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Cumming, W. F. Preston – Online Submission, 2012
The increasing expectations for all incoming faculty to not only produce exceptional research, but also be better communicators and educators immediately has put the pressure on graduate students looking to move into academia to improve on their ability to teach. By providing the opportunity for Masters and PhD level students, the Departments of…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Geography Instruction, Ecology, Biology
Bollag, Burton – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2007
This article describes how a top physicist took charge of reforming undergraduate science education at the University of British Columbia. Carl E. Wieman, the 2001 Nobel Prize winner in Physics, gave up his research career to devote himself to improving the way college science is taught. Wieman is heading up a $10.2 million science education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Educational Change, College Science
Colorado State Dept. of Education, Denver. Special Education Services Unit. – 1996
The report summarizes five Colorado teacher research projects in teaching students with disabilities. The five projects described demonstrate that teacher initiated classroom based research allows educators to develop innovative approaches to instruction and to analyze their results in an objective way. The following projects are presented: (1)…
Descriptors: Action Research, Classroom Research, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education