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Download full textMeehan, Merrill L.; Cowley, Kimberly S.; Burns, Rebecca C. – 2000
The Interdisciplinary Teamed Instruction (ITI) project investigated the effects of interdisciplinary, teamed instruction on secondary school teaching and learning. It examined the effectiveness of a professional development model that facilitated the development, implementation, and evaluation of ITI. Through summer institutes and onsite…
Descriptors: Action Research, Curriculum Development, Faculty Development, Inservice Teacher Education
Duenkel, Nicky; Hemstreet, Jeff – Pathways: The Ontario Journal of Outdoor Education, 1997
Two former staff members reflect on their feelings about the August 1995 closing of Bark Lake Leadership Centre (Ontario, Canada), which for 49 years had offered outdoor adventure and environmental education courses to youth and adults. They discuss their experiences as both students and teachers at the center, which helped shape their careers in…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Career Choice, Educational Experience, Experiential Learning
Peer reviewedBumgarner, Susan D.; Means, Bill H.; Ford, Marian J. – Journal for Nurses in Staff Development, 2003
A summer health careers program in rural North Carolina educates and recruits high school students into health professions. Collaboration between an Area Health Education Center, a local hospital, and schools makes the program successful. A week of classroom presentations is followed by up to 6 weeks of job shadowing. Seventy percent of the 160…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Career Exploration, Experiential Learning, Field Experience Programs
Peer reviewedContreras, Gloria; Nicklas, Willis L. – Action in Teacher Education, 1993
A pilot project provided a summer transitional experience from high school or two-year college into a comprehensive higher education institution to enhance the quality and increase the numbers of minorities attracted to teacher education programs. Project results were very positive. All enrolled students completed the program. (SM)
Descriptors: Career Choice, College Preparation, High School Students, Higher Education
Peer reviewedVan Handle, Donna C.; Ayres, Evelyn; Cimino, Ellen; Dunn, Bryan; Foell, Kimberly; McCarthy, Jennifer K. – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2001
Describes the creation and use of Web sites developed by secondary school teachers of German and European history who participated in an NEH-sponsored summer institute titled "Post-Wall Germany: Integrating Post-Unification German Culture into the High School Curriculum. Teacher participants also offer suggestions for using sites they created…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Foreign Countries, German, High Schools
Peer reviewedLee, James Daniel – Sociology of Education, 2002
Notes that women in the United States are underrepresented in science, mathematics, and engineering educational programs and careers. Uses longitudinal survey responses of 320 students to assess the ways in which their social relationships and experiences affect their involvement in science and technology. Frames issues in terms of identity…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Educational Attainment, Educational Trends, Engineering
Berney, Tomi D.; Rosenberg, Jan – 1989
The 1988 Summer Bilingual Program served 1,171 ninth- through twelfth-graders with limited English proficiency (LEP) at 10 New York City sites. Designed especially for the substantial number of LEP students who were overage for their grade, the program offered 14 English as a Second Language (ESL) and 17 bilingual content area classes in science,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, English (Second Language), History, Limited English Speaking
Swaffield, Sue; And Others – 1988
Four reports describing aspects of a summer English course, designed for foreign students from a variety of backgrounds, focus on learning English through classroom lessons and extra-curricular activities. Sue Swaffield, the course director, outlines the background, organization, and staffing of the course, looking at its broad aims and role in…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, English (Second Language), Extracurricular Activities, Foreign Countries
Sipe, Cynthia L.; And Others – 1987
In the summer of 1986, 564 of the 752 members of the treatment group of the first full-scale implementation of the Summer Training and Education Program (STEP) model returned for their second summer. At the same time, a second cohort consisting of 1,591 youth (765 in the treatment group and 754 in the control group) began their first summer of…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Basic Skills, Comparative Analysis, Demonstration Programs
Branch, Alvia Y.; And Others – 1986
The summer of 1985 marked the first full-scale implementation of the Summer Training and Education Program (STEP) model. Federally funded, STEP provides 14- and 15-year-olds with a paid summer experience that combines work, remediation in reading and math, and life skills instruction with an emphasis on responsible social and sexual attitudes and…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Basic Skills, Comparative Analysis, Demonstration Programs
Petersen, Nicole M.; And Others – 1987
This study evaluated a college level Introductory Psychology course taken by 23 precocious adolescents during a three-week summer residential program. This evaluation measured not only knowledge gain, but also understanding, generalization, and application of that knowledge. Immediate post measures of participants' knowledge, understanding, and…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Advanced Students, Attitude Change, Attitude Measures
Riley, Roberta D.; Huffman, Gail M. – 1981
A summer Career Guidance Institute, conducted for graduate credit, placed 16 secondary teachers in entry-level positions in jobs not requiring college education for six weeks. The teachers worked four days a week and attended seminars and group discussions one day a week. Study of this pilot program was conducted to investigate three questions:…
Descriptors: Career Education, Career Guidance, Employer Attitudes, Employment Experience
CUMMINGS, HOWARD H. – 1957
THIS YEARBOOK IS DIRECTED TOWARD EDUCATORS WHO ARE INTERESTED IN BRIDGING EXISTING GAPS IN THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIAL STUDIES IN THE SCHOOL CURRICULUM. THE VOLUME REPRESENTS THE COLLECTIVE EFFORTS OF WORKERS BOTH IN AND OUTSIDE OF THE FIELD OF EDUCATION. IT IS DIVIDED INTO THREE PARTS. PART 1 DEALS WITH SUCH TOPICS…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Developing Nations
Schultheis, Robert A.; Vaughn, Alvin – 1968
This summer institute was designed to upgrade teacher educators in business education departments of urban universities and state colleges. Specific purposes were to increase their knowledge of culturally different youth and programs for these youth, and to provide an opportunity for them to develop and implement teaching units for such programs.…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Blacks, Business Education, Business Education Teachers
Guerrero, Adalberto; Arellano, Albert – 1973
The goal of the project was to provide educational and guidance personnel in vocational and technical fields with new perspectives relating to teaching and counseling Mexican-American students. A two-week institute was held in June, 1973 at the University of Arizona for counselors, administrators, teachers, and student representatives of high…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Institutes (Training Programs)
