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Piloting the Classroom: Teaching from Multiple Perspectives
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Piloting the Classroom:
Teaching from Multiple Perspectives
By: Nicole M. Gilmore
This honors thesis serves as a teaching portfolio based on my lessons and experiences with teaching in the classroom and with individuals. I have had many experiences with teaching other than just my student teaching. I have taught in both upper-middle class schools, schools that are on “academic watch” and even a school in Belize, a different country and a different culture. Not only have I taught in the classroom but I have also had experience teaching in a military training program for future officers, Air Force ROTC. I did not realize how well all of these experiences would interconnect and improve me as a teacher until I started work on this portfolio.
Each section is dedicated to my different teaching experiences throughout the past two years. There are also notes from professors, cooperating teachers and even students that are valuable to me as a future teacher and serve to highlight my teaching experiences. Each section includes an introduction summarizing and highlighting my writings. This will give the reader a good indication of which sections are of most interest to him or her while reading the portfolio. In each section, especially the capstone paper, I discuss how each of the experiences has impacted one another. My findings and conclusions on how they all relate, come from a mixture of both my research and experiences with teaching.
The purpose of this portfolio is to allow me to have something to look back on after I have served my years in the Air Force, so I can remember the valuable education I have received at Miami University on teaching and how to be an effective educator. The education I have received here is of the utmost value and I cannot risk losing all the information and lessons I have learned through the classes and experiences here. This portfolio is one giant step to prepare myself for my future teaching career. This portfolio also serves as a tool for prospective schools that will interview me, to see examples of my work throughout my time at Miami and my experiences with teaching
Investigation of the use of Raman Spectroscopy for Non-invasive Glucose Calculation in Blood
No full textAccording to a study by the American Diabetes Association, 171 million people or 2.8% of people in the world suffered from diabetes. It is important to get more information about blood sugar levels which would allow them to better control their blood sugar levels and help reduce complications. This project was motivated by similar work recently studied by a MIT group. This project uses a simulation of Raman spectroscopy to calculate the glucose content of the simulated blood. Specifically, we back out how much glucose is in our simulated sample and quantitatively understand error within the analysis
The Delay of Gratification in Latina Mother/ Child Dyads
No full textThe aim of this study is to explore the relationship among parental attitudes, parental teaching techniques and maternal level of acculturation and how these influence their child’s ability to delay gratification. This study is an extension of the one conducted by Mauro and Harris (2000), whereas the current study focuses solely on Latina mothers. The task consisted of a mother/ child patience teaching session and a contrived gift scenario, in which the child was instructed to wait to open a tempting gift. A modified assessment, excluding the mother/ child interaction and the child-waiting task, was used to learn more about the connection between parental attitudes and maternal level of acculturation. For the delay of gratification task, behavioral distractions were the strategy used most frequently. Overall the results showed that there was a significant correlation between restrictive parenting behaviors and the maternal level of acculturation
Geographic Factors in School Choice: Spatial and Social Accessibility in the Cincinnati Public Schools
No full textOpen enrollment and school choice have been used throughout the United States for decades as a tool for desegregation, and in the Cincinnati, Ohio Public Schools (CPS) since 1973. Scholars have debated the effectiveness and fairness of school choice, but more geographical analysis is needed on the spatial opportunities and constraints that parents face. This paper explores the how geography factors in school choice. What are Cincinnati parents' geographic understandings and preferences including location, transportation, associations and assigned meanings? Using a survey of 25 CPS parents interviews with 11 CPS parents, I explored how these preferences affect parental school choice. CPS parents are particularly concerned with issues of safety, identity, and transportation. The paper concludes by discussing how a better understanding geographical factors in parental school choice may provide a basis for more effective policies to promote racial and socioeconomic equity
Novel Sustainability: An Exploration of Systemic Architectural Structure and Form Through Fractal Geometry
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Incorporating Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Projects in Technical Services: an Examination of Possibilities and Potential Pitfalls
Get PDFThis presentation will showcase work being done at an academic library to encode a collection
of manuscripts on Cleveland and the Western Reserve in XML format following TEI guidelines,
and address the objectives of and rationale for this endeavor. "The Manuscripts Relating to the
Early History of the Western Reserve, 1795-1869" collection consists of over 200 manuscripts,
and includes correspondences, journals, business records, government documents, and land
surveys. This collection, housed at the Western Reserve Historical Society, is being transcribed
and encoded by technical services staff. Such work is sometimes labor-intensive and timeconsuming.
The project also raises a number of issues, including: Why perform text encoding at
all? Should such work be left to scholars in the Digital Humanities instead? How can librarians
and digital humanists collaborate? And how practical is it for technical services units to
undertake such work? We will address these issues
Ohio Long-Term Services and Supports Factbook
Get PDFThis factbook provides a broad overview of Ohio's system of long-term Services and supports. Numerous charts provide descriptions of those who use services, kinds of services, payment systems and other topics. It is designed to be a reference and resource guide
Characterization, Modeling, and Applications of Novel Magneto-Rheological Elastomers
No full textMagnetorheological elastomers (MREs) are an emerging branch within the smart materials field that consists of hard or soft magnetic particles embedded in a rubber compound. Current applications and research have been focused on changing the stiffness of these materials by applying an external magnetic field. Components of vibration absorbers and base isolation systems that employ this material have shown the capability of offering improved performance over conventional solutions. These particular applications use soft magnetic material; however, MRE materials containing hard magnetic filler materials (those that remain permanently magnetized) were the primary focus of this project and are referred to as H-MREs. When a magnetic field is applied perpendicularly to these particles, the filler particles generate a net torque and these samples can be used as a controlled actuator. Preliminary work has been conducted to characterize these H-MREs (since their properties are significantly different than “soft” MREs) and this work has shown their usefulness in engineering applications. However, unlike comparable smart materials such as piezoelectrics and electroactive polymers (EAP), additional modeling and experimentation needs to be conducted in order to develop usable models and better understand their behavior. The first portion of this paper focuses on developing experimental models to predict the behavior of H-MRE materials as cantilevered beam actuators for use in future applications.
Two additional, newer applications for which H-MREs could be useful are energy harvesting and sensing. Sensors are utilized almost everywhere today as they are used to monitor the performance of a system (whether it is fluid flow, vibration measurements, etc.). Piezoelectric materials, those that respond to electric stimuli, and Galfenol, an engineered material similar to MREs, have been studied extensively for their application as self-sensing actuators. It is hypothesized that H-MREs could be used in a similar capacity by developing a way to monitor the displacement of the material using a magnetic circuit. Based on a similar principle, energy harvesting involves the conversion of one form of energy (kinetic, solar, etc.) into a more storable form. Previous research has been conducted using other smart materials in this capacity and it is also hypothesized that H-MREs could be used in a similar capacity by capturing energy from mechanical vibrations and storing it in the form of electrical energy/power using a specialized circuit and the same principles discussed above. The primary goal of the second portion of this project will be to determine the feasibility of using H-MREs in the capacity of energy harvesting and sensing technologies. This feasibility study includes the development of experiments to assess these capabilities and the implementation of the experiments for verification of the predicted behavior. Finally, much consideration is given to work that will need to be done in the future in order to fully understand the behavior of these materials and allow them to be implemented in future relevant applications
The Influence of an Afterschool Physical Activity/Academic Enhancement Program on Components of Physical Fitness and Self-esteem in 4th and 5th Graders.
No full textChildhood obesity negatively impacts the psycho-social and physical health of young children by increasing the risk for the development of a variety of chronic diseases/conditions at an earlier age. A multitude of after-school programs have been created to address decreasing levels of physical activity and physical fitness, one of several factors involved in overweight and obesity in children and adolescents. PURPOSE: In addition to assessing potential changes in physical fitness, the purpose of this study was to determine the effect of an afterschool physical activity and academic enhancement program for 4th and 5th graders on a variety of components of self-esteem, particularly physical self-efficacy. METHODS: A diverse cohort of 23 students participated in the tri-weekly program for a total of 12 weeks. Components of physical fitness, including body composition, aerobic fitness, muscle strength, and muscular flexibility, were assessed using FITNESSGRAM. Perceptions of competency in physical components, such as sport, body attractiveness, strength, physical self-worth, and global self-worth were determined using the Children and Youth Physical Self-Perception Profile (CY-PSPP) and the Children and Youth Perceived Importance of Physical Competence Profile (CY-PIP). RESULTS: Our results indicated a significant increase in sport/athletic competency (p<0.0005) and sport importance (p<0.06) over time. Furthermore, physical self-worth (physical self-efficacy) was shown to approach a significant increase over time (p<0.09). Regarding physical fitness, abdominal strength/curl-ups (p<0.0001) increased significantly while a gender effect existed; males scored higher than females in PACER (p<0.001) and curl-ups (p<0.05). CONCLUSION: Overall, the increase in competence levels and physical ability from pre-intervention to post-intervention indicate a positive change in perceptions for the students. Although subsequent studies should include a control group and be performed over a longer period of time, it can be concluded that the Stewart afterschool physical activity and academic enhancement program played a positive role in fostering positive changes in several aspects of both physical and psycho-social health in young children who participated in the program