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Sarah A. Schultz; Korine Steinke-Wawrzynski – Assessment Update, 2024
Can leveraging an innovative approach to gathering information on co-curricular learning and learning outcomes assessment practices lead to impactful change? This question guided the implementation and operationalization of the Spartan Experience Record (SER) at Michigan State University (MSU). The SER both provides undergraduate students with a…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Data Analysis, Student Records, Undergraduate Students
Buchbinder, Dina – Childhood Education, 2022
As we work to educate our children in effective ways, supporting their efforts to make a positive difference reaps benefits for both students and society.
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Sustainable Development, Play, Trauma
Abadzi, Helen – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2016
Reading programs for low-income populations often give disappointing results. Failures may be partly due to a neglect of practice in decoding letters. Visual stimuli are best learned symbol by symbol, with pattern analogies and much practice to unite smaller components and speed up identification. The prerequisite for comprehending volumes of text…
Descriptors: Poverty, Feedback (Response), Teaching Methods, Reading Programs
Walker, Mike – Independent School, 2011
While recognizing the value of "vision," it could be argued that vision alone--at least in schools--is not enough to rally the financial and emotional support required to translate an idea into reality. A compelling vision needs to reflect substantive, research-based knowledge if it is to spark the kind of strategic thinking and insight…
Descriptors: Objectives, Goal Orientation, Institutional Mission, Strategic Planning
Westmoreland, Helen; Lopez, M. Elena; Rosenberg, Heidi – Harvard Family Research Project, 2009
For family engagement to improve student learning, a wide range of stakeholders--from parents to principals to teachers--must share responsibility in developing, implementing, and assessing their school district's family engagement strategy. In order to help each of these stakeholder groups define their roles, superintendents and central…
Descriptors: Models, Logical Thinking, Family Involvement, Family School Relationship
Strategies: A Journal for Physical and Sport Educators, 2005
This article discusses how physical education teachers can help educate parents about their physical education program. In this article, NASPE would like to encourage physical education teachers to send a letter to parents of their students, publish it in the school newsletter or on the school web site, or send it to their local community…
Descriptors: Parent Teacher Cooperation, Objectives, Physical Education, Letters (Correspondence)
Jackson, Shirley; Drennan, Ann – 1980
In 1979, the Education Department's steering committee for basic skills coordination worked toward institutionalizing the coordination of basic skills programs at the federal level. This report discusses the committee's objectives and activities during that year in the areas of communication, regulations, organization, monitoring, technical…
Descriptors: Activities, Basic Skills, Coordination, Elementary Secondary Education
World Confederation of Organizations of the Teaching Profession, Morges (Switzerland). – 1978
Included in this annual report are: (1) a review of WCOTP activities presented on behalf of the executive committee; (2) resolutions passed by the XXVII Assembly of Delegates; (3) the program and budget for 1979-80; (4) WCOTP constitution and bylaws; (5) the financial statement for calendar year 1977; and (6) the WCOTP membership list. (DS)
Descriptors: Activities, Annual Reports, Budgeting, International Organizations
Amesberger, Guenter – 1998
This paper summarizes European views on adventure therapy and therapeutic outdoor activities. Opening sections list the elements of outdoor adventure education and current trends affecting its development and direction, describe the mission and activities of the European Institute for Outdoor Adventure Education and Experiential Learning, and note…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Foreign Countries, Individual Development, Objectives

Blackett, Piers R. – Physician and Sportsmedicine, 1988
Exercise may be a useful element in teaching diabetic children to control the disease. Controlling glucose levels during exercise requires close regulation of diet and insulin. Practical and medical aspects of exercise for diabetics are discussed, as well as its physical benefits, such as a strengthened heart. (JL)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Diabetes, Dietetics
National Advisory Council on Adult Education, Washington, DC. – 1978
This report is an account of the 1977-1978 activities and actions taken by the National Advisory Council on Adult Education in efforts to contribute to adult education legislation. The publication contains eight sections: (1) a review of the dates, sites, and content of council meetings, (2) an outline of the priority agenda items of council…
Descriptors: Activities, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Advisory Committees
Cook, David R. – 1975
There are limitations inherent in a competency-based approach to counselor education, beginning with the assumption that it is impossible to specify all the competencies that a counselor needs or should have for any given setting. It follows from these assumptions that the designing of instruction cannot deal operationally with more than a limited…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Counselor Training, Higher Education, Instructional Design
Miettinen, Reijo – Mind, Culture, and Activity, 2005
A. N. Leontiev (1978) introduced the philosophical concept of practice, or "objective activity" into psychology to reconsider its foundations, and in this context he elaborated the concept of the object of activity. This article deals with the co-formation of an object of a collective activity and of the goals, motives and capabilities…
Descriptors: Motivation, Group Activities, Objectives, Individual Needs

Duchastel, Philippe – British Journal of Educational Technology, 1983
The study guide is conceptualized in an ideal form. This includes an examination of instructional context and learning functions. The practical components employed in the design of a study guide and practical decisions that have to be made in its design are also sketched. Thirteen references are listed. (Author/MBR)
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Learning Activities, Material Development, Models

Weber, Alan – Educational Leadership, 1990
Whereas the writing process is recursive, Instructional Theory into Practice (ITIP) is a linear, sequential series of instructional decisions. By understanding the relationship between these two models, staff development and curriculum specialists can assist teachers by coordinating support group sessions and followup training using a common…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Integrated Activities, Learning Strategies