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Poling, Kirsten – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2015
Would you like to help your students adjust to university life? Perhaps you are simply interested in allowing them to feel more integrated into a department right from the start of their first year? These were the types of issues that we were hoping to address when we founded the MySci Advisors Program, a peer-mentoring group for first year…
Descriptors: Mentors, Science Instruction, College Freshmen, Program Descriptions
Shulman, Lawrence – Journal of Social Work Education, 2016
Factors external and internal to social work practice have caused our profession to question its role and identity. The emergence of evidence-based or evidenced informed practices forces the profession to reexamine its unique identity and its historical roots. This article addresses the problems in the dominant paradigm guiding our profession, the…
Descriptors: Social Work, Educational Practices, Educational Change, Models
Stockley, Denise; Balkwill, Laura-Lee; Hoessler, Carolyn – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2016
In 2008, Queen's University launched an online tutorial called CHRPP, the Course in Human Research Participant Protection, and published a paper about its purpose, design, and usability in Balkwill, Stevenson, Stockley, and Marlin (2009). CHRPP was originally created to raise awareness among research students about the federal policy regarding…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Online Courses, Ethics, Research Administration
Deschesnes, Marthe; Drouin, Nathalie; Tessier, Caroline; Couturier, Yves – Health Education, 2014
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to understand how a Canadian intervention based on a professional development (PD) model did or did not influence schools' capacities to absorb a Healthy School (HS) approach into their operations. This study is the second part of a research project: previously published results regarding this research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intervention, Professional Development, Capacity Building
Kajner, Tania; Fletcher, Fay; Makokis, Pat – Innovative Higher Education, 2012
In this article we introduce a "head and heart" approach to community-engaged scholarship. Through the literatures of Aboriginal scholarship and engaged scholarship we reflect on a community-university research and program development project undertaken in response to health and education concerns of Aboriginal people in Canada. We…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Development, Program Effectiveness, Higher Education
Ryan, Janette; Kang, Changyun; Mitchell, Ian; Erickson, Gaalen – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2009
The current round of basic education curriculum reform in China is considered by many to be the most radical and wide-reaching. However, very little is known about education reform at the school level. Here we document and discuss some of the challenges and opportunities that the reform programme is providing for teachers and schools. We describe…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Teacher Researchers
Shields, Richard – Catholic Education: A Journal of Inquiry and Practice, 2008
The Catholic school system in Ontario, Canada, is fully funded by the government. Recently, Ontario's Ministry of Education mandated an induction year, the New Teacher Induction Program (NTIP), for all new teachers. This legislation provides an opportunity for Catholic school boards to take the lead and shape creative and effective programs for…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Philosophy, Foreign Countries, Teacher Orientation
Alberta Education, 2009
This report presents the outcomes of the analysis of Grade Level of Achievement (GLA) data at the provincial level to inform the program planning and evaluation needs of Alberta Education as well as school and central office based administrators. GLA data reported to Alberta Education is a teacher's judgment of a student's academic progress. GLA…
Descriptors: Evaluation Needs, Academic Achievement, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries
Selman, Gordon R. – 1988
The history of adult education in British Columbia may be divided into three periods: from the early years of European settlement to 1914, from 1914 to 1954, and from 1954 to the present. Before 1914, the development of adult education was sporadic and carried out by many different agencies. Missionaries, clergy of various denominations, and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Continuing Education, Educational Change, Educational History

Lipp, M.; Casswel, C. – Canadian Journal of Special Education, 1990
This paper describes guidelines for education of gifted learners in Canada, prepared by 85 policymakers at a 1988 symposium. The guidelines focus on 10 challenges: change, client interests, communication, leadership, learning, policy, programing, research, technology, and values. Quality indicators in program development are outlined, as follows:…
Descriptors: Criteria, Educational Practices, Educational Principles, Educational Quality
Anderson, Gary J.; Lauwerys, Joseph A. – 1978
A history of Canada's Atlantic Institute of Education (AIE) is given, including a description of the social environment that created the need for such an institution. Educational reform programs for teacher education, special education, and counselor education sponsored by AIE are described. The central use of educational research in AIE programs…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Counselor Training, Educational Change, Educational Innovation

Cochrane, Don; Williams, David – Canadian Journal of Education, 1978
Provincial curriculum directors were surveyed and literature reviewed to determine which Canadian provinces have official policies on values/moral education and the extent to which the ministries are implementing these policies through the promulgation of curriculum materials and standards. Reasons for failures to encourage values/moral education…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Policy, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Special Educational Services Branch. – 1995
This guide sets out the requirements and expectations for the development and delivery of programs for students with special needs in Alberta, Canada. First, it describes legislation (especially the School Act of 1988) and policy related to educating students with special needs. Next it specifies established requirements and expectations in the…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Definitions, Delivery Systems, Disabilities
New Brunswick Dept. of Education, Fredericton (Canada). – 1989
This paper traces the development of adult vocational education in New Brunswick from its beginning in 1918 to the present. Highlights summarize the adult vocational history before confederation and to World War I, when the first Vocational Education Act was passed in 1918. The paper then summarizes the events of World War I and the Depression…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Adult Vocational Education, Educational Change, Educational History
Atkinson, Tannis; And Others – 1994
This book, which is written and designed for intermediate adult literacy students, relates selected outcomes of 12 "woman-positive" literacy and adult basic education programs that were sponsored/studied in different parts of Canada by the Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW). Part 1 discusses the mission of the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Beginning Reading, Change Strategies