Focus

Area of Focus The purpose of this study is to research the benefits of teacher professional development and training, and its effects on addressing challenging behaviors amongst young learner. This area of focus is an issue that I am passionate about, impacts teaching and learning and is an area that I will improve in my position as an early childhood assistant director. Effective classroom management is one of the most important elements of a teacher’s career. With that being said, many…

Area of Focus Statement The purpose of this study is to see if clients’ ages five to seventeen years old with a mental health diagnosis will open up and communicate better in sessions if they are allowed to use technology during sessions. Technology will replace games and activities that were used previously in sessions when working with the children. The clients’ in this plan are receiving services to better cope and control their mental health diagnosis. Problem - Interest Children with a…

Teacher/Administrative Focus Group The teacher and administrator focus group was conducted on Wednesday, March 1, 2016 before school. Seven participants were included in the teacher and administrative focus group including two teachers from Oilton Middle School, three teachers from Oilton High School, the principal at Oilton High School, and the school counselor. The focus group interview session enabled the researcher to build conversations around specific topics, and allowed the interviewer to…

Focus student one showed a 70% accuracy when asked to identify and sort pictures of objects into conceptual categories, a 59% accuracy when asked to identify and match all upper and lower case letter with prompting, and a 75% accuracy when asked to retell the main ideas or important facts from a read aloud. Based on these scores, I plan to raise the accuracy percentage goal for identifying and sorting colors, maintain the percentage accuracy goal for identifying upper and lower case letters,…

Focus Student 1 a. Focus student 1 approved their performance from a 1 to a 2, which is on average, about were their classmates. It is important to note that this student struggles with motor skills, and while they have the ability to write, it does appear that this student writes the least amount possible, and takes some shortcuts. This is evident in the students’ work sample (ARTIFACT Student 1 page 3). In the students data table, they wrote “t1, t2, t3” rather than writing out trial for each…

Consumerism as the Focus Historically, advertising has been used in selling goods for over 200 years. The rapid growth of advertising in our world today casts a shadow on the early processes that occurred before digital media was relevant. Unknown to most are the principles that go into the structuring and success of advertising. Advertising began it’s massive, upwards trajectory in tandem with “the enormous development of manufacturing” (Tipper, 1920, p. 3). With manufacturing soaring, and…

Chapter 03: Be Contextual (with focus on Culture) (Note: need more positives) Expand Your Horizon: Culture is a part of our every day existence. Culture, like someone said, is the water the fish swims in; it is something we see around us but we are not aware of it or the impact it leaves on our lives. However, culture is not imperceptible. Young people do have their own specific culture. The Church has usually shied away from talking about it, because they feel that culture is evil and a…

Female university students attitudes towards physical exercise and their exercise habits. (1. Survey to assess what forms if any of physical exercise they are completing, how often? 2. focus groups to assess why they do or do not exercise and their attitudes in general to physical exercise.) In recent years the rate of female participation in exercise has increased as health issues have been raised (Park Sang et al, 2012: 99). Physical exercise has is an essential lifestyle element and has been…

Scholarly Context Communication has been generally defined as a transmission of signals through various channels that can be systematically interpreted through context (Clampitt, 2013). The term communication was derived from a latin word communis, which means ‘to make common’ and in that sense, communication is to make common of what one (sender) wants to message out to the other (receiver) (Frey, Botan & Kreps, 2000). It is an important, inevitable and unfortunately can be a complicated…

generalisation in qualitative research lays in the issues of validity and reliability of the level of notions, explanation and groups of the parent population (Lewis and Ritchie, 2003: 269). Among the three discussed qualitative methods (individual interview, focus group participant observation), it can be claimed that participant observation deemed as having the weakest position in generalising research findings. As LeCompte and Goetz (1982) noted, research involves participant observation…