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James Miller – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2025
User experience (UX) internships generate ideas for usability projects, improve the design of existing and new services, investigate users' motivations and behavior, and build transferable skills for interns. This case study proposes a micro-internship model, grounded in the design cycle, that institutions can adapt to address their libraries and…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Internship Programs, Undergraduate Students, Academic Libraries
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Beane, Rachel J.; Altermatt, Ellen R.; Iverson, Ellen R.; Macdonald, R. Heather – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2020
The National Association of Geoscience Teachers' "Workshop for Early Career Geoscience Faculty: Teaching, Research, and Managing One's Career" has been offered annually since 1999. The five-day workshop with accompanying web resources employs a "whole faculty" approach to support geoscience faculty members during their…
Descriptors: Workshops, Program Design, Program Effectiveness, Faculty Development
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Van Wart, Audra; O'Brien, Theresa C.; Varvayanis, Susi; Alder, Janet; Greenier, Jennifer; Layton, Rebekah L.; Stayart, C. Abigail; Wefes, Inge; Brady, Ashley E. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2020
Experiential learning is an effective educational tool across many academic disciplines, including career development. Nine different institutions bridged by the National Institutes of Health Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training Consortium compared their experiments in rethinking and expanding training of predoctoral graduate students and…
Descriptors: Career Development, Biomedicine, Graduate Students, Medical Students
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Kier, Meredith; Clark, Kelley – Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 2020
When the world abruptly halted in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, stakeholders of K-12 education sought ways to directly serve teachers, parents, and children socially, emotionally, and academically "at a distance." Elementary preservice teachers (PSTs) immediately experienced the direct and indirect impacts of the crisis as they were…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Equal Education, Elementary School Students, Crisis Management
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Duma, Amy – Journal for Learning through the Arts, 2014
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has been involved in an intensive, sustained partnership with schools, Changing Education Through the Arts (CETA), since 1999. The CETA program is a whole school reform model designed to impact student learning and attitudes by building teachers' capacities to make arts integration one of their…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Art Education, Integrated Curriculum, Theater Arts
Williams, Ann – SEDL, 2013
The Southeast Educational Development Laboratory's (SEDL's) Vocational Rehabilitation Service Models for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders project, funded by the National Institute for Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR), launched in October 2008 and ended in September 2013. The mission of this project was to conduct high…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Vocational Rehabilitation, Program Effectiveness
Hackney, Melody D. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this retrospective study was to develop an understanding of how one group of adults who graduated from a Virginia regional alternative program made sense of their experience in an alternative education setting. Specifically, this study sought to determine if adult participants, several years later, perceived participation in the…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Education, Graduates, Adults, Outcomes of Education
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Gable, Robert A.; Butler, C. J.; Walker-Bolton, Irene; Tonelson, Stephen W.; Quinn, Mary M.; Fox, James J. – Preventing School Failure, 2003
Virginia's statewide plan of educator preparation in functional behavioral assessment, as required under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, is described. The step-by-step training process facilitated positive academic and nonacademic outcomes for all students. Preliminary data support the effectiveness of both the content and…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Discipline Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Pettus, Alvin M. – 1994
Increased interest in interdisciplinary instruction in secondary schools has led to the development of different models. At one school in the Shenandoah Valley (Virginia) three designs evolved when teams of teachers took on nontraditional, integrated instruction as a goal. In general, integrated curriculum designs in secondary schools match one of…
Descriptors: English, Grade 9, High Schools, Holistic Approach