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Curriculum Setting Method for Special Education Specialty Integrating Projective Geometry. In recent years, education has been paid more and more attention by the society, and the concept of ?education without discrimination? has gradually taken root in the hearts of the people. Special education is a form of education for special groups, which embody the fairness of education. Different from the conventional education model, special education often pays more attention to the physical and mental development of special populations, so the curriculum setting method of special education major is also different from the general method. Under this circumstance, how to carry out reasonable curriculum setting has become the core problem that needs to be solved in the reform of special education curriculum. Projective geometry is one of the methods of studying graph transformation, and its core is the principle of projective transformation invariance. Under the guidance of this theory, curriculum reform also presents many invariable characteristics. Based on this, this paper proposed a special education professional curriculum setting method integrating projective geometry, aiming to reform the special education professional curriculum setting strategy by using the invariant theory. In the evaluation of curriculum setting, the article analyzed the effect of new curriculum setting methods on special groups from different dimensions, and preliminarily formulated the initial special education curriculum. It can be concluded from the article in the evaluation grades that with the blessing of the new curriculum setting method, the student's health evaluation reached 2.7, a year-on-year increase of 42.1%. This fully shows that in the course of special education curriculum setting, projective geometry can provide novel ideas and directions for new curriculum setting methods.
Detained and Committed Youth: Examining Differences in Achievement, Mental Health Needs, and Special Education Status Currently, there is limited research about the relationship between academic, mental health needs, and special education status among populations of incarcerated youth. Additionally, little is known about differences between special education and general education students, or about differences between detained and committed populations. This article reports the results of an investigation of the academic achievement, mental health history, and special education status of 555 detained and incarcerated boys in one mid-Atlantic state. Descriptive data and results from a logistic regression analysis are reported. We found that mean standard scores of participants on standardized achievement tests were one standard deviation below the population mean. We also found high rates of participants with disabilities, and high rates of participants reporting prior therapy and prior use of psychotropic medication. In addition, we found that student academic and mental health characteristics obtained through an intake screening protocol were predictive of special education status, but not of placement in detention or commitment settings. Finally, we found that African American students had a significantly higher risk of being committed than Caucasian students. Implications for future research and practice are discussed.
The Effects of Teacher Preparation Special Population Courses for Multispecialty Certification
Envisioning a Culturally Imaginative Educational Psychology Culture has mostly been neglected in mainstream educational psychology research. In this paper, we argued for the need to cultivate a cultural imagination and provided seven key recommendations for conducting culturally imaginative research. We explained how these recommendations could prove useful in avoiding the two types of errors that trap cross-cultural researchers. The first type is the cultural attribution error which pertains to attributing any observed difference to culture even if culture is not the relevant factor. The second type is the cultural blind spot error which pertains to the failure to see how culture influences psycho-educational processes and outcomes. We proffered seven recommendations to avoid these twin pitfalls. We reviewed the papers published from 2006 to 2016 in four flagship educational psychology journals including the Journal of Educational Psychology, Contemporary Educational Psychology, Cognition and Instruction, and British Journal of Educational Psychology. Our review focused on how educational psychologists have studied culture over the past decade and how the published studies aligned with our seven recommendations. The content analysis indicated that only a small percentage of the articles dealt with culture, most of the studies drew on Western samples, and that almost all studies relied on an etic approach with very few studies using an emic bottom-up perspective. We ended with a justification for why a culturally imaginative educational psychology is urgently needed in an increasingly diverse world.
Outside of the Box: Preparing Emerging Workforce Leaders Through the Virtual Classroom
Short- and Long-Term Outcomes of Student Field Research Experiences in Special Populations Global health education and training of biomedical students in international and minority health research is expending through U.S. academic institutions. This study addresses the short- and long-term outcomes of an NCI-funded R25 short-term summer field research training program. This program is designed for MPH and Ph.D. students in cancer epidemiology and related disciplines, in international and minority settings (special populations) in a recent 7-year period. Positive short-term outcome of 73 students was measured as publishing a manuscript from the field research data and having a job in special populations. Positive long-term outcome was measured as having a post-doc position, being in a doctoral program, and/or employment in special populations at least 3 years from finishing the program. Significant factors associated with both short- and long-term success included resourcefulness of the student and compatibility of personalities and interests between the student and the on-campus and off-campus mentors. Short-term-success of students who conducted international filed research was associated with visits of the on-campus mentor to the field site. Short-term success was also associated with extent of mentorship in the field site and with long-term success. Future studies should investigate how field research sites could enhance careers of students, appropriateness of the sites for specific training competencies, and how to maximize the learning experience of students in international and minority research sites.
Special Populations at Risk of Dropping Out of School : A Discipline Based Analysis of STEM Educators he term at-risk without proper context and definition can evoke many possibilities, characteristics, and conditions that can make comparisons and interpretation difficult. [...]in this investigational description, the term at-risk is defined as individuals who have a high likelihood of failing or dropping out of school and who are from special populations. Similar to students with disabilities, students with LEP have special testing and academic accommodations. Since it has been shown that preparing a student for future success requires a high school diploma (Zhang & Law, 2005), it would seem plausible that these supports would increase graduation rates for both students with disabilities and students with LEP.
Teaching and Preparing Teachers for Diverse and Special Need Student Populations in Multicultural Classroom Contexts
Towards a Common Lexicon for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Work in Academic Medicine Differential rewarding of work and experience has been a longtime feature of academic medicine, resulting in a series of academic disparities. These disparities have been collectively called a cultural or minority "tax," and, when considered beyond academic medicine, exist across all departments, colleges, and schools of institutions of higher learning-from health sciences to disciplines located on university campuses outside of medicine and health. A shared language can provide opportunities for those who champion this work to pool resources for larger impacts across the institution. This article aims to catalog the terms used across academic medicine disciplines to establish a common language describing the inequities experienced by Black, Latinx, American Indian/Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander, Women, and other underrepresented people as well as queer, disabled, and other historically marginalized or excluded groups. These ideas are specific to academic medicine in the United States, although many can be used in academic medicine in other countries. The terms were selected by a team of experts in equity, diversity, and inclusion, (EDI) who are considered national thought leaders in EDI and collectively have over 100 years of scholarship and experience in this area.
Working with Special Populations