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Training Needs And Applications For Special Educators With Paraeducator Supervision Responsibilities, Joanna M. Cornejo
Training Needs And Applications For Special Educators With Paraeducator Supervision Responsibilities, Joanna M. Cornejo
All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023
This project highlights the need for training for paraeducators working in Special Education settings. Duties performed by paraeducators often overlap with teacher duties and much of the direct instruction provided to students in self-contained classrooms is delivered by paraeducators. The tasks of training and supervising paraeducators often falls on the special education teacher, who may not have received training in supervision. The project includes a brief review of the literature on this topic and two project reports. I designed my project with the objective of improving the quality of instruction being delivered to students in my classroom through training of …
The Effects Of A Mindfulness Curriculum On Sixth Grade Students In A Title I School, Jason A. Tackett
The Effects Of A Mindfulness Curriculum On Sixth Grade Students In A Title I School, Jason A. Tackett
All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023
Mindfulness is being integrated and studied across school settings as studies continue to reveal its beneficial effects. One of the largest mindfulness-in-schools organizations is Mindful Schools, which published a revised version of The Mindful Schools Curriculum for Adolescents (MSC-A) in 2019. While the effects of previous versions of the MSC-A have been evaluated in past studies and shown to be beneficial for students, the effects of the 2019 MSC-A have not been explored. This project sought to identify the effects of a condensed schedule of select lessons from the 2019 MSC-A on student and teacher perceptions of student mindfulness as …