In this article, literacy, which is conceived of as a set of cognitive skills, is juxtaposed with a sociocultural orientation that sees literacy as a set of social practices for the production of meaning. Cognitive, skills-based pedagogies treat literacy as universal, autonomous, and independent of context, whereas sociocultural literacy…

The paper examines the implementation of an external written curriculum in the classroom. The study is based on observation of and interviews with 26 Israeli Bible teachers who followed a formal curriculum and used a teachers' guide. The study identified three types of curriculum narrative: the frame narrative, the task narrative, and the…

This guide is primarily designed to help those who are concerned with improving mathematics education in Georgia schools. The format is intended to make planning a new mathematics curriculum easier at the local level and still leave designers free to develop courses which are best suited for their students. In addition to presenting an outline…

This guide is designed to be another segment of the total educational program established by state administration and mandated by the Louisiana Legislature in both the accountability and assessment and the competency-based education laws. This document outlines a course of instruction based on thirty weeks of school, which provides six weeks of…

The curriculum guide presents guidelines for planning and implementing a program in cooperative office education. Techniques include relating individual in-school instruction to individual job needs and career goals and to coordinate the student's education with actual work experience in an office in the community. A summary of Federal and State…

Explains why and how a course syllabus, if properly designed and reasonably followed, will make the tasks of teaching and learning simpler, more productive, and more enjoyable. (Author/RL)

Presented is a description of a mathematics program for kindergarten through grade six, as recommended by the State Education Department of New York. The curriculum for each grade in elementary school mathematics, in this publication, is organized into five major strands: (1) number and numeration; (2) operations with whole numbers; (3) operations…

Ideas for teaching film from a British educator. (CH)

Graphic display and explanation of ideas for teaching film. (CH)

The successful development of a basic movement program depends on the teacher's ability to recognize and to work effectively with varying levels of student motor and cognitive proficiency. (LH)

THE VOLUME INCLUDES AN INTRODUCTION, THE COURSE CONTENT IN CHEMISTRY, AND FIVE APPENDIXES OF USEFUL INFORMATION. THE CHEMISTRY COURSE CONTENT IS FURTHER SUBDIVIDED INTO FIVE SECTIONS--(1) THE OVERVIEW, (2) CHEMICAL REACTIONS, (3) CHEMICAL BONDING AND MOLECULAR ARCHITECTURE, (4) DESCRIPTIVE CHEMISTRY, AND (5) ADVANCED CHEMISTRY. EACH OF THE FIVE…

OBJECTIVES, TEACHING TECHNIQUES, AND COURSE CONTENT FOR EACH YEAR OF A 4-YEAR PROGRAM OF LATIN INSTRUCTION ARE DISCUSSED IN THIS GUIDE FOR TEACHERS. EMPHASIS IS GIVEN TO THOSE ASPECTS OF THE TRADITIONAL PROGRAM WHICH MAY REQUIRE MODIFICATION IF THE NEWER GOALS IN LATIN INSTRUCTION ARE TO BE ACHIEVED. IN ADDITION TO SUGGESTIONS FOR TEACHING…

THE PROTION OF THE OVERALL GUIDE (FIRST THROUGH THE EIGHTH GRADES) IS DIVIDED INTO SEPARATE SECTIONS FOR THE THIRD AND FOURTH GRADES. INCLUDED IS AN EXPLANATION OF THE GOALS OF THE SOCIAL STUDIES PROGRAM AND AN APPROACH TO TEACHING IT, AN OUTLINE OF THE THIRD- AND FOURTH-GRADE PROGRAMS, GROWTH CHARACTERISTICS OF THE THIRD- AND FOURTH-GRADE PUPILS,…

This curriculum guide for general mathematics consists of the development of a number of basic concepts which are chosen because of their relevance to problems of applications. These concepts are classified under the following strands--(1) concept of number, (2) concepts basic to operations, (3) concepts of percent and percentage, (4) concepts…