When the Jordan Ministry of Education planned workshops to raise teachers' awareness of the health environment in schools in underdeveloped governorates, a pre-post intervention study assessed the impact of these workshops in changing teachers' perceptions. A total of 193 teachers completed the self-administered Centers for Disease Control and Prevention school health index (SHI) for elementary...

Problem Situation: People experience ups and downs in their job satisfaction and motivation levels at different points of their work lives for various reasons. One of the outputs of low job satisfaction and motivation is defined as “withdrawal behaviors” in the literature. Withdrawal behaviors are any employee behavior of withdrawal from duties and responsibilities as a result of a distance tha...

A population-based randomized intervention trial for the prevention of conduct problems (i.e., oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder) is described. The LIFT (Linking the Interests of Families and Teachers) intervention was designed for all first- and fifth-grade elementary school boys and girls and their families living in at-risk neighborhoods characterized by high rates of juveni...

Studies about the universe are exciting for children in elementary and junior high schools. They approach such work with energy and curiosity but they also hold naïve ideas that may be difficult to dislodge. Schools now can obtain access to scientific-grade telescopes for educational purposes via the Internet. Using students’ questions as a basis for projects, teachers can provide first-hand sc...

In the present study, we explore the analyses of coping strategy for IT digital divide on the elementary campus. The questionnaire was distributed by stratified random sampling. The cases included 39 schools and 150 teachers. The study adopted the questionnaire of “SWOT Strategic Analysis for Digital Divide” to investigate the digital learning environment on campus and to understand teachers’ o...

Title of Dissertation: THE EFFECT OF INSTRUCTIONAL CONSULTATION TEAMS ON TEACHERS’ REPORTED INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICES Lauren Tracy Kaiser, Doctor of Philosophy, 2007 Dissertation Directed by: Professor Sylvia Rosenfield, School Psychology Program A primary goal of Instructional Consultation Teams (IC Teams; Rosenfield & Gravois, 1996) is that students’ problems will be prevented or resolved throu...

BACKGROUND Implementing physical activity (PA) within academic curricula increases energy expenditure and enhances academic achievement in elementary students. The purposes of the study were to determine the extent teachers met the 20-minute PA policy, identify how teachers met the policy, and measure the level of intensity of PA provided. METHODS Four elementary schools (grades K-5; 68 class...