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Lin, Jian-Wei; Koong Lin, Hao-Chiang; Chen, Hong-Ren – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2022
Conventional e-learning platforms require a high self-regulatory learning (SRL) ability to ensure learning effectiveness. However, because not everyone has high autonomy and a high SRL ability, many students quit during the online learning period. To enhance the SRL ability, many studies have developed e-learning platforms based on Zimmerman's SRL…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Role Models, Learning Strategies, Personal Autonomy
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Luan Shaw – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2023
It has been argued that conservatoires in England have a responsibility to train music educators. This article proposes that alumni could have an important role to play in contributing to their former institution's instrumental music teacher education provision and explores how two UK conservatoire graduates with at least three years teaching…
Descriptors: Music Education, Teacher Educator Education, Alumni, Mentors
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Anita Blakstad Bjørnerås; Aud Elisabeth Witsø; Lisbeth Kvam; Arne Henning Eide; Lisbeth Jahren; Sissel Horghagen – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2024
Succeeding at university can be a complex matter, and the barriers are manifold for students with disabilities (SwDs). Accommodations are available for those with needs, but these alone do not meet the political goals of inclusive educations. Student ambassadors act as experienced representatives on campuses, supporting others and gaining…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Barriers, Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Inclusion
Erin Williamson – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this case study was to examine how one high-performing California TK-6th grade public elementary school had committed to the development of 21st century skills. Specifically, this study sought to identify the practices and structures at Utopia Elementary that allowed students of low socio-economic status and students with an…
Descriptors: 21st Century Skills, Skill Development, Minority Group Students, Elementary School Students
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Ferm, Lisa; Persson Thunqvist, Daniel; Svensson, Louise; Gustavsson, Maria – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2018
The aim of this article is to investigate the learning strategies vocational students use to become part of a work community, and how these strategies are related to the formation of a vocational identity at the workplace. Conducting qualitative interviews, data were collected from 44 industrial programme students from six upper secondary schools.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Vocational Education, Learning Strategies
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Loeper, Rachel – Afterschool Matters, 2014
As the program director of a community writing center that serves children and youth ages 5-18, Rachel Loeper sees it all, from 15-year-old spoken word poets to six-year-olds whose first "books" are strung together with yarn. In all of her roles--administrator, teacher, volunteer trainer--she values engaging the most reluctant of young…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Writing Strategies, Writing Skills, Writing Instruction
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Taylor, Bridget A.; DeQuinzio, Jaime A. – Behavior Modification, 2012
A skill essential for successful inclusion in general education settings is the ability to learn by observing others. Research, however, has documented children with autism display significant deficits in the fundamental skills necessary for observational learning. This article outlines the skills essential for observational learning from an…
Descriptors: Autism, Observational Learning, Basic Skills, Inclusion
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Milner, H. Richard, IV – Multicultural Education, 2014
In an era of student testing by any means necessary, it has become increasingly rare to locate teachers who are committed to teaching students to improve society because they are instead under immense pressure to raise test scores (Darling-Hammond, 2010; Ladson-Billings, 2006). Ms. Shaw, the social studies teacher discussed in this article, is…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Middle Schools, Culturally Relevant Education, Classroom Environment
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Freeman, Greta G.; Wash, Pamela D. – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2013
Teaching in the digital age has become increasingly challenging for college and university faculty. Application, relevance, and active engagement rather than traditional PowerPoint slide show lectures are what our technology-savvy, socially networked students crave and need to keep their attention and interest levels high. Using a combination of…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Students, Brain, Learner Engagement
Schader, Robin – Understanding Our Gifted, 2010
As a young parent, the author hoped to find ideas, like recipes, that she could immediately put to use. In reality, it is a handful of basic good parenting principles that are especially useful when raising children with exceptional abilities. The author highlights five important elements of parenting that have consistently popped up in her…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Action Research, Child Rearing, Parenting Styles
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Conley, Mark W.; Wise, Antoinette – Theory Into Practice, 2011
Researchers, policymakers, and educators face a daunting task these days concerning literacy education for the here and now and literacy for the future. Even though one clings to the romantic notion that education provides the building blocks in a straight line to a meaningful future, the reality is that mixed goals and instructional messages…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Technological Advancement, Educational Change, Literacy Education
Kitsantas, Anastasia; Winsler, Adam; Huie, Faye – Journal of Advanced Academics, 2008
Knowledge about self-regulation and motivation processes enables students to maximize their college career paths and allows universities to implement better intervention programs to encourage struggling students to persist and complete their educational studies. College administrators and instructors should focus on developing interventions to…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Role Models, Intervention, Self Efficacy
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Greener, Susan – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2009
The learning and teaching relationship, whether online or in the classroom, is changing. Mentis offers a typology of teacher roles gathered from current literature on e-learning including instructor, designer, guide, mediator, curator and mentor, which offer the university teacher a striking range of ways in which to develop relationships with…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Web Sites, Electronic Publishing, Distance Education
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Wagner, Karla Dawn; Unger, Jennifer B.; Bluthenthal, Ricky N.; Andreeva, Valentina A.; Pentz, Mary Ann – Health Education & Behavior, 2010
Injection drug users (IDUs) are at risk for HIV and viral hepatitis, and risky injection behavior persists despite decades of intervention. Cognitive behavioral theories (CBTs) are commonly used to help understand risky injection behavior. The authors review findings from CBT-based studies of injection risk behavior among IDUs. An extensive…
Descriptors: Intervention, Self Efficacy, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Cognitive Restructuring
Gladstone, Mia S. – 1988
The hypothesis that mentoring activities are intrinsically rather than extrinsically motivated is examined. The focus is on mentoring in an educational context (career development, creative arts, and other challenging pursuits and close interpersonal relationships where mentors encourage individuals beyond their horizons). A qualitative approach…
Descriptors: Collegiality, Higher Education, Interpersonal Relationship, Interprofessional Relationship
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