Materials Education and Research in Art and Design: A New Role for Libraries - Session 3. RISD Faculty

Faculty from Rhode Island School of Design representing Interior Architecture, Industrial Design, and Textiles detail their thoughtful interactions with materials.

Materials Education and Research in Art and Design: A New Role for Libraries - Session 4. Designers

Designers respond to issues and synthesize ideas from throughout the day as voices from the field who directly encounter the need for recently graduated students to possess the ability to investigate and interrogate materials.

Materials Education and Research in Art and Design: A New Role for Libraries - Session 2. Educators

Educators representing interactions with materials speak to critical approaches, life-cycle concerns, critical thinking of composition/process/properties.

A educação no primeiro governo de Lauro Sodré (1886-1897): os sentidos de uma concepção político-educacional republicana

Este trabalho tem por tema a História da Educação e apresenta como objeto de pesquisa a concepção político-educacional que orientou as reformas educacionais do primeiro governo de Lauro Sodré (1891-1897). O seu objetivo é analisar os sentidos que essa concepção político-educacional assumiu na orientação daquelas reformas educacionais – tendo em vista que essa concepção é formulada originalmente no Governo Provisório (1889-1891), presidido por Justo Chermont, anterior ao de Lauro Sodré. Problematizam-se os objetivos e as finalidades que a concepção político-educac cional construída no Governo Provisório (1889-1891) assume nas reformas citadas, ou seja, quais os sentidos, políticos e educacionais, que essa concepção terá na direção dessas reformas educacionais do primeiro governo de Lauro Sodré (1891-1897). Como metodologia, a pesquisa documental, com utilização de fontes primárias (documentos) e secundárias (historiografia), e a sua articulação com aporte teórico. Assim, apontemos o corpus documental utilizado. Ele foi divido em três categorias: documentos impressos oficiais, jornal e obras impressas. Entre os documentos impressos oficiais: os Relatórios e Mensagens de Presidente de Província de 1886 a 1889 e do Governador do Estado (Lauro Sodré) ao Congresso do Estado do Pará, no período de 1891-1897. O jornal: A República entre 1886-1897. E por fim, as obras impressas: obras de Lauro Sodré, como Crenças e opiniões (1997) e Palavras e actos (1896). Para tal esforço, utilizamos como aporte teórico para a leitura do objeto aqui proposto: o conceito de intelectual orgânico de Antonio Gramsci (1989; 2001); discurso de acordo com Mikhail Bakhtin (1979); campo educacional nas formulações de Pierre Bourdieu (1982; 2003; 2008) e representação segundo Roger Chartier (1990; 1991). Constatou-se que a concepção político-educacional investigada tem suas origens nas proposições e críticas dos republicanos à política e à educação no Império. Essas proposições são efetivadas na reforma do ensino primário do Governo Provisório, como finalidade educacional, e a formação de cidadãos regenerados e comprometidos com o regime republicano recém proclamado, a partir da infância, como objetivo político. Nas reformas operadas no primeiro governo de Lauro Sodré, a preocupação é com a educação secundária e profissional, além da formação de cidadãos junto aos trabalhadores paraenses. Dessa forma, concluímos que essa concepção político-educacional procura legitimar o regime republicano nos seus primeiros momentos e no tempo de sua consolidação, buscando, por meio da educação, objetivar os seus intentos políticos.

Empowering Teachers as Leaders: A Hard Sell

Despite emphasis on preparing teachers as leaders, teacher educators realize that the transition of classroom practitioners into school leaders is fraught with many obstacles. This session addresses some of these obstacles, describes strategies and opportunities that we have used in our graduate master’s degree programs for teachers that support professionals as they make this change. The session will present evidence on the results of our efforts in terms of teachers’ performances within their programs and in the field after they graduate.

Use and abuse of audivisual media in the college classroom. Slides show and web pages

The multimedia development that has taken place within the university classrooms in recent years has caused a revolution at psychological level within the collectivity of students and teachers inside and outside the classrooms. The slide show applications have become a key supporting element for university professors, who, in many cases, rely blindly in the use of them for teaching. Additionally, ill-conceived slides, poorly structured and with a vast amount of multimedia content, can be the basis of a faulty communication between teacher and student, which is overwhelmed by the appearance and presentation, neglecting their content. The same applies to web pages. This paper focuses on the study and analysis of the impact caused in the process of teaching and learning by the slide show presentations and web pages, and its positive and negative influence on the student’s learning process, paying particular attention to the consequences on the level of attention within the classroom, and on the study outside the classroom. The study is performed by means of a qualitative analysis of student surveys conducted during the last 8 school Civil Engineering School at the Polytechnic University of Madrid. It presents some of the weaknesses of multimedia material, including the difficulties for students to study them, because of the many distractions they face and the need for incentives web pages offer, or the insignificant content and shallowness of the studies due to wrongly formulated presentations.

U.S. and U.K. standards system : report of standards workshop /

"Electronic resource guide"--P. 36-40.

A university for the 21st century /

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Business-education partnerships in Illinois /

Imprint varies.

Negotiating, Communicating, Collaborating: A Sociocultural View of Online Program Development

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2016-05

Voices of lay principals: Promoting a Catholic character and culture in schools in an era of change

This paper reports a qualitative study of the practice of leadership in Catholic schools to ascertain the perceptions of lay principals, who as positional leaders play a critical role in embracing and creatively rebuilding the Catholic vision of life within the reality that the Catholic school principalship is now a ministry of the laity. The methodology included semi-structured interviews, field notes, reflexive journals, direct observation, and document nalysis. The study examined both individual human behaviour and the structure of the social order in Catholic schools. The findings point towards successful leadership in Catholic schools being highly influenced by the cultural and spiritual capital that a principal brings to a school signifying a fundamental importance of appointing principals who are not only professionally competent but spiritually as well. In an era of unprecedented social, educational and ecclesial change, and with an ever widening role description, lay principals are challenged to redefine and re-articulate their Catholic character and identity, and will need to look for new ways to make this explicit. Embracing a new leadership paradigm of shared leadership, the preparation and on-going formation of lay principals were identified as critical for the continuance of the Catholic school’s distinctive mission in the future.

TEACHNJ: An Evaluation of Two Years Implementation

The Teacher Effectiveness and Accountability for the Children of New Jersey (TEACHNJ) Act was adopted by the New Jersey legislature in August 2012 with the intent to raise student achievement by improving the overall quality of instruction. As a result of this act, new teacher evaluation systems are being introduced in school districts across the state in an effort to more accurately assess teacher performance. The new teacher evaluations will be based on multiple classroom observations as well as the academic achievement of their students as measured on standardized tests. In addition, professional development opportunities are likely to change under this legislation, with schools customizing professional development programs to more effectively meet the needs of their teachers. The overarching question that informs our research is what impact will TEACH NJ have on the overall value of teacher evaluations and the quality of professional development opportunities offered to teachers. Data collected through survey research presents the pre-implementation practices (2011-2012 school year) as well as one year post-implementation practices (2013-2014) taking place in school districts throughout New Jersey. The findings reflect teachers’ perceptions of the value of the current teacher evaluation practices, the quality of the current professional development opportunities and the value the school administration places on teacher evaluations.

Pedagogical Perceptions of Classroom Performance in the Teacher Evaluative Process: A Mixed Methods Study

This sequential explanatory, mixed methods research design examines the role teachers should enact in the development process of the teacher evaluation system in Louisiana. These insights will ensure teachers are catalysts in the classroom to significantly increase student achievement and allow policymakers, practitioners, and instructional leaders to direct as learned decision makers.