2023 reflections: Stepping boldly into the future
With the holidays around the corner, it ’s that time again — an opportunity to take stock of year filled with awe-inspiring achievements and more than a few surprises, and to celebrate the accomplishments of our entire Bruin community.“New” was certainly the watchword for 2023, which saw the opening of new vistas and venues for the arts, the introduction of new majors and academic programs, the establishment of a new campus facility formedical technology and training, the welcoming of new deans inmedicine,engineering andlaw, and the launch of the newUCLA Strategic Plan: 2023 –28, which charts a course for the uni...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - December 23, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
The importance of implementation fidelity for teacher-related changes within the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program - Jantzer V, Ossa FC, Lerch S, Resch F, Kaess M.
Although teachers are key figures of a program's effectiveness, most intervention studies to date have not explored how anti-bullying programs are associated with changes at teacher level. Moreover, teacher data also informs about aspects of program implem... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - December 22, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
An epidemic of sexual abuse in schools
Andrea Bruce; Chona Kasinger; Maddie McGarvey; Kim Raff; Matt Williams; Rebecca Zisser/Business Insider The documents began arriving last fall, first in a trickle, then a flood. Emoji-filled text messages from teachers, handwritten complaints from students in the rounded script of teenage girls,…#andreabruce #chonakasinger #maddiemcgarvey #kimraff #mattwilliams #enosburgfalls #vermont #utah #sterrettoneyneale #neale (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - December 21, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Are Smartphones Really Making Kids Dumb?
Authored by Ross Muscato via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), After decades in the classroom, award-winning teacher Steve Gardiner, of Billings, Montana, became acutely aware of a new problem making it difficult for his high-school students to learn.…#rossmuscato #epochtimes #stevegardiner #billings #montana #shutterstock #timessquare #newyorkcity #commonsensemedia #peggyrideout (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - December 20, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
School districts turn to 4-day week to cope with staffing and budget shortfalls
Across the country, more school districts are making the change to a four-day school week. NewsHour Communities Correspondent Gabrielle Hays traveled to one of those districts in Missouri to see how teachers and parents are adjusting.#gabriellehays #missouri (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - December 19, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The interconnected school context: meta-analyses of the associations between peer aggression involvement and teacher-student relationship closeness - Krause A, David Smith J.
A growing body of literature has documented the contribution of teacher-student relationship quality to both persistence and reduction in peer aggression incidents in the school context. The research literature indicates that students who are involved in p... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - December 18, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Violence in the education: the post-revolutionary situation in Hungary (1956-1957) - Somogyv ári L.
BACKGROUND: The author attempts to introduce an unusual approach towards schools, universities, and dormitories, including their users (professors, teachers, parents, and students): How can the educational issues be seen through the lenses of special polic... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - December 18, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Teacher-directed violence and anxiety and stress: predicting intentions to transfer and quit - McMahon SD, Swenski T, Bare K, Valido A, Asad S, Reddy LA, Astor RA, Espelage DL, Anderman EM, Martinez A, Worrell FC, Knapp-Fadani M.
Teacher well-being and experiences of violence have become issues of national concern, and teacher shortages have increased since the onset of COVID-19. In this national study, we examined verbal and physical violence against teachers from multiple aggress... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - December 18, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
A veteran teacher opens up about why the broken school system made her quit her ‘soul crushing’ job
Lisa Wolfe, 56, wanted to be a teacher for as long as she can remember. As a child, she owned a set of Little House on the Prairie books that accidentally included a duplicate copy; she was thrilled she had an extra book to annotate and play teacher with. She recalls her own education fondly,…#lisawolfe #littlehouse #fortune #based #colorado #wolfe #chalkbeats (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - December 17, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Jewish Teacher Charged For Threat To Behead Muslim Girl Who Said Israel Flag Offensive
A Jewish Georgia middle school teacher has been arrested for threatening to kill a Muslim middle school student who took offense at the Israel flag displayed in his classroom. He's been charged with cruelty to…#jewish #georgia #muslim #israel #benjaminreese #stateofisrael #reese #israelis #palestinians #israeli (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - December 17, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
How much do male teachers matter?
This is all for Finland: We evaluate equity-efficiency trade-offs from admissions quotas by examining effects on output once beneficiaries start producing in the relevant industry. In particular, we document the impact of abolishing a 40% quota for male primary school teachers on their pupils’…#finland #ursinaschaede #villemankki #thomasb #pomona (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - December 16, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Mother of 6-Year-Old Who Shot Teacher Is Sentenced to Two Years
The mother of the 6-year-old boy who shot his teacher earlier this year was sentenced to two years in a Virginia prison for child neglect. A judge in Newport News Circuit Court on Friday sentenced 26-year-old Deja Taylor in connection with actions prosecutors said enabled the shooting. Her son…#virginia #dejataylor #abigailzwerner (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - December 16, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Development and evaluation of a post-traumatic growth program for teachers victimized by students or parents in South Korea: a quasi-experimental study - Kim IJ, Kim JY.
This quasi-experimental, nonequivalent control group study developed an eight-session post-traumatic growth program for teachers who had experienced violence from students and/or parents and examined its effects on rumination, burnout, and post-traumatic g... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - December 15, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Training university teachers and students in Sri Lanka on gender based violence: testing of a participatory training program - Axemo P, Wijewardena K, Fonseka R, Cooray S, Darj E.
This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. In all societies, violence is a social problem and violation of human rights. Changing attitudes and behaviors, which accept violence at individual and societal levels are key components in ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - December 15, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Influencing factors of early childhood teachers' disaster preparedness - Lee YR, Park SN, Lee MR, Nam E.
BACKGROUND: The risk of disasters and infectious diseases continues to persist in modern times. Children are a vulnerable group in disaster prevention and management due to their limited ability to cope on their own. Hence, the role and disaster preparedne... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - December 15, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Infants and Children Source Type: news
