Many of the products on the market, or already in the schools, include the ability to process data from students' results. Think of the power of realizing that a group of sixth-graders are scoring poorly on a particular English question and tracing the inadequacy back to an off-target, second grade curriculum that didn't teach long vowel sounds" (D'Orio, 2001, p
"The future is wireless technology in the classroom, the home and the community. Students will learn in new ways, and all will be delivered via the Internet," says Kathy Hurley, vice president of sales and marketing for NetSchools (Dyrli, 2001)
Review and Discussion Background and Overview. In spite of initiatives such as the Eight-Year Study and student-centered learning, public schools in American have remained deeply entrenched in traditional teaching; nevertheless, because the need is so great, renewed efforts to reconceptualize teaching in order to improve learning continue to emerge (Gross, 1997)
The null curriculum, then, is primarily comprised of knowledge that is valued by marginalized groups that may be routinely omitted from the curriculum as an institutionalized practice. "The null curriculum helps to maintain and perpetuate the existing societal structure" (Hollins, 1996, p
Curriculum Trends in the Next 10 Years For more than 20 years, curriculum and its accompanying emphasis on standards and accountability for learning have dominated the debate over improving education. Today, the controversy over how to provide equity in achieving the curriculum, how to achieve compatibility between equity and high standards, and what comprises a meaningful curriculum are increasingly commonplace and serve to focus attention on the performance and progress of all students in America (Pugach & Warger, 2001)
In spite of initiatives such as the Eight-Year Study and student-centered learning, public schools in American have remained deeply entrenched in traditional teaching; nevertheless, because the need is so great, renewed efforts to reconceptualize teaching in order to improve learning continue to emerge (Gross, 1997). What subjects should be taught in our schools, by what means, to whom, under what circumstances, and with what objective in mind? According to Reid (1999), these are the fundamental questions of curriculum that continue to be debated by politicians, administrators, educators, and, not least, the public at large; however, just what is curriculum? "It is a multitude of encounters between teachers (practitioners) and students (clients) in circumstances of great individuality, where outcomes are seldom predictable" (Reid, 1999, p
"It's hard to find a school these days that doesn't have Internet access, or one that doesn't make computer time available to kids on a fairly regular basis. Many school leaders are pressing fast forward into wireless networks, broadband, laptops, handhelds, Web-based software: all the cutting-edge stuff" (Revenaugh, 2001, p
Similarly, there has also been a new emphasis on business skill development in the nation's curricula; this will not replace our traditional focus on knowledge, but rather adopts one that recognizes that particularly in terms of measuring subsequent career success, core skills such as leadership, communication, and teamwork are critically important. Another emerging direction in curriculum development is teaching students about managing diversity (Ryan, 1999)
One example of where the curriculum was especially helpful was when I needed to place a line in a dehydrated laboring mother. Using the knowledge gained, I was able to insert the line on the first pass without causing the mother any pain (Brannam, 2008)
This part was much easier to follow, but still a great deal of facts to remember. There were certainly many more steps involved in this process than the tradition method, but I recalled studies from the earlier chapters that showed it is much easier on the patient, so I can see why it was being implemented (Overton, 2005)
In Arizona, the growing social trend is for a natural, non-intervention birth. In fact, many families are opting for hiring a doula to avoid the use of unprepared nurses (Sargent, 2009)
Additionally, nurses should be educated on proper communication and education techniques for their patients. These techniques allow the women the ability to make an informed decision and studies have show, will be more satisfied with the outcome (Simkin, 2007)
To fix this problem, nurses entering the labor and delivery ward should be required to complete a birth techniques class that teaches acceptable non-intervention techniques for those mothers who wish to utilize them. Techniques such as having women labor on their feet, minimizing the use of monitoring, avoiding cervical checks, and encouraging the use of water should become familiar to the nurses (Zwelling 2006)
"Therefore, each one of us must develop the mature emotional intelligence skills required to better understand, empathize and negotiate with other people -- particularly as the economy has become more global. Otherwise, success will elude us in our lives and careers" (Akers & Porter, 2013)
A more hierarchically structured company. For this organization, flattening has also meant that power, authority, and decision-making are more widely and deeply dispersed, both laterally and vertically, giving each individual an opportunity to show his or her prowess in certain areas of the company" (Goldsmith, 2010)
Training Parents -- Boosting Curricula Children with autism spectrum disorders are among those students who are said to have "special needs" in special education classrooms, but if there are barriers to the strategy of training parents to work with their children, those barriers need to be broken down. In their peer-reviewed article in the Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions the authors suggest that there are several obstacles to involving parents in training programs: a) teachers are "rarely trained in how to use parent education strategies"; b) most special education teachers are prepared in pedagogic matters relating to students, but not adults, and hence they may lack the knowledge as to how adults learn; c) the majority of "evidence-based parent training models" are not available to teachers; and d) there isn't a good fit between empirically-based parent education models and the structure of special education curricula (Ingersoll, 2006, p
The data that is linked to this model should be systematically gathered prior to involving parents. Special Needs Children in General Education Classes It is not uncommon for children with disabilities to be placed during a portion of their school day in general education classes, however too often the teachers in general education classes have not instituted "instructional changes in the form, focus and delivery" of that general education curriculum (King-Sears, 2008, p
The changes also have to be validated or based on evidence before they can be placed into the curriculum, and by that time something new is being considered and further changes need to be made. "As technology evolves, increased numbers of nursing programs have found that e-learning, simulation, and mobile devices offer much potential for nursing education" (Billings and Halstead, 2012, p
The greatest strengths of the reviewed curriculums are their desires to focus on technology and their commitment to making sure their students learn everything they need to know. Each and every nursing student needs to have the latest and most updated information if he or she is going to be successful (Stanley, 2007)
¶ … curriculum books have been written since the turn of the [20th] century; each with a different version of what 'curriculum' means (Ackerman, 1988)