In England and Wales, there has been a significant investment in technology to support teaching and learning in all subjects and school phases since the mid-1990s and a number of training models and approaches have been used, which include the development of online materials to support face-to-face sessions with expert teacher educator support.…

This article presents a Web 2.0 approach for the arrangement of peer tutoring in online learning. In online learning environments, the learners' expectations of obtaining frequent, one-to-one support from their teachers tend to increase the teachers' workloads to unacceptably high levels. To address this problem of workload a self-organised peer…

The history between Cheektowaga Central and the University at Buffalo illustrates the benefits of forming long-term collaborative relationships between teacher education programs and local schools. In 1998, the author was approached by Suzanne Miller regarding the possibility of Meg Callahan, then a doctoral student at the University at Buffalo,…

Describes a systemwide pilot project to revise and restructure a course in human relations that is a required course in several diploma and degree programs in the participating institutions. (Author)

When the National Defense Education Act was amended in 1965 to include elementary as well as secondary schools, the Division of Guidance and Testing set aside $200,000 annually to establish pilot, demonstration, or experimental projects in elementary school guidance. A total of 23 school districts conducted projects during the following three year…

The project was designed to develop the procedures necessary to conduct inservice education programs cooperatively with state associations, based on the belief that classroom teachers (1) are able to plan and conduct inservice education programs designed to improve classroom instruction, and (2) are more receptive to educational change and new…

In the Spring of 1973, The Vancouver School Board operated three projects funded by the Local Initiatives Program (LIP) of the Department of Immigration and Manpower. The projects were: Physical Education Assistant Program; One-to-One Tutoring Program; and Teacher Aids for Learning Assistance Centres. To assess the projects, questionnaires were…

This Memorandum is a manual or guide for users of the PILOT computer model. Section I is an introductory explanation of the purposes of the model. Section II and III describe the data inputs and program outputs. They provide a listing of a sample input deck and a sample printout of each of the six sets of output data. Section IV is a detailed…

The Task Force on Library Service to Children appointed in 1971 prepared these guidelines. The history and background that led to this appointment is given in the guidelines. The pilot program was to involve a number of centers which would demonstrate a variety of service patterns so that strengths and weaknesses of both the school and public…

A 1-YEAR PILOT PROJECT OF DOCUMENT ABSTRACTION WAS UNDERTAKEN BY A VOLUNTARY PANEL OF 32 SCHOOL PLANT SPECIALISTS FROM THE MEMBERSHIP OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL ON SCHOOLHOUSE CONSTRUCTION. THE GOAL OF THIS PILOT STUDY, CARRIED OUT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON, WAS TO IDENTIFY, ACQUIRE, ABSTRACT, AND DELIVER TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH INFORMATION…

Reactions to a two-year pilot program of management by objectives in the Business Education Department at Utah State University were positive. (MS)

A look at Project REACH, a modest pilot effort to explore the practicality of a regional education delivery system using cable television. (Author)

This paper has been extracted from a follow-through study of thirty-eight secondary schools involved in the trial of a Schools Council (England) curriculum projects.