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Teacher Corps Recruitment and Referral Center, Los Angeles, CA. – 1976
This brochure contains a collection of articles on significant programs instituted by the Teacher Corps over the ten year period 1966-76. A capsule history of Corps activities during this period and personal profiles of Corps directors are presented. Articles are included on the topics of Teacher Corps instructional programs, community based…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Demonstration Programs, Educational History, Field Instruction
Madison, Montpelier, and The Constitution: A Field Trip Experience for Students. Elementary Program.
Biermann, Melanie; And Others – 1990
The key to a successful field trip is planning. This publication, designed to provide guidelines for elementary school teachers, outlines the step-by-step experience of a participatory visit to Montpelier, the home of James Madison. A prefatory article by constitutional authority A. E. Dick Howard, called "James Madison and the…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Education, Field Instruction, Field Trips
Download full textO'Mahony, Kieran – 1988
This book compares the teaching methods of Europe with the United States as related to the development of geography education and the problems of geography education in U.S. schools. The book comprehensively discusses and evaluates the history of geography instruction, tracing that history from the time of the Greeks and examining influences up to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Education, Curriculum Development, Educational History
Biermann, Melanie; And Others – 1990
The key to a successful field trip is planning. This publication, designed to provide guidelines for the middle school teacher, outlines the step-by-step experience of a visit to Montpelier, the home of James Madison. A prefatory article by constitutional authority A. E. Dick Howard, called "James Madison and the Constitution," provides…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Field Instruction, Field Trips, History Instruction
Walker, Thomas D. – 1996
This paper documents the "inspection visit" program which existed at the University of Illinois library school between 1895 and 1948 whereby library school students would take extended "field trips" to nearby or even distant libraries. Topics include issues concerned with the visits themselves, their role in the library school…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Experiential Learning, Field Experience Programs, Field Instruction
Peer reviewedBrothers, Timothy S. – Journal of Geography, 1991
Uses the U.S. General Land Office Survey as a source of data for reconstruction of local presettlement vegetation patterns in the United States. Data serve as a basis for an introductory biogeography course at Indiana University, Indianapolis. Includes field exercises, questions, and tables of frequency of witness-trees records. (NL)
Descriptors: Class Activities, College Curriculum, Course Content, Field Instruction
Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1916
The Association of Urban Universities held its second conference in Cincinnati, November 15-17, 1915. The program, focusing on a consideration of training for public service, had three subdivisions: (1) the needs for cooperation between the university and the city governments in providing training for public service; (2) methods of training; and…
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, Public Service, Conferences (Gatherings), Urban Universities
