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Web‐Teaching ‐ A Guide to Interactive Teaching for the World‐Wide Web by David W. Brooks, New York: Plenum, 1997. ISBN: 0–306–45552–8. Paperback, 214 pages. $30

Supervision of community health workers in Mozambique: a qualitative study of factors influencing motivation and programme implementation

Background Community health workers (CHWs) in Mozambique (known as Agentes Polivalentes Elementares (APEs)) are key actors in providing health services in rural communities. Supervision of CHWs has been shown to improve their work, although details of how it is implemented are scarce. In Mozambique, APE supervision structures and scope of work are clearly outlined in policy and rely on supervisors at the health facility of reference. The aim of this study was to understand how and which aspects of supervision impact on APE motivation and programme implementation. Methods Qualitative research methodologies were used. Twenty-nine in-depth interviews were conducted to capture experiences and perceptions of purposefully selected participants. These included APEs, health facility supervisors, district APE supervisors and community leaders. Interviews were recorded, translated and transcribed, prior to the development of a thematic framework. Results Supervision was structured as dictated by policy but in practice was irregular and infrequent, which participants identified as affecting APE’s motivation. When it did occur, supervision was felt to focus more on fault-finding than being supportive in nature and did not address all areas of APE’s work – factors that APEs identified as demotivating. Supervisors, in turn, felt unsupported and felt this negatively impacted performance. They had a high workload in health facilities, where they had multiple roles, including provision of health services, taking care of administrative issues and supervising APEs in communities. A lack of resources for supervision activities was identified, and supervisors felt caught up in administrative issues around APE allowances that they were unable to solve. Many supervisors were not trained in providing supportive supervision. Community governance and accountability mechanisms were only partially able to fill the gaps left by the supervision provided by the health system. Conclusion The findings indicate the need for an improved supervision system to enhance support and motivation and ultimately performance of APEs. Our study found disconnections between the APE programme policy and its implementation, with gaps in skills, training and support of supervisors leading to sub-optimal supervision. Improved methods of supervision could be implemented including those that maximize the opportunities during face-to-face meetings and through community-monitoring mechanisms

Give Water a Hand: Leader Guidbook

By opening this guidebook, you\u27ve taken the first step in helping young people Give Water A Hand. Here you\u27ll find step by step guidelines for helping your youth group or class (ages 9 14) make a difference for their community and the environment. This Leader Guidebook is for you, the youth leader, and accompanies the Action Guide, written for youth

John Malpede with Dillon de Give

John Malpede with Dillon de Give profiles Malpede\u27s individual works as well as the long term activities of the Los Angeles Poverty Department, a theater group partly composed of homeless and transient residents of LA\u27s Skid Row. The book is a formatted exchange between an established and an emerging artist. This book is part of the Reference Points series published through Portland State University Art and Social Practice MFA Program. The series is an evolving pedagogical framework in which graduate students formulate and research a significant topic or practitioner(s) related to socially engaged art. Because the series is designed to shift and respond to the concerns of the program\u27s current students and faculty, mode, structure, and content are open-ended.https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/reference_points/1007/thumbnail.jp

LAPORAN INDIVIDU PRAKTIK PENGALAMAN LAPANGAN (PPL) DI SMA NEGERI 4 MAGELANG

Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta sebagai salah satu Perguruan Tinggi yang mempunyai misi menyelenggarakan pendidikan akademik, profesi, dan vokasi dalam bidang kependidikan yang didukung bidang nonkependidikan untuk menghasilkan manusia unggul yang mengutamakan ketaqwaan, kemandirian, dan kecendikian. Misi tersebut kemudian diimplementasikan pada program pemberdayaan sekolah melalui jalur Praktik Pengalaman Lapangan (PPL) di sekolah. Pada kegiatan PPL ini, mahasiswa dapat memberikan bantuan pemikiran, tenaga serta ilmu pengetahuan dalam merencanakan dan melaksanakan program pengembangan sekolah. Sekolah Menengah Atas Negeri 4 Magelang yang beralamatkan di Jalan Panembahan Senopati No.42/47 merupakan lokasi yang digunakan untuk pelaksanaan kegiatan PPL selama kurang lebih 2 bulan pada semester khusus, mulai dilaksanakan 15 Juli 2016 sampai dengan 15 September 2016. Praktik Pengalaman Kerja (PPL) ini bertujuan untuk memberikan pengalaman mengajar bagi mahasiswa, sehingga nantinya diharapkan akan mempunyai kesiapan untuk menjadi seorang tenaga pendidik yang berkualitas. Dalam pelaksanaannya, mahasiswa PPL melaksanakan pembelajaran terbimbing dan pembelajaran mandiri pada mata pelajaran Seni Budaya (Seni Tari) sebanyak 7 kelas XI IPA 3, XI IPS 1, XI IPS 4, XI IPS 3, XII BAHASA, XII IPS 3, XII IPS 2 dengan jumlah pertemuan 7 kali pertemuan yang terdiri dari minggu pertama observasi kelas, 1 minggu untuk materi teori dan 5 kali pertemuan untuk materi praktek tari Zapin Melayu untuk kelas XI dan tari Polandia untuk kelas XII. Sehingga total pertemuan yakni 7 pertemuan. Melalui kegiatan Praktik Pengalaman Lapangan ini, praktikan mendapatkan banyak bekal seperti pengalaman serta gambaran nyata tentang kegiatan pembelajaran, serta nilai-nilai seperti kerja keras, kerjasama, tanggung jawab, dan disiplin. Selain itu, dapat membantu mahasiswa dalam mempersiapkan diri untuk menjadi tenaga pendidik yang profesional dan memiliki keterampilan mengajar. Untuk pelaksanaan PPL periode yang akan datang ada baiknya jika antara pihak sekolah dan mahasiswa lebih meningkatkan kerjasama agar dapat lebih bermanfaat bagi semua pihak

Diversité des approches contemporaines en Histoire comparée des religions

L'auteur de ces lignes, bien que personnellement engagé depuis longtemps dans l'étude des religions orientales et depuis quelques années dans un dialogue fraternel avec plusieurs de leurs représentants, n'a nullement la prétention d'être un spécialiste en religion comparée. II s'excuse donc auprès des lecteurs du caractère rapide et imparfait de ces quelques notes, qui ne visent qu'à donner une vue d'ensemble sans appareil technique. Quiconque s'intéresse au sujet peut se reporter à des ouvrages bien faits, de préférence à ceux des auteurs dont nous esquissons le point de vue. Ils appartiennent tous à la seconde moitié de notre siècle

Report on socio-economic, cultural, structural and technical barriers in access to Newcastle Disease (ND) and Contagious Caprine Pleuropneumonia (CCP) vaccines, Kenya

Bill and Melinda Gates FoundationGlobal Affairs Canada (GAC

GIVE: enhancing the capacity of women smallholder goat and poultry farmers to access and utilize CCPP and Newcastle Disease vaccines

Bill and Melinda Gates FoundationGlobal Affairs Canada (GAC

Uncovering Hidden Intentions: Exploring Prompt Recovery for Deeper Insights into Generated Texts

Today, the detection of AI-generated content is receiving more and more attention. Our idea is to go beyond detection and try to recover the prompt used to generate a text. This paper, to the best of our knowledge, introduces the first investigation in this particular domain without a closed set of tasks. Our goal is to study if this approach is promising. We experiment with zero-shot and few-shot in-context learning but also with LoRA fine-tuning. After that, we evaluate the benefits of using a semi-synthetic dataset. For this first study, we limit ourselves to text generated by a single model. The results show that it is possible to recover the original prompt with a reasonable degree of accuracy.Comment: Accepted at WNNLP 202

The Status of Music Education in United States Public Schools - 2017

This publication reports on the findings of a nationally representative survey of K-12 schools in the United States that offer music education. Results are reported at the school and teacher level on the status of music teaching and learning at elementary, middle, and high schools in the United States as of 2017.Give a Note Foundation and the CMA Foundatio