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Nsf Graduate Teaching Fellows In K-12 Education At The University Of Maine, Susan Brawley, Stephen Norton, Barbara J. Cole, Susan J. Hunter, Michael Vayda
Nsf Graduate Teaching Fellows In K-12 Education At The University Of Maine, Susan Brawley, Stephen Norton, Barbara J. Cole, Susan J. Hunter, Michael Vayda
University of Maine Office of Research Administration: Grant Reports
The program for Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 Education at the University of Maine is consistent with the State's legislatively mandated goals for education in Science and Technology. Twelve Fellows are working in four local school districts through this program, which engages colleagues at the University and K-12 schools in transfer of knowledge and curriculum development with respect to topics such as Classifying Living Things, Forestry & Pulp and Paper Studies, and The Hydrological Cycle. The project is providing K-12 students and teachers with access to curriculum development, field trips, technology, and equipment that local school budgets had not provided. …
The Maine Folklife Center Curriculum Guide, Irene Jackson
The Maine Folklife Center Curriculum Guide, Irene Jackson
Northeast Folklore Monographs
The Maine Folklife Center Curriculum Guide is a way to bring life into Maine Studies curricula by personalizing history and creating new connections between students and their communities. The guide is geared to help teachers fulfill the Maine Department of Education Learning Results (July, 1997), many of which call for primary research and the understanding of individual lives in an historical context. Specifically, the guide presents an introduction to using the Maine Folklife Center and four units: one on conducting oral histories, one on games, and two on the lumbering life. The games and lumbering units are based on selections …
Sports Advancing Academic Standards In Maine, Kay Hyatt
Sports Advancing Academic Standards In Maine, Kay Hyatt
General University of Maine Publications
As schools across the country gear up for the challenges of the growing educational standards movement, an unlikely force is giving shape and substance to the Maine Leaming Results. Coaches participating in a University of Maine pilot project are providing one of the first models of program assessment and improvement that is solidly grounded in Maine's new educational reform standards.
Educational Reform: An Interview With Commissioner J. Duke Albanese, J. Duke Albanese
Educational Reform: An Interview With Commissioner J. Duke Albanese, J. Duke Albanese
Maine Policy Review
Few issues touch the hearts, minds, and lives of Mainers more than education. Learning Results, budgetary concerns, violence in schools, and school choice are among the issues that occupy much of the public policy focus of educators, administrators, taxpayers, and lawmakers alike. In this interview, Commissioner J. Duke Albanese addresses some of these education issues, most notably Learning Results and their potential impact on education in Maine.