Understanding Novice Special Education Teachers’ and Paraeducators’ Mentorship Relationships: A Comparative Case Study

Novice special education teachers (SETs) often report on stress and burnout in their jobs, identifying collaboration with colleagues as a factor that supports them during the first years (Belknap & Taymans, 2015). While previous research focused on teachers\u27 support from their mentor teachers, administrators, and colleagues, in this study we examined the mentorship relationship between SETs and their classroom paraeducators. We analyzed interviews of three novice SETs who taught in a large urban school district. All participants taught in Special Day Classrooms (SDC) and worked closely with paraeducators. The findings of this comparative case study suggest that these relationships are important for teachers\u27 assimilation in the classroom. Results show the mentorship can be bidirectional, where experienced paraeducators support the novice teacher, or where teachers who take an active role in mentoring their team. In addition, findings suggest that in the absence of any mentorship, the relationship with the paraeducators becomes a burden for novice teachers as they try to navigate their new roles and duties. The paper provides recommendations for practice and future research

Practice of formation of cognitive competence of a future manager

The article justifies a necessity of introduction of a cognitive component, which creates prerequisites of mastering technologies of generation of new knowledge by a graduate with the use of own original schemes and skills, into the system of competences that are formed by the higher school. The article shows the process of formation of the graduate’s cognitive competence in the form of a succession of such its getting more complicated variants as educational, educational and cognitive, intellectual and cognitive, research, and scientific and research. The article provides such elements as the goal, result, assessment criteria and the nature of pedagogical accompaniment in each variant of the structural and logic model of cognitive activity. It provides real examples of results of formation of educational competence taken from the disciplines of the curriculum of training managers. It identifies the final goal of the new technology of the educational process – formation of ability of a student on the basis of analysis of publications and practical experience to detect a new problem, draw up a gnoseological and ontological picture of the world that facilitate development of a constructive mechanism of its collective study, formulate hypotheses, find and realise methods of their examination and identify novelty of the obtained results

Variasi Perbedaan Jumlah Denyut Nadi Penyelam Tradisionalpada Simulasi Penyelaman

: Human dive response aims to conserve oxygen. Direct contact of the water on the forehead, eyes and nose is a strong stimulus for which is innervated by the trigeminal nerve stimulation causes inhibition against respiratory and vasomotor centers and the activation of cardiac vagal motoneuron. The cardiovascular response that causes a decrease in the heart rate and vasoconstriction Facial cold receptors more strongly activated by low water temperature (10 – 150C). The specific objective of this study was to analyze differences in pulse number of healthy male traditional diver before, while, and after simulated dives. This research is an experimental study with 20 analytical samples are housed in Malalayang 2 Data were analyzed using SPSS and Test T. The results of this study found the number of pulses during a breath hold and facial immersion in cold water was significantly lower than that before doing the activity (p = 0.0001) with 17.1±10.2 difference. The number after the pulse raised face of the water was significantly higher than the current hold your breath and facial immersion in cold water (p = 0.0001), with the difference in the amount of as much as 16.6±10.8 pulse. Conclusion : there are significant difference (p = 0.0001) number of pulses in healthy male traditional divers during the interim before and after the while doing simulations hold your breath and dive with facial immersion in cold water.

Colocalization of increased transforming growth factor-β-induced protein (TGFBIp) and Clusterin in Fuchs endothelial corneal dystrophy

PURPOSE: To investigate the differential expression of TGFBIp in normal human and Fuchs endothelial corneal dystrophy (FECD) endothelial cell-Descemet’s membrane (HCEC-DM) complex, and to asses the structural role of TGFBIp and clusterin (CLU) in guttae formation. METHODS: HCEC-DM complex was dissected from stroma in normal and FECD samples. Proteins were separated by 2-D gel electrophoresis and subjected to proteomic analysis. N-terminal processing of TGFBIp was detected by Western blot analysis with two separate antibodies against the N- and C-terminal regions of TGFBIp. Expression of TGFBI mRNA was compared by using real-time PCR. Subcellular localization of TGFBIp and CLU in corneal guttae was assessed by fluorescence confocal microscopy. RESULTS: A major 68-kDa fragment and a minor 39-kDa fragment of TGFBIp were identified on 2-D gels. Western blot analysis revealed an age-dependent proteolytic processing of the TGFBIp N terminus resulting in the increased formation of 57-kDa (P = 0.04) and 39-kDa (P = 0.03) fragments in older donors. FECD HCEC-DM showed a significant increase in the 68-kDa (P = 0.04), 57-kDa (P = 0.01), and 39- kDa (P = 0.03) fragments of TGFBIp. Real-time PCR analysis revealed that TGFBI mRNA was significantly increased (P = 0.04) in FECD samples. TGFBIp formed aggregates at the lower portions of guttae, next to Descemet’s membrane, whereas CLU localized mostly on top of the TGFBIp-stained areas at the level of the endothelial cell nuclear plane. CONCLUSIONS: The overexpression of proaggregative protein CLU, and proadhesive protein TGFBIp, have been colocalized in the guttae. Such findings provide us with a better understanding of the major contributors involved in the aberrant cell-extracellular matrix interactions seen in the guttae of patients with FECD