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Keengwe, Jared, Ed.; Onchwari, Grace, Ed. – IGI Global, 2019
Standardized tests have been selected as a key assessment factor in expanding the academic achievement of the national student population. However, these tests position immigrant students at the risk of academic failure, leading education experts to search for new strategies and teaching models. The "Handbook of Research on Assessment…
Descriptors: Guides, Immigrants, Refugees, Land Settlement
Beerens, Daniel R. – 2000
This book describes effective ways for principals and teachers to work together for the teachers' growth and the ultimate benefit of students' learning. It provides a solid philosophical foundation for changes in teacher evaluation and staff development, and it analyzes past and current methods and trends in teacher evaluation. The book spells out…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Constructivism (Learning), Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education
Pisapia, John – 1994
This research brief examines the potential of technology to further the goals of restructuring U.S. schools. Strategies are presented for restructuring schools with technology. Although restructuring means different things to different people, the restructuring movement has generally focused on reorganizing school processes, taking a…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computer Uses in Education, Constructivism (Learning), Curriculum Development
Burrello, Leonard C.; DiLaura, Nancy – 1994
This videotape and viewing guide present an emerging learner-centered paradigm of teaching and learning and contrast this new paradigm with traditional concepts. An associated guide describes the elementary school in the videotape, noting the full inclusion of 50 students identified as disabled, the team approach in which teachers are renamed…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Constructivism (Learning), Curriculum, Disabilities
Shapiro, Arthur – 2000
Constructivism is a response to the depersonalized hugeness of our society and institutions. The constructivist model for education offers a way to decentralize the authority of a large and distant administration and return decision-making to the local level, that is, to learning communities, teaching teams, and individual classroom teachers. This…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Classroom Environment, Constructivism (Learning), Educational Change
Lacampagne, Carole B. – 1993
The implementation of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics'"Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics" implies fundamental shifts in the teaching and learning of mathematics. Intended for those individuals who will be instrumental in the implementation of those changes--teachers, administrators, and…
Descriptors: Calculators, Change Agents, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Uses in Education