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Lawrence, Deborah A.; Mancuso, Tina A. – Technology and Engineering Teacher, 2012
Multiple initiatives have been launched to try to widen the pipeline for women to enter engineering careers, including reviews of gender differences in enrollment in technology and pre-engineering courses from middle school through doctoral degrees. National agencies have also studied some of the social and cultural forces at play with regard to…
Descriptors: Females, Womens Education, Engineering Education, Career Development
Basinger, Julianne – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1999
Describes a charter school for middle grade students developed and administered by the University of California, San Diego. Notes the increasing interest nationwide of various institutions of higher education in the development of charter schools. How UCSD has met objections such as the possibility of the charter school siphoning off university…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, College School Cooperation, Higher Education, Middle Schools
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Cunningham, Roger C.; Shillington, Nancie M. – Action in Teacher Education, 1990
This article describes a middle level teacher preparation program, Teaching Early Adolescents in Middle Schools (TEAMS). This collaborative program provides field experiences that utilize mentors and interdisciplinary teams to help preservice teachers develop the instructional and interpersonal skills needed to work effectively with early…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Field Experience Programs, Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
Trubowitz, Sidney; And Others – 1984
The development of a community school as a joint project of Queens College, the Louis Armstrong Middle School (I.S. 227), and the New York City Central Board of Education is described in this book. The contents of the book's eight chapters are as follows: (1) an introduction providing background material; (2) a discussion of the foundation on…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Community Schools, Higher Education, Middle Schools
Bee, Clifford P.; And Others – 1988
A description is given of a collaborative effort between a state university and a middle school in California. The program is designed to attract, train, and retain future teachers. Among other factors, the program explores effective instruction, curriculum strategies, utilizing clinical supervision, and current teaching/learning techniques. An…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Cooperative Programs, Higher Education, Inservice Teacher Education
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Williams, Robert O. – Contemporary Education, 1990
The project described in this article, the Middle Grades Project, is based on a collaborative partnership between a university school of education and three middle grades schools. The project reflects a shift in the conceptual perspective of middle grades schooling. The three-step school improvement plan,…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Educational Innovation, Educational Principles, Higher Education
Seidman, I. E.; And Others – 1991
The East Longmeadow/University of Massachusetts Professional Development School project is a school district/university collaborative for teacher preparation. A goal of the program is to bridge the gap between a university-based school of education and public schools in preparing new teachers. To accomplish this goal the collaborative has…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, High Schools, Higher Education, Inservice Teacher Education
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Dixon, Paul N.; Ishler, Richard E. – Journal of Teacher Education, 1992
One of five articles on professional development schools in this theme issue. Discusses six developmental stages of collaboration--formation, conceptualization, development, implementation, evaluation, and termination/reformation--in the implementation of professional development schools at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, including…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College School Cooperation, Educational Change, Educational Principles
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Farnan, Nancy; Dodge, Bernard – Middle School Journal, 1995
Describes development of San Diego State University's middle level teacher preparation program. Details how the program was designed explicitly to prepare credential candidates to: work effectively with young adolescents; be productive contributors on interdisciplinary teams; serve as effective advisors; accommodate diversity by focusing on the…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Foundations of Education, Higher Education, Knowledge Base for Teaching
Teitel, Lee – 1991
This paper examines the issues that emerged in the first six months of a collaborative program initiated by the Massachusetts State Department of Education for simultaneously developing or improving middle school teacher preparation programs and restructuring middle schools. The literature on interorganizational collaboration provides a framework…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Educational Change, Higher Education, Intermediate Grades
O'Sullivan, Rita G. – 1990
This case study describes a 2-year (1988-90) demonstration dropout prevention program, a collaboration between a rural school and a university. The dropout prevention program attempts to identify effective teaching strategies that will increase the academic successes of at-risk sixth-grade students and expand the use of those strategies among the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College School Cooperation, Dropout Prevention, Grade 6
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Hart, Laurie E. – Action in Teacher Education, 1997
Describes POET (Principles of Educating Teachers), an ongoing statewide effort to improve the quality of Georgia's preservice teacher education in middle school mathematics and science. Explores POET's goals, foundations, processes, and activities and notes what POET staff have learned about statewide teacher education reform. (SM)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Higher Education, Instructional Improvement, Intermediate Grades
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Mizelle, Nancy B.; McLaughlin, H. James – Middle School Journal, 1995
Describes the efforts of a group of teachers, administrators, teacher educators, and Arts and Sciences faculty at the University of Georgia to improve an established middle grades teacher preparation program. Details the change process and participants' thoughts and ideas about undergraduate teacher education. (EV)
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Educational Change, Educational Philosophy, Higher Education
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Hutcheson, Julie; Moeller, Thomas E. – Middle School Journal, 1995
Describes creation and evaluation of a middle level teacher certification program for both undergraduates and graduates at Maryville University in St. Louis. Notes four conceptual strands flow through the program: developmental, curriculum and instruction, school and society, and inquiry and research. (EV)
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Educational Philosophy, Higher Education, Knowledge Base for Teaching
Huisman, Cate – 1992
This report, one of a set of three, examines the initial 3 years of a student mentoring project in Portland, Oregon, that brought together college students from four private universities and a number of eighth grade students from four middle schools in mentoring relationships. During the first year of the project the students were described as…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, College Students, Colleges, Grade 8
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