Papers by Kim Calder Stegemann
Journal of Integrative and Complementary Medicine, 2024
Collaboration among members of a client's/patient's wellness team is a key goal for effective ser... more Collaboration among members of a client's/patient's wellness team is a key goal for effective service delivery, and yet often remains elusive. It is proposed that complementary health care practitioners are well situated to lead the way in collaboration. In this article, a framework for how practitioners in any discipline can begin to develop these professional collaborations is presented—NOTP! Network, openness, time, patience. It is a call to action.
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Frontiers in Education, 2024
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B C Journal of Special Education, 1990
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Teacher Education and Special Education: The Journal of the Teacher Education Division of the Council for Exceptional Children, 1999
Our project offered general and special education teachers guided and sustained opportunities to ... more Our project offered general and special education teachers guided and sustained opportunities to design and implement assessments of young children's reading and writing that reflect contemporary approaches to literacy instruction. Fourteen teachers met 10 times over 15 months (April 1997-June 1998) to critically examine their current assessment practices, and to consider and design alternatives that they experimented with in their classrooms between meetings. This paper describes teachers' perceptions of the efficacy of our participatory approach to professional development, their learning, and changes in their assessment practices that reflect their learning. Overall, teachers valued opportunities to learn from one another, to set their own professional development agenda, and having time to plan, experiment, and reflect on their assessment practices. Teachers produced high quality assessments to reflect their teaching-learning contexts, and gained confidence in their abil...
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I am always attempting to develop new and better ways to teach beginning teachers “all there is t... more I am always attempting to develop new and better ways to teach beginning teachers “all there is to know ” about child develop-ment and special education. Over the years this process has lead me to feel more and more disillusioned. I am convinced that we need a total revamp of how we approach teaching educational psychology and pro-pose that our discipline re-define what is considered to be essential knowledge and skills for teachers in the twenty-first cen-tury. I begin my argument with a review of typical educational psychology courses in initial teacher education, and what my experience with content and process has been over the past 19 years of my career. I then outline the basic tenets of twenty-first century learning and compare these to a “typical ” introductory course in educa-tional psychology. Finally, I suggest possi-ble alternatives to the current curriculum and pedagogy of educational psychology in order for it to align with the principles of twenty-first century learning.
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美中教育评论 a, 2014
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Some believe that Canada is a forerunner in ensuring the rights of the disabled and in fostering ... more Some believe that Canada is a forerunner in ensuring the rights of the disabled and in fostering an inclusive society. The opportunity exists to also be a leader in teacher education which is essential to the success of the inclusion process. Such leadership, however, will require fundamental changes in teacher education practices for both pre- and in-service teachers, as well as systematic reforms to government policy and school structures. In this paper I propose a number of changes to teacher education. To begin, I briefly outline the current policies and practices of inclusive education within the context of social justice and diverse culture. Next, I present a review of parents, teacher, and administrator perspectives on inclusion which will serve to inform the proposals which I present later in the paper. In order for Canada to be considered a leader in educational inclusion some fundamental changes are necessary to teacher education, schools and education systems, which I out...
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The New Educator, 2016
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2014 Conference of the Canadian Society For the Study of Education, Jun 5, 2014
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Educational inclusion of children with special learning needs is a philosophy and movement with a... more Educational inclusion of children with special learning needs is a philosophy and movement with an international presence. Though Canada is a leader in educational inclusion, many would claim that our public educational systems have not yet fully realized the dream of inclusive education. As other countries have noted, making full-fl edged changes in systems can be diffi cult without a strategic plan of action that clearly articulates the stages of implementation, and without an agreed upon framework for planning, putting into action, and measuring the success. In this paper, we introduce the logic model framework for describing the process of creating inclusive educational environments. Logic models focus on implementation of a program, from start to end, making explicit the key assumptions on which the process is based, and help to identify where implementation may be breaking down. We create a generic logic model for the implementation of inclusive education, based on the documen...
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Learning Disabilities: A Contemporary Journal, 2013
This single-case study examined the effects of a graphic organizing strategy on the ability of ch... more This single-case study examined the effects of a graphic organizing strategy on the ability of children to improve their text comprehension abilities. Participants were six students between ten and fourteen years old with major problems in understanding what they read. The intervention intended to teach them to visually highlight key elements of a passage, and thus, to deepen their understanding of it (story mapping). An AB multiple baseline design across subjects was applied. The intervention points were randomly determined within a preset range for each participant. In accordance with the emerging trend to apply inferential statistics as a supplement to visual inspection and the calculation of effect size measures, a randomization test and a piecewise regression procedure were used to analyze the data. Results suggested that the story mapping technique was very benefi cial in improving reading comprehension of struggling learners. The potentials of the intervention as well as of t...
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Bloomsbury Education and Childhood Studies
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Canadian Journal of Education, Dec 1, 2013
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While Canada was the first country to ensure the rights of the disabled with the Canadian Charter... more While Canada was the first country to ensure the rights of the disabled with the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (1982), and the benefits have been clearly identified, inclusion practices continue to be haphazard and adoption slow. There are numerous reasons for the slower than expected implementation of inclusion across Canada, among these is the attitude and skills of teachers, para-professionals, and parents, funding for support staff and teacher training, school leadership, and physical and material resources. This research study will examine inclusion of children with disabilities in general education classrooms within a British Columbian school district with both rural and urban schools. The Kamloops/Thompson School District (KTSD) has approximately 15,000 students in 43 schools, some with segregated educational settings. We seek to identify broad themes in the views of parents, student, and educators related to inclusive education, and examine and explain any differen...
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Taking a bio-psycho-social approach, I will work with clients who have anxiety, ADHD, depression, PTSD, and learning disabilities.