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Kaser, Linda; Halbert, Judy – Education Canada, 2008
Observations in many intermediate and secondary classrooms and interviews with learners indicate that many young people are under-engaged or disengaged with the learning opportunities in their schools. This disengagement of adolescent learners underlines the need for a shift from systems focused on sorting to systems passionate about deep…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Foreign Countries, Educational Opportunities, Formative Evaluation
Fogarty, Robin J.; Pete, Brian M. – Corwin Press, 2007
"A Look at Transfer" examines the six levels of transfer and the adult learner. The book explores the seven bridging strategies to use with adult learners as they learn how the professional development content they are learning does, indeed, transfer into their classrooms and into their life situations. Following a preface, this book is divided…
Descriptors: Teachers, Adult Learning, Transfer of Training, Learning Strategies

Rieber, Lloyd R. – Educational Technology, Research and Development, 1990
Reviews current empirical data on the effectiveness of animation in computer-based instruction. Research on static visuals and learning is examined; animation research is described that includes studies with elementary school children, high school students, and adult learners; and implications for current instructional design are suggested. (56…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Computer Assisted Instruction, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Design
Wang, Nina; Taraban, Roman – 1997
A study of 113 graduate students in a college of education explored how readily they would apply their knowledge about transfer of learning to a personally relevant teaching task. One group practiced integration; participants were asked to think about concepts they were learning in terms of the three elements of the integration strategy. A second…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Bray, Barbara – Learning & Leading with Technology, 1999
Discusses staff development for technology use whose goal is to help teachers use technology as a dynamic part of the curriculum. Highlights include creating a team to design a vision of technology integration; understanding adult learners; assessing teachers' needs; designing individual learning plans (ILPs); and evaluating staff development…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Computer Assisted Instruction, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education
Williams, Marium – 1995
When autonomous adults are faced with challenging tasks within a nonstressful, collegial environment, they may have an optimal opportunity to learn. This paper asserts that educators should therefore consider strategies for infusing games with academic concepts. Guidelines are offered for conducting three games to stimulate thinking, active…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Adult Learning, Cognitive Processes, Collegiality

Caffarella, Rosemary S. – Journal of Staff Development, 1996
Describes three themes emerging from a review of literature on adult development of women: centrality of relationships, diverse patterns of development, and the importance of identity and intimacy. Presents ideas staff developers could incorporate based on the themes, and makes observations on what women have taught researchers about teaching…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Collegiality
Oja, Sharon Nodie – 1990
This paper reports research from four studies of how teachers come to learn professional knowledge based on theoretical frameworks of the developmental theories of Piaget (cognitive development), Kohlberg (moral development), Loevinger (ego development), and Hunt (conceptual development). Studies proceed on the assumption that a perspective of…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adult Learning, Concept Formation, Developmental Psychology
Klee, Carol A., Ed. – 1994
The papers in this collection fall into three categories. Part 1, "Overview of Research," includes "New Directions in Language Anxiety Research" (Dolly Jesusita Young) and "Native Genderlects and Their Relation to Gender Issues in Second Language Classrooms: The Sex of Our Students as a Sociolinguistic Variable" (Lydie E. Meunier). Part 2,…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Arabic, Curriculum Development, Demography
McAlonan, Susan; Hotchkiss, Heather; Urich, Laurie – 1999
This manual explains how to foster contextual learning and curriculum integration. There are 12 sections: "Contextual Learning"; "Connecting Academic Standards with Contextual Learning"; "Using Career Development to Add Context and Relevancy to the Classroom"; "Curriculum Integration"; "Guidelines for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Adult Learning, Career Development