This digest offers community college academic leaders a synopsis of the key components necessary for building a successful developmental education instructional framework. Specific emphasis is placed on program structure, faculty, and program improvement. Developmental education is defined as "courses or services provided for the purpose of…

Cyberlearning provides opportunities to many individuals who may not be able to participate in traditional campus-based counselor preparation programs. However, these opportunities will only be fruitful for the students if the online learning experience is of the highest quality. Thus, planning is an essential component of developing a high…

This facilitator's manual is part of a curriculum to help special educators teach paraprofessionals to support individual students with disabilities effectively, especially students with moderate to severe disabilities who require individualized support. Special aspects of the curriculum include its site-based and job embedded approach as well as…

The paper outlines a number of processes that have been implemented by Learning Services at Deakin University (Geelong, Australia) to gain significant and sustained cultural change among staff in a blended organization, comprising the university library service, the curriculum design and development functions and those of academic staff…

This paper introduces the concept of a reusable assessment framework (RAF). An RAF contains a library of linked assessment design objects that express: (1) specific set of proficiencies (i.e. the knowledge, skills, and abilities of students for a given content or skill area); (2) the types of evidence that can be used to estimate those…

The goal of this booklet is to help teachers re-examine education for students with disabilities. It is intended to help clarify issues related to developing adaptive processes to include students with disabilities in general education classrooms. It begins by explaining the difference between mainstreaming, integration, and inclusion, how a…

The outline for a reading course based on both intensive and extensive reading of short stories is presented. The 11-week course focuses on five stories, three selected by the teacher and two selected by the students as a class. A course overview details the sequence of reading and classroom activities, and the procedures for a typical four-week…

This article explores the interdisciplinary course offerings at 164 institutions that participated in a 1998 curriculum analysis by the Center for the Study of Community Colleges. It examines interdisciplinary courses in the context of the total curriculum, and discusses examples of existing interdisciplinary programs, the benefits and…

The report describes the work of an American Association of Colleges of Nursing task force charged with defining the central elements of master's education for advanced practice nursing. The task force formed a consensus for two separate but related components: a statement of the essential core curriculum content for master's-educated nurses and a…

This report is one in a series of reference documents designed especially to assist educators who are directly involved in the revision and improvement of content standards. It presumes a basic understanding of the purposes for standards and the process of standards review and evaluation. This document is intended to be a desktop reference volume…

The further education (FE) curriculum in Scotland's colleges aims to enable people to develop skills and capacities which will improve the quality of their working, personal, family and community life. To achieve this aim people need assistance to overcome barriers constraining their confidence and ability to take part in learning situations and…

Discusses the undergraduate liberal arts chemistry curriculum of Drew University which emphasizes preparation of students either for a chemistry vocation or for medical or other science careers. Indicates that interdisciplinary training, articulation of courses to students' background, and elimination of traditional course organization are main…

Livestock production, crop production, farm management and records, and agricultural mechanics should be the heart of the Vo-Ag curriculum in rural areas, supplemented by natural resources, forestry, agriculture occupations and placement, because production agriculture education meets community needs and is an inseparable component of preparation…

Article outlined the position of the Vice Principal, Instruction in secondary schools: to work under the direction of the principal for the improvement of curriculum and instruction throughout the school. (Author/RK)

This article attempts to outline a framework for enhancing the occupational guidance programs for elementary schools by having teachers and guidance counselors assume more responsibility. (Author/RP)