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Robertson, Joanne Marie – Language and Literacy Spectrum, 2008
This descriptive narrative presents a university/school partnership that led to an inquiry-based approach to language arts instruction, resulting in increased opportunities for reflective teaching and learning, students' environmental awareness projects, the integration of science, and the individualization of instruction at the middle school…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Inquiry, Program Descriptions, College School Cooperation
Nazelrod, Barbara D. – 1981
The middle school program emerged against a backdrop of criticism, awareness of changing educational necessities and values, and new insights into the needs of the middle range of the student population. The precocity of youth mixed with the pseudo-sophistication of adulthood gives the middle school its reason for existence--the…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Curriculum Design, Elementary Education
Nearine, Robert J. – 1981
Higher Horizons (HH) 100 is a program providing groups of 100 underachieving secondary school students in Hartford, Connecticut, with an integrated program of academic, cultural, and counseling services designed to develop and improve their basic skills in language and mathematics, self-concept, and adjustment to school. The eight small cluster…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Counseling Services, Cultural Enrichment, Disadvantaged Youth
Albuquerque Public Schools, NM. – 1972
This federally funded exemplary career education project involved 35 Mini-Grant programs conducted within 24 elementary and middle schools in the Albuquerque Public Schools. Project highlights are described, noting the favorable impact of innovative career awareness activities upon disadvantaged Indian students, their parents, and the community.…
Descriptors: American Indians, Career Development, Career Education, Developmental Programs
Stevenson, Chris, Ed.; Carr, Judy F., Ed. – 1993
A group of middle level teachers collaborated in designing some innovative teaching units about topics already known to be inherently interesting to their students. The students' interests were integrated with existing curriculum goals. This book presents the teachers' insights on this project and includes detailed examples of integrated…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Early Adolescents, Instructional Innovation, Integrated Activities
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Sanders, Mark – School Science and Mathematics, 1994
Discusses the Technology, Science, Mathematics Integration Project's technological problem-solving method, briefly describes 15 activities and the corresponding technology, science, and mathematics content involved (including 1 detailed example), and proposes a general structure of the activities and research in support of this approach. (MKR)
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Cognitive Style, Competition, Constructivism (Learning)