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Johnston, Keith; Conneely, Claire; Murchan, Damian; Tangney, Brendan – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2015
Bridge21 is an innovative approach to learning for secondary education that was originally conceptualised as part of a social outreach intervention in the authors' third-level institution whereby participants attended workshops at a dedicated learning space on campus focusing on a particular model of technology-mediated group-based learning. This…
Descriptors: Secondary Education, Intervention, Skill Development, Multiple Literacies
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Van Hook, Steven R. – Journal of Research in International Education, 2011
Educators of international students are frequently challenged to cope with a clashing diversity of cultures in a classroom setting. This study examined what sorts of themes and images might resonate across nationalities and cultures, which could then be used as transcultural tools for international educators. The study employed mixed qualitative…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Cultural Differences, Models, International Education
Klumb, Kelly – 1992
This document presents 28 accepted principles for modifying instruction to better meet needs of handicapped and at risk students. The principles include, among others: get to know the individual student in an informal manner; examine the patterns of children's errors; sequence skills to reduce error rates; vary response, testing, and grading…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Curriculum Development, Disabilities, Educational Methods
Christenson, Sandra L.; And Others – 1987
The monograph summarizes characteristics of effective instruction of mildly handicapped and non-handicapped students by focusing on two literature areas: Instructional Psychology and Models of School Learning. The review on instructional psychology covers the following areas: definitions of instruction, principles of learning, models of the…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Definitions, Educational Methods, Educational Psychology
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Openshaw, Roger; Ball, Teresa – Education Research and Perspectives, 2006
The historical development of teacher education in New Zealand manifests several major contradictions and tensions. One if these involves two conflicting models of teacher education that have historically struggled for dominance. The first model holds teaching to be an essentially practical craft involving classroom management, whilst the second…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, Educational History, Educational Development
Hough, Robbin R. – 1968
Man engages in the continuous construction of models to describe his reality. This assumption led to some instructional research at Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, developing and testing a systems model for the classroom. A model building process labeled message storage and retrieval was developed in some detail. Using this retrieval…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Classroom Techniques, Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Methods
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Greenwood, Charles R.; And Others – Education and Treatment of Children, 1993
This paper reports research on three innovations addressing teachers' adoption of effective instructional interventions: (1) an adoption/administrative model for promoting the use of measurably superior instructional practices; (2) a computer program providing expert implementation advice to individual teachers; and (3) a schoolwide strategy for…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Classroom Techniques, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Change