Cooperative Lessons Research Articles

A Comprehensive Analysis of How Sports Affect Youth Development and Social Skills

Abstract: Playing sports as a young person improves their general health and physical fitness. Team sports give essential lessons in cooperation and attaining common goals, hence honing teamwork and collaboration skills. Following training plans and aiming for improvement instills discipline and goal-setting. Managing hardship and overcoming obstacles with grace helps people become resilient and resilient in the face of adversity. By juggling athletics, school, and other activities, one might improve their time management abilities. Sportsmanship, ethics, and regard for others are qualities that foster the development of character. It is possible to develop leadership qualities by inspiring colleagues and exercising initiative. Teamwork, communication, and shared experiences all contribute to the development of social skills and friendships. Reduced stress, a sense of community, and physical activity all improve emotional well-being. Teams and programs are used to promote community involvement.

Changes in qualities and abilities of Japanese teachers through participation in Global Lesson Study on mathematics

PurposeThe authors aim to determine the effects of Global Lesson Study (GLS) – a two-year, one-cycle program defined as “international cooperative lesson study through international exchange among teachers using ICT” – on intercultural competence for lesson study based on pre- and post-survey conducted for Japanese teachers.Design/methodology/approachIn accordance with the GLS program, mathematics lesson studies on mathematics between Japanese and Singaporean elementary school teachers were conducted over a two-year period. Questionnaire surveys on intercultural competence for lesson study was conducted using 7-point Likert scale and descriptive questions with Japanese teachers (N = 5). Analysis of Wilcoxon's signed rank test and correlation analysis were conducted.FindingsFollowings are identified as the effects of GLS for Japanese teachers: (1) Japanese participants felt improvement of their competence in areas of attitude, internal outcomes and outward impact. (2) Participating in a GLS led to the improvement of Japanese teachers' qualities and abilities for subject teaching related to mathematics education. (3) Improvement of intercultural competence for lesson study was related to each other, and GLS led to improvement of these competences. (4) It was meaningful to have a two-year period to assimilate and adjust to independent experience of the host and guest.Originality/valueThe GLS led to teacher empowerment among this sample, not only as cooperative research, but also at the individual level of teachers where participants continued to develop lessons based on the GLS learning after study completion. This has important implications for the implementation and dissemination of the GLS.

What can you do with twenty years of water column sonar data? Plenty!

Collection of multifrequency fisheries acoustic data began at the NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC) in 1998. Over the past 20 + years, data have been collected on the NOAA fisheries survey vessels as well as commercial vessels during numerous surveys and research cruises. Many lessons in cooperation, initiative, persistence, and compromise have been learned, resulting in data sets with plenty of potential. Some of these data have been rejected and then resuscitated for stock assessments, used to estimate biomass of undersampled biota, and used to study catchability of commercial species. Until recently, data were limited to those at the NEFSC with sufficient expertise and access to the data—i.e., me, which has restricted application of the data. But now the data are searchable and available to the world via NOAA’s National Center for Environmental Information (NCEI). The evolution of acoustic technology and software from costly and proprietary to inexpensive and open-source has expanded the utility of these, and other long-term, data sets to the broader scientific community. An overarching goal has been to collect consistently high-quality data, yet only through incorporating innovation can long-term data collection survive in a dynamic environment and ever-changing scientific landscape.

The Effects of Multilinguality on the Development of Causal Speech Acts in the Geography Classroom

This explorative, qualitative study examines the use and effectiveness of resources of multilinguality, with particular regard to the development of causal links in geography classes. Contentual and linguistic strategies of multilingual pupils in creating causal links were collected and evaluated systematically. This was done by means of a qualitative content analysis of oral, cooperative lesson sequences. A model on how to deal with multilingual, systemic learning settings is presented as a resulting hypothesis.

Sports training in taekwondo WTF LMAI (locomotor apparatus injury) on the basis of inclusive education

Nowadays in a new Paralympic kind of sport taekwondo WTF LMAI in Russia there is no Federal State Educational Standard (FSES). Athletes-invalids train in terms of standard for people with LMAI (locomotor apparatus injury) or taekwondo standard in the groups with healthy athletes. For the detailed study of the educational-training process with Paralympic taekwondo-athletes it is necessary to create effective technologies, define the methods of work. The aim of the work is to substantiate educational-training process in taekwondo for people with locomotor apparatus injury. The introduced practice of inclusive methods of teaching on the scientific base helped to achieve high stable result. We proved the necessity to realize cooperative lessons of taekwondo-athletes with LMAI and healthy, specially trained for them, taekwondo-athletes. We defined prospective directions in inclusive teaching Paralympic kind of sport taekwondo WTF LMAI.

You are not alone: colleague support and goal-oriented cooperation as resources to reduce teachers’ stress

The teaching profession is associated with high levels of perceived stress due to time constraints, heavy workload, and extra-curricular obligations. Teachers’ perceived stress affects the quality of their instruction and consequently their students’ motivation. According to social interdependence theory, frequent cooperative activities with colleagues may lead to more giving and receiving of support at the workplace. Research findings indicate that colleague support serves as a resource for teachers and has a positive influence on their performance. However, the relationship between teachers’ perceived stress, goal-oriented cooperation with colleagues, and support of one another has been explored rarely. The theoretical background has not been applied to teachers in Germany. In this longitudinal study, 2648 teachers completed the same questionnaire at a first measurement wave (Time 1), a second wave 2 years later (Time 2), and a third measurement wave 2 years after that (Time 3). We aimed to test the mediation hypothesis that teachers’ perceived stress is affected by frequent cooperative lesson planning with colleagues via colleague support. The dependent variable was teachers’ perceived stress at Time 3. Teachers’ perceived stress correlated negatively with colleague support at Time 2, and this correlated positively with the frequency of cooperation at Time 1. Our results indicate that reduced perceived stress was indirectly associated with frequent cooperation in reaching the common goal of planning lessons via colleague support among teachers. These findings might be used to help school principals ensure cooperation among teachers and thereby keep stress levels low and the quality of teaching high.

Technology-enhanced-gadgets in the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language to Very Young Learners. Ideas on Implementation

Abstract This research1 is based on sociocultural authentic inquiry research (Konstatinos, 2015) and action research methodology. An early-years teacher of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) explores technology-enhanced-gadgets that can be of use to teach meaningful lessons to very young children. The paper aims to outline theoretical uses of technology-enhanced-gadgets in the teaching of EFL to very young learners. It describes possible uses of technology grounded on the importance given to media competence and new literacies (The New London Group, 1996) in 21st century societies, in which children are digital natives (Prensky, 2001). As such, children show a multimedial and multimodal preference for learning. Given such preference and the envisioning of a technology-mediated prosumer society ( Kotler, 1986 ) learning content, including in ESL, has to be adapted to new dynamics. The findings show a variety of uses for technology-enhanced-gadgets (e.g. ipads, robots⿦) ( Burnet, 2010 ; Guth & Helm, 2012; Hill, 2010 , Lynch and Redpath, 2014 ) that are appropriate for very young children and that promise to engage students in the learning of EFL while creating an interactive environment and developing autonomy. The conclusions suggest that the use of technology-enhanced-gadgets can aid in the creation of attractive and cooperative lessons that promote meaningful learning.

Have you been to ‘The Arctic’? Frame theory and the role of media coverage in shaping Arctic discourse

ABSTRACTThe value of theory in drawing lessons from empirical cases remains elusive in the Arctic. In the introduction to this special issue, we develop broad theoretical underpinnings to consider how frame analysis can better inform Arctic research. We build on a research synthesis from a collaborative anthology focused on diplomacy in polar regions [Pincus, R., & Ali, S. H. (Eds.). (2015). Diplomacy on ice: Energy and the environment in the Arctic and Antarctic. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press]. Here, we review aspects of media and communication theory, in particular frame theory, and contextualize theoretically the common tropes of Arctic political conflict, centered on the so-called race or scramble for the Arctic. After introducing and identifying concepts of framing and discourse and discussing how these concepts are relevant to Arctic issues, the paper will address why these concepts are important to policy-makers, stakeholders, and the public. What are the impacts of conflict-driven frames as applied to Arctic sovereignty or development questions? We explore how frames impact diplomacy in contested spaces, such as the Arctic, and how to draw cooperative lessons from these discourses. Finally, the papers that make up this special edition are placed in relation to the broader topic.

Using Cooperative Learning to Foster the Development of Adolescents’ English Writing Skills

<span>Seventh grade teachers at a Colombian public school chose cooperative learning as a strategy to improve student’s social performance and as a tool to get learners to enrich their academic level. This article reports on an action research and innovation project focused on the results eight students obtained in their written performance in English classes during three cooperative lessons. This article gathers some existing research on writing skills and cooperative learning and a presentation and analysis about students’ real expectations and thoughts about writing in the English language. The systematization of this teaching experience also sheds lights on further actions to analyze closely students’ texts construction in a cooperative environment.</span>

Lessons of cooperation between government and non-governmental organizations in emergency management in the czech republic

The purpose of this research is to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the current forms of cooperation between government and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in emergency management in the Czech Republic, while presenting a detailed overview of the key criteria of the effective Czech model, which could be potentially used by other organizations or countries. Previous research has focused on cooperation between government and NGOs in flood risk management, but emergency management concerns more than floods. The scope has been expanded to include volunteer firefight ers and rescue workers, the other NGO players in emergencies in the Czech Republic. The research presents an overview of the cooperation between the Czech government and NGOs in various forms of emergency management. Using document review and a series of interviews with emergency management experts, several aspects of cooperation were considered: formalization, timing, level, and type. The research findings demonstrate that some emergency management activities can be very effec tively performed by NGOs and their volunteers. In the Czech Republic, integration into the national Integrated Rescue System guarantees a minimum standard of performance. Since volunteers work for free and their work has much lower expenses, they perform their activities in a more cost-effective way than the state. However, this is not valid for the whole emergency management system, but only for such activities that can be assigned to volunteers when there are enough willing volunteers and the NGOs and their volunteers are formally integrated into the rescue system. The Czech experience could be interesting for other countries, particularly post-communist countries, because all emergency systems work with information, and the human factor plays a role everywhere. Thus, it is concluded that some basic aspects of cooperation in Czech emergency management, focused on sharing information and strengthening mutual trust and awareness, could be considered as universal.

OONDescriptive and executive profile comparison in physical education lesson on public and non-public institutes from trainer and principals’ view

Abstract. The object of this study is to compare descriptive and applicable profile of physical education lesson in public and un-public institutes from teachers and principals view in Mashhad city. Current study is descriptive one and has been done by measurement method. Statistical society includes all teachers of boy public and un-public schools in which among them we have selected 163 persons (91 teachers and 72 principals) randomly from success and semi-success district as research sample. We have used of principal and teachers special questionnaires in gathering information in which has been set by physical education management views. Questionnaire stability through testing study and cronbach alpha is 0.83, 0.91 for teachers and principals. Research findings analysis has been done by descriptive static and kolmogrove- smirnove test and k- skother by the aid of SPSS software and version 15 in meaningful level of (p 0.51), (p>0.01), (p>0.00), (p>0.036), (p>0.35), (p>0.53), respectively. in current study, meaningful level and the amount of using cooperative lesson design by physical education teachers in public schools is higher than un-public one but we have evaluated their success in attracting talented students to sport community, too. by looking other studies, it has been clear low level of physical educations’ educational level is mental disturbance of researchers and responsible. Current research findings showed the amount of teachers education in physical education in public schools is better than un public one.(75.9 % bachlor degree and higher) in this regard, education level and teachers expert and having sport space and facilities related are important factors in improving physical education lesson from principals view.

A Model for African Shared Water Resources: The Senegal River Legal System

Twenty‐five years ago, the late B.A. Godana stressed that despite the gap between, on the one hand, the vast number of African international drainage basins and their potential for socio‐economic development of the States and, on the other hand, the dearth of international regulations governing water resources, it was noteworthy that the achievements in terms of cooperation were impressive. More than any other African river, the Senegal has been characterized and governed by the most progressive and articulated legal regime. The leitmotif since the inception of this legal regime has been to engage in an experiment that not only follows the most advanced concepts of integrated water resources management, but may also offer lessons in cooperation at the global level. Therefore, the legal architecture to foster cooperation over the management of the Senegal has influenced the development of the law of international watercourses in Africa.

The Role of Pharmacists and Student Pharmacists in Educating and Providing Advice about Over the Counter (OTC) Medications

The role of pharmacists in self-medication is to provide informed and objective advice on medicines and their use, and to promote the concept of pharmaceutical care. In 2012, the teaching of medicines and their use was started in junior high schools, and pharmacists should be providing samples and the example package inserts, and/or giving lessons in cooperation with teachers. In this article, a number of examples of how to do this will be shared. In 2009, the Pharmaceutical Affairs Law was revised and the role of pharmacists being key figures in supplying medicines was significantly increased. Pharmacists should have a professional obligation to provide advice about self-medication and medicines for self-medication. We introduced some approaches for student pharmacists to enhance the self-medication leading ability. 1) Problem-based learning, and combination learning of basic problems and clinical topics for 1st-year students, 2) An e-learning system to provide objective information about medicines, and 3) A case study system to cultivate pharmacists and student pharmacists who can contribute to providing advice about the safe use of over the counter (OTC) medicines.

Cooperative Lesson Preparation Mode for Electronic Experimental Teaching

A kind of cooperative lesson preparation mode for electronic experimental teaching was put forward in this paper aimed at solving some common issues in electronic experimental teaching. For example, electronic experimental teaching has lagged behind the development of electronic technology, teachers have been exposed to great pressure and therefore perform poor lesson preparation, teaching and research levels of full-time experimental teachers have been unsuitable for new situations, etc. Correspondingly, a cooperative lesson preparation mode of electronic experimental teaching was proposed. The mode involved a series of steps and forms such as clarifying objectives, exerting individuality, sharing resources, authenticating each other, evaluating and reflecting, etc. Teachers were inspired and exerted in passion and potential fully by grasping and using some rules and functions in psychology, efficiency and non-cognitive characters. During practice of two semesters, teaching and research atmosphere of the circuit center has become increasingly thick and teaching quality has improved significantly.

Creating cooperative classrooms: effects of a two‐year staff development program

In this study, the implementation effects of a staff development program on cooperative learning (CL) for Dutch elementary school teachers were studied. A pre‐test–post‐test non‐equivalent control group design was used to investigate program effects on the instructional behaviours of teachers. Based on observations of teacher behaviour during cooperative lessons, a statistically significant treatment effect was found for the following instructional behaviours: structuring positive interdependence, individual accountability, social skills and evaluation of the group process. Training effects were also found for the combination of CL with the model of direct instruction and the activation of prior knowledge of social skills. Moreover, teachers in the experimental group scored statistically significantly higher than the teachers in the control group on the activation of prior academic knowledge.

Militarism and the environment in Guatemala

This paper examines how civil war in Guatemala created and destroyed community cohesion, which, in turn, influences land use practices in the frontier region of Ixcan today. The impact of civil war on the environment and land use in this region takes many forms. Some communities took refuge in Mexico. Other communities refused to take refuge in Mexico and also refused to submit to military rule. These communities of “people in resistance” formed highly cohesive units in order to evade military detection. The lessons of cooperation and the high levels of cohesion they developed during their years in hiding have carried over to their successful management of natural resources in post-conflict Guatemala. Return refugees accumulated higher levels of cohesion while in refuge because they often participated in workshops organized and funded by outside relief agencies. Higher levels of community cohesion have allowed return refugee communities to better organize and use their land in more sustainable ways. Other communities did not flee and thus endured military rule. They were forced out of their dispersed land parcels into concentrated model villages. Concentration of community members forced intensive use of the environment in the zone immediately surrounding the new settlement. Often, distrust permeated these occupied communities and community cohesion dipped. Today, these low levels of community cohesion lead to a lack of consensus on how to use land and resources in the community. The overall goal of the paper is to point out the community level variation in the relationship between military actions, community cohesion, and the environment.

Introducing Safety Topics Using a Student-Centered Approach

Activities that use constructivist teaching strategies to introduce aspects of chemical safety are described. Three student-centered, cooperative lessons that introduce students to material safety data sheets and hazardous chemical labeling systems are presented.

An Admiral for America: Sir Peter Warren, Vice Admiral of the Red, 1703-1752 (review)

Reviewed by: An Admiral for America: Sir Peter Warren, Vice Admiral of the Red, 1703-1752 Andrew Lambert An Admiral for America: Sir Peter Warren, Vice Admiral of the Red, 1703-1752. By Julian Gwyn. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004. ISBN 0-8130-2709-8. Maps. Illustrations. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Pp. xiv, 22. $59.95. Peter Warren never received his due from the pioneers of modern naval history. His amphibious, colonial career with but one major battle, and that as second in command to the famous Lord Anson, denied him a place in the pantheon of the proto-Nelsons that emerged in the late eighteenth century. Overshadowed by Anson, overtaken by Hawke, and dying relatively young, Warren did not fit into a history dominated by fleet battle. Mahan did not mention him. Yet, as Julian Gwyn demonstrates, there was far more to eighteenth-century naval activity than "decisive battle." This is the biography of an officer who served mainly in American waters, and took an American view of Empire. Warren was an unusual Admiral. Although born an Irish Catholic, the son of an active Jacobite, Warren adopted the Protestant faith, and joined the Royal Navy under the patronage of Irish relatives. His rapid rise to command and frequent contact with the American colonies culminated in marriage into a prominent New York family, opening a fabulous career of wealth creation, which Gwyn examined thirty years ago in his ground breaking study, The Enterprising Admiral: The Personal Fortune of Admiral Sir Peter Warren. This complementary biography examines the career of an outstanding seaman, warrior, and administrator who combined service with profit, creating large estates in England, Ireland, and America. The key to Warren's success was his willingness to serve in the unhealthy West Indies and the backwater of Colonial America. Better connected officers regularly turned down such postings, but they gave Warren a combination of experience and contacts that he exploited to the full when the War of Jenkins's Ear, and the War of the Austrian Succession reached the New World. Even the failed attack on St Augustine in Spanish Florida in 1740 was a valuable lesson in co-operation with colonial forces. Once France joined the war his thoughts turned to the fortress of Louisbourg, seen as the key to Canada. In 1745 his Royal Navy Squadron combined with colonial land forces to capture the fortress. It is unlikely that any other British officer would have handled colonial sensitivities so skilfully. Rewarded and promoted he was recalled to serve under Anson in the Western Squadron. His part in the First battle of Cape Finisterre added to his financial windfall. The lingering effects of scurvy, a legacy of the Louisbourg siege, forced him ashore, leaving the Second battle of Finisterre to Sir Edward Hawke. Success in America earned Warren the patronage of the great, success off Cape Finisterre helped secure a seat in Parliament, but he remained an independent man, losing his chance for further preferment by voting against the ministers on a service issue. It is significant that his greatest ambition was to become Governor of New York. He died suddenly in Ireland, while adding to his estates. While Warren missed further employment, glory, and reward in the Seven Years' War, his achievements were already the stuff of which dreams are made. This outstanding work of scholarship, long matured, and placed in the broadest context, will reward historians of the Royal Navy, Colonial America, the War of 1740-48, and British society in the [End Page 1252] eighteenth century. Warren has received his due, he will never be ignored again. Andrew Lambert King’s College London London, England Copyright © 2004 Society for Military History

The CERCLA Five‐Year Review Process—Lessons Learned at Rocky Mountain Arsenal

AbstractAs more U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) remediation sites approach closure, the importance of properly conducting CERCLA five‐year reviews will increase.Relatively few DOD sites have been subject to a five‐year review so far, and less than a handful have been subject to a five‐year review under the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) new guidance. Since these reviews are required to occur at certain sites into the indefinite future, conducting them properly from the outset is critical. The assumptions and decisions made in conducting the first five‐year review at a given site set the precedent for future five‐year reviews, and mistakes made in format or content may be perpetuated in subsequent five‐year reviews. This article provides a detailed accounting of how one of the DOD's largest cleanup sites, Rocky Mountain Arsenal, conducted its first five‐year review in accordance with the new EPA guidance. It provides a lesson in cooperation among the DOD; the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; Shell Oil Company; local, state, and federal regulators; and the public. This article simplifies the complex process of conducting a five‐year review at a large cleanup site and clarifies objectives. Finally, the article provides recommendations to help other facilities properly conduct a five‐year review the first time so the process is simpler in the future. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Lessons in Cooperation: An Update on Improving the Quality of Hospital Care

Between 1989 and 1997 the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Princeton, NJ) launched a demonstration project, the Improving the Quality of Hospital Care Program, to test a consortium approach to quality improvement. As part of the project, four hospital consortia in various parts of the United States shared quality resources (for example, training) and collaborated on improvement efforts. Although cooperation was not a natural approach for enhancing quality in hospitals, the consortia mounted improvements in multiple clinical areas, such as diabetes care, the intensive care unit (ICU), prevention of wound infections, and care in rural areas. WHERE ARE THEY NOW? Of the four consortia that received implementation funding, all are continuing some explicit focus on improving quality, but only two have retained the organizational form of a consortium. Based at the University of Iowa (Iowa City), the Institute for Quality Healthcare continues to operate as a free-standing consortium with more than 40 hospital members. The Vermont Program for Quality in Health Care (Montpelier) provides information and education to improve quality of care statewide. The program taught valuable lessons about what hospitals can do together and what they can achieve when they cooperate around quality of care issues. Sharing resources for education, providing a forum for quality improvement professionals to work together on specific issues, and identifying means of improving specific aspects of care in the group are all feasible in the consortium model. Even a chaotic environment can support cooperation.