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Harrison, Lisa M., Ed.; Hurd, Ellis, Ed.; Brinegar, Kathleen, Ed. – Routledge Research in Education, 2020
Originally published as a special issue of the "Middle School Journal," this book presents integrative curriculum as a foundational element of the middle school. By addressing the current gap in literature on curriculum integration in the middle grades, this text explores how learning can be organized around authentic concepts or…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Integrated Curriculum, Middle School Teachers, Teaching Methods
Fels, Dawn, Ed.; Wells, Jennifer, Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2011
This book highlights the work of talented writing center teachers who share practices and lessons learned from today's most important high school writing centers. The authors offer innovative methods for secondary educators who deal with adolescent literacy, English language learners, new literacies, embedded professional development, and…
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, Literacy, Second Language Learning, Laboratories
Sterrett, Andrew, Ed. – 1992
Integrating mathematics with other disciplines is an important issue for mathematics education. Writing is one such discipline that can be usefully integrated with mathematics instruction. This collection of essays on the use of writing to teach mathematics is an outgrowth of sessions of contributed papers presented at the 1988 and 1989 Annual…
Descriptors: Algebra, Calculus, Content Area Writing, Elementary Secondary Education
Bailey, Jane M.; And Others – 1994
This document brings together six papers on language skills and language arts teaching of gifted students. "The State of the Art Issues in Language Study for High Ability Learners: Thinking about Language with Gifted Children" (Michael Clay Thompson) considers two areas traditionally included in discussions of language study--grammar and…
Descriptors: Change, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted
Lord Fairfax Community Coll., Middletown, VA. – 1992
In an attempt to improve its students' writing abilities, as well as their critical thinking skills, Lord Fairfax Community College, in Virginia, developed a program called "Thinking through Writing." The project designers believed that concept formation, classification, memory enhancement, and other learning/thinking skills could be…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Curriculum Design, Interdisciplinary Approach, Teaching Methods
Newburger, Craig, Ed. – 1994
This volume of an annual collection presents 14 essays relating to instruction in the basic communication course. Essays in the collection are "Using Interactive Video Instruction to Enhance Public Speaking Instruction" (Michael W. Cronin and William R. Kennan); "Interactive Video Instruction for Teaching Organizational Techniques…
Descriptors: Communication Apprehension, Communication Research, Computer Mediated Communication, Graduate Students
Graham, Steve, Ed.; MacArthur, Charles A., Ed.; Fitzgerald, Jill, Ed. – Guilford Publications, 2007
Highly practical and accessible, this indispensable book provides clear-cut strategies for improving K-12 writing instruction. The contributors are leading authorities who demonstrate proven ways to teach different aspects of writing, with chapters on planning, revision, sentence construction, handwriting, spelling, and motivation. The use of the…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Instructional Improvement, Teaching Methods, Elementary Education
Siu-Runyan, Yvonne, Ed.; Faircloth, Victoria, Ed. – 1995
Using reading and writing to learn, inquire, construct, and examine ideas across the curriculum is central to an integrated curriculum. Too many middle school students do not view writing as a communication process that permeates the curriculum, nor reading as an active, constructivist process whereby various perspectives can be examined and…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Adolescent Development, Curriculum Development, Developmentally Appropriate Practices