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Franz, Nancy K.; Brekke, Robin; Coates, Deb; Kress, Cathann; Hlas, Julie – Journal of Extension, 2014
Extension systems are experimenting with new models for conducting professional development to enhance staff competence and other returns on professional development investments. The ISUEO virtual annual conference provides a successful flipped classroom model of asynchronous and synchronous learning events for conducting an Extension annual…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Educational Needs, Extension Education, Virtual Classrooms
Grandgenett, Neal; Thiele, Levi; Pensabene, Tom; McPeak, Brad – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2015
This article describes the collaborative evolution of the Midwest Center for Information Technology (MCIT)--which is a consortium of 10 different community colleges across the four states of Nebraska, Iowa, North Dakota, and South Dakota--that was established to improve information technology (IT) education across the region. MCIT has been funded…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Community Colleges, Computer Science Education, Career Academies
Hansen, Deb; Anderson, Colleen; Munger, Linda; Chizek, Mitzi – Journal of Staff Development, 2013
Collaborative learning teams are improving teacher practice and student learning results in the Dallas Center-Grimes Community School District near Des Moines, Iowa. Since 2009, all teachers and principals in the district have participated in collaborative learning teams to study a process known as assessment for learning, in which formative…
Descriptors: School Districts, Teacher Improvement, Cooperative Learning, Formative Evaluation
O'Connell, John Francis – ProQuest LLC, 2009
For most of the last 50 years, teachers and administrators have perceived professional development and the instructional role primarily in terms of what one individual does with classes of others. Teachers, like their students, were considered to be rather passive acceptors of the instruction, rather than active modifiers. Thus, there was very…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Research Design, Academic Achievement, Professional Development
Johnson, Paige – Educational Leadership, 2009
Since 2002, the Partnership for 21st Century Skills has been the leading advocacy organization in the United States focused on infusing 21st century skills into education. Its "Framework for 21st Century Learning," the result of a consensus among hundreds of stakeholders, describes the skills, knowledge, and expertise students need to…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Partnerships in Education, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills
Oleson, Vicki – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study sought to understand the process of change elementary teachers experienced as they participated in mathematics professional development. This investigation explored the impact of mathematics professional development on teachers' content knowledge for teaching, their ability to implement innovative pedagogical practices, and the…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Professional Development, Teaching Methods, Innovation
Beesley, Andrea D.; Shebby, Susan – Online Submission, 2010
The purpose of this paper is to inform evaluators of a method of evaluating capacity building in educational programs. One definition of capacity building is helping an organization increase its ability to fulfill its mission (Wing, 2004). Evaluators of capacity-building efforts therefore must focus on evidence that the program has helped to build…
Descriptors: Evaluators, Evaluation Methods, Organizational Development, Federal Legislation
Detgen, Amy; Yamashita, Mika; Davis, Brittany; and Wraight, Sara – Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest, 2011
Based on a review of state documents and interviews with state and local officials in six Midwest Region states, this qualitative study describes state education agency policy development and planning for response to intervention approaches to instruction. It also looks at the support provided to districts and schools implementing response to…
Descriptors: Response to Intervention, State Departments of Education, Educational Policy, Policy Formation
Detgen, Amy; Yamashita, Mika; Davis, Brittany; and Wraight, Sara – Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest, 2011
Based on a review of state documents and interviews with state and local officials in six Midwest Region states, this qualitative study describes state education agency policy development and planning for response to intervention approaches to instruction. It also looks at the support provided to districts and schools implementing response to …
Descriptors: Response to Intervention, State Departments of Education, Educational Policy, Policy Formation
Iowa Department of Education, 2012
Case studies of Authentic Intellectual Work (AIW) in the Iowa project included four high schools that have been practicing this professional development model for the last five years. The schools, AHST Secondary School, Cedar Falls High School, Spencer High and Middle Schools and Valley High School were visited in April, 2011. The visits included…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Models, Professional Development, High Schools
Dass, Pradeep M.; Yager, Robert E. – Science Education Review, 2009
During the last quarter of a century, it became abundantly clear that the desired reforms in science teaching and learning could not be accomplished without significant professional development of in-service science teachers. Yet, there was a dearth of effective professional development models that could lead to the kind of instructional reforms…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Guidelines, Science Teachers, Faculty Development
Mayer, JoAnn, Comp.; Pellegreno, Dominick, Comp. – 1973
The activities in the publication were developed for use in the exemplary project entitled Models for Career Education in Iowa. Included in the document are an overview of the project's concepts, a diagram of the model for career development being implemented in the project, and an explanation of the model and the self-awareness classroom…
Descriptors: Career Education, Demonstration Programs, Elementary Education, Emotional Development
Iowa State Univ. of Science and Technology, Ames. Dept. of Agricultural Education. – 1974
The exemplary project to develop models for career education was conducted in nine Iowa schools selected for their scattered locations and for representing rural, suburban, and metropolitan communities of Iowa. Awareness of self and of the world of work at the primary level was followed by exploration of occupations in junior high school and…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Development, Career Education, Curriculum Development
Kimpel, Lucina – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This research was comprised of a case study conducted at Grand View University to determine faculty perceptions and perspectives of outcomes related to a Title III grant-funded, professional development program. The conceptual framework for the study was based on a systematic process called the logic model (W. K. Kellogg Foundation, 2004). A…
Descriptors: Models, Interviews, Professional Development, School Holding Power
Iowa State Univ. of Science and Technology, Ames. Dept. of Agricultural Education. – 1973
The exemplary project report describes in detail the development of a definition of career education, the concepts of the career development model, and the four phases of the career education objectives: awareness (primary level), accommodation (intermediate level), exploration (junior high level), and exploration and preparation (high school…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Development, Career Education, Demonstration Programs