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Walenta, Brian T., Ed. – 1996
In 1989, the Texas Alliance for Science, Technology, and Mathematics Education began placing teachers at industry sites as part of its Texas Teacher Internship Program (TTIP). TTIP is a competitive program for science, technology, and mathematics teachers who serve as summer interns at industry and university sites in order to experience…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Internship Programs, Mathematics Teachers
Winthrop, Jerauld – 2001
Career academies are high school programs that frame academic learning around a career focus in order to increase student motivation and achievement. They generally have three defining features: a school-within-a-school structure, a college preparation curriculum with a career theme, and partnerships with employers, the community, and higher…
Descriptors: Career Academies, Compliance (Legal), Education Work Relationship, Employer Employee Relationship
Michigan State Dept. of Education, Lansing. Office of Career and Technical Education. – 1997
This handbook is designed to assist preceptors/mentors in a local allied health technology program, a school/industry partnership focused on training students for entry-level employment in the health care field by means of a work internship/externship. It draws heavily on the Secretary of Labor's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS)…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations, Allied Health Occupations Education, Clinical Experience, Experiential Learning
Becker, Richard A. – 2003
This document is intended to give Wisconsin teachers and administrators the background knowledge to understand the nuances of the various work-based learning (WBL) programs and determine whether they want to develop one or more new WBL programs in their district or enhance or otherwise customize existing WBL programs. Each of the first 11 chapters…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Child Care Occupations, Cooperative Education, Cooperative Planning
George Mason Univ., Fairfax, VA. – 1999
This manual provides guidance for school and university Professional Development School (PDS) teams about their responsibilities during the summer and academic year of study and internship for Early Childhood or Middle Education licensure. The chapters include the following: "Mission and Priorities of the Graduate School of Education";…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Beginning Teachers, College Admission, College School Cooperation
State Univ. Education Deans, OH. – 1998
This guide, which is the product of a school-to-work (STW) leadership institute that was conducted to promote the development of collaborative initiatives linking STW with other school improvement strategies in Ohio, contains materials for and about worksite designing externships for educators. Included in the guide are the following items: STW…
Descriptors: Career Education, Check Lists, Education Work Relationship, Elementary Secondary Education
Branan, Alvord; Hergert, Michael – 1996
The MEXUS program, a transnational, undergraduate, dual-degree program in the United States and Mexico, addresses the problem of how universities can better prepare students to manage business in an interdependent global marketplace. The program was initiated as a consortium of four institutions (San Diego State University and Southwestern College…
Descriptors: Business Education, College Second Language Programs, Communicative Competence (Languages), Cross Cultural Training
Kecht, Maria-Regina; Long, Richard P. – 1996
This final report describes a project at the University of Connecticut-Storrs, begun in 1993, to create a 5-year interdisciplinary, undergraduate, double-degree program, combining a bachelor of science in engineering with a bachelor of arts in German. The program, called Eurotech, is intended to provide students with practical, integrated foreign…
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, Communicative Competence (Languages), Cooperative Programs, Corporate Support
Connecticut State Dept. of Education, Hartford. Bureau of Career and Adult Education. – 2000
This document is a guide to workplace mentoring that is intended to assist individuals who are interested in or involved in placing students in work-based learning experiences as part of Connecticut's school-to-work initiative, Connecticut Learns. The following are among the topics discussed: (1) the purposes and principles of workplace mentoring;…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Career Education, Career Exploration, Definitions
Hudson River Center for Program Development, Glenmont, NY. – 1996
This resource guide is intended to provide New York schools, business/industry, and others with resources to develop work-based learning strategies and components. Section 1 examines the scope, foundation, categories, and operation of work-based learning. Section 2 presents detailed information about the following forms of work-based learning:…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Career Exploration, Case Studies, Cooperative Education
Iowa School-to-Work Office, Des Moines. – 1998
This document, which is intended for Iowa employers and elementary and secondary educators, outlines 11 activities through which employers can participate in school-to-work (STW) programs in Iowa's elementary and secondary schools. The document begins with a definition of work-based learning and a brief overview of information and other resources…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Career Education, Career Exploration, Cooperative Education