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Health and Wellness Fair
No full textLynne Clark, Dean of Professional Studies (center), talks with WCSU students at the health and wellness fair.</p
Rose Gattuso Interview
No full text30 min.Rose talks about the differences between her lifestyle in America as opposed to Italy, as well as actually journeying to America
Who Killed the Constitution?
No full text"Woods and Gutzman (two bestselling authors in thePolitically Incorrect Guide series) appeal to both left and right in this constitutionalist jeremiad. Liberals will agree about the unconstitutionality of the draft, warrantless wiretapping and presidential signing statements. Conservatives will agree about the unconstitutionality of school busing, bans on school prayer and Roosevelt's suspension of the gold standard. The common thread is the authors' brief for a federal government strictly limited to the powers explicitly granted by the Constitution.
The authors' exegeses of the Constitution and court decisions, heavy on original intent arguments, are lucid and telling, but not always consistently supportive of liberty: their reading of the First Amendment implies that state governments may restrict speech, religion and the press. Their attack on expansive federal power-even federal spending on cancer research-is perhaps too successful; it inadvertently supports scholars like Daniel Lazare who argue that the Constitution is too antiquated, constraining and hard to change to keep up with a modern consensus on civil rights and good governance." - Publishers Weekly Revie
Model Aircraft Aviation Today: a Series of Journalistic Compositions
No full textMy senior thesis about RC planes.This collection of Journalistic compositions, encompassing straight news, feature, reviews and opinion, all focus on model aircraft aviation, or more commonly known as the hobby of flying remote control planes. This project highlights many topics in today's model plane industry, writing to enthuse the audiences of such interested. While most model aviation coverage is broadcasted through magazine media, this collection aims to shed light on the hobby from several sides of the journalistic spectrum
A True Irish American
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This thesis contains the opening chapters of the novel A True Irish-American. A True Irish-American is a fictional story of the Irish immigration to the United States from the 1920's-1970's. Using fictional characters, the story describes the hardships and struggles faced by the Irish in America. The main characters, John and Ryan O'Reilly, will be faced with conflicts between each other and obstacles of the time they live in
University Management with Jhumpa Lahiri
No full textManagement staff pose with author Jhumpa Lahiri. From left to right are: Linda Vaden-Goad (dean of arts and sciences) Linda Rinker (University provost), Walter Bernstein (VP of Student Affairs), Koryoe Anim-Wright (VP of Institutional Advancement), author Jhumpa Lahiri, James (Jim) Schmotter (University president), Ellen Durnin (dean of graduate studies), Allen Morton (dean of business school), and Lynne Clark (dean of professional studies
Effects of a collaborative teaching model of professional development on new sixth through twelfth grade teachers' attitudes, implementation of instruction, self-efficacy and motivation.
Get PDFThe purpose of this study was to assess the effects of a collaborative teaching model of professional development on new sixth through twelfth grade teachers’ attitudes, self-efficacy, motivation, and implementation of instruction. Educating students in the 21st century requires not only content expertise and the desire to teach, but pedagogical competence. To acquire these requisite skills, new classroom teachers need more than discrete, periodic, in-house or off-campus professional development programs.
This research investigated the effectiveness of a collaborative teaching model for 6th through 12th grade teachers (n = 23) using a Pre/Post Quasi-Experimental Design. The dependent variables were the teachers’ attitudes toward professional development, levels of self-efficacy, motivation, and implementation of instruction. The first three variables were measured by the Semantic Differential Scale (SDS), the Teacher Efficacy Scale (TES), and the Work Motivation Inventory (WMI), respectively. A one-way repeated measures ANOVA was employed to determine change over time. Implementation of instruction was assessed using the Teaching Competencies: Non-Tenured Teacher Appraisal Program Observation. At the beginning and end of the study, observations (n = 6) of three voluntary collaborative teacher teams were conducted using the school district’s teacher evaluation form. To fully describe the effect of this dependent variable, data were described using means, standard deviations, and frequencies to view teacher classroom behavior. Lastly, a Teacher Exit Questionnaire assessed individual teacher (n = 23) reflection of the professional development role of the collaborative model. In this study, the independent variable was the active participation in a collaborative teaching model.
The findings from the one-way repeated measures ANOVA revealed that the new 6th through 12th grade teachers (n = 23) showed statistically significant differences on pre and post assessments on two dependent variables (attitude and motivation). The Bonferroni pairwise comparisons revealed the mean differences for both variables were significant at the .05 level. Descriptive data from the Teaching Competencies: Non- Tenured Teacher Appraisal Program Observation and the Teacher Exit Questionnaire regarding the implementation of instruction showed that 96% of the teachers noted an increase in their ability to identify different student learning needs and apply appropriate strategies. Thus, both the statistically significant repeated measures effect and the teachers’ enacted and reported practice were impacted by the collaborative teaching model experience.Doctor of Education (EdD)Education & Educational Psycholog
And They Called Him Johnny
No full textThis thesis is a novella on the theme of free will. After the main character (John)
dies, he finds himself in absolute nothingness. He soon realizes, however, that he can
create any and everything he desires. After experimenting with this "power," though, he
finds the results strangely dissatisfying. He asks god a question about this and God,
whose name is Gus, appears. God (Gus) explains that the only way John can truly
experience the things he experienced in life is by imagining them. He can not have them
first hand. They will only be the products of his imagination. John concludes that he must
create a universe for himself with beings who have free will. He is now plays the role of
god, just as Gus had, and the cycle continues