503 research outputs found
EXAMINE THE MEDIATING EFFECT OF COACHING MENTORING PROGRAMS ON TEACHER BURNOUT
The World Health Organization has included âBurnoutâ in the International Classification of Diseases as an occupational phenomenon (World Health Organization, 2019). This phenomenon in teaching profession has created devastating attrition that urgently needs attention. The purpose of this study is to provide insight on how to address the negative issue of teacher attrition through examining how teacher leaders may affect teacher burnout during the coaching mentoring experience. An online questionnaire was employed to collect data from 82 teachers in a coastal Georgia school district; including teachers who had participated in a coaching mentoring program (n=51), teachers who hadnât participated in a coaching mentoring program (n=31). Survey items were adopted from existing studies (Maslach & Jackson, 1996; Mayben, 2007) to examine teachersâ levels of burnout, perceptions about burnout factors and how these may be related with teachersâ participation in the coaching mentoring program. This study revealed that teachers involved in the coaching mentoring program suffered less from the stressor of home/personal life. It also revealed that novice teachers in the program suffered less from work overload and more from a particular class. Results indicated that teacher leaders are valuable resources that school districts can utilize to make positive changes to promote teacher well-being
A Collective Case Study of Novice Elementary Teachers\u27 Perceptions of Preparedness to Teach Early Literacy Skills to Beginning Readers
The purpose of this collective case study was to explore novice teachersâ perceptions of their preparedness to teach early literacy skills to beginning readers in rural northwest North Carolina. Novice teachersâ perceptions of how adequately prepared they felt to teach early literacy skills to beginning readers in prekindergarten through third grade was examined using Baduraâs theory of self-efficacy. The central question was âWhat are the perceptions of participants regarding their preparedness to teach early literacy skills to beginning readers?â The three sub-questions were as follows: how do participants describe their preparedness as it relates to content knowledge; how do participants describe their preparedness as it relates to addressing studentsâ challenges in acquiring literacy skills; and what experiences or opportunities do participants believe would help prepare beginning teachers to teach early literacy skills to beginning readers? The participants were 10 novice elementary school teachers responsible for teaching early literacy skills in prekindergarten through third grade. Data was collected via individual interviews, focus group interviews, and reflective journaling. Data was analyzed using coding to identify themes and patterns. The study produced four themes and nine subthemes. The themes were feelings of preparedness, effective literacy instruction, orthography, and differentiated instruction. The results indicated novice teachers felt unprepared to meet the literacy needs of beginning readers. However, teachers felt more prepared after gaining experience in the classroom, collaborating with veteran teachers, and when using scripted programs. Future research needs to include a larger sample size representative of more teacher preparation programs to better understanding teachersâ current perceptions of preparedness to teach early literacy skills to beginning readers
Through Her Own Eyes: Environmental Rhetoric in Women\u27s Autobiographical Frontier Writing
Through Her Own Eyes: Environmental Rhetoric in Womenâs Autobiographical Frontier Writing identifies frontier women, those who traveled overland to the West and those who homesteaded, as historical ecofeminists. The purpose of this study is to analyze frontier womenâs environmental rhetoric in their journals and letters, which encouraged readers to become closer to nature and get to know it while encountering new land in the West. Promoting a close relationship with nature, frontier womenâs writing also implied conserving and protecting nature for future generations, which demonstrates how they can be retroactively labeled ecofeminists. Frontier womenâs environmental rhetoric reveals their alignment with Carolyn Merchantâs theory for harmony between humankind and nature: partnership ethics. Although many historians have mentioned frontier womenâs emphasis on nature in their narratives, few have explored frontier womenâs nature writing at length. Glenda Riley has completed a book-length study of early American women environmentalists, but she mentions only women whose environmental work led to documented activism or membership in conservation organizations. Annette Kolodnyâs work focused on frontier womenâs fantasies about the west, rather than their environmental rhetoric as a way of persuading readers, whereas my work uses frontier womenâs daily writing to demonstrate an evolving environmental ethic that helps to categorize them as historical ecofeminists. An archival project, this study relies upon the archived overland journals of Sarah Sutton and Nancy Sherwin, both housed at UC Berkeleyâs Bancroft Library as well as the letters of female homesteader Elinore Pruitt Stewart, archived at the Sweetwater County Museum. A visit to the archives at the Sweetwater County Museum yielded the treasure of Elinore Pruitt Stewartâs numerous unpublished letters. Frontier womenâs philosophical alignment with ecofeminism made it possible for ecological philosophies to begin taking root in the American West. As historical ecofeminists, frontier womenâs writing laid the foundation for the modern-day ecological conscience that makes individuals work to conserve nature for future generations
Sub-arcsec Observations of NGC 7538 IRS 1: Continuum Distribution and Dynamics of Molecular Gas
We report new results based on the analysis of the SMA and CARMA observations
of NGC 7538\,IRS\,1 at 1.3 and 3.4 mm with sub-arcsec resolutions. With angular
resolutions 0\farcs7, the SMA and CARMA observations show that the
continuum emission at 1.3 and 3.4 mm from the hyper-compact \ion{H}{2} region
IRS\,1 is dominated by a compact source with a tail-like extended structure to
the southwest of IRS\,1. With a CARMA B-array image at 1.3 mm convolved to
0\farcs1, we resolve the hyper-compact \ion{H}{2} region into two components:
an unresolved hyper-compact core, and a north-south extension with linear sizes
of AU and 2000 AU, respectively. The fine structure observed with
CARMA is in good agreement with the previous VLA results at centimeter
wavelengths, suggesting that the hyper-compact \ion{H}{2} region at the center
of IRS\,1 is associated with an ionized bipolar outflow. We image the molecular
lines OCS(19-18) and CHCN(12-11) as well as CO(2-1) surrounding
IRS\,1, showing a velocity gradient along the southwest-northeast direction.
The spectral line profiles in CO(2-1), CO(2-1), and HCN(1-0) observed
toward IRS\,1 show broad redshifted absorption, providing evidence for gas
infall with rates in the range of M yr
inferred from our observations.Comment: 19 pages, 14 figure
Addressing Barriers to Universal Screening for Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Risk in Elementary Schools
Early identification of students in need of additional support in the classroom is an important structure for school districts to have in place. Universal screening for social-emotional and behavioral (SEB) risk is one method that schools can use to identify students in need of SEB support and to begin early intervention programing. Unfortunately, recommendations about universal screening and resources for universal screening for SEB risk are limited. As a result, barriers to screening are increased and interventions are delayed â sometimes indefinitely -- for those who need them most. This paper discusses the barriers and challenges experienced by elementary schools (grades K-5) in one school district in the South across a three-year consultative study. This district was supported by the researchers in identifying an appropriate SEB screener, in disseminating the screener, and in ensuring accuracy in its completion. Across the three years, data were evaluated from previous years, and recommendations to improve the districtâs screening initiative were made by the lead consultant and school psychology graduate students. Over time, positive changes were noted in screening practices, but it is evident that more work needs to be done. Specific solutions and future implications for early childhood are discussed
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Large-scale discovery of enhancers from human heart tissue.
Development and function of the human heart depend on the dynamic control of tissue-specific gene expression by distant-acting transcriptional enhancers. To generate an accurate genome-wide map of human heart enhancers, we used an epigenomic enhancer discovery approach and identified âŒ6,200 candidate enhancer sequences directly from fetal and adult human heart tissue. Consistent with their predicted function, these elements were markedly enriched near genes implicated in heart development, function and disease. To further validate their in vivo enhancer activity, we tested 65 of these human sequences in a transgenic mouse enhancer assay and observed that 43 (66%) drove reproducible reporter gene expression in the heart. These results support the discovery of a genome-wide set of noncoding sequences highly enriched in human heart enhancers that is likely to facilitate downstream studies of the role of enhancers in development and pathological conditions of the heart
CMR measurements of myocardial infarct heterogeneity using MCLE and IR-FGRE: correlation with arrhythmia inducibility and severe ICD events in patients with ischemic heart disease
Gas Excitation in ULIRGS: Maps of Diagnostic Emission-Line Ratios in Space and Velocity
Emission-line spectra extracted at multiple locations across 39 ultraluminous
infrared galaxies have been compiled into a spectrophotometric atlas. Line
profiles of H alpha, [N II], [S II], [O I], H beta, and [O III] are resolved
and fit jointly with common velocity components. Diagnostic ratios of these
line fluxes are presented in a series of plots, showing how the Doppler shift,
line width, gas excitation, and surface brightness change with velocity at
fixed position and also with distance from the nucleus. One general
characteristic of these spectra is the presence of shocked gas extending many
kiloparsecs from the nucleus. In some systems, the shocked gas appears as part
of a galactic gas disk based on its rotation curve. These gas disks appear
primarily during the early stages of the merger. The general characteristics of
the integrated spectra are also presented.Comment: Submitted to ApJS. The first 10 pages are writeup. Also included are
3 appendices (91 pages) that include a large sample of figures and tables
intended for the online only version of the publication. 101 pages total, 5
figures, 2 figure sets (39 subfigures each), 5 tables. This is a companion
paper to "The Emission-Line Spectra of Major Mergers: Evidence for Shocked
Outflows" by Soto et al. 201
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