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Sigafoos, Jeff; Arthur-Kelly, Michael; Butterfield, Nancy – Brookes Publishing Company, 2006
Practical and concise, this introductory guide is filled with real-world tips and strategies for anyone working to improve the communication of children with moderate, severe, and multiple disabilities. Emphasizing the link between behavior and communication, three respected researchers transform up-to-date research and proven best practices into…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Multiple Disabilities, Case Studies, Interpersonal Communication
Ross, E. Wayne, Ed.; Pang, Valerie Ooka, Ed. – Praeger, 2006
This book moves beyond traditional thinking and approaches to multicultural education to more accurately reflect the dramatically changing circumstances faced by North American schools in an age of globalization. The volumes address ways in which race and ethnicity affect learning across the life span, at all levels of formal education as well as…
Descriptors: Race, Teaching Methods, Ethnicity, Multicultural Education
Pressley, Michael, Ed.; Woloshyn, Vera, Ed. – 1995
This volume is the flagship volume in a series on cognitive strategy instruction. While strategies instruction is particularly appropriate for the learning disabled, it is also very useful for normal learners, especially inner city and minority children. The series focuses on conveying strategies instruction methods for use with these children.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Instruction
Brown, Sally, Ed.; Armstrong, Steve, Ed.; Thompson, Gail, Ed. – 1998
Twenty papers on motivating college students are grouped into four sections: (1) the impact of teaching on student motivation; (2) motivating diverse students; (3) the impact of university practices on motivation; and (4) the impact of assessment on motivation. After an introductory selection by Sally Brown, Steve Armstrong, and Gail Thompson, the…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Students, Diversity (Student), Foreign Countries
Rohlen, Thomas P., Ed.; LeTendre, Gerald K., Ed. – 1998
The essays gathered in this volume are united by the common goal of understanding teaching and learning in Japan as it actually occurs. The essays seek to answer questions about the actual conduct of learning in different settings and at different points in the life cycle. This volume explores the expectations and associations found in specific…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Cultural Context, Educational Objectives, Educational Practices
Stenstrom, Marja-Leena, Ed. – 1999
This four-part publication contains 19 papers on educational practices and promises for post-16 education in European countries. Part I, the introduction, contains these three papers: "Sharpening Post-16 Education Strategies: Building on the Results of the Previous Projects" (Johanna Lasonen); "'Parity of Esteem' and 'Integrated…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Developed Nations, Education Work Relationship, Educational Improvement
Pratt, Daniel D. – 1998
This book, which is about five alternative points of view or perspectives on teaching adults, is the result of several years of teaching and research in Canada, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, and the United States. The perspectives were obtained through a study of 253 teachers of adults. The book is organized in three sections. Section 1 contains…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Students, Andragogy
Newburger, Craig, Ed. – 1995
This volume of an annual collection of essays presents seven essays relating to instruction in the basic communication course. The essays are: "Gerald M. Phillips' Devotion to Basic Communication Skills" (Julia T. Wood); "The Basic Course in Organizational Communication: A National Survey" (Donald Treadwell and Ronald L. Applbaum); "Improving Oral…
Descriptors: Communication Apprehension, Communication Research, Communication Skills, Higher Education
Hugenberg, Lawrence W., Ed. – 1997
This volume of an annual collection presents nine essays relating to instruction in the basic communication course. The essays are: "Three Metaphors for the Competencies Acquired in the Public Speaking Class" (Michael Osborn); "Perceptions of Basic Communication Texts: Factors in Student Learning and Textbook Adoption…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Communication Research, Computer Assisted Instruction, Foreign Students
Short, Deborah J., Ed. – 1999
The book offers an international collection of best practices that address the particular interests and demands of English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) and English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) teaching at the secondary school level. It includes instructional activities that are created by ESL and EFL teachers and are classroom-tested and…
Descriptors: Career Education, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Cooperative Learning
Nasir, Na'ilah Suad, Ed.; Cobb, Paul, Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2006
Key experts with extensive research and classroom experience examine how the multiple dimensions of race, class, culture, power, and knowledge interact in mathematics classrooms to foster and create inequities. Chapters explore new theoretical perspectives, describe successful classroom practices, and offer insights on how to develop an effective…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Access to Education, Student Diversity, Equal Education
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Rasanen, Anne, Ed.; Marsh, David, Ed. – 1994
This volume of articles is a report from the national teacher in-service development program in teaching content through a foreign language at the Continuing Education Centre of the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland. This publication is mainly in English, because of the basic rationale of the Teaching Content through English (TCE) programme, and…
Descriptors: Action Research, Bilingual Education, Course Content, Curriculum Development
Ontario Dept. of Education, Toronto. – 1991
This book contains 29 stories recorded during an oral history project conducted in the spring of 1991. The stories were told to adult literacy students from 28 literacy projects in Ontario (Canada). They record the authentic voices of the following groups: native people in Thunder Bay and Golden Lake, women in Kingston and Killaloe, deaf people in…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, American Indian History
Darder, Antonia, Ed. – 1995
The teaching and politics of cultural difference and identity are explored in these essays, which examine the possibilities of living with cultural differences through new ethical and pedagogical frameworks. The following chapters are included: (1) "Introduction. The Politics of Biculturalism: Culture and Difference in the Formation of…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Biculturalism, Blacks, Cultural Awareness
Knapp, Michael S.; And Others – 1995
This book focuses on a range of instructional practices that promote children's understanding and build meaning into their academic learning experience. Actual practices uncovered in a 2-year investigation of 140 classrooms in a variety of high-poverty school settings are described and analyzed in a comprehensive demonstration of what…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comprehension, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Environment
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