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Thinking Like a Manager: A Participatory Exercise for Understanding Managerial Roles
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White, Alexandra – Management Teaching Review, 2020
Using the premise of a fictional earbud company, "EarWorm," students in an introductory management course become EarWorm managers who problem-solve and make decisions about the best choices for their company. This article outlines this engaging and participatory exercise in detail. Students are able to directly connect course concepts to…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Management Development, Introductory Courses, Teaching Methods
Numeracy in Practice
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Zawojewski, Judith S.; McCarthy, Lynn – Principal Leadership, 2007
Numeracy develops and evolves through experiences that require students to creatively and flexibly use mathematics to solve complex problems that often involve competing constraints. Making room in the curriculum for these types of experiences is a challenge in secondary schools because of the pressures of a tightly packed mathematics curriculum;…
Descriptors: Teacher Improvement, Mathematics Curriculum, High Stakes Tests, Student Evaluation
The Project Approach Catalog 3 by the Project Approach Study Group.
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Helm, Judy Harris, Ed. – 2000
Projects are in-depth studies of a topic undertaken by a class, a group, or an individual child. Projects are intended to strengthen children's dispositions to be interested, absorbed, and involved in in-depth observation, investigation, and representation of worthwhile phenomena in their own environments. This Catalog on the Project Approach, the…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Administrator Role, Cartography, Cooperative Learning
Transferable Skills: An Administrator's Guide. Competency-Based Vocational Education Administrator Module Series.
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Norton, Robert E.; Pratzner, Frank C. – 1988
This guide is intended to assist vocational administrators assuming a facilitative and leadership role in the development and implementation of programs to help vocational students acquire and develop transferable skills. The guide is divided into three parts. Part 1 provides examples of the skills and discusses their importance in two broad…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Administrator Role, Behavioral Objectives, Business Skills
Student Learning in the Information Age. American Council on Education Series on Higher Education.
Breivik, Patricia Senn – 1998
This book discusses resource-based learning in higher education. One premise of resource-based learning is that as students become able to select their own learning materials from information resources, they become active, independent learners, while professors become learning facilitators in cooperation with librarians and other information…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Administrator Role, Change Strategies, College Faculty
Project TEAMS (Techniques and Education for Achieving Management Skills): Independent Business Owner/Managers.
Platte Technical Community Coll., Columbus, NE. – 1980
These Project TEAMS (Techniques and Education for Achieving Managerial Skills) instructional materials consist of five units for use in training independent business owner/managers. The first unit contains materials which deal with management skills relating to personal characteristics of successful business people, knowledge of self and chosen…
Descriptors: Accounting, Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Role, Administrators