159 research outputs found
An Innovative Design for Peer Mentoring: Tiered Cognitive Coaching
Preparing Coaches to support teachers’ literacy instruction is a critical role for faculty in Literacy programs. The curricula design of the method used to enhance the preparation of literacy coaches I describe in this article presents an innovative model to incorporate the authentic experiences of doctoral candidates to support master’s candidates participating in a practicum. While supporting the master’s degree candidates, the doctoral candidates also met the new standards from the International Literacy Association for the preparation of Literacy Coaches
Moving to a Virtual Literacy Practicum: Challenges and Solutions
When the university took the unprecedented move to virtual teaching at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, my challenge, as a teacher educator, was to plan a virtual literacy practicum for master candidates. All aspects of curriculum design were considered, from establishing relationships with schools, parents, and students, considering technology platforms, appropriate technology applications, to considering everyone’s emotional state. In this article, I share the many challenging aspects and the solutions that lead to successful experiences for all participants
Content and Methods of Teaching Literacy: The Effect of One-on-One Tutoring in Preservice Clinical Education in Two Low-Performing, Diverse School Settings on the Effectiveness of Preservice Teachers’ Reading Instruction
This is a study of preservice teachers’ ability to teach reading to struggling, diverse students, after participating in a school-embedded course incorporating a one-on-one tutorial directly supervised by reading experts. Changes in reading performance as well as plans to analyze changes in the preservice teachers will be discussed
Secondary Teachers’ Knowledge, Beliefs, and Self-Efficacy to Teach Reading in the Content Areas: Voices Following Professional Development
This study explored 24 content area teachers’ knowledge, beliefs, and self-efficacy about teaching reading in the content areas at the end of a state-wide professional development experience. The findings suggest that the participating teachers held positive beliefs, gained valuable knowledge, and were confident about teaching reading in their content areas
Toric anti-self-dual 4-manifolds via complex geometry
Using the twistor correspondence, this article gives a one-to-one
correspondence between germs of toric anti-self-dual conformal classes and
certain holomorphic data determined by the induced action on twistor space.
Recovering the metric from the holomorphic data leads to the classical problem
of prescribing the Cech coboundary of 0-cochains on an elliptic curve covered
by two annuli. The classes admitting Kahler representatives are described; each
such class contains a circle of Kahler metrics. This gives new local examples
of scalar-flat Kahler surfaces and generalises work of Joyce who considered the
case where the distribution orthogonal to the torus action is integrable.Comment: 25 pages, 2 figures, v2 corrected some misprints, v3 corrected more
misprints, published version (minus one typo
Toric anti-self-dual Einstein metrics via complex geometry
Using the twistor correspondence, we give a classification of toric
anti-self-dual Einstein metrics: each such metric is essentially determined by
an odd holomorphic function. This explains how the Einstein metrics fit into
the classification of general toric anti-self-dual metrics given in an earlier
paper (math.DG/0602423). The results complement the work of Calderbank-Pedersen
(math.DG/0105263), who describe where the Einstein metrics appear amongst the
Joyce spaces, leading to a different classification. Taking the twistor
transform of our result gives a new proof of their theorem.Comment: v2. Published version. Additional references. 14 page
Kinetic theory of Onsager's vortices in two-dimensional hydrodynamics
Starting from the Liouville equation, and using a BBGKY-like hierarchy, we
derive a kinetic equation for the point vortex gas in two-dimensional (2D)
hydrodynamics, taking two-body correlations and collective effects into
account. This equation is valid at the order 1/N where N>>1 is the number of
point vortices in the system (we assume that their individual circulation
scales like \gamma ~ 1/N). It gives the first correction, due to graininess and
correlation effects, to the 2D Euler equation that is obtained for
. For axisymmetric distributions, this kinetic equation
does not relax towards the Boltzmann distribution of statistical equilibrium.
This implies either that (i) the "collisional" (correlational) relaxation time
is larger than Nt_D, where t_D is the dynamical time, so that three-body,
four-body... correlations must be taken into account in the kinetic theory, or
(ii) that the point vortex gas is non-ergodic (or does not mix well) and will
never attain statistical equilibrium. Non-axisymmetric distributions may relax
towards the Boltzmann distribution on a timescale of the order Nt_D due to the
existence of additional resonances, but this is hard to prove from the kinetic
theory. On the other hand, 2D Euler unstable vortex distributions can
experience a process of "collisionless" (correlationless) violent relaxation
towards a non-Boltzmannian quasistationary state (QSS) on a very short
timescale of the order of a few dynamical times. This QSS is possibly described
by the Miller-Robert-Sommeria (MRS) statistical theory which is the
counterpart, in the context of two-dimensional hydrodynamics, of the
Lynden-Bell statistical theory of violent relaxation in stellar dynamics
Quasi-stationary States of Two-Dimensional Electron Plasma Trapped in Magnetic Field
We have performed numerical simulations on a pure electron plasma system
under a strong magnetic field, in order to examine quasi-stationary states that
the system eventually evolves into. We use ring states as the initial states,
changing the width, and find that the system evolves into a vortex crystal
state from a thinner-ring state while a state with a single-peaked density
distribution is obtained from a thicker-ring initial state. For those
quasi-stationary states, density distribution and macroscopic observables are
defined on the basis of a coarse-grained density field. We compare our results
with experiments and some statistical theories, which include the
Gibbs-Boltzmann statistics, Tsallis statistics, the fluid entropy theory, and
the minimum enstrophy state. From some of those initial states, we obtain the
quasi-stationary states which are close to the minimum enstrophy state, but we
also find that the quasi-stationary states depend upon initial states, even if
the initial states have the same energy and angular momentum, which means the
ergodicity does not hold.Comment: 9 pages, 7 figure
Recent changes in the Labrador Sea Water within the Deep Western Boundary Current southeast of Cape Cod
Author Posting. © The Author(s), 2011. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of Elsevier B.V. for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers 58 (2011): 1019-1030, doi:10.1016/j.dsr.2011.07.006.Water properties measured by the central mooring in the Line W mooring
array southeast of Cape Cod document a large character shift during the
period of November 2001 to April 2008. The observed temperature, salinity
and planetary potential vorticity (PPV) anomalies manifest changes in
the formation region of the water masses present at Station W, specifically
upper Labrador Sea Water (uLSW), deep Labrador Sea Water (dLSW) and
Overflow Water (OW). During the observation period, the minimum in the
PPV anomaly field relative to the record mean PPV profile migrated from
1500m, where it was originally found, to 700m. Temporal changes in the vertical
distribution of temperature and salinity were correlated with the PPV
changes. This suggests a dLSW-dominated first half of the record, versus an
uLSW-dominated second half. The structure of these anomalies is consistent
with observations within the Labrador Sea, and their transit time to Line W agrees well with tracer-derived times for signals spreading along the western
boundary. In that context, the observed water properties at Line W in the
early 2000s reflected the intense deep convection in the Labrador Sea in the
mid 1990s, with less intense convection subsequently affecting lighter isopycnals.
The observed velocity field is dominated by high-frequency (periods of
days to months) fluctuations, however, a fraction of the velocity variability is
correlated with changes in water mass properties, and indicate a gradual acceleration
of the southwestward flow, with a corresponding increase in Deep
Western Boundary Current transport.Financial support for the early observations (2001-2004) was provided by
the G. Unger Vetlesen Foundation. Observations collected as part of the Line
Wprogram (2004-2008) were funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation
(grants number OCE-0241354 and OCE-0726720) as well as funding from
WHOI’s Ocean and Climate Change Institute
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