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Bitter, Catherine; Loney, Emily – Education Policy Center at American Institutes for Research, 2015
The Issue: To prepare for the demands of postsecondary education and the workforce, students need to master content and build skills that allow them to collaborate with others, and then apply that knowledge to new situations. Students will be able to access a wider range of opportunities in college, career, and civic life if they possess the…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Career Readiness, High School Students, Student Development
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Terdy, Dennis – TESOL Quarterly, 1993
Four approaches to adult English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) staff development are described: transmission of key teaching skills; state initiatives for reflective teaching; regional staff development through mentoring and partnership; and academic preparation programs. (Contains three references.) (LB)
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, English (Second Language), Inservice Teacher Education, Language Teachers
Illinois Business Education Association. – 1973
Business teachers in Illinois have developed innovative career education programs and in this document they share their ideas and practices through 11 descriptive articles. Teacher contributions include an overview of the career education concept in secondary education and its relationship to the business occupations cluster, career planning,…
Descriptors: Business Education, Business Education Teachers, Business Skills, Career Development
McRAT Report, 1991
The Multicultural Reading and Thinking (McRAT) Program of the Arkansas public schools is described, and results of a study of its effectiveness are reported. The McRAT Program is a process that empowers teachers to refocus instruction and restructure standard curricula for higher order thinking. The multicultural emphasis provides a meaningful…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Strategies, Elementary School Students, Intermediate Grades
Daniels, M. Harry; And Others – 1985
This project presented a conceptual model for adapting with change and the strategies and procedures for introducing change skills instruction into vocational programs to groups of vocational educators and administrators at sites throughout Illinois. Following the presentations, the project directors solicited feedback from the persons who…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Change Agents, Change Strategies, Competency Based Education
Handler, Marianne; Andris, Jim; Brehm, Barbara; Levin, Jim; Payne, Anneliese; Waugh, Michael; Bievenue, Lisa; Moran, Juan – 1998
Five Illinois universities, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), and the Illinois Area IV Learning Technology Hub are collaborating in the Preparing Educators for the 21st Century Program" (PIE-21). This state-funded program focuses on providing preservice teachers, administrators, and teacher education faculty with…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, College School Cooperation, Computer Assisted Instruction, Cooperative Programs
Leopold, Joan Y.; Anstine, Carolyn G.; Greene, Margaret P. – 1983
A project was undertaken to develop a realistic survival skills curriculum in language arts for adult basic education (ABE) students that could be used with predischarge residents in institutions for mentally ill individuals in Pennsylvania. After identifying 28 predischarge residents at the Harrisburg State Hospital in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Behavioral Objectives