NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Showing 2,101 to 2,115 of 2,307 results Save | Export
Paran, Amos, Ed. – Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc. (TESOL), 2006
The contributors to this volume believe that learners do not learn in isolation but absorb what is around them. This book includes practical applications and case studies used to make literary teachings come alive in varied ESL/EFL classroom settings around the world. This book brings to life the organic connection between literature and language…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Poetry, Language Skills
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Taylor, Kathleen – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2006
Recent discoveries about brain function explain how best practices in adult learning may lead to adult learners' developmental growth.
Descriptors: Brain, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Cognitive Processes
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Mckegney, Sam – American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 2006
Canada's official residential school policy, functioning between 1879 and 1986, acted as a weapon in a calculated attack on indigenous cultures, seeking--through such now infamous procedures as familial separation, forced speaking of non-Native languages, and propagandist derogation of precontact modes of existence and Native spiritual systems--to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Educational Practices, Residential Schools
Griffin, Gail B. – 1995
This collection of essays blends autobiography and literary criticism to examine conflicts currently raging around feminism, multiculturalism, and political correctness, both on college campuses and on the larger American scene. The collection begins by probing key experiences of "growing up white and female" in the 50s and 60s and then…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, College Faculty, Cultural Context, Females
Bercik, Janet T. – 1999
An extensive body of knowledge is showing that the links between how teachers think and feel about themselves affects their performance. One coordinator of a new teacher program, comprised of teachers from preschool to high school, asks her new teachers to reflect by writing biography poetry. The coordinator used the poem framework at the…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Beginning Teacher Induction, Beginning Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education
Law, Carolyn Leste; Dews, C. L. Barney – 1993
For two working-class academics/editors, the book they co-edited, "This Fine Place So Far from Home: Voices of Academics from the Working Class," is a working-class book masquerading as a traditional scholarly work. Over 100 submissions were received for the collection, and most were autobiographical and did not resemble scholarly essays…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Discourse, Autobiographies, College Faculty
Fleming, Margaret, Ed.; McGinnis, Jo, Ed. – 1985
Prepared by experienced classroom teachers from all levels, the articles in this book explain how to use biography and autobiography as a basis for the thorough study of a topic in literature, history, the social sciences, or other subject areas. The nine articles in the first section of the book use Maya Angelou's "I Know Why the Caged Bird…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Biographies, Class Activities, Content Area Writing
Rosen, Jacqueline L. – 1975
The goal of this research project was to design a personality test which would help select, guide, and place prospective teachers into situations where they would be happiest and most effective. A Developmental Self and Child Concept Scales (DSCCS) test was developed and administered to 81 women attending a graduate teacher training program. In…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Children, Family Role, Gifted
Knowles, Marlene – 1971
This study describes a workshop course for high school students interested in writing articles, biographies, and humorous essays. Emphasis is on form and content, with special attention to the development of individual styles. Course objectives for the student include: (1) imitating various sentence structures, paragraph constructions, and unique…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Biographies, Creative Writing, Curriculum Guides
Heizer, Robert F., Ed.; And Others – 1972
While practicing medicine in the Harney Valley of southeastern Oregon, Dr. W. L. Marsden became interested in the language of the Northern Paiute Indians. From 1891 until his death in 1913, he collected linguistic material. His principal informant and teacher was "Patotzi", known as Captain Louey or Captain Louey Crook. A member of the…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indians, Autobiographies, Cultural Activities
Department for Education and Employment, London (England). – 2001
These eight booster units have been designed to provide extra, targeted support for pupils in Year 6. Each unit is based on teaching objectives from the National Literacy Strategy Framework but also focuses on Target Statements for Writing (spelling, sentence construction, language effects, punctuation, purpose and organization, and process). Each…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, British National Curriculum, Characterization, Educational Objectives
Lain, Sheryl – 1998
This book describes one writing a teacher's personal story of working in a Wyoming public high school for 30 years. The book provides answers to questions intrinsic to the life of teaching, addresses a teacher's role in school reform and a students' role in a crowded public high school, while presenting a teacher's autobiography in the form of…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Classroom Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Personal Narratives
Fisher, Eleanore – Grade Teacher, 1969
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Parent Attitudes
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
White, Carolyne J.; Shelley, Clarence – New Directions for Student Services, 1996
Uses autobiographical narratives by authors and student collaborators to construct a criticism of retention programs and these programs' promotion of institutional racism. Examines historical deculturization, the objectification of students of color, and the power-knowledge nexus. Concludes with suggestions for establishing the credibility of…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Autobiographies, College Environment, College Students
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Skoda, Richard J. – Councilor, 1995
Maintains that historians, education professors, and education critics have called for a return to a history-centered social studies curriculum. Asserts that the use of biographies and autobiographies will reinvigorate the atmosphere of the history classroom. Includes a 22-item nonannotated bibliography of teacher resources on the topic. (CFR)
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Biographies, Childrens Literature, Content Area Reading
Pages: 1  |  ...  |  137  |  138  |  139  |  140  |  141  |  142  |  143  |  144  |  145  |  ...  |  154