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Belk, John – Composition Forum, 2018
This profile describes how the Writing Program at Southern Utah University enacts a rhetorical humanist framework in its administrative and curricular structures. At the administrative level, rhetorical humanism offers a collaborative governance model that gives all faculty a voice in programmatic decisions, while managing the cacophony created by…
Descriptors: Humanism, Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Decision Making
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Brand, Jamie C.; Radel, Claudia; Brain, Roslynn; Greene, Jack – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2014
We describe experience with a pilot week-long, No-Child-Left-Inside (NCLI), outdoor program implemented in Cache Valley, Utah, in 2012. Through response analysis of a "pre-then-post" children's survey and a parent-completed demographic survey, we assess program effectiveness in raising children's enthusiasm for nature-related behaviors…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Program Development, Program Implementation, Program Evaluation
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Eckstein, Grant – CATESOL Journal, 2013
TESOL theory is intended to inform teacher practice, but studying what teachers actually do in a given teaching context can sometimes lead to better theory. This report illustrates an area in which practice informed theory in the context of 1-on-1 writing conferences for prematriculated ESL writers. This report describes the creation and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Grammar, Feedback (Response)
Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, Boulder, CO. – 1969
The activities of the Four Corners Mental Retardation Project conducted by the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education are described in this document. The purpose of the project was to enhance services for the mentally retarded in the Four Corners Area (Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah) focusing on the mentally retarded in the…
Descriptors: Activities, American Indians, Indigenous Personnel, Individual Needs
Bosley, Howard E.; And Others – 1968
"Video Processes Are Changing Teacher Education" by Howard Bosley (the first of five papers comprising this document) discusses the Multi-State Teacher Education Project (M-STEP) experimentation with media; it lists various uses of video processes, concentrating specifically on microteaching and the use of simulation and critical…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Instruction, Critical Incidents Method, Equipment, Facilities
Carpenter, Don A., Ed. – Focus: A Forum on Teaching and Learning in the Community Colleges, 1991
Originally designed as a vehicle for presenting all arguments regarding the creation of a community college system in Utah, "Focus" currently seeks to promote originality, innovation, and needed changes in the state's two-year colleges. The 1991 issue of this annual journal includes the following articles: (1) "Access, Quality and…
Descriptors: Adjunct Faculty, Community Colleges, Curriculum Development, Experiential Learning
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Carpenter, Don A., Ed. – Focus, 1988
Designed as a forum for the exchange of ideas on teaching and learning in Utah's community colleges, this journal presents a series of essays by college faculty. The September 1988 issue contains: (1) "The Community College Academic Environment--And Me," by Timothy R. Bywater, which highlights the strengths of Dixie College, including…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Book Reviews, College Environment, College Faculty