This capstone project addresses the crucial task of equipping students from rural and poverty-stricken school districts for success beyond high school. While conventional markers of academic achievement often center around standardized testing, this study takes a wider perspective, emphasizing comprehensive approaches to education. By conducting a quantitative analysis that includes surveys of staff and faculty, this research explores the effectiveness of different strategies aimed at nurturing college and career readiness among students in these districts. The findings demonstrate a powerful narrative: educators can greatly improve graduation rates and post-graduation success by going beyond traditional test preparation methods. Key strategies include developing critical thinking and problem-solving skills, encouraging collaboration, providing technology access and digital literacy training, integrating work-based learning opportunities, offering targeted support for at-risk students, ensuring access to rigorous coursework, and exposing students to various career paths. This study highlights the potential for a comprehensive approach to education, empowering students with the skills and resources needed to thrive in a rapidly changing world. By embracing these strategies, educators can pave the way for a more equitable and prosperous future, particularly in marginalized communities facing educational disparities

Submitted by Mariana Dornelles Vargas (marianadv) on 2015-05-14T17:20:25Z No. of bitstreams: 1 processo_formacao.pdf: 549770 bytes, checksum: 43a9402d794fe1765c56d3633a8400a0 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-14T17:20:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 processo_formacao.pdf: 549770 bytes, checksum: 43a9402d794fe1765c56d3633a8400a0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-09-13 / Nenhuma / O presente estudo objetivou responder, essencialmente, a seguinte questão: Como professoras atuantes nas 4ª Séries do Ensino Fundamental se constituíram professoras e quais as implicações disto em sua prática docente? Na busca de respostas a essa questão, formulo os seguintes objetivos: Compreender a trajetória formativa e o constituir-se professor destas professoras, buscando analisar a especificidade ou não de saberes próprios de ser professor das séries iniciais, da 4ª Série especialmente; identificar a origem e a natureza dos saberes adquirido-construídos por esses professores pesquisados e identificar a implicação (ou não) desses saberes/dessa formação nas práticas docentes dessas educadoras. As interlocutoras desta pesquisa são três professoras que atuam na quarta série, em escola pública estadual, todas com mais de 20 anos de experiência docente. Optei por ouvir as professoras da 4ª Série do Ensino Fundamental, por considerar importante este momento de passagem para a segunda etapa do Ensino Fundamental, de 5ª a 8ª Série onde os professores apresentam características diferenciadas em relação às outras séries. A pesquisa está centrada numa abordagem qualitativa e buscou compreender a trajetória formativa dos docentes pesquisados. Os autores que constituem a fundamentação teórica e com os quais dialoguei, juntamente com as narrativas dos sujeitos da pesquisa, foram: Paulo Freire, Terezinha Azerêdo Rios, Selma Garrido Pimenta, Maurice Tardif, Antonio Nóvoa, Ecléa Bosi, Magda Soares, Nilda Paiva Alves, Mario Sérgio Cortella, Carlos Rodrigues Brandão, Maria Cecília de Souza Minayo, Mario Osório Marques, Carlos Marcelo Garcia, Pedrinho Guareschi, José Alberto Correia e Serge Moscovici. Foi possível perceber que a aprendizagem da docência não é um processo homogêneo, na medida em que, cada professor desenvolve certa maneira de ser e pensar a profissão docente, tendo como referência o processo de apropriação frente às experiências vivenciadas nos diferentes contextos formativos com os quais teve contato. O exercício da docência nas séries iniciais e, de forma especial, nas 4ª séries, exige do professor habilidades e saberes ligados especialmente ao ensino integrado, aos vínculos afetivos e a sensibilidade para auxiliar o aluno na passagem entre a unidocência e multidocência; a continuidade do processo de alfabetização e de instrumentalização, para que o aluno lide com o universo do mundo escrito, precisa ser associado a hábitos de organização, com um forte estímulo a autonomia. Estes saberes destacados pelas interlocutoras são construídos essencialmente em sua prática docente, embora reconheçam sua formação acadêmica como essencial. A compreensão sobre o fazer e pensar docente implica na análise dos fatores e eventos que neles influenciam, evidenciando a relevância de estudos acerca das trajetórias formativas, na medida em que, possibilitam uma aproximação com os desejos, angústias, sentimentos e valores, saberes e fazeres que são constituintes do agir/pensar/sentir docente, que foram/são construídos/reconstruídos nos diferentes tempos/espaços formativos. / The current study aims to answer essentially the following questions, "How do performing teachers of 4th grades of Basic School putting themselves together as teachers?" And "What the involvement of that on their teaching practice?" On the searching of answers from those questions, you make the following aims, understanding the graduating course and be a teacher of those teachers, inquiring to analyse the specificiment or noto f proper knowledges of being a teacher from First Classes orespecially of Four_Grade; identifying the origem and the nature of knowledges acquired-built by those researched teachers and to identify the involvement (or not) those lnowledges/that formation of the teaching practices of those educators. The interlocutors of that research are (three) teachers that perform in the Four_Grade on State School, all of them with more than twenty years of tesching experience. One decided for listening teachers from Fourth Grades of basic School for considering this moment important on passing to the second stage from fifth to eighth grade of Basic School, where teachers have showm different qualities in respect to the other classes. The research is centralized in a qualitative approach and hás investigated to understand the graduating course of the researching teachers. It was possible to realize that reading of teaching its not a homogeneous proceeding, as each teacher develop a certainly way of being thinking the teaching profession, having as reference the proceeding of appropriation before being experiences different instructive contexts. Practice of teaching in the First grades and essentially in the Fourth Grades, demand of the skills and knwoledges link particulary to Integral Education with affective chains and the sensibility to helping the pupil through the change between the uniteaching and multiteaching; the continuity of the proceeding of the teaching of reading and instrumentaliation in order to the pupil deal with the universe of the worlds written, He needs to get into the habito f organization, with a strong encouragement to autonomy. These Knwoledges emphasized by the the interlocutors are built essentialy in their teaching practices, although they admit their academic backgroud as essential. The umderstanding about doing and teaching think involve to analyse factors, and events and their influences, evidencing the importance of studuing about formative courses as they make possible an approach with wishes, and anguishes, and feelings and worths, and knowledges and doings that are membres of the act/think feels teeaching, that were/are built/rebuilt in different formative times/spaces.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-15T19:48:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Muriel Urquiza Rocha.pdf: 4024606 bytes, checksum: 575cbc2bff9a4864354e2baa111dbcf6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-08-11 / Instituto Presbiteriano Mackenzie / The theme of this dissertation is about the rehabilitation of prisoners from Projeto Mudar. This kind of project has been realizing since 1989 by a group of evangelical women in the Public Prison of de Feminine Estância Hidromineral in Poá. The Projeto Mudar was fully investigated with direct analysis on rehabilitation and social reintegration of these prisoners. Through these analyses were able to get the results to know if the process was success or failure. It appears that the Project‟s vision get some volunteers and that the religious element are the conversion to Jesus Christ and it is an essential part of this rehabilitation. Therefore it is clear that religious is accompanied by actions and assistance social and the human enhancement. It clears and a positive role of Projeto Mudar considering that there is no any cost to the Treasury because it is totally funded entirely by Evangelical Churches. One important fact to say that the women interviewed anyone rescinded and abandoned his own addictions. Nowadays she is constructing their families and the Projeto Mudar was absolutely important to this process. However all women who comes to the Projeto Mudar is looking for another life or a new life and wants to change to become a better person. / O tema dessa dissertação é a ressocialização de presas e egressas a partir do Projeto Mudar, trabalho realizado por mulheres evangélicas na Cadeia Pública Feminina da Estância Hidromineral de Poá desde 1989. Investigou-se o papel do Projeto Mudar, no processo de ressocialização e reintegração social de presas e egressas, analisando as características da instituição, concepções e resultados e se houve um processo de ressocialização e reintegração social. Constata-se que na visão do Projeto, voluntários e egressas o elemento religioso, a conversão a Jesus Cristo é imprescindível no processo de ressocialização. Verifica-se que a atuação religiosa é acompanhada de várias ações sociais, assistenciais e a valorização do ser humano. Nota-se uma atuação positiva do Projeto Mudar, tendo em vista, que não há nem um custo para os cofres públicos, pois ele é financiado totalmente por igrejas evangélicas. Das egressas entrevistadas nenhuma reincidiu, abandonaram seus vícios, trabalham e reconstruíram suas famílias. Todavia a atuação do Projeto sobre a presa e egressa é dependente da procura destas em participar. As egressas quando chegam ao Projeto estão em busca de mudança de vida.

This study explored factors that appear to contribute to the growing increase of remedial education in higher education. Participants included teachers and administrators from feeder high schools in northeast Tennessee, local community college instructors of remedial education, and administrators. Participants were experienced and knowledgeable in the field of remedial education. Personal interviews and public domain documents included documentary material, books, magazines, newspaper articles, and use of the Internet to gather data for the study. Data analyses were broken down by participant group response to questions. Findings indicated that most graduating high school seniors are not ready for community college or college level studies. Contributing factors appear to be the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (2002), lack of preparation in coursework for elementary and middle school students' entry into high school, lack of communication between the feeder high schools and the local community college, cookie cutter or one-size-fits-all approach to teaching, social promotion with no mastery of coursework, and teaching to tests.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-04T18:33:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Maria Aparecida Silva Mariosa.pdf: 1196847 bytes, checksum: 855697609882cd588d9ccd409d69892e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2003-06-27 / This paper inserts itself in a research line called Institutional Evaluation ad aimed to know how the graduating student of Faculdade de Direito do Sul de Minas evaluates his formation process and to identify the dilemmas, challenges and expectancies that the course promotes in their personal and professional life project. This study was performed by a qualiquantitative, with 97/2002 graduating students of Faculdade de Direito do Sul de Minas. The students sign toward a well structured law course, with visible advances in their quality path although they recognize following difficulties, in face of their life conditions. They highlight that the role of lawyer is fundamental in order to implement justice. They feel that they need to keep on order to get into public career highly competitive, as this is their greatest wish. About the future expectancies, in next five years, most of them sum to be insecure and with no perspectives. They get to themselves the reponsibility of overcoming these difficulties, without showing criticism regarding to other determinants that interfere in their possibility of including themselves in the working world. / Este trabalho est? inserido na linha de pesquisa Avalia??o Institucional e teve por objetivo conhecer como o concluinte da Faculdade de Direito do Sul de Minas avalia o seu processo de forma??o, e identificar os dilemas, desafios e expectativas que o curso promove em seu projeto de vida pessoal e profissional. O estudo foi realizado por meio de pesquisa qualiquantitativa, com 97 alunos concluintes de 2002, da Faculdade de Direito do Sul de Minas. Os alunos sinalizam na dire??o de um curso de Direito bem estruturado, com vis?veis avan?os no seu percurso de qualidade, embora reconhe?am dificuldades de acompanhamento, frente ?s suas condi??es de vida. Destacam que o papel do advogado ? fundamental para a implementa??o da justi?a. Sentem que t?m de continuar estudando para conseguir ingressar na carreira p?blica, bastante competitiva, sendo este o seu maior desejo. Sobre as expectativas quanto ao futuro, nos pr?ximos cinco anos, a maioria dos concluintes demonstra inseguran?a e falta de perspectiva. Atribuem a si a responsabilidade de superar estas dificuldades, n?o revelando criticidade em rela??o a outros determinantes que interferem em sua possibilidade de inclus?o no mundo do trabalho.

Objective. To use cognitive interviewing techniques to determine faculty and student interpretation of a subset of items from the AACP faculty and graduating student surveys. Methods. Students and faculty were interviewed individually in a private room. The interviewer asked each respondent for his/her interpretation of 15 randomly selected items from the graduating student survey or 20 items from the faculty survey. Results. While many items were interpreted consistently by respondents, the researchers identified several items that were either difficult to interpret or produced differing interpretations. Conclusion. Several interpretational inconsistencies and ambiguities were discovered that could compromise the usefulness of certain survey items.

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Background: Malnutrition is a major public health problem in Ethiopia contributing to half of infant and child mortality. The 2014 mini Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey revealed that four out of ten children under five are stunted, nearly one out of ten are wasted, and a quarter are underweight. One of the factors that contributed to the high stunting rate is the shortage of capable providers who are competent to provide nutrition services. The purpose of this study was to assess graduating midwifery and nursing students’ nutrition competence and explore the factors that influence their competence. Methods: A cross-sectional survey was employed in June 2015. Students’ knowledge was assessed using objective written assessment questions; and their skills were assessed using a five-station objectively structured clinical examination. Students’ perception of the nutrition learning environment and their learning experience was obtained by administering a structured questionnaire using interviews. Bivariate and multivariable analysis, including Chi-square test and independent sample t-test, were used to detect statistically significant associations or differences. Results: A total of 113 students from four public universities in Ethiopia participated in the study. Only 38.1% of students demonstrated adequate competency in nutrition. The mean percentage score for nutrition knowledge and skills were 63.8% and 46.6% respectively. There was no statistically significant difference between midwifery and nursing students’ nutrition competence (P>0.05). Both cadres scored a mean value above 50% in the knowledge assessment, except in the competency areas of nutrition and HIV. However, both showed lesser competence in performing basic nutrition skills such as anthropometry. Midwives scored higher than nurses on counseling mothers on optimal breast feeding (p=0.001). The majority (98.2%) of students reported that they had no access to nutrition skills laboratory when they took the nutrition course. In multivariable analysis, students who perceived the practice sites as conducive for nutrition skills learning achieved higher levels of competence. Conclusions: The target students were deficient in nutrition competencies. The study suggests revision of midwifery and nursing curricula for adequacy and relevance of nutrition contents, learning and assessment techniques. Nutrition skills learning both in skills lab and at clinical and practical settings need to be strengthened.

[pt] Todos os fenômenos que fogem ao controle do professor e da escola, da dispersão às chacinas, são expressões de violência? As muitas facetas da violência que atravessam o cotidiano das escolas têm desestabilizado as práticas pedagógicas e, ao mesmo tempo, têm sido desafiadas pela complexidade léxica e semântica que o termo abarca. Partimos do pressuposto que definir a violência escolar é, antes, afirmá-la como socialmente construída, discursada e culturalmente representada em sua própria designação. Mas é, neste sentido, que o termo é abordado/negociado nos cursos de formação docente? Se a violência escolar é iminente, como são formados, hoje, os futuros professores ante tal desafio? A pesquisa visa contribuir com uma reflexão sobre estas questões. Temos como objetivo apreender os discursos disputados sobre o conceito e as práticas de enfrentamento da violência nos cursos de licenciatura. Traçamos um diálogo entre o estatuto do pensamento proposto por Hannah Arendt e alguns pesquisadores da psicologia do desenvolvimento, tais como Deluty, Del Prette, Vinha, Leme e Vicentin, com o intuito de colaborar com a fundamentação de propostas de enfrentamento dos comportamentos agressivos e submissos que se expressam ante conflitos interpessoais. Quanto ao recorte conceitual do termo violência social, baseamo-nos em estudos de Velho, Da Matta, Maffesoli, sobressaltando as contribuições de Hannah Arendt. Quanto ao recorte conceitual do termo violência escolar nos aportamos teoricamente em Debarbieux, Itani, Charlot, Arroyo, Abramovay e Candau. Foi realizada uma pesquisa qualitativa em três Instituições de Ensino Superior (IES) cariocas: PUC-Rio, UFRJ e UERJ. Analisamos, num primeiro momento, os currículos e ementas dos cursos de filosofia e sociologia destas três IES. Posteriormente, baseada na metodologia da análise de conteúdo de Bardin, entrevistamos dezoito licenciandos e dois professores visando ratificar a operacionalização dos conteúdos curriculares apregoados. Algumas considerações foram levantadas: (1) a indistinção conceitual dos termos violência e outros utilizados como, dele, sinônimo pode torná-lo categoria segregadora de um grupo rotulado como violento-infrator; (2) as novas facetas da violência que surgem contemporaneamente nas escolas corroboram as fragilidades das categorias do público a qual a escola hoje busca atender; (3) a problemática da violência se inter-relaciona com a crise da autoridade docente quando esta não se distancia de um agir autoritário; (4) a escassez de discussão sobre a violência escolar evidente nos cursos de formação docente fomenta o descaso com o tema e pode, ainda, constituir-se como um dos fatores propulsores da taxa de 75 porcento de abandono nos cursos de licenciatura, segundo o INEP. Ficou clara, por fim, a urgência das IES assumirem e enfrentarem as desestabilizações provocadas pela questão da violência e que o fomento de um espaço/tempo exclusivo à prática do pensamento nas escolas pode constituir-se como uma possibilidade de seu enfrentamento. / [en] Are all phenomena that go beyond teacher s and the school s control, from dispersion to mass killings, are these expressions of violence? Many of the facets of violence crossing routine school life have destabilized pedagogical experience and at the same time, have been challenged by the lexical and semantic complexity comprised by the term. We assume that defining school violence, means in reality affirming it as socially constructed, addressed and culturally represented in its own designation. But is it, in the sense that the term is approached /negotiated in the courses of teachers training? If school violence is imminent, how are future teachers trained, today, in light of such challenge? The research has as an objective to contribute with deeper thinking about such questions. We have as objective to get the disputed discourses about the concept and the practices of coping with violence in undergraduate courses. We traced a dialogue between the statute of thought proposed by Hannah Arendt and some researchers of Developmental Psychology, such as Deluty, Del Prette, Vinha, Leme and Vicentin, aiming to collaborate with core foundation of proposals of how to face aggressive and submissive behaviors, expressed by interpersonal conflicts. Regarding the conceptual cutout of the term social violence, we have relied on studies of Velho, Da Matta, Maffesoli, emphasizing Hannah Arendt s contributions. As to the conceptual cutout of the term school violence, we dock theoretically in Debarbieux, Itani, Charlot, Arroyo, Abramovay e Candau. A qualitative research was performed in three Higher Education Institutions in Rio de Janeiro: PUC-Rio, UFRJ e UERJ. At first, we analized the curricula and the syllabus of the Philosophy and Sociology Courses of those three institutions. Subsequently, based on Bardin s methodology of analysis of content, we interviewed 18 undergraduate students and 2 teachers, aiming to confirm the real operation of the contents proclaimed. Some considerations were raised: (1) the lack of distinction between the terms violence and others, employed as its synonyms, may make it part of a segregated category of a group labeled as violent offender; (2) the new facets of violence that arise contemporaneously in schools, corroborate the weaknesses of the public in which the school presently seeks to meet. (3) the problem of violence is interrelated to teachers authority crisis when it is not far from an authoritarian act; (4) the lack of discussion about violence in schools, evident in the teachers training courses promotes the neglect of the subject and may also constitute as one of the propelling factors for the index of 75 percent of drop put in the undergraduate programs, according to INEP. Finally, it became clear, the IES s urgency for assuming and facing the destabilization provoked by the question of violence and the promotion of a space and time dedicated for the practice of thought in schools may constitute a possibility of this confrontation.

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