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Atkinson, Kristin – InSight: A Journal of Scholarly Teaching, 2013
Through my college experience and my reflection on The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Reconsidered, I have come to recognize several ideas that have greatly impacted me, my views on learning, and my actual learning. My overall experience in college has been beneficial because of the teachers who approached teaching with a more conscious…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Faculty, College Students, Teacher Role
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Arndt, Ann-Kathrin; Rothe, Antje; Urban, Michael; Werning, Rolf – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2013
When children move from preschool to primary school in Germany, this involves a transition between two distinct systems with regard to political responsibility. Following Rimm-Kaufman and Pianta's (2000) ecological and dynamic model of transition, the research project focuses on the perspectives of parents and professionals on the learning…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Elementary Schools, Learning Processes, Foreign Countries
Boller, Barbara – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2008
The transition to middle school is an educational milestone, marking significant and sometimes unspoken changes in expectations. The overriding expectation is that students will become more independent. This article discusses some tips that will help teachers in teaching organizational skills to middle school students. Middle school teachers…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Middle Schools, Skill Development, Educational Strategies
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Brostrom, Stig – Australian Journal of Early Childhood, 2005
Because too many children experience the transition to school as a culture shock, during the past decade teachers have implemented so-called transition activities in order to bridge the gap between preschool and school. However, transition to school also calls for a development of higher mental functions, among others the development of children's…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Play, Learning Processes, School Readiness
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Anning, Angela – Education 3-13, 2004
The focus of this article is the role of drawings in the journeys of young children towards literacy. The argument is that young children learn from home contexts a wide range of approaches towards literacy. At school their flexibility in using these approaches is reshaped into narrow versions of literacy based on learning to read, write and…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Freehand Drawing
National Centre for Vocational Education Research, Leabrook (Australia). – 2001
Australia's second National Research and Evaluation Strategy for Vocational Education and Training (VET), which covers the period 2001-2003, builds on the following major themes contained in the first national strategy, which covered 1997-2000: stakeholder orientation, national coordination, and the importance of effective dissemination. The…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Comparative Analysis, Cooperative Planning, Coordination