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Anna Haas; Michaela Martin; Beatriz Pont – UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning, 2024
The mandate of the UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP-UNESCO) is to strengthen the educational planning and management capacity of UNESCO Member States. It does so through training, technical cooperation and research, and working with education planners worldwide. As education systems are faced with complexity,…
Descriptors: Educational Planning, Educational Administration, Capacity Building, Global Approach
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Shearer, Amy L.; Acosta, Joie; Ebener, Patricia; Simonson, Jordan; Chinman, Matthew – Health Education & Behavior, 2023
Closing the gap between research and practice requires that organizations can consistently incorporate new ideas and best practices. The Department of the Air Force (DAF) Integrated Resilience Directorate is leading a coordinated effort to increase the adoption of evidence-based violence prevention and resilience promotion programs across the…
Descriptors: Violence, Prevention, Armed Forces, Military Personnel
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West, Tracey; Soukakou, Elena; Winton, Pam J. – Infants and Young Children, 2021
This article provides results of the effectiveness of a training program for a measure, the Inclusive Classroom Profile (ICP), that is designed to assess the quality of classroom practices that support the individualized needs of the children with disabilities in early childhood inclusive programs. The ICP training program was developed to train…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Training, Program Effectiveness, Students with Disabilities
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Jones, Emma-Louise; Harding, Emma – British Journal of Special Education, 2023
A recent focus on attachment and trauma awareness (ATA) in schools has led to whole-school training programmes and evaluations. The outcomes have been positive; however, the dominant focus of research is on the implementation of whole-school ATA in mainstream settings. This project adopted a case study to explore how the training and approaches…
Descriptors: School Personnel, Attitudes, Students, Attachment Behavior
Guarino, K.; Chagnon, E. – National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments, 2018
The "Trauma-Sensitive Schools Training Package" offers school and district administrators and staff a roadmap and tools for adopting a school- or district-wide approach to addressing trauma and promoting resilience for everyone in the learning environment. This training package supports school and district administrators and staff to do…
Descriptors: Trauma, Student Needs, Holistic Approach, Intervention
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Bevins, Stuart, Ed.; Lehane, Louise, Ed.; Booth, Josephine, Ed. – IGI Global, 2019
The core practice of professional scientists is inquiry, often referred to as research. If educators are to prepare students for a role in the professional scientific and technological community, exposing them to inquiry-based learning is essential. Despite this, inquiry-based teaching and learning (IBTL) remains relatively rare, possibly due to…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Science Education, Foreign Countries, Cultural Differences
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Asiimwe, Edgar Napoleon; Grönlund, Åke; Hatakka, Mathias – International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology, 2017
This study reports an interpretative case study investigating practices and challenges in an emerging m-learning environment at Makerere University in Uganda. The research was part of the MobiClass pilot project. Data was collected by means of observations and interviews with teachers and various m-learning support staff, including teacher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Case Studies, Educational Practices
McCollow, Meaghan M. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Professional development serves as means of transferring skills and knowledge to in-service educators (Reid, 2010) and of aiding practitioners in maintaining a current knowledge base (Grimes, Kurns, & Tilly, 2006; Jacobson, 1990). Much remains unanswered regarding how to enhance professional development and increase implementation of…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Program Implementation, Teacher Education, Teacher Effectiveness
Annarino, Pauline; Coyle, Jennifer; Johnson, Cheryl DeConde; Kolvita, Marcia; Thomas, Della W. – pepnet 2, 2017
After decades, the concept of "how to change the status quo of deaf education" continues to dazzle and frustrate us intellectually and academically. We want deaf and hard of hearing students to achieve academically and to thrive in the world as adults. Yet, too often, test scores and post-school outcomes remain unacceptably low. Our…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Educational Change, Academic Achievement
Dianda, Marcella; Flaherty, John – 1995
Through its Metropolitan Educational Trends and Research Outcomes (METRO) Center, the Southwest Regional Laboratory (SWRL) helps school districts implement research-based programs for educationally disadvantaged students. The most prominent of these is Success for All, a nationally recognized school restructuring program. In 1992, SWRL made a…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Early Intervention, Educational Practices, Educationally Disadvantaged
Administration for Children, Youth, and Families (DHHS), Washington, DC. – 1981
In 1980 the federal government mandated that assistance be given states to conduct systematic assessment of current practices in Title XX funded day care programs and that a summary report of this assessment be provided to Congress. Assessment findings are given in this document. Overall, provider practices exceeded state licensing standards and…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Day Care, Demography, Early Childhood Education
Clark, W. Bruce – 1999
This report focuses on promising practices in professional development as they relate to implementation of Alberta Education's 1998 "Information and Communication Technology, Interim Program of Studies." The first chapter examines fundamental issues, challenges some assumptions, and offers suggestions related to professional development…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Educational Environment, Educational Planning, Educational Practices