Exceptional educators: a collaborative training partnership for the inclusion of students with Down's syndrome     

Michelle Vaughan  Anne Henderson 《Support for Learning》2016,31(1):46-58

This article discusses the results of a teacher training initiative in the United States. Exceptional Educators is the result of an inter‐organisational collaboration between a community‐based organisation (Gold Coast Down Syndrome Organization), the local public school system and a university professor. The training focuses on three distinct objectives; understanding the physical and emotional needs of the disability, creating modified curriculum units based on individual learning goals and recognising common behavioral problems that arise in school settings. Overall, the results showed positive outcomes, with gains in knowledge of curriculum modification, behavioural strategies and overall understanding of Down's syndrome, as well as an increase in confidence level. A six‐week follow‐up survey indicated that the majority of the participants used the information presented back in their teaching environments. This study also investigated the added value of this collaboration, finding that the community connection often continues past the training and has provided teachers additional avenues for support.  相似文献   

Teacher Leaders Building Foundations for Data-Informed Teacher Learning in One Urban Elementary School     

Julie Nicholson  Sarah Capitelli  Anna E. Richert  Carrie Wilson  Claire Bove 《The New Educator》2017,13(2):170-189

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We examine how teacher leaders (TLs), working in a low-income urban elementary school, supported their colleagues to learn how to collect quality formative data and to discuss it in collaborative conversations in order to make their students’ learning visible. The TLs faced challenges reflecting consequences resulting from the district’s high stakes accountability policies restricting teachers’ agency with instructional decision-making and limiting their definitions of data as summative test scores. We document how the TLs worked to reframe teachers’ understanding of data to include evidence of student thinking and supported their colleagues to reclaim teaching as professional versus technical work.  相似文献   

Action research in graduate teacher education: a review of the literature 2000–2015     

Michelle Vaughan  Gail Burnaford 《Educational Action Research》2016,24(2):280-299

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Childhood disability and parental appeals: the Special Educational Needs Tribunal for England and Wales     

Ronald Davie  Jonathan Nicholson 《Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs》2001,1(1)

The Special Educational Needs Tribunal in England and Wales was established in 1993 to resolve disputes between local authorities and parents, relating to children's special educational needs. This paper provides a brief historical perspective to the Tribunal, and sets out its composition, legal powers and procedures. It considers the number and nature of appeals heard by the Tribunal and analyses their outcomes. Research centred on evaluating the Tribunal's performance is summarised and discussed. Finally, some current issues regarding the Tribunal system are discussed and its balance of judicial powers and professional expertise is considered in an international context.  相似文献   

Gender Creative Children in a World of Diversity in Gender Identities     

Julie Nicholson  Cyndi Maurer 《Multicultural Perspectives》2017,19(1):57-60

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Giving Them What They Want: Online Feedback That Works     

Michelle Vaughan  Samantha N. Uribe 《College Teaching》2018,66(1)

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Doctoral Writing in the Visual and Performing Arts: Issues and Debates     

Brian Paltridge  Sue Starfield  Louise Ravelli  Sarah Nicholson 《The International Journal of Art & Design Education》2011,30(2):242-255

Drawing from a larger study of doctorates in the visual and performing arts, we examine here the diversity of relations which can exist between the creative and written components of a doctoral thesis in these fields in terms of diversity of naming practices for these relations, institutional variation in guidelines and expectations, and fundamental functional roles for the respective components. By bringing together and highlighting key details in these debates and issues, this article provides a foundation for further studies in this complex area.  相似文献   

Book reviews     

Vaughan Prain  Jonathan Anderson  Susan Hopkins 《The Australian Educational Researcher》1998,25(3):101-112

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The Dominance of Language in the Curriculum: Issues of Access,Equity, and Opportunity     

David W. Nicholson 《Equity & Excellence in Education》2013,46(3):105-110

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Archaeology of the Military Orders. A Survey of the Urban Centres,Rural Settlements and Castles of the Military Orders in the Latin East (c. 1120–1291)     

Helen J. Nicholson 《Al-Masaq: Islam & the Medieval Mediterranean》2009,21(3):333-334

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