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Lina R. Eskew; Eun Y. Sandoval-Lee – Journal of Faculty Development, 2025
The Reimagining Assessment Practicum (RAP) at Northwestern University exemplifies the importance of cross-functional collaboration, iterative design, and robust feedback processes in faculty development initiatives. RAP, a flexible, three-week series with both synchronous and asynchronous components, was created to enhance teaching and learning…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Practicums, Educational Needs, College Faculty
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Xie, Huichao; Chen, Ching-I; Chen, Chieh-Yu; Squires, Jane; Li, Wenge; Liu, Tian – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2017
China is expected to have a rapid growth in specialized early intervention (EI) services for young children ages birth to 6 and their families. A major barrier in the provision of EI services in China is the shortage of well-trained EI personnel. In 2013, a Home-Based Early Intervention Program (HBEIP) was started at South China Normal University…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Intervention, Young Children, Barriers
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Lewis, Laura A.; Koston, Zoe; Quartley, Marjorie; Adsit, Jason – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 2011
A significant dilemma for the health and human service professions continues to be the question of how best to bridge the divide between academic research and practice. Communities of practice have traditionally been a vehicle for collaborative research and for information exchange (Moore, 2008). Through collaboration, communities of practice have…
Descriptors: Practicums, Program Development, Social Work, Barriers
Gartland, Debi – School-University Partnerships, 2010
The 2010 Professional Development Schools National Conference recognized the professional development school relationship between Towson University with its dual certification major and the Howard County Public School System for its outstanding collaborative accomplishments, naming the Towson-Waterloo-Ilchester-Bellows Spring PDS as a recipient of…
Descriptors: Professional Development Schools, Elementary Education, Special Needs Students, Teacher Certification
Whitebook, Marcy; Kipnis, Fran; Sakai, Laura; Almaraz, Mirella – Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, University of California at Berkeley, 2011
The "Learning Together" longitudinal study focuses on four counties' efforts to expand bachelor's degree opportunities in early care and education (ECE) for adults currently working in the field. The "student cohort model"--in which small groups of ECE students with similar interests and characteristics pursue a bachelor's…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Adult Students, Nontraditional Students, Bachelors Degrees
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Paterson, Marietta M.; Cole, Elizabeth – Volta Review, 2010
This profile describes the University of Hartford's new Master of Education degree program in Aural Habilitation and Education of Hearing-Impaired Children. The Aural Habilitation and Education graduate program was conceptualized as a model partnership between Capitol Region Education Council (CREC) Soundbridge, the largest public provider of…
Descriptors: Private Colleges, Oral Language, Partial Hearing, Deafness
Delaney, Ann K. F. – 1976
Described is the development of the Educational Based Appraisal System, a model whereby educational diagnosticians and teachers in Collin County (Texas) could work together in developing effective individual educational programs for exceptional children. Sections cover the following topics: statement of the problem, conceptualizing a solution,…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Secondary Education, Handicapped Children
Zucca, Gary; And Others – 1993
National University and Sierra College Small Business Development Center (SBDC) have jointly developed a program whereby small businesses become clients of the SBDC and are screened and selected as "living case studies" for National University's practicum for bachelor's and master's of business administration candidates. The new course replaces a…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Case Studies, College Programs, Experiential Learning
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Ludlow, Barbara L. – Infants and Young Children, 1994
The Early Intervention Special Education Program at West Virginia University developed, implemented, and evaluated a distance education model using satellite broadcasts of coursework and supervised practicum experiences to train early interventionists. Program success suggests that emerging telecommunications technologies offer a feasible…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Distance Education, Early Childhood Education, Early Intervention
Northfield, Jeff – 1994
This paper reports on changes in the practicum component of a teacher education program, designed to provide experiences related to the systemic functions of schools. The practicum evolved from genuine collaboration between a school and a university to share responsibility for preservice preparation. The program involved having the teacher…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Martin, Andrea K.; Hutchinson, Nancy L. – 1999
A Faculty of Education dramatically restructured its preservice teacher education program by putting experience first through introducing an extended fall-term practicum of 14 weeks. Focus group interviews were conducted with elementary and secondary teachers and administrators over a 3-year period, prior to and twice during the controversial…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Elementary Secondary Education, Experiential Learning, Focus Groups
Sala, Frank C. – 1976
This report presents the evaluation of a court approved desegregation plan for elementary schools in the school district of the City of Erie, Pennsylvania, starting with the school year in September 1975. The plan was that the district's elementary school would house grades K-5. Two elementary schools, Garfield and Longfellow, would close and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bus Transportation, Court Litigation, Desegregation Effects
Taylor, Nancy E.; And Others – 1994
This paper reports program changes in the junior year internship that were made to bring practice closer to the theoretical goals of the Catholic University of America's teacher education program in Washington, D.C. The changes had the goal of increasing the quality and scope of education students' thinking about education, and they involved…
Descriptors: College Juniors, Conceptual Tempo, Elementary Education, Experiential Learning