Learning communication

Recommendation 4 Firefighters engaged in wildland firefighting should learn, communicate, and follow the ten standard fire orders as developed by the Forest Service. 

Seelan, S. K., Laguette, S., Casady, G. M. and Seielstad, G. A. (2003) Remote sensing applications for precision agriculture a learning community approach. Remote Sensing Environ. 88(1-2), 157-69. 

Create professional learning communities for knowledge transfer and employee training. 

Water quality projects such as those described below have been shown to be effective methods for engaging students in environmental chemistry courses for majors (Juhl et al. 1997) and for nonscience majors (Lunsford et al. 2007). When the water quality research projects were conducted, Chemistry and the Environment was linked to a world geography course as part of a learning community. Poor water quality and access to potable water were a global environmental theme for both courses. Consequently, the chemistry research projects focused primarily on water analysis. Field water testing kits, atomic absorption spectroscopy, and fluorescence methods (typically for biological con-... 

Considerable dialogue and collaboration between faculty members in the science and mathematics departments at UWG resulted in the development of a National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Talent Expansion Program (STEP) proposal to address the retention of students in the STEM disciplines and at the institution. This project included first-year learning communities (LCs), summer research experiences, additional in-class and out-of-class support using peer-lead team learning and/or supplemental instruction, and faculty development for participating STEM faculty members. As the centerpiece of the first-year LCs, three seminar courses were developed and will be the focus of this chapter. Here, we describe three first-year seminars, each of which addresses different facets of first-year STEM student success and report on the successes and challenges this model presented for both students and faculty members. 

Stanley C. Israel, Southwest Texas State University I find the number one factor in the success of our students is peer-to-peer mentoring. If we can get them involved in peer-to-peer mentoring and get them involved in the learning community, they will almost universally be successful. 

Gordon, B.M. Making the Formulary Safe General Strategies for Reducing Risks. ASHP Medication Use Safety Learning Community, Baltimore, June 2002. NCC MERP council recommendations to reduce medication errors associated with verbal medication orders and prescriptions, adopted February 20, 2001. Available at www.nccmerp.org/council2001-02-20.html, accessed January 9, 2004. 

Conscience and Consumption Green Chemistry as a Learning-Community Course H ith Environmental Ethics... 

Conceptually, a learning community is a group of people committed to a path of inquiry and action who engage in face-to-face and online activities over an extended period of time and evolve and learn from one another. We envision that the four main dimensions of a successful learning community are comfort, trust, responsibility, and spontaneity with flexible boundaries. Logistically, the two courses are linked through an integrative seminar and the same cohort of students attends each course and the Seminar. 

The six main objectives of the learning community are (1) to provide each student with both a theoretical, scientific and practical understanding of the nature and range of environmental problems (2) to help students develop critical thinking skills, writing skills, and laboratoiy skills necessary to the recognition, formulation, and assessment of environmental problems and proposed solutions ... 

Table Va. Content Addressed by Questions in the First Two-Week Learning Community Module for Conscience and Consumption...

Additional professional outcomes and competencies were identified as essential to perform the functions that support practice. These included the broad skills necessary to solve problems and make decisions manage learn communicate, teach, and collaborate and participate in policy formulation and professional governance. 

Keleher, T, Leiderman, S., Meehan, D., Perry, E., Potapchuk, M., Powell, L. A., 8c Yu, H. G. (2010). Leadership race How to develop and support leadership that contributes to racial justice. Leadership for a New Era Series, Leadership Learning Community. Retrieved from... 

Notably, Alliant is a leader in this arena. Alliant s diversity plan includes attention to both multicultural and international issues and competencies, and in 2011 Alliant was selected by ACE to join its At Home in the World Initiative, in which eight U.S. colleges and universities formed a two-year learning community focused on the integration of multicultural education and internationalization in the curricula. 

The consequence is that Swarthmore has retained engineering as a major, one that its provost (C. Hungerford, Personal Communication, December 4, 2008) says is an integral part of its identity... that fits into community based learning. Community-based learning is a natural outcome of the Quaker-based commitment to social responsibility that permeates much of Swarthmore s educational mission. Engineering provides one important place where theory and practice intersect. 

The discussion is based on theory on lO effect on safety, perspectives on learning, communication principles and culture, attitude and mindset as a basis for change. 

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