The education reform movement has inspired an impressive array of school improvement programs. This article categorizes these intitiatives, summarizes policy directions, explores recent state curriculum guidelines and Northwest trends, and discusses implementation challenges. According to an Education Commission of the States study, most…

This course of study guide is designed to help teachers establish a continuity within the scope and sequence of their elementary school mathematics curriculum and to assist those teachers in formulating some realistic goals for themselves and their students. This guide delineates content requirements needed to satisfy K-8 proficiency expectations…

This guide outlines content requirements needed to satisfy K-8 proficiency expectations in music in Idaho. Local school districts are to produce an instructional guide based upon the defined course of study. The brief outlines are in skeletal form allowing local autonomy in teaching the course of study. This publication includes basic goals and…

This course of study guide is designed to help teachers establish a continuity within the scope and sequence of their elementary school mathematics curriculum and to assist those teachers in formulating some realistic goals for themselves and their students. Part I contains an introduction and statement of philosophy. Part II contains course…

The humanities framework presented in this paper is not intended to be a state prescribed curriculum, course syllabus, or study guide. Instead, the framework discussed in the paper is designed to help local schools develop their own curricula to address their own goals as well as those of the state and the nation. An introductory section of the…

The contents of this guide have been organized under five major topics: (1) number and operations; (2) sets, functions, relations, systems, and logic; (3) geometry; (4) measurement and estimation; and (5) selected topics. A scope-and-sequence chart is given for each of the topics for grades K-8. Behavioral objectives, teaching aids, and…

This guide lists nearly 200 character development programs in Idaho public schools. The guide first provides a map of Idaho's six geographical regions, each of which contains between four and nine school districts. It then provides for each character development program in each school district the following information: the program, the school,…

This guide presents a course outline and description of drama/theater arts that satisfies Idaho state graduation requirements for humanities. After a brief description of the philosophy of such courses, the guide describes the critical components that drama/theater course must significantly deal with: aesthetic perception, creative expression…

This 1974 guide is intended for use by Idaho administrators and music teachers as a ready source of information for a music program designed for student participation, education, and cultural development. This is a companion to the previous State Department of Education publication, "Music Program for Idaho Elementary Schools," and,…

The purpose of this course of study guide is to delineate content requirements needed to satisfy K-9 proficiency expectations in social studies for the state of Idaho. Local school districts are given the task of producing instructional guides based on this course of study. For each grade, K-6, a course description is outlined and critical…

THIS CURRICULUM GUIDE FOR ALL GRADES OF PUBLIC SCHOOL INSTRUCTION IS INTENDED TO ASSIST LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN DESIGNING AN ADEQUATE MATHEMATICS PROGRAM THAT REFLECTS THE MODERN APPROACH. THE GUIDE PRESCRIBES A PROGRAM WHICH IS SUFFICIENTLY FLEXIBLE TO BE USED BY LARGE DISTRICTS HAVING A COMPLETE THREE-TRACK MATHEMATICS PROGRAM WITH FIVE YEARS…

Delineating the content that must be covered in the secondary schools of the State of Idaho, this guide presents a course of study for a full-semester course designed to help students better understand the complexities of the communication process and succeed in a world of interaction. Although educators sometimes use the terms interchangeably,…

This framework is designed to help Idaho schools develop a social studies curriculum and to formulate realistic goals for themselves and their students. The guide is correlated to Idaho's performance-based documents and the state-approved social studies textbooks. The framework is built around the 10 themes for social studies developed by the…

Designed to present the content requirements needed to satisfy K-8 proficiency expectations in music for the state of Idaho, this course guide identifies four overall goals for students to strive to achieve. In goal 1, students will perceive and understand the elements of music, including rhythm, melody, harmony, tempo-dynamics, form, and timbre.…

This Idaho instructor's guide lists tasks and enabling objectives, outlines instruction, and provides handout masters, overhead masters, and tests for intravenous therapy (IV) instruction for licensed practical nurses. Following an introduction and a list of criteria for successful completion of IV therapy courses, the document lists tasks and…