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Elham Kazemi; Jessica Calabrese; Teresa Lind; Becca Lewis; Alison Fox Resnick; Lynsey K. Gibbons – Harvard Education Press, 2024
A blueprint for structuring the school environment around teacher learning and collaboration as a foundation for equitable learning and student engagement. In "Learning Together," Elham Kazemi, Jessica Calabrese, Teresa Lind, Becca Lewis, Alison Fox Resnick, and Lynsey K. Gibbons share findings from their decade of experience in…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Teacher Collaboration, Elementary School Teachers, Cooperative Learning
Manning-Ouellette, Amber; Beatty, Cameron C. – Journal of Faculty Development, 2019
The profile of students entering higher education is ever-changing, deeming it critical to understand the impact on institutions and teaching methods that foster student learning across perspectives. This article will highlight the need for advancing first-year student curriculum through teaching socially just seminars. Specifically, the article…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Social Justice, First Year Seminars, Course Content
UNESCO Bangkok, 2019
Under the new Sustainable Development Goal agenda, gender equality and education are important concerns. The achievement of gender equality requires girls, boys, women and men to access their right to good quality education and training throughout their lives. Education can empower people to participate actively in their societies, access better…
Descriptors: Sex Fairness, Equal Education, Sustainable Development, Access to Education
Maloney, Alan P., Ed.; Confrey, Jere, Ed.; Nguyen, Kenny H., Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2014
The driving forces behind mathematics learning trajectories is the need to understand how children actually learn and make sense of mathematics--how they progress from prior knowledge, through intermediate understandings, to the mathematics target understandings--and how to use these insights to improve instruction and student learning. In this…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Prior Learning, Mathematical Concepts, Concept Formation
Timperley, Helen – UNESCO International Bureau of Education, 2008
This booklet synthesises the research on teacher professional learning and development that has been demonstrated to have a positive impact on valued student outcomes. Its findings relate to teachers who have received at least some initial teacher education and who are in the process of deepening their knowledge and refining their skills. The…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Educational Practices, Professional Development, Professional Education

Biggs, John – Higher Education, 1996
An approach to college-level instructional design that incorporates the principles of constructivism, termed "constructive alignment," is described. The process is then illustrated with reference to a professional development unit in educational psychology for teachers, but the model is viewed as generalizable to most units or programs in higher…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Constructivism (Learning), Curriculum Development, Educational Philosophy
Santa Rita, Emilio – 1994
Designed for use as a development activity for counselors at Bronx Community College in New York, this program provides discussion materials, questionnaires, and worksheets from the college's Counseling Faculty Development Program. A brief introduction indicates that the program encompasses three components, empowering counselors in the teaching…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Counselor Training, Faculty Development, Faculty Evaluation
McAlonan, Susan; Hotchkiss, Heather; Urich, Laurie – 1999
This manual explains how to foster contextual learning and curriculum integration. There are 12 sections: "Contextual Learning"; "Connecting Academic Standards with Contextual Learning"; "Using Career Development to Add Context and Relevancy to the Classroom"; "Curriculum Integration"; "Guidelines for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Adult Learning, Career Development
Adams-Smith, Diana E. – 1984
Although a basic premise of higher education is that students must take the primary responsibility for their own learning, problems arise when the focus throughout elementary and secondary schooling is on passive, rote learning with the student totally dependent on the teacher and text, as in Islamic schools. The educational shock experienced in…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Articulation (Education), College School Cooperation, College Students
National Association of Independent Schools, Boston, MA. – 1983
This guide to 129 workshops selected by the academic services department of the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) is divided into three sections. In the first section, workshops are listed and information is provided on the name of the leader, design and content, length, group size, and phone numbers of reference persons. Brief…
Descriptors: Admission (School), Counseling, Drug Abuse, Educational Resources