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This page from The Academy for College Excellence (ACE) provides information on the project's professional development opportunities. Introductory workshops, community of practice workshops, instructor workshops and mentoring sessions are outlined. Information on workshop availability is also...

This page from The Academy for College Excellence (ACE) highlights key points of the project's teaching philosophy. Seven main points are outlined, including the central concept of "lighting the fire within," helping students to understand the expectations of college-level classes, treating students...

This paper, by Kurt Seemann, a faculty member at Southern Cross University, Coffs Harbour, Australia, covers the basic principles of holistic technology education. The paper presents a schema for establishing a holistic understanding and knowledge of technology, knowing and understanding through...

DeafTEC provides this resource with strategies and ideas for improving the classroom environment in a mainstreamed classroom with a mix of hearing, deaf, and hard-of-hearing students. Eight topics are included such as First Day of Class, Lighting, Competing Sound, Seating, and Line of Sight. Each...

DeafTEC provides this resource with strategies and ideas for communicating with students in a mainstreamed classroom with a mix of hearing, deaf, and hard-of-hearing students. Eight topics are included such as First Day of Class, Pace, Flow, Transitions, and Labeling/Referencing. Each topic includes...

DeafTEC provides this page with sample lectures given to mainstreamed classrooms with a mix of hearing, deaf and hard-of-hearing students. The first video contains a mock lecture given by Dr. Gary Long, a co-PI of DeafTEC. The next four videos contain recordings of an actual Networking Lab and Art...

DeafTEC provides this resource with strategies and ideas for working with support services in a mainstreamed classroom with a mix of hearing, deaf, and hard-of-hearing students. Six topics are included such as First Day of Class, Interpreting, Tutoring, Notetaking, and Live Captioning. Each topic...

DeafTEC provides this resource with strategies and ideas for teaching in a mainstreamed classroom with a mix of hearing, deaf, and hard-of-hearing students. Twelve topics are included such as First Day of Class, Pace, Complexity, Visuals, Attention, and Point of Reference. Each topic includes a...

This document is a code of best practices that helps educators using media literacy concepts and techniques to interpret the copyright doctrine of fair use. Fair use is the right to use copyrighted material without permission or payment under some circumstances especially when the cultural or social...

This paper, by Anthony Petrosino of the University of Texas at Austin, provides "a framework for thinking about the use of models and model-based curriculum in K-12 settings." Teaching with mathematical models for space and geometry, data, measure, and probability and uncertainty are all discussed.