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Additional file 4 of Acceptability, reach and implementation of a training to enhance teachers’ skills in physical activity promotion
2020
Additional file 4. Anticipated acceptability (AA), Interaction techniques, Part II.
Additional file 4 of Acceptability, reach and implementation of a training to enhance teachers’ skills in physical activity promotion
2020
Additional file 4. Anticipated acceptability (AA), Interaction techniques, Part II.
Additional file 1 of Acceptability, reach and implementation of a training to enhance teachers’ skills in physical activity promotion
2020
Additional file 1. The in-service professional development training (2 × 4 h) for teachers to implement the Let’s Move It program with a motivational interaction style: Description of the training content.
Additional file 3 of Acceptability, reach and implementation of a training to enhance teachers’ skills in physical activity promotion
2020
Additional file 3. Experienced acceptability (EA) and anticipated acceptability (AA).
Teacher Training for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders in Finland
2019
This chapter first provides a short description of the historical background and development of special education teacher training in Finland. The relationship between special education and teaching pupils with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is covered by chronologically presenting the main events, turning points, publications, and people that have had a significant effect on the education of pupils with ASD in Finland. This is followed by a description of the organization of teacher training, in general, and the particular characteristics of teaching pupils with ASD. In the context of ASD, it is essential to examine questions concerning the link between learning as social practice and the …
Mothers’ and fathers’ well-being, parenting styles, and their children’s cognitive and behavioural strategies at primary school
1998
One-hundred and five 6- to 7-year-old children were given a test measuring their helplessness, failure expectations, task-irrelevant behaviour, lack of persistence and search for social support in a classroom setting in order to examine the impact of parental well-being and parenting styles on the children’s cognitive and behavioural strategies at school. Both parents were also asked to fill in scales measuring their depression, parenting stress and parenting styles. The results revealed that maternal depressive symptomatology was associated with their children’s use of maladaptive strategies, whereas paternal depression was not. Moreover, maternal authoritative parenting styles and authori…
Frequency of co‐teaching in different teacher categories
2010
Co‐teaching – or the use of more than one teacher in a classroom – has been commonly recommended as a means to promote inclusive education. The aim of the present study was to survey the actual frequency of co‐teaching among different teacher categories in the comprehensive school level in one Finnish city. The data were collected through a questionnaire answered by two representative samples of teachers including 117 resource room teachers in the first survey, and 317 teachers of various teacher categories in the second. The results showed that co‐teaching was a widespread phenomenon among resource room teachers and special class teachers but less frequent among other teacher groups. Overa…
Early numeracy in low‐performing young children
2009
The aim of this study was to explore the early numeracy of low‐performing young children. The mean age of the children was six years and four months. The 511 participants belonged to three groups: multi‐language children, children with special educational needs and children with average performance. The results showed that there were significant group differences in early numeracy: the children in the reference group had better relational and counting skills than those with a multi‐language background and those with special educational needs. Some differences were found in counting skills between the children with multi‐language background and those with special educational needs. Finally, …
Additional file 2 of Acceptability, reach and implementation of a training to enhance teachers’ skills in physical activity promotion
2020
Additional file 2. Acceptability items.
Additional file 2 of Acceptability, reach and implementation of a training to enhance teachers’ skills in physical activity promotion
2020
Additional file 2. Acceptability items.