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Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), 2009
Schools are raising standards to improve academic and technical achievement and intellectual growth for all groups of students, particularly at-risk students. This newsletter contains tools and strategies that school leaders and teachers are using successfully to help students meet higher expectations. It organizes the techniques into five…
Descriptors: High Schools, At Risk Students, Educational Change, Study Skills
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Nikolova Eddins, Stefka G.; Williams, Douglas F. – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 1997
Research-based learning (RBL) is a model for merging research and undergraduate education. To link RBL with a curriculum across the institution, the authors used discipline-specific RBL strands, each of which is a set of interconnected course options that couple out-of-class research experiences with an established curriculum. Student learning is…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Instruction, Cooperative Learning, Curriculum Design
Kalman, Calvin S. – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2006
This book offers broad, practical strategies for teaching science and engineering courses and describes how faculty can provide a learning environment that helps students comprehend the nature of science, understand science concepts, and solve problems in science courses. The student-centered approach focuses on two main themes: reflective writing…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Scientific Principles, Misconceptions, Science Laboratories