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Conover, Georgia Davis; Miller, Jacob C. – Journal of Geography, 2014
Designed as a hybrid undergraduate class that includes online exercises and in-class discussion, Places in the Media helps students better understand the spatial politics of media that help structure our everyday lives. The article is meant as a do-it-yourself guide for instructors interested in building a course like Places in the Media. As such,…
Descriptors: Human Geography, Geography Instruction, College Faculty, Undergraduate Study
Shipman, Neil; Queen, J. Allen; Peel, Henry A. – Eye on Education, 2007
This book provides knowledge and tools to help principals-in-training and practitioners apply the School Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLC) and Leadership Constituent Council (ELCC) standards in their schools. Each chapter contains a research-based discussion and practical applications of the standard, along with suggested activities,…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Principals, Transformational Leadership, Case Studies
Van Every, David A. – 1995
A study examined the belief that to improve education, more must be learned not only about the abilities students bring into the classroom, but also about what the students do outside the classroom. Six freshmen were instructed to keep diaries detailing their views of college life. Each subject was given a blank diary entry on a diskette and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Freshmen, Diaries, Educational Improvement
Sheridan, Jean, Ed. – 1995
Writing-Across-the-Curriculum (WAC), a pedagogic reform that has been gathering strength since the 1970s, is an effort to shift the full burden of writing instruction away from composition classes and return the charge to the disciplines or content areas. This professional reference book is intended to educate librarians about WAC. Nine chapters…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Assignments, Case Studies, Educational Change
2000
This lesson offers students experience in making historical meaning from eyewitness accounts that present a range of different perspectives. Students begin with a case study in working with alternative reports of a single event: the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. First, they compare two newspaper reports on the fire, then two memoirs of the fire…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Civil War (United States), Historiography, History Instruction
Mlynarczyk, Rebecca Williams – 1998
The book describes one teacher's study of student journal writing in college-level English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) instruction and explores the potential of student journals in second language teaching. It first introduces the research questions and methods guiding the study, then reviews the literature that informed the investigation of mental…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques, Cultural Context