...Roles and Responsibilities in Special Education Melinda Harper Grand Canyon University Special Education Program Development and Funding 523 Dr. Justina Kwapy July 16, 2014 Roles and Responsibilities in Special Education The world of education is anything but static. It is in a constant state of change with everyone hoping to do the greater good for our children. Roles and responsibilities of those who help the children continue to grow and evolve, and educators learn how to manage the diverse classrooms of today. The roles and responsibilities of those educators who are contributing to the education of our students with special needs have evolved over time. Considering how the Romans treated those with disabilities by leaving infants outside to die, or Greek philosophers made grave statements that they should not exist, to even earlier years in the U.S. creating institutions named, State Asylum for Unteachable Idiots, I feel that the world of special education has come a long way and still continues to grow in a positive manner. With the growth and progress that is being made students are no longer sent to institutional homes or facilities. Many families are caring for their special needs children. There are schools that are for special needs students that offer supports and services to the students, but many students are returning back to their home (local) schools. Teachers are receiving more education and extra training to better meet the needs of the...
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...Understanding the roles, responsibilities and relationships in education and training Unit 301 02/11/2015 Ayesha Caan LRR1774 Unit 301 Understanding roles, responsibilities and relationships in education and training. As a teaching assistant you help the teacher by preparing resources or putting out resources at the beginning of a lesson. Teaching assistants are often used to take small groups out of the class who need additional help with numeracy and literacy. This can also include work with children with special educational needs. The role of a teaching assistant can be pivotal in helping pupils gain vital literacy and numeracy skills, particularly at key stage one. To encourage pupils to act independently, interact with others, and to engage in activities led by the teachers as appropriate. Classroom assistants also provide clerical/admin support e.g. photocopying, typing, filing, laminating, making, books etc... Your main role as a teacher should be to teach your subject in a way that actively involves and engages your learners during every session cited by Gravels(2010:1) As a teaching assistant your role will be providing support in mathematics, reading and writing on an individual basis or in small groups or in the classroom. Assisting with correcting and marking work; helping with school trips and activities. Help develop programmes and schemes of work. You also need to be aware of pupil’s problems/progress and achievement’s and report to the teacher as...
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...The role of education in promoting corporate social responsibility by The unsustainable depletion of natural resources, perception of poor health and imposition of dangerous working conditions are just some of the worrying external costs imposed by International commercial operations. These costs are borne especially by developing countries that do not receive adequate compensation from companies responsible for social and environmental damage, Lithuania is not an exception. The essence of corporate social responsibility (CSR) policy function is to monitor businesses and ensure its active compliance with the spirit of the law, ethical standards, and international norms. The goal of CSR is to embrace responsibility for the company's actions and encourage a positive impact through its activities on the environment, consumers, employees, communities, stakeholders and all other members of the public sphere. Recently, highly active consideration of CSR issues has reached Lithuania. Our developed neighbors experience provides an opportunity to practice CSR activities and present arguments in favor and counter against. However CSR policy does not offer a "one size fits all" solution, and it‘s because each country with different culture and different levels of morale, actions and behavior in business sector also got own style and tendencies of doing business. Also it is way harder to change established norms of persons who are running their own businesses in the...
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...Paper 3 October 12, 2011 Professor Arevalo The Face of Higher Education: Corporate Social Responsibility, Stakeholders and the Managerial Role Abstract The purpose of this paper is to examine three themes that have been discussed in our Management Process and Organizational Theory course: Corporate Social Responsibility, the Stakeholders, and Managerial Roles. Corporate Social Responsibility emphasizes the commitment an organization makes to achieve greatness following the law and making a profit. The discussion of managers and their roles considers how certain kinds of manager’s function as it relates to making a decision. A stakeholder’s involvement in an organization is crucial to that organization and how the organization influences society or their surrounding community. All three of these themes are being analyzed from the aspect of higher education. Many discussions have been held in which the components of organizational theory, management, and organizations have been examined. This paper intends to take the three themes and analyze how they are applied to or affected by higher education, since higher education (undergraduate, graduate, post-graduate levels) as an organization helps prepare individuals for the workplace to potentially become a manager or even stakeholder and practice Corporate Social Responsibility. Corporate Social Responsibility The concept of Corporate Social Responsibility is a relatively new phrase having only been used since the 1960s...
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...Roles and Responsibilities Teaching Service Last updated 1 January 2015 ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES TEACHING SERVICE CONTENTS PAGE OVERVIEW 2 PRINCIPALS 2 ASSISTANT PRINCIPALS 2 LEADING TEACHERS 4 CLASSROOM TEACHERS 5 PARAPROFESSIONALS 7 EDUCATION SUPPORT CLASS 7 Roles and Responsibilities – Teaching Service Page 1 OVERVIEW The roles and responsibilities that can be expected of employees at the various classification levels, including the principal class, is set out below and incorporates Schedule 2 of the Victorian Government Schools Agreement 2013. PRINCIPALS The role of the principal is to lead and manage the planning, delivery, evaluation and improvement of the education of all students in a community through the strategic deployment of resources provided by the Department and the school community. A key component of this role is to increase the knowledge base of teachers within their school about student learning and quality teacher practice. At the same time, the principal, as executive officer of the school council, must ensure that adequate and appropriate advice is provided to the council on educational and other matters; that the decisions of the council are implemented; and that adequate support and resources are provided for the conduct of council meetings. Principals have a clear set of accountabilities, which distinguish their work from other employees in the Teaching Service and the education community and are set out in detail in the contract...
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...INDIA MINISTRY OF EDUCATION THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT OF INDIA IN EDUCATION By J. P. NAIK 1.One of the major educational controversies today refers to the role of the Government of India in education. Prima facie education is a State subject. Entry 11 of the List II of the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution lays down that “education including universities, subject to the provisions of Entries 63, 64, 65 and 66 of List I and Entry 25 of List III” should be a State subject. But there are some other provisions in the Constitution itself which contradict the almost absolute delegation of authority suggested by this entry in the State list; and what is even more significant, the Central Government has since shown an unprecedented activity and interest in the field of education ever since the attainment of independence. In 1947, it appointed a University Commission and has since been engaged in evolving common policies in Higher education such as the introduction of the three-year degree course. This was followed by a Secondary Education Commission which tried to introduce a number of uniform trends in a field where the Centre has had hardly any constitutional authority. No Commission was appointed in the field of Primary education. But the scheme of Basic education was declared to have gone beyond the stage of experimentation and was also adopted as the national pattern at the Elementary stage. The interest of the Central Government in Technical education and scientific research...
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...Today’s society, individuals are living longer, with diseases still abundant, and healthcare cost on the rise there is a greater need for health promotion. In the new healthcare reform, nurses will play a vital part in health promotion and disease prevention in all levels; Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary. Affordable Care Act is here and healthcare is changing as well as the role of nursing. The new healthcare focus on health promotion and disease prevention vs disease oriented. Nurses are one of the key players in the new healthcare reform. For this reason, the roles and responsibilities of nurses are evolving with the times. One of the primary role of nursing is the responsibility as educator in health promotion and disease prevention. Another important Nurse’s role is the function as a case manager or coordinator for individual health promotion. The case manager’s role, the nurse has the responsibility to collaborate with other nurses, physicians, social workers, nutritionist, psychologists, therapists, individuals, and community groups. These two roles are one of multiple roles and responsibilities of nursing in the healthcare reform. There is three levels of disease prevention; primary, secondary, and tertiary. In primary prevention, the focus is to reduce the risks of obtaining a disease before it...
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...Identify and describe each of the seven Areas of Responsibility of a Health Education Specialist. Discuss the importance of each area of responsibility and provide examples of each. Responsibility I: Assess Needs, Assets, and Capacity for Health Education: With this responsibility one must assess the need for the population surrounding them. This will help to solve the problems for the individual or group. This will help stakeholders to gather data, analyze the data in order to know what areas needs to be focused on. When the stakeholders get the data together they then can proceed with developing a plan with the information collected. When gathering information one looks at the area and population that is covered, how many people are infected, age group that is affected. Responsibility II: Plan Health Education: When planning involve more than finding a location its about how good written and oral skills one has. One must be competent in developing goals on which the foundation will established for the program that is meant for. It is an importance in finding the right stakeholders for the job in order to support each other and help to develop a program together. Responsibility III: Implement Health Education: In this stage it is important to develop a program and putting it together. When developing a program one puts the data together that was collected and find materials that would be educational in teaching the techniques. One must really focus on...
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...a major role on the citizens of the EU and the United Kingdom. The EU consist of 27 countries, the European parliament is responsible for providing laws such as how much pollution a business can produce a year this is called the emission trading. This is where there is a limit on how much co2 business can produce a year. Another law is the movements of workers and goods between countries a good example would be the movement of migrants from A8 countries in 2004 who started to migrate into the UK. The European parliament is also responsible for providing laws on transport and equal opportunities for individuals. Central government- Is the government straight after the European parliament; this government operates only in their own country. The central government would be located in the capital of the country in the UK it is located in London, Westminster. The main roles and responsibilities would include enforcing laws for their own people in the country such as how much minimum wage is going to be. As well as other responsibilities such as keeping the people of the country safe and protected by agreeing peace treaties with other countries and providing the human rights law to keep everyone safe and protected. Devolved parliament- In devolved parliament the power that the central government used to control is now controlled by other individuals therefore the power would get shifted to the regional assemblies like the Scottish assemblies who would take responsibility of that power...
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...institutions (jobs, education, families) within a society and discusses how they contribute to society as a whole in terms of having stability. Functionalists believe that in a society, social consensus is held together by all members of a society agreeing upon worldly matters. Functionalists believe in the central value system, the way in which agreement in society works is by socialising within institutions such as family, education, and the mass media. For example, the social norms of a family would be to: * Reproduce * Care for children, * Economic function * Providing emotional security They believe that society flows well; as well as for this to happen, functionalists express that working as one to achieve what is seen as “best” for society as a whole, is what keeps a society stable. In other words, functionalists believe that things work together harmoniously in society. One of the examples of the functionalist perspective is education: * Through education, students are able to socialise which allows them to understand other cultural backgrounds. This enables society to become more open minded upon the world which they live in. They are not so much alienated from other cultural backgrounds as they are retaining this knowledge through the help of education. * Education prepares adults for adulthood * Educations prepares for job roles * Education provides pathways into the structure of a society * Education creates cultural innovation...
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...A00480381 INSTRUCTOR: DR. AMY THOMPSON DATE: APRIL 25, 2015 The modification of health behaviors is facilitated by health education specialists. The World Health Organization (1998, P.4) defined health education as “comprising consciously constructed opportunities for learning involving some form of communication designed to improve health literacy, including improving knowledge, and developing life skills which are conducive to individual and community health.”. Most simply, health education helps to inform the public about behaviors that are healthy and unhealthy. Many individuals that are concerned about their health and the health of their families usually adjust their behavior in accordance with any new information (Schneider, 2011). For example, the surgeon general’s report of 1964 which stated that smoking caused cancer and other life threatening diseases, had significant impact on the prevalence of smoking in the United States. The health education specialists role in the United States today has evolved over time based on the need to enhance health and provide educational intervention. The earliest signs of the roles and responsibilities of the health education specialist started in the mid 1800s with education in school hygiene, which was closely associated with physical activity. But by the early 1900s the need for health education began to spread to the public, but it was the social workers, journalists, visiting nurses and caregivers that were doing the...
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...RCOG educational roles 1.1 College Tutor 1.2 Educational Supervisor 1.3 ATSM Director 1.4 ATSM Preceptor 1.5 ATSM Educational Supervisor 1.6 Deanery Ultrasound Co-ordinator 1.7 Ultrasound Educational Supervisor 1.8 Subspecialty Training Programme Supervisor (STPS) 4 5 5 7 8 10 12 13 15 16 Section 2: Structure of postgraduate education 2.1 The curriculum 2.2 Postgraduate training, assessment and appraisal 2.3 Annual review of training 2.4 RCOG forms for appraisal 2.5 MRCOG examinations 2.6 DRCOG examination 18 22 25 30 31 32 34 Section 3: Managing local/regional education 3.1 Guidance for dealing with the poorly performing trainee 3.2 Regional education 3.3 Welcoming the new trainee 3.4 Training needs for trainers 3.5 Top tips for College Tutors and Educational Supervisors 35 35 36 39 39 40 2 Section 4: Resources 4.1 Bibliography for medical education 4.2 List of educational resources 42 42 42 Section 5: Appendices 5.1 Appendix 1: Sample letter of welcome 5.2 Appendix 2: Example of introductory programme 45 45 47 3 Introduction The delivery of training and education is a core responsibility for the National Health Service (NHS). The General Medical Council sets the standards for undergraduate and postgraduate medical education and works with the Colleges to determine the curriculum, assessments and implementation. The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) has established specific educational roles to support the delivery...
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...Fo r Te a ch er s Growing up in Zambia A Teachers’ Guide to Civic Education Camfed has created a new and innovative resource pack for the teaching and learning of Civic Education. It combines three books: this teachers’ guide, a student workbook and a collection of stories and photographs entitled Listen to My Story. We hope that together, they will inspire a high level of creativity in classrooms across Zambia. Civic Education is a key aspect of the school curriculum and one that prepares pupils for a productive and fulfulling life. The resource pack addresses issues of great concern to children and young people as they grow up in our society. A particular focus is gender and issues of inequality in Zambia. Many of the stories, photographs and activities enable boys and girls to reflect on the influences on their lives that shape their choices. English skills, literacy, and other elements of the curriculum are also supported and the sessions in the pack are designed to show how life and learning converge to change people’s futures. I hope that the many Zambian teachers and students who use this rich resource will benefit from the stories, and that the interactive and reflective activities will stimulate interest and learning in different local settings. Every child has the right to education. Yet in Zambia, as in many other countries around the world, millions of children, especially girls, are excluded from school. We often hear the statistics, but it is rare for those...
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... Task A New Staff Mentoring. Understanding Roles, Responsibilities and Relationships in Education and Training This leaflet is published to assist you in mentoring a new member of staff in your department. You should only use this leaflet as a guide and it does not replace the staff handbook in any way. Teaching/Training Role for Babcock Employees As an employee of Babcock you have Roles and Responsibilities in the education and training of members of Her Majesty’s Armed Forces. Roles: 1. Assessor. You will be required to carry out periodic diagnostic assessment of the students whilst undergoing instruction. 2. Communicator. Clear communication is the pathway to students, colleagues and other professionals understanding the subject. 3. Behaviour. Although military discipline is responsibility of the military it is your role to impart the appropriate behaviour and respect for others that the company expects. . 4. Individual Needs. During their time with you there may be occasions when a student shows need for a more individual programme of instruction. It is your role, as a teacher, to refer the student to the relevant support mechanism. 5. There are numerous support mechanisms available for the students. The list is not exhaustive but includes SAAFA, Padre, Platoon Staff, Soldiers Review Board, Services Education Centre etc. . 6. An important role for you as a teacher is being organised . 7. You should...
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...Responsibility and success cannot be separated. Responsibility plays a major role in any successful endeavor; especially in college. College is a hard transition from teen life. As teens parents and teachers constantly check on us to insure we are successful. However, in college this becomes our responsibility. Responsibility plays a big role in life but it is often misunderstood because people downplay its significance. Responsibility means to accept the consequences of one’s choices and decisions. Responsibility is what determines results and/or outcomes. College success will depend on one’s ability to be responsible with daily choices and decisions. Success and failure both come from the same source, decisions. Our lives consist of the choices we make daily. If I am going to be successful with any task I must first make responsible choices. I believe it is not only important to be responsible but also accountable for one’s actions. I’m sure if we wished to be honest most of us can say that we have not always made the best choices. However, if we take responsibility for those choices and learn from them; we can improve our lives. In short, our actions determine our future. The most important people in our lives often play a huge part in our personal growth. They do this by teaching us responsibility. Responsibility is not learned in a vacuum but is often taught by those closest to us; our parents. Although responsibility is taught by those closest to us it is not...
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