“I always have beginning-of-the-year training for teachers,” explains Julie Bowers Matney, District-Wide Intervention Coach and Student Support Leader, at Sullivan County Department of Education. “And I always try to make sure that about nine weeks in, we have another training, because by ...
In addition to programs like RTI, another intervention is administering effective mentoring and tutoring programs. Mentor programs have proven to be very successful in decreasing absenteeism and increasing academic achievement in students. Gensemer (2000) noted that peer mentor programs in elementary ...
Early intervention programs require that phonetic concepts are introduced in a specific order. Young learners should focus on simple, single-consonant sounds and one-syllable words. Using real words makes the lessons relevant and memorable. 6. Practicing with decodable text that is comprehensible If f...
being uninformed of shared goals, or team's practices and expectations outside the purview of team training and best practices. Awareness of the overall objective and the interconnectedness of the teams' objectives can be strengthened through reflexivity training or professional development programs (21...
Thus, a "deficiency" oriented intervention program that over-emphasizes the importance of literacy diminishes the observable accomplishments of the illiterate adult and may fail. Intervention programs designed for illiterate adults need to bolster the participants' sense of accomplishment and teach coping ...
They suggest a critical time to implement bullying intervention programs (that address peer support, connectedness to school, pro- victim attitudes and negative outcome expec- tancies around perpetration) is prior to the transition to, and within the first year of secondary school (Lester et al...
lifestyle interventions, the results suggest that programs with duration between six to 12 months were more successful in achieving behavior change (i.e., around nutrition and physical activity), knowledge of good habits, and adherence to the intervention than those of longer duration (≥12 months...
Due to these changes, “telehepatology” programs have emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic [9]. With the advent of COVID-19, a renewed interest emerged to incorporate telemedicine beyond HCV into overall hepatology care. Though integrated health systems such as VAHS and Kaiser Permanente have ...
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What are the keys to a successful staff development program? This look at two award-winning programs -- at Hungerford School in Staten Island, New York, and at Montview Elementary School in Aurora, Colorado -- might provide some insight. ...