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Tulloch, Jacquelyn – 1996
As enrollments decline, many institutions rush to implement distance education programs, often with only crude or solely administrative guidelines for program development. The following seven principles of good practice can be useful to guide initial program development: (1) programs should have purpose, direction, leadership, and clearly…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Networks, Course Objectives
Download full textGuneratne, Camena – 1992
This paper describes distance legal education as conducted by the Open University of Sri Lanka. The paper opens with a description of legal education in Sri Lanka which began in the period of British colonial rule. Also described are more recent efforts to make legal education available to a larger segment of the population culminating in the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Distance Education, Educational History, Evaluation Methods
Stoll, Sharon Kay; Beller, Jennifer M. – 1993
Moral education is becoming one of the most important topics in school systems today. Schools are fast learning that they must do something to try to teach students good values and even more to teach students how to reason about values. Research studies suggest that athletes are less morally reasoned and less sportsmanlike than their peer groups;…
Descriptors: Athletes, Behavior Change, Cognitive Structures, College Students
Wilcox, Sherman; Wilcox, Phyllis – 1991
During the last decade, the study of American Sign Language (ASL) as a second language has become enormously popular. More and more schools and universities recognize the important role that ASL can play in foreign language education. This monograph provides a comprehensive introduction to the history and structure of ASL, to the Deaf community…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Course Descriptions, Cultural Awareness, Deafness
Horvath, Frank G.; Machura, Shirley – 1986
The development of the Alberta Diagnostic Reading Program (ADRP) was based on a current psycholinguistic theory that describes reading as a process in which the reader uses background information to communicate with the author. To ensure its usefulness and effectiveness, the developers of the ADRP sought the advice and direct involvement of many…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Teaching, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Individualized Instruction
Larson, Penny, Ed.; And Others – 1984
Presented in this volumer are selected convention papers on topics in teaching English as a second language (ESL). Topics include literacy vs. literate skills; ESL development among preschool children in Singapore; language proficiency and comprehension of anaphoric subject pronouns in bilingual and monolingual children; the ESL noise test and…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)
Archambault, Francis X. – 1986
The papers presented at this conference review current research on effective educational practices for low-achieving students and identify those that might be applied to programs funded under Chapter 1 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981 (the successor legislation to Title 1 of the Elementary Secondary Education Act of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Education
Snow, Marguerite Ann – 1987
The handbook is designed primarily as a preservice training guide for prospective immersion program teachers and secondarily as a resource for immersion program administrators and parents of prospective enrollees. It includes: (1) an overview of the immersion model, describing its historical context and key features and briefly reviewing research…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education, Enrollment
Smith, David C. – 1982
In a discussion of revitalizing teacher preparation programs, the questions of what a beginning teacher should know and be able to do in order to function at a fully professional level were considered. A description is presented of Operation PROTEACH activities at the University of Florida in Gainesville. This operation was generated by several…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Classroom Techniques, Cooperative Planning, Curriculum Development
Munson, Harold L.; Miller, John K. – 1979
The 3 year study investigated four New York programs in which junior and senior high school students enrolled in schools for the deaf were mainstreamed into occupational education courses at neighboring education centers. Data were collected on philosophical views toward career education, information and decision making functions, individual…
Descriptors: Deafness, Exceptional Child Research, High School Students, Individualized Programs
Oklahoma Curriculum Improvement Commission, Oklahoma City. – 1975
This booklet contains suggestions for methods of instruction to improve the reading skills of students in developmental reading programs at all grade levels. The first chapter of the booklet provides a statement of philosophy, objectives, and characteristics of a developmental reading program. The second chapter considers reading readiness as a…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Developmental Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Program Content
Buchholz, Karen L.; And Others – 1975
A sequential writing program is described that has adapted James Moffett's ideas in "Teaching the Universe of Discourse" to suit the needs of a seventh and eighth grade school system that emphasizes expository writing instruction. The introductory chapter explains Moffett's ideas and how they were adapted for this program. Subsequent…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Expository Writing, Grade 7
New York State Education Dept., Albany. – 1967
FIVE COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES IN NEW YORK STATE REPORT THEIR PROGRESS IN DEVELOPING NEW APPROACHES TO THE EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATION OF TEACHERS, WITHOUT REGARD TO EXISTING REQUIREMENTS OR REGULATIONS. THE REPORTS ARE CONCERNED MAINLY WITH THE PREPARATION OF SECONDARY TEACHERS OF ENGLISH, BUT EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAMS FOR TEACHERS OF HISTORY,…
Descriptors: English Education, English Instruction, Experimental Programs, History
Gollub, Wendy Leebov; And Others – 1979
The training program described consists of 13 modules designed to meet the following objectives: (1) to create an awareness, in preservice and inservice education, of the extent and consequences of sex-role stereotyping at all levels of the educational system; (2) to create an understanding among educators of the ways in which stereotypes limit…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Program Design
Weisel, Laura Peltz – 1980
This paper attempts to provide information in response to the needs of educators of adults with learning problems. For the adult education teacher, information is offered on the nature of learning, information processing, problems that can be diagnosed, and strategies suitable for adults with learning problems. For the administrator, focus is…
Descriptors: Adult Educators, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Educational Diagnosis
