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Leading Teaching and Learning Together: The Role of the Middle Tier. How Do Education Systems Enable Instructional Leaders to Be Effective? Research Brief. Instructional Leaders at the Middle Tier. No. 3
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Tournier, Barbara; Chimier, Chloé; Childress, David; Jones, Charlotte – UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning, 2023
To improve teaching and learning outcomes, teachers and head teachers need whole-system support to build professionalism and enhance their practice. Roles at the middle tier of education systems, or those professionals working between the school and central level, offer unique capacities to facilitate collaboration, broker knowledge, scale…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Teaching Methods, Middle Management, Educational Quality
Collaborative Tasks in Telecollaboration: Their Challenges and Potentials
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Matsui, Hisae – Research-publishing.net, 2020
This chapter reports the challenges that both the students and the teachers experienced in a telecollaborative project between a Japanese university and an American university. In this semester-long project, the students in groups of three to five from both universities worked collectively mainly asynchronously and in occasional synchronous…
Descriptors: Barriers, Computer Mediated Communication, Synchronous Communication, Intercultural Communication
Placement-Based Learning and Learner Engagement: Findings from a New University in the UK
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Murphy, Timothy R. N.; Folgueiras Bertomeu, Pilar; Mannix McNamara, Patricia – Irish Educational Studies, 2016
This paper addresses the potential for engaged learning among final-year undergraduate Education Studies students at a new, post-1992. It discusses a case study analysis of a "Directed Experiential Learning" (DEL) intervention in the final year of an education studies degree designed to engage and motivate students and emphasise the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Learner Engagement, Case Studies, Experiential Learning
Professional Development on an International Scale: Council of Europe--Pestalozzi Programme Virtual Community of Practice
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Mompoint Gaillard, Pascale; Rajic, Višnja – Online Submission, 2014
Communities of practice as organisations of learning have developed different forms as: task-based, practice-based or knowledge based communities (Barab et al., 2004). The paper presents a case study of a successful community of practice developed under the umbrella of Council of Europe Pestalozzi programme for teacher development. The programme…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Virtual Classrooms, Faculty Development, Program Descriptions
Lessons on Ancient China for LEP Adolescents.
Wigglesworth, Pierre Giles – 1992
A unit in a Glendale, California sixth grade social studies curriculum is presented as a model for addressing two problems in the instruction of the growing population of limited English-proficient (LEP) students: (1) inadequate teacher training; and (2) shortage of appropriate, effective instructional materials. For the curriculum segment on…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Ancient History, Case Studies, Classroom Techniques
The Design of Education. Second Edition. Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series.
Houle, Cyril O. – 1996
This book, which is intended primarily for specialists in the field of adult education (AE) who wish to improve their performance, presents a systematic plan for designing, establishing, and evaluating successful programs for adult learners. The following topics are among those discussed in the book's six chapters: credos and systems (growth of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Andragogy, Behavioral Objectives