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Robust Vocabulary Instruction in a Readers' Workshop
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Feezell, Greg – Reading Teacher, 2012
This article presents strategies for integrating explicit vocabulary instruction within a reading workshop. The author begins by describing a process for involving students in word selection. The author then provides a weeklong instructional sequence using student-selected words. Finally, the author briefly examines the role of vocabulary…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Workshops, Vocabulary Development, Reading Instruction
Learning Progressions Provide Road Maps for the Development and Validity of Assessments and Curriculum Materials
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Krajcik, Joseph – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2011
Paul Black, Mark Wilson, and Shih-Ying Yao in "Road Maps for Learning: A Guide to the Navigation of Learning Progressions" provide a number of important ideas to consider regarding the development of assessments and curriculum materials to support development of core ideas. One major idea that the author found most valuable is the focus on student…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Educational Change, Learning Processes, Alignment (Education)
Learner Control and Personal Learning Environment: A Challenge for Instructional Design
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Valjataga, Terje; Laanpere, Mart – Interactive Learning Environments, 2010
In an increasingly networked and technologically mediated world, people need to continuously update their knowledge and skill base, so as to be able to self-direct their intentional learning projects. In addition to teaching domain-specific knowledge and skills, the role of higher education should be reorganizing current teaching and studying…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Intentional Learning, Foreign Countries, Educational Environment
Road Maps for Learning: A Guide to the Navigation of Learning Progressions
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Black, Paul; Wilson, Mark; Yao, Shih-Ying – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2011
The overall aim of this article is to analyze the relationships between the roles of assessment in pedagogy, the interactions between curriculum assessment and pedagogy, and the study of pupils' progression in learning. It is argued that well-grounded evidence of pupils' progressions in learning is crucial to the work of teachers, so that a method…
Descriptors: Evidence, Learning Strategies, Program Effectiveness, Grade 8
A Standards-Based Thematic Unit: "Le Geant de Zeralda"
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Keoseian, Therese; Ladd, Richard; Moakley, Rosanna; Pierce, Constance – National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center, 1998
This unit was created as a result of a summer institute sponsored by the National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. The Center's goal is to improve student learning of foreign languages in kindergarten through twelfth grade (K-12). To this end, the Center provides professional support for foreign language…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Elementary Secondary Education, Fairy Tales, Foreign Countries
A Standards-Based Thematic Unit: "Jean de la Lune"
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Logan, Eileen; Magurn, Lisa; Schwester, Jennifer Applegate – National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center, 1998
This unit was created as a result of a summer institute sponsored by the National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. The Center's goal is to improve student learning of foreign languages in kindergarten through twelfth grade (K-12). To this end, the Center provides professional support for foreign language…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Elementary Secondary Education, Familiarity, Lecture Method