MICK JACKSON

Instructor: MICK JACKSON   (Look up syllabus and additional information)
Location: Online Course
Description: VESi/ Online Class; INSTRUCTOR: Jackson. You can register for this course anytime between Sept. 1 - Dec. 31, 2009 and work at your own pace. Provides information on such issues as definition, history, treatment and even some referral sources that may be accessed. The four sections are: 'History, Definitions, Assessment, and Special Education', 'Medications, Stimulants, Resources and Gaining', 'Curriculum Modifications and Study Skills', and 'Interventions, Functional Assessment, Reinforcements and Punishments.' These four sections should give you a firm understanding of ADD, its diagnosis, possible causes, assessment, and the laws surrounding the disorder. This may also help you understand why students with ADD have behavioral problems in the classroom and other school settings.
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Instructor: MICK JACKSON   (Look up syllabus and additional information)
Location: Online Course
Description: VESi/ Online Class; INSTRUCTOR: Jackson. You can register for this course anytime between Sept. 1 - Dec. 31, 2009 and work at your own pace.The first two chapters explain why we choose to view student behavior as a kind of unspoken language. These chapters provide a framework for understanding why certain students react to teachers, aides, peers and society in such dysfunctional, disruptive behavioral patterns. These chapters should give you a firm grasp on how to begin interpreting students' behavior into an understandable language. Chapters 3 and 4 describe intervention strategies, which we refer to as 'clubs.' We will present twenty intervention strategies that remediate difficult student behavior. How and when an intervention strategy is used goes a long way in determining its effectiveness. These strategies are designed to be effective when used with the new framework of understanding presented in the previous chapters.
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Instructor: MICK JACKSON   (Look up syllabus and additional information)
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Description: VESi/ Online Class; INSTRUCTOR: Jackson. You can register for this course anytime between Sept. 1 - Dec. 31, 2009 and work at your own pace. States that receive funds from the No Child Left Behind, Reading First Act need to ensure that teachers are qualified to teach reading. They must have a working knowledge of scientifically validated instructional programs and practices. According to Kilpatrick (2003), the most critical part of the Act is that there must be an increase in teachers' knowledge of the scientific process under which instructional programs are evaluated. Approximately 80% of teachers have little to no background in the use and method of science. What is needed, then, is a training program that allows in-service teachers to learn about science. In other words, we need teachers to become consumers of science and to learn how to think critically about the vast amount of data emanating from real science and from what can be described as 'voodoo science.'
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Instructor: MICK JACKSON   (Look up syllabus and additional information)
Location: Online Course
Description: VESi/ Online Class; INSTRUCTOR: Jackson. You can register for this course anytime between Sept. 1 - Dec. 31, 2009 and work at your own pace. The purpose of this second course in this three-course series is to lay the foundation for effective reading instruction. As part of this course, you will learn about the elements of effective instruction. It is important that all teachers have a firm understanding of effective instructional procedures. Teachers benefit, and more importantly, students benefit, both in terms of their behavior and their academic performance. Further, you will learn about the importance of reading instruction and read some sobering statistics on reading performance in this country and what happens when individuals are not proficient in reading.
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Instructor: MICK JACKSON   (Look up syllabus and additional information)
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Description: VESi/ Online Class; INSTRUCTOR: Jackson. You can register for this course anytime between Sept. 1 - Dec. 31, 2009 and work at your own pace. Describes the elements of effective reading instruction in some detail. Educational assessment involves gathering, interpreting, and synthesizing information to help teachers make important decisions about student performance (Airasian, 2001). It involves everything from scores on projects, papers, and exams to how children perform on school, district, state, or national evaluations (such as standardized tests). Educational assessment can be teacher-designed or publisher/researcher-based. It can be centered on the curriculum in the school or district, or based on what children across the country should know in a particular academic subject area, such as reading.
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Instructor: MICK JACKSON   (Look up syllabus and additional information)
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Description: VESi/ Online Class; INSTRUCTOR: Jackson. You can register for this course anytime between Sept. 1 - Dec. 31, 2009 and work at your own pace. The first chapter reviews the history of aggression in America. It explains how we (the country) got to where we are in terms of aggression and violence. The chapter discusses the cost of aggression. It asks the question: Is America Safe? The second chapter deals with how we have learned to be aggressive. It discusses how aggressive thoughts many times become aggressive actions. The third chapter centers on aggression and violence as crimes. It explores arson, assault and crimes of fear. Along with criminal aggression the chapter takes a look at guns and gangs in America's schools; how bullying affects our schools and classrooms; how dress can affect acts of aggression and violence in schools and society. Chapter 4 speaks to working with and raising children to resist violence. It gives suggestions to educators and parents on how to deal with and counteract aggressive or violent behavior. This chapter deals with dating, and how it can be impacted by aggressive behavior and date violence.
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