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An Enhanced Approach to Living and Learning Together at IUP: Living-Learning Community Certificate Programs
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Fair, Justin; Burkett, Dan; Smith-Sherwood, Dawn; Dennison, Sondra; Teng, Li – Learning Communities: Research & Practice, 2020
This article details the development of Living-Learning Community Certificate Programs (LLC-CPs) at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP). Based on the Best Practices Model for living-learning programs proposed by Inkelas et al. (2018), LLC-CPs will engage cohorts of students in a four-semester sequence of intentionally integrated courses and…
Descriptors: Living Learning Centers, College Curriculum, Integrated Curriculum, Residential Programs
A Pilot Study of the Challenges of Infusing Almajiri Educational System into the Universal Basic Educational Programme in Sokoto, Nigeria
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Isiaka, Tajudeen Onitada – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
The Almajiri falls among the category of extremely poor children in Nigeria. These children constitute about seven and half million street-begging, maladjusted, aggressive and out of schools. The menace of the Almajiri has recently attracted the of attention of federal and state Governments which led to the establishment of special schools geared…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pilot Projects, Barriers, Integrated Curriculum
Co-Op Based Integrated Basic Skills Program. Final Report.
Arkansas River Education Service Cooperative, Pine Bluff. – 1990
A project was conducted to develop an integrated basic skills instructional program in an education service cooperative to serve grades 7-12 vocational students in 13 rural school districts in Arkansas (Grant and Jefferson counties) as a follow-up to the vocational assessment process. The Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) chose the Arkansas…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Basic Skills, Cooperative Programs, Curriculum Development
Academic/Vocational Project. Final Progress Report.
Jefferson County Board of Education, Louisville, KY. – 1983
The Shawnee High School/Detrick Vocational Center and Fairdale High School/Fairdale Vocational Center Academic/Vocational Projects are pilot programs designed to integrate academic and vocational studies in two Kentucky schools. In this project, students take their basic subjects at their high school and explore the vocational programs at the…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Career Choice, Career Development, Career Education
The Model Industrial Technology Systems Project.
Bowling Green State Univ., OH. – 1987
This document contains materials used in a model industrial technology program that introduced technology into the curricula of elementary, middle, and high schools in three sites in Ohio: the Central site (coordinated through Ohio State University); the Northeast site (coordinated through Kent State University); and the Northwest site…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Communications, Construction (Process), Curriculum Development
Making Skill Standards Work: Highlights from the Field. A Practical Manual for Program/Curriculum Developers, Teachers, Employers, Trainers, Work-Based Supervisors, Mentors, School Administrators, and Counselors.
Leff, Judy; Malyn-Smith, Joyce – 1999
This document is a practical manual to assist community-based organizations and coalitions in using voluntary industry skill standards in programs preparing people for success in the workplace and further education. The following are among the topics covered in the manual's six sections: (1) developing and maintaining systems (things partners can…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Advisory Committees, Case Studies, Community Education