It is essential for all schools to integrate trauma-informed care into practice as children, parents, and teachers live with the threat of COVID-19. In her new book, Lesley Koplow explores the Emotionally Responsive Practice (ERP) approach designed to support children and teachers' emotional well-being in the public-school setting. ERP encourages…

The main task of the examination is to establish environmental issues in the didactic materials for primary and secondary school in Republic of Serbia. Environmental issues in the secondary school curriculum in Serbia, according to the current educational curricula and educational programs, is limited to general subjects (chemistry and biology…

This report continues the series in which Education Scotland evaluates the quality of young people's learning and achievements, in this case in the technologies. The report contributes to the overall picture of what it is like to be a learner in a Scottish early learning or childcare setting or school in this second decade of the 21st Century. The…

In spite of numerous calls for action, e.g., Executive Office of the President (2010), there have been few efforts nationally to promote engineering education in the elementary grades. Of these, hardly any have targeted underrepresented populations (National Academy of Engineering, 2009, p. 74). The collaboration described in this paper is a…

Linking to voices from the world is exciting for both students and teachers, but everyone needs to understand that global education is a form of citizenship education. The activities of the nation have a great effect on people in the rest of the world, whether in the realm of economics, diplomacy, the media, or the environment. Some states, like…

The purpose of this article is to review current models for curriculum and pedagogy used in elementary school physical education programs. Historically, physical educators have developed and used a multiactivity curriculum in order to educate students through physical movement. More recently, a variety of alternative curricular models have been…

Discusses how the four articles in this issue (which describe classroom explorations and carefully considered relationships with the arts and the classroom curriculum) demonstrate that inclusion of the arts in the curriculum defies formulaic planning or standardization but rather reflects contextual decisions made by teacher and artist together as…

Outlines the characteristics of a good middle school. An interdisciplinary team approach provides teachers that meet the needs of sixth-grade students. Provides six strategies for such an approach that have been successful. (MD)

Offers the observations, struggles, and musings of a music teacher as she examines and experiments with the notion of curriculum integration, valuing integrated curriculum while wishing to maintain the integrity of the different disciplines. (SR)

Suggests possibilities for using illustrations from art and music in science instruction so that school curricula becomes less fragmented. (AL)

The author is concerned with politics in a wider sense--providing children with an individual and collective sense of identity in time and space, giving them opportunities for the exploration of shared experience, making them aware of the responsibilities and privileges of community. (Editor)

This document presents the curriculum of the University School at the University of Tulsa (Oklahoma), an early childhood and elementary school for academically gifted students. The curriculum is based on enaction theory, which emphasizes active, interdisciplinary learning involving three steps: (1) concept introduction through active and…

Suggests that the elementary school curriculum need not be fragmented into discipline areas and describes a class activity that cuts across the traditional boundaries and is interdisciplinary in nature. (JR)

Surveys the literature, curricula, materials and resources relating to Aerospace Education. Suggests methods for development of curricular materials, resource banks, and teaching and inservice resources. (CS)