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Teaching Through a Polyvagal Lens: Using the Science of Safety to Co-Regulate in the Classroom
Get PDFAccording to Stephen Porges’ Polyvagal Theory, social responses to environments are mediated by the limbic system either by vagal input or vagal withdrawal (Mulkey & Du Plessis, 2019). The nervous system preconsciously perceives threats through a process termed neuroception. The Polyvagal Theory provides insight about how the nervous system continuously assesses risk and safety cues that influence behavioral and physiological states (Porges, 2015). Co-regulation provides the neural state that supports the establishment of trusting relationships. Humans are always looking for safety cues and by design are motivated to develop relationships to co- regulate. Incorporating the science of safety in educational practices would support feelings of safety in the human experience and promote a more productive and healthier society (Porges, 2022)
Teacher Perceptions and Attitude of Differentiated Instruction
Get PDFA classroom comprises of students who are learning at grade level, below grade level and some who find grade-level curriculum not challenging enough. Teachers who are planning and executing lesson plans that view the classroom as one entity are leaving struggling learners confused and gifted learners under-challenged and maybe disengaged. It is obvious that the needs of students must be met in the classrooms to help student achievement and to ensure the academic success of all the children in the classroom. In essence, teachers are like doctors who can identify the problem and recommend the appropriate instructional method that can help the diverse set of students achieve success in their learning outcomes. In a differentiated classroom, some of the control is transferred to the student and the teacher uses the learners’ prior knowledge to design and plan lessons that resonate with the students’ readiness, interest, and learning style. Such a stimulating environment nurtures growth and empowerment while eliminating frustrations in struggling learners and boredom in high achievers. Educators have embraced differentiated instruction (DI) as an effective instructional strategy to help scaffold and remediate the issues faced by struggling readers. However, many educators are still not implementing DI in their classrooms on an ongoing basis. This could be because of the lack of confidence, support from management, or also due to lack of awareness around the methodology of DI. To sum it up, educators must engage in effective instructional strategies to teach the diverse student population so that their academic success is achieved. This research study examines the attitudes and perspectives of teachers towards differentiated instruction
Physiology-Based Education for Patients with Type 2 Diabetes
Get PDFType 2 diabetes (T2DM) is a multisystemic disease that affects more than 370 million people worldwide and costs the U.S. Healthcare System over $245 billion per year (Kahn et al., 2013; Powers et al., 2015). Current diabetes education serves as a beneficial intervention method in the prevention and limitation of disease complications. Nevertheless, the current education regimen does not adequately convey the physiological reasoning behind those recommendations. Creating an educational tool that provides patients with physiological reasoning behind diabetes and treatment methods was needed to improve diabetes understanding. Neighborhood HealthSource expressed a need for easily understandable and accessible pathophysiology-based T2DM education materials that patients can utilize during their clinic visits (R. Kirchner, personal communication, January 12, 2022). An electronic pamphlet to fulfill this need was created and incorporates patient-friendly information on the disease pathophysiology, complication pathophysiology, risk factors, and diabetes-related terminology. This project served to alleviate a gap in patient understanding by providing a resource that emphasized patient understanding of the pathophysiology behind diabetes diagnoses. Neighborhood HealthSource found the pamphlet to be beneficial and expressed that there appeared to be a better overall initial patient understanding regarding their T2DM diagnosis (Appendix B). The project’s basis, design and implementation was successful
Conscious Capitalism: An Emerging Economic Philosophy for Higher Purpose in Business
Get PDFAn enhanced economic philosophy, conscious capitalism, is ascending in the United States and gaining traction in helping corporations redefine their approach to business. This article analyzes and evaluates conscious capitalism, integrates it with biblical economics and the social justice faith tradition, and explores its relationship to business education. Business education researchers have the opportunity to integrate conscious capitalism ideas into business curriculum to give students ideas that broaden their understanding of an enhanced model of capitalism and the ways capitalism can do good. Additionally, there is opportunity for Christian business professors to integrate the social justice themes of mishpat, hesed, and shalom into business and economics curricula, and teach about stakeholder integration, higher purpose and values, leadership, culture, and management. Conscious capitalism is not perfectly aligned with a Christian worldview, nor has it sought to be, and as it emerges, more research can help confirm its efficacy
Purpose and Autonomous Functioning in College Students
No full textThis study sought to understand the relationship between a sense of purpose and autonomous functioning in college students. Further, the results were compared with the independent variables of gender, volunteerism, and faith community participation. Participants (n = 356) were undergraduate college students at a small private liberal arts Christian institution located in the Midwest of the United States of America. Measures included the Claremont Purpose Scale and the Index of Autonomous Functioning. Pearson correlations were used to analyze the data, and purpose and autonomous functioning were positively correlated. Women reported higher levels of a sense of purpose and autonomous functioning. Students who were involved in faith communities reported higher levels of autonomous functioning and also were more likely to report a higher sense of purpose. Finally, volunteerism was only associated with a beyond-the-self focus (one of the dimensions of the Claremont Purpose Scale)
Virtual Visits in Prenatal Care: An Integrative Review
Get PDFIntroduction: Addressing gaps in access to prenatal care is an important step to reversing rising rates of maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality and invites the exploration of innovative care models. This integrative review of published literature explores the patient, health care provider, and organizational experience of integrating virtual visits in prenatal care.
Methods: A literature search to identify original studies and quality improvement projects published between 2010 and 2020 was conducted in PubMed, Scopus, CINAHL, and Google Scholar using keywords associated with both telemedicine and prenatal care. Inclusion criteria specified articles pertaining to synchronous virtual visits between pregnant patients and health care providers, and articles were excluded if visits were not pregnancy-centric or pertaining to telemonitoring or mobile applications. Reference lists of identified reviews were screened, and a hand search of 4 applicable journals was also conducted. Findings were organized according to the factors of the social ecological model: individual, interpersonal, organizational, community, and public policy.
Results: The search identified 2666 articles after duplicates were removed, of which 13 met all criteria. Findings across these 13 articles indicated strong patient and health care provider satisfaction with virtual care related to cost savings and convenience, with clinic wait times and cancellation rates also improving. Health care provider input and thoughtful organizational planning were key to a smooth telemedicine implementation process. There were notably no significant differences in clinical outcomes for those who used virtual care.
Discussion: Although data are limited, offering an integrated model that uses both virtual visits and in-person visits has been well-received by patients and health care providers and could improve access to care well into the future. Virtual visits in prenatal care have been well-received by patients and health care providers, showing promise as an emerging model for improving access to care
A new calibration method for charm jet identification validated with proton-proton collision events at √s = 13TeV
No full textMany measurements at the LHC require efficient identification of heavy-flavour jets, i.e. jets originating from bottom (b) or charm (c) quarks. An overview of the algorithms used to identify c jets is described and a novel method to calibrate them is presented. This new method adjusts the entire distributions of the outputs obtained when the algorithms are applied to jets of different flavours. It is based on an iterative approach exploiting three distinct control regions that are enriched with either b jets, c jets, or light-flavour and gluon jets. Results are presented in the form of correction factors evaluated using proton-proton collision data with an integrated luminosity of 41.5 fb−1 at √s = 13 TeV, collected by the CMS experiment in 2017. The closure of the method is tested by applying the measured correction factors on simulated data sets and checking the agreement between the adjusted simulation and collision data. Furthermore, a validation is performed by testing the method on pseudodata, which emulate various mismodelling conditions. The calibrated results enable the use of the full distributions of heavy-flavour identification algorithm outputs, e.g. as inputs to machine-learning models. Thus, they are expected to increase the sensitivity of future physics analyses
Use of Blood Flow Restriction to Treat and Rehabilitate Patients Ages 18 to 40 Year Old from Postoperative Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction
Get PDFBackground: Blood flow restriction (BFR) is being shown to have many positive applications for the medical, and strength and conditioning fields. Recently, researchers and physical therapists have been applying these same concepts to patient populations of all ages and are using BFR to assist patients who have undergone major surgeries. A main goal for the use of BFR in rehabilitation is to increase quadricep strength in the rehabilitating patient, while also decreasing stress loads on the knee joint, whether it be the tibiofemoral joint or the patellofemoral joint. This decrease in stress helps the repairing tissue to recover strength without repetitive high compression forces, which can cause unwanted damage and slow down the recovery processes. Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to evaluate whether or not BFR is effective in the treatment and rehabilitation of postoperative anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLr) patients within the ages of 18-40 years old. Results: It was found that BFR is an effective treatment in the rehabilitation of postoperative ACLr patients within the ages of 18-40 years old. The effectiveness is defined by the patient outcomes on strength, function, and patient reported outcome measures (PROMs). Conclusion: Though the research on the topic of post-surgical ACLr patient’s rehabilitation with BFR has only a small sample size, from what we know about conventional and BFR rehabilitation with other post-surgical knee protocols, we can conclude the same benefits with BFR for ACLr patient will be effective. Implications for Research and Practice: The main implication for this research is that BFR allows practitioners to start patient’s rehabilitation sooner, resulting in similar, if not greater, strength gains. This also decreases the stress on the regenerating tissues, and therefore decreases pain during the patient\u27s rehabilitation experience
Recovering a Biblical Form of Spiritual Formation in Contemporary Pentecostal Churches
Get PDFThe project addressed the problem of an inadequate theology of spiritual formation within the discipleship doctrine of a specific expression of North American Pentecostalism. The problem manifests most acutely at the local church level where ministry leaders are struggling with divorce, mental illness, moral relativism, and poverty. Pentecostalism is failing to measure up to its potential where the human experience intersects with religious life.This project took a multilateral approach to the problem. The first approach used a theological method to survey the biblical description of spiritual formation and the existential need for it with special emphasis on The Book of Acts and the Apostle Peter.The second approach involved a literature review and content analysis. Review and analysis considered contemporary and historic theology along with behavioral science literature related to the nature of the embodied soul, human development, and the effects of religious experience on human development. The primary data was developed through a qualitative case study.Data developed through the multilateral approaches was coalesced to develop recommendations related to improving spiritual formation outcomes that facilitate God’s idea of human flourishing and good community in a local Pentecostal church.Three primary findings were discovered and discussed. Finding 1 related to a lack of commitment to formal education and clergy professionalization. Finding 2 related to critical biblical-theological knowledge gaps experienced by the case study participants. Finding 3 related to the consequences of a lack of diverse and specialized ministries at the local church level
A Phenomenological Case Study of the School District of Palm Beach County\u27s 2018-2020 Professional Development Certification Program
No full textCertifying teachers is a very important element within the educational process. Teacher certification is usually accomplished through undergraduate colleges of education. However, because many professionals change careers and want to become teachers, alternative certification programs were created. This qualitative case study was conducted to explore the School District of Palm Beach County’s primary alternative certification program from 2018-2020, also known as the Professional Development Certification Program (PDCP). Data collection involved semi-structured interviews. Ten teachers who completed the PDCP from 2018–2020 participated in focus groups and individual interviews. Participants held a positive view of the program’s effectiveness in preparing them to teach. However, a few negative themes emerged. Because the model for the program is used statewide, Florida school district administrators can learn from the findings and implement the proposed recommendations