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Vasconcelos, Clara – Research in Science Education, 2012
If our chosen aim in science education is to be inclusive and to improve students' learning achievements, then we must identify teaching methodologies that are appropriate for teaching and learning specific knowledge. Karagiorgi and Symeo (2005) remind us that instructional designers are thus challenged to translate the philosophy of…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Instructional Design, Intervention, Environmental Education
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O'Neil, Margaret E.; Fragala-Pinkham, Maria; Ideishi, Roger I.; Ideishi, Siobhan K. – Physical & Occupational Therapy in Pediatrics, 2012
Pediatric physical and occupational therapists are in the unique position to provide therapeutic and health promotion interventions to children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN) including those with chronic conditions (such as overweight and obesity) in a variety of settings. In this commentary, the authors share their experiences…
Descriptors: Health Needs, Obesity, Youth Clubs, Health Facilities
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Rockwell, S. Kay; Albrecht, Julie A.; Nugent, Gwen C.; Kunz, Gina M. – American Journal of Evaluation, 2012
Targeting Outcomes of Programs (TOP) is a seven-step hierarchical programming model in which the program development and performance sides are mirror images of each other. It served as a framework to identify a simple method for targeting photographic events in nonformal education programs, indicating why, when, and how photographs would be useful…
Descriptors: Nonformal Education, Evaluators, Partnerships in Education, Earth Science
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Dockery, Donna J. – Journal of School Counseling, 2012
School counselors are expected to develop programs that promote academic success for all students, including those at risk for dropping out of school. Knowledge of key indicators of potential dropouts and current trends in dropout prevention research may assist school counselors in better understanding this complex issue. Implementing recommended…
Descriptors: Dropouts, School Counselors, Academic Achievement, Risk
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Kurup, Anitha; Maithreyi, R. – Roeper Review, 2012
Large-scale sequential research developments for identification and measurement of giftedness have received ample attention in the West, whereas India's response to this has largely been lukewarm. The wide variation in parents' abilities to provide enriched environments to nurture their children's potential makes it imperative for India to develop…
Descriptors: Talent, Gifted, Interdisciplinary Approach, Foreign Countries
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Boucouvalas, Marcie – Adult Learning, 2012
Globalization has become a household word, permeating workplaces and communities, while internationalizing the curriculum has become common practice, not just in higher education, but also reaching into the primary grades and outward into program planning efforts in the non-formal sector. Few fields, however, can claim two international bodies…
Descriptors: Community Development, Global Approach, Nongovernmental Organizations, Program Development
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Simmons, Kate D.; Carpenter, Laura Bowden; Dyal, Allen; Austin, Sheila; Shumack, Kellie – Education, 2012
The purpose of this paper is to share the results of multiphase initiatives funded by four separate grants. The projects were designed to improve and enhance collaborative teaching at the secondary level. Each project provided opportunities for increased collaboration between special education faculty, secondary education faculty, and…
Descriptors: Faculty, Cooperation, Program Development, Team Teaching
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Lopez, Omar S.; Huling, Leslie; Resta, Virginia – Action in Teacher Education, 2012
In light of the fact that policy makers are attempting to build accountability systems that will hold teachers, and the teacher education programs that prepared them, accountable for student achievement results, failure on the part of teacher educators to repeatedly and assertively advocate for a significant role in shaping the accountability…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Advocacy, Participative Decision Making, Program Development
Kidwai, Huma; Chen, Dandan – World Bank, 2016
This report presents the latest analysis of the Early Childhood Development (ECD) programs and policies that affect young children in the People's Republic of China and poses overall recommendations to move forward. Shanghai, being a model for several developmental issues in China, is used as an example to help elucidate viewpoints whenever…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Government Role, Child Development
Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, 2010
"Strategic Opportunities for the Cooperative Extension" was developed based on responses by Extension administrators and directors, informed by program leaders and others and based on state and local needs identification processes, including advisory and user input. The respondents to a survey ranked the Strategic Opportunities in the order…
Descriptors: Extension Education, Role of Education, Program Development, Educational Planning
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Mitchell, Jim – Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, 2010
Economic and political trends underscore the importance of engaged scholarship as evidence that colleges and universities are serving their constituencies. Set in a background of debate about pure versus applied social science this article describes a planned approach to continuing gerontological education grounded firmly in the principles of the…
Descriptors: Educational Gerontology, Scholarship, Social Sciences, Online Courses
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Hayhoe, Ruth; Li, Jun – Frontiers of Education in China, 2010
The establishment of normal colleges and universities is an important component of building a modern country, which possesses different value ethos with the universities. The emergence of the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris and the local normal schools has set a new model for teacher education around the world and promoted values and knowledge…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Educational Improvement
Nielsen, Lance D. – Teaching Music, 2010
Winter had set in, and the local charity had already run out of warm coats. Students sprang into action. They made calls, rang doorbells, announced the need daily at school. Working together, they collected 87 coats--each with a hat, glove, and scarf set--with jeans, sweaters, shoes, and new toys thrown in as an additional gift. The students--all…
Descriptors: Music Education, Student Organizations, Honor Societies, Secondary School Students
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Roose, Deborah – Studying Teacher Education, 2010
Many self-studies focus on an individual or several teacher educators. Although there have been self-studies undertaken by teacher education administrators, there is relatively little research that focuses specifically on an administrator's program development work in teacher education. This self-study examines one teacher education…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Data Analysis, Program Development, Teacher Educators
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Eckmann, Monique – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2010
Can Holocaust education be considered a tool for human rights education? If so, to what extent? These questions elicit discussions among a wide range of educators, and interest among politicians, educational planners, and ministries in charge of memorials. At first glance the obvious answer seems to be yes; both educators and students have strong…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Childrens Rights, Death, History
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