Sweden: Political Developments and Data in 2019

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Collaborating to meet the needs of English learners

The research question addressed in this project was, how can a collaborative co-teaching model improve the language development of English learners? The motivating factor for this Capstone was to investigate how English instruction could be embedded into grade level content to minimize the time students are pulled from the mainstream classroom. The author uses related research to understand the need for collaborative co-teaching, the benefits and challenges, and the components necessary for making co-teaching successful. Teacher questionnaire responses, direct observations made by the author, and student test results inform this study. The data collected supports that co-teaching requires specialized knowledge of both teachers, adequate planning time, professional development opportunities, organized leadership, positive interactions between teaching partners, and realistic expectations. The author concludes that collaborative co-teaching, when done in a purposeful and informed manner, is a useful model of instruction for meeting the needs of English learners

Photon assisted CVD

Various aspects of photon-matter interactions are discussed in the frame of applications to chemical vapor deposition processes. Based on the examples of carbon and tungsten deposition, the influences of photon sources like lamps, pulsed- or cw-lasers on the deposition mechanisms are outlined. Peculiarities arising from the different interactions of photons with the gas phase and/or the substrate surface and their effect on the compositional or structural characteristics of the deposited material are described