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Pugach, Marleen C.; Johnson, Lawrence J. – 1995
This book discusses collaboration as it occurs in all of its varying contexts in schools, such as consultation between special education and general classroom teachers, collaboration among classroom teachers, collaboration between university faculty in special and general education, and collaboration between institutions of higher education and…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Disabilities, Educational Cooperation, Elementary Secondary Education
Salisbury, Christine; Evans, Ian M. – 1993
The Collaborative Education Project's goal was to assess the effectiveness of collaborative problem solving (CPS) by peer advocates for enhancing the integration of students with severe disabilities into regular early education contexts. The CPS strategy gives some responsibility to nondisabled students for the planning and design of activities…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Instructional Design, Mainstreaming, Outcomes of Education
Langone, Christine A. – Journal of Leadership Education, 2004
Strategic leadership is perhaps the area where undergraduate students have the least experience. Therefore, a focus on developing these skills is critical for college-level leadership educators. Teaching strategic leadership requires that educators design programs that make explicit, direct, and formal links between theory and practical…
Descriptors: Models, Leadership Training, Undergraduate Students, Teaching Methods
King, James C. – Streamlined Seminar, 1988
This pamphlet discusses group problem solving in schools. Its point of departure is that teachers go at problems from a number of different directions and that principals need to capitalize on those differences and bring a whole range of skills and perceptions to the problem-solving process. Rather than trying to get everyone to think alike,…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Convergent Thinking, Creative Thinking, Discovery Processes
Shultz, Jeffrey; Yinger, Robert J. – 1982
The reflections of two social scientists regarding an inservice education program for elementary school teachers were the basis of their approach to inservice programs: Teachers need to have analytical and inquiry skills that will allow them to read research reports and listen to inservice presentations, digest the information, and then apply what…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Education, Inquiry, Inservice Teacher Education
Wang, Minjuan; Laffey, Jim; Wangemann, Paul; Harris, Carl; Tupper, Tom – 2000
The Internet-Based Shared Environment for Expeditions (iExpeditions) is both a development effort of the Center for Technology Innovations in Education, University of Missouri, Columbia, and a research project conducted in partnership with Motorola, Inc. and a researcher at Brigham Young University (Utah). The project seeks to develop and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Computer Uses in Education, Cooperative Learning, Educational Environment
McDonnell, Pia – Alternative Higher Education: The Journal of Nontraditional Studies, 1979
Alternative graduate education is explored from the perspective of one student who has participated in two nontraditional programs. Issues highlighted include: changing roles and responsibilities for faculty and students, problems with shared decision making, need for team building and problem solving, and importance of open communication.…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Expectation, Graduate Students, Graduate Study

Boyte, Harry C.; Skelton, Nan – Educational Leadership, 1997
The nation's educational system mirrors the dynamics of our marketplace democracy, recasting parents as self-interested consumers. Jane Addams' philosophy of education (enhancing people's productive capacities to benefit the commonweal) has been revived in Public Achievement, a work-centered, civic-earning program in St.Paul, Minnesota, that helps…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Cooperation, Cultural Pluralism, Democratic Values

Besemer, Susan P.; And Others – Journal of Library Administration, 1993
Describes one academic library's experiences in developing a new management structure based on teams to cope with increasing internal and external changes. The views of a team leader, team member, a new librarian, and the director are presented, and benefits and problems of the new structure are presented. (Contains 16 references.) (EAM)
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Libraries, Cooperation, Higher Education
Kittner, Marcy; Van Slyke, Craig – 1997
This paper describes the design, implementation, and subsequent redesign of an innovative MBA (Master's of Business Administration) Decision Support Systems course. The curriculum is developed around a collaborative, technology-based approach that emphasizes teamwork and problem solving to teach students the principles and applications of decision…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Cooperative Learning, Course Descriptions, Course Evaluation
Cabrera, Alberto F.; Colbeck, Carol L.; Terenzini, Patrick T. – 1998
This study compared the effects of personal characteristics and teaching practices in the development of professional competencies by undergraduate engineering students. A survey completed by 480 engineering students gathered information concerning students' personal, academic, and demographic characteristics; characteristics of their current…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, College Instruction, College Students, Engineering
Sherman, Lawrence W.; Woy-Hazleton, Sandra – 1988
A year-long, cooperatively structured, student team strategy is described that is being used as a major component in an interdisciplinary Master of Environmental Science degree program. The general philosophy of the degree program and the rationale for including the Student Team Project (STP) are described. The most basic goal of the program is…
Descriptors: College Instruction, College Programs, Cooperation, Environmental Education
Erlandson, David A. – 1976
This book begins with a look at current practice in administration. It then proposes a general problem-solving strategy to help administrators and supervisors with the array of difficulties that face them. The development of an administrative/supervisory team is proposed as a method of effectively implementing the problem-solving strategy.…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Administrators, Behavior, Decision Making
Civil Service Commission, Chicago, IL. Regional Training Center. – 1975
The document describes the special curriculum course offerings for the General Management Training Institute. It contains a general information sheet, a curriculum calendar for 1976, and course descriptions for the following courses: administrative officer seminar, analyzing managerial key results areas and formulating objectives, creative problem…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Adult Education, Behavioral Objectives, Course Content

O'Shea, Dorothy J.; O'Shea, Lawrence J. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1997
Discusses the impact national goals, federal legislation, and local reform practices will have on future reform efforts for students with learning disabilities. Twenty-first century predictions are made and indicate the need for effective collaboration processes, with participants making an effort to understand, accept, and/or value different…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Decision Making, Educational Change, Educational Innovation