Publication Date
| In 2026 | 0 |
| Since 2025 | 5 |
| Since 2022 (last 5 years) | 59 |
| Since 2017 (last 10 years) | 211 |
| Since 2007 (last 20 years) | 466 |
Descriptor
Source
Author
Publication Type
Education Level
Audience
| Teachers | 43 |
| Practitioners | 37 |
| Administrators | 8 |
| Policymakers | 5 |
| Parents | 3 |
| Researchers | 3 |
| Community | 2 |
| Students | 1 |
Location
| California | 14 |
| Texas | 12 |
| United States | 11 |
| Virginia | 11 |
| Florida | 9 |
| New York | 9 |
| North Carolina | 9 |
| Iowa | 8 |
| Massachusetts | 8 |
| Mexico | 8 |
| Taiwan | 8 |
| More ▼ | |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
| Meets WWC Standards without Reservations | 2 |
| Meets WWC Standards with or without Reservations | 2 |
Direct linkNational Writing Project (NJ3), 2007
This brochure makes a case for devoting more attention to writing, and demonstrates through recent research results that the National Writing Project (NWP) has had a positive impact on teachers and students across the country. Independent national scorings of student writing show that NWP student improvement out paces that of students in carefully…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Student Improvement, Writing Instruction, Program Evaluation
Download full textSchrade, Arlene – 1992
An institute in oral proficiency and teaching effectiveness for practicing secondary Spanish and French teachers is described. The spoken language classes of the institute took place daily, 4 hours per day for 4 weeks, using a modified Foreign Service Institute (FSI) method of small group instruction. Native speaker tutors were used who were…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, French, Inservice Teacher Education, Institutes (Training Programs)
Wisconsin State Dept. of Public Instruction, Madison. Div. for Management and Planning Services. – 1978
In August of 1978 an ESEA (Elementary and Secondary Education Act) Title I education conference was held to obtain an evaluation of the migrant education programs operated in Wisconsin during the summer of 1978. Five forms were used to collect information from the 47 conference participants with specific forms directed toward instructional staff,…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Responsibility, Educational Objectives, Migrant Children
Linn, Elizabeth M.; And Others – 1968
Five dentists, 17 dental assistants, and three dental hygienists participated in the dental assistant teacher training institute held at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, June 25 to July 21, 1967. Curriculum objectives were based upon analysis of the job of the dental assisting instructor; the following units were chosen to meet the…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Course Content, Dental Assistants, Institutes (Training Programs)
Russell, James D. – 1974
The audiotutorial approach of individualized and multimedia instruction was used as a model to train junior college faculty in the techniques of designing and developing instructional materials. Three two-week summer institutes were conducted at Vincennes University (Indiana) for a consortium of 10 junior and community colleges in Indiana,…
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, College Faculty, Community Colleges, Consortia
Association of Teachers of Latin American Studies, Brooklyn, NY. – 1973
The October 1973 issue of ATLAS, a newsletter for the Association of Teachers of Latin American Studies, is entered into the ERIC system on a one time basis to acquaint teachers with this resource. This issue reports summer activities and reviews new materials in this subject area. The events of the 1973 summer ATLAS-Fulbright Seminar to Mexico…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Current Events, Editorials, Educational Media
Bicknell, John E.; And Others. – 1970
This report briefly describes a summer workshop on individualizing instruction in which 34 teachers, instructional team leaders, and administrators participated. It lists workshop personnel and participants. The major part of the report consists of eight papers written by workshop staff. Titles are (1) "The Importance of Assessment and Behavioral…
Descriptors: Differentiated Staffs, Individualized Instruction, Individualized Reading, Inservice Teacher Education
Texley, Lloyd C.; And Others – 1972
The multiple activities funded under Title I of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act had two purposes. First, they supplemented the instructional program for educationally disadvantaged children by developing a curriculum and techniques which would raise their achievement level commensurate with their ability. Second, they supported this…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Individualized Instruction
Strokrocki, Mary, Ed. – National Art Education Association, 2005
The influence of discipline-based art education has been transformed into new avenues for teaching and learning that require an array of bridges to traverse creating new approaches and settings for art teaching and learning. The concept of interdisciplinary learning is one that should be scrutinized closely and research and practical applications…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Art Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
Peer reviewedWhimbey, Arthur; And Others – Journal of Reading, 1980
Describes a summer program for prefreshman science students entering Xavier University, designed to develop their problem-solving and academic abilities by emphasizing the connection between reading comprehension and analytical skills. (MKM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Critical Reading, Critical Thinking, Educational Research
Peer reviewedDin, Feng S. – Rural Educator, 2000
A study assessed the effectiveness of direct instruction in improving reading skills. After a 3-week summer remedial program in which direct instruction was the main instructional strategy, along with a controlled curriculum, 18 rural students aged 7-15 with severe reading difficulties showed notable improvement in reading and spelling. (Contains…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Individual Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness, Reading Improvement
Peer reviewedTimmermans, Steve R.; Heerspink, Janice B. – Learning Assistance Review, 1996
Modifies the concept of Supplemental Instruction to explore cognitive and developmental factors of high school students. Intensive Developmental Instruction (IDI) was used in a pre-college summer program. Preliminary results indicate that high schools students perform as well as college students and demonstrate a correlation between the grade…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Development, College Students, Enrichment Activities
Aukerman, Maren S. – Research in the Teaching of English, 2007
This study offers an alternative to traditional notions of scaffolding for reading comprehension by tracing the evolution of a fifth-grade small group literature conversation in which the teacher sought to displace himself as "primary knower" (Berry, 1981) in the conversation. The study examines how the teacher shared evaluation with his…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Reading Comprehension, Reading Strategies, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)
Henjum, Arnold E. – 1977
Described is the West Central Minnesota Institute for Creative Study, developed by a group of rural high schools to provide a summer enrichment program for gifted and talented youth. It is noted that the program was designed to bring together outstanding students, teachers, facilities, and materials in an attempt to expand and strengthen the…
Descriptors: Creativity, Curriculum Enrichment, Enrichment Activities, Exceptional Child Education
FORDYCE, DOROTHY W. – 1967
TEACHER-PARTICIPANTS IN A WORKSHOP OF THE 1965 NDEA ENGLISH INSTITUTE AT CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY RECOGNIZED COMPOSITION AS THE MOST PROBLEMATIC AREA OF ENGLISH TEACHING. THEY IDENTIFIED LACK OF THOROUGH PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION IN TEACHING COMPOSITION AS THE PRIMARY REASON FOR ITS RELATIVE NEGLECT BY TEACHERS. HIGH STUDENT-TEACHER RATIO,…
Descriptors: English Instruction, High Schools, Inservice Teacher Education, Institutes (Training Programs)
