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Arwani, Salima Shahzad – Mathematics Teaching, 2011
The author conducted a workshop with colleagues in which awareness of Pythagoras' theorem was raised. This workshop was an unforgettable event in the author's life because it was the first time that she had interacted with teachers from a different school system, and it allowed her to develop presentation skills and confidence in her own…
Descriptors: Workshops, Learning Experience, Faculty Development, Mathematics Instruction
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Bartocci, Ezio; Singh, Rupinder; von Stein, Frederick B.; Amedome, Avessie; Caceres, Alan Joseph J.; Castillo, Juan; Closser, Evan; Deards, Gabriel; Goltsev, Andriy; Ines, Roumwelle Sta.; Isbilir, Cem; Marc, Joan K.; Moore, Diquan; Pardi, Dana; Sadhu, Sandeep; Sanchez, Samuel; Sharma, Pooja; Singh, Anoopa; Rogers, Joshua; Wolinetz, Aron; Grosso-Applewhite, Terri; Zhao, Kai; Filipski, Andrew B.; Gilmour, Robert F., Jr.; Grosu, Radu; Glimm, James; Smolka, Scott A.; Cherry, Elizabeth M.; Clarke, Edmund M.; Griffeth, Nancy; Fenton, Flavio H. – Advances in Physiology Education, 2011
As part of a 3-wk intersession workshop funded by a National Science Foundation Expeditions in Computing award, 15 undergraduate students from the City University of New York collaborated on a study aimed at characterizing the voltage dynamics and arrhythmogenic behavior of cardiac cells for a broad range of physiologically relevant conditions…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Mathematical Models, Student Interests, Laboratories
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Frith, V. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2011
This article presents a description of and motivation for the quantitative literacy (numeracy) intervention in the first year of medical studies at a South African university. This intervention is a response to the articulation gap between the quantitative literacy of many first-year medical students and the demands of their curriculum.…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Medical Students, Intervention, Numeracy
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Juarez-Dappe, Patricia – History Teacher, 2011
The importance of content-focused professional development for high school teachers has been widely recognized by educators and legislators. Professionals in education at all levels have long argued for more contacts between secondary and post-secondary instructors as one important way to improve subject matter mastery. In response to this call,…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Secondary School Teachers, Faculty Development, Teacher Workshops
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Llambi, Laura; Esteves, Elba; Martinez, Elisa; Forster, Thais; Garcia, Sofia; Miranda, Natalia; Arredondo, Antonio Lopez; Margolis, Alvaro – Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, 2011
Introduction: Since 2004, with the ratification of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, Uruguay has implemented a wide range of legal restrictions designed to reduce the devastating impacts of tobacco. This legal process generated an increase in demand for tobacco cessation treatment, which led to the need to train a large number of…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Medical Education, Smoking, Physicians
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Walstad, William B.; Salemi, Michael K. – Journal of Economic Education, 2011
The Teaching Innovations Program (TIP) was a six-year project funded by the National Science Foundation that gave economics instructors the opportunity to learn interactive teaching strategies for use in undergraduate economics courses. TIP participants first attended a teaching workshop that presented various teaching strategies. They then could…
Descriptors: Program Descriptions, Electronic Learning, Economics Education, Workshops
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Brown, Carol A.; Dotson, Lana Kaye; Yontz, Elaine – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2011
The American Association for School Librarians suggests an important mission for school librarians is to ensure personal growth through ongoing exposure to conferences, journal articles, webinars, presentations, and membership in professional organizations. As professional educators, School Librarians should exemplify the vision for being…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Professional Development, Librarians, Workshops
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Kennan, Mary Anne; Olsson, Michael R. – Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 2011
This paper grew out of a presentation at the "Research for LIS Practitioners Workshop" organised by the ALIA Research Committees and held at the State Library of New South Wales. The workshop was a satellite event of the Information Online Conference. The goal of the workshop was to encourage practitioner research and publication in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Researchers, Writing for Publication, Information Dissemination
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Kissel, Brian; Hansen, Jane; Tower, Holly; Lawrence, Jody – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2011
This article examines six years of ethnographic research in Robyn Davis's pre-kindergarten classroom in the USA. Using a theoretical framework to embed writing within a social semiotic that is multimodal and has social intent (Street, 2003), the authors show how children used interactions during writing to create various written products. Three…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Kindergarten, Ethnography, Preschool Education
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Grenville-Briggs, Laura J.; Stansfield, Ian – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2011
This report describes a linked series of Masters-level computer practical workshops. They comprise an advanced functional genomics investigation, based upon analysis of a microarray dataset probing yeast DNA damage responses. The workshops require the students to analyse highly complex transcriptomics datasets, and were designed to stimulate…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Student Research, Research Methodology, Active Learning
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Hall, Edward; Wilton, Robert – Disability & Society, 2011
Western governments have emphasized paid work as a key route to social inclusion for disabled people. Although the proportion of disabled people in "mainstream" employment has increased in recent decades, rates remain significantly below those for non-disabled people. Moreover, disabled workers continue to face discrimination and a lack of…
Descriptors: Employment, Disabilities, Inclusion, Work Environment
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Piazzoli, Erika – Research in Drama Education, 2011
This paper describes a research project designed to find out what happens when process drama strategies are applied to an advanced level of additional language learning. In order to answer this question, the author designed and facilitated six process drama workshops as part of a third-year course of Italian at a university in Brisbane, Australia.…
Descriptors: Drama, Foreign Countries, Anxiety, Second Language Learning
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Swinscoe, David – Education in Science, 2011
In many UK secondary schools, pupils, parents and teachers have limited knowledge about careers available through studying Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) subjects and the progression pathways to these careers. Pupils need confidence that studying science will lead them to something useful and of value to them in the…
Descriptors: Careers, STEM Education, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students
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Phillips, Karen E. S.; Grose-Fifer, Jilliam – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2011
In this study, the authors describe a Performance Enhanced Interactive Learning (PEIL) workshop model as a supplement for organic chemistry instruction. This workshop model differs from many others in that it includes public presentations by students and other whole-class-discussion components that have not been thoroughly investigated in the…
Descriptors: Organic Chemistry, Workshops, Biochemistry, Teaching Methods
Rieh, Sun-Young; Kim, Jin-Wook; Yu, Woong-Sang – CELE Exchange, 2011
The Korean Educational Development Institute (KEDI) has recently initiated a pilot project to develop a new prototype school, involving users in the design phase. This is the first time in Korea that users have been consulted on issues relating to school design. One of KEDI's objectives is to integrate specific elements into school design such as…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Educational Facilities Design, Pilot Projects, Foreign Countries
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