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Cuff, Patricia A. – National Academies Press, 2014
"Assessing Health Professional Education" is the summary of a workshop hosted by the Institute of Medicine's Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education to explore assessment of health professional education. At the event, Forum members shared personal experiences and learned from patients, students, educators, and…
Descriptors: Workshops, Models, Visual Aids, Educational Innovation
Shumway, Jessica – Stenhouse Publishers, 2011
Just as athletes stretch their muscles before every game and musicians play scales to keep their technique in tune, mathematical thinkers and problem solvers can benefit from daily warm-up exercises. Jessica Shumway has developed a series of routines designed to help young students internalize and deepen their facility with numbers. The daily use…
Descriptors: Number Systems, Problem Solving, Mathematics Instruction, Number Concepts
Ghenai, Chaouki, Ed. – InTech, 2012
Securing the future of the human race will require an improved understanding of the environment as well as of technological solutions, mindsets and behaviors in line with modes of development that the ecosphere of our planet can support. Some experts see the only solution in a global deflation of the currently unsustainable exploitation of…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Foreign Countries, Indigenous Knowledge, Epistemology
Tate, Marcia L. – Corwin, 2012
Best-selling author Marcia L. Tate brings her trademark "dendrite-growing" teaching strategies to this practitioner-friendly collection of brain-compatible methods for engaging K-12 students in social studies. Included are 20 proven strategies and more than 200 grade-leveled activities for applying them. Teachers will find concrete ways to…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Learner Engagement, Problem Based Learning, Active Learning
Downey, Carolyn J.; Steffy, Betty E.; English, Fenwick W.; Frase, Larry E.; Poston, William K. – Corwin Press, 2006
Showcasing the "Downey Walk-Through"--a method developed over a 40-year period, tested and refined in real-world schools and classrooms, and described in the pioneering book, "The Three-Minute Classroom Walk-Through," this innovative multimedia presentation provides trainers and staff developers with a complete resource answering the questions…
Descriptors: Workshops, Teaching Methods, Seminars, Educational Strategies