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Roberts, Helen; And Others – 1994
This book explores successful teaching and learning approaches in multicultural college or university classrooms. Chapter 1, "Once You Accept, Then You Can Teach" (Juan C. Gonzalez), challenges instructors to think about how the students' cultural backgrounds relate to their educational goals and achievement and describes what faculty…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, Course Content, Cultural Differences
Boyer, Ernest L.; And Others – 1992
This volume contains the text of six speeches selected from approximately 125 plenary talks that have been given over the past few years at more than 40 Freshman Year Experience Conferences by leading educators concerned about improving the first year undergraduate experience. In the first speech, "The Undergraduate Experience: Critical…
Descriptors: Adult Students, College Freshmen, College Instruction, Cultural Pluralism
Institute of International Education, New York, NY. – 1991
This collection of works from the Fulbright-Hays Summer Seminar presents curriculum projects and cross cultural studies developed by the participants. The 18 works deal with Indonesia and the problems facing developing nations. Subjects include tradition, popular culture, change, and economic development and its impact on women. Indonesia is…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Curriculum Development, Developing Nations, Elementary Secondary Education
Constantinides, Janet C., Ed. – 1986
This document presents 11 papers that consider the problems and opportunities relating to the design and implementation of training programs for foreign teaching assistants (FTAs): "Academic Sub-cultures within U.S. Higher Education: Implications for FTA Training of Differences in Teaching Styles and Methods" (Patricia Byrd); "Cross-cultural…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Training, Cultural Awareness, Foreign Students, Graduate Students
Jones, Carroll J. – 1998
This guide provides practical and specific step-by-step methods for developing and using curriculum-based assessment (CBA) in an educational setting. It is organized into six basic skills chapters. Chapter 1, "Assessment: An Overview" (Carroll J. Jones), includes the basic reasons for assessment and types of special education assessment, as well…
Descriptors: Curriculum Based Assessment, Curriculum Development, Disabilities, Elementary Education
Marincovich, Michele, Ed.; Prostko, Jack, Ed.; Stout, Frederic, Ed. – 1998
Sixteen papers address the training and professional development of graduate teaching assistants. The papers are: (1) "Preparing Graduate Students To Teach: Past, Present, and Future" (Nancy Van Note Chism); (2) "The Role of Centralized Programs in Preparing Graduate Students To Teach" (Jacqueline A. Mintz); (3) "The Disciplinary/Departmental…
Descriptors: Evaluation, Foreign Students, Graduate Students, Graduate Study
Brinton, Donna M., Ed.; Master, Peter, Ed. – 1997
A wide variety of techniques and classroom activities, contributed by teachers, for content-based instruction (CBI) in English as a second language (ESL) are presented. CBI is defined to include theme-based second language courses, sheltered content-area courses, and paired or adjunct arrangements in which language and content courses are taught…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Critical Thinking, Elementary Secondary Education
Seehafer, Roger, Ed.; Hyner, Gerald, Ed. – 1998
This issue is dedicated to exploring the nature of health promotion through the views and experiences of selected authors representing a variety of professional organizations, settings, programs, and activities within the profession. The articles are as follows: "Looking Back Over the Last Twenty Years" (Larry S. Chapman); "Views…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Child Health, Comprehensive School Health Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Charles Sturt Univ.-Riverina, Wagga Wagga (Australia). Div. of External Studies. – 1990
This publication is meant to share ideas about distance education and descriptions of work-in-progress in this area. In the first of three papers, "Computers, Related Devices and Distance Education: How Cinderella Becomes a Princess," George Hampton describes the need for technological literacy and suggests computer-assisted instruction…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Managed Instruction, Continuing Education, Distance Education
Goplerud, Eric N., Ed. – 1991
This monograph provides a framework for communities to build and evaluate adolescent drug abuse prevention programs. The first chapter "Adolescent Transitions and Alcohol and Other Drug Use Prevention," by Laurence Steinberg, focuses on the biological, cognitive, and psychosocial transitions of adolescence and how this knowledge can be used to…
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, At Risk Persons, Drinking, Drug Abuse
Hunt, E. Stephen, Ed. – 1992
This monograph presents six papers that analyze the current state of research and practice in continuing professional education. Papers address: (1) the problems confronting effective research and policymaking presented by the diverse and unorganized nature of the continuing professional education enterprise; (2) what is known concerning the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Accounting, Case Studies, Continuing Education
Milner, Joseph O., Ed.; Pope, Carol A., Ed. – 1994
This book presents essays that reflect the dialogue and the spirit of conversation of the 1990 International Federation for the Teaching of English (IFTE) Conference in Auckland, New Zealand. The book begins with some of the impressions of the IFTE conference held by the classroom teachers, school administrators, writers, and scholars who attended…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Cultural Differences, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education
Goodwin, Craufurd D., Ed. – 1993
This document contains 10 essays based on papers presented at a 1991 conference on the changed role of overseas education in development. The book discusses the impact of the end of the Cold War and a rapidly changing economic environment on the rationale for international student and faculty mobility. The practice in developing nations of…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Economic Development, Educational Economics, Educational Research
Kirmayer, Paul, Ed.; And Others – 1994
This volume contains 13 articles that reflect the development of adult education in Israel during recent years. The material relates to the principal areas with which the Division of Adult Education deals: formal and nonformal education for adults, language and cultural absorption of new immigrants, and training of facilitators for parental…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Adult Education, Counselor Training, Educational Development
Kohler, Paula D.; Rusch, Frank R. – 1994
Four articles comprise this monograph on interventions which lead to employment of youths with disabilities. Articles are based on investigations and demonstrations sponsored by the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS). In "Promoting Employment for Youths in Transition: Outcomes, Activities, and Indicators,"…
Descriptors: Activities, Disabilities, Education Work Relationship, Employment Potential
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