Climate change is a significant threat to human health across the life cycle. Nurses play an important role in mitigation, adaptation, and resilience to climate change. The use of health care ...resources, air quality and extreme heat, mental health, and natural disasters are major content areas across undergraduate nursing curricula that influence or are influenced by climate change. Teaching strategies and resources are offered to prepare nursing students to address climate change and human health.
CONTINUE TO GIVE BACK Giles, Brad
Professional safety,
06/2022, Letnik:
67, Številka:
6
Journal Article
Recenzirano
...it truly captures my experience as an OSH professional and as a volunteer leader for the Society. The loss of our loved ones rooted in me the belief that these types of outcomes are preventable, ...that injuries, illnesses and fatalities do not need to be the "cost of doing business." ...on another, you might help a team member access resources to improve their mental and physical well-being. ...I know many others who help guide the curriculum included in degree and certificate programs offered by universities and community colleges across the U.S. Many members present safety topics to groups like their local chamber of commerce or school district.
This paper provides a description of the multimodal curriculum design and meaning making processes in what we call a Culturally Sustaining Systemic Functional Linguistics (CS SFL) praxis, developed ...in the context of an integrated youth and preservice teacher afterschool program. Informed by Halliday's theory of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), in this paper we pay special attention to the mode continuum in our interactive curriculum that we designed to support multi semiotic meaning making and creative re-mixing processes of youth engaged in relational and civic work. We first provide an explanation of the conceptual framework of CS SFL praxis and then illustrate the approach by drawing on data from our program over the course of two years. Keywords SFL, culturally sustaining pedagogy, after-school program, multimodality
Early years curriculum Hedges, Helen; Cullen, Joy; Jordan, Barbara
Journal of curriculum studies,
04/2011, Letnik:
43, Številka:
2
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Children's interests are frequently cited as a source of early-years curricula. Yet, research has rarely considered the nature of these interests beyond the play-based environment of early-childhood ...education. This paper reports findings from a qualitative, interpretivist study in two early childhood settings in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Using participant observation, interviews, and documentation, the study examined children's interests and teachers' engagement with these in curriculum interactions. Evidence suggested children's interests were stimulated by their 'intent participation' in family and community experiences and encapsulated in the notion of 'funds of knowledge'. The concept of funds of knowledge provides a coherent analytic framework for teachers to recognize children's interests and extend teachers' curriculum planning focus beyond that of a child-centred play-based learning environment.
This study compared immediate and 4-month outcomes among adolescents with autism spectrum disorder randomly assigned to the PEERS curriculum (
n
= 10), a peer mediated PEERS curriculum (
n
= 12), ...or a delayed treatment control group (
n
= 12). Findings suggest a modest advantage in social skills knowledge and social functioning for participants in the peer-mediated PEERS curriculum relative to Traditional PEERS, and gains in social skills knowledge, social functioning, and reductions in loneliness were maintained in one or both treatment groups at a 4-month follow-up. Typically developing peer mentors (
n
= 16) showed improvements in social skills knowledge and marginal improvements in autism knowledge and loneliness. Future research with a larger sample and objective outcome measures is needed.
Since the brain is the human body’s primary command and control center, brain cancer is one of the most dangerous cancers. Automatic segmentation of brain tumors from multi-modal images is important ...in diagnosis and treatment. Due to the difficulties in obtaining multi-modal paired images in clinical practice, recent studies segment brain tumors solely relying on unpaired images and discarding the available paired images. Although these models solve the dependence on paired images, they cannot fully exploit the complementary information from different modalities, resulting in low unimodal segmentation accuracy. Hence, this work studies the unimodal segmentation with privileged semi-paired images, i.e., limited paired images are introduced to the training phase. Specifically, we present a novel two-step (intra-modality and inter-modality) curriculum disentanglement learning framework. The modality-specific style codes describe the attenuation of tissue features and image contrast, and modality-invariant content codes contain anatomical and functional information extracted from the input images. Besides, we address the problem of unthorough decoupling by introducing constraints on the style and content spaces. Experiments on the BraTS2020 dataset highlight that our model outperforms the competing models on unimodal segmentation, achieving average dice scores of 82.91%, 72.62%, and 54.80% for WT (the whole tumor), TC (the tumor core), and ET (the enhancing tumor), respectively. Finally, we further evaluate our model’s variable multi-modal brain tumor segmentation performance by introducing a fusion block (TFusion). The experimental results reveal that our model achieves the best WT segmentation performance for all 15 possible modality combinations with 87.31% average accuracy. In summary, we propose a curriculum disentanglement learning framework for unimodal segmentation with privileged semi-paired images. Moreover, the benefits of the improved unimodal segmentation extend to variable multi-modal segmentation, demonstrating that improving the unimodal segmentation performance is significant for brain tumor segmentation with missing modalities. Our code is available at https://github.com/scut-cszcl/SpBTS.
•Privileged semi-paired learning improves unimodal segmentation performance.•Decoupling the content information eliminates the differences between modalities.•Insufficient constraints generate ambiguous decoupling.•One dimension of the style vector controls the generated style.•Unimodal segmentation is crucial for improving modality-missing segmentation.
Given demands on resident time, it is critical that formal didactic curricula for general surgery residents be effective and efficient.1 General surgery residents are required to master a vast amount ...of material while also providing safe clinical care, conducting research, and serving as educators to medical students and junior residents.2 In the past ten years, work-hour restrictions, recognition of new non-clinical knowledge gaps, medicolegal regulations, and an evolving emphasis on resident well-being have brought new time demands to surgical training.3 In response, various programs have implemented protected block curricula to cover the Surgical Council on Resident Education (SCORE) curriculum, an outline of topics that should be covered in a five-year general surgery residency program.4 However, clinical duties often preclude full resident participation even in the setting of protected sessions. Within the near-peer learning framework, near-peer teachers are likely to develop an increased sense of responsibility to ensure their own competence in order to effectively teach their peers.6 To improve general surgery resident foundational surgical knowledge, we designed a supplemental, longitudinal, two-year, junior resident near-peer learning group with optional participation. ...the didactic format was challenging in attempting to cover too much material.
Do young children naturally develop the foundations of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM)? And if so, should we build on these foundations by using STEM curricula in preschools? In ...this article, Douglas Clements and Julie Sarama argue that the answer to both these questions is yes. First, the authors show that young children possess a sophisticated informal knowledge of math, and that they frequently ask scientific questions, such as why questions. Preschoolers' free play involves substantial amounts of foundational math as they explore patterns, shapes, and spatial relations; compare magnitudes; and count objects. Moreover, preschool and kindergarten children s knowledge of and interest in math and science predicts later success in STEM. And not only in STEM: the authors show that early math knowledge also predicts later reading achievement—even better than early literacy skills do. Thus mathematical thinking, Clements and Sarama say, may be cognitively foundational. That is, the thinking and reasoning inherent in math may contribute broadly to cognitive development. Is teaching STEM subjects to preschool children effective? The authors review several successful programs. They emphasize that STEM learning for young children must encompass more than facts or simple skills; rather, the classroom should be infused with interesting, appropriate opportunities to engage in math and science. And instruction should follow research-based learning trajectories that include three components: a goal, a developmental progression, and instructional activities. Clements and Sarama also discuss barriers to STEM teaching in preschool, such as the cultural belief in the United States that math achievement largely depends on native aptitude or ability, and inadequate professional development for teachers.
Every new onset, situation or phenomenon, positive or negative, there are obstacles, obstacles or difficulties you face, or perhaps you need to study more thoroughly and comprehensively including the ...use of western musical instruments in our eastern Iraqi music.The experience of using Western instruments in the music curriculum in Iraq has played a positive role while at the same time negatively affecting our music heritage in particular. Most music institutes and colleges in Iraq lack the teachers of Arabic authentic instruments such as Al Awd, Al Nai, Al Sinatour and Al Jawah. Because of the lack of a qualified teaching staff who give practical and applied lessons to these machines I have found the opportunity to study quickly this important and useful topic for us and our students, and I am sure I have come up with some indicators or conclusions, some negative and the other positive because it is an experience, we are taking for the first time but it remains the leading and ideal experience and it is sure to evolve in the years ahead.
