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Sibanda, Jabulani – South African Journal of Education, 2017
This paper interrogates the complexity of language use at the Grade Three-Four transition, using the South African context as a microcosm of similar educational systems. The paper describes the complex nature of the transition, particularly within a second language (L2) instructional context. It explores the dissonance between and among theory,…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Grade 4, Theory Practice Relationship, Language of Instruction
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Dotger, Benjamin H. – Teacher Education and Practice, 2011
The induction years of teaching challenge novice educators to quickly transition from what they learned as teacher candidates into what they can do as emerging professionals. This article outlines a simulated interaction methodology to help bridge teacher preparation and practice. Building from examples of simulated interactions between teacher…
Descriptors: Beginning Teacher Induction, Theory Practice Relationship, Teaching (Occupation), Teaching Conditions
Tindle, Kate; Leconte, Pam; Buchanan, LaVerne; Taymans, Juliana M. – National Center on Secondary Education and Transition (NCSET), University of Minnesota, 2005
Community mapping is a tool grounded in a school-to-careers research base that can aid educators' efforts in matching students' transition needs with community assets. Community mapping (geographical or abstract) is a contextualized teaching and learning (CTL) approach that can acquaint teachers with the target community's culture, resources,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Employment Opportunities, Community Resources, Education Work Relationship
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Vaughn, Sharon; Reiss, Meryl; Rothlein, Liz; Hughes, Marie Tejero – Remedial and Special Education, 1999
A study that investigated perceptions of 31 kindergarten teachers found there were statistically significant differences between teachers' views of the desirability of implementing practices to enhance the outcomes of children with disabilities as they transition to kindergarten and the feasibility of such implementation. Portfolios were viewed as…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Early Childhood Education, Kindergarten Children, Portfolio Assessment
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Matson, Johnny L. – Child & Youth Services, 1988
Reviews some of the major developments in teaching and training relevant community skills to mentally retarded persons. The following adaptive skills are discussed: (1) toilet use and bed wetting; (2) eating, dressing, and personal hygiene; (3) community survival; and (4) vocational and social skills. (BJV)
Descriptors: Daily Living Skills, Disabilities, Exceptional Persons, Mainstreaming
Forret, Michael; Eames, Chris; Coll, Richard – Teaching and Learning Research Initiative, 2007
This research aims to build upon current research in the area of teaching and learning at tertiary level and explore the nature of learning communities in tertiary science and engineering. This study uses a sociocultural approach to address the following question: "What are teachers' and learners' perceptions of the nature of the learning…
Descriptors: Class Size, Case Studies, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
Black, Rhonda S.; Langone, John – 1995
This paper reviews the research and attempts to identify instructional techniques and settings to promote generalization of appropriate work-related social behavior in individuals with mental retardation. First, it provides a definition of transition and discusses the importance of training for generalization, discrimination, and maintenance.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Community Based Instruction (Disabilities), Education Work Relationship, Generalization
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Cipani, Ennio – Child & Youth Services, 1988
Provides a technology for addressing the following questions in teaching/training exceptional individuals: (1) what to teach; and (2) how to teach it. Uses behavioral training techniques to teach and help develop functional skills. (BJV)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Development, Daily Living Skills, Disabilities
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Trach, John S.; Rusch, Frank R. – Child & Youth Services, 1988
Reviews current trends in curriculum programing that facilitate the transition of adolescents with handicaps into "everyday" community settings. Traditional curriculum models and instructional strategies have proved to be ineffective; recent models and strategies appear to be more promising. (Author/BJV)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation
Deaf-Blind Perspectives, 1998
This one-year collection of three serial issues focuses on problem solving skills for children with deaf-blindness, the history and change in the education of children who are deaf-blind since the rubella epidemic of the 1960's, and early identification of infants who are deaf-blind. Specific articles include: (1) "Research to Practice Focus…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Deaf Blind
Brown, Bettina Lankard – 2001
Eight tech prep consortia located across the United States were studied to assess their tech prep implementation and outcomes. Special attention was paid to the consortia's use of and success with the following tech prep components: formal articulation agreements; core curriculum; rigorous instruction emphasizing integration of academic and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Access to Education, Apprenticeships
Jackson, Ann, Ed.; Jones, David, Ed. – 2000
This document contains 43 papers from a conference on researching inclusion. The following are among the papers included: "Include Me Out: Critique and Contradiction in Thinking about Social Exclusion and Lifelong Learning" (Paul Armstrong); "The Linking of Work and Education To Enable Social Inclusion" (Dave Beck);…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Accountability, Accreditation (Institutions), Admission Criteria
Higher Colleges of Technology, Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates). – 2000
This document contains a total of 57 welcoming speeches, theme addresses, seminar and workshop papers, and poster sessions that were presented at a conference on technological education and national development. The papers explore the ways technology and technological advances have both necessitated and enabled changes in the way education is…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Articulation (Education)