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Bristol, Benton K. – Journal of the American Association of Teacher Educators in Agriculture, 1972
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Creative Development, Educational Research, Inservice Teacher Education
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Stern, Adele – English Journal, 1972
A teacher describes the informal curriculum" of mini-courses which are presented in addition to the regular curriculum. The author is hopeful that the skills and feelings that are developed will spill over into that other curriculum that has us all enmeshed." (Author/SP)
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, English Education, High School Students, Instructional Innovation
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Valcarcel, Dario, Jr. – History Teacher, 1971
Arguing that almost any period of history is a microcosm of the whole, this author suggests that the traditional survey course should give way to short intensive courses in areas of special interest in order to make the curriculum more relevant and improve student attitudes. (Author/JB)
Descriptors: Course Organization, Curriculum Design, History Instruction, Minicourses
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Josephson, Julian – Environmental Science and Technology, 1981
Reports the findings of a study of continuing education in the environmental health field including types of courses, participant profiles, tuition charges, in-house versus outside courses, and problem areas. Focuses on short courses as an increasingly important means of enhancing professional performance. (DC)
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Engineering Education, Environmental Education, Minicourses
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Kapinus, Barbara A. – Journal of Reading, 1981
Describes the use of content area reading miniclinics, with sessions lasting from 2 to 10 days on a particular skill or related skills, that have proven useful at a junior high school. (MKM)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Course Descriptions, Junior High Schools, Minicourses
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Pokrandt, Agnes M. – Business Education Forum, 1981
Describes a data processing (DP) curriculum for secondary and postsecondary schools with a mini-unit series especially designed for the business education teacher. The miniseries units cover basic DP concepts and functions, historical development, common features of DP systems, programing concepts, documentation, DP applications, and careers in…
Descriptors: Business Education, Computer Science, Data Processing, Minicourses
Professional Engineer, 1979
Gives a description of what the major engineering societies (ASCE, ASME, AICHE, and IEEE) are doing in the area of continuing education. The description includes the short courses, their costs, duration, type and scope of the content. (GA)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Continuing Education, Correspondence Study, Engineering Education
Aviation/Space, 1979
This is a three-day refresher course. Its intended audience is composed of personnel active in aerospace related fields, but who may not have a degree in aerospace engineering, and aerospace engineers who want to review the fundamentals of flight and gain a historical perspective. (BB)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Aerospace Education, Course Content, Engineering Education
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Evans, John – International Library Review, 1988
Descriptions of minicourses offered to librarians in Papua New Guinea include course content and objectives, the frequency of course offerings, and participation in minicourses. Participant and teacher evaluations of the minicourses and their implications for future course offerings are discussed. (seven references) (CLB)
Descriptors: Course Content, Course Evaluation, Developing Nations, Evaluation Criteria
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Wang, Chih; Moran, Michael – Community & Junior College Libraries, 1989
Briefly reviews practices and issues related to bibliographic instruction in community colleges and at Asnuntuck Community College (Connecticut) in particular. Proposes a minicourse on research skills to introduce students to the learning resource center's facilities and services, to the Library of Congress Classification System, and to the card…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Community Colleges, Course Content, Learning Resources Centers
Mercurio, Frank X. – Journal of Aerospace Education, 1975
Describes a five-day summer camp which provided 12 children, ages 9-14, with a complete flying experience. The training consisted of ground school and one hour actual flying time, including the basics of aircraft control and a flight prepared and executed by the students. (MLH)
Descriptors: Aerospace Education, Aviation Technology, Extracurricular Activities, Flight Training
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Steinbrecher, Phyllis, Ed. – School Counselor, 1975
Four short reports are presented. The first is about the pressures students experience in an accelerated college program. The second is about a program to improve the self-concept of disadvantaged youth. The third describes preparing a school calendar, and the fourth discusses the idea of offering mini-courses during study hall. (SE)
Descriptors: Counselors, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Problems, Elementary Secondary Education
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Gould, C. D. – School Science Review, 1974
An approach to teaching biology to mixed ability groups which primarily relies on individualized instruction is described. (BR)
Descriptors: Biology, Heterogeneous Grouping, Individualized Instruction, Instruction
Bar-Lev, Zev – 1990
An examination is made of a foreign language teaching concept called pre-language that attempts to help foreign language students increase their speaking confidence and speaking abilities in the new language. The teaching method is designed for four distinct environments, including: (1) an independent mini-course for tourists or emergency needs;…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Course Descriptions, Course Objectives, Minicourses
Steirer, Michael D. – School Shop, 1974
Descriptors: High School Students, Industrial Arts, Learning Experience, Minicourses
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