A social skills group for children     

Estelle Macdonald  Uttom Chowdhury  Jackie Dabney  Miranda Wolpert  Samuel M. Stein 《Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties》2013,18(1):43-52

Abstract

An NHS Trust set up groups to teach social skills to children and adolescents using a cognitive behavioural framework. One group of seven children (five boys and two girls) is described. Parents were invited to a parallel parents' group. Each group lasted for 90 minutes and ran weekly for 6 weeks. Extensive liaison with parents and teachers took place before, during and after the group. Analysis of pre- and postgroup questionnaires sent to parents and teachers indicated improved social functioning, outside the group, for most of the children. Parents valued the dialogue with professionals and often felt supported by them for the first time. Therapists' contact with teachers ensured full knowledge of children's behaviour and the transfer of skills to schools. Cognitive behavioural techniques with children under-going group work require intensive liaison to facilitate generalization of skills learnt.  相似文献   

Interprofessional work in child and adolescent mental health services     

Steven Walker 《Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties》2013,18(3):189-204

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Parents and sex education—looking beyond ‘the birds and the bees’     

Joy Walker 《Sex education》2013,13(3):239-254

The social and political climate of sex education over the last two decades has dramatically changed, with parents now being encouraged to work in partnership with professionals. This paper seeks to further the argument that involving parents in their child's sex education does matter and can have an impact on their child's future sexual health. It discusses the reality of parents' roles and skills in providing sex education within the family. In particular, the discussion explores myths parents associate with sex education, involving fathers in provision, siblings as peer educators, health professionals' attitudes towards involving parents, and school partnerships. The author calls for professionals to involve parents alongside other sources of sex education in health and educational strategies to address sexual health issues and improve sex education. Otherwise future generations of children will experience a closed cultural attitude towards sexual matters and we will not achieve lower teenage pregnancy rates or view sex education positively.  相似文献   

MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR JEWISH EDUCATION     

Walter I. Ackerman  Samuel M. Blumenfield  Abraham P. Gannes  Alexander Schindler  Isaac Toubin  Charles Zibbell 《Journal of Jewish Education》2013,79(3):176-177

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WHAT MAKES A HEBREW BOOK READABLE     

Dr. Samuel Nahshon 《Journal of Jewish Education》2013,79(2):53-63

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A SUMMARY OF DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS ON JEWISH EDUCATION     

Samuel H. Dinsky 《Journal of Jewish Education》2013,79(4):262-269

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A study of the difficulties of care and support in new university teachers’ work     

Caroline Walker  Alan Gleaves  John Grey 《Teachers and Teaching》2013,19(3):347-363

This paper discusses some findings from a small‐scale qualitative study involving ‘new’ teachers in a medium sized, regional English university. Using Grounded Theory methods to inform and guide the research, the study explores participants’ views on working as both teachers and researchers whilst also managing considerable amounts of ‘caring work’ with a diverse body of students who often need academic and pastoral support in excess of that assumed within the university academic timetables or support networks. The voices of these teachers suggest that care is an overlooked aspect of university teachers’ work, yet it plays an important part in maintaining their and their students’ sense of scholarly endeavour. Further, our findings suggest that within the university at large there is a ‘discourse of difference’ in the way that many academics conceptualize and represent the student body and students’ needs to be supported. This discourse impacts on the development of new teachers’ identities and aspirations. Some implications of these findings for implementing strategies for supporting teachers to develop both academic and pastoral roles within universities are discussed.  相似文献   

Imagining a different life in school: educating student teachers about ‘looked after’ children and young people     

Alan Walker‐Gleaves  Caroline Walker 《Teachers and Teaching》2013,19(5-6):465-479

The research described in this paper concerns the acquaintance of student teachers with the educational and wider pastoral experiences of children and young people who are or have been ‘looked after’ and who they may well teach at some point, together with the familiarisation of student teachers with the ‘looked after’ system in the UK. We discuss an exploratory awareness‐raising curriculum project within a Teacher Education Department at a University in the UK that utilises digital multimedia to develop a ‘community of awareness’ of young people and student teachers. As a result of this work, the student teachers were able to reflect on their pedagogical knowledge and practices related to teaching and wider pupil pastoral care. Further, those involved in the project therefore not only learned how to use technology, but to apply it in meaningful, productive ways, which were potentially transforming in terms of appreciation and knowledge of diversity. Benefits for the participants – the young people involved and the student teachers, as well as implications for both student teachers’ understanding of diversity and limitations of the technology – are discussed.  相似文献   

Success by Degrees: Addressing Teacher Shortages through a School-Community College-University Partnership     

David A. Walker  Portia M. Downey  Diane Kuehl 《Community College Journal of Research & Practice》2013,37(12):959-969

Using a teacher recruitment and preparation model, a unique partnership between PK–12 schools, a community college, and a university is examined. The focus is on the training and credentialing of future educators, particularly from underrepresented backgrounds, in an efficient and quality manner to assist in meeting the current PK–12 teacher shortage. Data indicate that the partnership is progressing towards, or has met, its targets in addressing said shortage.  相似文献   

Exploratory analyses to improve model fit: Errors due to misspecification and a strategy to reduce their occurrence     

Samuel B. Green  Marilyn S. Thompson  Jennifer Poirier 《Structural equation modeling》2013,20(1):113-126

Two Lagrange multiplier (LM) methods may be used in specification searches for adding parameters to models: one based on univariate LM tests and respecification of the model (LM‐respecified method) and the other based on a partitioning of multivariate LM tests (LM‐incremental method). These methods may result in extraneous parameters being included in models due to either sampling error or the model being misspecified. A 2‐stage specification search may be used to reduce errors due to misspecification. In the 1st stage, parameters are added to models based on LM tests to maximize fit. Second, parameters added in the 1st stage are deleted if they are no longer necessary to maintain model fit. Illustrations are presented to demonstrate that errors due to misspecification occur with the LM‐respecified method and are even more likely with the LM‐incremental approach. These illustrations also show how the deletion stage can help eliminate some of these errors.  相似文献