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Peer reviewedLewis, Barbara A. – Social Education, 1992
Discusses a sixth grade teacher's experience in turning a classroom project into a book. Offers advice for teachers on becoming writers. Explores obstacles, benefits, and suggestions on writing, editing, and publishing work. Describes a class project that resulted in the cleanup of a toxic waste site and the publication of "The Kid's Guide to…
Descriptors: Authors, Citizenship Education, Editors, Grade 6
Ho, Rose – 2003
The primary objective of the action research chronicled (in English and Chinese) in this book was to shift the teaching method used by preschool teachers in Hong Kong from a teacher-directed mode by training them to use the Project Approach. The secondary objective was to measure children's achievement while using the Project Approach, focusing on…
Descriptors: Action Research, Foreign Countries, Multilingual Materials, Preschool Children
Balmer, Robert T. – Engineering Education, 1988
Promotes the use of a practicum technique in which senior engineering level students work on typical company problems in a laboratory setting. Offers suggestions on how to solicit and organize such a university-industry course. (RT)
Descriptors: College Instruction, College Science, Cooperative Programs, Engineering
Download full textTibbetts, John; Sherman, Renee; Crocker, Judy; Evans, Arthur – 2000
This packet contains materials for a professional development workshop series to prepare adult educators to design and implement instruction based on the SCANS skills, using a project-based approach to instruction. Session 1 is a full day, although facilitators may choose to make it two three-hour sessions. Session 2 is three and one-half hours.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Behavioral Objectives, Brainstorming
Bidwell, Sheri, Ed. – 2000
This document contains 34 lesson or project plans written at inservice workshops focusing on integrating workplace skills (i.e. SCANS [Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills] and career awareness into the K-12 curriculum in Columbus (Ohio) Public Schools. The lesson and project plans are loosely organized by grade level. Each lesson…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Education, Education Work Relationship, Elementary Secondary Education
Career and Technical Education in Urban Schools. In Brief: Fast Facts for Policy and Practice No. 9.
Imel, Susan – 2000
Despite the fact that a majority of urban educators remain optimistic about the future of city schools, urban high schools face significant challenges. Many recent developments in high school reform have important implications for career and technical education (CTE) programs in urban high schools. Publications on reforming secondary education…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Articulation (Education), Career Counseling, Career Development
Wisconsin Univ. System, Madison. – 2001
This document contains 82 papers and 6 workshop presentations from a conference on distance teaching and learning. The following are among the papers included: "Examples and Tools for Building Web-Based Learning Experiences" (Steven A. Ackerman, Thomas Whittaker); "Online Testing in Distance Education" (Tricia Ahern);…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Accounting, Adult Educators, Adult Students
