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Sungwon Shin; Thomas A. Brush; John W. Saye; Zhizhen Zhang – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2019
This design case illustrates a three-semester-long curricular and instructional design project focusing on the design and implementation of a technology-enhanced case-based learning experience for pre-service teachers within a teaching methods course. This case highlights the iterative process that a teacher educator and an instructional designer…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Video Technology, Case Method (Teaching Technique), Curriculum Development
Virtue, David C.; Buchanan, Anne; Vogler, Kenneth E. – Social Studies, 2012
In the current era of high-stakes testing and accountability, many social studies teachers struggle to find creative ways to add depth and authenticity to a broad, shallow curriculum. Teachers can use the time after tests are administered for students to reflect back on the social studies curriculum and select topics they want to study more deeply…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Enrichment, Curriculum Evaluation, Instructional Innovation
Bogan, Barry L.; McKenzie, Ethel King; Bantwini, Bongani D. – Online Submission, 2012
In the age of standardized testing, science and social studies are not given the same priority as mathematics and reading in the curriculum of United States schools. High stakes testing is viewed as having heavily biased schools toward teaching tested subjects and away from less frequently tested subjects. This paper is premised on the notion that…
Descriptors: Individualized Instruction, Curriculum Development, Social Studies, Educational Change
Tiatorio, Anthony – Knowledge Quest, 2009
In this article, the author contends that ethics ought to be an integral part of school curricula and that the most effective way to achieve this is to include ethics themes within the broader study of history. In this way students experience, in context, the timeless nature of moral questions and see the emergence of some universal ideas. The…
Descriptors: World History, Ethics, Social Studies, Curriculum Development
Shaffer, Robert – History Teacher, 2001
In 1942, Howard Wilson, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the editor of the Harvard Educational Review, called for the "easternization of America," in reaction to what he called the "glib" talk for years about the "westernization of Asia." Funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, Wilson's…
Descriptors: Asian History, Foreign Countries, Instructional Design, Curriculum Development
Johnston, A. Montgomery – Tennessee Education, 1976
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Definitions, Educational Theories, Humanistic Education

Brown, James – History and Social Science Teacher, 1978
Examines Piaget's concrete and formal operational stages of intellectual development in relation to the middle school learner. Presents teaching strategies requiring the learner to use concrete and formal operational forms of thought in dealing with a social studies unit about Quebec. (Author/JK)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Development, Comparative Education, Curriculum Development
Cain, Lee C. – Illinois Schools Journal, 1977
Teaching current affairs is one of the greatest curriculum problems facing secondary school social studies teachers. Teachers must solve the problem by intensively planning and organizing, first selecting an appropriate organizational pattern and then developing an instructional unit. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Course Content, Course Organization, Current Events, Curriculum Development
Seifman, Eli – 1971
The principles of Benjamin Bloom's "Taxonomy of Education Objectives" for the cognitive domain are followed in the development of this independent study unit. The sequence uses the Egyptian Rossetta Stone as the common knowledge base and illustrates how the six principles of the taxonomy of the cognitive domain can be applied to the design of a…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Curriculum Development, Educational Objectives, History Instruction
Wood, Dean D. – 1978
This teaching guide provides an orientation and rationale for ethnic studies in social studies curricula, the necessary social science background material, teaching units, and recommendations about instructional materials. Questions are addressed concerning the nature of ethnic studies, who should be studied, how ethnic studies relate to other…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Cultural Pluralism, Curriculum Development, Ethnic Groups
Schumaker, Jean; Lenz, Keith – 1999
This book offers teachers guidelines and suggestions for adapting and/or selecting materials for use with students with disabilities in general language arts, social studies, and science classrooms (grades 6 through 8). Following an introduction, chapter 1 offers a nine-step procedure for adapting materials from first, creating a plan for adapting…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Disabilities, Inclusive Schools, Individualized Instruction
Ochoa, Anna S.; Allen, Rodney F. – National Council for the Social Studies Yearbook, 1972
Descriptors: Concept Teaching, Curriculum Development, Educational Strategies, Instructional Design

Ferretti, Ralph P.; Okolo, Cynthia M. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1996
This article explains reasons for focusing on social studies as an untapped domain in which to foster thinking and problem solving skills of students with disabilities, discusses the use of multimedia technology in supporting projects in the social studies, explores considerations in implementing multimedia design projects, and examines challenges…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Media, Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education
McCormack, Bunnie – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 1994
Describes two interdisciplinary programs developed for middle school students that focus on mummies and vampires and include social studies, art, language arts, creative dramatics, and media production skills. Content, multimedia, new and interesting information, and student participation are emphasized. (11 references) (LRW)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Creative Dramatics, Curriculum Development, Instructional Design
Michaelis, John U. – 1973
During the past decade interest in developing thinking skills has continued to be high and particular attention has been given to basic inquiry of the cognitive processes that are used in investigating topics and problems in the social studies. The central purpose of this study is to identify a set of processes that may be used to plan instruction…
Descriptors: Citations (References), Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Curriculum Development
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