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Komives, Susan R.; Dugan, John P.; Owen, Julie E.; Slack, Craig; Wagner, Wendy – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2011
This is a must-have book for leadership educators and all student affairs professionals who want to develop impactful leadership programs and the leadership capacity of students. This book contains: (1) Advancing Leadership Education (Susan R. Komives); (2) Leadership Theories (John P. Dugan and Susan R. Komives); (3) Research on College Student…
Descriptors: Models, Leadership Training, Student Development, Student Leadership
Falk, Carolyn – Gifted Child Today (GCT), 1989
"The Mentor Network" is a program designed for self-selected, gifted college students. In the program, highly motivated students are matched with mentors in their fields of interest and meet weekly to share ideas and experiences. Vignettes describe the successful results of three mentor-student partnerships. (JDD)
Descriptors: College Students, Gifted, Higher Education, Interpersonal Relationship
Ripon School District, WI. – 1988
This curriculum guide outlines the K-12 guidance curriculum that is being implemented in the Ripon, Wisconsin, School District. The first three short sections of the guide introduce the developmental guidance model, describe the project that produced it, and recommend staffing changes needed to implement the model. The following 10 sections…
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Competence, Competency Based Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Eriksson, Gillian I. – Gifted Education International, 1989
The Schmerenbeck Multi-Racial Educational Centre (South Africa) implemented "Integrated Arts Workshops" to develop the creative thinking of gifted/talented children. Professional artists and teachers are brought together with groups of children, and ideas are explored through sensory stimulation, creative problem-solving, and reflection.…
Descriptors: Creative Art, Creative Thinking, Creativity, Elementary Secondary Education
Maryland State Department of Education, 2007
Designed for district- and school-level character education committees, "Character Education by Design: A Blueprint for Successful District and School Initiatives" is a how-to guide for developing an effective character education initiative, one that will not only enhance the climate of the school and social behavior of the students, but…
Descriptors: Social Behavior, Values Education, Citizenship Education, School Districts
Ciofalo, Andrew, Ed. – 1992
The 31 papers in this book ar grouped into 5 sections, of which the first consists of an introductory essay by A. Ciofalo, "What Every Professor and Worksite Supervisor Should Know about Internships." Section 2, on learning from experience, contains "Perspectives on Learning in Internships" (D. T. Moore); "Integrating the Traditions of…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Experiential Learning, Higher Education, Internship Programs
Landrum, Mary S., Ed.; Callahan, Carolyn M., Ed.; Shaklee, Beverly D., Ed. – 2000
This book is a guide to the standards for programs designed for gifted and talented students developed by the National Association for Gifted Students in 1998. The guide is intended to provide practical help to practitioners by including annotations that supply a rationale and further explanations for each standard. A standard statement,…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted
Huisman, Cate – 1992
This report, one of a set of three, examines the initial 3 years of a student mentoring project in Portland, Oregon, that brought together college students from four private universities and a number of eighth grade students from four middle schools in mentoring relationships. During the first year of the project the students were described as…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, College Students, Colleges, Grade 8
Floyd, Nanette M. – 1993
This guide presents a curriculum comprising 36 lesson plans designed to develop a more inclusive school community at the middle school level. The manual was designed by a task force that involved special and general educators representing students of all ages and types of abilities. The goals of the curriculum are, first, to develop positive…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Cooperation, Curriculum Guides, Disabilities
Huisman, Cate – 1992
The retrospective report summarizes results and recommendations resulting from the Oregon Community Foundation's Student Mentoring Program (SMP), which brought together college students from four private universities and a number of eighth grade students from four middle schools in mentoring relationships. The students were originally defined as…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, College Students, Colleges, Grade 8
Delisle, Deborah S.; Delisle, James R. – 1992
This paper proposes a five-step model intended to meet the needs of gifted students in the context of the mixed ability reality that most teachers in regular classrooms encounter. The model consists of five steps each of which has several components. The steps and components are: (1) acceptance (initiatives must start out small and sound to be…
Descriptors: Acceleration (Education), Course Content, Curriculum Development, Educational Environment
Far West Lab. for Educational Research and Development, San Francisco, CA. – 1976
This package of handbooks on the Far West Laboratory version of Experience-Based Career Education provides information on the distinctive features of the Far West model. Part 1 on management has four handbooks: program overview; administration (attendance, budget, insurance and liability, schedules, staff, troubleshooting and problem solving);…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Career Development, Career Education, Community Involvement