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Peer reviewedBertz, Michael D. – NASSP Bulletin, 1997
Trickshot! is an exploratory environment that allows learners to experiment with various physical properties to develop an intuitive understanding of the behavior of objects in physical systems. The software is geared to secondary students with little exposure to pool or physics. When used in conjunction with meaningful class activities, such an…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Computer Simulation, Concept Formation, Critical Thinking
Peer reviewedKassem, Cherrie L. – American Secondary Education, 2000
To improve students' critical-thinking skills, an interdisciplinary team of educators collaborated with a specialist. The result: a new model for infusing thinking-skills instruction. This paper describes the change process, the CRTA model's evolution, derivation of its acronym, and early qualitative results. (Contains 31 references.) (MLH)
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Educational Improvement, Interdisciplinary Approach, Models
Brooks, William D. – Sp Teach, 1969
Descriptors: Course Objectives, Critical Thinking, Listening, Program Descriptions
Peer reviewedKruger, Arnold – Reading Improvement, 2000
Outlines a meaning-based reading program for English-as-a-second-language teenagers in grades 8-12 aimed at promoting analytic thinking, cultural integration, and creative processing skills, as well as increased English proficiency. Discusses general and specific objectives, reading materials, types of reading programs, integrated and followup…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, English (Second Language), Program Descriptions, Reading Improvement
Barthe, Charles L. – 1980
The elementary program for gifted and talented students in Willingboro, New Jersey, is called the Program for Academically Talented Students (PATS) and is in its third year of operation. The program is administered by the supervisor of reading/language arts and is taught by each of the ten building reading specialists who received special training…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Academically Gifted, Acceleration, Critical Reading
Pellet, Elizabeth A.; And Others – 1981
This handbook will help secondary teachers in all subject areas use the "Why in the World" television series to teach current events. The handbook presents the origin of and rationale for the series, describes the programs, suggests general class activities that teachers can use with all the programs in the series, discusses additional resources…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Critical Thinking, Current Events, Educational Television
Brostoff, Anita – 1981
Thinking through Writing (TTW) was a project to develop, test, and disseminate a program for teaching thinking and writing skills in secondary school English and social studies courses. Each of the 12 schools participating in the project scheduled a group of students to take an English and a social studies course in the program, and two teachers…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Content Area Reading, Critical Reading, Critical Thinking
Peer reviewedWells, Margaret – History and Social Science Teacher, 1985
Peace education requires that teacher and student be seen as co-learners. The student must be seen as an active learner, not a passive recipient of teacher lectures or narratives. Students' thinking on peace/war issues should be the starting point and the continual reference point in the curriculum. (RM)
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Course Content, Critical Thinking, Curriculum
Taini, Reno – 1974
Presenting a prospectus for a community environmental education program designed to accommodate 30 senior high school students, this document includes: a description of the course; course rationale; goals; objectives; an operational plan; a course projection schedule; a semester calendar; an orientation trip; an environmental concepts instruction…
Descriptors: Budgets, Career Awareness, Community Involvement, Concept Formation
