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Direct linkField, Sharon L.; Hoffman, Abigail S. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2012
Self-determination is essential to promoting successful transitions for students with and without disabilities. Numerous studies have found that positive relationships are central to the ability to be self-determined, thus making relationship building a key area to address to promote successful transitions. This article provides information on…
Descriptors: Self Determination, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Transitional Programs
Download full textSaxon, D. Patrick – Journal of Developmental Education, 2013
Christine McPhail formerly served as president at Cypress College in California and is founder and professor emeritus of the Community College Leadership Doctoral Program at Morgan State University in Maryland. She is the Managing Partner for The McPhail Group LLC and currently serves as a Leadership Coach for more than a dozen community colleges…
Descriptors: Student Responsibility, Interviews, Independent Study, Developmental Studies Programs
Institute for Higher Education Policy, 2012
This report, which was commissioned as part of the Institute for Higher Education Policy's Walmart Minority Student Success Initiative, seeks to highlight how specific institutional policies and faculty-driven, classroom-based practices at Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs) can change in an effort to better support the academic and social…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Educational Practices, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques
Peer reviewedJoachim, Sallie – Research and Teaching in Developmental Education, 2002
Discusses seating arrangements in small developmental classes, suggesting that having students sit in a semi-circle or work in small groups can be effective ways to keep students from attempting to disappear in the back of the class. Also offers ways to deal with this issue in a computer classroom. (NB)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Community Colleges, Compensatory Education
Pomper, Marlene M.; Brown, Sandra – 1989
Written by instructors who not only accept but also elect the challenge of teaching basic skills classes in reading and writing to freshmen at the community college and technical college level, this paper examines, first, the basis for the pedagogy employed: the theoretical concepts and the actual students on which the teaching of developmental…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Basic Writing, Classroom Environment, Compensatory Education
Boylan, Hunter R.; Bonham, Barbara S.; Tafari, Gamba Nwachi – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2005
Developmental education programs can use innovative ways to improve minority learning and persistence.
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Developmental Programs, Minority Groups, Academic Persistence
