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Masiello, Lea; Skipper, Tracy L. – National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, 2013
Surveys of employers continually highlight the need for better communication skills among recent college graduates. Yet, writing instruction in higher education serves far more than a transactional purpose. Writing facilitates learning, helps students gain skills in analysis and synthesis, and supports a range of other personal and intellectual…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Communication Skills, Writing Instruction, College Seniors
Wakelin, Ronald – School Guidance Worker, 1977
The author describes activities for use in dealing with stress. Examples are peer resources, role playing, values clarification, and stress contracts. (HLM)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Classroom Techniques, Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education
Marjoram, Tom – Gifted Education International, 1995
Individual differences and the late development of exceptional ability in some individuals are considered. The late development of some great achievers is mentioned, and areas of development to emphasize in young students are noted. Ways to enhance learning and match education to needs are considered, with attention to the United Kingdom'…
Descriptors: Developmental Stages, Early Childhood Education, Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education
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Smart, John C.; Hagedorn, Linda S. – Review of Higher Education, 1994
A study of 479 doctoral students at an urban university examined the relationships between 4 educational strategies (divergent, assimilative, convergent, accommodative) of doctoral programs and subjects' perceptions of their gains in 4 domains of professional competence (thinking, decision making, valuing, and acting). Additional variables…
Descriptors: Competence, Doctoral Programs, Educational Strategies, Graduate Students
Foshay, Arthur W. – 1974
In this paper, an integrated view is presented of the direction that education must take if it is to become the creative, effective, joyful enterprise that many educators long for. Educational institutions are not humane because they fail to deal with the human condition in all its variety and meaning. They continue to affirm the intellectual part…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Change, Educational Strategies
Foshay, Wellesley R. – 1974
According to Wellesley A. Foshay, in order to achieve a humane curriculum subject matter and each experience must be responsive to the human condition in the context of all pedagogical intentions of the teacher. Six classes of experience--intellectual, emotional, social, physical, aesthetic, and spiritual--make up the human existence. Teachers may…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Change, Educational Environment
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Fenwick, Tara J.; Parsons, Jim – Canadian Social Studies, 1999
Addresses the problems with conventional assessment in social studies and describes an alternative form called dynamic assessment. Explains how to use dynamic assessment in social studies, and in particular, for evaluating citizenship participation. Provides two charts that demonstrate how dynamic assessment can modify teachers' evaluation…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education, History Instruction
Cameron, Beverly – 1990
This paper reports the results of a study involving over 2,000 college faculty members concerning the course goals they hope their students will achieve as a result of the material taught, the teaching technique, and the general intellectual environment in the classroom. The common interest of most instructors is the desire to develop the…
Descriptors: College Students, Critical Thinking, Decision Making, Educational Strategies
Richardson, Joan; Rossman, Neil – 1981
During their first quarter, all nonremedial liberal arts students at LaGuardia Community College take an introductory cluster of four courses. These "freedom clusters" use a single body of material and a common analytical method and have, as their fixed elements, courses in philosophy, English composition, and the research paper. Course…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Core Curriculum, Course Content, Course Objectives
McPherson, Kate – Schools in the Middle, 1997
Describes six community-based service-learning projects that are available to students as an alternative learning environment. Presents goals of service learning, including academic development, civic responsibility, personal development, social responsibility, career development, and ethical development. Discusses research indicating that…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Development, Citizenship Responsibility, Community Services
Kleinfeld, Judith; Berry, Franklin L. – 1978
Educational strategies that small rural high schools can use to address important developmental needs of rural youth were explored, focusing on the importance of educational environments outside traditional high school classrooms, (i.e., work-experience programs, student exchange programs, and travel-study). Of the 92 Alaskan village high schools…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, Curriculum Enrichment, Developmental Programs, Educational Environment