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Case Studies for Positive Behavior Supports in Classrooms and Schools
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Storey, Keith – Charles C. Thomas, Publisher, Ltd, 2021
This book addresses the critical need for highly qualified personnel to work with students that have varying support needs, and provides a framework for analyzing these needs. The exploration of Positive Behavior Supports in this text will serve as a guide to help prepare teachers, teachers in training, and other service providers to adequately…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Special Needs Students, Teacher Qualifications, Intervention
'Another Tool in My Toolbox': Training School Teaching Assistants to Use Dynamic Temporal and Tactile Cueing with Children with Childhood Apraxia of Speech
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Lim, Jacqueline; McCabe, Patricia; Purcell, Alison – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2019
This study explored the feasibility of training school teaching assistants to provide the treatment, Dynamic Temporal and Tactile Cueing to treat childhood apraxia of speech (CAS, also known as developmental verbal dyspraxia). The study used a single case experimental design across behaviours and a qualitative evaluation of teaching assistant…
Descriptors: Tactual Perception, Cues, Teaching Methods, Case Studies
Mentoring and Professional Development in Rural Head Start Classrooms
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Garner, Pamela W.; Carter McLean, Marsha; Waajid, Badiyyah; Pittman, Evelyn R. – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2015
The objective of this project was to develop and pilot a small-scale professional development program that incorporated substantial group and one-on-one mentoring aimed at preparing rurally based preschool teacher assistants to earn the Child Development Associate (CDA) credential. Using a framework that emphasized the relational, developmental,…
Descriptors: Mentors, Faculty Development, Rural Areas, Preschool Education
Social Justice or Status Quo? Blended Learning in a Western Canadian Teacher Education Program
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Snow, Kathy – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2016
Sustainable pre-service teacher education is needed to encourage academic success for under-represented populations, through both culturally responsive and alternative programming options (Carr-Stewart, Balzer, & Cottrell, 2013). In 2013, the Western Canadian University that served as the basis for this case study, implemented a blended…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Foreign Countries, Blended Learning, Multicultural Education
Implementing EFL Policy Reform in Elementary Schools in Japan: A Case Study
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Machida, Tomohisa; Walsh, Daniel J. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2015
This case study examines the implementation of "Foreign Language Activities" (English language education), which officially began in Japanese elementary schools in 2011. Subjects in this study included 37 Japanese classroom teachers (20 males and 17 females) in four elementary schools in Tokyo. The Teacher Foreign Language Anxiety Scale…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Program Implementation, English (Second Language), Educational Change
Students with a Severe Visual Impairment Taking Modern Foreign Language Modules: The Role of the Support Worker
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Lewin-Jones, Jenny; Hodgson, Joe – Language Learning Journal, 2006
The Special Education and Disability Act (SENDA) 2001 required post-16 institutions to have implemented the Disability Discrimination Act Part IV (DDA) 1995 by September 2005. In this paper a lecturer in Modern Foreign Languages (MFL) and a specialist teacher of the visually impaired from the Centre for Special and Inclusive Education at a…
Descriptors: Inclusive Schools, Visual Impairments, Disability Discrimination, Modern Languages