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Lusardi, Meng Li – Educational Leadership, 2017
Meng Li Lusardi, a Chinese teacher at an independent school in New York, recently set out to provide her students with more personalized learning and assessment. In this article, Lusardi documents how she revamped a project with personalization in mind, which resulted in content-rich exploration and greater student engagement. The author's…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Individualized Instruction, Student Evaluation, Learner Engagement
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Shideler, Annette – Journal for Leadership and Instruction, 2016
Teachers, both mainstream and English as a New Language (ENL), are cognizant of the many languages and learning ability levels of ELLs. They struggle to address the challenges presented by this population of students. Districts with large or small ELL populations face similar challenges: how can mainstream content be made comprehensible to ELLs to…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Information Utilization, Active Learning, Student Projects
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Johnson, Elisabeth; Oppenheim, Rachel; Suh, Younjung – New Educator, 2009
For new educators, the obstacles of high-stakes testing, curricular mandates, and their own inexperience and self-doubt can render teaching for justice and equity overwhelming, seemingly impossible ideals. However, as students are increasingly tied to prescriptive curricula and academic performance standards, the goals of social justice and…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Social Justice, Course Content, Curriculum Development
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Gordon, Erick – English Journal, 2007
Erick Gordon, founding director of the Student Press Initiative, illustrates collaborations with teachers and students that have motivated students to invest themselves in the process and product of writing, including research, oral history, revision, and an immersion in and commitment to community.
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Secondary Education, College School Cooperation, Publishing Industry
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Bureau of Curriculum Development. – 1988
This syllabus/handbook is designed to aid teachers and administrators in developing a music course to meet the New York State Commission of Education's requirements for a one year high school Music In Our Lives (MIOL) class. This class encompasses the areas of listening, performing, composing, using basic tool skills, and developing special…
Descriptors: Applied Music, Curriculum Development, Listening Skills, Music Activities