How do you prepare your students for a future that you can't see? And how do you do it without exhausting yourself? Teachers need a framework that allows them to keep pace with our rapidly changing world without having to overhaul everything they do. "Learning That Transfers" empowers teachers and curriculum designers alike to harness…

This updated edition of the bestselling book on the brain's natural learning process brings new research results and applications in a power-packed teacher tool kit. Rita Smilkstein shows teachers how to create and deliver curricula that help students become the motivated, successful, and natural learners they were born to be. Updated features…

This unit of study is part of the Great Explorations in Math and Science (GEMS) series produced by the Lawrence Hall of Science. Students investigate learning from a variety of perspectives. They are guided in an exploration of questions such as: how do we learn?; how can we help or hinder that learning process?; do animals learn in a similar…

Presents an outline of a number of curriculum modifications and adaptations that can be relatively simple to implement at the middle school level in order to individualize instruction in mainstreamed classrooms. (FL)

Offers a response from two educators concerning a question about commonalities across the mathematics, reading, and English disciplines. Suggests ways to create a supportive curriculum in light of new developments. (MG)

Sometimes multimedia presentations can provide an abundance of glamour without a clear vision of communicative content and direction. These may be called "show and show" displays. A presentation with a more apparent message or purpose could fall into either the "show and tell" or the "show and sell" category. Used…

Curriculum methods and materials need to address the values, individual traits, and learning styles of the handicapped child with racial or ethnic differences. (SBH)

Explains the phrase "What is Assessment?". Lists the principles of assessment and includes standards and goals, trust, total campus commitment, constant and continuing assessment, and incorporation of assessment research into practice and policy as the ideal components of assessment practice. Recommends the use of scoring rubrics for student…

An integrative process combining language instruction with cultural education is described and discussed. The process is integrative in two ways because it relates target and native languages, cultures, and perceptions, and also relates the teaching of culture to the teaching of language. This approach incorporates eight stages; the first five are…

It is suggested, based on research findings on learner strategies, that second language curriculum planners and teachers can and should provide students with opportunities to refine their learning skills. This can be accomplished by expanding their repertoire of learning strategies and refining their awareness of aspects of language learning. A…

Presents Grabiner's Use-Discover-Explore-Define (UDED) paradigm as a tool for a teachers' own acquisition of authentic historical accounts of the evolution of mathematical topics and as a pedagogical stratagem for their students as well. (KHR)

Some considerations and proposals are introduced to improve the efficiency of information management training based on the results of experiments done in this field. The integration of different parts of the information training program into scientific and technical specialties curricula is discussed. (KR)

Designed to provide a foundation for the selection of appropriate organizational patterns, teaching methods, and learning resources, this guide presents a set of goals and learning outcomes for an English curriculum intended for grades eight through twelve. In outline form, the guide describes curriculum goals designed to help students to listen…

Addresses two issues confronting teachers who use theme immersion in their classrooms: integration of content through theme, and inquiry-based curriculum. Discusses the challenge and justification for each issue. Notes that inquiry teaching means constantly searching for better ways to support children' s own inquiry processes. (BAC)

At Massachusetts Bay Community College a course was designed to create a transition from the process-based basic writing course to the traditional required freshman English course. WTG 100 was designed as an inquiry into academic writing, where students would learn about the various discourse conventions and expectations they would encounter as…