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Lincoln, Melinda G. – Community College Journal, 2002
Suggests that, due to escalating violence in contemporary society, community colleges should offer certificate or degree programs in conflict resolution. Describes a conflict resolution communication program, which teaches communication skills, mediation processes, and coping strategies to prospective mediators. (NB)
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Conflict Resolution, Crisis Management, Degrees (Academic)
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Leat, David – Oxford Review of Education, 1999
Explores why Thinking Skills/Cognitive Acceleration programs have struggled to make an impact, noting that classrooms are resistant to the kind of change these programs demand. Considers five constructs of teacher development (socialization, craft knowledge and expert-novice, "pedagogical" content knowledge, images of teaching, and…
Descriptors: British National Curriculum, Educational Change, Educational Innovation, Foreign Countries
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McCormick, Katherine M.; Brennan, Sharon – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2001
This article describes the Kentucky Teacher Internship Program, a year long supervised internship that provides support and assistance to all of Kentucky's first-year interdisciplinary early childhood educators by a team of resource teachers, principals, and teacher educators. Implementation challenges are discussed, as well as suggestions for…
Descriptors: Beginning Teacher Induction, Disabilities, Early Childhood Education, Early Intervention
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Power, Thomas J.; Blom-Hoffman, Jessica; Clarke, Angela T.; Riley-Tillman, T. Chris; Kelleher, Constance; Manz, Patricia H. – Psychology in the Schools, 2005
Prevention and intervention research studies often fail to include an assessment of program integrity, and when they do, it is often examined in a limited way. Further, despite efforts to reform the intervention research process to include community stakeholders more actively in every phase of investigation, current practice generally employs a…
Descriptors: Intervention, Integrity, Prevention, Comparative Analysis
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Jason, Leonard A.; Pokorny, Steven B.; Ji, Peter; Kunz, Charlotte – Journal of Educational and Psychological Consultation, 2005
Dalton et al. (2001) described the field of community psychology as focused on the interdependent relationships of individuals to communities and society, committed to generating valid knowledge that is useful to communities, and involved in research and action through collaborative partnerships with individuals and communities. These principles…
Descriptors: School Community Relationship, Smoking, Intervention, Youth
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Lane, Kathleen Lynne; Menzies, Holly M.; Barton-Arwood, Sally M.; Doukas, Georgia L.; Munton, Sarah M. – Preventing School Failure, 2005
This article presents a step-by-step, empirically validated method for designing, implementing, and evaluating a formal social skills intervention based on specific skill deficits as identified by the Social Skills Rating System (SSRS; F. M. Gresham & S. N. Elliott, 1990). The 6 steps include: (1) identifying students for participation; (2)…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Elementary School Students, Intervention, Identification
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Calvin, Lisa M.; Rider, N. Ann – Foreign Language Annals, 2004
Indiana State University?s (ISU) foreign language requirement curriculum serves as a model for the 21st century. Unique to the program is an emphasis on integrating the common goals of general education and multicultural studies with the development of critical thinking skills to reach overall objectives of communicative competency, cultural…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Curriculum Development, Higher Education, College Second Language Programs
Garland, Corinne W. – Zero to Three (J), 2005
This article describes the three-decade experience in model development and replication and in introducing and sustaining organization change of Child Development Resources (CDR), of Williamsburg, Virginia. CDR provides an integrated system of services for children with disabilities and developmental delays as well as for children who are at risk.…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Disabilities, Developmental Delays, Child Development
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Herberg, Erin – Composition Studies, 2005
This article outlines the experiences of a first-year writing program's adoption of large-scale portfolio assessment as part of its move from student-focused assessment to programmatic assessment. This research is an attempt to provide evidence to support the claims benefits associated with portfolio assessment and to chronicle the changes that…
Descriptors: Portfolios (Background Materials), Portfolio Assessment, Program Effectiveness, Program Descriptions
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Samide, Laura L.; Stockton, Rex – Journal for Specialists in Group Work, 2002
The loss of a family member is a traumatic experience for any child, affecting every aspect of life. In this article, we describe many of the needs of the child experiencing a loss, focusing on parental bereavement. A rationale for using support groups with grieving children is presented. Furthermore, we provide a review of best practices from the…
Descriptors: Social Support Groups, Group Discussion, Grief, Children
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Gerber, Michael M.; Solari, Emily J. – Behavioral Disorders, 2005
In this article we discuss two impediments to widespread adoption and implementation of cognitive-behavioral intervention (CBI) procedures by teachers of students with behavior disorders. First, its principles can be difficult, even for researchers and other specialists. Second, despite ample demonstration that teachers can be taught CBI…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Classroom Techniques, Behavior Modification, Meta Analysis
Rogers, George E. – Journal of Industrial Teacher Education, 2005
Project Lead The Way (PLTW) is thought by some to be the nation's premier program in providing high schools and middle schools with pre-engineering curriculum and linkage to college-level engineering and engineering technology programs. This study examined the infusion of the PLTW pre-engineering curriculum into the well-established technology…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Technological Literacy, Technology Education, High Schools
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Glanz, Jeffrey – NASSP Bulletin, 2005
Supervision based on collaboration, participative decision making, and reflective practice is the hallmark of a viable school improvement program that is designed to promote teaching and learning. Action research has gradually emerged as an important form of instructional supervision to engage teachers in reflective practice about their teaching…
Descriptors: Action Research, School Supervision, Case Studies, Program Effectiveness
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Skinner, Leane B.; White, Bonnie J. – Delta Pi Epsilon Journal, 2004
This study was designed to determine the degree to which the National Business Education Association's Information Technology Standards, as presented in the National Standards for Business Education (2nd ed.), have been implemented in Alabama business education courses. Alabama business education teachers were surveyed to determine the degree of…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Business Education, National Standards, Teacher Surveys
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Ross, Denise E.; Singer-Dudek, Jessica; Greer, R. Douglas – Education and Training in Developmental Disabilities, 2005
The purpose of this paper is to introduce the Teacher Performance Rate and Accuracy Scale (TPRA) which is a method of direct teacher observation used in the teacher evaluation and training component of the Comprehensive Application of Behavior Analysis to Schooling (CABAS [R]) model of schooling. The TPRA builds on the concept of academic engaged…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Teacher Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Ethnography
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