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Dantas-Whitney, Maria, Ed.; Rilling, Sarah, Ed. – Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc. (TESOL), 2010
This volume in the TESOL Classroom Practice Series presents instructional practices that are particularly successful with children and adolescent language learners. These practices take into account the unique needs and characteristics of these age groups and reflect a wide range of educational contexts, goals, and challenges from classrooms in…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Web Sites, Literacy Education, Electronic Publishing
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Dallmer, Denise – History Teacher, 2002
In this article, the author describes the summer institute which she planned through her involvement with the Institute for Freedom Studies at Northern Kentucky University, whose purpose is to promote interdisciplinary research, teaching and community outreach grounded in the study of the Underground Railroad. The purpose of the institute was to…
Descriptors: Local History, Civil Rights, Freedom, Transportation
Wills, Katherine V. – 2002
When a University of Louisville Computer Assisted Instruction (CAI) director, a team of graduate students, and an instructor designed a free summer computer camp program for disadvantaged middle schoolers, they imagined that the middle schoolers would respond to the first instruction as if the educators had restrained them in technological and…
Descriptors: Black Culture, Cultural Context, Disadvantaged Youth, Hermeneutics
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Anderson, Lyle; Stein, Wayne – Tribal College: Journal of American Indian Higher Education, 1992
Describes the American Indians in Mathematics (AIM) project developed by Montana State University's Center for Native American Studies and Mathematics Department. The AIM summer program uses new technologies and teaching methods and focused mentoring to create learning communities in classrooms, schools, and reservations. Discusses AIM's…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Compensatory Education, Cultural Context, Higher Education
Hamilton, Candy – Winds of Change, 1996
In an effort to increase the number of Native American journalists, summer programs at the University of North Dakota and the University of Wisconsin give Native American high school students hands-on, culturally relevant journalism experience. The Native American Journalists Association offers college scholarships in journalism for American…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, College Programs, Cultural Context
Cotayo, Rosa Maria, Ed. – 1979
Papers are presented from the New Jersey Department of Higher Education Summer Institute. Focus is on sociolinguistic, anthropological, social psychological, pedagogical, and socio-political-economic considerations. Each analyzes particular factors that influence the form and quality of bilingual policy and instruction programs, and offers…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, College Programs
Cross, Robert D.; Bennett, Clifford T. – 1987
This document reports on a summer institute for 20 secondary school history teachers from the central Virginia public school community. Emphasis at the institute was on the fact that historically, as well as morally, all people are important. This idea is the basis for the "new social history" that tends to start with everyday experience. Because…
Descriptors: Course Content, Cultural Context, Curriculum Development, Faculty Development