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A Routine Perspective on Implementing Reflective Career Conversations in Education
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den Boer, Peter; Hoeve, Aimée – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2017
Reflective career conversations are a necessary instrument in the career guidance of students in vocational education. These conversations help students to learn from their (work) experiences and gain a better understanding of their motives on the labour market. Research shows that in a society in which change seems to become the only constant…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Career Guidance, Discourse Communities, Program Implementation
Bringing 21st Century Learning to the High School Classroom: Program Evaluation on Pedagogical Change
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Travis, Michael G. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Children today are born into a world with endless amounts of information at their fingertips, the ability to instantly connect with others, and smartphones with an app for virtually everything. It is a world that is vastly different than that of their parents or grandparents. As these students sit in classrooms all over the world, their teachers…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Educational Change, Instruction, High Schools
Science Teaching Reform through Professional Development: Teachers' Use of a Scientific Classroom Discourse Community Model
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Lewis, Elizabeth B.; Baker, Dale R.; Helding, Brandon A. – Science Education, 2015
This report outlines a 2-year investigation into how secondary science teachers used professional development (PD) to build scientific classroom discourse communities (SCDCs). Observation data, teacher, student, and school demographic information were used to build a hierarchical linear model. The length of time that teachers received PD was the…
Descriptors: Secondary School Science, Secondary School Teachers, Science Teachers, Professional Development
Student Information Systems: A Guide to Implementation Success
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Cramer, Sharon F. – American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO), 2005
What will expedite the implementation of a student information system? This document contains constructive examples and practical suggestions, giving readers a step-by-step approach to improving campus buy-in, communication, collaboration and funding; as well as leading project team members and campus administrators through the critically…
Descriptors: College Students, Educational Administration, Information Systems, Cooperative Planning
Cooperative Teaching: Rebuilding and Sharing the Schoolhouse. Second Edition.
Hourcade, Jack J.; Bauwens, Jeanne – 2002
This guide to cooperative teaching provides field-tested ideas and strategies using an organizational analogy of a home remodeling project. Chapters address the following topics: (1) recent changes in the nations schools and an overview of collaboration in the contemporary educational system; (2) different approaches to collaboration, including…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
The Principal and Educational Change.
Haynes, Kathy; Blomstedt, Robert – 1986
This paper reports on a: (1) review of recent literature on the principal's role in the implementation of educational reform, and (2) study of teacher perceptions of the role of the principal in the implementation of recent Texas reform legislation. Research on societal and organizational change shows that the inevitability of change should be a…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Change Agents, Change Strategies