The colonial legacy of English instruction has become especially relevant within the field of TESOL. While it is promising that increasing attention is being paid to the issue of colonialism and its historical and contemporary impact on the teaching of English, educators might be left without a clear sense of how to traverse the precarious path of…

The flipped classroom method, particularly when used with digital video, has recently attracted many supporters within the education field. Now more than ever, language arts educators can benefit tremendously from incorporating flipped classroom techniques into their curriculum. "Applying the Flipped Classroom Model to English Language Arts…

California has embarked on a major new wave of curriculum reform with the adoption of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), the new English Language Development (ELD) standards, and the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). The adoption of the CCSS builds a legacy of standards-based education reform in California that began with the…

The purpose of this document is to highlight "what works" based on the curriculum development and research work of the Center for Gifted Education during the past 20 years. Areas of study include curriculum development, instruction, assessment, and professional development. Through the use of the Integrated Curriculum Model as a template for …

A patchwork approach to curriculum planning can cause inconsistencies. To avoid this a five-step approach is presented. (MD)

Explains how all secondary school subject matter can be learned and taught philosophically. Reviews basic components of a philosophical lesson (truth, values, faith, logic) and describes a classroom activity based on a reading from a Berthold Brecht play. (Author/AV)

Presents responses to the policy recommendations issued by the National Endowment for the Arts in "Toward Civilization: A Report on Arts Education." Samuel Hope places this report in an historical context, Kevin Mulcahy points out the dangers of viewing art education as a pedagogical frill, and James Hutchens addresses issues of…

This volume, the second in a series, contains the work of a seminar that explored relationships among values in society, values in schools, and the personal and social development of young people. By reflecting on some philosophical aspects of values, looking at strategies for the development of values-conscious young people, and considering means…

Assessed a preschool health education program. Preschoolers of four, five, and six years attended a 15-week health education program, and 19 of the children took pretests and posttests of health knowledge. Results indicated an increase in health knowledge. Six curriculum objectives were shown to have higher scores at the posttest than at the…

Outlined are curriculum issues concerning the development of a master's degree program in Environmental Education at Griffith University during 1990. This paper examines how fundamental considerations, purposes, objectives, course organization schema, and proposed teaching methods have evolved to meet the challenges of professional development…

This brief paper offers an overview of strategies, with practical examples, to infuse multicultural content into the curriculum for gifted students. It proposes a framework for multicultural gifted education based on the four levels or approaches of J. Banks and C. Banks and within each approach, the six levels of B. Bloom's taxonomy. The four…

To help teachers structure cultural and ethnic information into their art programs, six organizational approaches are suggested: diversifying existing curriculum; enhancement of basic skills; the conceptual approach; the thematic approach; the extension model; and the materials and processes approach. This article is part of a theme issue on…

This social studies course of study for the Cincinnati (Ohio) Public Schools is organized into four sections. Section 1 highlights the broad changes from the previous course of study in the Overview, Introduction, and Special Program Features sections. Program features described in detail include significant areas of new emphasis: history…

This book is designed for medical teachers who wish to consider problem-based learning as an educational method to be used in their courses or curriculum in medical school. The first six chapters elaborate the background for a well-designed problem-based learning curriculum by considering the goals of undergraduate medical education, the challenge…