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Kerka, Sandra – 2003
An evidence-based connection between adult educator professional development (PD) and learner outcomes is difficult to document, yet there is an intuitive assumption that professional development is linked to better teaching and learning outcomes. The field appears to be shifting away from one-shot PD to practitioner engagement in sustained,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Evaluation Problems
Martinez, Paul; Maynard, John – 2002
Factors contributing to program success or failure were evaluated at 16 English colleges. Questionnaires were distributed to 231 teachers with 59 of those questioned further during an interview. Respondents emphasized the importance of good teaching, committed and knowledgeable teachers, and effective and appropriate processes for recruitment,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Attitudes, College Administration, College Faculty
Ragland, Mary A.; Clubine, Betsy; Constable, Deborah; Smith, Pamela A. – 2002
This report identifies and describes practices that support the achievement of students enrolled in five high performing, high poverty elementary schools. Findings indicate that despite variations, the school share many similarities in terms of the strategies they employ to strengthen academic performance: (1) the schools embrace the belief that…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Role, Case Studies, Change Strategies
Bates, Richard – 1997
The emergence of globalization and its impact on knowledge, communications, economies, social structures, and institutions such as education is rapidly changing the context, content, and methods of teachers' work. Consequently, the continuing professional development of teachers, especially in Australia with its aging teacher force, is essential.…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Continuing Education, Educational Innovation, Educational Policy
Gregg, Noel, Ed.; Curtis, Rebecca S., Ed.; Schmidt, Stacia F., Ed. – 1996
This booklet presents results from four survey questions asked of the audience and papers presented at a 1995 teleconference on assessment issues with African American adolescents and adults with learning disabilities. An introductory paper, "Multiple Factors Impacting the Assessment and Instruction of African American Adolescents and Adults…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Education, Adults, Affective Measures
Dooley, Kim E.; Edmundson, Chris; Hobaugh, Carol – 1997
Instructional design is a critical factor in a successful distance education environment. An efficient design analyzes audience and needs, creates learning goals/objectives, develops materials, methods and media for content delivery, and plans for evaluation and feedback. Design implementation requires certain instructional criteria: (1)…
Descriptors: College Students, Computer Interfaces, Computer Managed Instruction, Course Evaluation
Cole, Donna J.; Ryan, Charles W.; Serve, Paul; Tomlin, James A. – 2001
This paper presents a model for shared decision making among Wright State University's (WSU's) teacher education faculty, PreK-12 educators, and science and mathematics faculty in preparing quality teachers. The model involves over 430 representatives from PreK-12 schools, businesses, human service agencies, WSU, and the military who provide input…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Faculty, College School Cooperation, Educational Change
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. – 2002
This report presents three recommendations for teaching and learning in three areas. The first, "Make Teaching and School Administration Attractive Careers," notes the need to (1) "Increase Salaries for Teachers and Administrators"; (2) "Strengthen Multiple Pathways into Teaching and School Leadership" (3) "Enable Schools that Serve High-Need…
Descriptors: Administrators, Alternative Teacher Certification, Beginning Teachers, Career Choice
Quinn, Mary Magee; Osher, David; Warger, Cynthia L.; Hanley, Tom V.; Bader, Beth DeHaven; Hoffman, Catherine C. – 2000
This guidebook is designed to help educators and others in their efforts to work with students with emotional and behavioral difficulties (EBD). Chapter 1 provides an overview of the needs and problems presented by such students. Chapter 2 contains basic information to help provide an enhanced understanding of students with EBD. Causes of…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Behavior Modification, Classroom Techniques, Cultural Differences
Lindberg, Lisbeth; Maerker, Leif – 2001
Changes in mathematics instruction in vocational programs in Swedish upper secondary schools are intended to improve mathematics skills so students will perform better on national mathematics tests. Curriculum requires that all vocational students in Course A take 100 hours of mathematics instruction, but nearly 50% of them have been failing.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Curriculum Development, Educational Attitudes, Educational Cooperation
Llorente, Juan Carlos; Porras, Marta; Martinez, Rosa – 2001
In a series of mathematics education workshops in which teachers from adult basic education and vocational education worked together to design teaching situations on particular contents in mathematics in order to make explicit and bring into reflection the teaching strategies used by each group. The workshops constituted a common space of…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Adult Vocational Education, Context Effect
Rosenblum-Lowden, Renee – 2000
This book presents a collection of strategies to help teachers at all levels develop a rapport with students and manage everyday school problems. There are 17 chapters in 9 parts. Part 1 "Tips for New and Student Teachers," includes (1) "Odds and Ends for Beginners." Part 2, "Beginning a Winning Year," includes (2)…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Classroom Techniques, Discipline, Elementary Secondary Education
Cole, Donna J.; Ramey, Linda K.; Tomlin, James; Ryan, Charles W.; Swann, Raymond; Sutton, Sherry – 2000
This paper outlines how shared decision making among teacher education faculty, preK-12 educators, and the Science and Mathematics faculty at Wright State University successfully led to the preparation of quality educators. It offers a historical overview of the Wright State redesign efforts, then: examines the university's collaboration for…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, College Faculty, College School Cooperation, Elementary Secondary Education
Busching, Beverly; Catoe, Sally; Medway, Frederick; Shirley, Jim; Toner, Tommie – 2000
This paper describes the University of South Carolina Professional Development School (PDS) Partnership Network. The first section examines initiation of a partnership for educational renewal, implementation of threshold conditions, institutionalization of the PDS, and the current period of transition as a new period of institutionalization has…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Administrators, Beginning Teacher Induction, College School Cooperation
Gips, Crystal J., Ed.; Stoel, Carol F., Ed. – 1998
This publication reports on the work of four universities in "The Public Schools Rewards Project: A Higher Ed Tough One, which was begun in 1995 and was designed to enhance the value that university rewards systems placed on faculty work with K-12 schools and teachers, and ultimately to improve the quality of education delivered in K-12…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College School Cooperation, Educational Improvement, Educational Quality