Category: Education Definition

ENA Sounds Alarm About Violence Against ED Nurses

Riko Dwianto, 05/09/2024

Classified in: Health

On Capitol Hill, ENA, ACEP and ANA call for laws to mitigate violence in health care

WASHINGTON, March 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Leaders from the Emergency Nurses Association

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The American College of Emergency Physicians and the American Nurses Association joined forces Friday on Capitol Hill to emphasize the need for passage of legislation designed to mitigate the frequency and severity of workplace violence in health care.

During a briefing for congressional staffers, representatives from the three organizations used data and storytelling to build understanding of the impact this ongoing crisis has on health care workers and patients, a situation that is particularly affected in emergency departments which serve as the health care safety net and are open all day, every day.

Among the data highlighted:

The rate of serious injuries related to workplace violence is six-times higher for hospital workers compared to all other private sector employees in the United States.
Studies show emergency nurses and other members of the emergency care team experience a violent event once every two months on average.
Of the nearly 500 members who responded to an ENA survey this year, 56 percent said they had been either verbally assaulted,

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Sask. teacher strikes have made ‘class complexity’ a hot topic. How might it affect your local school?

Riko Dwianto, 02/09/2024

Amid strained contract negotiations between the Saskatchewan government and the province’s teachers, along with rotating strikes and other labor action since January, a phrase from education circles has surfaced among the general public: classroom complexity.

It speaks to a reality in schools today — classes of students with a wide spectrum of abilities and needs. Some pupils require learning supports that aren’t necessarily or readily accessible — and that can affect the experience of everyone in the classroom.

What does a complex class look like?

No class has a homogeneous group of kids, but the makeup of students learning together in classes today is significantly more diverse than in previous generations, according to Regina high school teacher Peggy Welter.

“We see kids who have speech issues. We see kids with learning issues, students who struggle with behavior … some of them are barely able to sit through five minutes of a class,” Welter told CBC Radio’s The Current this week.

“We have kids who are unable to physically do the work due to [struggles with] gross motor skills or fine motor skills… Students who are EAL (English as an additional language) students or refugees, who come with their own set

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We want to define the future of learning: Byju Raveendran

Riko Dwianto, 25/08/2024

New Delhi: Edtech startup Byju’s wants to define the future of learning in India and overseas as learning takes an online path, that may stay beyond the pandemic, said a top executive.

“I want to define the future of learning and create a part of it and find that ideal blended format of learning. I will be happy if I can play a role in defining the online schools of tomorrow,” Byju Raveendran, founder and CEO, Byju’s at the ongoing Resurgence TiEcon Delhi–NCR virtual event on Thursday.

Raveendran said that it is all about finding the right balance between being technology driven, media-enabled content first strategy and believing in the power of self-learning. “Any student who learns on our platform are self-learners so what I am trying to make popular is the love for learning in students not just in India but around the world.”

Edtech firms like Byju’s got a shot in the arm due to the pandemic induced lockdown when learning went online.

“Our biggest challenge was how to bring screen learning in the mainstream, but lockdown led people to take up online education. Our classrooms will be changing for the first time in 100 years,” said Raveendran

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Finland’s ‘teaching by topic’ instead of ‘teaching by subject’ policy actually started in Norway 40 years ago | The Independent

Riko Dwianto, 22/08/2024

It was billed as one of the most radical reforms ever undertaken by a nation state when Finland decided to move away from “teaching by subject” to “teaching by topic – phenomina-based learning, as it has been called.

It was – although it probably would not have been considered as such by anyone who had a connection with the Ringstabekk school just outside Oslo in Norway. The school had embarked on a similar reform 40 years ago.

So it is probably best placed to adjudicate on how such a radical transformation has bedded down.

“Most parents are very satisfied with the school,” said its headteacher Bjorn Bolstad. “They realize that it is actually preparing their kids for a future working life.”

The policy changed kicked in after teachers observed that the pupils were not truly engaged in what they learned at school

As a result they changed to organizing themselves in teams to deliver topic-based lessons. “When teachers are hired at this school (a 425-pupil school for 13 to 16-year-olds), they know very

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Education News: Get the latest education updates along with board exams, competitive exams, school and universities news

Riko Dwianto, 13/08/2024

Published on Mar 24, 2024 01:36 PM IST

The 7 day workshop, held from March 15 to March 21, 2024, aimed to expand the knowledge of human-centric design among engineering professionals and students

The seven-day event, held from March 15 to March 21, 2024, aimed to inculcate an understanding and practice of human-centric design among engineering professionals and students.(Handout)

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UKSSSC recruitment scam: Man carrying reward of ₹ 50,000 arrested from Aligarh

Kashan Khan of Firozabad district is the 47th accused to have been arrested in the UKSSSC recruitment scam. Police efforts are on to nab other accused.

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DU allots ₹67.71 cr for setting up WiFi across its college campuses

The WiFi network will be set up at about 90 colleges of DU, on both north and south campuses and the Dhaka Hostel complex, said an official document.

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QUALITY EDUCATION FOR ALL | The Star

Riko Dwianto, 11/08/2024

AN education system that emphasizes humanity in line with academic progress – this is one of the goals of the Education Ministry’s “Human Education” (humane education) concept.

Education Minister Fadhlina Sidek said the concept is embedded in what the ministry does, to create an education system that nurtures children and youths into becoming well-adjusted, morally grounded and positive contributors to the nation’s growth.

“It is about ensuring no child is left behind in attaining access to quality education,” she said in a recent interview with the media, adding that this embodies the first shift of the Malaysia Education Blueprint (MEB) 2013-2025.

According to the blueprint, education is often seen as an enabler for social mobility, enabling children born in poor families to earn higher incomes as adults.

Fadhlina said the first shift of the blueprint states that the ministry wants to provide equal access to quality education of an international standard.

The ministry’s practice of humanizing education, she added, is completely aligned with the aspirations of the blueprint.

The ministry’s compulsory education policy, which is supported by legislation under the Education Act 1996 [Act 550]obligates children to receive formal education up to Year Six.

Fadhlina said “Humane Education” resonates with

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After pushback from education organizations, Senate edits literacy screening bill

Riko Dwianto, 08/08/2024

By Holly Sullivan, Community News Service

Editor’s note: The Community News Service is a program in which University of Vermont students work with professional editors to provide content for local news outlets at no cost.

The Senate Committee on Education is revising a bill that aims to improve Vermont’s literacy rate — a number that’s been steadily declining for years.

The changes address problems prompted by education officials who said the bill’s language was too limiting and would present problems for schools required to implement them.

“I think the reasoning was just that, [with] this bill, we’re hoping to capture all students who have any kind of learning deficiency or are just struggling readers,” Sen. Martine Gulick, D-Chittenden Central said.

Jay Nichols, executive director of the Vermont Principals’ Association said to committee members Jan. 10 that he agrees with S.204’s goals, but he takes issue with some of its phrasing.

Committee members walked through some potential changes during a Feb. 9. meeting, including getting rid of specific language about follow-ups to literacy screenings, removing language that would require the Agency of Education to approve literacy screeners and changing the state’s definition of an inadequate literacy test.

Children advocacy groups, The

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Climate change education is lacking in many US schools. Kids want more

Riko Dwianto, 07/08/2024

Today’s children and young adults care more about climate change than they do most issues as temperatures have reached record highs and the number of weather-related disasters continues to rise.

Yet research suggests the learning materials students are consuming in school have in some cases muted their coverage of climate change. Students told USA TODAY treatment of the issue has remained limited in schools even as their demands for such education have grown.

“Everything I learned about climate change was self-taught,” said Amara Ifeji, 21, now a senior at Northeastern University in Boston and an environmental justice advocate. Her low-income high school in Maine didn’t require climate change instruction for students in her particular science, technology, engineering and math program, let alone instruction that addressed the uneven impacts on people of color.

Amara Ifeji, 21, had to teach herself about climate change growing up. Here she stands at Two Lights State Park in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. She fell in love with the environment after visiting Acadia National Park for the first time at age 10.

While a number of states have changed their standards and curricula to address climate change, she worries about all the students at schools that lack the resources or the political will to make it a formal and interdisciplinary part of the learning experience. Polls have found a majority of teachers still don’t talk about the topic in class, usually saying it’s outside their wheelhouse.

This, observers say, amounts

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What Personalized Learning Is Not

Riko Dwianto, 05/08/2024

“I really want to personalize learning for my students, but I just don’t see how it’s possible—there’s no way I can create individual lesson plans for all of my students everyday!”

“I really like what you’ve shared with us today, but I can’t personalize my students’ learning because I don’t have enough devices for all of my students.”

These are just two of the statements I heard from teachers about the challenges of facilitating personalized learning. As an instructional technology coach for a large district in the metropolitan Atlanta area, I serve several schools. Working closely with over 300 teachers on a consistent basis means that I talk one-on-one with teachers a lot. Teachers openly share their legitimate concerns about implementing personalized learning, and unfortunately, the sentiments above are not uncommon. I feel it’s my responsibility to help teachers understand that both of the statements above are misconceptions.

Attempts to clearly define personalized learning are commonplace in education now more than ever—and the more conversations we have, the more apparent it becomes that many of us (educators) are elements of how to define the term, or

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New York University settles anti-Semitism case with Education Department

Riko Dwianto, 26/07/2024

In what’s believed to be the first case that’s come up since President Donald Trump’s executive order last year aimed at addressing anti-Semitism on campuses, the Education Department and New York University have settled a complaint that alleged NYU hasn’t done enough to prevent “ a hostile environment” for Jews on the campus.

The settlement, in which NYU acknowledged no wrongdoing, and the Education Department’s decision to take on the case was praised by some for recognizing what some believe to be a contemporary form of anti-Semitism, in which criticism of Israel goes beyond opposing its policies to opposing its very existence.

A lawyer representing a Jewish Mexican NYU graduate who brought the complaint said the settlement could have wide-ranging implications affecting how universities handle campus debates over Middle East policy, to the point of disciplinary students. The settlement also raised concerns from some advocates of campus free speech that it could stifle criticism of Israel on campus.

Under the agreement to settle the department’s investigation of the complaint, the university, among other things, agrees to add discrimination based on shared ancestry and ethnic characteristics, including anti-Semitism, to its nondiscrimination and antiharassment policy; address and ameliorate such discrimination on campus,

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