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Assessment of children and youth with special needs
No full textThis highly respected text focuses on current assessment issues and procedures that every special educator needs to know. The author’s integrated approach emphasizes in-class assessment approaches as well as more formal measures and instruments. Throughout they provide numerous practical examples of how the techniques and procedures can be used in the classroom. Included are practical, ready-to-used materials integrated within instruction delivery methods; relevant case studies; and examinations of current assessment topics in every chapter. This new Fifth Edition features an expanded discussion of classroom assessment and the assessment cycle; an expanded discussion of Response to Intervention (RTI); new sections on how to use assessment effectively with students with behavior problems and how to collaborate effectively with speech and language specialists; updated descriptions of formal, standardized texts and measures; interactive features embedded into examples and mini-cases throughout; and Web links embedded into the text to further engage readers with the material.https://scholarworks.umf.maine.edu/publications/1015/thumbnail.jp
School Intervention: Restructuring School Culture with a Focus on Student Achievement
No full textAmong 9th and 11th grade classes at Skowhegan Area High School, problems included high freshman failure rates, high drop out rates, and low SAT achievement levels. The purpose was to determine the relationship between two interventions (9th grade teaming and professional learning groups), and 9th grade failure rates and 11th grade SAT scores. We found no decrease in failure rates after teaming implementation. SAT data were unavailable in time for study completion. In conclusion, the two intervention programs need extended time to create clear and accurate data
The Effects of Two Reading Interventions on Motivation Among Eighteen Rural Fourth Graders in Western Maine
No full textContemporary research argues that traditional sustained silent reading programs do not offer reading instruction that work to motivate young readers. This study’s purpose was to change the culture of a classroom in order to support and nurture children so that they become highly motivated readers as evidenced by an increase in self-confidence and by a stronger belief that reading is valuable. The sample was made up of 18 fourth grade Maine students and motivation was measured using the Motivation to Read Profile. The results, collected in each of four intervention periods, indicated that students need: (a) social interaction; (b) opportunities to share and make connections; (c) time for reflection; (d) and guidance in order to become more interested in and excited about reading
Portland\u27s past : stories from the city by the sea
No full textHenry Wadsworth Longfellow immortalized Portland, Maine, as the beautiful town that is seated by the sea. In this volume, Maine author Luann Yetter presents the stories from its past that not only showcase this exquisiteness but also illuminate its diverse and exciting history. The founding members of the Forest City braved the harsh winters, but not without scandals and struggles. One man raised a navy to fight the Barbary pirates threatening ships that sailed from Casco Bay, and privateers brought rum onboard and ashore. And while one Portlander traded slaves, many others worked the Underground Railroad as staunch antislavery crusaders. Discover Portland from its beginning as uncharted territory through to its development into the quintessential New England city it is today.https://scholarworks.umf.maine.edu/publications/1076/thumbnail.jp
Maine : the Pine Tree State from prehistory to the present
No full textThe first comprehensive history of Maine to be published in decades.https://scholarworks.umf.maine.edu/publications/1023/thumbnail.jp
Science, culture, and free spirits : a study of Nietzsche\u27s Human, all-too-human
No full textIn this insightful study, Nietzsche specialist Jonathan R. Cohen argues that Human, All-Too-Human(1878) represents the crucial watershed for Nietzsche’s philosophical development, the moment at which he becomes who he is. Here Nietzsche breaks his early allegiance to Schopenhauer and Wagner by offering acute criticisms, which often are diametric reversals of his earlier writings. At the same time, he establishes the overall framework of his later philosophy as the overcoming of metaphysical barriers to the emergence of free spirits who will be the avant-garde of culture. His use of science to accomplish this goal gives this work a positivistic slant unique in his corpus.Cohen explains Nietzsche’s turnabout from his earlier philosophy, analyzes the argumentative tactics by which Nietzsche deploys science to undercut traditional metaphysics, describes the character of the free spirits, and examines the division of labor scheme that Nietzsche prescribes for cultural progress. Cohen also shows how Human, All-Too-Human, despite its aphoristic style, has a unified literary structure and integrity, which are central to the communication of the book’s philosophical message. Science, Culture, and Free Spirits helps us read both Nietzsche’s individual works and his overall philosophy as coherent wholes.https://scholarworks.umf.maine.edu/publications/1013/thumbnail.jp
Remembering Franklin County : stories from the Sandy River Valley
No full textSnow swirled around the first Sandy River settlers in the winter of 1780, testing pioneering spirits. But the founders proved tough and able, incorporating Farmington in 1794 and soon establishing other towns, raising crops, building roads and institutions and bringing Franklin County to life. Former Lewiston Sun Journal columnist Luann Yetter describes the early years, the rumored Indian attack that led to the discovery of Rangeley Lakes, the World War I sacrifices of Company K and the Weld baseball player who managed Babe Ruth\u27s Red Sox to two World Series championships. Yetter also notes the delinquent debt collected by Paul Revere, the murder suspect who made history by (unsuccessfully) defending himself and the near total destruction wrought by the flood of 1869. Describing war, wealth, industry and oddity, she reveals the richness of Franklin County\u27s past.https://scholarworks.umf.maine.edu/publications/1075/thumbnail.jp
Birdwatching in wartime : poems
No full textJeffrey Thomson\u27s award-winning fourth collection of poems, Birdwatching in Wartime, takes place around the globe, but finds its home in the rainforests of Costa Rica and Peru. The diverse and complexly layered environments of the neotropics are the perfect setting for these poems - both linguistically and atmospherically. Thomson explores the way questions of beauty, grief, and desire are filtered through particular landscapes and natural images, and along the way metaphor, memory, violence, and eros all cobine to rewrite and alter the human experience of the natural world. As his poems break apart the traditional Linnean categories of natural history and drive the wedge of human memory and desire into the gaps, Thomson ultimately reveals and revels in the fact that the narratives we bring into the world color and shape that world to such an extent that we cannot easily judge what is the world and what the story. A striking new collection that Major Jackson hails as thinking that become sensuous.https://scholarworks.umf.maine.edu/publications/1067/thumbnail.jp
Fingers pointing at the moon : poems
No full texthttps://scholarworks.umf.maine.edu/publications/1026/thumbnail.jp