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Spoon, Robyn; Rubenstein, Lisa DaVia; Shively, Kate; Stith, Krista; Ascolani, Margaret; Potts, Mistie L. – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2020
Effective gifted education should incorporate opportunities for gifted students to develop creative and critical thinking along with academic and affective skills. Professional learning (PL) supporting these outcomes is not consistently successful. Therefore, this study pilots a new PL model called Instruct to Innovate (I2I) to support teachers'…
Descriptors: Gifted Education, Professional Development, Educational Innovation, Student Development
Council of Chief State School Officers, 2013
The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), through its Interstate Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (InTASC), offers this set of combined resources that define and support ongoing teacher effectiveness to ensure students reach college and career ready standards. This document includes the "InTASC Model Core Teaching…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Standards, Teacher Competencies, Teacher Qualifications
Reussig, James M. – Thrust for Education Leadership, 1975
The author, a superintendent of the Vallejo City Unified School District in California, considered the basic premise of the RISE Commission Report, i.e., that the learner is the primary client to be served by the school. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Educational Change, Educational Environment, Learning Processes
Roper, Peter; Doe, Bob – Times Educational Supplement (London), 1976
In the second of two TES articles on mixed-ability teaching, authors showed how the method operated for science and mathematics at Abbey Wood, and collected reactions of the school's teachers, pupils and parents. (Editor/RK)
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Critical Thinking, Educational Change, Mainstreaming
Haigh, Gerald – Times Educational Supplement (London), 1976
Author suggested that schools should do away with their remedial departments. (Editor/RK)
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Curriculum Design, Educational Counseling, Learning Processes
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Rodriguez, Idalia; Kies, Dan – Reading Improvement, 1998
Addresses the importance of bringing "brain compatible teaching" to the classroom. Suggests a model to develop critical-thinking processes of students to help them deal with a diverse and technologically advanced society. (PA)
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Elementary Secondary Education, Futures (of Society), Learning Processes
Texas Education Agency, Austin. Div. of Curriculum Development. – 1980
The document outlines specific goals of a social studies program (K-12) that are consistent with the generalized goals for education of the State Board of Education in Texas. Prior to presenting these goals, the purposes, method of development of the objectives, and the goals for public school education are outlined. General goals are categorized…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Critical Thinking, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education
Gong, Gwendolyn – 1997
Education in Hong Kong has been developed along a British model that uses examination results to determine students' academic futures: to be allowed to go on to a university to study or to go into the workplace with a tenth-grade education. The system has been described by likening students to Peking ducks who are forced to eat, fattened up for…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Critical Thinking, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education
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D'Adamo-Weinstein, Lisa – Learning Assistance Review, 1996
Asserts that teaching as a political act, a construct supported by critical theorists, is appropriate for the developmental educator. Education is a means of exciting the active and critical minds of students, of breaking through the boundaries of traditional learning on college campus through authentic dialogue and the critical exploration of the…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Developmental Studies Programs, Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness