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Ajlen, Ronit; Plummer, Benjamin; Straub, Evan; Zhu, Erping – Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, 2020
Gameful pedagogy is "an approach that takes inspiration from well-designed games to create learning environments that support student motivation" (Holman, 2018, p. 1). According to Self-Determination Theory (Ryan & Deci, 2000), students are intrinsically motivated when their basic psychological needs for autonomy (the need to make…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Game Based Learning, Educational Games, Student Motivation
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Gurian, Michael; Stevens, Kathy; Daniels, Peggy – Educational Horizons, 2009
Over the past decade, the Gurian Institute has trained more than forty thousand teachers in more than two thousand schools and districts, both coed and single-sex. The institute's trainers have worked with public and private schools, Montessori schools, and a variety of charter and independent schools in fifteen countries; it has therefore been…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Program Effectiveness, Educational History, Federal Legislation
Ries, Peter – Momentum, 1999
Recounts the historical development of catechesis formation and training of catechists in Lansing, Michigan. Narrates the development in 1991 by the Diocesan Office of Catechesis of a committee of principals, directors of religious education, coordinators of youth ministry, and staff people to address catechesis formation concerns and to revise…
Descriptors: Administrators, Catholic Educators, Church Role, Clergy
Michigan Coalition for Children and Families, East Lansing. – 1990
Addressed to advocates and decision makers, this agenda identifies state services in Michigan that will be most vital to the state's children and families in fiscal year 1991. Initial contents provide general policy recommendations of the Michigan Coalition for Children and Families. Policy recommendations for the programs of the departments of…
Descriptors: Administration, Advocacy, Children, Education
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Michigan State Board of Education, Lansing. – 1984
In response to the problem of adult literacy, the Michigan State Board of Education initiated a program to reduce the functional illiteracy rate among adults in the state significantly. This is to be accomplished by: (1) raising the level of awareness of the scope of illiteracy problems in the state; (2) developing comprehensive literacy programs…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Educational Improvement, Educational Needs
Department of Education, Washington, DC. – 1978
This group of reports constitutes the first series of observations designed to document the experiences of six state agencies (Delaware, Oregon, Michigan, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Mississippi) which are developing model program evaluation/management support units that will affect the development and implementation of policy in federal/state…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Needs, Models
Michigan Governor's Office, Lansing. – 1988
Although Michigan has one of the best trained work forces in the nation, the skill gap between what the marketplace needs and what its workers can offer is continuing to widen. Michigan must develop an adult training and education system that is customer driven and customer sensitive, emphasizes shared responsibility of stakeholders, empowers…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Educational Needs, Educational Policy
Lynch, Edward J. – 1982
The largest public community college in Michigan, Macomb Community College (MCC), is located in the county that is most closely tied to Michigan's automobile industry. Because of recent high unemployment in the automobile industry, MCC must now expand its occupational offerings to meet the needs of displaced workers who must either gain new skills…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Educational Planning, Employment Patterns, Federal Aid
Center for Mental Health in Schools at UCLA, 2006
It is time for reform advocates to expand their emphasis on improving instruction and school management to include a comprehensive component for addressing barriers to learning. In doing so, they must pursue this third component with the same level of priority they devote to the other two. That is, such an enabling (or learner support) component…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Educational Change, Community Change, School Community Relationship
Lynch, Edward J. – 1982
Macomb Community College (MCC) prides itself on its responsiveness to the needs of area industry for skilled tradespeople to engage in the design, tooling, and machining activities that are crucial to the area's long-standing automobile and manufacturing operations and to the needs of new area high technology and service-oriented industries. The…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computers, Educational Cooperation, Educational Needs
New York State Education Dept., Albany. – 1984
A National conference was held to examine State policies and practices for helping disabled youth make the school-to-work transition more successfully. The focus of the first day of the conference was on transitional programs currently in existence in Maryland, Michigan, and New York. The first part of the second day's activities involved the…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Career Awareness, Coordination, Delivery Systems