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Erin Marie Van Guilder – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The abrupt closure of schools globally in mid-2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted education for 1.5 billion learners, compelling an emergency shift to online teaching (UNESCO, n.d.). While personalized learning initiatives had been gaining traction, the pandemic challenged their continuity, transforming them into crisis management…
Descriptors: High School Teachers, COVID-19, Pandemics, Individualized Instruction
Cook-Sather, Alison; Addy, Tracie Marcella; DeVault, Anna; Litvitskiy, Nicole – To Improve the Academy, 2021
Most educational development for inclusive excellence does not draw directly on the experiences and perspectives of students. This article presents two different approaches to positioning undergraduate students as critical partners in developing inclusive pedagogical practices. Co-authored by the directors of and student partners who participated…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Student Participation, Teaching Methods, Partnerships in Education
Julia E. Snider; Stacy K. Dymond – Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities, 2023
Students with intellectual disability (ID) tend to have different experiences than their peers without ID as it pertains to the curriculum they receive, the locations where they are taught, and the amount of time they are provided instruction. The purpose of this exploratory study was to examine the curricular areas and contexts in which high…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Students with Disabilities, Intellectual Disability, Special Education
Tang, Xiaofeng; Catchmark, Jeffrey M.; Mendieta, Eduardo; Litzinger, Thomas A. – Advances in Engineering Education, 2020
To meet complex ethical challenges in the engineering profession, students need ethics learning experiences that are integrated systematically across the engineering curriculum. Sustaining systematic changes in the engineering curriculum also calls for processes that respect and engage the engineering faculty. This paper reports the work to date…
Descriptors: Ethics, Biology, Engineering Education, Learning Experience
Oest, Jess; McGinty, Jacqueline – American Association for Adult and Continuing Education, 2021
Social isolation and loneliness are important issues for older adults. This paper discusses a program called NeverTechLate (NTL) that was created to combat these issues by providing digital literacy education and by promoting the use of tablets and video conferencing technology to empower older adults. This program involved using the feedback from…
Descriptors: Social Isolation, Technological Literacy, Older Adults, Videoconferencing
Waugh, Alexandra – Jobs For the Future, 2013
Millions of adult Americans lack the basic literacy skills necessary to perform everyday tasks requiring basic reading and math. This stifles our economy, given that employers are increasingly likely to require education or training beyond high school. Organizations that provide job training to lower-skilled adults through Jobs for the Future's…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Teaching Methods, Literacy, Numeracy
Surra, Alex; Litowitz, Len S. – Technology and Engineering Teacher, 2015
The authors describe a vocational training course that was developed to give more than just an overview of how aircraft work, or a course on how to fly. This training course was a half-year course in aviation technology. Powered flight is an area of interest for many students, and the intent of creating a curriculum rich with science, technology,…
Descriptors: High Schools, Aviation Education, STEM Education, Vocational Education
Russell, Ingrid; Markov, Zdravko; Neller, Todd; Coleman, Susan – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2010
Our approach to teaching introductory artificial intelligence (AI) unifies its diverse core topics through a theme of machine learning, and emphasizes how AI relates more broadly with computer science. Our work, funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation, involves the development, implementation, and testing of a suite of projects that…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Program Effectiveness, Computer Science, Teaching Methods
Lansiquot, Reneta D. – IGI Global, 2013
Involving two or more academic subjects, interdisciplinary studies aim to blend together broad perspectives, knowledge, skills, and epistemology in an educational setting. By focusing on topics or questions too broad for a single discipline to cover, these studies strive to draw connections between seemingly different fields. Cases on…
Descriptors: Enrichment, Organizational Change, Teaching Methods, Interdisciplinary Approach
Harrisburg Area Community Coll., PA. – 1970
Examples of new methods of instruction are given in this monograph, which is the third in a series of five monographs prepared by Harrisburg Area Community College to illustrate how the college is attempting to "meet the changing needs of students." Brief descriptions of several programs and the innovative methods of instruction used in…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Institutional Research, Instructional Innovation, Student Needs
Hendry, Heather Jean – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of this study is to contribute to the existing literature on the foreign language learning of students with LLDs by conducting a comprehensive investigation of the performance of three students in middle school foreign language classes in a suburban school district in southwestern Pennsylvania. More specifically, this study documents…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Program Effectiveness, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning
Research and Information Services for Education, Conshohocken, PA. – 1971
The report provides information concerning the variety and content of secondary social studies electives in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. The main goal of the report is to encourage the exchange of ideas and curriculum information among educators. Questionnaires, inquiring about the social studies curriculum for grades 7-12, were mailed to the…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Bibliographies, Curriculum Development, Elective Courses

Logan, Eleanor M.; And Others – 1965
This intergroup institute was comprised of thirty secondary school teachers of the City of Chester, Pennsylvania who were chosen because of the need for teachers to be trained in the attitudes and skills most useful for desegregation, so that they may be change agents among the faculty; others needed assistance because of special problems in their…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Inservice Teacher Education, Institutes (Training Programs), Intergroup Relations
GLASER, ROBERT – 1965
THIS LECTURE, PRESENTED NOVEMBER 16, 1965, AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, WAS THE SEVENTH IN A SERIES ENTITLED "EDUCATION IN AMERICA--THE CONTINUING CHALLENGES." THREE AREAS WERE DISCUSSED WHICH RELATE TO THE FORCES EXPECTED TO INFLUENCE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS--(1) THE INDIVIDUALIZATION OF INSTRUCTION, (2) COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION,…
Descriptors: Behavioral Sciences, Computer Oriented Programs, Curriculum Development, Educational Trends
Hamilton, Laura S.; Stecher, Brian M.; Marsh, Julie A.; McCombs, Jennifer Sloan; Robyn, Abby; Russell, Jennifer; Naftel, Scott; Barney, Heather – RAND Corporation, 2007
In 2002, the RAND Corporation launched a project to understand how educators are responding to the new accountability requirements in California, Georgia, and Pennsylvania--three states that represent a range of approaches, regions, and student populations. The researchers aimed to identify the factors that enhance the implementation of SBA…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Teaching Methods, Researchers, Educational Change