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Structure & Use of Time

• [Collected Papers on International Aspects of Teacher Education and Technology.]
  This document contains the following papers on international issues in technology and teacher education: "Developing and Researching the International Dimension in Teacher Education and Technology:.
• A Multicultural Approach to Physical Education: Proven Strategies for Middle and High School
  This book offers a multicultural approach to physical education for students in grades 7-12. The approach is intended to increase the individual's feelings of self-worth and generate a shared sense of accomplishment among diverse students.
• Beth B. v. Van Clay
  Addresses the intersection of LRE and, Rowley, . School district's recommendation that student with Rett Syndrome be placed in special education ("life skills") classroom, with reverse mainstreaming opportunities, satisfied provision of IDEA requiring FAPE, and LRE provision of IDEA, requiring that district mainstream disabled student to greatest extent appropriate; although regular classroom would be less restrictive than special education classroom, disabled student was only in regular class for about half the day, and her academic and developmental progress was limited, so that student did not receive satisfactory education in regular classroom, and thus, recommended placement did not violate IDEA.
• Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice: Integrating Multicultural Theory into an Undergraduate Foundations of Education Class
  This paper describes an action plan for integrating multicultural theory into a teacher education social foundations course and presents results from an evaluation of this effort. The action plan for the course was to integrate the theory and practice of multicultural education across five master questions posed by T.
• Changing Views about International Activities in American Teacher Education Programs
  This paper provides a historical overview of international education trends in U.S. colleges, including teacher education programs, comparing current research with data from the 1970s.
• Collected Papers on International Aspects of Teacher Education and Technology.
  This document contains the papers on international issues in technology and teacher education.
• Continuing Professional Education in the Multilingual and Multicultural Environment of the 21st Century
  Offers lessons learned about working in multicultural and multilingual environments: (1) carefully plan communication requiring interpreters/translators; (2) strive for mutual knowledge creation; and (3) allow for sufficient time and process in workshops to support participants' need for clarification. (JOW).
• Curriculum & instruction for all abilities and intelligences.
  Describes use of a “web of support” to help a San Diego-area high school make structural adjustments that foster inclusion while challenging all students.
• Data mining with a mission.
  Article discusses issues concerning data-driven decision making in the school setting. A key aspect of data-driven decision making involves looking at information over an extended period of time.
• Decent Facilities and Learning: Thirman A. Milner Elementary and Beyond.
  Reviews the research that relates building design and condition to learning and suggests strategies for reinvigorating the design process.
• Designing Safe Schools.
  Explores facility design techniques that schools can use to enhance security in the absence of built-in security systems.
• Developing Culturally Consonant Curriculum Using the Technology of the New Millennium
  This paper explains how educational technology and multimedia materials can enhance teaching and learning for today's diverse students. The United States still carries the Puritan influence in education (attempting to build a single culture), with little recognition of the need to address diversity in California's K-12 classrooms.
• Facilitating Multicultural Programming through Cooperative Extension FCS Programs
  Responses from 122 extension professionals showed that 56% offered programs targeted to specific groups. Deterrents to multicultural programs included lack of time, resources, and limited training; 95% recognized the need to address cultural differences and were receptive to learning about different groups.
• From the Reviewers: Rethinking School Design.
  Discusses the impact current educational reforms and new teaching styles are having on school design and the themes and trends that are emerging in designs for 2001.
• Futures Thinking: Consideration of the Impact of Educational Change on Black and Minority Ethnic Achievement
  Discusses the potential of information and communications technology (ICT) and the World Wide Web to offer positive alternatives in contemporary British schools that are failing their black and minority group students. Describes the advantages of ICT and looks at future changes in the teaching profession and changes in the curriculum that will require knowledge of ICT.
• General Classroom Space. School Planning & Management
  Illustrates how a Utah school district created classroom learning environments in their elementary schools that prepared students for life-long learning by teaching them in a collaborative, interactive, hands-on way. Arrangements of classrooms as learning centers that foster a team atmosphere are stressed.
• Hockey Night in Canada and Waltzing Matilda: Examining Culture in a Global Classroom
  This paper, the result of a collaboration between professors at the University of Calgary in Canada and Ararat Community College in Victoria (Australia), was presented at the 2001 Teaching the in Community Colleges Conference, "Teaching and Learning: What Have We Discovered and Where Are We Headed?" In this paper, the authors describe their experiences in setting up a collaborative course to examine Canadian and Australian cultures in a global classroom and offer tips and instructions for setting up global educational communities, including advice about managing time zones, setting up video-conferencing and email technologies, and planning a cooperative agenda.
• Increasing Multicultural Awareness through Correspondence: A University-School Partnership Project
  This paper describes an e-mail-based correspondence project between 56 pairs of university-school partners: pre-service teachers enrolled in a multicultural education course, and middle school students enrolled in language arts classes in a culturally diverse, economically depressed community. The purpose of the critical action research project was to offer the pre-service teachers an opportunity to interact with students of diverse cultural backgrounds and to offer the middle school students an interesting way to engage in literacy development.
• Institutional impacts and organizational issues related to service-learning.
  Identifies issues related to infrastructure and support and possible solutions.
• Making the grade: Reinventing America’s schools.
  Describes how schools of today- and schools of the future- must respond to sweeping societal changes or they will remain mired in an obsolete and ineffective system of education.
• Multicultural Issues in the Advertising Curriculum
  Argues that advertising students should understand ethnic markets. Finds that only 15% of surveyed advertising professors said their departments offer courses focused exclusively on multicultural issues, only 13% said students were required to take courses relevant to ethnic advertising outside of their department, and over half spent three hours or less on multicultural components in their general advertising courses.
• NCIP Video Profiles
  NCIP has produced six video profiles that illustrate how students with disabilities utilize a range of assistive and instructional technologies to improve their learning. They are designed to be used at workshops, trainings and courses.
• Pinunuuchi Po'og'ani: Southern Ute Indian Academy
  Describes the Pinunuuchi Po'og'ani, the Southern Ute Indian Academy, providing Montessori education for Southern Ute tribal members ages 6 weeks through 10 years and reviving the use of the Southern Ute language and culture among young students and their families. Describes how the program supports families, students, and staff, and incorporates Montessori-style materials covering Ute language, history, culture, arts, timelines, and traditional games.
• Preparing teachers for inclusive classrooms.
  This article examines the topics of concern and questions expressed by six general education student teachers in a collaborative dialogue group focused on inclusive classrooms.
• Promoting a collaborative professional culture in three elementary schools that have beaten the odds.
  Three-year study examined the dynamics of school culture in 3 elementary schools that have beaten the odds in improving low-income and minority student achievement.
• PT3. [SITE 2002 Section]
  This document contains 142 papers on PT3 (Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to use Technology) from the SITE (Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education) 2002 conference.
• Scholarship in teaching: An imperative for the 21st century.
  Outlines an organizational infrastructure needed to support scholars in education.
• Seeing through Race, Gender and Socioeconomic Status
  This paper discusses the history of discrimination in the United States and the length of time it took to abolish the legal support of racism. The paper then discusses the problems of diversity in the United States.
• Students with disabilities in standards-based assessment and accountability system: Emerging issues, strategies and recommendations (Synthesis Report 37)
  For all students we must keep the standards high, and do whatever it takes to help students be successful. The curriculum, structure, the time it takes to learn, the way we assess may change, but we cannot lower standards.
• Sustaining change: The answers are blowing in the wind.
  Brings educators up to speed on staff development, support, adult learning time, and reducing fragmentation and overload.
• Teaching the Growing Population of Nontraditional Students
  This document contains three articles on teaching the growing population of nontraditional students.
• The Benefits of Dialogue Journals: What Prospective Teachers Say
  Investigated preservice teachers' perceptions of the benefits and drawbacks to using dialogue journals in a multicultural teacher education course. Students perceived many benefits related to facilitation of learning, self-reflection, self-understanding, procedural convenience, expression of ideas, feedback, and teacher student relationships.
• The Digital Divide and Its Implications for the Language Arts. ERIC Digest D153
  In the early years of the Internet, there was an expectation that the availability and easy access to online resources of unparalleled abundance would increase educational equity throughout the socio-economic spectrum. In fact, research suggests that patterns of technology access often mirror existing inequalities rather than mitigate them, and if corrective steps are not taken, technology may worsen rather than solve equity disparities.
• Time use flows from school culture.
  School leaders must learn to read the culture and focus staff development on cultural issues affecting how people use time. This paper discusses cultures that nurture and wound and describes how to shape more nurturing cultures.
• Topics on Distance Learning: Proceedings 2000 (Hammond, Indiana, June 6-7, 2000). Corp Author(s): Purdue Univ., Hammond, IN. Calumet Campus. Publication: U.S.; Indiana; 2000-00-00 Description: 6 p
  This is a proceeding of the 2000 Topics on Distance Learning conference.
• Urban school reform from a student- of-color perspective.
  This article looks at one school community’s efforts to fundamentally alter the structure, curriculum and instructional practices in ways that would help to provide greater educational opportunities for all students.
• Use time for faculty study.
  Discusses advantages to the whole-faculty study-group process, which involves small groups that meet regularly to focus on some area of educational improvement. Includes guidelines and concludes that study groups can help teachers accomplish together what they are already expected to do.
• Using an Interactive Website To Educate about Cultural Diversity and Societal Oppression
  Describes use of an interactive Web forum to provide a safe vehicle for social work students to dialogue concerning the dynamics of social oppression and cultural diversity. Analyzes usage patterns of the website and data from student evaluations.
• Using Teaming, Active Learning, and Technology to Improve Instruction.
  Discusses the Technology Enhancing Achievement in Middle School (TEAMS) approach to classroom design, which incorporates interdisciplinary teams, active learning, and technology as an instructional tool.