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Karen Leung; Laurence Clement; James Lewis; Naledi Saul – Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education, 2024
Articulating clear and achievable expectations is fundamental to both education and organizational management. In this article, we provide a simple intervention for clarifying expectations--and establishing that these expectations have been understood--which proved beneficial both to community college interns and to their internship mentors in…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Student Projects, Expectation, Community College Students
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Elder, Linda – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2005
Critical thinking is foundational to the effective teaching of any subject, and it must be at the heart of any professional development program. This chapter presents a long-term professional development model based on a substantive concept of critical thinking, and ties critical thinking to the concept of the Learning College.
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Professional Development, Critical Thinking, Skill Development
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Gordon, Florence S.; Gordon, Sheldon P. – AMATYC Review, 2006
All advocates of curriculum reform talk about an increased emphasis on conceptual understanding in mathematics. In this article, the authors use many examples to address the following issues: What does conceptual understanding mean, especially in introductory courses such as college algebra, precalculus, or calculus? How do we recognize its…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Introductory Courses, Educational Change, Calculus
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Simonson, Michael, Ed. – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2010
For the thirty-third year, the Research and Theory Division of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) is sponsoring the publication of these Proceedings. This is Volume #2 of the 33rd "Annual Proceedings of Selected Papers on the Practice of Educational Communications and Technology." This volume includes…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Management Systems, Technology Uses in Education, Web Sites