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Jamie Crosswhite – Community Literacy Journal, 2024
This article delves into an exploration of the transformative journey of integrating walking methodologies within the context of a Technical Writing in the Community service-learning course, which is offered at a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) located in south Texas. These walking methods, founded on the principle of engaging the physical body…
Descriptors: Integrated Activities, Technical Writing, Service Learning, Physical Activities
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Lumbrears, Ricardo, Jr.; Rupley, William H. – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2019
Sustained academic growth of the Mexican population in the public schools of the Rio Grande Valley of Texas has precipitated a need for new and innovative ways to effectively educate English-language learners (ELLs). In place of common external factors typically used such as attendance, socioeconomic status, and test scores to address ELL's…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Mexican Americans, Public Schools, Teaching Methods
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Roberson, Sam – Education, 2014
The work of schools is teaching and learning. However, the current educational culture is dominated by three characteristics: (1) the mechanistic view of organization and its practice based on the assembly line model where students progress along a value added conveyor; (2) the predominance of the Essentialist philosophy of education, in which the…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Models, Educational Change, Change Strategies
Platt, Robert M. – 1969
An account of Tarrant Count Junior College's participation in the American Association of Junior Colleges' Social Science Demonstration Project was presented. The purpose of the project was to involve introductory sociology students in the use of the community as a laboratory to enliven the teaching-learning experience and develop in students a…
Descriptors: Educational Methods, Field Experience Programs, Instructional Innovation, Projects
Curry, James; Samara, John – 1993
This guide, based on the Texas Education Agency's "essential elements," presents a model for providing differentiated instruction for gifted high school students in any area of content and within any educational setting. The guide provides strategies for changing the following dimensions of the curriculum: (1) content or subject matter,…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking, Curriculum Development
Pfannstiel, Daniel C.; Hunter, Starley M. – 1968
The purpose of the project was to determine the most effective teaching methods for reaching the Mexican American population of El Paso, Texas, with Extension educational programs. An initial study in 1962 brought into focus characteristics and situations of Mexican American families for the purpose of evaluation. One population was subjected to…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Demography, Educational Methods, Expenditures