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Johnson, Carl H.; Manley, Joan H. – French Review, 1993
Evolution of the intensive summer oral language proficiency institutes held at the University of Texas at El Paso, beginning in 1984, is discussed. Benefits for participants, including knowledge gained about language testing and improved personal language skills, are noted, and areas for further consideration or improvement in the program are…
Descriptors: Educational History, Inservice Teacher Education, Interviews, Language Proficiency
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Condon, Mark W. F.; And Others – Journal of Teacher Education, 1993
Describes the development of an alternative preservice teacher education program that helped students realize that children learn through constructing ideas about the world and themselves and demonstrated the belief that learning to teach is a process of constructing meaning. The program encouraged student teachers to explore their potential for…
Descriptors: Alternative Teacher Certification, Change Strategies, Constructivism (Learning), Educational Change
Golden, Robert; Kahn, Jay V. – Business Officer, 1998
Describes the Keene State College (New Hampshire) mode for delivery of information technology, which features collaboration of major college divisions, sustainability within realistic revenue/cost projections, and customer-based service delivery. Pre-implementation conditions, origins of the collaborative arrangement, how organization of campus…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Agency Cooperation, College Administration, Committees
Yazzie, Christy – Winds of Change, 1998
A School-to-Work conference showcased programs for American Indian students in grades K-16, out-of-school youth, parents, and communities, and partnerships that were developed with business and industry. Discusses culturally relevant curriculum, hands-on training, entrepreneurship as a viable career choice, partnerships with corporations,…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indians, Conferences, Culturally Relevant Education
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De Leon, Jozi; Argus-Calvo, Beverley; Medina, Catherine – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 1997
A rural New Mexico project identifies gifted Hispanic and Native American children in the visual arts. Committees of parents, teachers, artists, and administrators use identification procedures sensitive to cultural, linguistic, and ethnic differences and community ethnic identity. Program elements include culturally relevant differentiated…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indians, Cultural Differences, Culturally Relevant Education
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McGreal, Rory – Journal of Distance Education, 1997
The East-West project was designed to provide Canadian adult learners, particularly learning professionals, with the opportunity to complete a Web-based course. Four provinces participated in examining different approaches to implementing accredited programs for adults that would be accessible in the workplace, at home, in schools, and in…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Mediated Communication
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Nader, Philip R.; Rissel, Chris; Rowling, Louise; Marshall, Bernard J.; Sheehan, Margaret M.; Northfield, Jeff R.; Maher, Shelley; Carlisle, Rachel; St. Leger, Lawrence H.; Stewart, Donald E.; Parker, Elizabeth; Gillespie, Amaya; Stokes, Helen; Mukherjee, Dev; Nutbeam, Don; Mitchell, Anne; Ollis, Debbie; Watson, Jan – Journal of School Health, 2000
Eight papers on Australia's school health programs discuss: creating health promoting schools in the United States; intersectoral collaboration for developing a national framework for health promoting schools; school-based health promotion nationwide; auditing health promoting schools policy documentation; the nature of health service/school…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Child Health, Comprehensive School Health Education, Elementary Secondary Education
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Brewer, Gene A.; Facer, Rex L., II; O'Toole, Laurence J., Jr.; Douglas, James W. – Journal of Public Affairs Education, 1998
Reports results of a 1995 survey of 56 doctoral programs in public administration and public affairs, finding that public administration is a fragmented, interdisciplinary field, but many doctoral programs are training students for research careers. A lingering concern is whether these innovations are making a difference in the quantity and…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Doctoral Programs, Educational Trends, Graduate Study
Thomas, Adele – Education Canada, 1995
The Niagara Falls Secondary School Family Learning Program targets young disadvantaged parents and their preschool children for family literacy development that focuses on parent-child literacy and social interaction. Guidelines for program development include establishing partnerships based on a shared vision of family literacy, developing plans…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Disadvantaged, Family Programs
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Miller, Laurence – American Journal of Family Therapy, 1999
Describes approaches for working with children exposed to catastrophic community violence. Details one program, Posttraumatic Child Therapy, and its phases: pretherapy, stabilization of biopsychic response, returning to psychogeographic scene, and completion-moving toward growth and integration. Recommends that therapists must stretch counseling…
Descriptors: Childhood Needs, Children, Counseling, Counseling Effectiveness
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Taylor, Linda; Adelman, Howard S. – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 1998
A model for providing a continuum of comprehensive school-community services incorporates systems of prevention, early intervention, and care. Key components for addressing barriers to learning include classroom-focused enabling, student and family assistance, community outreach, home involvement, support for transitions, and crisis/emergency…
Descriptors: Community Centers, Community Resources, Cooperation, Disadvantaged
Huntting, Ann – Illinois Libraries, 1999
Describes the "Jump Start" program, developed with Library Services and Technology Act funds and designed to provide more pre-school services to children in a poor community in Chicago. Discusses the project plan; workshops for area child care providers and future workers in the field; collection development; outreach to educational institutions;…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Grants, Librarian Teacher Cooperation, Library Collection Development
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Schmidt, Nancy; Kaufman, Janet – Research Strategies, 2005
The University of Guelph Learning Commons brings student affairs professionals and librarians together to offer students a coherent and integrated approach to learning, writing, research, and technology support. It is distinguished by three characteristics: (1) a partnership model between academic and student affairs; (2) a solid foundation of…
Descriptors: Program Development, Student Personnel Services, Student Personnel Workers, Foreign Countries
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Driver, Simon; Kelly, Luke – Strategies: A Journal for Physical and Sport Educators, 2005
The number of people who experience a brain injury increases every year, and 40 percent of all cases involve children (Hill, 1999). In fact, this high rate has led brain injury to become the most commonly acquired disability among children (Bigge, Best, & Heller, 2001), leading to a variety of primary disabilities that affect cognition,…
Descriptors: Physical Education Teachers, Physical Education, Students, Aquatic Sports
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Brundrett, Mark – Education 3-13, 2004
There has been a growing resurgence of interest in creativity in primary schools which has acted as a counterpoint to some of the more reductivist elements of the introduction of the National Curriculum and associated methods of testing. This article reports on a study of one primary school that has had some significant success in enhancing the…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Creativity, Creative Activities, Organizational Theories
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