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Bujan, Josephine; And Others – 1996
The goal of this action research project goal was to improve students' taking responsibility for their own learning. The targeted population consisted of 120 intermediate and middle school students in 5 classes from 2 middle-class communities in northern Illinois. The lack of student responsibility in the learning process was documented through…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Cooperative Learning, Graphic Organizers, Interest Inventories
Dong, Yu Ren – 1996
A study examined the supervisory relationship between a non-native English-speaking doctoral student and a native English-speaking advisor, particularly in science, focusing on factors leading to effective or ineffective supervision, advisee response to advisor guidance and assistance, and the roles played by the two participants. Subjects were…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Biochemistry, Case Studies, Chinese
Hackmann, Donald G. – 1997
Because traditional parent-teacher conferences exclude the student from the process, this model does little to facilitate dialogue between parent and child or to recognize the need for students to assume greater control of their academic progress. Student-led conferences are a positive alternative to the traditional middle level parent-teacher…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Communication Skills, Intermediate Grades
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Inc., Reston, VA. – 1991
This document, together with an earlier document, "Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics," is designed to establish a broad framework to guide reform in school mathematics in the next decade. These standards spell out what teachers need to know to teach toward new goals for mathematics education and how teaching…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Educational Change, Educational Environment
Dueck, Gwen – 1993
This booklet is a practical guide to the use of games, role play, and simulation in the classroom to encourage active learning and increase opportunities for experience and reflection. Basic principles for use of these techniques are presented and include determining the game objective, planning for progressive learning processes, planning a…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Classroom Techniques, Educational Games, Educational Planning
Smith, J. Lea; And Others – 1993
This case study of a university-school collaborative project examines the roles that seventh grade language arts students can play in classroom curricular decision making, the degree to which a teacher can negotiate with students about content, and how both students and teacher are able to balance the dynamics of control and responsibility for…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College School Cooperation, Curriculum Development, Grade 7
Tillman, Mike – 1998
This paper synthesizes issues related to the Internet, Internet curriculum materials (i.e., any type of teaching material or activity that can be incorporated into the K-12 curriculum and is available on the Internet), and constructivist learning theory; it explores the use of the Internet as a constructivist environment for learning and the…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Classification, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Mediated Communication
Resta, Paul – 1998
Project CIRCLE, a project conducted by the University of Texas Learning Technology Center in collaboration with the Austin Independent School District and the Eanes Independent School District, explored the use of network-based tools to help change teacher practices toward more student-directed and constructivist approaches to learning. Through…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Computer Assisted Instruction, Constructivism (Learning), Cooperative Learning
Sadtono, Eugenius, Ed. – 1991
A selection of papers on second language learning includes: "Second Language Acquisition Research in the Language Classroom" (David Nunan); "A Place for Second Language Acquisition in Teacher Development and in Teacher Education Programmes" (Rod Bolitho); "Dimensions in the Acquisition of Oral Language" (Martin Bygate, Don Porter); "The Learner's…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Classroom Techniques, Foreign Countries, High Schools
Schwier, Richard A., Ed.; And Others – 1994
This document offers a view of educational change that has educational technology at the center of the process and underscores some of the contributions educational technology can make to reforming education in Saskatchewan (Canada). The province has an excellent teaching force and communities that value education highly, but there is a prevailing…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Uses in Education, Cooperation, Distance Education
Ohio State Univ., Columbus. National Center for Research in Vocational Education. – 1986
This module, which is one in a series of 127 performance-based teacher education learning packages focusing upon specific professional competencies of vocational teachers, deals with individualizing instruction. Addressed in the four individual learning experiences described in the module are the following topics: (1) the characteristics of…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Check Lists, Competency Based Teacher Education, Individualized Instruction
Fallon, Gerald; Morse, Marie – 1988
Alberta's teaching guide for upper-elementary French immersion instruction provides assistance in integrating notional program content with communicative language techniques. It does not provide content material, but focuses on techniques for enhancing instruction of both receptive (reading and listening) and productive (writing and speaking)…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Communicative Competence (Languages), Curriculum Development
Eckard, Ronald D.; Kearny, Mary Ann – 1981
A major goal of ESL education is to teach students how to speak English well enough to converse spontaneously and naturally with native speakers. Discourse analysis provides an understanding of those skills second language learners need to acquire to converse with native speakers and an understanding of how these skills may most beneficially be…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Class Activities, Dialogs (Language), Discourse Analysis
Wallington, Clint – 1981
While most training and development/institutional development professionals are familiar with either the world of formal higher education or the world of training in the business/industrial sector, few training and development practitioners are familiar with both. It is necessary to coordinate the efforts between these two spheres in order to…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Continuing Education, Cooperative Programs, Curriculum Development
Rudd, Ernest; Simpson, Renate – 1975
Graduate education in Britain was studied through structured interviews with approximately 800 full-time students, postal questionnaires from about 230 part-time students, interviews with university staff, and postal questionnaires from about 2,300 past graduate students. Students were questioned concerning their reasons for their choice of…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, College Role, Educational History, Foreign Countries
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