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Gay, Geneva – Teachers College Press, 2023
In this collection of articles, Geneva Gay invites readers to make educational equity and excellence for "all" students a reality, not just an ethic or an ideal. Through teaching narratives and pragmatic examples, Gay illustrates that a combination of ideology, ethics, personal commitment, and praxis on the part of educators is essential…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Ideology, Ethics, Teacher Role
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Glatthorn, Allan A. – NASSP Bulletin, 1987
Discusses the negative and positive aspects of teacher autonomy in relation to curriculum development and control. Outlines a process for solving the problem that includes conducting staff development through dialog, delineating mastery curriculum, mapping ideal curriculum, and developing curriculum-based tests. Includes references and a figure.…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Staff Development, Teacher Behavior
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Carter, Kathy; Richardson, Virginia – Elementary School Journal, 1989
Discusses the content and processes for initial-year-of-teaching programs. Suggests and describes the study of teaching cases as an approach for such programs. (RJC)
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Case Studies, Classroom Techniques, Curriculum Development
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Clark, L. – Reading, 2000
Notes that research in three primary schools in Southern England draws attention to the ways in which the National Literacy Strategy (NLS) is prompting changes in contexts for writing and in the nature of teacher intervention. Concludes that developmentally appropriate, affirming strategies need not contravene the educational ideals of the NLS.…
Descriptors: British National Curriculum, Childrens Writing, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
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Olson, John K. – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 1983
Curriculum guides can effectively guide practice if the guide writer pays attention to the context in which teachers work and to the language that teachers use in that context. Problems encountered by a curriculum project illustrate what happens in practice when guide writers fail to appreciate teachers' objectives. (RM)
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Communication Problems, Curriculum Development
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Anderson, Digby C. – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 1983
To produce a curriculum guide that is practical calls for an awareness of the working context of the practitioner and an ability to translate that intuitive awareness into an explicit description which captures the essence of what teaching is. Health education project materials are used to illustrate the translating demands. (RM)
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Communication Problems, Curriculum Development
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Harris, Ilene B. – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 1983
Factors which affect communication with teachers via curriculum guides include how authors and readers conceptualize educational practice and teaching and audience characteristics. Although each of the predominant forms of discourse (persuasive, descriptive, theoretical) used to communicate practice prescriptions for teachers is flawed, the three…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Communication Problems, Curriculum Development
Dow, Ian I.; And Others – 1978
The project reported on here was established to develop an item pool to reflect the universe of content set down in "Education in the Primary and Junior Division" (EPJD), which was adopted by the Ontario Ministry of Education in 1975 to provide a general framework for the justification of curricular decisions; to provide a curriculum…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Research, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
Cline, Dan, Ed.; And Others – 1978
This compilation of training objectives was designed to assist in developing needs assessments and in designing inservice training programs for teachers of handicapped children. Documents on competencies were collected from the National Inservice Network (NIN) training programs for regular education personnel and from the Dean's Grant Network at…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Classroom Techniques, Curriculum Development, Educational Objectives