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Bourelle, Tiffany – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 2014
This article argues for developing linked courses in technical communication where the instructor facilitates a service-learning curriculum and then serves as faculty advisor within subsequent internships. In these linked courses, students write technical documents before moving into internships where they write similar documents. Specifically,…
Descriptors: Technical Writing, Internship Programs, Workplace Learning, Curriculum Development
Reform Support Network, 2014
This guidebook provides an introduction to Instructional Improvement Systems (IIS) for State education agency (SEA) managers and program leads. Functional components of a theoretical IIS model are discussed and used as a reference point for the introduction a seven-step planning and implementation cycle designed to guide SEAs in the development of…
Descriptors: Instructional Improvement, State Departments of Education, Educational Planning, Program Implementation
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Demski, Jennifer – T.H.E. Journal, 2011
Arizona's Vail School District won this year's Sylvia Charp Award because of its revolutionary--and truly collaborative--approach to standards-based curriculum development that it is sharing with the rest of the state. This article takes a look at how they did it.
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Academic Standards, Effective Schools Research, Norm Referenced Tests
LLamas, Vicente J. – 1998
Since September 1995, the Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico-Rural Systemic Initiative (UCAN-RSI) has promoted systemic reform to improve science, technology, and mathematics education for all rural students in its states. Initially, UCAN targeted 159,000 students in over 430 rural, primarily American Indian or Hispanic, communities. These…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, American Indian Education, Annual Reports
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Kelley, Michael; Wetzel, Keith; Padgett, Helen; Williams, Mia Kim; Odom, Mary – Information Technology in Childhood Education Annual, 2004
Over the past 6 years, Arizona State University West (ASU West), located in Phoenix, Arizona, has developed an Early Childhood program that features curricula based on the National Education Technology Standards for Teachers (NETS-T; International Society for Technology in Education [ISTE], 2000), National Technology Standards for Students…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Curriculum Development, Technology Integration