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Download full textWeeks, Denise Jarrett, Ed.; Stepanek, Jennifer, Ed. – Northwest Teacher, 2001
This publication takes a look at lesson study both in its Japanese form and as it is being implemented in the United States. It contains the lesson study process, the rationale for using such an approach, and illustrates how teachers and administrators around the United States are taking the first steps toward adapting and implementing lesson…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Development, Foreign Countries, Instructional Development
Turner, Judy – Primary English Notes (P.E.N.), 1984
The teaching activities presented in this pamphlet focus on spelling. The pamphlet begins with a discussion of the relationship between spelling and writing. Following that, it describes a language experience approach and its implications, the benefits of daily writing, and the kind of writing that allows a successful spelling program to operate.…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Instructional Development, Language Experience Approach, Spelling
Genthon, Michele; Joscelyn, Mary K., Ed. – 1989
This paper explores the course-planning activities of faculty teaching introductory undergraduate courses, in order to assess influences on the process of curriculum revision. The findings of a survey of 2,311 faculty members in 97 institutions of higher education are previewed here, prior to publication. The study found that faculty from…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Committees, Curriculum Development, Higher Education
Hamby, John V.; Monaco, Fred A. – 1993
Educators, business and government leaders in the public sector are attempting to provide a kind of comprehensive, effective education for all students by designing a new approach to education which will: (1) eliminate the educationally embarrassing general education track which leads students into an academic and vocational dead end; (2) improve…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Dropout Prevention, Fused Curriculum, Instructional Development
Vero, Julia, Ed. – Bulletin National Institute of Education Hungary, 1986
A compilation of five documents defines and explores the role, scope, reforms, and current trends in history teaching in Hungary. Ivan Berend in "Educational Ideas and History," considers whether or not the traditional uses of historical knowledge have become obsolete and examines the value of this knowledge in today's society. Peter…
Descriptors: Bulletins, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Educational Philosophy
Jarrett, Denise, Ed. – Northwest Teacher, 2000
This publication features articles that illustrate how several Northwest teachers are using problem solving to achieve rigorous and imaginative learning in their classrooms. Articles include: (1) "Open-Ended Problem Solving: Weaving a Web of Ideas" (Denise Jarrett); (2) "Teenager or Tyke, Students Learn Best by Tackling Challenging Math" (Suzie…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Development, Integrated Activities
Kaplan, Matthew, Ed.; Lieberman, Devorah, Ed. – To Improve the Academy, 2000
The year 2000 volume of this annual publication contains 18 articles on issues relating to organizational change, collaboration and partnerships, and teaching and faculty development in higher education. The articles are: "Diversity and Its Discontents: Rays of Light in the Faculty Development Movement for Faculty of Color" (Edith A.…
Descriptors: Career Development, College Faculty, College Instruction, Diversity (Faculty)
Webb, Rodman B.; And Others – Florida Educational Research and Development Council, Inc. Research Bulletin, 1983
This manual presents a program of instruction, the Basic Skills Instructional System, which coordinates a number of teaching strategies into a single instructional system. Section 1 describes the organizational phase of the system: (1) teacher expectation; (2) resistance from low achieving students; (3) avoiding confrontations; (4) management of…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Homework, Instructional Development
Watts, Gordon E., Ed. – Journal of Staff, Program & Organization Development, 1984
"The Journal of Staff, Program and Organization Development" is published quarterly as a medium for the exchange of information, both practical and theoretical, regarding the planning, design, implementation, and evaluation of practices and programs related to the effective and efficient functioning of institutions of higher education and the…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Faculty, Community Colleges, Faculty Development
Carpenter, Don A., Ed. – Focus: A Forum on Teaching and Learning in Utah Community and Technical Colleges. Volume 2, 1983
A series of articles is presented on teaching and learning in Utah community and technical colleges. After an editorial comment by J. Marvin Higbee on the goals and purposes of the Utah Association of Community Colleges, V. Lowell Hansen discusses the role of the technical instructor in the information society of the 1980's. Next, Ace G.…
Descriptors: College Instruction, College School Cooperation, Community Colleges, Computer Assisted Instruction
Acheson, Keith A.; Smith, Stuart C. – OSSC Bulletin, 1986
Instructional leadership is leadership that is directly related to the processes of instruction where teachers, learners, and the curriculum interact. These three elements constitute the domains of the instructional process. The principal alone often cannot be effective in the supervisory role because of lack of time, lack of specific training and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Development, Instructor Coordinators, Leadership
Giltrow, David – AECT President's Library, 1989
Designed to provide instructional technologists, policy makers, and administrators with an overview of the basic principles of distance education, this booklet comprises eight chapters: (1) Introduction; (2) A Selective History; (3) Components of Distance Education Systems; (4) Organizational Options; (5) Instructional Technologists and Staffing…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrators, Cost Effectiveness, Distance Education
Boileau, Don M.; McBath, James H. – Updating School Board Policies, 1987
School systems are increasingly following national reports' recommendations that oral communication instruction in the high school curriculum should develop students' everyday academic competencies, personal confidence, and research and employment abilities. This report discusses instructional applications of oral communication and offers course…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Communication (Thought Transfer), Competence, Creative Expression
Wagner, June G. – Keying In, 2001
This document contains three articles devoted to assessing online learning. "Online Learning: A Digital Revolution" profiles innovative World Wide Web-based programs at high schools and colleges in the United States and worldwide and discusses the following topics: new demographic realities; the need for continuous (lifelong) learning; and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Attitude Measures
