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1. Utilization of Oral Health Services among Hispanics in California: A Systematic Literature Review
- Creator:
- Phan, Richard
- Description:
- According to the Surgeon General of the United States, many Americans do not understand the importance of good dental hygiene, causing an overwhelming amount of disparities in oral health, especially in Hispanics. In general, Hispanics have the poorest dental hygiene care when compared to other racial and ethnic groups in the United States. Currently, there are little or no published research specifically on Hispanics living in California and their utilization of oral health services. The aim of this study is to conduct a systematic review of existing literature based on in-depth analysis of peer-reviewed published articles with a goal to review utilization of oral health care services by Hispanics living in California. The study reviewed how levels of educational attainment, levels of acculturation, levels of household incomes, gender, and age are associated with dental health utilization among California Hispanics. The results show that although California Hispanics require oral health services, limited resources such as finances, proper knowledge, and access to care makes this population at higher risk towards preventative oral care.
- Resource Type:
- Project
- Campus Tesim:
- San Marcos
- Department:
- Public Health
- Creator:
- Brotman, Andrea
- Description:
- The need to provide appropriate support for students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) during recess and lunch is essential. This paper presents a workshop for paraprofessionals, recess supervisors and custodians to learn strategies to help students with ASD initiate appropriate social interactions and communications with their peers during recess and lunch. The content of the workshop is intended to provide an understanding of common characteristics of students with ASD and their need for both social skills and friendship development. The workshop also includes an explanation of the different states of student engagement on the playground as well as methods to boost appropriate engagement. Specific tips are provided throughout the workshop, along with video demonstrations, discussions and games to encourage participation.
- Resource Type:
- Project
- Campus Tesim:
- San Marcos
- Department:
- Special Education
- Creator:
- Hill, David and Wang, Zixian
- Description:
- Cart Mart Inc. would like a comprehensive assessment of its existing logistics strategy to help decide what influences the operation. It would like to know whether consolidation would benefit expansion goals. In this manner, the company wants to explore better alternatives to the way it currently conducts business. Ideally, it would like to focus on improvements that help the company maximize efficiencies in operations and logistics. This includes the right size, function, and type of each facility, as well as, the prime locations to relocate to best accommodate their customers efficiently. Opportunity The motivation of Cart Mart is to take advantage of the growing low speed vehicle industry. This involves capitalizing on the underdeveloped areas surrounding its current business locations to increase market share. Cart Mart currently operates primarily in the Southern California region. The sales, distribution, and service of low speed vehicles also offers considerable opportunities in neighboring states. For Cart Mart, there are two main opportunities. One is to expand in its current Southern California area and reposition its super-hub to improve logistic efficiencies while consolidating functions to reduce redundancies. In the same manner, additional growth opportunities involve expansions into regions that incorporate the Las Vegas, NV and Phoenix, AZ metropolitan areas. This analysis will help to determine if a planned pre-staged central location for a distribution center will improve logistical efficiencies for future expansions.
- Resource Type:
- Project
- Campus Tesim:
- San Marcos
- Department:
- Business Administration
- Creator:
- Chamberlin, Christine
- Description:
- Teaching can be an emotional profession, as teachers are faced with a wide variety of situations in any given day and are required to act quickly and flexibly as the situation demands. Teaching can be a stressful job with stressors from school administration, state standards, parental demands and student needs. To manage a classroom and deliver effective instruction requires social-emotional self-management as well pedagogical skills. Designed to help develop and strengthen their social emotional competencies, the professional development developed as the product of this thesis project offers a two part professional development, through a PowerPoint presentation as well as an independent activity for the teachers to engage in between the professional development meetings. There will be ample opportunity for the teachers to engage in discussions regarding this professional development and to share their own reflections.
- Resource Type:
- Project
- Campus Tesim:
- San Marcos
- Department:
- Education
- Creator:
- Himfar, Melissa
- Description:
- The purpose of this project was to create a menu of research-based interventions in an “If a student…then…” format. The project addressed the problem of using research-based interventions within the Response to Intervention (RTI) framework. The intervention menu lists common learning challenges that students have on one side of a chart and outlines briefly possible intervention strategies and classroom adaptations on the other side. Also, sample templates for creating small-group instruction tailored to a specific need and a six-week planning template are provided to assist teachers with mapping out their instruction and with parent-teacher meetings. This project is significant because the format of the intervention menu is student-centered instead of curriculum-centered.
- Resource Type:
- Project
- Campus Tesim:
- San Marcos
- Department:
- Reading, Language and Literacy
- Creator:
- Fernandez, Denisse
- Description:
- Stone Brewing was founded in 1996 by Greg Koch and Steve Wagner and is now headquartered in Escondido, Ca. Stone Brewing has grown to be the 10th largest craft brewer in the United States and it has been called the “All-time Top Brewery on Planet Earth”. Greg Koch, Co-Founder and CEO of Stone Brewing, is very involved in the craft beer movement in San Diego. He wants San Diego to become “as synonymous with craft beer as wine is with Napa”. Craft brewers have been one of the fastest growing business sectors in San Diego. This sector has more than doubled in San Diego since 2011 and in 2014 the economic value of craft beer in the San Diego region was estimated to be $600 million and is expected to grow. As of July 2016, the San Diego Brewery Watch listed 129 breweries in San Diego County. This project was sponsored by Stone Brewing to determine the impact San Diego’s craft beer industry has on driving tourism. The objective of this report is to conduct an industry and market analysis of the craft beer industry, compare the craft beer scene in San Diego and other cities, and recommend what needs to be done to better market San Diego as a craft beer destination.
- Resource Type:
- Project
- Campus Tesim:
- San Marcos
- Department:
- Business Administration
- Creator:
- Biscocho, Monica
- Description:
- Social emotional learning (SEL) has shown to be beneficial to not only mental health but it also improves academic performance. Research shows that students who participate in SEL gain an increase in academic performance, reduced rates of aggression and increased behavioral competencies. The purpose of this project was to introduce SEL into inclusive classrooms by making SEL accessible to all learners through the use of Universal Design for Learning and Gradual Release of Responsibility. Research supports the benefits SEL bring to the classroom, yet it is not vastly implemented. Students with disabilities especially have a harder time grasping social emotional cues and so explicit SEL can benefit this population immensely. In many ways, these students do not get to participate because lessons are either not differentiated for them or they are participating in pull out services. This project is to be carried out in elementary school from grades K-5. The lessons are easily adaptable, include differentiated lessons, and adapted worksheets. This can also be used as a pacing guide for educators looking to implement SEL into their classrooms.
- Resource Type:
- Project
- Campus Tesim:
- San Marcos
- Department:
- Special Education
- Creator:
- Higinio, Eliseo
- Description:
- As technology becomes more abundant in society, digital information is also becoming the norm. With the growing dependability on digital communications, school districts are doing away with paper newsletters and relying on digital platforms to bridge home-school communications. This convenient form of communication places parents, more specifically Latino parents with limited access to computers or the internet at a disadvantage. This digital divide affects Latino parent involvement and places English language learners at an academic disadvantage, as research supports the idea that involved parents increase student academic achievement (Becker, 2007; Cheung & Pomerantz, 2012). This technology curriculum was designed specifically for Latino parents in an effort to provide access to technology and the internet. Parents integrate inherent knowledge and skill sets to acquire complex technological skills. In this manner, parents are able to actively participate in the 21st century classroom. This project provided technology skills to 10 Latino parents in a rural community of North San Diego County. The curriculum covers the fundamentals of technology and builds to more complex tasks such as creating presentations, documents and movies. Additionally, this curriculum encourages parents to become advocates for their and their students’ needs and challenge the status quo of equity and access in a digital age.
- Resource Type:
- Project
- Campus Tesim:
- San Marcos
- Department:
- Education
- Creator:
- Takeshita, Tori
- Description:
- Currently, many schools do not have the funding for the arts programs in schools and with the switch to Common Core State Standards, there is a greater emphasis on Mathematics and English Language Arts. Not only are the arts beneficial for all students, but it allows students with and without disabilities the opportunities to foster relationships and communicate in a different way. Therefore, creating a music and dance, arts integrated curriculum ensures that the arts can be taught in the general education classroom while meeting the needs of all learners. This project contains a scope and sequence of a music and dance, arts integrated curriculum for first grade as well as a 4-week unit integrating music and dance with social studies content. The unit contains four lessons, the first being a music or dance lesson that will be incorporated throughout the rest of the unit and school year. The goal of this project is to provide general education teachers the necessary tools and activities to utilize a music and dance integrated curriculum and foster an inclusive environment for all learners. Keywords: Arts Integration, Dance Integration, Integrated Curriculum, Integrated Arts Curriculum, Inclusion, Inclusive Classrooms, Learning Styles, Multiple Intelligences, Music Integration, and Universal Design for Learning.
- Resource Type:
- Project
- Campus Tesim:
- San Marcos
- Department:
- Special Education
- Creator:
- Beagle, Taylor
- Description:
- Much research in the field has established that many new teachers struggle with maintaining a balance and leveraging support with responsibilities in their professional lives, particularly those who serve in the field of special education. In turn, these factors contribute to the high attrition rates prevalent in the special education teaching field. Induction programs are one method that states, including California, utilize in an attempt to address this issue. Despite pointed efforts, data shows that attrition rates have continued to grow, even with induction programs in place. The formal mentoring that constitutes a large portion of most induction programs is examined in this work and has revealed a gap between the less beneficial formal process and the more success found in informal mentoring strategies at retaining education specialists. This study discusses this gap in research that has resulted in a training manual about the best methods and strategies to incorporate informal mentoring procedures into typically formal induction programs within California. Incorporating informal mentoring includes a) establishing a rapport with mentees, b) developing and maintaining trust, c) phrasing feedback to alleviate pressure, and d) appropriately structuring formal meetings. The training manual explores and provides an alternative approach which is promising for both mentors and new teachers.
- Resource Type:
- Project
- Campus Tesim:
- San Marcos
- Department:
- Special Education