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Norwalk, Kate E.; Dawes, Molly; Hamm, Jill V.; Farmer, Thomas W. – Journal of Applied School Psychology, 2021
The purpose of the present study was to assess the effects of a professional development program on sixth grade teachers' use of social dynamics management (SDM) practices. SDM practices represent teachers' active attempts to incorporate classroom social dynamics into everyday instructional and behavior management strategies. Sixth grade teachers…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Peer Relationship, Classroom Techniques, Social Isolation
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Motoca, Luci M.; Farmer, Thomas W.; Hamm, Jill V.; Byun, Soo-yong; Lee, David L.; Brooks, Debbie S.; Rucker, Nkecha; Moohr, Michele M. – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2014
Directed consultation is presented as a professional development framework to guide and support teachers in the implementation of evidence-based interventions that involve contextual and process-oriented approaches designed to be incorporated into daily classroom management. This approach consists of four components: pre-intervention observations…
Descriptors: Consultation Programs, Faculty Development, Classroom Techniques, Intervention
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Hamm, Jill V.; Lambert, Kerrylin; Little, Todd D.; Farmer, Thomas W.; Harris, Mallory V. – Elementary School Journal, 2021
This study examines the ties of sixth-grade teachers to their interdisciplinary team colleagues and explores the dimensions of their efficacy beliefs for their own and their colleagues' teaching. Teachers (n = 238; 83% female, 88% White) from 26 middle schools completed surveys about the relational aspects of ties to team colleagues, the…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Interdisciplinary Approach, Grade 6, Middle School Teachers
Farmer, Thomas W. – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2011
The early adolescent period and the transition to middle school is a foundational period that is as important to the outcomes of students' educational careers as is the transition into school. For many early adolescents, the changing contexts and demands of school are just as novel, the stresses are just as great, and the developmental stakes are…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Intervention, Early Adolescents, Student Adjustment
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Chen, Chin-Chih; Hamm, Jill V.; Farmer, Thomas W.; Lambert, Kerrylin; Mehtaji, Meera – Remedial and Special Education, 2015
This study examined subtypes and stability/change in peer victimization involvement among students with exceptionalities. Data were collected over spring of fifth grade and fall/spring of sixth grade with 1,861 students in 36 rural schools as part of a cluster randomized trial of a context-based intervention (Supporting Early Adolescent Learning…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Peer Relationship, Bullying, Victims
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Farmer, Thomas W.; Hamm, Jill V.; Petrin, Robert A.; Robertson, Dylan; Murray, Robert A.; Meece, Judith L.; Brooks, Debbie Sprott – Exceptionality, 2010
This study involved a pilot examination of the impact of the Supporting Early Adolescent Learning and Social Strengths (SEALS) model on the 6th grade academic and social context following the transition to middle school. Two middle schools from a high poverty Appalachian school district were randomly assigned to the intervention and control…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Intervention, At Risk Students, Early Adolescents