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Ericksen, Stanford C., Ed.; Cook, John A., Ed. – 1979
Major themes that dominate institutional support for teaching are addressed by representatives of large research-oriented institutions of higher education that form the "Panel on Research and Development of Instructional Resources." The Panel is composed of the Big Ten universities and the University of Chicago. Contents are as follows: "The Panel…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Consultation Programs, Educational Assessment, Educational Finance
Adams, Michael; And Others – 1976
This paper offers an overview of three previous studies based on surveys of almost 1000 Ontario parents, 3500 teachers, and over 6100 students; each of which monitors the participants' experience with and attitudes towards the system of education. The intention of the overview is to assimilate the findings of the previous research into a single…
Descriptors: Accountability, Basic Skills, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques
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Cleverley, John – Comparative Education, 1984
Examines two sets of Chinese educational ideology and practice: pre-1977 (during the Cultural Revolution) and post-1976 (during the Hua Guofeng administration), as well as changes in the 1980s. Special attention is given to ideology, the expansion of schooling, self-reliance, utilization of human resources, and emergence of pressure groups.…
Descriptors: College Admission, Comparative Education, Education Work Relationship, Educational Change
Smith, Sharon Williamson – 2000
Many adult literacy programs invite their clients to become authors by articulating their life experiences, ideas, and opinions in writing that is published. Theoretical perspectives from feminist poststructuralism were used to determine what happened when clients were positioned as authors in light of their identities other than authors. The…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Authors, Creative Writing
Marr, Beth – 2001
This paper recounts observations of differences in the interactions of adult students when they are engaged in traditional worksheet tasks in contrast to small group activities and summarizes recent research on the benefits of group work in adult mathematics learning. It offers a selection of group and pair activities designed to foster…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Adult Students, Classroom Communication
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Lassonde, Cynthia A. – Literacy Teaching and Learning, 2005
This study offers ways to understand how a fifth-grade student and her teacher co-constructed academic and social positions within classroom writing practices and how these positions constrained and enabled literacy learning. Positioning is viewed as central rather than optional to learning. Classroom writing practices enabled the case-study…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Transfer Students, Classroom Environment
Folsom, Christy – Issues in Teacher Education, 2005
This article explores the theoretical foundations and practical application of Teaching for Intellectual and Emotional Learning (TIEL), a pedagogical model that codifies a powerful way of thinking about the intellectual and social-emotional processes that underlie teaching and learning. It is is organized in three sections, and begins by offering…
Descriptors: Teacher Role, Teacher Educators, Learning Theories, Educational Theories
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Larsen, Lida – EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 2005
Complementing the need to leverage resources is the academic community's role in providing both academic and workplace learning opportunities and financial assistance to students--who traditionally work part-time, receive lower salaries, and generate fewer overhead costs than their full-time staff counterparts. It is not surprising, therefore,…
Descriptors: Student Employment, Employment Programs, Supervision, Departments
Christensen, Matthew; Warnick, Paul – Foreign Language Publications, 2006
This book is a general introduction to the performed culture approach, which trains students how to express themselves in a way that native speakers of the target culture feel appropriate in given situations. Target readership includes Chinese, Japanese, and Korean language teachers and graduate students. Chapters of this book include: (1)…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Cultural Awareness, Chinese, Japanese
Sandholtz, Judith Haymore; And Others – 1997
Teachers are responsible for juggling knowledge of where students are and where they need to go; having insights into students' special needs and progress; choices of curricular activities and materials; rules that govern children's participation; expectations from parents and communities; and the norms and rules that govern them as teachers. The…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Computer Uses in Education, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
Bright, George W.; Vacc, Nancy Nesbitt – 1994
This study examined whether inclusion of cognitively guided instruction (CGI) in a mathematics methods course for 34 undergraduate preservice teachers at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro would improve their teaching performance, compared to controls. The Beliefs Survey, with four subscales (Role of the Learner, Relationship between…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Constructivism (Learning), Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics
Mills, Sheryl – 1993
This booklet for teachers describes and explains classroom management based on a student centered format for structured freedom using contracts, learning stations, and learning packages. The booklet is structured as a narrative describing a fictional teacher's visits to a classroom where this approach is successfully implemented. Structured…
Descriptors: Autoinstructional Aids, Classroom Techniques, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers
Daloz, Laurent A.; Pitkin, Clotilde – 1976
The Community College of Vermont holds the position that the highest purpose of education is to foster self-reliance, in both the community and the individual. This college awards the associate degree upon the completion of individual, student-written, competence-based degree contracts. Areas of competence which are evaluated include self…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, College Credits, College Faculty
Kentucky State Dept. of Education, Frankfort. – 1976
This publication, presented in four sections, is designed to assist local school systems in implementing consumer education programs. Several parts of the guide are adapted from the U.S. Office of Education publication, Suggested Guidelines for Consumer Education, Grades K-12. First, the pupil goals are broadly and narrowly stated. The broad goals…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Bibliographies, Business Responsibility, Citizen Role
Ghory, Ward J.; Sinclair, Robert L. – 1979
A rationale and methodology for the use of student perceptions in educational decision making, and specifically in the area of curriculum, are presented. Four sections of the paper present ways in which student perceptions may be used: to describe and compare school environments, to compare perceptions of student subgroups within the same…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Problems, Decision Making
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