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Berry, Tiffany; Sloper, Michelle; Pickar, Hannah; Talbot, Harry – International Journal for Research on Extended Education, 2016
There is a strong, empirical link between facets of afterschool program quality and a range of positive youth outcomes. However, implementing quality programs that are more likely to produce positive youth development require a high-level of knowledge and expertise among program staff. Training staff on the critical components of high-quality…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Total Quality Management, After School Programs, Staff Development
Santana, Jesse – ProQuest LLC, 2016
School enrollment is expected to increase over the next decade, and with this increase, schools in the United States have seen an increase in the number of paraprofessionals employed to provide services for special education students. Paraprofessionals are key to providing services and assistance to students with special needs toward their…
Descriptors: Paraprofessional School Personnel, Staff Development, Guides, Interviews
Rontu, Heidi; Tuomi, Ulla-Kristiina; Gekeler, Petra; Pérez Guillot, Cristina; Schaffner, Sabina – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2019
The organisational status and the main tasks of a university language centre are given different interpretations in different universities. Some language centres find themselves in a challenging situation where the centre's existence seems to be at stake, whereas others prosper and find positively encouraging opportunities for the future. All this…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrators, Staff Development, Strategic Planning
Bigby, Christine; Bould, Emma; Beadle-Brown, Julie – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2019
Background: Research indicates the value of active support in achieving good outcomes across a number of quality of life domains for people with intellectual disabilities. However, implementation is not easy, and little research has explored why. We aimed to identify some of the factors that impact on implementation of active support in supported…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Quality of Life, Intellectual Disability, Staff Development
Steiner, Elizabeth D.; Gomez-Bendaña, Heather – Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2022
Neighborhood North, a play-oriented community museum in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, had just opened when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, and schools closed. The museum's mission is to increase educational equity in the community. Neighborhood North leaders immediately saw a need to support students at risk of falling behind in school with academic…
Descriptors: Play, Museums, COVID-19, Pandemics
Bruder, Mary Beth; Gundler, Darla; Stayton, Vicki; Kemp, Peggy – Infants and Young Children, 2021
There are concerns about the quantity and quality of personnel in early childhood intervention (ECI) as the numbers of infants and young children with delays and disabilities grow in number, needs, and diversity. The Early Childhood Personnel Center (ECPC) was funded to provide technical assistance (TA) to state systems of ECI and institutions of…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Young Children, Preschool Education
Husin, Mohd Zulfadli Mat; Radzuan, Noor Raha Mohd – English Language Teaching Educational Journal, 2021
English skills particularly in conversation are essential in workplace situations especially in the context of higher learning institutions. Little attention is being given to examining the needs of English communication skills and issues related to administrative support staff at their workplace particularly at public universities. A…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Language Proficiency
Adnan, Zifirdaus; Arsyad, Safnil; Purwo, Bambang Kaswanti; Sukamto, Katharina Endriati – Online Submission, 2021
There has been a great deal of interest in issues multilingual scholars (henceforth: MLS) have in trying to gain publication in international main-stream English language journals (IEJs). However, little research has been published on the experience of MLS using their perspective, particularly how they perceive their competence (knowledge and…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Researchers, Periodicals, Faculty Publishing
Roback, Paul – Journal of Extension, 2017
Extension educators are frequently tasked with strengthening organizations they collaborate with or provide education to. When a county government in Wisconsin experienced significant personnel changes in a span of less than 18 months, department heads contacted Extension to request professional development and team-building education for their…
Descriptors: Organizational Culture, Extension Education, Professional Development, Staff Development
Gibbs, Paul; Cartney, Patricia; Wilkinson, Kate; Parkinson, John; Cunningham, Sheila; James-Reynolds, Carl; Zoubir, Tarek; Brown, Venetia; Barter, Phil; Sumner, Pauline; MacDonald, Angus; Dayananda, Asanka; Pitt, Alexandra – Educational Action Research, 2017
This literature review considers the use of action research in higher education. The review specifically looks at two areas of higher education activity. The first concerns academic teaching practice and includes a discussion of research and pedagogy practice, and staff development. The second considers student engagement. In both of these core…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Action Research, Higher Education, Reflection
Shefter, Laura; Uhrman, Abigail L.; Tobin, Lisa; Kress, Jeffrey S. – Journal of Jewish Education, 2017
As appreciation of the impact of Jewish camping has grown, so have efforts to increase the number of campers able to participate in these settings. Inclusion of campers with disabilities, though not a new phenomenon, has likewise expanded. As more services are provided to campers with disabilities, more camps are hiring an Inclusion Coordinator to…
Descriptors: Jews, Disabilities, Inclusion, Coordinators
Brock, Matthew E.; Barczak, Mary A.; Dueker, Scott A. – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 2020
Coaching with live observation and immediate performance feedback is an effective means to train paraprofessionals, but might not always be feasible. We used a multiple baseline across participants design with six paraprofessionals who taught elementary students with severe disabilities to test the efficacy of two innovations designed to improve…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Video Technology, Evidence Based Practice, Paraprofessional School Personnel
Brock, Matthew E.; Barczak, Mary A.; Dueker, Scott A. – Grantee Submission, 2020
Coaching with live observation and immediate performance feedback is an effective means to train paraprofessionals, but might not always be feasible. We used a multiple baseline across participants design with six paraprofessionals who taught elementary students with severe disabilities to test the efficacy of two innovations designed to improve…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Video Technology, Evidence Based Practice, Paraprofessional School Personnel
Sansom, Shyanne; Barnes, Bryan; Carrizales, Jason; Shaughnessy, Michael F. – Gifted Education International, 2018
This article offers a conversation with Dr. Jane Piirto, author, and professor at Ashland University, where she teaches in the Department of Inclusive Services & Exceptional Learners and the Doctoral Program in Leadership Studies. Here she discusses what she is currently working on, how the five dimensions of overexcitability relate to ADHD,…
Descriptors: Gifted, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Poetry, Staff Development
Branch, Alison; Hastings, Richard P.; Beverley, Michael; Hughes, J. Carl – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2018
Background: Behaviour support plans (BSPs) are at the core of positive behavioural support for challenging behaviour, but nonadherence to BSPs is common. Generally, nonfluent component knowledge prevents learners achieving fluent application and retention of information, and we hypothesised that this may apply to staff learning BSPs. Method: We…
Descriptors: Positive Behavior Supports, Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Staff Development