Описание: An assessment of progress of The Pittsburgh Promise-a postsecondary education scholarship intended to remedy the area's population and district enrollment decline, foster high school completion and college readiness, and prepare a capable workforce for the city-toward its goals to date. Recommendations for improving the program's effectiveness are offered, along with a conceptual model for evaluating progress and ensuring continual improvement.
Acknowledgements.- Introduction: On Language and Content: The Stakes of Curricular Transformation in Collegiate Foreign Language Education By Per Urlaub.- PART I Contexts: Drivers for Curricular Change.- 1. From Language to Literacy: The Evolving Concepts of Foreign Language Teaching at American Colleges and Universities since 1945 By Janet Swaffar.- 2. The Discourse of Foreignness in U.S. Language Education By Glenn S. Levine.- PART II Insights: Making Curricular Transformation Work.- 3. Curricular Integration and Faculty Development: Teaching Language-Based Content across the Foreign Language Curriculum By Hiram H. Maxim.- 4. Program Sustainability through Interdisciplinary Networking: On Connecting Foreign Language Programs with Sustainability Studies and Other Fields By Charlotte Melin.- 5. Are Global, International, and Foreign Language Studies Connected?ByJohanna Watzinger-Tharp.- 6. Integrating Business and Foreign Languages: The Lauder Institute and Advanced Language Education By Kenric Tsethlikai.- PART III Outlook: Strategies Facilitating a Curricular Transformation for Multi literacies.- 7. Mapping New Classrooms in Literacy-Oriented Foreign Language Teaching and Learning: The Role of the Reading Experience By Chantelle Warner.- 8. Foreign Language Teaching Assistant Professional Development: Challenges and Strategies Meeting the 2007 MLA Report Call's for Change By Heather Willis Allen.- 9. Discipline, Institution, and Assessment: The Graduate Curriculum, Credibility, and Accountability By Katherine Arens.
Описание: Online degree programs have long faced the issue of retention and engagement from their students. Proper support and guidance for students can encourage continuation in these programs, and can help lead to student success.Coaching for Student Retention and Success at the Postsecondary Level: Emerging Research and Opportunities is a pivotal reference source that provides vital research on the application of student support systems as a promising intervention for post-secondary retention and student success. While highlighting topics such as student assessment, online programs, and professional identity, this publication explores support strategies that boost retention, as well as the methods of using support and guidance to promote student success. This book is ideally designed for educational professionals, educational organizations, educational administrators, universities, and academics seeking current research on the effects of guidance on student retention rates and success.
Описание: The first book of its kind to discuss career development and postsecondary transitions from an access and equity perspective. Further, this text serves as a call to action to ensure the United States` most vulnerable populations has an opportunity to successfully transition into multiple postsecondary options after high school.
Описание: This book presents a new paradigm for higher education, one that focuses on "the value added" of postsecondary education as well as on student success beyond the traditional measure of college graduation rates, a model which merges conventional practices and supports for students with non-traditional partnerships with successful non-completers.
At last there is a handbook that everyone in higher education can use to help increase transfer student success. This comprehensive resource has been brought together to meet the need for a truly holistic approach to the transfer experience. The book brings together research, theory, practical applications, programmatic illustrations, case studies, encouragement, and inspiration, and is supplemented by an online compendium for continual updates of resources, case studies, and new developments in the world of transfer.
Based on a totally different way of thinking about, understanding, and acting to increase transfer student success, The Transfer Experience goes far beyond the traditional, limited view of transfer as a technical process simply about articulating credits, a stage of student development, or a novel enrollment management strategy. Rather, the book introduces a stimulating array of new perspectives, resources, options, models, and recommendations for addressing the many needs of this huge cohort – making the academic, civic, and social justice cases for improving transfer at both transfer-sending and transfer-receiving institutions.
At last there is a handbook that everyone in higher education can use to help increase transfer student success. This comprehensive resource has been brought together to meet the need for a truly holistic approach to the transfer experience. The book brings together research, theory, practical applications, programmatic illustrations, case studies, encouragement, and inspiration, and is supplemented by an online compendium for continual updates of resources, case studies, and new developments in the world of transfer.
Based on a totally different way of thinking about, understanding, and acting to increase transfer student success, The Transfer Experience goes far beyond the traditional, limited view of transfer as a technical process simply about articulating credits, a stage of student development, or a novel enrollment management strategy. Rather, the book introduces a stimulating array of new perspectives, resources, options, models, and recommendations for addressing the many needs of this huge cohort – making the academic, civic, and social justice cases for improving transfer at both transfer-sending and transfer-receiving institutions.
Описание: Presents research on the application of student support systems as a promising intervention for post-secondary retention and student success. Highlighting topics such as student assessment and online programs, this book explores support strategies that boost retention, as well as the methods of using support and guidance to promote student success.
Описание: Provides a comprehensive description of the federal government`s relationship with higher education and how that relationship became so expansive over time. Natow analyses how the government`s role has evolved, the activities of specific governmental branches, and prospects for the future of federal involvement in higher education.
Автор: McCord Kimberly A. Название: Teaching the Postsecondary Music Student with Disabilities ISBN: 0190467770 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190467777 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 3246.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Teaching the Postsecondary Music Student with Disabilities provides valuable and practical information and strategies for teaching the college music student. With useful information on a full sprectrum of disabilities, this book provides a comprehensive resource for creating inclusive music education for students who audition and enter music school.
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