School psychologist know thyself: Creativity and alonetime for adaptive professional coping     

Steven Hoff  Ester S. Buchholz 《Psychology in the schools》1996,33(4):309-317

School psychologists' need for coping strategies to deal with increasing job stress is widely acknowledged. Interventions, however, fail to adequately consider inner emotional and spiritual experiences. We believe that without exploring these dimensions of experience we are neglecting and ignoring the fastest route to improved mental health. We focus specifically on creativity and aloneness, viewing these basic human phenomena as promising avenues for exploration. Creativity is viewed as an innate quality that can be accessed via a person's opportunity to experience states of reflective, calm solitude. Aloneness, conceptualized here as “alonetime,” is considered a critical developmental need that originates in infancy and persists throughout the human life cycle (Buchholz & Chinlund, 1994). We suggest creativity and alonetime are presently untapped inborn resources representing flexible and viable coping tools with important potential implications for mental health. In this model lack of creativity and alonetime provide warning to the school psychologist, who upon sensing danger is able to implement required interventions. Even though the school setting seems an unlikely place we suggest the individual as well as the system make alonetime a top priority, leading to less stressed, more “self-actualized” practitioners. © 1996 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.  相似文献   

Breaking down buy-in: Can lessons from social psychology increase teacher use of proactive behavior management?     

Rachel E. Robertson 《Psychology in the schools》2020,57(11):1771-1786

Disruptive student behavior poses significant challenges for teachers and is associated with negative student outcomes. Research shows that teacher use of empirically-based proactive behavior management (PBM) can improve student outcomes; however, research also indicates that teacher use of PBM is low. One prominent factor in teacher use of PBM is “buy-in,” or personal interest, agreement, and investment in the implementation of a practice. When teachers buy in to an intervention, they may be more likely to implement and maintain the intervention with fidelity. Yet, there is little empirically-based understanding of buy-in or strategies known to increase the buy-in of school staff. The purpose of this paper is to describe research from social psychology that may be useful in developing a theoretical framework for buy-in, as well as approaches to increasing teacher buy-in and use of PBM. Implications for incorporating strategies from social psychology into teacher professional development to increase buy-in and use of PBM are discussed.  相似文献   

Exploring alternative assessments for signing deaf candidates     

Rachel O'Neill  Audrey Cameron  Eileen Burns  Gary Quinn 《Psychology in the schools》2020,57(3):344-361

Attitudes to sign languages or language policies are often not overtly discussed or recorded but they influence deaf young people's educational opportunities and outcomes. Two qualitative studies from Scotland investigate the provision of British Sign Language as accommodation in public examinations. The first explores the views of deaf pupils and staff about the official system for face-to-face interpretation of exam papers. The second investigates a centrally translated digital paper with embedded video questions. Discussion focuses on contrasts between the USA and UK approaches to accommodations, raising issues of standardized technical terms in signed languages, the right to respond in sign, and candidate choice.  相似文献   

The school psychologist as a facilitator of a community-wide project to enhance positive learning climate in elementary schools     

Rachel Hertz-Lazarowitz  Moshe Od-Cohen 《Psychology in the schools》1992,29(4):348-358

This study describes a community-wide experimental change program that was initiated by a school psychologist who served as a system facilitator and change agent. The program strived to improve social climate in the classroom, and was executed in the fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-grade classrooms of an entire school system in northern Israel. This paper describes the program's design and rationale as well as its activities. Thirty-three classrooms participated, all of which were assigned randomly into three treatments: two experimental programs working on topics in classroom life, one in small-group settings and the other in whole-class settings, and one control (no program). Classroom climate was measured twice (pre-and posttest) during the school year by answering a modified Hebrew version of the Walberg and Anderson questionnaire developed by Hertz-Lazarowitz and Sharan (1979). Results indicated that increase in positive social climate control occurred in the experimental small-group program in all grade levels. The whole-class treatment showed improvement in higher grades, whereas the no-program control classrooms showed a significant decrease in classroom climate during the year. Three main factors were explained as contributing to the impact of the program on positive social climate. From an organizational perspective, (a) the participation and collegial support of teachers within the school with (b) the active leadership of the school psychologist helped improve social climate. Lastly, (c) the children's responses revealed the importance of experiencing cognitively and affectively the content of the program. This program, with certain modifications, became a consistent part of the school curricula.  相似文献   

The Dutch way of death     

Nowak R 《New scientist (1971)》1992,134(1826):28-30

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Developing a model for e‐prints and open access journal content in UK further and higher education     

Alma Swan  Paul Needham  Steve Probets  Adrienne Muir  Charles Oppenheim  Ann O'Brien  Rachel Hardy  Fytton Rowland  Sheridan Brown 《Learned Publishing》2005,18(1):25-40

A study carried out for the UK Joint Information Systems Committee examined models for the provision of access to material in institutional and subject‐based archives and in open access journals. Their relative merits were considered, addressing not only technical concerns but also how e‐print provision (by authors) can be achieved – an essential factor for an effective e‐print delivery service (for users). A ‘harvesting’ model is recommended, where the metadata of articles deposited in distributed archives are harvested, stored and enhanced by a national service. This model has major advantages over the alternatives of a national centralized service or a completely decentralized one. Options for the implementation of a service based on the harvesting model are presented.  相似文献   

Religious broadcasting on UK television: Policy,public perception and programmes     

Rachel Viney 《Cultural Trends》1999,9(36):1-28

This chapter assesses the developments in UK religious broadcasting over the last 20 years in both the BBC and independent television. Debate about the role and purpose of religious broadcasting is nothing new. However, the debate has taken on new significance recently in the light of wider consideration by broadcasting bodies and the government about the meaning and purpose of public service broadcasting in a multi‐channel television environment.

The first part of the chapter maps developments in broadcasting policy, with particular reference to statements issued by the BBC's and Independent Television Commission's advisory body, the Central Religious Advisory Committee. The chapter also highlights the impact of the changing religious make‐up of the UK, and the advent of dedicated religious television channels on the content of religious broadcasting.

The second part looks at the audience. Research findings may initially suggest that religious programmes are seen primarily as being for ‘other people’. However, closer examination of the audience shows that religious programmes are still watched by the majority of the adult population. And although viewers over 55 are well represented in the audience for many programmes, the audience for religious television is in reality more diverse than public and broadcasting industry perceptions would suggest.

Programmes are the focus of the third part of the chapter. While the amount of time devoted to religious programmes on BBC1 and ITV has remained at similar levels, the scheduling of religious programmes has moved away from peak time on both channels, but particularly so on ITV. Both channels have reduced the amount of religious programme time devoted to acts of worship. The official figures for amounts of religious broadcasting do not tell the whole story, however. Discussion continues both about the definition of ‘religious’ programmes and the future of religious broadcasting departments.

The challenge for religious broadcasting is to redefine itself for the digital age, without narrowing its scope.  相似文献   

Sir Gawain's Pentangle: interdisciplinarity in English and Mathematics     

Christine Richards  Rachel Gibbons 《Changing English: An International Journal of English Teaching》1998,5(2):135-146

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The Effectiveness of Video as a Learning Tool in On‐line Multimedia Modules     

Rachel Ellis  Mark Childs 《Learning, Media and Technology》1999,24(3):217-223

The Broadnet Project produced on‐line interactive multimedia training modules in order to support local small and medium sized (SME) businesses. Two of these modules used videos which were incorporated into the modules and were designed to stream over the Broadnet network. These videos were produced by several different contributors to the project. This report examines the producers’ views and SME trainees’ perceptions of the effectiveness of the videos as training material. Findings suggests that it is the interactive nature of the videos with the clips and questions, and the use of narrative incorporating the information which these trainees found most useful for learning.  相似文献   

如果我们都不用睡觉?     

Rachel Dratch 《海外英语》2007,(10):29

Lindsay Lohan's and Paris Hilton's all-nighters would be no big deal. We'd be like, "You stayed up all night? So what. So did my grandma."There would be no need of Starbucks.  相似文献