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Williams, Sheri – Administrative Issues Journal: Connecting Education, Practice, and Research, 2018
Objective: This study investigated the practices and impact of interdisciplinary faculty at a flagship university in the American Southwest who were engaged in the process of redesigning curriculum in order to center candidates on what they need to know and do as culturally competent school leaders. Method: Participants were 31 interdisciplinary…
Descriptors: Capacity Building, Leadership Training, Culturally Relevant Education, Outcomes of Education
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Green, Jennifer L.; Blankenship, Erin E. – Journal of Statistics Education, 2013
We developed an introductory statistics course for pre-service elementary teachers. In this paper, we describe the goals and structure of the course, as well as the assessments we implemented. Additionally, we use example course work to demonstrate pre-service teachers' progress both in learning statistics and as novice teachers. Overall, the…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Statistics, Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers
Branderhorst, Mark; Huizenga, Terry; Kruzich, Kristin – 1997
A program was developed to improve students' transfer of concepts and skills among content areas and to the world outside of the classroom. The targeted population was sixth and eighth graders at a private middle school of 250 students in a stable middle-class community in a suburb of Chicago (Illinois). Study of the school site and a literature…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Curriculum Development, Grade 6, Grade 8
Boersma, Gloria; And Others – 1995
This report describes a series of curricular modifications made in an effort to increase students' ability to self-assess and set goals. The targeted population consisted of grade school students in kindergarten and grades one and five in one parochial and one public school in northern Illinois with populations of 288 and 367 students,…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives, Elementary Education