The Native American Needs Assessment Action Plan is designed to assist educators and administrators in addressing the needs and areas of possible opportunity that have been identified through the annual Native American Needs Assessment conducted by the North Dakota Department of Public Instruction. The Action Plan is organized around areas of need…

Curriculum is the heart of the mission of every college. College curriculum approval processes have been established to ensure that rigorous, high quality curriculum is offered that meets the needs of students. While some concerns may exist regarding the effectiveness and efficiency of local curriculum processes, all participants in the process…

The "Kentucky Model Curriculum Framework" serves as a facilitation guide to help an instructional supervisor, principal, and/or teacher leader provide a rationale for the need to revisit curriculum planning, offering some background information and exercises to generate "future-oriented" thinking, and suggesting a process for…

The 2018 Association for Career & Technical Education (ACTE) quality framework is the latest step in ACTE's ongoing High-quality Career and Technical Education (CTE) Initiative--an initiative designed to answer the question "What is high-quality CTE?" The framework is designed to apply to individual, local CTE programs of study…

This guidebook provides an introduction to Instructional Improvement Systems (IIS) for State education agency (SEA) managers and program leads. Functional components of a theoretical IIS model are discussed and used as a reference point for the introduction a seven-step planning and implementation cycle designed to guide SEAs in the development of…

One of a series of Education Resource Strategies (ERS) publications and tools, this paper explores important ways to organize and invest in Professional Growth & Support that strengthen teaching capacity and effectiveness at the system level. It draws on research, ERS experience with urban school systems nationwide, and detailed analyses of…

Based on a major research project (the InterActive Project), this book explores and illustrates how digital technologies can transform learning across the curriculum. Using a wide range of educational settings--primary, secondary, school and home--it will help practitioners think about, plan and execute effective learning in their classrooms and…

This book is designed to help educators move from a system that measures students against students to one that values mastery of central concepts and skills, striving for proficiency in publicly acknowledged standards of academic performance. It aims to connect the operative parts of standards-based education (standards, assessment, curriculum,…

Before committing itself to new career programs, a higher education institution should answer some basic questions about their implications for faculty development. Early programs to help faculty adjust to the new career curricula will lead to their more successful integration on campus. (Author/MSE)

Presents suggestions a compilation of the responses to the National Communication Association's Task Force on Advancing the Discipline that came from individual sub-committee members in regard to small undergraduate college programs. Considers staffing and curriculum issues, problems of theory and performance, collegiality and participation in…

Offers suggestions on how the scholarship of teaching could be built into graduate and faculty development programs, and introduces a model that could serve as a framework for courses on learning to teach in higher education. (EV)

This instructor's manual is a practical guide to a faculty development training program on substance abuse within family medicine emphasizing a meshing of individual curriculum projects by participants with group instruction and support. Organized into two parts the manual describes the training program in detail in Part 1 and provides 10 actual…

This manual was developed for use by personnel responsible for staff development in adapting curricula and improving instruction. It enables the trainer to help content area teachers accommodate a variety of students with different learning styles and capabilities. The model presented provides a process for assessing needs of students, adapting…

Suggests that higher education institutions should provide faculty development opportunities for service-learning that develop a common understanding on campus concerning the nature of service-learning, establish and maintain academic integrity of service-learning; increase faculty confidence in implementing a new pedagogy, and increase the…

Argues that instructional problems in South African higher education are related to professional development issues for faculty and to intellectual development issues for students. Views these issues as linked to curriculum development and sees a role for developmental studies programs, previously student-focused, in faculty development and…