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Brandon L. Wright – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2024
America's reckoning with racial injustice and the pursuit of equity have led some public school systems to reduce or terminate (or at least question) special programs for high achievers, such as "gifted" education, honors courses, and selective high schools. Historically, such programs have served disproportionately few Black, Hispanic,…
Descriptors: High Achievement, Minority Group Students, Individualized Instruction, Educational Strategies
Amanda Taylor Pate – ProQuest LLC, 2022
In 2020, the state of Florida strategized to improve reading instruction for K-12 students by mandating all elementary and literacy teachers receive a reading endorsement. In response to the mandate, the University of Florida's Lastinger Center for Learning developed an online, asynchronous, self-paced teacher professional development program to…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Electronic Learning, Reading Instruction, Elementary Secondary Education
Scrimgeour, Meghan – Wake County Public School System, 2023
The Wake County Public School System's AIG 2019-22 Plan is designed to meet the academic, intellectual, social, and emotional needs of gifted and advanced learners with a focus on providing equitable access to AIG programming. To examine progress towards achieving the plan's goals, a descriptive study utilizing a variety of data sources was…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Gifted Education, Equal Education, Minority Group Students
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Baugher, Johannah D.; Seeger, Victoria N. – Educational Considerations, 2022
This manuscript details efforts to redesign a graduate literacy program guided by two, full-time faculty members to better meet candidates' needs in an online learning environment supported with relevant and current curricula. Through professional literature, intentional curriculum, and authentic field experiences, program coursework is closely…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Online Courses, Program Development, Literacy Education
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Arrowsmith, Heather E.; Houchens, Gary W.; Crossbourne-Richards, Trudy-Ann; Redifer, Jenni L.; Norman, Antony D.; Zhang, Jie – International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership, 2021
In 2012, the United States Department of Education announced the Race to the Top-District grants. One joint award was made to two large educational cooperatives in the same state that together represented 111 mostly rural schools in 22 districts. One of the grant's identified four essential projects was the implementation of personalized learning.…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Individualized Instruction, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation
Shaklee, Beverly D., Ed.; Baily, Supriya, Ed. – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2012
As countries become increasingly interdependent, student populations in the United States are becoming more culturally diverse. These students' transnational perspectives present significant challenges to teachers, but a disconnect exists between the skills teachers need and those provided to them by colleges of education. As teacher preparation…
Descriptors: Higher Education, International Education, Global Approach, Teacher Educators
Gent, Pamela J. – Brookes Publishing Company, 2009
Classrooms across the country are discovering the power of service-learning--the ideal way to help students develop social and academic skills while giving back to their community. Now for the first time, there's a practical how-to guide on using serving-learning to promote inclusion and differentiate instruction for students with and without…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Individualized Instruction, Elementary Secondary Education, Inclusive Schools
Worth, Maria Menconi; Worth, Charles E. – 1984
This paper presents possible strategies for training educators and teacher trainees in microcomputer technology. Particular emphasis is placed upon possible competencies, instructional sequences, and ways in which microcomputers can realistically be infused in education. In discussing teacher competencies, it is pointed out that it is essential to…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Elementary Secondary Education, Individualized Instruction, Inservice Teacher Education
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Emerson-Stonnell, Sharon; Carter, Celeste – Gifted Child Today (GCT), 1994
Two mentors in a math mentoring program for gifted students offer principles for developing such a program. Topics covered include mentor qualifications, getting started, finding materials, preparing for the first mentoring session, frequency and length of meetings, student behavior, and planning. (DB)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted, Individualized Instruction, Mathematics
Thorndyke, Gerry G.; Summach, Ron D. – Education Canada, 1982
Describes areas where Calgary has used its computer assisted instruction (CAI) to aide individuals via diagnostic testing, enrichment programs, remedial study, review and reinforcement, and sequencing materials. Suggests microcomputers play four roles: tutorial, drill/practice, simulation, and testing and record keeping. Discusses problems in…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
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Silberman, Rosanne K.; Tripodi, Victoria – Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 1979
The authors describe how the "I CAN" physical education program, an individualized instructional management system for developing skills, associated concepts, and social growth in handicapped children, was adapted for use with deaf blind children (5 to 21 years old) at the New York Institute for the Education of the Blind. (SBH)
Descriptors: Adapted Physical Education, Deaf Blind, Elementary Secondary Education, Individualized Instruction
Hensgen, Caroleen – 1980
To teach a student to live his life is to give that student unlimited opportunities to be responsible for his actions, the ruminations of his mind, and the consequent actions that flow from his thinking. The only way to meet each individual child's needs is through a program geared to the student as a unique individual. The Individual Educational…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Individual Development, Individual Differences, Individualized Instruction
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Journal of Special Education Technology, 1982
A video production model designed to help teachers produce individualized instructional video/programs for severely handicapped students is described. The project's development, equipment design, and field verification approaches are reviewed. (CL)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Individualized Instruction, Material Development, Models
Lyman, Lawrence R.; And Others – 1985
Using Madeline Hunter's Clinical Teaching Model as a guide, the Geary County Unified School District (Junction City, Kansas) established a staff development program that increased student achievement, assisted teachers in setting practical goals for the improvement of instruction, served as the impetus for the district's Effective Schools Program,…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Development, Individualized Instruction
Irvine, David J. – 1987
A proposed three-dimensional model for identifying the gifted conceives of giftedness as a combination of characteristics. It emphasizes the different qualities of the characteristics as well as the fact that such characteristics exist in degrees or levels, thus helping to avoid thinking of giftedness or its components as being either wholly…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Affective Behavior, Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted
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