This paper addresses an important consideration for promoting equitable engineering instruction: understanding how teachers contextualize curricular materials to draw upon student and community resources. We present a descriptive case study of two 5th grade teachers who co-designed a Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)-aligned curricular unit…

This anthology places art at the center of meaningful urban education reform. Providing a fresh perspective on urban education, the contributors describe a positive, asset-based community development model designed to tap into the teaching/learning potential already available in urban cities. Rather than focusing on a lack of resources, this…

This unique time-saving book is packed with tested techniques and materials to assist new and experienced English teachers with virtually every phase of their job from lesson planning to effective discipline techniques. The book includes 175 easy-to-understand strategies, lessons, checklists, and forms for effective classroom management and over…

The curriculum materials for high school students presented in the guide have been classroom developed and tested; they are the result of a project to establish a comprehensive career education program in the Peshastin-Dryden School System, Cashmere, Washington. An introduction discusses program goals, and is supplemented by the National Standard…

Authors list commonly held beliefs influencing the current crisis in race relations and offer suggestions on teaching about them. 32-item bibliography of resource materials. (DB)

Realizing that all students have to deal with death at some time, yet receive no formal education in the subject, Alex Kramer, a high school teacher at Moon High School, Corapolis, Pennsylvania, decided to create a program which would give students an opportunity to study death and the process of dying as integral parts of life. Kramer's goals,…

This catalog, consisting of three major sections, is intended primarily for teachers and administrators in Illinois but is also designed to be applicable to educators in other states. The first section (in narrative form) focuses on ideas for using community-based resources, offers guidelines for selecting career education materials, and describes…

This resource guide sets out a structure from which units, semester courses, or one-year courses may be developed in Canadian economic studies in the senior high. The Ontario Department of Education lists five possible aims for courses developed from this resource guide: 1) student awareness of fundamental problems, basic forces at work, and key…

One of the major reasons for the present concern for the pollution of the environment lies in the doubts about whether economic growth is possible without proportionate increases in the pollution of our air, land, and water. In response, Professor Wolozin devotes Part One of this trilogy to examining the economic relationships that help to explain…

Designed as a course to help senior high school students find their place as adults through involvement in the community, this unit allows students to work together, do volunteer work, recruit class speakers, participate in field trips, and help plan the class. This unit is divided into four sections: (1) organizing the class, (2) using the…

A conceptual framework was developed to aid teachers, parents, school administrators, and community and school site planning groups in developing a parenting program appropriate to the local community. Units of study, based on the framework, were developed and field tested in consumer and homemaking education programs in grades 9 through 12 in six…

Service-learning opportunities are prominent on many college campuses. The process of designing and implementing service-learning experiences, especially for students of gerontology, however, has rarely been addressed. The current article briefly reviews the background and utility of service-learning in gerontology courses, describes our…

The overall objective of this elective senior course and guide is to lead the non-college-bound student toward the maturity of consumer judgement necessary in the complex economic marketplace of today. The scope and sequence section of this guide lists the eight units and includes basic objectives, and conceptual understandings for each: 1)…

This recourse guide is one of a series of units on the theme Communities Around the World for grade 3. Background material on Paris, France is given for the teacher describing urban characteristics, French culture, and the physical site of the city. Objectives and goals related to concepts, generalizations, skills, and attitudes to be developed…

This guidebook for the teacher of geography or social studies includes teaching and learning suggestions. The major theme is teaching geography using one's local area as the prime resource. The four sections in the guidebook deal with: 1) Relating Geographic Concepts to the Local Community gives quick, non-technical explanations of some of the…