Curriculum in science for the preparation of elementary school teachers at the State normal school, Johnson, Vermont

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston Universit

Can continuing professional development utilizing a game-centered approach improve the quality of physical education teaching delivered by generalist primary school teachers?

The primary objective of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of a continuing professional development (CPD) intervention in producing changes in physical education (PE) teaching practice and PE teaching quality by generalist primary school teachers when the CPD addressed the use of a game-centred approach. A cluster randomized controlled trial was conducted in seven primary schools in the Hunter Region, New South Wales, Australia. One year six teacher from each school was randomized into the Professional Learning for Understanding Games Education (PLUNGE) intervention ( n = 4 teachers) or the 7-week wait-list control ( n = 3) condition. The PLUNGE intervention (weeks 1–5) used an instructional framework to improve teachers’ knowledge, understanding and delivery of a game-centred curriculum, and included an information session and weekly in-class mentoring. The intervention was designed to enhance content and pedagogical knowledge for the provision of pedagogy focused on a broad range of learning outcomes. Teaching quality was assessed at baseline and follow-up (weeks 6 and 7) via observation of two consecutive PE lessons using the Quality Teaching Lesson Observation Scales. Linear mixed models revealed significant group-by-time intervention effects ( p &lt; 0.05) for the quality of teaching (effect size: d = 1.7). CPD using an information session and mentoring, and a focus on the development of the quality of teaching using a game-centred pedagogical approach was efficacious in improving the quality of PE teaching among generalist primary school teachers. </jats:p

Prospectus, February 15, 1984

ELECTION RESULTS; News Digest; Blacks added to local history; Letter from the editor; Letter to the editor; Letter to the editor; PC Happenings: Real estate review workshop, Lifelong Learners to meet, Story shop stimulates young writers, EMT assessment workshop offered; Gameroom damage--why!!; Student award; Letter to the editor; Roberts nominated; Book Review: Making College Pay Off ; Reflections and contemplations; Student needs witness; Division chairman believes in Parkland; \u27Images\u27 needs you; Dodd explains his position on Miller; Did You Know...; Coach encouraged at team\u27s success; Wheelchair games postponed; Fewer students at Parkland; Bushman and Gunter; Survival trip taken; \u27Shadows Beyond the Benefit....\u27 entices thinking; Davis says farewell; Eclectic collection of art; Creative Corner...Especially for you!!: Freedom, To God, A Worn-out photograph, Memories, Clouds, The Spreading Flame, Why, Haunting Beauty, Lost Love, The Wheel of Fortune, What Is the Vocal?, The Petals of Marie, Unknown, No Defeat, A Tribute to Fallen Hero; John Watching ; King led the way for blacks in the 1960\u27s; Anti-discrimination pledge signed; Rosa Parks remembered; Black colleges pitch into nationwide crisis; Play review; Dream becomes day-to-day reality; Increase Awareness of Financial Aid Available; Colored Girls stresses stereotyping; Yaxley scholarship; Black collection extensive; \u27Operation Snowball\u27 helps teens help themselves; In the Library-- P Section; Question: Do you think we will ever attain world peace?; Classifieds; \u27Four Seasons\u27 blast of fresh air; Campus Paperback Bestsellers; New & Recommended; Another political album for U2 with \u27Under a Blood Red Sky\u27; New Dorothy after 45 years; Institute shows rare independent British films; Film festival schedule; MTV--a hit that\u27s here to stay; Utopia reminds us that it is 1984; Silkwood should be seen by all; Nicaragua, a problem the U.S. should study now; Trout remembers when; I.M. News; Wulf recalls coaching days; Carper recalls Parkland; Martin wins triple jump at meet; Composite athletic schedule; Competition aids inequalityhttps://spark.parkland.edu/prospectus_1984/1031/thumbnail.jp

ARPES: A probe of electronic correlations

Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) is one of the most direct methods of studying the electronic structure of solids. By measuring the kinetic energy and angular distribution of the electrons photoemitted from a sample illuminated with sufficiently high-energy radiation, one can gain information on both the energy and momentum of the electrons propagating inside a material. This is of vital importance in elucidating the connection between electronic, magnetic, and chemical structure of solids, in particular for those complex systems which cannot be appropriately described within the independent-particle picture. Among the various classes of complex systems, of great interest are the transition metal oxides, which have been at the center stage in condensed matter physics for the last four decades. Following a general introduction to the topic, we will lay the theoretical basis needed to understand the pivotal role of ARPES in the study of such systems. After a brief overview on the state-of-the-art capabilities of the technique, we will review some of the most interesting and relevant case studies of the novel physics revealed by ARPES in 3d-, 4d- and 5d-based oxides.Comment: Chapter to appear in "Strongly Correlated Systems: Experimental Techniques", edited by A. Avella and F. Mancini, Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences (2013). A high-resolution version can be found at: http://www.phas.ubc.ca/~quantmat/ARPES/PUBLICATIONS/Reviews/ARPES_Springer.pdf. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:cond-mat/0307085, arXiv:cond-mat/020850

A multiwavelength study of the massive star forming region IRAS 06055+2039 (RAFGL 5179)

We present a multiwavelength study of the massive star forming region associated with IRAS 06055+2039 which reveals an interesting scenario of this complex where regions are at different stages of evolution of star formation. Narrow band near-infrared (NIR) observations were carried out with UKIRT-UFTI in molecular hydrogen and Br$\gamma$ lines to trace the shocked and ionized gases respectively. We have used 2MASS $J H K_{s}$ data to study the nature of the embedded cluster associated with IRAS 06055+2039. We obtain a power-law slope of 0.43$\pm$0.09 for the $K_{s}$-band Luminosity Function (KLF) which is in good agreement with other young embedded clusters. We estimate an age of 2 -- 3 Myr for this cluster. The radio emission from the ionized gas has been mapped at 610 and 1280 MHz using the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT), India. Apart from the diffuse emission, the high resolution 1280 MHz map also shows the presence of several discrete sources which possibly represent high density clumps. The morphology of shocked molecular hydrogen forms an arc towards the N-E of the central IRAS point source and envelopes the radio emission. Submillimetre emission using JCMT-SCUBA show the presence of a dense cloud core which is probably at an earlier evolutionary stage compared to the ionized region with shocked molecular gas lying in between the two. Emission from warm dust and the Unidentified Infrared Bands (UIBs) have been estimated using the mid-infrared (8 -- 21 $\mu$m) data from the MSX survey. From the submillimetre emission at 450 and 850 $\mu$m the total mass of the cloud is estimated to be $\sim$ 7000 -- 9000 $\rm M_{\odot}$.Comment: Accepted for publication in A &

Footprint evidence of early hominin locomotor diversity at Laetoli, Tanzania

Bipedal trackways discovered in 1978 at Laetoli site G, Tanzania and dated to 3.66 million years ago are widely accepted as the oldest unequivocal evidence of obligate bipedalism in the human lineage1-3. Another trackway discovered two years earlier at nearby site A was partially excavated and attributed to a hominin, but curious affinities with bears (ursids) marginalized its importance to the paleoanthropological community, and the location of these footprints fell into obscurity3-5. In 2019, we located, excavated and cleaned the site A trackway, producing a digital archive using 3D photogrammetry and laser scanning. Here we compare the footprints at this site with those of American black bears, chimpanzees and humans, and we show that they resemble those of hominins more than ursids. In fact, the narrow step width corroborates the original interpretation of a small, cross-stepping bipedal hominin. However, the inferred foot proportions, gait parameters and 3D morphologies of footprints at site A are readily distinguished from those at site G, indicating that a minimum of two hominin taxa with different feet and gaits coexisted at Laetoli