Childrens Voice Addressing Secondary Traumatic Stress Emerging approaches in child welfare By Julie Collins I thought I was doing well as a child welfare supervisor of one of the highest-risk areas in Ottawa, Canada. When I finally transferred the last case, I thought the nightmare would end, but it happened again that night. While there has been little research of the effects of exposure to trauma specifically on the population of child welfare workers, a recent survey was done with a sample of workers in the Administration for Children's Services (ACS) office in New York City as part of a collaboration between ACS and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine (MSSM). Learning More About Secondary Traumatic Stress Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS) is the result of exposure to trauma experienced by others, generally within a workplace context. Why This Matters for Child Welfare What Is Needed? What Is Being Done? The Resilience Alliance Project Connecticut Department of Children and Families Going Forward Back to Top
3 things you should know about Edupunk Coursera UPDATE: we're doing a live, updated MOOC of this course at stanford-online July-2014 (not this Coursera version). See here: CS101 teaches the essential ideas of Computer Science for a zero-prior-experience audience. Computers can appear very complicated, but in reality, computers work within just a few, simple patterns. CS101 demystifies and brings those patterns to life, which is useful for anyone using computers today. In CS101, students play and experiment with short bits of "computer code" to bring to life to the power and limitations of computers. Here is another video Nick created for this class.
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The Art of Slipping in Some Learning The Art of Slipping in Some Learning. Off to the side of Eric Azcuy’s cluttered desk were two products from Nissin Foods: one Cup Noodles and one box of Chow Mein. It looked like lunch, but it was actually the day’s art lesson. The inspiration came from an NPR story Mr. Azcuy had read earlier describing how the design of instant soup cups makes them tip over easily, spilling their hot contents on, and often burning, young eaters. “It’s something relevant,” he said calmly, his black curly hair, dark-rimmed glasses and plaid collared shirt making him appear just a bit hip. The lesson plan was typical for Mr. The attitude has led to projects that include painting a giant periodic table of the elements, creating a mural based on “The Great Gatsby” and the day’s effort at redesigning the Cup Noodles container. Still, Mr. Mr. In other words, this wasn’t just a chance for students to transform a stapler into a five-headed dragon. “The math, it was kind of just snuck in there,” Mr. Mr. Mr.
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Printable Flash Cards for Vocabulary Words-with Photographs Sluggish Sluggish audio/easy/sluggish.mp3 adjective lacking energy; inactive Our cat is sluggish during the day. sluggish.jpg Gush Gush audio/easy/gush.mp3 verb to flow out forcefully, often in large amounts Water gushed down the waterfall. gush.jpg Predicament Predicament audio/easy/predicament.mp3 noun a difficult situation The animal was left in a predicament. predicament.jpg Weary Weary physically or mentally exhausted The programmer was so weary that he fell asleep on the job. weary.jpg Ruffle Ruffle audio/easy/ruffle.mp3 to raise (feathers) The macaw ruffled its feathers. ruffle.jpg Expedition Expedition audio/easy/expedition.mp3 a journey or voyage made for a specific purpose The scientists made an expedition to Alaska to study wildlife. expedition.jpg Wrath Wrath fierce anger I was the victim of his wrath. wrath.jpg Grove Grove audio/easy/grove.mp3 a group of trees without undergrowth We came across a small grove. grove.jpg Hulking Hulking audio/easy/hulking.mp3 so large as to appear clumsy A hulking rhino stood before me. Immerse
Family Members: What You Can Do In the Hospital Setting Most family members find the hospital experience a "roller coaster ride through hell." Their lives are going along fine when suddenly they are told to come to the hospital. The worst thoughts go through their heads and they are very afraid. This is the place where bad things happen--people get very sick, or die. Making this more frightening is that physicians and nurses often speak in another language. They speak in what I call "medicalese" (like Chinese). First of all, I think it's important for family members to get educated. The typical thing that family members go through is what I call "the vigilance." Most people who have a head injury have little or very vague recall of their hospitalization. Family burn-out is very common. Is there anything you can do to help with the confusion and agitation phase? It's not what you say, but the tone of your voice that's important. When visiting a confused patient in the hospital, physically touching the patient is not always a good thing.
Education 3.0 and the Pedagogy (Andragogy, Heutagogy) of Mobile Learning The evolution of the web from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 and now to Web 3.0 can be used a metaphor of how education should also be evolving, as a movement based on the evolution from Education 1.0 to Education 3.0. I discussed this in Schools are doing Education 1.0; talking about doing Education 2.0; when they should be planning and implementing Education 3.0. Many educators are doing Education 1.0; talking about doing Education 2.0; when they should be planning and implementing Education 3.0. This post compares the developments of the Internet-Web to those of education. The Internet has become an integral thread of the tapestries of most societies throughout the globe. The web influences people’s way of thinking, doing and being; and people influence the development and content of the web. Source: Essentialism is defined as: Like this: Like Loading...