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Weber, Christine L., Ed.; Novak, Angela, Ed. – Prufrock Press Inc., 2020
Several states offer additional teacher preparation programs by providing either an endorsement or certification in the field, but these are often pursued by teachers specifically enrolled in gifted coursework rather than in general education programs. Practitioners and researchers agree that time and energy should be spent on training teachers in…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Faculty Development, Academically Gifted, Teaching Methods
Chun, Dorothy M., Ed. – National Foreign Language Resource Center at University of Hawaii, 2014
Although many online intercultural exchanges have been conducted based on the groundbreaking Cultura model, most to date have been between and among European languages. This volume presents several chapters with a focus on exchanges involving Asian and Pacific languages. Many of the benefits and challenges of these exchanges are similar to those…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Communicative Competence (Languages), Computer Mediated Communication, Language Classification
Norris, John M., Ed.; Davis, John McE., Ed.; Sinicrope, Castle, Ed.; Watanabe, Yukiko, Ed. – National Foreign Language Resource Center at University of Hawaii, 2009
This volume reports on innovative, useful evaluation work conducted within U.S. college foreign language programs. An introductory chapter scopes out the territory, reporting key findings from research into the concerns, impetuses, and uses for evaluation that FL educators identify. Seven chapters then highlight examples of evaluations conducted…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Evaluation Needs, Program Evaluation, Second Language Programs
Saville-Troike, Muriel – 1974
TESOL instruction has made some progress over traditional forms of education in meeting the needs of bilingual students. However, there is a danger that in the defense of orthodox concepts and methods, the actual needs of the students will not be met, and guidance from the new directions in linguistics, psychology, anthropology, and education will…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Interrelationships, Curriculum Development
Mitchell, Bruce M.; Salsbury, Robert E. – 2000
This book compiles information to investigate the presence and structure of multicultural education programs throughout the United States. The book begins by discussing the need for multicultural education programs, and the goal of which is to provide more accurate descriptions of America's microcultural populations and to guarantee a better…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Cross Cultural Training, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Interrelationships
Dembowski, Frederick L., Ed.; Lemasters, Linda K., Ed. – NCPEA Publications, 2006
This is the 2006 National Council of Professors of Educational Administration "NCPEA" Yearbook. This yearbook is being distributed to all of the registered participants of the 2006 NCPEA Summer Conference, to be held in Lexington, Kentucky. "Unbridled Spirit" is the motto for Kentucky, hence inclusion in the title for the…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Urban Schools, Graduate Students, Andragogy