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Wang, Victor C. X. – International Journal of Adult Vocational Education and Technology, 2010
Developing curriculum(s) requires instructors to take into several factors. These factors can be viewed as critical components of curriculum development for career and technical education (CTE) instructors. Without adequately addressing critical components such as curriculum history, curriculum theory, curriculum philosophies, curriculum…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Career Education, Technical Education, Teacher Competencies
Prettyman, Allen – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The formative evaluation study describes the parallel development and implementation of two learning formats for a professional development curriculum focused on supporting partnerships with families. Face-to-face and e-learning delivery formats were developed based upon a theoretically informed framework and used state professional development…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Implementation, Early Childhood Education
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Zhou, Ji – Journal of Faculty Development, 2009
The increasing number of international teaching assistants (ITAs) in American undergraduate courses presents continued sociocultural, linguistic, and pedagogical challenges. Remaining underdeveloped, ITA training has attracted less attention in recent years. I urge a renewed enthusiasm for developing effective training curriculum. I review the…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Faculty Development, Postmodernism, Teaching Assistants
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Kong, Siu Cheung – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2007
An information literacy (IL) framework has been proposed for Hong Kong students to adapt to the emergence of the knowledge-based society, digital culture and globalisation. The aims of the study reported herein were to validate the proposed IL model and collect the views of practitioners and representative stakeholders on the possibility of its…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Foreign Countries, Information Literacy, Professional Development
Hertberg-Davis, Holly; Callahan, Carolyn M.; Kyburg, Robin M. – National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented, 2006
Although limited research exists on the appropriateness of Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) Programs for gifted secondary learners, these courses serve as the primary methods of meeting the needs of gifted students in most high schools. This qualitative study employed a grounded theory approach to investigate how…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Honors Curriculum, High Schools, Advanced Placement
Merrill, Chris; Custer, Rodney L.; Daugherty, Jenny; Westrick, Martin; Zeng, Yong – National Center for Engineering and Technology Education, 2007
Within primary and secondary school technology education, engineering has been proposed as an avenue to bring about technological literacy. Different initiatives such as curriculum development projects (i.e., Project ProBase and Project Lead The Way) and National Science Foundation funded projects such as the National Center for Engineering and…
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, Statistical Analysis, Secondary School Teachers, Engineering