quality research outcomes and a set of valued practices which have demonstrated their use and viability to improve the quality of integrated STEM education.

The Integration of the Humanities and Arts with Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in Higher Education

The Integration of the Humanities and Arts with Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in Higher Education
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2018-06-21
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0309470641

In the United States, broad study in an array of different disciplines â€"arts, humanities, science, mathematics, engineeringâ€" as well as an in-depth study within a special area of interest, have been defining characteristics of a higher education. But over time, in-depth study in a major discipline has come to dominate the curricula at many institutions. This evolution of the curriculum has been driven, in part, by increasing specialization in the academic disciplines. There is little doubt that disciplinary specialization has helped produce many of the achievement of the past century. Researchers in all academic disciplines have been able to delve more deeply into their areas of expertise, grappling with ever more specialized and fundamental problems. Yet today, many leaders, scholars, parents, and students are asking whether higher education has moved too far from its integrative tradition towards an approach heavily rooted in disciplinary "silos". These "silos" represent what many see as an artificial separation of academic disciplines. This study reflects a growing concern that the approach to higher education that favors disciplinary specialization is poorly calibrated to the challenges and opportunities of our time. The Integration of the Humanities and Arts with Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in Higher Education examines the evidence behind the assertion that educational programs that mutually integrate learning experiences in the humanities and arts with science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM) lead to improved educational and career outcomes for undergraduate and graduate students. It explores evidence regarding the value of integrating more STEMM curricula and labs into the academic programs of students majoring in the humanities and arts and evidence regarding the value of integrating curricula and experiences in the arts and humanities into college and university STEMM education programs.

Developing Integrated Programs

Developing Integrated Programs
Author: Marcia Cain Coling
Publisher:
Total Pages: 158
Release: 1991
Genre: Education
ISBN:

This book presents an amalgam of early intervention ideas from the fields of education, occupational therapy, and physical therapy for children with developmental delays. An introductory chapter describes the approach's three theoretical bases: neurodevelopmental treatment (NDT), sensory integration, and Piagetian theory. Chapter 1 considers assessment, including determination of eligibility, screening, diagnosis, evaluation for program planning, and program evaluation. NDT program components are reviewed in Chapter 2, including positioning, handling, and facilitating movement. Chapter 3 considers sensory integration program components including tactile, vestibular, and proprioceptive activities. Piagetian program components such as play and cognitive content are described in the fourth chapter, covering object permanence, means-ends and cause-effect, gestural and vocal imitation, and spatial relationships. Chapter 5 presents speech-language program components including feeding, speech production, auditory responsiveness, communication, and augmentative communication. Chapter 6 offers guidelines for integrating program components, with sections on the team model, team members, services delivered by the transdisciplinary team, in-service programs, incorporating therapy in the classroom, and development of individualized programs. Four appendixes list assessment and instructional resources. A glossary and a bibliography of 120 items are also included. (DB)

Integrative and Interdisciplinary Curriculum in the Middle School

Integrative and Interdisciplinary Curriculum in the Middle School
Author: Lisa M Harrison
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 133
Release: 2020-02-24
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000044963

Originally published as a special issue of the Middle School Journal, this book presents integrative curriculum as a foundational element of the middle school. By addressing the current gap in literature on curriculum integration in the middle grades, this text explores how learning can be organized around authentic concepts or questions which cut across disciplines and speak to young adolescents. Providing a current, nuanced, and comprehensive review of what it means to embrace and implement an interdisciplinary and integrative curriculum, the volume considers how educators can create and deliver a high-quality integrative curriculum which is enjoyable, challenging, and inclusive. Examples of implementation in teacher preparation programs and middle grade classrooms showcase integrative approaches and illustrate how curricula have been key in tackling social inequities, increasing engagement with STEM, and supporting collaboration. This text will be of great interest to graduate and postgraduate students, researchers, academics and libraries in the field of Middle School Education, Curriculum Studies, Teacher Education, Theories of Learning, and STEM Education.

International Social Work

International Social Work
Author: David Cox
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 641
Release: 2012-12-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 148332138X

International Social Work: Issues, Strategies, and Programs, Second Edition draws together the practice wisdom emerging within the broad scope of international social work practice and its role in contributing to the international community's efforts in combating the major global social problems of poverty, conflict and postconflict reconstruction, the development of countries and disadvantaged populations, migration and displacement, and the needs of specific populations such as child soldiers and AIDS orphans. Utilizing an integrated perspectives approach incorporating global, human rights, ecological and social development perspectives, the International Social Work, 2e is designed to prepare social workers, human services professionals, development practitioners who desire to play significant roles in responding to modern global challenges that are critical to the well-being of people, communities, nations and ultimately of us all.

Modern Approaches to Discrete, Integrated Component and System Reliability Engineering

Modern Approaches to Discrete, Integrated Component and System Reliability Engineering
Author: Mr. John Jay
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2016-02-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1514451360

This book covers the, methodology and processes required for a successful new product system, component and device development reliability. This book covers introductory definition of reliability terms and gradually build reliability and develop models from components, systems, software reliability and show case study examples of how these methodologies are used was illustrated. This book is the outgrowth of my over 22 years of professional engineering experience in semiconductor industry and systems. This book unlike any other textbook on the subject, presents the processes of reliability engineering conceptually, and with minute details to encourage understanding and assimilation of the material and to show how the concept of reliability is translated from mathematical probability to full product reliability testing. This book bridges the gaps of reliability introduced by the rapid semiconductor advances, process miniaturization, new package and material advances and attempts to shorten new product development, and manufacturing release cycles.

Teams in Education

Teams in Education
Author: Jerry Arcaro
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 126
Release: 1995-04-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781884015526

Easy to use and understand, Teams in Educa-tion: Creating An Integrated Approach is a tool for education professionals who need or want to develop cross-functional or departmental teams in education. This new handbook was specifically designed to provide education professionals with a practical, pragmatic way to create and manage quality teams. Although there are many team handbooks available today, most are complex and difficult to follow for the average individual. In addition, these books are expensive and many schools or school districts cannot afford to purchase a copy for everyone. Unlike these existing handbooks, Teams in Education is clearly written in straightforward language that simply describes how to create and manage teams. The reader quickly understands the processes to follow to ensure total participation in team activities and is given the tools to measure and document team progress. As one education professional explained, the reader develops the expertise and understanding necessary to eliminate and manage conflict. This unique handbook also contains a simple process to encourage everyone to participate in the quality initiative. The 5+5 program outlined in this book is used to demonstrate to staff that no improvement is too small. This technique makes it easier for staff to show the added value of their quality activities to administrators and school board members. Special feature - this 5+5 program is the only program designed to collect the data education professionals need to show that they are making improvements in student and administrative outcomes.