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Marcus, Jon – Lumina Foundation, 2020
Intermediaries--also referred to as bridge builders, boundary spanners, conveners, and other names--fill the critical role of connecting all the parties in the system to empower people with the skills required in the labor force. Those parties generally include employers, educators, workers, and prospective workers. Within these categories may…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Labor Force Development, Job Skills, Public Agencies
Ruediger, Dylan; Cooper, Danielle Miriam – ITHAKA S+R, 2022
Quantitative literacy is an essential twenty-first century skill that universities are heavily invested in teaching to students. The social sciences play an important role in these efforts because they attract students who might otherwise avoid data and mathematically oriented courses and because they ground quantitative reasoning in political and…
Descriptors: Statistics Education, Undergraduate Students, Social Sciences, Teaching Methods
Teresa Focarile; Christine Denecker – Metropolitan Universities, 2024
Across the country, many states are expanding their support for and implementation of Dual Enrollment programs, seeing them as opportunities to encourage students to go on to college--particularly those who historically might have had less opportunity and/or encouragement. As these programs expand, so does the need for professional development for…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, College Attendance, Faculty Development, Student Diversity
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Garofalo, Linda; Nourse, Danute M.; Garofalo, Mary – Journal of Catholic Higher Education, 2021
Current research suggests that faculty development should address a cross-section of personal and professional needs of the faculty, as well as support the institution's mission. Using evidence to support faculty development can foster reflective practitioners and close the gap between teaching and research by creating "sustainable…
Descriptors: Institutional Mission, Faculty Development, Reflective Teaching, Sustainability
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Bruno, Giuseppe; Diglio, Antonio; Kalinowski, T. Bartosz; Piccolo, Carmela; Rippa, Pierluigi – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
In this paper, we propose a methodology to support the Curriculum Design and Development (CDD) process with the aim of aligning competences provided by Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) with the ones required by companies. The proposed methodology stems from the identification of companies' training needs and aims at classifying a set of…
Descriptors: Universities, School Business Relationship, Energy Conservation, Program Descriptions
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Jennifer Younge – English in Texas, 2024
This review explores the multifaceted challenges and strategies related to the education of emergent bilingual (EB) students in the U.S. education system. It highlights three primary themes: program approaches, instructional needs, and the importance of school-home connections. The first theme evaluates various educational programs for EB…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Language Proficiency, Academic Achievement, Vocabulary Development
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Hanuscin, Deborah L.; de Araujo, Zandra; Cisterna, Dante; Lipsitz, Kelsey; van Garderen, Delinda – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2020
There is growing recognition of the prevalence of "within school churn", a phenomenon in which teachers remain within a school but are assigned a new grade level or course. In this study we examine the consequences of within-school churn for the pedagogical content knowledge of elementary teacher participants in an NSF-funded science PD…
Descriptors: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Standards, Elementary School Teachers, Science Instruction
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Soviyah; Fatimah, Nur – English Language Teaching Educational Journal, 2021
An English program like English For Holiday (EFH), is concerned with helping children to learn English. In relation to English Education Department of Universitas Ahmad Dahlan, the department has employed an EFH program to help children with English learning during their school break. To accomplish the continuous improvement of the program, it…
Descriptors: Material Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Bradshaw, L. Daniele – Afterschool Matters, 2015
Professional development is vital to the success of afterschool programs. Effective professional development enhances afterschool program quality by facilitating staff performance and knowledge; in addition, professional development is vital for improving student learning outcomes (Bouffard & Little, 2004; Hall & Surr, 2005; Joyce &…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Professional Development, Staff Development, Program Development
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Boggs, George R.; Elsner, Paul A.; Irwin, Judith T. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2017
This chapter describes the expansion of postsecondary or tertiary education throughout the world, the motivations for the expansion, and the commonalities and differences in the systems.
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Global Approach, Educational Development, Motivation
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Jiang, Qinxu; Soon, Shimin; Li, Yuandong – English Language Teaching, 2021
In an increasingly interconnected world, intercultural competency has become an essential skill for many. It is important for students to learn this skill, but are teachers equipped to instill such knowledge not just adequately, but also objectively and without prejudice? In light of the recent explosion in telecommunications-assisted teaching and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Technological Literacy
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Jamil, Baela Raza; Saeed, Saba – Childhood Education, 2018
Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 is ambitious and tests national governments' capacity to address human development challenges, such as access to quality education. Collaborative initiatives that leverage the capacity of diverse stakeholders will be essential to meet the education and learning needs of the world's children,…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development, Access to Education
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Lowe, Robert J.; Turner, Matthew W.; Schaefer, Matthew Y. – Educational Action Research, 2021
Research engagement and exploratory dialogue are central to forms of practitioner inquiry such as action research, in particular with regard to developing conceptual knowledge before action. Recently, practitioners have started engaging with technology such as podcasts as a way to facilitate opportunities for these focused interactions to take…
Descriptors: Action Research, Ethnography, Dialogs (Language), Information Technology
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Gigliotti, Ralph A.; Ruben, Brent D. – Journal of Leadership Education, 2017
This article begins with a review of the current higher education landscape, focusing particularly on a number of leadership challenges that are most germane to colleges and universities across the globe. The article continues with a review of the existing literature on higher education leadership needs and competencies, and current approaches to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Administrator Education, Leadership Training, College Programs
Noakes, Sierra; Modica, Allison; Palazzolo, Kristyn – Digital Promise, 2022
In the face of a worldwide pandemic, educators rose to the challenge of engaging students and families remotely to not only continue learning but also to provide as much normalcy as possible at a time of chaos and uncertainty. Many educators were looking for quick, meaningful ways to learn new skills to effectively teach remotely and connect with…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Pandemics, COVID-19, Distance Education
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