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Hughes, William – Music Educators Journal, 1992
Describes the creation of a high school general music class by a university methods professor, a graduate assistant, and a high school choral director. Explains that the class used university methods class students to serve as guest lecturers and performers in the high school course. Discusses evaluation, benefits, and suggestions for creative…
Descriptors: Applied Music, Curriculum Development, Learning Activities, Methods Courses
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Carr, Eileen; Ogle, Donna – Journal of Reading, 1987
Adds mapping and summarization to the K-W-L (know, want to know, learned) strategy to produce a reading-thinking strategy, equally helpful to remedial and nonremedial high school students for content area textbooks. (NKA)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Critical Reading, Independent Study, Learning Activities
Landis, Melodee – 1978
The document presents information on activities designed to foster growth in creativity and upper level thinking of secondary gifted students. An introductory section covers instructional models, including Guilford's Structure-of-Intellect Model and Krathwohl's Affective Taxonomical Model. Activities are described in terms of objectives,…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Creative Development, Gifted, Language Arts
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Benaiges, Phil – Teaching History, 2005
Much has been said and written about different learning styles in recent years. Some people have responded with evangelical enthusiasm, others exercise a more cautious approach, whilst a few disregard it completely. Certainly, there are problems in allowing learning style "audits" to shape our teaching strategies entirely. But one…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Teaching Methods, Educational Strategies, Educational Practices
Cleary, Donna McKee – 1978
This book provides secondary reading teachers with a practical guide for establishing a reading laboratory program. Written in conversational style, it contains diary-like comments and includes student responses to the activities described. The first section deals with the following topics: determining the physical aspects of a reading laboratory,…
Descriptors: Developmental Reading, Intellectual Development, Language Arts, Learning Activities
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O'Shea, Thomas – School Science and Mathematics, 1993
Presents a teaching model as an activity to introduce preservice secondary mathematics teachers to the law of cosines. The activity is student-centered in which students construct figures; measure angles and segments; calculate areas; investigate relationships; and communicate their results. (MDH)
Descriptors: Integrated Activities, Learning Activities, Mathematical Formulas, Mathematics Education
MacGregor, S. Kim; Thomas, W. Randall – 2002
This study examined the effects of level of instructional scaffolding on students' use of Geometer's Sketchpad and other software tools in a technology-integrated geometry curriculum. In order to revitalize education at the secondary level and in particular in the mathematics curriculum, educational reformers have advocated the incorporation of…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Geometry, Instructional Design, Instructional Effectiveness
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Baumann, James F.; Ballard, Peg Quigley – Journal of Reading, 1987
Introduces a two-step instructional model that promotes independence in reading comprehension by transferring responsibility for strategy use to the students throughout the course of instruction. Includes extended examples. (NKA)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Critical Reading, Grade 11, Instructional Systems
National Foundation for the Improvement of Education, Washington, DC. – 1974
This teacher resource guide provides a model for dealing with sex role stereotypes in the elementary, intermediate, and secondary classroom. The major objective is to help students become conscious of sex role stereotyping in the world around them. Activities, open ended and inquiry oriented, involve students in analyzing history and contemporary…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Course Content, Educational Improvement, Elementary Education
New Hampshire State Dept. of Education, Concord. – 1974
The five-part document consists of a developmental model aimed at providing guidance personnel and others with activities to: integrate career related activities into the secondary school curriculum, provide a greater degree of accountability by guidance personnel for students' career needs, enhance school curriculum and develop student…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Development, Career Education, Career Guidance
Pastrana, Ronald R. – 1973
The guide, part of a career education project for elementary and secondary education, is designed for use by counselors with high school students. The introductory remarks discuss the background of the program which was proposed to develop a general course of study for students in career education. Developed for use in grades 10-12, the model…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Development, Career Education, Career Guidance
Solomon, Pearl G.; And Others – 1994
The Marie Curie Mathematics and Science Center at St. Thomas Aquinas College (New York), in a comprehensive effort to improve mathematics and science education, offers the Saturday Morning Search for Solutions enrichment program for area students in grades 7-12. The program is interdisciplinary, connecting technology and the study of societal…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College School Cooperation, Constructivism (Learning), Enrichment Activities
Disick, Renee S. – 1975
The purpose of the book is to define individualized foreign language instruction and to consider problems commonly associated with its implementation and management. It is divided into three parts: (1) Theoretical Considerations, (2) Management Considerations and (3) Teaching Considerations. Part One considers an overview of individualized…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cultural Education, Curriculum Development, Individual Instruction
Purdue Univ., Lafayette, IN. School of Agriculture. – 1978
This common core curriculum guide for agribusiness presents material for eight units of instruction. Following the objectives of the guide and a description of the curriculum materials, lessons are provided in the following subject areas: (1) orientation, (2) leadership, (3) careers, (4) supervised occupational education, (5) mechanics, (6) animal…
Descriptors: Agribusiness, Agricultural Education, Agricultural Engineering, Agricultural Occupations
Bulloch, Linda R. – 1977
The document describes a South Carolina Study Project involving high school students in making decisions relating to their school communities. The project encouraged students to examine and evaluate the ways in which they formed opinions, made value decisions, and checked out the validity of their facts. Students were given training in using…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Creative Development, Creative Thinking, Educational Improvement