This chapter describes a pedagogy-first summer faculty development program designed to support faculty who want to add digital components to a course or academic program.

A larger scale context for power teaching includes ideas from Duane Elgin, Lester Brown, Al Gore and many others. Collectively, they say the convergence of systems level global problems without national borders place before humankind a choice the species has never encountered in 195,000 years of life on "Spaceship Earth." In Elgin's…

This policy study contributed to an understanding of the types of professional growth activities that improve teacher self-confidence to teach challenging subjects and helped determine the future allocation of resources relative to teaching secondary social studies in Hillsborough County Public Schools (HCPS), the eighth largest school district in…

Teachers met with specialists in pollution, population growth, and natural resources to assist them in selecting environmental topics appropriate to their discipline. Pretests and posttest evaluation of teachers indicated significant differences in responses to environmental issues and selection of curriculum topics. Also the symposium structure…

The report describes the summer institute of the cooperative College-School Science Program, Prince George's County/University of Maryland, which met from June 21 to July 28, 1972 in Riverdale, Maryland. Participants consisted of twenty-five teachers who were enrolled for six hour credits from the University of Maryland. The overall objectives of…

Discusses major trends in industrial arts content which developed as a result of new curriculum concepts and courses. (GR)

Presents four basic objectives for National Science Foundation education programs in 1975 and outlines changes in priorities in the new programs. (GS)

This paper explores the National Writing Project model as it relates to enhancing the professionalism of teachers. It traces the historical development of the National Writing Project (NWP). describes the practices of the NWP summer institutes, and provides an analysis of teachers' satisfaction with their experiences in the summer institutes.…

A 4-WEEK SUMMER PROGRAM OF TEACHER TRAINING FOR DENTAL ASSISTANTS WAS HELD FOR 20 PARTICIPANTS WHO PLANNED TO TEACH IN NEW DENTAL ASSISTING PROGRAMS. THE PROGRAM WAS PLANNED TO DEVOTE HALF THE SUBJECT AREA TO AN ORIENTATION AND A PREPARATION IN SELECTED AREAS OF PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION DEEMED ESSENTIAL TO SUCCESSFUL TEACHING. THE REMAINING SUBJECT…

Describes the 1986 Summer Institute in Global Education held on the campus of New York University. Through simulation, participants "traveled" to two of four global areas: China, Africa, Latin America, or South Asia. This article reports on the presentations, readings, and learning experiences offered on the China and India…

Discusses the approach to curriculum development used in the Global Studies Summer Institute held on the campus of New York University in 1986. Maintains that the process was unique in that it was truly a cooperative, democratic process which merged the talents of global scholars and expert teachers. (JDH)

Lehigh University offered a summer institute for high school teachers titled "The Machine in America: Its Role in the Development of American Society." Provides a summary and evaluation of the 1983 institute, indicates some teaching projects that emerged from it, and offers suggestions for those who might consider similar efforts. (JN)