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Building a Peer-Learning Service for Students in an Academic Library
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O'Kelly, Mary; Garrison, Julie; Merry, Brian; Torreano, Jennifer – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2015
Academic libraries are well lauded for offering supportive spaces for students' self-directed study, and significant resources are dedicated to librarian instruction in the classroom. What many academic libraries lack, however, is a middle ground, a routine way for students to help one another using best practices in peer-to-peer learning theory.…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Service Learning, Peer Teaching, Best Practices
The Experiential Consultation Training Model
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Sangganjanavanich, Varunee Faii; Lenz, A. Stephen – Counselor Education and Supervision, 2012
The Experiential Consultation Training Model (ECTM) provides students an opportunity to develop and practice consultation skills through real-life experiences in actual professional settings. The authors present the structure, process, and evaluation methods of the ECTM and discuss practical applications for counselor education. (Contains 1 table.)
Descriptors: Counseling, Consultants, Counselor Training, Experiential Learning
Service-Learning for Graduate Students through a Student-Run Consulting Program
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Gunaratna, Nilupa S.; Johnson, Craig A.; Stevens, John R. – Journal of Statistics Education, 2007
Statistics in the Community (STATCOM) is a student-run statistical consulting program that has been serving its local community since 2001. Directed and staffed by graduate students from Purdue University's Department of Statistics, it provides professional consulting services to governmental and nonprofit groups free of charge. Students work in…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Speech Communication, Service Learning, Instructional Materials
A Systematic Approach to Classroom Observation
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Davis, Jerry L.; Mickelson, Douglas J. – School Counselor, 1978
Classroom observations are important in being an effective consultant. A form that enables the counselor to record behaviors of a child was offered as a method of improving the observational skills of counselors. Data recorded on the form provide a base rate of the frequency each behavior occurs. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Classroom Observation Techniques, Consultants, Counselor Role
A Perspective of Career Education Program Development in Rural Schools.
Peters, Richard – 1978
The Career Awareness Program (CAP) not only showed how improved school-community relations impact on quality instruction and student growth, but also resulted in identification of variables which affect curriculum change and program development in small, rural schools; these variables were administrative philosophies, community attitudes and…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Education, Career Exploration, Community Resources
Effective Approaches to Faculty Development.
Nelsen, William C., Ed.; Siegel, Michael E., Ed. – 1980
Essays are collected on faculty development programs that are felt to have positively affected both the institutions and individual faculty members. They include: Faculty Development: Promises, Realities and Needs (William C. Nelsen, Michael E. Siegel); Improving the Scholarly Climate on Campus through a Program of Small Grants (David Marker);…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Faculty, Consortia, Consultants