This article delineates characteristics and needs of gifted youth which should be addressed in developing the gifted curriculum, presents guiding principles for curriculum development, illustrates the goal writing process, specifies definitions and parameters of the process, and illustrates the development and use of scope-and-sequence documents.…

Since implementation of a psychology of teaching and learning should assist students to achieve optimally in reading, reading teachers need to be well versed in diverse psychologies which may be stressed in the curriculum. This paper first outlines 10 principles of learning emphasized by educational psychologists upon which psychologists tend to…

The instructional program described in this guide is designed to provide a sequential language arts curriculum for kindergarten through grade 12. Information contained in the guide includes (1) a statement of philosophy; (2) language arts objectives for each grade level; (3) a guide to language arts skills; (4) learner outcomes for grades one…

A taxonomy of psychomotor skills provides a classification of all human movement forms. The development of motor skills in this hierarchy begins with the reflexive physical responses of the infant. The stages of growth include basic interactive movement forms, skilled movement forms, and functional and creative movement forms. This taxonomy offers…

Designed to assist schools in implementing developmental skills in the social studies programs for grades K-12, this guide is divided into seven sections. The first section, a literature review, cites publications on social studies skills. Section 2 gives an interdisciplinary view of shared skills in the New York state curriculum. Three skill…