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Peer reviewedWassermann, Selma – Childhood Education, 1976
Outlines nine steps to curriculum planning: specify learning outcomes; identify constraints; assess physical environment needs; identify classroom practices required to do the job; orient the pupils; select teaching materials; organize the learning experience; get daily feedback from classroom observations; and evaluate the outcomes. (ED)
Descriptors: Classroom Design, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedHeck, Shirley F. – Journal of Creative Behavior, 1978
Presented is the stage-set design approach to classroom environment, in which the classroom is designed as a stage so that learning experiences and situations may become life-related and purposeful. (BD)
Descriptors: Classroom Design, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Creativity
Elliot, Ian – Teaching Pre K-8, 1997
Examines the efforts of an elementary school in Iowa to combine Basic School and multi-age instruction. Quotes from teachers to describe how (trying not just to educate children but to teach them how to manage their own education) the school's curriculum is structured around big ideas and broad concepts that provide multiple entry points for the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Design, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques
Elliot, Ian – Teaching Pre K-8, 1997
Discusses the organization and operation of multi-age classrooms in an elementary school in Nevada. Describes how teachers working with primary classrooms of first and second graders, and intermediate classrooms of third, fourth, and fifth graders, created an adaptive, flexible, and dynamic curriculum that could serve the needs of their…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Design, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques
Bridges, Lois – 1995
This publication is part of a series of monographs on the art of teaching. Each volume, focusing on a specific discipline, explores theory in the context of teaching strategies connected to evaluation of both teachers' and students' learning. Three techniques are offered for use of the guide: dialogues (as self-evaluation and in study groups),…
Descriptors: Classroom Design, Classroom Environment, Community, Cooperative Learning
PDF pending restorationGordon, Edmund W.; And Others – 1972
The instructional part of Trinidad's Follow Through program is based on the High Scope model developed by the High/Scope Educational Research Foundation, a nonprofit organization headed by Dr. David Weikart. Now in its second year, the program emphasizes the development of individualized conceptual competence. Certain kindergarten through grade…
Descriptors: Classroom Design, Classroom Techniques, Curriculum Development, Disadvantaged Youth
Persons, Scott; And Others – 1973
Three documents describe the Project Success Environment Program, which was funded to help alleviate behavioral and academic problems of children from urban, low-socio-economic backgrounds by providing them with an opportunity to experience success in school. The program, sponsored by the Atlanta Public Schools, consisted of: (1) a positive…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Change, Classroom Design, Contingency Management
Tennessee State Univ., Nashville. Center for Training and Technical Assistance. – 1984
The topics of the 17 papers included in this proceedings are: (1) enriching and empowering young children's learning with microcomputers; (2) a program designed to make all students computer literate who complete the eighth grade in Tennessee schools; (3) how school systems should purchase microcomputers; (4) a team approach to microcomputer…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Children, Classroom Design, Computer Assisted Instruction
