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Educating Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders (Asds) To Delay Gratification In The Contet Of Temper Tantrums, Seungyeon Lee

The Advocate

Temper tantrums among young children are common, especially those with autism spectrum disorders. Delay of gratification is an essential component of temper tantrums. Teachers and parents seek management strategies for temper tantrums that are efficient, effective and ethical. The purpose of this applied behavioral analysis research was to compare various types of functional communication training with three children in the three and a half year old age range. In Phase One, to determine the misguided goal or function of each child’s temper tantrum, functional behavioral assessment was undertaken. In Phase Two, a reward menu was used to determine preferred rewards …

Contextualizing Teacher Education Emphases For Classroom Diversity, Kevin Murry, Cristina Fanning, Shabina Kavimandan

The Advocate

Nominal attention has been dedicated to standards of best practice that local teachers should demonstrate in teaching culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) students. The CREDE standards address the gap and emphasize five transnational, universals of best practice for CLD students/families. However, recent research indicates that teachers practices indicative of the most important of these, contextualization, are among the least robust of those observed. Necessarily, future research is needed to unpack these findings. In the interim, we argue that teachers’ critical reflection on their own socialization is essential to the fundamental understandings necessary for standards-based practices with these students and families.

Ethical Decision Making: Increasing Your Chances To Make Better Decisions, Robert F. Hachiya

The Advocate

Ethical decision-making is an important skill for leaders that can be acquired and improved with experience. Successful leaders consistently make right decisions and inspire confidence in others. While many fields include formal ethics classes as a part of their required curriculum, only recently has the field of education included formalized ethics training for principals. This article provides guidance and advice for those seeking to increase the likelihood they will make better decisions each day.

Table Of Contents And Introductory Materials For Vol. 22. No. 2, 2014, Bruce Quantic

The Advocate

This content includes the table of contents and editorial information for vol. 22, issue 2 (Fall 2014).

Developing The Next Generation Of Distance Supervision, Lori A. Goodson, David S. Allen

The Advocate

Student teaching has long been an essential component of teacher education programs, and effective supervision is essential for successful internship experiences. Pre-service students’ needs must be weighed against the limitation of time and access for the university supervisor, often a full-time faculty member who has a formidable teaching load and other responsibilities. Additionally, direct, in-person observations can create observer effect, altering the reality of what is actually being observed. This article examines one university’s use of distant supervision utilizing technology to aid in the virtual classroom observations and conferencing to allow an elementary education major to student teach in a …

The College-Wide Military-Connected Learner Initiative In K-State’S College Of Education, Debbie Mercer, Linda Thurston, Judy Hughey

The Advocate

The Military-connected Learner Educational Initiative at Kansas State’s College of Education, initiated in 2012, provides a college-wide framework preparing in-service and pre-service personnel to serve military, veterans and their families in educational settings. This article describes the college-wide initiative which includes: (1) providing professional development for faculty and students; (2) implementing curricular and co-curricular modifications to address military/veteran-connected issues; (3) conducting research to contribute to the knowledge base about educational issues, strategies and adaptations for military personnel, veterans, and K-12 students in their families. The college is the recipient of the 2014 Taylor Higher Education Partnership of Excellence award from …

Don’T Tap The Keg And Eight Other Essential Rules Of Early Career Principals: An Editorial, Carolyn L. Carlson, Scott P. Myers

The Advocate

Principals that are early in their careers have unique challenges to face in order to become successful in their administrative positions. Early career principals, future principals, and those who educate future principals in education administration programs at colleges and universities should be aware of these potential obstacles. This list of nine “essential rules” seeks to challenge new and future principals, as well as those who educate them, to consider some of the unique challenges faced as well as offer insight to effectively overcome them.

Learning Across A Lifetime Of Learning: Stages Of Teacher Development, Charles Kent Runyan, Steve Brown, Carolyn Fehrenbach, Kenny Mcdougle, Pam Sells, Ray Willard

The Advocate

This study presents a conceptual framework for examining the developmental stages of teachers and illustrates the differences found in student teachers as they develop. The research illustrates how by assessing a teacher candidate’s own perception of importance, mastery, and desire to improve, an instrument can be used to prioritize needs at different points of a teacher’s career as well as identify stages of development. The statistical data, analysis, and interpretation of a study utilizing the Teacher Need Assessment Questionnaire (TNAQ) with teacher candidates is displayed.

Dysgraphia, Michael Rettig

The Advocate

Introduction: Every teacher has probably experienced having a good student whose only problem seems to be that they take too long on writing assignments. When the student finally does turn in their work, it is sloppy, incomplete, and has several spelling errors.

The Effectiveness Of Cross-Age Blogging, Beth Walizer

The Advocate

Introduction:“We didn’t have to do any work!” was the greatest response to the question asked of fourth and fifth-grade students on what they liked best about the month long cross-age buddy reading and blogging project. A major challenge of candidates and university faculty in teacher education is how to effectively develop children’s digital literacy skills.

Determining And Measuring Self-Efficacy During The Student Teaching Semester, Carolyn Fehrenbach, Kenny Mc Dougle, Steve Brown, Ray Willard, Pam Sells, Charles Kent Runyan

The Advocate

Self-efficacy is the belief that an individual is able to control the outcomes of potentially stressful situations. How teacher candidates feel about their ability to control new challenges can affect their performance in the classroom. Those with a poorer sense of self-efficacy may believe situations are out of their control. A more positive sense of perceived self-efficacy can lead to more positive outcomes. This article reports the results of a teacher self-efficacy scale administered to elementary and secondary teacher candidates at the beginning and end of their student teaching semester. Findings suggest that perceived self-efficacy among student teachers increases throughout …

Electronic Observation: 21st Century Teacher Education, Jackie Glasgow, Susan Jenkins, Kelly Gillespie

The Advocate

“A program of brief but frequent classroom walk-throughs has become an increasingly popular strategy in recent years for informally supervising teachers and observing classroom activities” (Protheroe, 2009, p.30). Because walk-through observation has such potential as a catalyst to support both excellent instruction and a positive shift in learning (Walk-Through as Powerful, n.d.), this process is establishing itself as best practice in educational circles (Hopkins, 2010; David, 2008).

When real-time observation data are analyzed, used to support reflection and collaborative conversation, and ultimately, when these data become the basis to drive professional learning, the results are clear (Protheroe, 2009). Program initiatives …

Revisiting The M-Guds-S: Teacher Candidates’ Awareness And Acceptance Of Diversity, Lorie Cook-Benjamin, Beth Walizer, Keith Dreiling

The Advocate

Introduction: As shared in our article published in the spring 2013 issue of The Advocate Journal, schools of education are concerned about the best way to provide teacher candidates with clinical-based (also referred to as “field” in the literature) experiences that meet accreditation outcomes. In the Report of the Blue Ribbon Panel on Clinical Preparation and Partnerships for Improved Learning (NCATE, 2010), ten research-based principles created a framework for clinical-based practices.

Faculty And Students: Differing Views Of Mentoring At A University Level, Kathleen J. Sanders

The Advocate

Although students and faculty at a university level differ on what constitutes mentoring, communication is key. Students and their faculty instructors/advisors in university online programs were surveyed to discover if and how the perceived mentoring occurred. Students wanted evidence of a personal interest in them by their instructors/advisors. However, students equated mentorship with communication. Students were particularly interested in the amount of time delay between any question they asked and the response they received from their instructor/advisor. Faculty considered mentoring to be above and beyond mere advising or instructing in an online course or program. Faculty also perceived communication as …

Pre-Service And Novice Teacher Self-Efficacy: A Tool To Understand And Further Develop Confidence For Impacting Change, Kimberly Mcdowell, Ashlie Jack, Jeri Carroll, Janice Ewing

The Advocate

Teacher efficacy measures a teacher’s perception of his or her capacity as a teacher and impacts teacher behavior in a number of different ways. This study examined teacher efficacy as well as pedagogical beliefs/practices in pre-service and novice in-service teachers to determine the nature of the relationship between the two. Results indicated that the novice in-service teachers demonstrated statistically significant higher scores on the efficacy measure. In regards to the relationship between pedagogy and efficacy, there was no statistically significant relation among the pre-service teachers but with the novice in-service teachers, efficacy was statistically significantly correlated with general instructional pedagogy.

Building Teacher Self-Efficacy: A University/District Leadership Academy Model, Donna Augustine-Shaw, Mary Devin

The Advocate

Introduction: In an era dominated by higher standards and greater accountability for America’s If you want to join us, we would be delighted schools, leaders are needed at all levels. Teachers must continue learning and growing professionally long after that transition from pre-service to practitioner.

Table Of Contents And Introductory Materials For Vol. 22, No.1, 2014, Bruce Quantic

The Advocate

This content includes the table of contents and editorial information for vol. 22, issue 1 (Summer 2014).

“I ♥ Boobies! (Keep A Breast)” Bracelets: What’S Your Policy?, Robert Hachiya

The Advocate

The United States Supreme Court has been asked to review a 2013 Third Circuit Court of Appeals reling against a Pennsylvania school district that disciplined students for wearing “I love Boobies! (Keep A Breast)” bracelets. This article reviews litigation related to the effort by schools to regulate bracelets and associated student freedom of expression concerns. School administrators concerned with regulating the bracelets are offered policy suggestions.

Teacher Education And Study Abroad: A Review Of Literature For Program Development, Carol R. Werhan, Mary Hurwood

The Advocate

Designing study abroad programs, particularly those involving international field experiences for preservice teacher education students, can be daunting with much of the research focusing on learning outcomes. This review of literature on considerations for program design will provide the road map for the development of a successful international partnership for teacher preparation.