Building Teacher Capacity to Support English Language Learners in Schools Receiving School Improvement Grants

The Study of School Turnaround examines the improvement process in a purposive sample of 35 case study schools receiving federal funds through the School Improvement Grants (SIG) program over a three-year period (2010 -- 11 to 2012 -- 13 school years). This brief focuses on 11 of these SIG schools with high proportions of English Language Learner (ELL) students (a median of 45 percent ELLs), describing their efforts to improve teachers' capacity for serving ELLs through staffing strategies and professional development (PD). Key findings that emerged from the ELL case study data collected during the 2011 -- 12 and 2012 -- 13 school years include:Few schools reported leveraging staffing strategies to improve teacher capacity for serving ELLs. Administrators in 3 of the 11 schools reported considering ELL expertise and experience when hiring classroom teachers, while respondents in 2 of the 11 schools reported that teachers' ELL expertise and experience purposefully factored into assignment of teachers to specific classrooms.Most teacher survey respondents (54 to 100 percent) in all 11 schools reported participating in ELL-related PD during the 2011 -- 12 school year. On average, teachers reported that ELL-related PD accounted for less than 20 percent of their total PD hours.Teacher survey respondents in schools that reported a greater PD focus on ELL-related topics, such as instructional strategies for advancing English proficiency or instructional strategies to use for ELLs within content classes, also generally appeared more likely to report that PD improved their effectiveness as teachers of ELLs

Determination of stress-strain properties of thawing soils in oedometer

Article presents relation of thawing coefficient (Ath) and compressibility coefficient during thawing (m) to the sampling depth and physical state of frozen soils in loams, typical for the Arctic region of the European part of Russia. Conclusions are drawn that help to predict thawing deformation of the tested soils according to their physical characteristics

Mapping Digital Media: Russia

Examines trends in Russia's media system, including media consumption, media ownership, the use of television as an organ of executive power, and the effect of digital media on freedom of speech, pluralism, civic participation, and news quality

TESTING AND ASSESSMENT IN TRAINING BACHELORS IN PEDAGOGY

Цель: Статья посвящена актуальной, в условиях совершенствования системы профессионального педагогического образования в России, проблеме организации контрольно-оценочной деятельности с позиций деятельностного подхода. Предметом анализа выступают условия, обеспечивающие эффективность организации контрольно-оценочной деятельности. Авторы ставят перед собой цель: выявить содержательный и процессуальный компоненты контрольно-оценочной деятельности.Метод или методология проведения работы: основу работы составляет теоретико-методологический анализ, анализ передового педагогического опыта, анализ собственного педагогического опыта.Результаты: Выявлены электронные образовательные ресурсы, использование которых позволяет будущим учителям начальных классов приобрести личный опыт организации контрольно-оценочной деятельности. Рассмотрены задания, связанные с анализом конкретных продуктов деятельности обучающихся и учителей. Определен перечень образовательных продуктов, создаваемых студентами при изучении учебных дисциплин, являющихся результатом организации их контрольно-оценочной деятельности. Авторы утверждают, что формирование ориентировочной основы контроля и оценки в соответствии с требованиями ФГОС НОО реализуется только в деятельностном подходе.Область применения результатов: Результаты исследования могут быть применены при подготовке будущих учителей начальной школы к осуществлению эффективной контрольно-оценочной деятельности.Goal: The article looks at the problem of testing and assessment from the activity approach perspective, the issue is especially topical for improving the system of professional pedagogical education in Russia. The conditions necessary for efficient testing and assessment activity are being studied. The goal of the authors is to detect the substantial and procedural components of testing and assessment activity.Method and Methodology: theoretical and methodological study of best practice in pedagogy as well as analysis of the authors’ experience form the theoretical and methodological basis of the paper.Results: There have been discovered electronic educational resources, which enable preservice primary school teachers to acquire personal experience of testing and assessment. Tasks related to the analysis of particular products of students’ and teachers’ activity have been studied. There has been created a list of educational products, which students create in the course of their academic studies and which become the result of their testing and assessment activity. The authors assert that creating the basis of control and assessment compliant with the Federal State Standard of Primary General Education can only be realized through activity approach.Scope of Application: The results of the study can be applied in training preservice primary school teachers in order to improve their testing and assessment skills

First record of the invasive mosquito species Aedes koreicus (Diptera, Culicidae) in the Republic of Kazakhstan

The natural distribution range of Aedes koreicus is Korea, China, Japan, and the Russian Far East. Since 2008, this species has been recorded as an invasive species in some European countries (Belgium, European Russia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Slovenia, and Switzerland). The invasive mosquito species Ae. koreicus is reported from the Republic of Kazakhstan for the first time. Its morphological identification was confirmed by molecular-genetic analyses of ND4 sequences using specific primers. Aedes koreicus larvae were found in an artificial water reservoir together with the larvae of Culiseta longiareolata and Culex pipiens s.l. Aedes koreicus successfully overwintered in Almaty at low winter temperatures in 2018–2019. This suggests that the Ae. koreicus acclimation capacity is greater than it has been considered until now. We assume that Ae. koreicus will spread over the west and south of the Republic of Kazakhstan and territories of Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan Republics bordering the Almaty region

First record of the invasive mosquito species Aedes koreicus (Diptera, Culicidae) in the Republic of Kazakhstan

The natural distribution range of Aedes koreicus is Korea, China, Japan, and the Russian Far East. Since 2008, this species has been recorded as an invasive species in some European countries (Belgium, European Russia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Slovenia, and Switzerland). The invasive mosquito species Ae. koreicus is reported from the Republic of Kazakhstan for the first time. Its morphological identification was confirmed by molecular-genetic analyses of ND4 sequences using specific primers. Aedes koreicus larvae were found in an artificial water reservoir together with the larvae of Culiseta longiareolata and Culex pipiens s.l. Aedes koreicus successfully overwintered in Almaty at low winter temperatures in 2018–2019. This suggests that the Ae. koreicus acclimation capacity is greater than it has been considered until now. We assume that Ae. koreicus will spread over the west and south of the Republic of Kazakhstan and territories of Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan Republics bordering the Almaty region

Abstracts from the 20th International Symposium on Signal Transduction at the Blood-Brain Barriers

https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/138963/1/12987_2017_Article_71.pd

Киберспортивные трансляции как тренд спортивной журналистики

В выпускной квалификационной работе анализируется явление киберспортивной трансляции и его специфика, а именно: жанровая принадлежность, характерные черты, особенности внешнего вида и комментирования. Также киберспортивная трансляция рассматривается как журналистский продукт и как тренд. Анализ явления проводится на примере пяти трансляций финалов киберспортивного соревнования League of Legends World Championship 2011-2015 годов. Исследование направлено на то, чтобы определить место киберспортивной трансляции в системе журналистских жанров, продемонстрировать медийную актуальность и коммерческий потенциал данного вида продукта