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Bastoni, Amanda; Pickering, Brian; Bisson, Nathan – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2021
"Making Room for Change" is an educational book that will be valuable to anyone involved in secondary education. The book will provide clear examples, research, and personal reflections of how building in flexible time can be different from the historic middle and high school scheduling models. Educators of all ages and levels of…
Descriptors: Secondary Education, Educational Change, Flexible Scheduling, Time Management
Dattilo, John – Sagamore-Venture, 2021
As we grow through leisure education, we tend to manage challenges to leisure and gravitate to positive experiences. These positive encounters transport us toward achieving the ultimate goals of experiencing leisure, being happy, and flourishing. The intention of "Leisure Education Program Planning, fifth edition," is to share…
Descriptors: Leisure Time, Program Development, Learning Experience, Models
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Baird, Bill – Physics Teacher, 2014
When students are first introduced to the idea of radioactive decay, a large conceptual hurdle must be overcome. The thought that an object's age has no bearing on the chance it will "die" (decay in this case) on a particular day is completely at odds with biological notions of life and death. Through the use of a simple…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Scientific Principles, Teaching Methods, Science Activities
Dawson, Peg; Guare, Richard – Guilford Publications, 2012
This practical manual presents an evidence-based coaching model for helping students whose academic performance is suffering due to deficits in executive skills, including time and task management, planning, organization, impulse control, and emotional regulation. In just a few minutes a day, coaches can provide crucial support and instruction…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Evidence, Intervention, Executive Function
Moraine, Paula – Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2012
This book presents an innovative model for strengthening and developing executive function in any student, including those with attention, memory, organization, planning, inhibition, initiative, and flexibility difficulties. It provides guidance on how to support each student's evolving executive function, and how to encourage those who are ready…
Descriptors: Students, Executive Function, Models, Educational Innovation
Wurdinger, Scott D. – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2011
This book should be read by anyone concerned about the future of education in the United States. It was written for students, parents, educators, administrators, and policy makers because it will require effort from all these individuals to create meaningful change in the education system. This book discusses why the education system needs to…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Teaching Skills, Teaching Methods, Public Schools
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Oare, Steve – Music Educators Journal, 2011
To practice effectively, one must first know how to practice. The practice process is affected by one's ability to set goals, design strategies, self-assess, and to have an aural image of the music being learned. The author proposes a model reflecting the factors involved in practice and proposes a number of strategies that can be used to…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music Teachers, Musical Instruments, Music Techniques
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Condoret, Jean Stephane – Chemical Engineering Education, 2007
The very common situation of waiting for the cooling of a cup of coffee is addressed through a conventional engineering approach, where several important concepts of heat and mass transfer are used. A numerical and analytical solution of the differential equations of the problem are proposed, and assessed by comparing to simple experiments.…
Descriptors: Heat, Engineering Education, Models, Student Problems
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Finson, Kevin; Beaver, John – Science Scope, 2007
Building physical models relative to a concept can be an important activity to help students develop and manipulate abstract ideas and mental models that often prove difficult to grasp. One such concept is "time". A method for helping students understand the cyclical nature of time involves the construction of a Time Zone Calculator through a…
Descriptors: Calculators, Concept Formation, Models, Class Activities
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Pfeifer, Michael; Holtappels, Heinz Gunter – European Educational Research Journal, 2008
Following the results of the Programme for International Student Assessment for Germany, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research founded the capital investment program "Future Education and Care" as a federal measure to support the expansion of all-day schooling in Germany. During this process it became obvious that learning and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Schedules, Socioeconomic Status, Time Management
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Estaville, Lawrence E., Jr. – Journal of Geography, 1991
Discusses the strengths and weaknesses of geographers' temporal strategies for research. Suggests diagrammatic interpretations and examples of the strategies. Presents classroom activities for increasing student understanding of the organization of time in the study of geography. (SG)
Descriptors: Geographic Concepts, Geography Instruction, Higher Education, Models
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Dooley, Cindy – Roeper Review, 1997
The problem-centered learning model for gifted students is described and applied to development of learning experiences that are organized around exploration of past, present, and future perspectives of trends, problems, events, and phenomena in the social sciences. Ways to use problem-centered learning in regular classrooms, special programs for…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted, Integrated Curriculum
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Maudlin, Tim – Physics Teacher, 1989
Discusses some historically important reference systems including those by Newton, Leibniz, and Galileo. Provides models illustrating space-time relationship of the reference systems. Describes building models. (YP)
Descriptors: College Science, Higher Education, Models, Motion
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Erekson, O. Homer – Research in Higher Education, 1992
A four-equation simultaneous equations model was developed to analyze whether college student effort and achievement are jointly determined. Testing with 544 undergraduate students indicated that increased student efforts in working with faculty improved their grades, but course effort and library effort had no significant effect on grade point…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, College Instruction, Grade Point Average
Horner, Charlotte M. – Academic Therapy, 1987
A four-stage model, designed to shape learning disabled students' independent study skills and foster generalization of skills is presented: (1) ease students into a homework routine; (2) focus on time management; (3) teach problem-solving techniques; and (4) conclude in independent study with intermittent parent and teacher monitoring. (CB)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Homework, Independent Study, Learning Disabilities
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