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Florida Department of Education, 2020
Throughout the years, career and technical education (CTE) has focused on teaching technical competencies and related academic skills that prepare students to enter and advance in a variety of career fields and postsecondary education. Program and course descriptions are reviewed on a regular basis to ensure that the technical and academic skills…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Basic Skills, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
McQuarrie, Fiona – British Columbia Council on Admissions and Transfer, 2020
Increased student mobility within the British Columbia (BC) Transfer System (BCTS) means that students can easily enter and exit postsecondary studies. However, a significant amount of time may elapse between when a student acquires credits and when they wish to use, re-use or transfer those credits. This has led to BCTS member institutions facing…
Descriptors: Transfer Policy, College Credits, Foreign Countries, College Transfer Students
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Paul Acquaro – International Journal of Online Graduate Education, 2020
In the following paper, the author identifies two overarching challenges in developing effective online learning courses and provides an easy to implement framework to address them. The first challenge is that social activity, a key aspect to learning, often falls short in the development of online learning courses. The second challenge is student…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Online Courses, Barriers, Interpersonal Relationship
Kara Marna Anderson – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Special education and the laws that govern it have changed dramatically over the past 50 years. With these changes there continues to be a strong push to educate students with moderate to severe disabilities in inclusive general education classroom settings. Research is needed to determine what teachers need to feel successful in order to teach…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Special Education, Students with Disabilities, Teacher Attitudes
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Hunzicker, Jana – Journal of Interdisciplinary Teacher Leadership, 2019
Professional development schools (PDS), a specific type of school-university partnership, offer distinctive learning environments for teachers by encouraging innovation and modeling best instructional practices. In PDS partnerships, opportunities abound for teachers to assume learning-focused leadership roles such as team lead, instructional…
Descriptors: Professional Development Schools, Partnerships in Education, Teacher Leadership, Outcomes of Education
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Howard, Barabra L.; Sharpe, Lonnie, Jr. – Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education, 2019
Student retention is a consequential effort of all institutions of higher learning today. The survival of the institution is dependent upon the success of students in obtaining their degrees (Knox, 2005; Noel, 1978). In order to continue to grow a base of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) students and produce quality…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Transitional Programs, School Holding Power, Higher Education
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Johnson, Matthew; Danvers, Emily; Hinton-Smith, Tamsin; Atkinson, Kate; Bowden, Gareth; Foster, John; Garner, Kristina; Garrud, Paul; Greaves, Sarah; Harris, Patricia; Hejmadi, Momna; Hill, David; Hughes, Gwen; Jackson, Louise; O'Sullivan, Angela; ÓTuama, Séamus; Perez Brown, Pilar; Philipson, Pete; Ravenscroft, Simon; Rhys, Mirain; Ritchie, Tom; Talbot, Jon; Walker, David; Watson, Jon; Williams, Myfanwy; Williams, Sharon – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2019
How should academic staff engage in outreach with communities outside of the university? The need of academics to answer this question has intensified in the UK given the changing priorities of academic job roles, shaped by increasing institutional concern for widening participation, graduate employability and research impact in an era of…
Descriptors: Outreach Programs, College Faculty, School Community Relationship, Barriers
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Sotto-Santiago, Sylk; Tuitt, Frank; Saelua, Natasha – Journal of Faculty Development, 2019
The evidence appears to be strong that faculty development programs increase retention, productivity, interest in leadership positions, and promotion for faculty. However, the spaces developed for historically marginalized faculty (HMF) are still limited and not focused enough. This study examined tailored programs and perspectives amongst faculty…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Culturally Relevant Education, Disadvantaged, Minority Group Teachers
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Collier-Meek, Melissa A.; Johnson, Austin H.; Sanetti, Lisa H.; Minami, Takuya – School Psychology Review, 2019
Research suggests that class-wide academic engagement can be improved by research-based classroom management. However, teachers struggle to implement classroom management consistently and may need ongoing support. Identifying critical components of classroom management could help illuminate mechanisms of action and streamline teacher…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Learner Engagement, Best Practices, Scheduling
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Cicco, Gina – Journal of Educational Technology, 2019
This article will review the importance of effective communication in fully online courses, to the extent that positive culture and climate are established, and healthy faculty-student relationships are cultivated. Online courses require instructors to utilize diverse pedagogical techniques in order to reach the student audience through…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Computer Mediated Communication, Asynchronous Communication, Interpersonal Communication
Kern, Laura; McDaniel, Sara; Peshak George, Heather – Communique, 2019
At the request of President Trump in the aftermath of the Parkland shooting, a Federal Commission on School Safety was assembled to provide meaningful and actionable recommendations to maintain student safety in schools. This article summarizes the overarching points of the Commission's report and shares concerns raised the National Association of…
Descriptors: School Safety, Violence, Prevention, Best Practices
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Rampasso, Izabela S.; Anholon, Rosley; Silva, Dirceu; Cooper Ordóñez, Robert Eduardo; Quelhas, Osvaldo Luiz Gonçalves; de Santa-Eulalia, Luis Antonio – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2019
Purpose: The Mechanical Engineering course at the University of Campinas is composed of different disciplines in the areas of materials, mechanical design, manufacturing (production and manufacturing), computational systems, thermal and fluids. In the manufacturing area, in particular, there is a discipline entitled Productive Systems whose main…
Descriptors: Action Research, Engineering Education, Operations Research, College Faculty
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Miller, Nicole C.; Elder, Anastasia D.; Seymour, Dana; Cheatham, Dekota A.; Brenner, Devon – Journal of the National Association for Alternative Certification, 2019
Teacher shortages in the United States have resulted in the development of alternate route teaching programs to better provide teachers, especially in difficult to staff schools such as those in rural communities. In order to address rural teacher shortages, the Mississippi State University College of Education implemented a fully online,…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Teacher Recruitment, Alternative Teacher Certification, Teacher Education Programs
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Schroeder, Stephanie; Washington, Elizabeth – Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue, 2019
This research reports on findings from a qualitative study investigating the goals and challenges of doctoral student instructors of elementary social studies methods courses. We find that goals and challenges are widely shared, and many of the challenges stem from the instructors' ambitious personal goals, particularly the objective of creating a…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Doctoral Programs, Student Teachers, Social Studies
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Lake, Robin; McKittrick, Lanya – Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2019
America's schools must improve outcomes in special education. Students with disabilities remain 25 percent less likely than their peers to graduate high school despite the belief among researchers that 80 to 85 percent of students with disabilities should be able to meet the same academic standards as their peers. We convened leaders from cities…
Descriptors: Special Education, Educational Change, Students with Disabilities, School Community Relationship
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