Employability is a key issue for students and Higher Education Institutions and a key component of employability is possessing the skills a role requires. In the environmental sciences, fieldwork provides an opportunity for students to develop employability-enhancing technical and transferable skills. However, students can have difficulty…

The importance of STEM education to societal developments provides justification for assuring K-12 teachers are prepared to teach the related content. Inservice teacher professional development is critical to achieving the goal of enhanced student knowledge of STEM. Combining the need for increased capacity to teach STEM and the extant literature…

THE LABORATORY SCHOOL PROVIDED EXPERIENCE FOR TEACHERS WORKING WITH LOWER-CLASS GROUPS AND ENCOURAGED THE USE OF LOCAL FACILITIES FOR RESEARCH AND EXPERIMENTATION. A STAFF OF FIFTEEN, OPERATES A CURRICULUM CENTER TO AID SCHOOL PERSONNEL IN CURRICULUM PLANNING AND MATERIAL PROCURMENT. IN ADDITION THE CENTER PRODUCES INSTRUCTIONAL UNITS AND TEACHER…

Describes an outdoor summer enrichment program for rural elementary and middle school students. Examines activities that teach language arts skills through outdoor education content: student journals, daily vocabulary development exercises, instructional word games, critical discussions of relevant books, and a student newspaper containing field…

For the twenty-ninth year, the Research and Theory Division of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) is sponsoring the publication of these Proceedings. Papers published in this volume were presented at the National AECT Convention in Orlando, Florida. The Proceedings of AECT's Convention are published in two…